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George Harvey Presnell was an American actor and singer. He began his career in the mid-1950s as a classical baritone, singing with orchestras and opera companies throughout the Un…
Harve Presnell, American actor and singer (born 1933)
Karl Malden was an American stage, movie and television actor who first achieved acclaim in the original Broadway productions of Arthur Miller's All My Sons and Tennessee Williams'…
Karl Malden, American actor (born 1912)
Onni Palaste, born Onni Bovellan was a Finnish Winter War veteran and writer.
Onni Palaste, Finnish soldier and author (born 1917)
Isabel Mary Sugden, known professionally as Mollie Sugden, was an English actress and comedienne. She was best known for being an original cast member in the British sitcom Are You…
Mollie Sugden, English actress (born 1922)
Alauddin Al-Azad was a modern Bangladeshi author, novelist, and poet.
Alauddin Al-Azad, Bangladeshi author and poet (born 1932)
John Alva Keel, born Alva John Kiehle, was an American journalist and influential ufologist who is known best as author of The Mothman Prophecies.
John Keel, American journalist and author (born 1930)
Brenda Joyce was an American film actress. She was best known for playing Jane Porter in RKO's Tarzan films from 1945 to 1949.
Brenda Joyce, American actress (born 1917)
Allen Klein was an American businessman whose aggressive negotiation tactics affected industry standards for compensating recording artists. He founded ABKCO Music & Records Incorp…
Allen Klein, American businessman and talent agent, founded ABKCO Records (born 1931)
Drake Maxwell Levin was an American musician best known as the guitarist for the pop-rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders.
Drake Levin, American guitarist (born 1946)
Stephen LaTreal McNair, nicknamed "Air McNair", was an American professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons. He started his fi…
Steve McNair, American football player (born 1973)
Folke Lars-Olov Strömstedt, better known as Lasse Strömstedt, was a Swedish writer who wrote of and about his own life in prison and drug abuse. Strömstedt was born in Gävle in 19…
Lasse Strömstedt, Swedish author and actor (born 1935)
Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard was a Congolese politician and poet. Having previously served as Minister of Higher Education and Minister of Arts and Culture, he was Minister of Hydroc…
Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese poet and politician (born 1938)
Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He became known in the West as the author of The Burn and of Generations of Winter, a family saga following three gener…
Vasily Aksyonov, Russian author and academic (born 1932)
Robert Strange McNamara, also known by his initials RSM, was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 t…
Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1916)
Midnight was an American musician best known as the lead vocalist of heavy metal band Crimson Glory. The band became known for Midnight's "ear-shattering screams", which drew compa…
Midnight, American singer-songwriter (born 1962)
Ebba Margareta Haslund Halvorsen was an American-Norwegian novelist, writer of short stories, playwright, essayist, children's writer, literary critic, radio speaker and politician…
Ebba Haslund, Norwegian writer (born 1917)
Reginald Stephen "Reggie, the Ruffian" Fleming was a professional hockey player in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins, New Y…
Reg Fleming, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1936)
Ji Xianlin was a Chinese Indologist, linguist, paleographer, historian and writer who has been honored by the governments of both India and China. Ji was proficient in many languag…
Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (born 1911)
Arturo Gatti was a Canadian professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2007. He was a world champion in two weight classes, having held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) …
Arturo Gatti, Italian-Canadian boxer (born 1972)
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited a…
Walter Cronkite, American journalist and actor (born 1916)
Leszek Kołakowski was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analysis of contemporary Marxist thought and theory, as in his three-volume his…
Leszek Kołakowski, Polish historian and philosopher (born 1927)
Henry William Allingham was an English supercentenarian. He is the longest-lived man ever recorded from the United Kingdom, a First World War veteran, and, for one month, was the v…
Henry Allingham, English soldier (born 1896)
Jill Angela Henriette Balcon was a British actress. She was known for her work in film, television, radio and on stage. She made her film debut in Nicholas Nickleby (1947). She was…
Jill Balcon, English actress (born 1925)
Francis McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood.
Frank McCourt, American author and educator (born 1930)