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Thirunalloor Karunakaran was a poet, scholar, teacher and leftist intellectual of Kerala, India.
Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian poet and scholar (born 1924)
Kenneth Lee Lay was an American businessman and political donor who was the founder, chief executive officer and chairman of Enron. He was heavily involved in Enron's accounting sc…
Kenneth Lay, American businessman (born 1942)
Amzie Ellen Strickland was an American character actress who began in radio, made some 650 television appearances, had roles in two dozen films, appeared in numerous television mov…
Amzie Strickland, American actress (born 1919)
Kasey Rogers was an American actress and writer, best known for playing the second Louise Tate in the sitcom Bewitched.
Kasey Rogers, American actress (born 1925)
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett was an English singer, guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. Until his departure in 1968, he was Pink Floyd's frontman…
Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946)
Juan de Ávalos y García-Taborda was a Spanish sculptor.
Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (born 1911)
John William Money was a New Zealand American psychologist, sexologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University known for his research on human sexual behavior and gender.
John Money, New Zealand-American psychologist and author (born 1921)
June Allyson was an American stage, film, and television actress.
June Allyson, American actress and singer (born 1917)
Milan B. Williams was an American keyboardist and a founding member of The Commodores.
Milan Williams, American keyboard player and producer (born 1948)
Lennart Villiam Bladh was a Swedish politician who served as member of the Riksdag (MP) from 1974 to 1985.
Lennart Bladh, Swedish politician (born 1920)
Bernard Aloysius Kiernan Hughes was an American actor. His most successful roles came after middle age, and he was often cast as a dithering authority figure or grandfatherly elder…
Barnard Hughes, American actor (born 1915)
Bronwyn Joy Oliver was an Australian sculptor whose work primarily consisted of metalwork. Her sculptures are admired for their tactile nature, aesthetics, and technical skills dem…
Bronwyn Oliver, Australian sculptor (born 1959)
Red Buttons was an American actor and comedian. He won an Oscar, a Golden Globe Award, and a Laurel Award for his performance as United States Air Force crew chief Joe Kelly in the…
Red Buttons, American actor (born 1919)
Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, also known by his kunya Abu Idris, was a Chechen guerrilla leader who served as a senior military commander in the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeri…
Shamil Basayev, Chechen terrorist rebel leader (born 1965)
John Spencer was an English professional snooker player. One of the most dominant players of the 1970s, he won the World Snooker Championship three times, in 1969, 1971 and 1977. H…
John Spencer, English snooker player and sportscaster (born 1935)
Robert Howell Brooks was founder of Naturally Fresh, Inc. in 1966 in Atlanta, Georgia. He helped create the Hooters of America, Inc. restaurant chain that would eventually drive th…
Robert H. Brooks, American businessman, founder of Hooters and Naturally Fresh, Inc. (born 1937)
Alireza Shapour Shahbazi was a prominent Persian archaeologist, Iranologist and a world expert on Achaemenid archaeology. Shahbazi got a BA degree in and an MA degree in East Asian…
Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist and academic (born 1942)
Winthrop Paul "Win" Rockefeller was an American Republican politician and businessman who served as the 17th lieutenant governor of Arkansas from 1996 until his death in 2006. He w…
Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 13th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (born 1948)
Samuel Joseph Myers was an American blues musician and songwriter. He was an accompanist on dozens of recordings by blues artists over five decades. He began his career as a drumme…
Sam Myers, American singer-songwriter (born 1936)
Frank Morrison Spillane, better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, called the "king of pulp fiction". He was best known for stories featuring his signature d…
Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (born 1918)
Henry Hewes was an American theater writer who worked as the drama critic for the Saturday Review weekly literary magazine from 1955 to 1979. He was the first major critic to regul…
Henry Hewes, American theater writer (born 1917)
Jack Warden was an American actor who worked in film and television. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978).…
Jack Warden, American actor (born 1920)
Edward Grant was a South African Trotskyist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He was a founding member of the group Militant and later Socialist Appeal.
Ted Grant, South African-English theorist and activist (born 1913)
Gérard Oury was a French film director, actor and writer. He is best known for a number of comedies he directed and co-wrote between the 1960s and 1980s, most notably The Sucker (1…
Gérard Oury, French actor, director, and producer (born 1919)