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Rolland Mays Stiles was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Browns from 1930 to 1933. Born in Ratcliff, Arkansas, he batted and t…
Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (born 1906)
Ronald Norman Miller was an American popular songwriter and record producer who wrote for Motown artists in the 1960s and 1970s and attained many Top 10 hits. Some of his songs, su…
Ron Miller, American songwriter and producer (born 1933)
Mohammad Zahir Shah was the last king of Afghanistan, reigning from 8 November 1933 until he was deposed on 17 July 1973. Ruling for almost 40 years, Zahir Shah was the longest-ser…
Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (born 1914)
Albert Ellis was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who founded rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia …
Albert Ellis, American psychologist and author (born 1913)
Nicola Zaccaria, born Nicholas Angelos Zachariou was a Greek bass.
Nicola Zaccaria, Greek opera singer (born 1923)
Bernd Jakubowski was an East German footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Bernd Jakubowski, German footballer and manager (born 1952)
Lars Hans Carl Abraham Forssell was a Swedish writer and member of the Swedish Academy. Forssell was a versatile writer who worked within many genres, including poetry, drama and s…
Lars Forssell, Swedish author, poet, and playwright (born 1928)
George Edward "Skip" Prosser was an American college basketball coach who was head men's basketball coach at Wake Forest University at the time of his death. He is the only coach i…
Skip Prosser, American basketball player and coach (born 1950)
James Oyebola was a Nigerian and British heavyweight boxer who won a bronze medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in the super heavyweight division. Oyebola was the British heavywei…
James Oyebola, Nigerian-English boxer (born 1961)
Karl Charles Istaz, known by the ring name Karl Gotch , was a Belgian-born American professional wrestler, catch wrestler, amateur wrestler, and trainer. Considered one of the most…
Karl Gotch, Belgian-American wrestler and trainer (born 1924)
Jim LeRoy was an American aerobatics pilot. He died upon impact in a crash at the Dayton Air Show in Ohio.
Jim LeRoy, American soldier and pilot (born 1961)
Michael Reid was an English comedian, actor, author and occasional television presenter. He played the role of Frank Butcher in the soap opera EastEnders and hosted the children's …
Mike Reid, English comedian, actor, and author (born 1940)
Michel Serrault was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films.
Michel Serrault, French actor (born 1928)
Thomas James Snyder was an American television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows Tomorrow, on NBC in the 1970s and 1980s, and…
Tom Snyder, American journalist and talk show host (born 1936)
Marvin Harold Zindler was a news reporter for television station KTRK-TV in Houston, Texas, United States. His investigative journalism, through which he mostly represented the cit…
Marvin Zindler, American journalist (born 1921)
Michelangelo Antonioni was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for a trio of films often dubbed the "alienation trilogy": L'Avventura (1960), La No…
Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1912)
Teoctist was the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1986 to 2007.
Teoctist Arăpașu, Romanian patriarch (born 1915)
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the greatest and most important filmmakers in the history of cinema, most not…
Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1918)
William Ernest Walsh was an American professional and college football coach. He served as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal, during which time he pop…
Bill Walsh, American football player and coach (born 1931)
Thomas Makem was an Irish folk musician, artist, poet and storyteller. He was best known as a member of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. He played the long-necked 5-string banj…
Tommy Makem, Irish singer-songwriter and banjo player (born 1932)
Chauncey Wendell Bailey Jr. was an American journalist noted for his work primarily on issues of the African-American community. He served as editor-in-chief of the Oakland Post in…
Chauncey Bailey, American journalist (born 1950)
John Edmund Gardner was an English writer of spy and thriller novels. He is best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also wrote a series of Boysie Oakes books and thr…
John Gardner, English author (born 1926)
Peter Eiberg Thorup was a Danish guitarist, singer, composer and record producer. He was one of the most important blues musicians in Denmark, and he was known outside his own coun…
Peter Thorup, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1948)
Raul Hilberg was a Jewish Austrian-born American political scientist, historian, and Holocaust researcher. He was widely considered to be the preeminent scholar on the Holocaust.
Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (born 1926)