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Barry Leslie Norman was a British film critic, television presenter and journalist. He presented the BBC's cinema review programme, Film..., from 1972 to 1998.
Barry Norman, English television presenter (born 1933)
Simone Veil was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician. Deported as a teenager to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen, she became a prominent advocate for hu…
Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician (born 1927)
John Blackwell Jr. was an American contemporary R&B, funk, jazz, fusion, and pop drummer, best known for his work with Prince. Later, he was a member of D'Angelo's backing band, Th…
John Blackwell, American R&B, funk, and jazz drummer (born 1973)
Vladislav Stepanovich Rastorotsky was a Soviet and Russian female artistic gymnastics coach, Honoured Trainer of the USSR, who worked at the Dynamo sports society. Sportswomen trai…
Vladislav Rastorotsky, a Russian (and former Soviet) artistic gymnastics coach, (born 1933)
Smith Stewart Hart was an American-Canadian professional wrestler and a member of the Hart wrestling family. His parents were Stu and Helen Hart. Smith was the first of their twelv…
Smith Hart, American-born Canadian professional wrestler (born 1948)
Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin, original family name Gherman, was a Soviet and Russian author.
Daniil Granin, Soviet and Russian author (born 1919)
Donald Eugene Conley was an American professional baseball and basketball player. He pitched for four teams in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1952 to 1963. Conley also played as …
Gene Conley, American MLB player and NBA player (born 1930)
Jim Wong-Chu was a Canadian activist, community organizer, poet, author, editor, and historian. Wong-Chu is one of Canada's most celebrated literary pioneers. He was a community or…
Jim Wong-Chu, Canadian poet (born 1949)
Liu Xiaobo was a Chinese literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end Ch…
Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic, human rights activist (born 1955)
Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research focused on hyperbolic geometry, dynamical systems, complex analys…
Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (born 1977)
Martin James Landau was an American actor. His career began in the late 1950s, with early film appearances including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (195…
Martin Landau, American film and television actor (born 1928)
George Andrew Romero was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer, editor, and actor. Regarded as an influential pioneer of the horror film genre, particularly zombie films, he has b…
George A. Romero, American filmmaker (born 1940)
Chester Charles Bennington was an American singer and songwriter who was the lead vocalist of the rock band Linkin Park. He was also the lead vocalist of Grey Daze, Dead by Sunrise…
Chester Bennington, American singer (born 1976)
Harshida Raval was a singer from Gujarat, India. She had worked as a playback singer in Gujarati cinema as well as Sugam Sangeet and devotional music. She died on 24 July 2017 at…
Harshida Raval, Indian Gujarati playback singer
John Matthew Heard Jr. was an American actor. He made his debut appearance in film with the ensemble Between the Lines (1977). He appeared in a number of successful films, includin…
John Heard, American film and television actor (born 1946)
John Albert Kundla was an American college and professional basketball coach. He was the first head coach for the Minneapolis Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) an…
John Kundla, American basketball coach (born 1916)
Michael Jay Johnson was an American pop, country, and folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best remembered for his 1978 hit song "Bluer Than Blue". He charted four hits on t…
Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)
June Foray was an American voice actress and radio personality, best known as the voice of such animated characters as Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Natasha Fatale, Nell Fenwick, Luci…
June Foray, American voice actress (born 1917)
Patricia Deutsch Ross was an American actress who was known as a recurring panelist on the 1970s game shows Match Game and Tattletales.
Patti Deutsch, American voice artist and comedic actress (born 1943)
Ronald Ray Phillips was an Ohio death row inmate who was sentenced to death and executed for the 1993 rape and murder of Sheila Evans, the 3-year-old daughter of his girlfriend, Fa…
Ronald Phillips, American criminal (born 1973)
A series of four initial deadly wildfires erupted across central Portugal in the afternoon of 17 June 2017 within minutes of each other, resulting in at least 66 deaths and 204 inj…
Wildfires erupted across central Portugal, eventually causing the deaths of 66 people
Samuel Shepard Rogers III was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author and musician whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays and several books of…
Sam Shepard, American playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director (born 1943)
Shandong is a Chinese aircraft carrier that was launched on 26 April 2017 for the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of the People's Republic of China. She is the country's first…
The Shandong was launched for the People's Liberation Army Navy, China's first domestically built aircraft carrier
The Syrian civil war was an armed conflict that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered…
Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces, assisted by the U