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Jack Walker was a British industrialist and businessman. Walker built his fortune in the steel industry, amassing a personal fortune of £600 million. He then went on to become the …
Jack Walker, English businessman (born 1929)
Bineshwar Brahma was the president of the Bodo Sahitya Sabha in Assam, India. He was born in a small village of Bhatarmari in Kokrajhar. He was the son of Late Taramoni Brahma and …
Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (born 1948)
David Xavier Harrigan, also Tomata du Plenty, was an American singer of the late 1970s and early 1980s Los Angeles electropunk band The Screamers. He was also the founder of Seattl…
Tomata du Plenty, American singer-songwriter and playwright (born 1948)
Daniel Muchiwa Lisulo was the 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia from June 1978 until February 1981.
Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician, third Prime Minister of Zambia (born 1930)
Andrzej Zawada was a Polish mountaineer, expedition leader and pioneer of winter Himalayism. Zawada was an organiser and leader of numerous high-mountains expeditions, author of mo…
Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer and author (born 1928)
John Anthony Kaiser was a Roman Catholic priest and Mill Hill father from Perham, Minnesota, US, who was assassinated near his mission at Morendat, near Naivasha, Rift Valley Provi…
John Anthony Kaiser, American priest and missionary (born 1932)
Carl Barks was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his work in Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as th…
Carl Barks, American author and illustrator (born 1901)
Frederick Carl Bock Jr was an American bomber pilot during World War II who took part in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945.
Frederick C. Bock, American soldier and pilot (born 1918)
Douglas Allen Woody was an American bass guitarist best known for his eight-year tenure in the Allman Brothers Band and as a co-founder of Gov't Mule.
Allen Woody, American bass player and songwriter (born 1955)
Abulfaz Gadirgulu oghlu Aliyev, commonly known as Abulfaz Elchibey, was a Pan-Turkist Azerbaijani nationalist, politician and Soviet dissident who was the first and, as of early 20…
Abulfaz Elchibey, 2nd President of Azerbaijan (born 1938)
Andreas "Andy" Hug was a Swiss karateka and kickboxer who competed in the heavyweight division. Considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight kickboxers of all time, Hug was ren…
Andy Hug, Swiss martial artist and kick-boxer (born 1964)
Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of prod…
Jack Nitzsche, American pianist, composer, and producer (born 1937)
Akbar Adibi (1939–2000) was an Iranian electronic engineer, VLSI researcher, and university engineering professor.
Akbar Adibi, Iranian engineer and academic (born 1939)
Henry Wilfred "Bunny" Austin was an English tennis player. For 74 years he was the last Briton to reach the final of the men's singles at the Wimbledon Championships, until Andy Mu…
Bunny Austin, English tennis player (born 1906)
Sheila Mary Fraser was an English actress. She is best known for her roles in the television serial A Family at War (1970–1971) and as Luke Skywalker's Aunt Beru in Star Wars (1977…
Shelagh Fraser, English actress (born 1922)
William Dixon Maddren was an English professional football player and manager. A one-club man, he made all his professional club appearances for Middlesbrough between 1968 and 1979…
Willie Maddren, English footballer and manager (born 1951)
Conrad Marca-Relli was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been rec…
Conrad Marca-Relli, American-Italian painter and academic (born 1913)
Dolores Moore ["Dee"] was an infielder who played from 1953 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m), 153 lb., she…
Dolores Moore, American baseball player and educator (born 1932)
Elvera "Baby" Sánchez Davis was an American dancer and the mother of Sammy Davis Jr.
Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (born 1905)
Curt Siodmak was a German-American novelist, screenwriter and director. He is known for his work in the horror and science fiction film genres, with such films as The Wolf Man and …
Curt Siodmak, German-American author and screenwriter (born 1907)
Edward Anhalt was an American screenwriter, producer, and documentary filmmaker. After working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for Pathé and CBS-TV, he teamed with his wi…
Edward Anhalt, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1914)
Roy Clifton Fredericks was a West Indian cricketer who played Test cricket from 1968 to 1977. He was a member of the squad which won the 1975 Cricket World Cup.
Roy Fredericks, Guyanese cricketer and politician (born 1942)
Violet Lucille Fletcher was an American screenwriter of film, radio and television. Her credits include The Hitch-Hiker, an original radio play written for Orson Welles and adapted…
Lucille Fletcher, American screenwriter (born 1912)
Abdul Haris Nasution was a high-ranking Indonesian general and politician. He served in the military during the Indonesian National Revolution and remained in the military during t…
Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (born 1918)