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Kazuo Ohno was a Japanese dancer who became a guru and inspirational figure in the dance form known as Butoh. He is the author of several books on Butoh, including The Palace Soar…
Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (born 1906)
Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of the greatest living poets in any language." He was one …
Andrei Voznesensky, Russian poet (born 1933)
Eddi-Rue McClanahan was an American actress, primarily known for her work in television sitcoms. She portrayed Vivian Harmon on Maude (1972–1978), Aunt Fran Crowley on Mama's Famil…
Rue McClanahan, American actress (born 1934)
John Robert Wooden was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed "the Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championship…
John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (born 1910)
Denise Lorraine Narcisse-Mair was a Canadian musicologist, music educator, choral conductor, and composer.
Denise Narcisse-Mair, Canadian musician (born 1940)
Kenneth Brown was a British guitarist with The Quarrymen, a precursor to The Beatles.
Ken Brown, British Guitarist who was a member of The Quarrymen (born 1940)
Basil Myron Schott was the Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh from 2002 until his death.
Basil Schott, American archbishop (born 1939)
Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, ret…
Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (born 1941)
Alfonso Williamson was an American cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator specializing in adventure, Western, science fiction and fantasy.
Al Williamson, American illustrator (born 1931)
Jimmy Ray Dean was an American country music singer, television host, actor and businessman. He was the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand as well as the spokesman for its TV …
Jimmy Dean, American singer and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (born 1928)
Marc Louis Bazin was a World Bank official, former United Nations functionary, and Haitian Minister of Finance and Economy under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier. He was th…
Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti (born 1932)
Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester, was a Canadian operatic contralto.
Maureen Forrester, Canadian singer and academic (born 1930)
Ronald Neame CBE, BSC was an English filmmaker and cinematographer. Beginning his career as a cinematographer, for his work on the British war film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (…
Ronald Neame, English director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1911)
Michael Verdi, best known by his ring name Trent Acid, was an American professional wrestler.
Trent Acid, American wrestler (born 1980)
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with wh…
José Saramago, Portuguese novelist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
Okan Demiriş was a Turkish composer. He was married to the soprano Leyla Demiris.
Okan Demiriş, Turkish composer (born 1942)
Manute Bol was a Dinka Sudanese-American professional basketball player and political activist. Listed at 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) or 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) tall, Bol was one of the two tall…
Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (born 1962)
Anthony Meredith Quinton, Baron Quinton was an English political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind. He served as President of Trinity Colleg…
Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, English philosopher and academic (born 1925)
Carlos Monsiváis Aceves was a Mexican philosopher, writer, critic, political activist, and journalist. He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers within the coun…
Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, journalist and political activist (born 1938)
Roberto Rosato was an Italian footballer, who played as a defender.
Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (born 1943)
Harry Blackmore Whittington FRS was a British palaeontologist who made a major contribution to the study of fossils of the Burgess Shale and other Cambrian fauna. His works are lar…
Harry B
Russell Ash was the British author of the Top 10 of Everything series of books, as well as Great Wonders of the World, Incredible Comparisons and many other reference, art and humo…
Russell Ash, English author (born 1946)
Irwin Barker was a Canadian comedian and writer. He wrote for This Hour Has 22 Minutes and The Rick Mercer Report, and was nominated for four Gemini Awards as a writer and one as s…
Irwin Barker, Canadian actor and screenwriter (born 1956)
İlhan Selçuk was a Turkish lawyer, journalist, author, novelist and editor.
İlhan Selçuk, Turkish lawyer, journalist, and author (born 1925)