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John Thomas Dunlop was an American administrator, labor economist, and educator. Dunlop was the United States Secretary of Labor between 1975 and 1976 under President Gerald Ford. …
John Thomas Dunlop, American scholar and politician, United States Secretary of Labor (born 1914)
Florence Stanley was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best known for her roles in Barney Miller (1975–1977) and its spinoff Fish (1977–1978), My Two Dads …
Florence Stanley, American actress (born 1924)
William Steig was an American cartoonist, illustrator, and children's book author best known for his picture book Shrek, which inspired the film series of the same name. Steig was …
William Steig, American sculptor, author, and illustrator (born 1907)
Sidney Sanders McMath was a U.S. marine, attorney and the 34th governor of Arkansas from 1949 to 1953. In defiance of his state's political establishment, he championed rapid rural…
Sid McMath, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (born 1912)
Daniel Joseph Snyder was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played as a centre in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Atlanta Thrashers. Following a single-vehicle …
Dan Snyder, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1978)
Timothy Treadwell was an American bear enthusiast, environmentalist, documentary filmmaker, and founder of the bear-protection organization Grizzly People. He lived among coastal b…
Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist, director, and producer (born 1957)
Israel Harold "Izzy" Asper was a Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate. He was the founder and owner of the now-defunct TV and media company Canwest and father to its former CEO an…
Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1932)
Arthur Victor Berger was an American composer and music critic who has been described as a New Mannerist.
Arthur Berger, American composer and educator (born 1912)
Carolyn Heilbrun was an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of academic studies. I…
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic (born 1926)
Carl Charles Fontana was an American jazz trombonist. After working in the big bands of Woody Herman, Lionel Hampton, and Stan Kenton, he devoted most of his career to playing musi…
Carl Fontana, American jazz trombonist (born 1928)
Eila Vilhelmina Hiltunen was a Finnish sculptor. She is remembered above all for the Sibelius Monument (1967) in Helsinki. A smaller statue by Hiltunen resembling the Sibelius Monu…
Eila Hiltunen, Finnish sculptor (born 1922)
Eugene George Istomin was an American pianist. He was a winner of the Leventritt Award and recorded extensively as a soloist and in a piano trio in which he collaborated with Isaac…
Eugene Istomin, American pianist (born 1925)
James Ford Cairns was an Australian politician who was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s, and was briefly Treasurer and the fourth deputy prime minister o…
Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (born 1914)
Joan Beverly Kroc, also known as Joni, was an American philanthropist and the third wife of McDonald's CEO Ray Kroc.
Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (born 1928)
William Lee Shoemaker was an American jockey, considered one of the greatest. For 29 years he held the world record for the most professional jockey victories.
Bill Shoemaker, American jockey (born 1931)
Bertram Neville Brockhouse, was a Canadian physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques fo…
Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
Patrick Dalzel-Job was a British naval intelligence officer and commando in World War II. He was also an accomplished linguist, author, mariner, navigator, parachutist, diver, and …
Patrick Dalzel-Job, English linguist, commander, and navigator (born 1913)
Eustace Bennett Metcalfe was a Canadian journalist who, in 1972, became the first chairman of Greenpeace.
Ben Metcalfe, Canadian journalist and activist (born 1919)
Avni Arbaş was a Turkish painter of Circassian descent.
Avni Arbaş, Turkish painter (born 1919)
Preston Earnest Smith was an American entrepreneur and politician who served as the 40th governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973. A conservative member of the Democratic Party, he prev…
Preston Smith, American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Texas (born 1912)
Stewart Edward Hart was a Canadian amateur and professional wrestler, wrestling booker, promoter, and coach. He is best known for founding and handling Stampede Wrestling, a profes…
Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer (born 1915)
László Papp was a Hungarian professional boxer from Budapest. He was left-handed and won gold medals in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, an…
László Papp, Hungarian boxer (born 1926)
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was a prolific Spanish writer from Barcelona: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humorist, critic and political prisoner as well …
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish journalist, author, and critic (born 1939)
Michael James "Mike" Hegstrand was an American professional wrestler. He was best known as Road Warrior Hawk, one half of the tag team known as the Road Warriors, with Road Warrior…
Road Warrior Hawk, American wrestler (born 1957)