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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Bruce Gyngell AO was an Australian television executive, active for more than 40 years in both Australian and UK television. Although Gyngell began his career in radio, in the 1950…
Bruce Gyngell, Australian-English broadcaster (born 1929)
Sir Julian Michael Gordon Critchley was a British journalist, author and Conservative Party politician. He was the member of parliament for Rochester and Chatham from 1959 to 1964 …
Julian Critchley, English lawyer and politician (born 1930)
Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah was a Pakistani writer and journalist. Begum Hamidullah was a pioneer of Pakistani literature and journalism in English, and also of feminism in Pakistan. …
Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (born 1921)
Stanley William Turrentine, nicknamed Mr. T, was an American Grammy nominated jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer. He began his career playing R&B for Earl Bostic and later …
Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1934)