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Martin Dillon was an American musician, operatic tenor, and professor of music at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.
Martin Dillon, American tenor and educator (born 1957)
Dahlia Ravikovitch was an Israeli poet, translator and recipient of the Israel Prize for Poetry in 1998.
Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet and translator (born 1936)
Marcus Schmuck was an Austrian mountaineer. In 1957, together with Hermann Buhl he organized the expedition, firstly envisaged and initiated by Buhl, to climb the world's 12th high…
Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (born 1925)
Lucien Ferrari was a French composer and pioneer in musique concrète and electroacoustic music. He was a founding member of RTF's Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRMC), working alo…
Luc Ferrari, French-Italian director and composer (born 1929)
Robert Arthur Moog was an American electronics engineer and electronic music pioneer. He was the founder of the synthesizer manufacturer Moog Music and the inventor of the first co…
Robert Moog, American businessman, founded Moog Music (born 1934)
Ernest Oliver Kirkendall was an American chemist and metallurgist. He is known for his 1947 discovery of the Kirkendall effect.
Ernest Kirkendall, American chemist and metallurgist (born 1914)
Brock Peters was an American actor, best known for playing the villainous "Crown" in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, and Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbir…
Brock Peters, American actor (born 1927)
Jamshed Ansari was a Pakistani film, television and radio actor.
Jamshed Ansari, Pakistani film, television and radio actor (born 1942)
Peter Glotz was a German social democratic politician and social scientist.
Peter Glotz, Czech-German academic and politician (born 1939)
Denis "Piggy" D'Amour was a Canadian guitarist. He was a member of the heavy metal band Voivod from its inception in 1982 until his death in 2005.
Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (born 1960)
Robert Denning was an American interior designer whose lush interpretations of French Victorian decor became an emblem of corporate raider tastes in the 1980s.
Robert Denning, American art collector and interior designer (born 1927)
Edward John White was a Canadian professional wrestler, best known as Sailor White and as Moondog King of The Moondogs when he joined the World Wrestling Federation in the early-19…
Moondog King, Canadian wrestler and politician (born 1949)
Giorgos Muzakis was a prominent Greek virtuoso trumpeter and music composer.
Giorgos Mouzakis, Greek trumpet player and composer (born 1922)
Seán Purcell, was a Gaelic footballer who played at senior level for the Galway county team.
Seán Purcell, Irish footballer (born 1929)
Jacques Dufilho was a French actor. He was born in Bègles (Gironde) and he died in Lectoure (Gers).
Jacques Dufilho, French actor (born 1914)
Esther Szekeres was a Hungarian–Australian mathematician.
Esther Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (born 1910)
George Szekeres, born Szekeres György, was a Hungarian–Australian mathematician. After migrating to Australia after World War II, he worked first for the University of Adelaide, an…
George Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (born 1911)
Sir Joseph Rotblat was a Polish and British physicist. During World War II he worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory on grounds of cons…
Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)
R. L. Burnside was an American hill country blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He played music for most of his life but received little recognition until 1995 when Burnside r…
R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1926)
Robert Osbourne Denver was an American comedic actor who portrayed beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the 1959–1963 series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and Gilligan on the 1964–1967 tel…
Bob Denver, American actor (born 1935)
Richard Sidney Richmond Fitter was a British naturalist and author. He was an expert on wildflowers and authored several guides for amateur naturalists.
R. S. R. Fitter, English biologist and author (born 1913)
William Hubbs Rehnquist was an American attorney who served as the 16th chief justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005, having previously been an associate ju…
William Rehnquist, American lawyer and jurist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (born 1924)
Roberto Urbano Viaux Marambio was a Chilean Army General and the primary planner of two attempted coups d'état in Chile in 1969 and 1970. The first was against President Eduardo Fr…
Roberto Viaux, Chilean general (born 1917)
Hasan Abidi was a Pakistani journalist, writer, political activist and an Urdu language poet.
Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (born 1929)