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Jean-François Revel was a French philosopher, journalist, and author. A prominent public intellectual, Revel was a socialist in his youth but later became a prominent European prop…
Jean-François Revel, French philosopher (born 1924)
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, also nicknamed Pram, was an Indonesian novelist and writer. His works span the colonial period under Dutch rule, Indonesia's struggle for independence, its o…
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian author and academic (born 1925)
Louis Richard Rukeyser was an American financial journalist, columnist, and commentator, through print, radio, and television.
Louis Rukeyser, American journalist and author (born 1933)
Christiaan Karel Appel was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of…
Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet (born 1921)
Pramod Venkatesh Mahajan was an Indian politician from Maharashtra. A second-generation leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he belonged to a group of relatively young "tech…
Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (born 1949)
Earl Dennison Woods was a U.S. Army infantry officer and father of American professional golfer Tiger Woods. Woods started his son in golf at a very early age and coached him exclu…
Earl Woods, American colonel, baseball player, and author (born 1932)
Naushad Ali was an Indian composer for Hindi films. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and foremost music directors of the Hindi film industry. He is respectfully re…
Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer (born 1919)
Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki was a renowned Turkish film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was very much a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He al…
Atıf Yılmaz, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1925)
Lorne Saxberg was a Canadian broadcast journalist for CBC Radio and CBC Newsworld. Saxberg was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario and first joined the CBC's radio arm. As host of Ontario…
Lorne Saxberg, Canadian journalist (born 1958)
Richard George Carleton was a multiple Logie Award–winning Australian television journalist.
Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (born 1943)
Joan Cavill Edwards was a New Orleans jazz singer and well-known West Virginia-based philanthropist.
Joan C
Floyd Patterson was an American professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1972, and twice reigned as the world heavyweight champion between 1956 and 1962. At the age of 21, he b…
Floyd Patterson, American boxer and actor (born 1935)
Grant William McLennan was an Australian alternative rock singer-songwriter-guitarist. He co-founded the Go-Betweens with Robert Forster in Brisbane in 1977 and issued four solo al…
Grant McLennan, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1958)
Iain Stewart Macmillan was the Scottish photographer famous for taking the cover photograph for the Beatles' album Abbey Road in 1969. He grew up in Scotland, then moved to London …
Iain Macmillan, Scottish photographer and author (born 1938)
Soraya Raquel Lamilla Cuevas was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, arranger and record producer.
Soraya, Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1969)
Hussein Yousef Maziq was a Libyan politician who was Prime Minister of Libya from 20 March 1965 to 2 July 1967. He was one of the most important men in the Kingdom era of Libya.
Hussein Maziq, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (born 1918)
Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Jr. was an American scholar of the history of Christianity, Christian theology, and medieval intellectual history at Yale University.
Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian and scholar (born 1923)
Johnnie James Wilder Jr. was an American musician, co-founder and vocalist of the R&B/funk group Heatwave. The group were popular during the late 1970s with hits such as "Boogie Ni…
Johnnie Wilder, Jr
Lewis Burr Anderson was an American actor and musician. He is widely known by TV fans as the third and final actor to portray Clarabell the Clown on Howdy Doody between 1954 and 19…
Lew Anderson, American actor and saxophonist (born 1922)
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.
Stanley Kunitz, American poet and translator (born 1905)
Eva Norvind was a Norwegian-born Mexican actress, writer, documentary producer, director, sex therapist, and dominatrix.
Eva Norvind, Mexican actress, director, and producer (born 1944)
Nazar Abdul Zahra Khalaf, nicknamed "Maradona of Al-Minaa", was an Iraqi footballer who played forward. He spent the majority of his career with Al-Minaa club.
Nizar Abdul Zahra, Iraqi footballer (born 1961)
Cyrus "Cy" Feuer was an American theatre producer, director, composer, musician, and half of the celebrated producing duo Feuer and Martin. He won three competitive Antoinette Perr…
Cy Feuer, American director, producer, and composer (born 1911)
Jaan Eilart was an Estonian phytogeographer, landscape ecologist, cultural historian and conservationist.
Jaan Eilart, Estonian geographer, ecologist, and historian (born 1933)