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Caroline Mary Aherne was an English actress, comedian, writer and director.
Caroline Aherne, English actress and comedian (born 1963)
Michael Antonio Cimino was an American film director, screenwriter, producer and author. Notorious for his obsessive attention to detail and determination for perfection, Cimino ac…
Michael Cimino, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1939)
Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning was a Trinidadian politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago twice from 1991 to 1995, and again from 2001 to 2010. A …
Patrick Manning, 4th & 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (born 1946)
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and…
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, activist, and author (born 1928)
Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of…
Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, and photographer (born 1940)
Abdul Sattar Edhi NI LPP was a Pakistani humanitarian, philanthropist and ascetic who founded the Edhi Foundation, which runs the world's largest volunteer ambulance network, along…
Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist (born 1928)
Katharina Focke was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth from 197…
Katharina Focke, German politician (born 1922)
Goran Hadžić was a Croatian Serb politician and President of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina, during the Croatian War of Independence. He was accused of crimes agai…
Goran Hadžić, Serbian politician (born 1958)
Garry Kent Marshall was an American screenwriter, director, producer and actor. Marshall began his career in the 1960s as a writer for The Lucy Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show unti…
Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer (born 1934)
Radu Beligan was a Romanian actor, director, and essayist, with an activity of over 70 years in theatre, film, television, and radio. On 15 December 2013, confirmed by Guinness Wor…
Radu Beligan, Romanian actor, director, and essayist (born 1918)
Margaret Nixon McEathron, known professionally as Marni Nixon, was an American soprano and ghost singer for featured actresses in musical films. She was the singing voice of leadin…
Marni Nixon, American actress and singer (born 1930)
Timothy Francis LaHaye was an American Baptist evangelical Christian minister and political activist who wrote more than 85 books, both non-fiction and fiction, including the Left …
Tim LaHaye, American Christian minister and author (born 1926)
Dennis Earl Green was an American professional football coach. During his National Football League (NFL) career, Green coached the Minnesota Vikings from 1992 to 2001 and the Arizo…
Dennis Green, American football player and coach (born 1949)
Thomas Howard Peterson was an American retailer, pitchman, and television personality from Portland, Oregon. Peterson opened his first store in 1964, which grew to a regional consu…
Tom Peterson, American television personality (born 1930)
Solomon Feferman was an American philosopher and mathematician who worked in mathematical logic. In addition to his prolific technical work in proof theory, computability theory, a…
Solomon Feferman, American philosopher and mathematician (born 1928)
Einojuhani Rautavaara was a Finnish composer of classical music. Among the most notable Finnish composers since Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Rautavaara wrote a great number of works …
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (born 1928)
James Alan McPherson was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the fir…
James Alan McPherson, American short story writer and essayist (born 1943)
Jerry Doyle was an American talk radio host, political commentator, television actor and founder of the content platform EpicTimes. His nationally syndicated talk show, The Jerry D…
Jerry Doyle, American actor and talk show host (born 1956)
Petrus Jozef Sietse "Piet" de Jong was a Dutch politician and naval officer who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1967 to 1971. He was a member of the Catholic Peopl…
Piet de Jong, Dutch politician and naval officer, Minister of Defence, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1915)
Émile Derlin Zinsou was a Beninese politician and physician who was the President of Dahomey from 17 July 1968 until 10 December 1969, supported by the military regime that took p…
Émile Derlin Zinsou, Beninese politician (born 1918)
Gloria Mildred DeHaven was an American actress and singer who was a contract star for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
Gloria DeHaven, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1925)
On June 12, 2016, 29-year-old Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded 58 in a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States. Pulse was hostin…
An Islamic terrorist killed 49 people in a mass shooting at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida
Mahasweta Devi was an Indian Bengali language writer and activist. Her notable literary works include Hajar Churashir Maa, Rudali, and Aranyer Adhikar. She was a leftist who worked…
Mahasweta Devi, Indian Bengali fiction writer and socio-political activist (born 1926)
The Paris Agreement is an international treaty on climate change that was signed in 2016. The treaty covers climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance. The Paris Agreement …
The Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change, opened for signature and was signed by 175 parties