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"Country" Johnny Mathis was an American country music singer and songwriter. He was a successful solo performer and one half of the duo Jimmy & Johnny. Mathis is credited with penn…
Johnny "Country" Mathis, American singer-songwriter (born 1933)
Sylvia Robinson, known mononymously as Sylvia, was an American singer and record producer. Robinson achieved success as a performer on two R&B chart toppers: as half of Mickey & Sy…
Sylvia Robinson, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1936)
Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki was an American-Yemeni Islamic cleric, lecturer, and propagandist. He was assassinated in Yemen in 2011 by a U.S. drone strike ordered by President B…
Anwar al-Awlaki, American-Yemeni terrorist (born 1971)
Ralph Marvin Steinman was a Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fe…
Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian-American immunologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1943)
Sven Tumba was one of the most prominent Swedish ice hockey players of the 1950s and 1960s. He also represented Sweden in football as well as golf and became Swedish champion in wa…
Sven Tumba, Swedish ice hockey player and golfer (born 1931)
Doris Belack was an American character actress of stage, film and television.
Doris Belack, American actress (born 1926)
Derrick Albert Bell Jr. was an American lawyer, legal scholar, and civil rights activist. Bell first worked for the U.S. Justice Department, then the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, wher…
Derrick Bell, American academic and scholar (born 1930)
Herbert Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist…
Bert Jansch, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943)
Freddie Lee Shuttlesworth was an American Baptist minister and civil rights activist who led fights against segregation and other forms of racism, during the civil rights movement.…
Fred Shuttlesworth, American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (born 1922)
Gökşin Sipahioğlu was a Turkish photographer and journalist who founded the Paris-based photo agency Sipa Press. He spent most of his life in Paris where the French media dubbed hi…
Gökşin Sipahioğlu, Turkish photographer and journalist (born 1926)
Elizabeth Diane Cilento was an Australian actress. She is best known for her film roles in Tom Jones (1963), which earned her an Academy Award nomination, Hombre (1967) and The Wic…
Diane Cilento, Australian actress and author (born 1932)
Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business …
Steve Jobs, American businessman, co-founder of Apple Inc. (born 1955)
Charles Lewis Napier was an American actor who was known for playing supporting and occasional leading roles in television and films. He was frequently cast as police officers, sol…
Charles Napier, American actor and singer (born 1936)
Ramiz Alia was an Albanian politician serving as the second and last leader of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania from 1985 to 1991, serving as First Secretary of the Party…
Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (born 1925)
Andrew Laszlo A.S.C. was a Hungarian-American cinematographer.
Andrew Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (born 1926)
Allen R. Davis was an American professional football executive and coach. He was the managing general partner, principal owner and de facto general manager for the Oakland Raiders …
Al Davis, American football coach, general manager, and NFL team owner (born 1929)
Michael Edward Welsh was an American artist and musician who played bass for several bands, including the rock band Weezer. During Weezer's hiatus, he played with Weezer frontman R…
Mikey Welsh, American guitarist and painter (born 1971)
Roger Williams was an American popular music pianist. Described by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the most popular instrumentalists of the mid-20th century", and "the rare instru…
Roger Williams, American pianist (born 1924)
Pavel Vladimirovich Karelin was a Russian ski jumper from Nizhny Novgorod who competed from 2004 until his death in 2011. He made his World Cup debut on 30 November 2007, finishing…
Pavel Karelin, Russian ski jumper (born 1989)
Patricia Rose Breslin was an American actress and philanthropist. She had a prominent career in television, which included recurring roles as Amanda Miller on The People's Choice (…
Patricia Breslin, American actress (born 1931)
Jagjit Singh was an Indian composer, singer and musician. He composed and sang in numerous languages and is credited for the revival and popularity of ghazal, an Indian classical a…
Jagjit Singh, Indian singer-songwriter (born 1941)
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created, together with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system, C programming language, and B …
Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (born 1941)
Barbara Kent was a Canadian film actress, prominent from the silent film era to the early talkies of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1925, Barbara Kent won the Miss Hollywood Beauty Pagean…
Barbara Kent, Canadian-born American actress (born 1907)
Reginald B. Alcock, was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Winnipeg South as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2006 and wa…
Reg Alcock, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1948)