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Kim Stanley was an American actress who was primarily active in television and theatre but also had occasional film performances.
Kim Stanley, American actress (born 1925)
Calum "Baldy" MacKay was a Canadian professional ice hockey winger. He played in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Canadiens between 1947 and 1955.…
Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1927)
Kathleen Freeman was an American actress. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, she portrayed acerbic maids, secretaries, teachers, busybodies, nurses, and battle-axe neighb…
Kathleen Freeman, American actress (born 1919)
Peter Maas was an American journalist and author. He was born in New York City and attended Duke University. Maas had Dutch and Irish ancestry.
Peter Maas, American journalist and author (born 1929)
Jane Greer was an American film and television actress best known for her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past. In 2009, The Guardian named her …
Jane Greer, American actress (born 1924)
Roman Voldemarovich Matsov was a Soviet and Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor.
Roman Matsov, Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor (born 1917)
Aaliyah Dana Haughton was an American singer, actress, dancer, and model. Known as the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen of Urban Pop", she is credited with helping to redefine contempo…
Aaliyah, American singer and actress (born 1979)
Carl Thomas Brewer was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. Brewer attended De La Salle College and Riverdale Collegiate Institute prior to his hockey career.
Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1938)
Üzeyir Garih was a Jewish Turkish engineer, businessman, writer and investor.
Üzeyir Garih, Turkish engineer and businessman, co-founded Alarko Holding (born 1929)
Robert Kenneth Tyrrell was a British Formula Two racing driver and the founder of the Tyrrell Formula One constructor.
Ken Tyrrell, English race car driver and businessman, founded Tyrrell Racing (born 1924)
Louis Muhlstock, LL.D. was a Canadian painter best known for his depictions of the Great Depression and for landscapes and urban scenes in and around Montreal.
Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter and educator (born 1904)
Marita Petersen was the first and to date only female Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands and the first female speaker of the Løgting (Parliament). She was elected to the Løgting i…
Marita Petersen, Faroese educator and politician, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1940)
Michael Leonidas Dertouzos was a professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Director of the M…
Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (born 1936)
Mustafa Ali Zabri, better known by his kunya Abu Ali Mustafa and also known as Mustafa Alhaj, was a Palestinian militant who served as the General Secretary of the Popular Front fo…
Abu Ali Mustafa, Palestinian politician (born 1938)
Graeme Ronald Strachan, professionally billed and known as "Shirley" Strachan or Shirl, was an Australian singer, songwriter, radio and television presenter, and carpenter. He was …
Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter & television personality (born 1952)
Francisco Rabal Valera, popularly known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor. His career spanned more than 200 film and television roles, between 1942 and 2001. He received numerous …
Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1926)
Govan Archibald Mvunyelwa Mbeki was a South African politician, military commander, Communist leader who served as the Secretary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, at its inception in 1961. He …
Govan Mbeki, ANC activist and father of President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki (born 1910)
Troy Donahue was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Johnny Hunter in the film A Summer Place. He was a popular sex symbol in the late 1950s and early…
Troy Donahue, American actor (born 1936)
Christiaan Neethling Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted…
Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon and academic (born 1922)
Pauline Kael was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991. Known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated and sharply focused" reviews, Kael often d…
Pauline Kael, American film critic and author (born 1919)
Justin Elmer Wilson was a Southern American chef and humorist known for his brand of Cajun-inspired cuisine, humor and storytelling.
Justin Wilson, American chef and author (born 1914)
Vladimir Žerjavić was a Croatian economist and demographer who published a series of historical articles and books during the 1980s and 1990s on demographic losses in Yugoslavia du…
Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and academic (born 1912)
Igor Konstantin Buketoff was an American conductor, arranger and teacher. He had a special affinity with Russian classical music and with Sergei Rachmaninoff in particular. He also…
Igor Buketoff, American conductor and educator (born 1915)
Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor, who has been called an "all-around entertainer". During his career he directed, wrote…
Spede Pasanen, Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor (born 1930)