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Francis Newton Gifford was an American professional football player, actor, and television sports commentator. After a 12-year playing career as a halfback, flanker and safety for …
Frank Gifford, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (born 1930)
John Henry Holland was an American scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. He was a pioneer in what became known as ge…
John Henry Holland, American computer scientist and academic (born 1929)
Walter Nahún López Cárdenas was a Honduran football player.
Walter Nahún López, Honduran footballer (born 1977)
David Gordon Nobbs was an English comedy writer, most notable for writing the 1970s television series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, adapted from his own novels.
David Nobbs, English author and screenwriter (born 1935)
Kayyara Kinhanna Rai was an Indian independence activist, author, poet, journalist, teacher and farmer.
Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet (born 1915)
Fikret Otyam was a Turkish painter and journalist.
Fikret Otyam, Turkish painter and journalist (born 1926)
Elzie Wylie "Buddy" Baker Jr. was an American professional stock car racing driver and commentator. Over the course of his 33-year racing career, he won 19 races in the NASCAR Cup …
Buddy Baker, American race car driver and sportscaster (born 1941)
Endre Czeizel was a Hungarian physician, geneticist, public health administrator, and professor. He was a physician who graduated from Semmelweis University. He was known for disco…
Endre Czeizel, Hungarian physician, geneticist, and academic (born 1935)
Knut "Bossen" Osnes was a Norwegian footballer and coach, who most notably played for Lyn and Norway, and coaching Lyn to the 1968 league title and a good run in the Cup Winners Cu…
Knut Osnes, Norwegian footballer and coach (born 1922)
Eric Verpaele, pseudonym: Eriek Verpale) was a Belgian writer. He attended a boarding school in Oostakker and studied Germanic and Slavic philology at the University of Ghent. He w…
Eriek Verpale, Belgian author and poet (born 1952)
Serge Collot was a French violist and music educator.
Serge Collot, French viola player and educator (born 1923)
Harald Ingemann Nielsen was a Danish footballer who played as a forward. He played professionally for Italian club Bologna F.C. where he was the league top scorer (capocannoniere) …
Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (born 1941)
Richard A. Oriani was an El Salvador-born American chemical engineer and metallurgist who was instrumental in the study of the effects of hydrogen in metal. He also made significan…
Richard Oriani, Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (born 1920)
Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka was a Finnish and American philosopher and logician. Hintikka is regarded as the founder of formal epistemic logic and of game semantics for logic. He…
Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and academic (born 1929)
Stephen Lewis, credited early in his career as Stephen Cato, was an English actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, and playwright. He is best known for his roles as Inspector Cyr…
Stephen Lewis, English actor and screenwriter (born 1926)
Meshilem Feish Segal Lowy II was the fourth Grand Rebbe of the Tosh Hasidic dynasty.
Meshulim Feish Lowy, Hungarian-Canadian rabbi and author (born 1921)
John Gavin Scott was an English organist and choirmaster who reached the highest levels of his profession on both sides of the Atlantic. He directed the Choir of St Paul's Cathedra…
John Scott, English organist and conductor (born 1956)
Watban Ibrahim al-Nasiri was an Iraqi politician and former interior minister of Iraq. He was the half-brother of Saddam Hussein and the brother of Barzan al-Tikriti. He was taken …
Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Iraqi politician, Iraqi Minister of Interior (born 1952)
Joseph Louis Robert Edgar Fillion was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played seven seasons for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1943…
Bob Fillion, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (born 1920)
Donald William "Bob" Johnston was an American record producer, best known for his work with Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, and Simon & Garfunkel.
Bob Johnston, American songwriter and producer (born 1932)
Hamid Gul was a Pakistani military officer and defence analyst. A three-star general, Gul was notable for serving as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), …
Hamid Gul, Pakistani general (born 1936)
Jacob David Bekenstein was a Mexican-born American-Israeli theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspe…
Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican-American physicist, astronomer, and academic (born 1947)
Anna Kashfi was an Anglo-Indian actress who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s but was better known for her tumultuous marriage to film star Marlon Brando and the controvers…
Anna Kashfi, British actress (born 1934)
Om Prakash Munjal was an Indian businessman, poet and philanthropist. He was the founder and chairman of Hero Cycles, the world's largest integrated bicycle manufacturing company b…
Om Prakash Munjal, Indian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Hero Cycles (born 1928)