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Anton Schwarzkopf was a German engineer who founded Schwarzkopf Industries GmbH, a German manufacturer of roller coasters and other amusement rides that were sold to amusement park…
Anton Schwarzkopf, German engineer (born 1924)
Francisco da Costa Gomes, ComTE GOA was a Portuguese military officer and politician who was the president of Portugal from 1974 to 1976. Earlier on, he had been deployed to Angola…
Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (born 1914)
Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was the heir apparent to the throne of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and a member of the Waffen-SS.
Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (born 1910)
Korey Damont Stringer was an American professional football offensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons. He played college football for the Oh…
Korey Stringer, American football player (born 1974)
Christopher George Hewett was an English actor and theatre director best known for his role as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere on the ABC sitcom Mr. Belvedere.
Christopher Hewett, English actor and director (born 1922)
Erifasi Otema Allimadi was a Ugandan politician who served as the country's Foreign Minister (1979–1980) in the UNLF government and later on as the country's third Prime Minister o…
Otema Allimadi, Ugandan politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Uganda (born 1929)
Christopher Charles Skase was an Australian businessman who later became one of his country's most wanted fugitives, after his business empire crashed spectacularly and he fled to …
Christopher Skase, Australian-Spanish businessman (born 1948)
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria, known as Jorge Amado, was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been tr…
Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist and poet (born 1912)
Admiral Adhar Kumar Chatterji was an Admiral in the Indian Navy. He served as the 5th Chief of the Naval Staff, from 4 March 1966, until 28 February 1970. He was the first Indian o…
Adhar Kumar Chatterji, Indian Naval officer (born 1914)
Wilhelm Mohnke was a German brigadier general who was one of the original members of the Schutzstaffel SS-Stabswache Berlin formed in March 1933. Mohnke, who had joined the Nazi Pa…
Wilhelm Mohnke, German general (born 1911)
Emeritus Professor Sittampalam Shanmugaratnam, also known as Shan Ratnam, was a Singaporean obstetrician and gynaecologist.
Shan Ratnam, Sri Lankan physician and academic (born 1928)
Dame Dorothy Tutin was an English actress of stage, film and television. For her work in the theatre, she won two Olivier Awards and two Evening Standard Awards for Best Actress. S…
Dorothy Tutin, English actress (born 1930)
Algirdas Teodoras Lauritėnas was a Lithuanian basketball player. He was a member of the Soviet team during the 1950s, and won a silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was als…
Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (born 1932)
Louis Boudreau, nicknamed "Old Shufflefoot", "Handsome Lou", and "the Good Kid", was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) …
Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (born 1917)
Percy Thornley Stallard was an English racing cyclist who reintroduced massed-start road racing on British roads in the 1940s.
Percy Stallard, English cyclist and coach (born 1909)
Otto Leopold Stuppacher was a racing driver from Vienna, Austria. He competed in hill-climbs and sports car racing before entering 3 Formula One Grands Prix with the ÖASC Racing Te…
Otto Stuppacher, Austrian race car driver (born 1947)
Betty Cavanna was the author of popular teen romance novels, mysteries, and children's books for 45 years. She also wrote under the names Elizabeth Headley and Betsy Allen. She was…
Betty Cavanna, American author (born 1909)
James Robert Hughes was an American professional baseball player. The right-handed pitcher appeared in all or part of six seasons (1952–1957) in Major League Baseball with the Broo…
Jim Hughes, American baseball player and manager (born 1923)
Yavuz Hilmi Çetin was a Turkish musician, singer, and songwriter in the blues and psychedelic music genres. He gained renown in his native country for the skill and sensitivity of …
Yavuz Çetin, Turkish singer-songwriter (born 1970)
Richard Chelimo was a Kenyan long-distance runner, and a world record holder over 10,000 metres. However, he is best known as the silver medallist in the controversial 10,000m at t…
Richard Chelimo, Kenyan runner (born 1972)
Kateryna Lohvynivna Yushchenko was a Ukrainian computer and information research scientist, corresponding member of USSR Academy of Sciences (1976), and member of The International…
Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukrainian computer scientist and academic (born 1919)
David Beaumont Peakall was an internationally recognised toxicologist. His research into the effects of DDE and DDT on eggshells contributed to the ban on DDT in the United Stat…
David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (born 1931)
Donald James Woods was a South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist. As editor of the Daily Dispatch, he was known for befriending fellow activist Steve Biko, who was kil…
Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (born 1933)
Sir Fred Hoyle (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer. With Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge and William Alfred Fowler, he formulated the theory of stellar nucleos…
Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (born 1915)