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John Clive was an English actor and author, known internationally for his historical and social fiction, such as KG200 and Barossa.
John Clive, English actor and author (born 1933)
Maxwell Edgar Fatchen, AM was an Australian children's writer and journalist.
Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author (born 1920)
James Russell Grover Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
James R. Grover Jr., American lawyer and politician (born 1919)
Lloyd Lawrence "Larry" Sloan was an American publisher of Mad Libs and co-founder of the Los Angeles publishing company, Price Stern Sloan, which opened in the early 1960s.
Larry Sloan, American publisher, co-founded Price Stern Sloan (born 1922)
Arlen Specter was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2011. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, th…
Arlen Specter, American lieutenant and politician (born 1930)
Claude Cheysson was a French Socialist politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of Pierre Mauroy from 1981 to 1984.
Claude Cheysson, French lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1920)
Erol Günaydın was a Turkish theater and film actor, as well as a renowned showman famous particularly for his portrayal of Nasreddin Hoca and his performances in the traditional Tu…
Erol Günaydın, Turkish actor and screenwriter (born 1933)
Maria Petrou FREng was a Greek-born British scientist who specialised in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine vision. She developed a number of novel image recognition…
Maria Petrou, Greek-English computer scientist and academic (born 1953)
Dody Weston Thompson was a 20th-century American photographer and chronicler of the history and craft of photography. She learned the art in 1947 and developed her own expression o…
Dody Weston Thompson, American photographer (born 1923)
Gart Westerhout was a Dutch-American astronomer. Well before completing his university studies at Leiden, he had already become well-established internationally as a radio astronom…
Gart Westerhout, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (born 1927)
Norodom Sihanouk was King, Chief of State and Prime Minister of Cambodia. He is known as Samdech Euv or by his nickname The Pink Prince. During his lifetime, Cambodia was under var…
Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (born 1922)
Frank Moore Cross Jr. was the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, notable for his work in the interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, hi…
Frank Moore Cross, American scholar and academic (born 1921)
John Anthony Durkin was an American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1975 until 1980. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
John A. Durkin, American lawyer and politician (born 1936)
Mario Valentin Gallegos Jr. was an American Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Texas. He was the senator from District 6 in the Texas Senate, which serves a portion of Har…
Mario Gallegos, Jr., American firefighter and politician (born 1950)
Bódog Török was a Hungarian handball player, coach and sports official. He was the longest serving and the most successful coach in the history of the Hungarian women's national te…
Bódog Török, Hungarian handball player and coach (born 1923)
Edward Frederick Joseph Yost was an American professional baseball player and coach. He played most of his Major League Baseball (MLB) career as a third baseman for the Washington …
Eddie Yost, American baseball player and coach (born 1926)
Milija Anthony Aleksic was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, making 138 appearances in the Football League.
Milija Aleksic, English-South African footballer (born 1951)
Émile Allais was a champion alpine ski racer from France; he won all three events at the 1937 world championships in Chamonix and the gold in the combined in 1938. Born in Megève, …
Émile Allais, French skier (born 1912)
Henry Egon Friedlander was a German-American Jewish historian of the Holocaust who was noted for his arguments in favor of broadening the scope of casualties of the Holocaust.
Henry Friedlander, German-American historian and author (born 1930)
Stanford Robert Ovshinsky was an American engineer, scientist and inventor who over a span of fifty years was granted well over 400 patents, mostly in the areas of energy and infor…
Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American scientist and businessman, co-founded Energy Conversion Devices (born 1922)
Kōji Wakamatsu was a Japanese film director who directed such pink films as Ecstasy of the Angels and Go, Go, Second Time Virgin . He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial …
Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1936)
Marvin Lambert was an American professional wrestler best known by his ring name Brain Damage.
Brain Damage, American wrestler (born 1977)
Sylvia Maria Kristel was a Dutch actress and model who appeared in over 50 films. She was the eponymous character in five of the seven Emmanuelle films, including originating the r…
Sylvia Kristel, Dutch model and actress (born 1952)
Slater Nelson "Dugie" Martin Jr. was an American professional basketball player and coach who was a playmaking guard for 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A …
Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (born 1925)