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Cory Fulton Lidle was an American professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, Lidle played in Major League Baseball with the New York Mets, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Oakland …
Cory Lidle, American baseball player (born 1972)
Eugène Martin was a racing driver from France. He participated in two Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 13 May 1950. He scored no championship points.
Eugène Martin, French race car driver (born 1915)
Gilberto Pontecorvo Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian filmmaker associated with the political cinema movement of the 1960s and '70s. He is best known for directing the la…
Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1919)
Ian Gilmour Scott was a Canadian politician and lawyer. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1992 who represented the downtown Toronto riding…
Ian Scott, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1934)
Angelika Machinek was a German glider pilot. Born in the district of Holzminden, she started gliding at the age of 14, gained her pilot’s license in 1973 and received her instructo…
Angelika Machinek, German glider pilot (born 1956)
Carlo Acutis was an English-born Italian Catholic teenager known for his devotion to the Eucharist and his use of digital media to promote Catholic devotion. Born in London and rai…
Carlo Acutis, Italian programmer, known for his devotion to the Eucharist (born 1991)
Wang Guangmei was a Chinese politician, philanthropist and the wife of Liu Shaoqi, who served as the spouse of the President of the People's Republic of China from 1959 to 1968.
Wang Guangmei, Chinese philanthropist and politician, 2nd Spouse of the President of the People's Republic of China…
Freddy Fender was an American Country and Tejano singer and songwriter, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. His signature …
Freddy Fender, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)
Klaas Runia was a Dutch theologian, churchman and journalist. He studied at the Free University, Amsterdam and obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the concept of theologi…
Klaas Runia, Dutch theologian and journalist (born 1926)
Gerry Eastman Studds was an American politician from Massachusetts who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1973 until 1997. He was the …
Gerry Studds, American educator and politician (born 1937)
John Victor Murra was a Ukrainian-born Jewish American professor of anthropology and a researcher of the Inca Empire.
John Victor Murra, Ukrainian-American anthropologist and academic (born 1916)
Valentín Toribio Demetrio Agustin Paniagua Corazao was a Peruvian lawyer and politician who briefly served as President of Peru from 2000 to 2001. Elected President of Congress on …
Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st President of Peru (born 1936)
Daniel Emilfork Berenstein, known professionally as Daniel Emilfork, was a Chilean stage and film actor who made his career in France.
Daniel Emilfork, Chilean-French actor (born 1924)
Joseph Christopher Glenn was an American radio and television news journalist who worked in broadcasting for over 45 years and spent the final 35 years of his career at CBS, retiri…
Christopher Glenn, American journalist (born 1938)
Carlo Mario Francesco Pompedda was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura for the Roman Curia. He spent nearly fifty years in a…
Mario Francesco Pompedda, Italian cardinal (born 1929)
Anna Russell was an English–Canadian singer and comedian. She gave many concerts in which she sang and played comic musical sketches, also playing the piano. Among her best-known w…
Anna Russell, English-Canadian singer and actress (born 1911)
John Lawrence Taitt was a British sprint hurdler. He was born in Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, British Guiana and competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Laurie Taitt, Guyanese-English hurdler (born 1934)
James "Jim" Glennon was an American cinematographer.
James Glennon, American cinematographer (born 1942)
Phyllis Kirk was an American actress.
Phyllis Kirk, American actress (born 1927)
Arnold Viiding was an Estonian shot putter and discus thrower. At the 1936 Summer Olympics, he achieved eighth place in the shot put event with 15.23 metres.
Arnold Viiding, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (born 1911)
Jane Waddington Wyatt was an American actress. She starred in a number of Hollywood films, such as Frank Capra's Lost Horizon, but is likely best known for her role as homemaker an…
Jane Wyatt, American actress (born 1910)
Sandra Sue Pesavento, known professionally as Sandy West was an American singer, drummer and songwriter. She was one of the founding members of the Runaways, a teenage all-girl roc…
Sandy West, American singer-songwriter and drummer (born 1959)
Arthur Edward Spence Hill was a Canadian actor of film, stage, and television. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as George in the original Broadway produc…
Arthur Hill, Canadian-American actor (born 1922)
Lebohang Precious Mathosa was a South African kwaito singer. Mathosa started her career as a founding member of the popular South African band Boom Shaka in 1994 at the age of 17,…
Lebo Mathosa, South African singer (Boom Shaka) (born 1977)