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Shimshon Avraham Amitsur was an Israeli mathematician. A leading figure in twentieth-century noncommutative algebra, he is best known for his wide-ranging contributions to ring the…
Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (born 1921)
Nicholas Christian Hopkins was an English pianist and organist. He performed on many British and American rock music recordings from the 1960s to the 1990s, including on songs reco…
Nicky Hopkins, English pianist (born 1944)
Dennis Morgan was an American actor-singer. He used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame.
Dennis Morgan, American actor (born 1908)
Stewart Terence Herbert Young was a British film director and screenwriter who worked in the United Kingdom, Europe and Hollywood. He is best known for directing three James Bond f…
Terence Young, Chinese-English director and screenwriter (born 1915)
Patrick Wisdom O'Neal was an American actor and restaurateur.
Patrick O'Neal, American actor (born 1927)
Charles Drake was an American actor.
Charles Drake, American actor (born 1917)
Luciano Sgrizzi was an Italian harpsichordist, organist, pianist and composer.
Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian harpsichordist, pianist, and composer (born 1910)
Jessie Alice Tandy, known professionally as Jessica Tandy, was an English and American actress. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV…
Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (born 1909)
Boris Borisovich Yegorov was a Soviet and Russian physician and cosmonaut who became the first physician to travel to space.
Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and astronaut (born 1937)
Marika Krevata was a Greek actress of theatre and film.
Marika Krevata, Greek actress (born 1910)
John Irvin Delafose was an American French-speaking Creole Zydeco accordionist from Louisiana.
John Delafose, American accordion player (born 1939)
Vytautas "Vitas" Kevin Gerulaitis was an American professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in 1978. G…
Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player and coach (born 1954)
Tom Ewell was an American film, stage and television actor, and producer. His most successful and most identifiable role was that of Richard Sherman in The Seven Year Itch, a chara…
Tom Ewell, American actor (born 1909)
Sir Karl Raimund Popper was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known fo…
Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (born 1902)
Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol, also known by his pen name Abioseh Nicol, was a Sierra Leone Creole physician, diplomat, and writer. He was also one of the first direct…
Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (born 1924)
Jule Styne was a British-American songwriter and composer widely known for a series of Broadway musicals, including several famous frequently-revived shows that also became success…
Jule Styne, American composer (born 1905)
Nagoya Airfield , also known as Komaki Airport or Nagoya Airport, is an airport within the local government areas of Toyoyama, Komaki, Kasugai and Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan…
Just before landing at Nagoya Airport, Japan, the copilot of China Airlines Flight 140 inadvertently triggered the takeo
Riverdance is a theatrical show that consists mainly of traditional Irish music and dance. With a score composed by Bill Whelan, it originated as an interval act during the Eurovis…
Riverdance was performed for the first time, as the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest
In 1994, the District Court in Singapore sentenced an American teenager, Michael Fay, to be lashed six times with a cane for violating the Vandalism Act. This caused a temporary s…
American teenager Michael P
John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered at least thirty-three young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 in Norwood Park Towns…
American serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection for the murders of twelve teenage boys and young
The Boeing 777, commonly referred to as the Triple Seven, is an American long-range wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The 777 is the wor…
The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, made its maiden flight
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland c…
The Troubles: Ulster Volunteer Force members attacked a crowded bar in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, with assault rif
The Imam Reza shrine bombing refers to a bomb explosion that occurred on 20 June 1994 in a crowded prayer hall at the shrine of Ali al-Ridha, the eighth Imam of Shia, located in Ma…
A bomb explosion in the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran, left at least 25 dead and more than 70 injured
Aleph , better known by their former name Aum Shinrikyo , is a Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. It carried out the deadly Tokyo s…
Members of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas in Matsumoto, Nagano, killing eight people and injuring mo