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Safirullah Siddiqui, commonly known by his stage name Lehri, was a comedian and actor in the Urdu film industry of Pakistan.
Lehri, (Actual name:Safirullah Siddiqui), Pakistani comedian and an actor in the Urdu film industry of Pakistan (born…
Jacques Antoine was a French creator and producer of game shows. His most famous creations include Treasure Hunt, Interceptor, Fort Boyard, and The Crystal Maze.
Jacques Antoine, French game show producer, created The Crystal Maze and Fort Boyard (born 1924)
Eduardo Enrique Castro Luque was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). At the time of his killing, he was a deputy-elect from Ciudad Obr…
Eduardo Castro Luque, Mexican businessman and politician (born 1963)
Winston Houghton Rekert was a Canadian actor. He was best known for starring in the television series Adderly and Neon Rider.
Winston Rekert, Canadian actor and director (born 1949)
Sir Yuet-keung Kan was a Hong Kong banker, politician and lawyer who was successively appointed Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council in the 196…
Kan Yuet-keung, Hong Kong banker, lawyer, and politician (born 1913)
Tibor Antalpéter was a Hungarian volleyball player who played for Csepel SC and the Hungarian national team. He served as Hungarian Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1990 to 19…
Tibor Antalpéter, Hungarian volleyball player and diplomat, Ambassador of Hungary to the United Kingdom (born 1930)
Nevin Spence was a Northern Irish rugby union player for Ulster in the Pro12. He played as a centre, but could also play wing. He was educated firstly at Dromore High School, where…
Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player (born 1990)
Hajra Masroor was a Pakistani writer who established herself with her short fiction stories, known as afsana in Urdu literature. Her elder sister, Khadija Mastoor, was also an acco…
Hajra Masroor, Pakistani writer (born 1930)
Roman Kroitor was a Canadian filmmaker who was known as a pioneer of Cinéma vérité, as the co-founder of IMAX, and as the creator of the Sandde hand-drawn stereoscopic 3D animation…
Roman Kroitor, Canadian director and producer, co-founded IMAX (born 1926)
Julien Johnson LeBourgeois was a vice admiral of the United States Navy. His career included service in World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War, duty aboard and command of …
Julien J. LeBourgeois, American admiral (born 1923)
Friedrich Zimmermann was a German politician and a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU). From 1982 to 1989, he was the federal minister of interior. From 1989 to 1991 he held…
Friedrich Zimmermann, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (born 1925)
Melvin Charney C.Q. was a Canadian artist and architect.
Melvin Charney, Canadian sculptor and architect (born 1935)
Santiago José Carrillo Solares was a Spanish politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) from 1960 to 1982.
Santiago Carrillo, Spanish theorist and politician (born 1915)
Haim Hefer was a Polish-born Israeli songwriter, poet, columnist, translator and writer. He wrote for numerous composers and musical artists, as well as for military bands. Several…
Haim Hefer, Polish-Israeli songwriter and poet (born 1925)
John Francis Kralick was an American professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1959 to 1967. He participated in 235 games in the course of an eight-year ca…
Jack Kralick, American baseball player (born 1935)
Stephen Douglas Sabol was an American filmmaker. He was the president and one of the founders of NFL Films, along with his father Ed. He was also a widely exhibited visual artist. …
Steve Sabol, American director and producer, co-founded NFL Films (born 1942)
Rino Ferrario was an Italian footballer who played as a midfielder.
Rino Ferrario, Italian footballer (born 1926)
Itamar Singer was an Israeli author and historian of Jewish-Romanian origin. He is known for his research of the Ancient Near East and as a leading Hittitologist, pioneering the st…
Itamar Singer, Romanian-Israeli historian and author (born 1946)
Earl Russell H. Fox was an American physician and commissioned officer who served in the Navy and later in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps detailed to th…
Earl R. Fox, U.S. Navy and Coast Guard veteran; last active U.S. servicemember to serve in World War II (born 1919)
Fortunato Baldelli was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was appointed a cardinal in 2010 after a career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1966 to 2009 tha…
Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (born 1935)
Richard Holton Cracroft was an author and emeritus professor of English at Brigham Young University (BYU) where he held the title of Nan Osmond Grass Professor in English and spent…
Richard H. Cracroft, American author and academic (born 1936)
Tereska Torrès was a French writer known for the 1950 book Women's Barracks, the first "original paperback bestseller." In 2008, historians credited the republished book as the fir…
Tereska Torrès, French soldier and author (born 1920)
San Diego is a city on the Pacific coast of Southern California, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. It is the eighth-most populous city in the U.S. and second-most populo…
Daniel Chong is discovered in a holding room in San Diego, having been incarcerated for five days without food or water
The 2012 Dnipropetrovsk explosions were a series of co-ordinated explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine on 27 April 2012. The bombs went off between 11:50 and 13:00 near four tram s…
Unknown perpetrators carried out a series of four bombings in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine