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Bill "the Hill" McGill was an American basketball player best known for inventing the jump hook. McGill was the No. 1 overall pick of the 1962 NBA draft out of the University of Ut…
Bill McGill, American basketball player (born 1939)
Thomas Erdelyi, known professionally as Tommy Ramone, was a Hungarian-American musician. He was the drummer for the influential punk rock band the Ramones from its debut in 1974 to…
Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and producer (born 1949)
John Lawrence Seigenthaler was an American journalist, writer, and political figure. He was known as a prominent defender of First Amendment rights.
John Seigenthaler, American journalist and academic (born 1927)
Randall Paul Stout was an American architect based in Los Angeles. He was an environmentally sensitive architect who earned a national reputation by designing dynamically shaped fo…
Randall Stout, American architect, designed the Taubman Museum of Art (born 1958)
Jamil Ahmad was a Pakistani civil servant, novelist and story writer. He wrote in the English language. He is known for his anthology, The Wandering Falcon which was short listed f…
Jamil Ahmad, Pakistani author (born 1931)
Nestor Basterretxea Arzadun was a Basque artist, born in Bermeo, Biscay, Basque Country. In the 1950s and 1960s, he spearheaded along with other artists such as Jorge Oteiza, Remig…
Nestor Basterretxea, Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1924)
Emil Bobu was a Romanian Communist activist and politician, who served as Interior Minister from 1973 to 1975 and as Labor Minister from 1979 to 1981. He was an influential figure …
Emil Bobu, Romanian politician (born 1927)
Alfred de Grazia, born in Chicago, Illinois, was a political scientist and author. He developed techniques of computer-based social network analysis in the 1950s, developed new ide…
Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist and author (born 1919)
Kenneth James Gray was an American businessman and politician. He was a veteran of World War II, and represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives from 1955 to…
Kenneth J. Gray, American soldier and politician (born 1924)
Valeriya Ilyinichna Novodvorskaya was a Russian and Soviet dissident, writer and liberal politician. She was the founder and the chairwoman of the Democratic Union party and a memb…
Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Russian journalist and politician (born 1950)
Thomas Louis Berger was an American novelist. Probably best known for his picaresque novel Little Big Man and the subsequent film by Arthur Penn, Berger explored and manipulated ma…
Thomas Berger, American author and playwright (born 1924)
Alfred de Grazia, born in Chicago, Illinois, was a political scientist and author. He developed techniques of computer-based social network analysis in the 1950s, developed new ide…
Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist, author, and academic (born 1919)
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writ…
Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)
Jeffrey James Leiding was an American professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) and United States Football League (USFL).
Jeff Leiding, American football player (born 1961)
Lorin Varencove Maazel was an American conductor, violinist and composer. He began conducting at the age of eight and by 1953 had decided to pursue a career in music. He had establ…
Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1930)
Óscar Acosta Zeledón was a Honduran writer, poet, critic, politician and diplomat.
Óscar Acosta, Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (born 1933)
Robert Aloysius Roe was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from November 4, 1969 to January 3, 1993.
Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician (born 1924)
Karl Hans Albrecht was a German entrepreneur who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo. He was the richest person in Germany for many years. In February…
Karl Albrecht, German businessman, co-founded Aldi (born 1920)
Mary Ellen Dinkel Otremba was an American politician and a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives who represented District 11B, which includes portions of Douglas …
Mary Ellen Otremba, American educator and politician (born 1950)
James MacGregor Burns was an American historian and political scientist, presidential biographer, and authority on leadership studies. He was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Govern…
James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (born 1918)
Edward Roy Perl was an American neuroscientist whose research focused on neural mechanisms of and circuitry involved in somatic sensation, principally nociception. Work in his labo…
Edward Perl, American neuroscientist and academic (born 1926)
John Dawson Winter III was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. Winter was known for his high-energy blues rock albums, live performances, and slide guit…
Johnny Winter, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1944)
Heinz Zemanek was an Austrian computer pioneer who led the development, from 1954 to 1958, of one of the first complete transistorised computers on the European continent. The comp…
Heinz Zemanek, Austrian computer scientist and academic (born 1920)
Liam Patrick Davison was an Australian novelist and reviewer. He was born in Melbourne, where, until 2007, he taught creative writing at the Chisholm Institute in Frankston.
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