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Robert Finlayson "Robin" Cook was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 until his death in 2005 and served in the Cabinet as Foreign…
Robin Cook, Scottish educator and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (born 1946)
Creme Puff was a mixed tabby domestic cat, owned by Jake Perry of Austin, Texas. She was the oldest cat ever recorded, according to the 2010 edition of Guinness World Records, when…
Creme Puff, tabby domestic cat, oldest recorded cat (born 1967)
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings was a Canadian and American television journalist. He was best known for serving as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until…
Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist and author (born 1938)
Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková was a Slovak painter, scenic designer and journalist.
Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková, Slovak painter (born 1909)
Barbara Bel Geddes was an American stage and screen actress, artist, and children's author whose career spanned almost five decades. She received various accolades, including a Pri…
Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (born 1922)
Ahmed Husein Deedat was an Indian-South African Islamic author, intellectual, and orator on comparative religion. He was best known as a Muslim missionary, who held numerous inter-…
Ahmed Deedat, South African missionary and author (born 1918)
John Harold Johnson was an American business executive and publisher. He was the founder in 1942 of the Johnson Publishing Company, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Johnson's co…
John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (born 1918)
Gene William Mauch was an American professional baseball player and manager who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a second baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirat…
Gene Mauch, American baseball player and manager (born 1925)
Dean Ladrath Rockwell ) was a decorated World War II group commander in the D-Day invasion, an Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling coach, and a college football coach.
Dean Rockwell, American commander, wrestler, and coach (born 1912)
Monica Sjöö was a Swedish-born British-based painter, writer and radical anarcho/ eco-feminist and peace activist who was an early exponent of the Goddess movement. Her books and p…
Monica Sjöö, Swedish-English painter (born 1938)
Judith Rossner was an American novelist, best known for her acclaimed best sellers Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1975) and August (1983).
Judith Rossner, American author (born 1935)
John F. Loder was an English sound engineer, record producer and founder of Southern Studios, as well as a former member of EXIT and co-founder of the Southern Records distribution…
John Loder, English sound engineer and producer, founded Southern Studios (born 1946)
Miguel Arraes de Alencar was a Brazilian lawyer and politician. He was mayor of Recife, State Deputy, Federal Deputy and three times Governor of Pernambuco.
Miguel Arraes, Brazilian lawyer and politician (born 1916)
Dr. Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana was an Indian dermatologist who was known as 'the doyen of dermatology' in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist and academic (born 1927)
David Russell Lange was a New Zealand politician who served as the 32nd prime minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. A member of the New Zealand Labour Party, Lange was also th…
David Lange, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1942)
Vassar Carlton Clements was an American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows …
Vassar Clements, American fiddler (born 1928)
Antonio "Tonino" Delli Colli was an Italian cinematographer.
Tonino Delli Colli, Italian cinematographer (born 1922)
William Corlett, was an English author, best known for his quartet of children's novels, The Magician's House, published between 1990 and 1992.
William Corlett, English novelist and playwright (born 1938)
Roger Schutz, popularly known as Brother Roger, was a Swiss Christian leader and monastic brother. In 1940 Schutz founded the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community in B…
Frère Roger, Swiss monk and mystic (born 1915)
John Norris Bahcall was an American astrophysicist and the Richard Black Professor for Astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study. He was known for a wide range of contributi…
John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and academic (born 1934)
Christopher Jonathan Bauman Jr. was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Chri$ Ca$h. Bauman wrestled in many independent promotions, but is known for hi…
Chri$ Ca$h, American wrestler (born 1982)
Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam was a British Labour Party politician. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Redcar from 1987 to 2001 and served in the Cabinet of Tony Blair as Secretary …
Mo Mowlam, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1949)
Thomas Lovell Herrion was an American football offensive guard in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers. He also was a member of the Ham…
Thomas Herrion, American football player (born 1981)
Krzysztof Raczkowski, also known as Docent or Doc, was a Polish drummer, best known as a member of Polish death metal bands Vader (1988–2005) and Dies Irae. He also appeared as a g…
Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer and songwriter (born 1970)