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Konstantin Kalser was a German-American film producer and advertising executive. He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1957 with Crashing the Water Barrier.
Konstantin Kalser, German-American film producer and advertising executive (born 1920)
Menachem Avidom was an Israeli composer. His Hebrew surname is the combination of the names of his daughters Daniella and Miriam.
Menachem Avidom, Israeli composer (born 1908)
Alain Carpentier de Changy was a racing driver from Belgium. His single Formula One World Championship Grand Prix attempt was at the 1959 Monaco Grand Prix with a Cooper run by Ecu…
Alain de Changy, Belgian race car driver (born 1922)
Domenico Modugno was an Italian singer, actor and, later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. He is known for his 1958 international hit song "Nel blu dipinto di blu", for …
Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter and politician (born 1928)
Lawrence Martyn was a British film and television actor known for his comedy performances.
Larry Martyn, English actor (born 1934)
Peter Wilton Cushing was an English actor. His acting career spanned over six decades and included appearances in more than 100 films, as well as many television, stage and radio r…
Peter Cushing, English actor (born 1913)
Elias Canetti was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer.
Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
Wouter "Wout" Wagtmans was a Dutch road bicycle racer.
Wout Wagtmans, Dutch cyclist (born 1929)
Luigi Chinetti was an Italian-born racecar driver, who emigrated to the United States during World War II. He drove in 12 consecutive 24 Hours of Le Mans races, taking three outrig…
Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and businessman (born 1901)
Jack Morrison (1905−1994) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s for South Sydney and Canterbury-Bankstown. Morrison was a foundation player for Canterbu…
Jack Morrison, Australian rugby league player (born 1905)
Alice Childress was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades.…
Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and author (born 1912)
Jack Sharkey was a Lithuanian-American boxer who held the NYSAC, NBA, and The Ring heavyweight titles from 1932 to 1933.
Jack Sharkey, American boxer and referee (born 1902)
Francis Raymond Shea was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the third bishop of the Diocese of Evansville in Indiana from 1969 to 1989.
Francis Raymond Shea, American bishop (born 1913)
Linus Carl Pauling was an American chemist and peace activist. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. Scientific American c…
Linus Pauling, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)
Gilles Groulx was a Canadian film director. He grew up in a working-class family with 14 children. After studying business in school, he went to work in an office but found the whi…
Gilles Groulx, Canadian director and screenwriter (born 1931)
Allan Capron Houser or Haozous was a Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter, and book illustrator born in Oklahoma. He was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modern…
Allan Houser, American sculptor and painter (born 1914)
Zoltán Fábri was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His films The Boys of Paul Street (1969) and Hungarians (1978) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign La…
Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (born 1917)
Frank Jeske was a German footballer.
Frank Jeske, German footballer (born 1960)
Lindsay Gordon Anderson was an English filmmaker, theatre director, critic, and actor. He was considered a leading light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave, an…
Lindsay Anderson, English director and screenwriter (born 1923)
James Thomas Aubrey Jr. was an American television and film executive. As president of the CBS television network from 1959 to 1965, he produced some of television's most enduring …
James Thomas Aubrey, Jr., American screenwriter and producer (born 1918)
John Paul Newman was an Australian politician who served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1986 until his assassination in 1994.
John Newman, Australian politician (born 1946)
Max Kaminsky was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1908)
Eric Crozier OBE was a British theatrical director, opera librettist and producer, long associated with Benjamin Britten.
Eric Crozier, English director and playwright (born 1914)
William Ambrose Wright was an English footballer who played as a centre-back. He spent his entire club career at Wolverhampton Wanderers. The first footballer in the world to earn …
Billy Wright, English footballer and manager (born 1924)