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Dominick DeLuise was an American actor, comedian, director, musician, chef, and author. Known primarily for comedic roles, he rose to fame in the 1970s as a frequent guest on telev…
Dom DeLuise, American actor, director, and producer (born 1933)
Abel Nguéndé Goumba was a Central African politician. During the late 1950s, he headed the government in the period prior to independence from France, and following independence he…
Abel Goumba, Central African physician and politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (born 1926)
Claudio Huepe García was a Chilean politician, engineer and economist, member of the Christian Democrat party, who occupied several government and political positions. During his c…
Claudio Huepe, Chilean economist and politician, Chilean Minister Secretary-General of Government (born 1939)
Admiral Sardarilal Mathradas "Charles" Nanda, PVSM, AVSM was an Indian Navy admiral who served as the 6th Chief of the Naval Staff from 1 March 1970 until 28 February 1973. He led …
Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, Indian admiral (born 1915)
Robert Lenard Bogle was an American musician who was a founding member of the instrumental rock band the Ventures. He and Don Wilson founded the group in 1958. Bogle was the lead g…
Bob Bogle, American musician (born 1934)
William Rogers McIntyre, was a Canadian Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
William McIntyre, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and judge (born 1918)
Darrell Cecil "Shifty" Powers was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II…
Darrell Powers, American sergeant (born 1923)
Raymond Berthiaume was a Canadian jazz singer, musician, producer and composer from Quebec, Canada.
Raymond Berthiaume, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (born 1931)
Roderick Anthony Burton II better known by his stage name Dolla, was an American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia. Burton embarked on his music career in 2003, with hip hop group Da Ra…
Dolla, American rapper (born 1987)
Wayne Anthony Allwine was an American voice actor, sound effects editor, and foley artist. He was best remembered as the third official voice of Mickey Mouse and the first official…
Wayne Allwine, American voice actor, sound effects editor and Foley artist (born 1947)
Velupillai Prabhakaran was an Eelam Tamil revolutionary, guerrilla leader and a major figure of Tamil nationalism, being the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ee…
Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (born 1954)
Arthur Charles Erickson was a Canadian architect and urban planner. He studied at the University of British Columbia and, in 1950, received his B.Arch. (Honours) from McGill Univer…
Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect and urban planner, designed Roy Thomson Hall (born 1924)
Sir Clive William John Granger was a British econometrician known for his contributions to nonlinear time series analysis. He taught in Britain, at the University of Nottingham and…
Clive Granger, Welsh-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1934)
Michael Vincent O'Brien was an Irish race horse trainer from Churchtown, County Cork, Ireland. In 2003 he was voted the greatest influence in horse racing history in a worldwide p…
Vincent O'Brien, Irish horse trainer (born 1917)
Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr. was an American announcer, game show host, comedian, actor, singer, and combat aviator. McMahon and Johnny Carson began their association in their firs…
Ed McMahon, American game show host and announcer (born 1923)
Jerri Lin Nielsen was an American physician with extensive emergency room experience, who self-treated her breast cancer while stationed at Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Ant…
Jerri Nielsen, American physician and explorer (born 1952)
Roméo-Adrien LeBlanc was a Canadian journalist and politician who served as the 25th governor general of Canada from 1995 to 1999.
Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (born 1927)
Mary Ferrah Leni "Farrah" Fawcett was an American actress. A four-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when…
Farrah Fawcett, American actress and producer (born 1947)
Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France. Dausset received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 along with Baruj Benace…
Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his s
Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. A class conflict theorist, Dahrendorf was a lea…
Ralf Dahrendorf, German-English sociologist and politician (born 1929)
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant fig…
Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (born 1958)
Sky "Sunlight" Saxon was an American rock and roll musician best known as the leader and singer of the 1960s Los Angeles psychedelic garage rock band The Seeds.
Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter (born 1937)
Josephine Owaissa Cottle, known professionally as Gale Storm, was an American actress and singer. After a film career from 1940 to 1952, she starred in two popular television progr…
Gale Storm, American actress (born 1922)
Ambazhathil Karunakaran Lohithadas was an Indian screenwriter, playwright, film maker, and producer who worked in the Malayalam film industry. In a career spanning over two decades…
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