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Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca, known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican and American actor. He was known for his portrayal of earthy, passionate characters "marked by a brutal a…
Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor and producer (born 1915)
Betty Neels was a prolific British writer of over 134 romance novels, beginning in 1969 and continuing until her death. Her work is known for being particularly chaste.
Betty Neels, English nurse and author (born 1910)
Alexander de Renzy was an American director and producer of pornographic movies.
Alex de Renzy, American director and producer (born 1935)
Leila Pahlavi was a princess of Iran. She was the youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Shah the last Shah of Iran, and his third wife, Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi.
Leila Pahlavi, Princess of Iran (born 1970)
Imogene Coca was an American comic actress best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows. Starting out in vaudeville as a child acrobat, she studied ballet and …
Imogene Coca, American actress and comedian (born 1908)
Ángel Víctor Paz Estenssoro was a Bolivian politician who served as the 45th president of Bolivia for three nonconsecutive and four total terms from 1952 to 1956, 1960 to 1964 and …
Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (born 1907)
Timothy James McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist who masterminded and perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The bombing itself killed 167 or 168 people, …
Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (born 1968)
Amalia Mendoza García, nicknamed as La Tariácuri, was a Mexican singer and actress. "Échame a mi la culpa" and "Amarga navidad" were some of her greatest hits. Her best friend sinc…
Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer and actress (born 1923)
Henri Alekan was a French cinematographer.
Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (born 1909)
Donald James Cram was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with…
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Thomas Joseph Winning was a Scottish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Glasgow from 1974 and President of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland from 1…
Thomas Winning, Scottish cardinal (born 1925)
Morey Stanley Mosk was an American jurist, politician, and attorney. He served as Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court for 37 years (1964–2001), the longest tenure in …
Stanley Mosk, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1912)
John Whitefoord Heyer was an Australian documentary filmmaker, who is often described as the father of Australian documentary film.
John Heyer, Australian director and producer (born 1916)
Soad Mohammad Kamal Hosny was an Egyptian actress. She was known as the "Cinderella of the Screen" and one of the most influential actresses in the Middle East and the Arab world. …
Soad Hosny, Egyptian actress and singer (born 1942)
Konstantin Vasilyevich Gerchik was a Russian military officer who served in the Red Army and a program manager in the former Soviet space program. He was Colonel-General of the Sov…
Konstantin Gerchik, the second head of the world's first cosmodrome — "Baikonur" (1958–1961)
Gina Cigna was a French-Italian dramatic soprano.
Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano (born 1900)
Irene Joan Marion Sims was an English actress and comedienne, best remembered for her roles in the Carry On franchise, appearing in 24 of the films.
Joan Sims, English actress (born 1930)
John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta bl…
John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1917)
John Carroll O'Connor was an American actor whose television career spanned over four decades. He found widespread fame as Archie Bunker, the main character in the CBS television s…
Carroll O'Connor, American actor and producer (born 1924)
Tove Marika Jansson was a Finland-Swedish author, novelist and comic strip author, painter and illustrator. Brought up by artistic parents, her mother an illustrator and postage st…
Tove Jansson, Finnish author, illustrator, and painter (born 1914)
John Uhler Lemmon III was an American actor. Considered proficient in both dramatic and comic roles, he was known for his anxious, middle-class everyman screen persona in comedy-dr…
Jack Lemmon, American actor (born 1925)
Mortimer Jerome Adler was an American philosopher, educator, encyclopedist, author, and lay theologian. His philosophical work was situated within the Aristotelian and Thomistic tr…
Mortimer J
Chester Burton Atkins, nicknamed "Mister Guitar" and "the Country Gentleman", was a fingerpicking guitar player, arranger and producer who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson…
Chet Atkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1924)
Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and very occasional flute player. In a career spanning more than four decades, Henderson played with many of the leading Americ…
Joe Henderson, American saxophonist and composer (born 1937)