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Dame Mary Eugenia Charles was a Dominican politician who was Prime Minister of Dominica from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995. She was the first woman lawyer in Dominica. After bein…
Eugenia Charles, Dominican lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Dominica (born 1919)
Noel Euchuria Cornelius Cantwell was an Irish football player and sometime cricketer.
Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer, footballer, and manager (born 1932)
Donald Richmond Horne was an Australian journalist, writer, social critic, and academic who became one of Australia's best known public intellectuals, from the 1960s until his deat…
Donald Horne, Australian journalist, author, and critic (born 1921)
Sir Hermann Bondi was an Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist.
Hermann Bondi, Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (born 1919)
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown was an American singer and multi-instrumentalist from Louisiana. He was best-known as a blues performer, but his music was often eclectic and also touche…
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer and guitarist (born 1924)
Serge Lang was a French-American mathematician and activist who taught at Yale University for most of his career. He is known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics …
Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (born 1927)
Anton K. "Toni" Fritsch was an Austrian footballer who later started a successful career in American football in the United States. He is distinguished as being the first Austrian …
Toni Fritsch, Austrian footballer (born 1945)
Julio César Turbay Ayala was a Colombian lawyer and politician who served as the 26th president of Colombia from 1978 to 1982. He also held the positions of Foreign Minister and Am…
Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia (born 1916)
William Berenberg, M.D. was an American physician, Harvard professor, and pioneer in the treatment and rehabilitation of cerebral palsy.
William Berenberg, American physician and academic (born 1915)
Vladimir Volkoff was a writer of Russian origin who lived in France and whose books were written in French. He produced both literary works for adults and spy novels for young read…
Vladimir Volkoff, French soldier and author (born 1932)
Robert Earl Wise was an American filmmaker. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965).…
Robert Wise, American director and producer (born 1914)
Guy Mervin Charles Green OBE BSC was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 1948, he won an Oscar as cinematographer for the film Great Expectati…
Guy Green, English director and cinematographer (born 1913)
Michael Sidney Luft was an American producer and businessman, the second husband of actress Lynn Bari, and later the third husband of actress and singer Judy Garland.
Sidney Luft, American manager and producer (born 1915)
Harry Freedman, was a Canadian composer, English hornist and teacher.
Harry Freedman, Canadian horn player, composer, and educator (born 1922)
Richard Gordon Gould was an American physicist who is sometimes credited with the invention of the laser and the optical amplifier.. Gould is best known for his thirty-year fight w…
Gordon Gould, American physicist and academic, invented the laser (born 1920)
Jacques Lacarrière was a French writer, born in Limoges. He studied moral philosophy, classical literature, and Hindu philosophy and literature. Professionally, he was known as a p…
Jacques Lacarrière, French journalist and critic (born 1925)
Alfred Reed was an American neoclassical composer, with more than two hundred published works for concert band, orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensemble to his name. He also travele…
Alfred Reed, American composer and educator (born 1921)
Michael Steven Park was a rally co-driver from Newent in Gloucestershire. He worked with former world champions Richard Burns and Colin McRae as a gravel note expert while co-drivi…
Michael Park, English racing driver (born 1966)
Clint Cornelius Wilson Sr. was an African-American editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Sentinel, the most prominent Black owned newspaper in California.
Clint C. Wilson, Sr., American cartoonist (born 1914)
Simon Wiesenthal was an Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture, and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janow…
Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian human rights activist, Holocaust survivor (born 1908)
The Airbus A380 is a large wide-body airliner, developed and produced by Airbus from 2003 to 2021. It is the world's largest passenger airliner and the only full-length double-deck…
The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner, made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France
Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.
A Vanity Fair article revealed that the secret informant known as "Deep Throat", who had provided information about the
A conclave was held on 18 and 19 April 2005 to elect a new pope to succeed John Paul II, who had died on 2 April 2005. Of the 117 eligible cardinal electors, all but two attended. …
Joseph Alois Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the papal conclave
Pope Benedict XVI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2005 until his resignation in 2013. Following his resignation, he chose to be known as "pope em…
Pope Benedict XVI began the beatification process for his predecessor Pope John Paul II, waiving the standard five years