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John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-American economist who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in…
John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)
Nicholas Samuel Markowitz was an American teenager who was kidnapped and murdered at the age of 15 after a feud over drug money between his half-brother Benjamin Markowitz and Jess…
Nicholas Markowitz, American murder victim (born 1984)
William Gilbert Anthony Parkhouse was a Welsh cricketer who played in seven Tests for England in 1950, 1950–51 and 1959.
Gilbert Parkhouse, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (born 1925)
Jean Papineau-Couture, was a Canadian composer and academic.
Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic (born 1916)
Gennady Petrovich Lyachin was a Russian navy officer. He was the commanding officer of the Russian submarine Kursk when the vessel suffered a series of explosions and sank on 12 Au…
Gennady Lyachin, Russian captain (born 1955)
Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child, she had a long and varied career in film from 1916 to 1989. She received numerous honors including an Academy Award, two…
Loretta Young, American actress (born 1913)
Nazia Hassan was a Pakistani-English singer, songwriter, and philanthropist. Regarded as the "Queen of South Asian Pop,” she is considered one of the most influential musical figur…
Nazia Hassan, Pakistani singer-songwriter (born 1965)
Lancelot Lionel Ware OBE was an English barrister and biochemist. He co-founded Mensa, the international society for intellectually gifted people, with the Australian barrister Rol…
Lancelot Ware, English barrister and biochemist, co-founder of Mensa (born 1915)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)