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Purushottam Laxman Deshpande was a Marathi writer and humorist from Maharashtra. He was also an accomplished film and stage actor, script writer, author, composer, musician, singer…
Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, and producer (born 1919)
Attilio Bertolucci was an Italian poet and writer. He was the father of film directors Bernardo and Giuseppe Bertolucci.
Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and author (born 1911)
Jules Roy was a French writer. "Prolific and polemical" Roy, born an Algerian pied noir and sent to a Roman Catholic seminary, used his experiences in the French colony and during …
Jules Roy, French author, poet, and playwright (born 1907)
Nancy Lou Marchand was an American actress. She began her career in theater. She was most famous for portraying Margaret Pynchon on Lou Grant – for which she won four Emmy Awards –…
Nancy Marchand, American actress (born 1928)
Alan Hovhaness was an American composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies and 434 opus numbers. T…
Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American pianist and composer (born 1911)
Peter Dubovský was a Slovak professional footballer who played as a forward.
Peter Dubovský, Slovak footballer (born 1972)
Vera May Atkins was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer who was the Deputy Director of the France Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) from 1941 to 1945 durin…
Vera Atkins, British intelligence officer (born 1908)
David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson was an English stage, film and television actor, singer and comedian. Having been described as both a leading actor and a character actor, he is pr…
David Tomlinson, English actor and comedian (born 1917)
Ismail Mahomed SCOB SC was a South African lawyer and jurist who served as the first non-white Chief Justice of South Africa from January 1997 until his death in June 2000. He was …
Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and jurist, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (born 1931)
Rodrigo Alejandro Bueno, also known by his stage name Rodrigo or his nickname "El Potro", was an Argentine singer of cuarteto music. He is widely regarded as the best, most famous …
Rodrigo Bueno, Argentine cuarteto singer (born 1973)
Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin was a French Christian Democrat politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Cha…
Pierre Pflimlin, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1907)
Nils Poppe was a Swedish actor, comedian, director, screenwriter and theatre manager. He is internationally most famous for his part in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, but in Sw…
Nils Poppe, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1908)
Vittorio Gassman, popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter.
Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor and director (born 1922)
Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, born Joan Pollock Graham, was a British-Canadian far-right political activist who took part in a number of movements, and was described as the "la…
Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, Canadian-English publisher and politician (born 1913)
Walter John Matthau was an American actor, known for his "hangdog face" and for playing world-weary characters. He starred in 10 films alongside his real-life friend Jack Lemmon, i…
Walter Matthau, American actor (born 1920)
William Joseph Dunlop was a Northern Irish roadracing motorcyclist from Ballymoney, County Antrim. In 2015, he was voted Northern Ireland's greatest-ever sports star.
Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (born 1952)
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński was a Polish writer, journalist, essayist, World War II underground fighter, and political dissident abroad during the period of Soviet and communist rule…
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Polish journalist and author (born 1919)
Władysław Szpilman was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the Roman Polanski film The Pianist, wh…
Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer (born 1911)
Kenneth Dale Irwin Jr. was an American stock car racing driver. He had driven in all three NASCAR national touring series, and had two total victories, both in the Craftsman Truck …
Kenny Irwin Jr., American race car driver (born 1969)
Douglas Marjoribanks Fisher was an English actor best known for playing Larry Simmonds in Man About the House (1973–1976), Sammy in the films The Stud (1978) and The Bitch (1979) a…
Doug Fisher, English actor (born 1941)
Vakkom Majeed was an Indian freedom fighter, politician and a former member of the Travancore-Cochin State Assembly. He was born into one of the most prominent aristocratic Muslim …
Vakkom Majeed, Indian journalist and politician (born 1909)
Pedro Julio Mir Valentín was a Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of…
Pedro Mir, Dominican lawyer, author, and poet (born 1913)
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie, was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991, having previously been Bishop of St Albans. He…
Robert Runcie, English archbishop (born 1921)
Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt VC, ED was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Dieppe Raid in 1942. Later he served as Member of Parliament.
Charles Merritt, Canadian colonel and politician, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1908)