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Eugene Dominic Genovese was an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He was noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relat…
Eugene Genovese, American historian and author (born 1930)
Samuel Steiger was an American politician, journalist, political pundit. He served five terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, two terms in the Arizona State Senat…
Sam Steiger, American journalist and politician (born 1929)
Edward Joseph Bertolatus, also known as Eddie Bert, was an American jazz trombonist.
Eddie Bert, American trombonist (born 1922)
Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru, known professionally as Herbert Lom, was a Czech-British actor with a career spanning over 60 years. His cool demeanour and pr…
Herbert Lom, Czech-English actor (born 1917)
Christopher Constantine Economaki was a pioneering American motorsports journalist, publisher, reporter, and commentator known as "The Dean of American Motorsports Journalism." Wor…
Chris Economaki, American journalist and sportscaster (born 1920)
Brajesh Chandra Mishra was an Indian politician and diplomat from the Indian Foreign Service who is best known for serving as the first National Security Advisor of India from 1998…
Brajesh Mishra, Indian politician and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor (born 1928)
Neil Robert Smith was a Scottish geographer and Marxist academic. He was Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New …
Neil Smith, Scottish geographer and academic (born 1954)
Avraham "Bren" Adan was an Israeli major-general and author. Prior to Israel's independence, he served with the Palmach, an elite formation within the Haganah paramilitary force of…
Avraham Adan, Israeli general (born 1926)
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Sr. was an American publisher and a businessman. Born into a prominent media and publishing family, Sulzberger became publisher of The New York Times in 1963…
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, American publisher (born 1926)
Malcolm Hunt Wicks was a British Labour Party politician and academic specialising in social policy. He was a member of parliament (MP) from 1992, first for Croydon North West and …
Malcolm Wicks, English academic and politician (born 1947)
Turhan Bey was an Austrian-born actor of Turkish and Czech-Jewish origins. Active in Hollywood from 1941 to 1953, he was dubbed "The Turkish Delight" by his fans. After his return …
Turhan Bey, Austrian actor and producer (born 1922)
Barry Commoner was an American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician. He was a leading ecologist and among the founders of the modern environmental movement. He was…
Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician (born 1917)
Robert Francis Jeaudoin was an American professional wrestler and civil engineer, also known by the ring name of "Hangman" Bobby Jaggers.
Bobby Jaggers, American wrestler and engineer (born 1948)
Clara Stanton Jones was the first African-American president of the American Library Association, serving as its acting president from April 11 to July 22, 1976, and then its presi…
Clara Stanton Jones, American librarian (born 1913)
Barbara Ann Scott was a Canadian figure skater. She was the 1948 Olympic champion, a two-time World champion (1947–1948), and a four-time Canadian national champion in ladies' sing…
Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian-American figure skater (born 1928)
Boris Šprem was a Croatian politician who was the speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 2011 to 2012. He was the first and to date only speaker to die in office since country's i…
Boris Šprem, Croatian lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (born 1956)
Octavio Getino was an Argentine film director and writer who is best known for co-founding, along with Fernando Solanas, the Grupo Cine Liberación and the school of Third Cinema.
Octavio Getino, Spanish-Argentinian director and screenwriter (born 1935)
Mark Richard Kravitz was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Mark R. Kravitz, American lawyer and judge (born 1950)
Moshe Sanbar was an economist and Israeli public figure. He served as Governor of the Bank of Israel (1971–76) and chairman of Bank Leumi (1988–95).
Moshe Sanbar, Hungarian-Israeli economist and banker (born 1926)
Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called t…
Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (born 1917)
Shlomo Venezia was a Greek-born Italian Jew. He was a survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Shlomo Venezia, Greek-Italian Holocaust survivor and author (born 1923)
Nguyễn Chí Thiện was a North Vietnamese dissident, activist and poet who spent a total of twenty-seven years as a political prisoner of the communist governments of both North Viet…
Nguyễn Chí Thiện, Vietnamese-American poet and activist (born 1939)
Charles Conliff Mende Roach was a Canadian civil rights lawyer and an activist in the Black community in Toronto.
Charles Roach, Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer and activist (born 1933)
John Philippe Rushton was a Canadian psychologist and author. He taught at the University of Western Ontario until the early 1990s, and became known to the general public during th…
J. Philippe Rushton, English-Canadian psychologist, theorist, academic (born 1943)