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Bruno Kirby was an American actor. He was best known for his roles in City Slickers, When Harry Met Sally..., Good Morning, Vietnam, The Godfather Part II, The Freshman, Sleepers, …
Bruno Kirby, American actor (born 1949)
Tony Jay was a British actor. A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he was known for his voice work in radio, animation, film, and video games. Jay was particularly not…
Tony Jay, English actor and singer (born 1933)
Dame Te Atairangikaahu reigned as Māori Queen from 1966 until her death in 2006. Her reign was the longest of any Māori monarch.
Te Atairangikaahu, New Zealand Māori queen (born 1931)
Richard (Rick) Bourke was an Australian rugby league footballer. He played for Cronulla-Sutherland and South Sydney in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition.
Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league player (born 1955)
Servaas "Faas" Wilkes was a Dutch football forward, who earned a total of 38 caps for the Netherlands national team, in which he scored 35 goals. However, for a prolonged period of…
Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer and manager (born 1923)
Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda was a Paraguayan politician, army general, and military dictator who ruled as the 42nd president of Paraguay from 15 August 1954 until his overthrow in …
Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguayan general and dictator; 46th President of Paraguay (born 1912)
Shamsur Rahman was a Bangladeshi poet, columnist and journalist. A prolific writer, Rahman produced more than sixty books of poetry collection and is considered a key figure in Ben…
Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (born 1929)
Fernand Gignac was a French Canadian singer and actor.
Fernand Gignac, French Canadian singer and actor (born 1934).
Kenneth Howard "Killer" Kearney was an Australian rugby footballer – a dual-code international player – and a rugby league coach. He represented the Wallabies in seven Tests, and t…
Ken Kearney, Australian rugby player (born 1924)
Bryan James Budd, was a British Army soldier and a Northern Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to B…
Bryan Budd, Northern Ireland-born English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1977)
Joseph John Rosenthal was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the 1945 Battle…
Joe Rosenthal, American photographer and journalist (born 1911)
Sinnathamby Sivamaharajah was a Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper publisher, politician and Member of Parliament.
S. Sivamaharajah, Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper publisher and politician (born 1938)
Paul Fentener van Vlissingen was a Dutch businessman and philanthropist who was CEO of SHV Holdings for three decades. He contributed to the development of game reserves in Africa…
Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (born 1941)
Walter Maynard Ferguson CM was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader. He came to prominence in Stan Kenton's orchestra before forming his own big band in 1957. He was noted for …
Maynard Ferguson, Canadian trumpet player and bandleader (born 1928)
Ustad Bismillah Khan, often referred to by the title Ustad, was an Indian musician credited with popularizing the shehnai, a reeded woodwind instrument. His virtuosity made him a l…
Bismillah Khan, Indian musician, Bharat Ratna recipient (born 1916)
Rocco Anthony Petrone was an American mechanical engineer, U.S. Army officer and NASA official. He served as director of launch operations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) from…
Rocco Petrone, American soldier and engineer (born 1926)
Léopold Simoneau, was a French-Canadian lyric tenor, one of the outstanding Mozarteans of his time. In 1959 he became the first recipient of the Calixa-Lavallée Award.
Léopold Simoneau, Canadian tenor and educator (born 1916)
Noor Mohamed Hassanali TC was a Trinidadian lawyer, judge and politician who served as the second president of Trinidad and Tobago from 1987 to 1997. A retired high-court judge, he…
Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian-Tobagonian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (born 1918)
Rainer Candidus Barzel was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the eighth president of the Bundestag from 1983 to 1984.
Rainer Barzel, Polish-German lawyer and politician, Minister of Intra-German Relations (born 1924)
Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott OBE KA GCM was a West Indian cricketer. Walcott was a member of the "three W's", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very succe…
Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer and coach (born 1926)
William A. Garnett was an American landscape photographer who specialized in aerial photography.
William Garnett, American landscape photographer (born 1916)
Hrishikesh Mukherjee was an Indian film director, editor and writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of Indian cinema. Popularly known as Hrishi-da, he directed 42…
Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
Jesus "Jesse" Ernesto Pintado Andrade was a Mexican-American guitarist best known as a guitarist for the British grindcore band Napalm Death.
Jesse Pintado, Mexican-American guitarist (born 1969)
Heino Lipp was an Estonian athlete, who was one of the greatest decathlete in the decade of the 1940s, but he was never able to compete in the Olympic Games, because citizens of th…
Heino Lipp, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (born 1922)