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Matthew Thomas Robinson Jr. was an American actor, writer and television producer. Robinson was the first actor to portray the character of Gordon Robinson on the PBS children's TV…
Matt Robinson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1937)
Enos Bradsher Slaughter, nicknamed "Country", was an American professional baseball right fielder. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, …
Enos Slaughter, American baseball player and manager (born 1916)
Larry Rivers was an American painter, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grandfather" of Pop art, he was one of the f…
Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (born 1923)
Sabri Khalil al-Banna, known by his nom de guerre Abu Nidal, was a Palestinian militant. He was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary Council, a militant Palestinian splinter gro…
Abu Nidal, Palestinian terrorist leader (born 1937)
Jeff Corey was an American actor, television director, and teacher. After being blacklisted in the 1950s, he became one of the most prominent and influential acting coaches in Holl…
Jeff Corey, American actor (born 1914)
John Junior Roseboro was an American professional baseball player and coach. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball from 1957 until 1970, most prominently as a member of t…
John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (born 1933)
Dean Riesner was an American film and television writer.
Dean Riesner, American actor and screenwriter (born 1918)
James Hoyt Wilhelm, nicknamed "Old Sarge", was an American professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Ind…
Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player and coach (born 1922)
Nikolai Alekseievich Guryanov was a Russian Orthodox Christian and reputed myrrh-bearing starets and priest. Numerous miracles and healings are ascribed to him.
Nikolay Guryanov, Russian priest and mystic (born 1909)
Dorothy Coade Hewett was an Australian playwright, poet and author. She wrote in a number of different literary styles: modernism, socialist realism, expressionism and avant garde.…
Dorothy Hewett, Australian author and poet (born 1923)
Edwin Louis Cole (1922–2002), also known as Ed Cole, was the founder of the Christian Men's Network, an American religious organization devoted to helping Christian men and fathers…
Edwin Louis Cole, American religious leader and author (born 1922)
Lance Noel Macklin was a British racing driver from England. He participated in 15 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 18 May 1952. He was involved in the 1955 …
Lance Macklin, English race car driver (born 1919)
John Lee Thompson was an English film director, screenwriter, producer and playwright. Initially an exponent of social realism, he became known as a versatile and prolific director…
J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1914)
Lionel Leo Hampton was an American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader. He worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parke…
Lionel Hampton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1908)
Farhad Mehrad was a popular Iranian singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. He was a versatile musician who released the first English rock and roll album in Iran. Farhad gained…
Farhad Mehrad, Persian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist (born 1944)
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, was a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.
George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)
Richard Sylvannus Reynolds was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Dick Reynolds, Australian footballer and coach (born 1915)
Frederick Kenneth Hare, was a Canadian climatologist and academic, who researched atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate change, drought, and arid zone climates and was a strong advoc…
Kenneth Hare, Canadian climatologist and academic (born 1919)
William Clement Stone was an American businessman, philanthropist and New Thought self-help book author.
W. Clement Stone, American businessman, philanthropist, and author (born 1902)
Vladislas "Vlado" Perlemuter was a Lithuanian-born French pianist and teacher.
Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian-French pianist and educator (born 1904)
David Todd Wilkinson was an American cosmologist, specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB).
David Todd Wilkinson, American cosmologist and astronomer (born 1935)
Uziel "Uzi" Gal was a German-born Israeli firearm designer who invented and became the eponym of the Uzi submachine gun.
Uziel Gal, German-Israeli colonel and gun designer, designed the Uzi (born 1923)
Laurie Rohan Williams was a West Indian cricketer. Williams was 33 years old when he died; a car he was driving crashed into an oncoming bus.
Laurie Williams, Jamaican cricketer (born 1968)
Kim Hunter was an American theatre, film, and television actress. She achieved prominence for portraying Stella Kowalski in the original production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetc…
Kim Hunter, American actress (born 1922)