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Anna Maria Bernadette "Det" de Beus in the Netherlands. Born in Utrecht, she was the first goalkeeper in women's field hockey to wear a mask.
Det de Beus, Dutch field hockey player (born 1958)
Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom was a Colombian composer of contemporary classical music who lived and worked in Paris since 1999. He was also a high performance athlete, member of the Fr…
Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom, Colombian-French composer and educator (born 1971)
Fred Alvin Taylor was an American football player and coach. He served as head coach at Texas Christian University from 1967 to 1970, compiling a record of 15–25–1 before he was fi…
Fred Taylor, American football player and coach (born 1920)
Lawrance Reilly was a Scottish footballer. He was one of the "Famous Five", the Hibernian forward line during the late 1940s and early 1950s, along with Bobby Johnstone, Gordon Smi…
Lawrie Reilly, Scottish footballer (born 1928)
Rona Anderson was a Scottish stage, film, and television actress. She appeared in TV series and on the stage and films throughout the 1950s. She appeared in the films Scrooge and T…
Rona Anderson, Scottish actress (born 1926)
Natalie Griffin de Blois was an American architect. Entering the field in 1944, she became one of the earliest prominent women in the male-dominated profession. She was a partner f…
Natalie de Blois, American architect, co-designed the Lever House (born 1921)
Donaldo Gugliermo "Dennis" Farina was an American actor and Chicago police detective. Known for his roles as mobsters or police officers, his involvement in the entertainment indus…
Dennis Farina, American policeman and actor (born 1944)
Sara Rosalie Wahl was an American feminist, lawyer, public defender, clinical law professor, and judge. She was the first woman to serve on the Minnesota Supreme Court, which she d…
Rosalie E. Wahl, American lawyer and judge (born 1924)
Pauline Clarke was an English author who wrote for younger children under the name Helen Clare, for older children as Pauline Clarke, and later for adults under her married name Pa…
Pauline Clarke, English author (born 1921)
Arthur J. Collingsworth was an American United Nations official, international student exchange executive, consultant on international fund raising and real estate investor. He liv…
Arthur J. Collingsworth, American diplomat (born 1944)
José Domingos de Morais, better known as Dominguinhos, was a Brazilian composer, accordionist and singer. His principal musical influences were the music of Luiz Gonzaga, Forró and…
Dominguinhos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player (born 1941)
Emile Alphonse Griffith was an American professional boxer who won world titles in three weight divisions. He held the world light middleweight, undisputed welterweight, and middle…
Emile Griffith, American boxer and trainer (born 1938)
Kim Jong-hak was a South Korean television director and producer, best known for the seminal and highly rated Korean dramas Eyes of Dawn (1991) and Sandglass (1995). After financia…
Kim Jong-hak, South Korean director and producer (born 1951)
Djalma Pereira Dias dos Santos, known simply as Djalma Santos was a Brazilian footballer who starred for the Brazil national team in four World Cups and winning the 1958 and 1962 e…
Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (born 1929)
Sol Gareth "Garry" Davis was an international peace activist best known for renouncing his American citizenship and interrupting the United Nations in 1948 to advocate for world go…
Garry Davis, American pilot and activist, created the World Passport (born 1921)
Frederick Irwin "Fred" Dretske was an American philosopher noted for his contributions to epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
Fred Dretske, American philosopher and academic (born 1932)
Virginia E. Johnson was an American sexologist and a member of the Masters and Johnson sexuality research team. Along with her collaborator, William H. Masters, she pioneered resea…
Virginia E. Johnson, American psychologist and sexologist (born 1925)
Pius Nkonzo Langa SCOB was Chief Justice of South Africa from June 2005 to October 2009. Formerly a human rights lawyer, he was appointed as a puisne judge of the Constitutional Co…
Pius Langa, South African lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of South Africa (born 1939)
Walter Joseph De Maria was an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer, who lived and worked in New York City. Walter de Maria's artistic practice is connected with mini…
Walter De Maria, American sculptor, illustrator, and composer (born 1935)
William Joseph Guste Jr. was an American attorney and politician from the state of Louisiana. He was Attorney General of Louisiana from 1972 to 1992.
William J. Guste, American lawyer and politician (born 1922)
Hugh Esmor Huxley was a British molecular biologist who made important discoveries in the physiology of muscle. He was a graduate in physics from Christ's College, Cambridge. Howev…
Hugh Huxley, English-American biologist and academic (born 1924)
Luther Francis Cole was an American lawyer and politician from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who served as a state legislator and then as a judge.
Luther F. Cole, American lawyer and politician (born 1925)
Harley M. Flanders was an American mathematician, known for several textbooks and contributions to his fields: algebra and algebraic number theory, linear algebra, electrical netwo…
Harley Flanders, American mathematician and academic (born 1925)
Sung Jae-gi was a South Korean men's rights activist. Sung was the leader of various masculinist and anti-feminist organizations, including the Association of Anti-Feminism and Mal…
Sung Jae-gi, South Korean philosopher and activist (born 1967)