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Harald Keres was an Estonian physicist considered to be the father of the Estonian school of relativistic gravitation theory. In 1961 Keres became a member of the Estonian Academy …
Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (born 1912)
Corey Allen was an American film and television director, writer, producer, and actor. He began his career as an actor but eventually became a television director. He is best known…
Corey Allen, American film and television actor, writer, director, and producer (born 1934)
Robert Carlyle Byrd was an American politician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. A Democrat, Byrd also …
Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (born 1917)
Arnold Friberg was an American illustrator and painter of religious and patriotic works. One example is his 1975 painting The Prayer at Valley Forge, a depiction of George Washingt…
Arnold Friberg, American painter and illustrator (born 1913)
Jacqueline Ruth Woods, better known as Ilene Woods, was an American actress and singer. Woods was best known as the original voice of the title character of Walt Disney animated fi…
Ilene Woods, American actress and singer (born 1929)
Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge was an English writer. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. She w…
Beryl Bainbridge, English screenwriter and author (born 1932)
Donald David Coryell was an American football coach. He coached in high school, college, and the professional ranks; his most notable NCAA post was with the San Diego State Aztecs …
Don Coryell, American football player and coach (born 1924)
Mohammad Daoud Oudeh, commonly known by his nom de guerre Abu Daoud or Abu Dawud, was a Palestinian militant, teacher and lawyer known as the planner, architect and mastermind of t…
Abu Daoud, Palestinian terrorist, planned the Munich massacre (born 1937)
Robert Neil Butler was an American physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, and author, who was the first director of the National Institute on Aging. Butler is known for his work o…
Robert Neil Butler, American physician and author (born 1927)
Robert Alan Probert was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward. Probert played for the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks. While a successful pla…
Bob Probert, Canadian ice hockey player and radio host (born 1965)
Harvey Fuqua was an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, and record label executive.
Harvey Fuqua, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1929)
Jessica Margaret Anderson was an Australian novelist and short story writer. Born in Gayndah, Anderson lived the bulk of her life in Sydney apart from a few years in London. She be…
Jessica Anderson, Australian author and playwright (born 1916)
Olga Guillot was a Cuban singer who was known as the "Queen of Bolero". She was a native of Santiago de Cuba.
Olga Guillot, Cuban-American singer (born 1922)
James Patrick Hogan was a British science fiction author. His major works include the Giants series of five novels published between 1977 and 2005.
James P. Hogan, English-American author (born 1941)
Paulo Moura was a Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist.
Paulo Moura, Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist (born 1932)
Pius Njawé was a Cameroonian journalist and director of Le Messager as well as Le Messager Populi. Arrested over 100 times for his reporting, Njawé won several awards for his work,…
Pius Njawé, Cameroonian journalist (born 1957)
Harvey Lawrence Pekar was an American underground comic book writer, music critic, and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 200…
Harvey Pekar, American author and critic (born 1939)
Manohari Singh was an Indian music director, saxophonist and was the main arranger of seminal film composer R. D. Burman. He worked with Basudeb Chakraborty as a music composer, th…
Manohari Singh, Indian saxophonist and composer (born 1931)
George Michael Steinbrenner III, nicknamed "the Boss", was an American businessman who was the principal owner and managing partner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees from…
George Steinbrenner, American businessman (born 1930)
James Elmer Akins was the U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from September, 1973 to February, 1976, just in time to serve during the 1973 Oil Crisis of October, 1973 to March, 1974. …
James E. Akins, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (born 1926)
Larry Keith was an American television actor. He was best known for being a cast member on the ABC soap opera All My Children and was the first American to play the role of Henry H…
Larry Keith, American actor (born 1931)
Cécile Aubry was a French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director.
Cécile Aubry, French actress, author, television screenwriter and director (born 1928)
Jon Stephen Cleary was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including The Sundowners (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one …
Jon Cleary, Australian author and playwright (born 1917)
Luis Nicolás Corvalán Lepe was a Chilean politician, teacher, and writer. He was the general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh) for more than three decades and was tw…
Luis Corvalán, Chilean educator and politician (born 1916)