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Phạm Văn Đồng was a Vietnamese politician who served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1955 to 1976. He later served as Prime Minister of Vietnam, following reunification of …
Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (born 1906)
Poul Hartling was a Danish politician and diplomat. He was leader of Venstre from 1965 to 1977, and served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1973 to 1975. Prior to that, he served …
Poul Hartling, Danish politician, 36th Prime Minister of Denmark (born 1914)
Stephen Lester Reeves was an American professional bodybuilder and actor. He was famous in the mid-1950s as a movie star in Italian-made sword-and-sandal films, playing muscular pr…
Steve Reeves, American bodybuilder and actor (born 1926)
Sundar Popo HBM, born Sundarlal Popo Bahora, was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian musician. He is credited as being the father of chutney music, beginning with his 1969 hit Nana and Na…
Sundar Popo, Indo-Trinidadian musician (born 1943)
Júlia Báthory was a Hungarian glass designer.
Júlia Báthory, Hungarian glass designer (born 1901)
John Joseph O'Connor was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of New York from 1984 until his death in 2000, and was made a cardinal in 1985. O'Connor's tenure was…
John Joseph O'Connor, American cardinal (born 1920)
Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir was a Dutch physicist who made significant contributions to the field of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He is best known for his work …
Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist and academic (born 1909)
Gino Bartali,, nicknamed Gino the Pious and Ginettaccio, was a champion road cyclist. He was the most renowned Italian cyclist before the Second World War, having won the Giro d'It…
Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (born 1914)
William Clifford Musselman was an American basketball coach in the NCAA, the ABA, the WBA, the CBA, and the NBA.
Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (born 1940)
Gordon Lee McClymont AO was an Australian agricultural scientist, ecologist, and educationist. The originator of the term "sustainable agriculture", McClymont is known for his mult…
Gordon McClymont, Australian ecologist and academic (born 1920)
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. was an American actor, producer, and United States Navy officer. He was a leading man during the Golden Age of Hollywood, notably in adventure and swash…
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein, who wrote as Pita Amor, was a Mexican poet.
Pita Amor, Mexican poet and author (born 1918)
André "Dédé" Fortin was a founding member, frontman, and guitarist of the Québécois band Les Colocs, formed in 1990.
Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1962)
Henry Joseph Nicols was an American HIV/AIDS activist who became the first American student to intentionally disclose his HIV infection to his community in March 1991.
Henry Nicols, American activist (born 1973)
Jules Deschênes, was a Canadian Quebec Superior Court judge.
Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (born 1923)
Richard W. Sprang was an American comic book artist and penciller, best known for his work on the superhero Batman during the period fans and historians call Golden Age of Comic Bo…
Dick Sprang, American illustrator (born 1915)
Adam Kyler Petty was an American professional stock car racing driver. A member of the Petty racing family, he was the fourth generation from the Petty family to drive in races in …
Adam Petty, American race car driver (born 1980)
Paul Bartel was an American actor, writer and director. He was perhaps most known for his 1982 hit black comedy Eating Raoul, which he co-wrote, starred in and directed.
Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1938)
Tomomi "Tommy" Tsuruta , better known by his ring name Jumbo Tsuruta , was a Japanese professional wrestler who wrestled for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) for most of his career, …
Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese wrestler (born 1951)
Keizō Obuchi was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1998 to 2000.
Keizō Obuchi, Japanese politician, 84th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1937)
Frederick Donald Coggan, Baron Coggan, was the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury from 1974 to 1980. As Archbishop of Canterbury, he "revived morale within the Church of England, opene…
Donald Coggan, English archbishop (born 1909)
Stephen M. "Steve" Wolownik was a pioneer in the Russian and Eastern European music community in the United States. He was a co-founder of the Balalaika and Domra Association of Am…
Stephen M
Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal was a French flautist and conductor. Rampal popularised the flute in the post–World War II years, recovering flute compositions from the Baroque era, and s…
Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (born 1922)
Malik Sealy was an American professional basketball player, active from 1992 until his death in an automobile accident at the age of 30. Posthumously inducted into the NYC Basketba…
Malik Sealy, American basketball player and actor (born 1970)