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Charles Eli Guggenheim was an American documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was the most honored documentary filmmaker in the academy history, winning four Osc…
Charles Guggenheim, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1924)
Audrey Mestre was a French world record-setting freediver.
Audrey Mestre, French biologist and diver (born 1974)
Hilaire du Berrier was an American barnstorming pilot, mercenary adventurer, journalist, and spy. He wrote for a number of publications, mostly right-wing and far-right, including …
Hilaire du Berrier, American-French aviator, mercenary, and writer (born 1906)
Keene Holbrook Curtis was an American character actor.
Keene Curtis, American actor (born 1923)
Norbert Arnold Wilhelm Richard Schultze was a prolific German composer of film music and a member of the NSDAP and of Joseph Goebbels' staff during World War II. He is best remembe…
Norbert Schultze, German composer and conductor (born 1911)
George Derek Fleetwood Bell, MBE was a Northern Irish harpist, pianist, oboist, musicologist and composer who was best known for his accompaniment work on various instruments with …
Derek Bell, Irish harpist and composer (born 1935)
Joseph Raymond Conniff was an American bandleader and arranger best known for his Ray Conniff Singers during the 1960s. He developed a unique sound taking advantage of stereo LP re…
Ray Conniff, American bandleader and composer (born 1916)
Stephen Edward Ambrose was an American historian and author whose work focused particularly on World War II, the American West, and the lives of U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhowe…
Stephen Ambrose, American historian and author (born 1936)
Nikolai Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, and Soyuz 33. Two of these missions, Soyuz 10 an…
Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and astronaut (born 1932)
Edward Joseph Mortola was an American academic and education executive who served as president of New York's Pace University from 1960 to 1984, when he became chancellor. He was th…
Edward J. Mortola, American academic and president of Pace University (born 1917)
Richard McGarrah Helms was an American government official, intelligence officer, and diplomat who served as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973 as well as Uni…
Richard Helms, American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence (born 1913)
Geraldine of Albania was Queen of the Albanians from her marriage to King Zog I on 27 April 1938 until King Zog was deposed on 7 April of the following year.
Geraldine of Albania, Hungarian noblewoman and Queen of Albania (born 1915)
Adolph Green was an American lyricist and playwright, who with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for musicals on Broadway and in Hollywood. Alth…
Adolph Green, American playwright and songwriter (born 1915)
Winton Malcolm Blount, known as Red Blount, was an American philanthropist and politician who served as the United States Postmaster General from January 22, 1969, to January 1, 19…
Winton M. Blount, American soldier and politician, 59th United States Postmaster General (born 1921)
Hernán Gaviria Carvajal was a Colombian footballer, who played as a central midfielder.
Hernán Gaviria, Colombian footballer (born 1969)
Peggy Moran was an American film actress who appeared in films between 1938 and 1943.
Peggy Moran, American actress and singer (born 1918)
Richard St John Francis Harris was an Irish actor and singer. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he rose to prominence as an icon of the British New Wa…
Richard Harris, Irish actor and singer (born 1930)
Henry Hay Jr. was an American gay rights activist, communist, and labor advocate. He cofounded the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States, as…
Harry Hay, English-American activist, co-founded the Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries (born 1912)
René Frédéric Thom was a French mathematician, who received the Fields Medal in 1958.
René Thom, French mathematician and biologist (born 1923)
Paul David Wellstone was an American academic, author, and politician. He represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until he was killed in a plane crash near Evel…
Paul Wellstone, American academic and politician (born 1944)
Jacques Émile Massu was a French general who fought in World War II, the First Indochina War, the Algerian War and the Suez Crisis. He led French troops in the Battle of Algiers, f…
Jacques Massu, French general (born 1908)
Sally Hoyt Spofford was an American ornithologist who was long associated with the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. In retirement, she was involved in conservation and birding in…
Sally Hoyt Spofford, American ornithologist (born 1914)
Thomas John Dowd was an American recording engineer and producer for Atlantic Records. He was credited with innovating the multitrack recording method. Dowd worked on a veritable "…
Tom Dowd, American record producer and engineer (born 1925)
Valve Pormeister née Ulm was an Estonian landscape architect who became an architect. She was one of the first women to influence the development of Estonian architecture, becoming…
Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (born 1922)