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Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor, multi-instrumentalist and comic writer. Sandman possessed a distinctive, deep bass-baritone voice and …
Mark Sandman, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1952)
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquess of the Gardens of Aranjuez, was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist. He is best known for composing the Concierto de Aranjuez, a cornersto…
Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (born 1901)
Captain Vikram Batra, was an Indian Army officer. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration, for his actions during the Kargil War. On 7…
Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra, Indian Army personnel (born 1974)
Julie Campbell Tatham was an American writer of children's novels, who also wrote for adults, especially on Christian Science. As Julie Campbell she was the creator of the Trixie B…
Julie Campbell Tatham, American author (born 1908)
Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer, aviator, and test pilot who commanded the Apollo 12 mission, on which he became the …
Pete Conrad, American captain, pilot, and astronaut. Third man to walk on the moon. (born 1930)
Jean Robert René de Cotret was a Canadian economist and politician.
Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician, 56th Secretary of State for Canada (born 1944)
Helen Forrest was an American singer of traditional pop and swing music. She served as the "girl singer" for three of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era, thereby earning a…
Helen Forrest, American singer (born 1917)
The Sloot Digital Coding System (SDCS) is an alleged technique for data encoding claimed to have been invented in 1995 by Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot (1944–1999), an electronics engin…
Jan Sloot, Dutch computer scientist and electronics technician (born 1945)
Rajendra Kumar was an Indian actor who starred in Bollywood films. Starting his career in 1949, he worked in more than 80 films in a career spanning over four decades. Kumar is con…
Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (born 1921)
Konstantinos Kollias was a Greek politician and jurist, who became the Attorney General of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court and who later was proclaimed Prime Minister by the f…
Konstantinos Kollias, Greek general and politician, 168th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1901)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., also referred to as JFK Jr., was an American businessman, attorney, magazine publisher, and journalist. He was the son of the 35th U.S. president John …
John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer and publisher (born 1960)
Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy was an American fashion publicist. Raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, she graduated from Boston University and joined Calvin Klein, where she rose fr…
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist and wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. (born 1966)
Alan Aylesworth Macnaughton was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada from 1963 to 1966.
Alan Macnaughton, Canadian lawyer and politician, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (born 1903)
Sandra Gould was an American actress, known for her role as Gladys Kravitz on the sitcom Bewitched. Gould was the second actress to portray the role, debuting at the start of the t…
Sandra Gould, American actress (born 1916)
Hassan II was King of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999. Before his accession, he served as Crown Prince of Morocco from 1957 to 1961 and held key positions including comma…
Hassan II of Morocco (born 1929)
Walter Jackson Bate was an American literary critic and biographer. He is known for Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography-winning biographies of Samuel Johnson (1978) and J…
Walter Jackson Bate, American author and critic (born 1918)
Phaedon Gizikis was a Greek army general who was the last President of Greece under the junta from 1973 to 1974.
Phaedon Gizikis, Greek general and politician, President of Greece (born 1917)
Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and mountaineer.
Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer (born 1912)
Harry "Sweets" Edison was an American jazz trumpeter and a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. His most important contribution was as a Hollywood studio musician, whose muted trum…
Harry Edison, American trumpet player (born 1915)
Trygve Magnus Haavelmo, born in Skedsmo, Norway, was an economist whose research interests centered on econometrics. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 19…
Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
Taber is a town in southern Alberta, Canada that is surrounded by the Municipal District of Taber. It is approximately 51 km (32 mi) east of the City of Lethbridge at the intersect…
A 14-year-old former student in Taber, Alberta, opened fire at his high school, killing one student and wounding another
Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez is a Panamanian politician who served as the President of Panama from 1999 to 2004. She is the country's first and to date only female president.
Mireya Moscoso (pictured) became the first woman to be elected President of Panama
Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, also known as Adams Field, is a joint civil-military airport on the east side of Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. It is operated by …
On landing at Little Rock National Airport in the U
Eric David Harris and Dylan Bennet Klebold were American high school seniors and a mass murderer duo who perpetrated the massacre at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, in Col…
Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold carried out a massacre at Columbine High School, killing 13 people before committ