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Pascal Chaumeil was a French director and screenwriter. He started out as an assistant director in the 1980s, working with directors such as Pierre Tchernia and Luc Besson. He was …
Pascal Chaumeil, French director and screenwriter (born 1961)
Darryl R. Dawkins was an American professional basketball player and coach. A three-time NBA finalist center, he most notably played for the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets …
Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player and coach (born 1957)
Alger Joseph Arbour was a Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and executive. He is seventh for games coached in National Hockey League history and eighth all-time in wins. Under Arb…
Al Arbour, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1932)
Mark Krasniqi was a Kosovar Albanian ethnographist, publicist, writer and translator who did most of his work while residing in Yugoslavia.
Mark Krasniqi, Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (born 1920)
John Nelson Shanks was an American artist and painter. His best known works include his portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, first shown at Hirschl & Adler Gallery in New York Cit…
Nelson Shanks, American painter and educator (born 1937)
Wesley Earl Craven was an American filmmaker. Amongst his prolific filmography, Craven worked primarily in the horror genre, particularly slasher films, where he mixed horror clich…
Wes Craven, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (born 1939)
Edward Norman Fadeley was an American attorney and politician in the state of Oregon. He was the 88th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Previously he served in both the Oregon H…
Edward Fadeley, American lawyer and politician (born 1929)
Malleshappa Madivalappa Kalburgi was an Indian scholar of Vachana sahitya in the Kannada language and an academic who served as the vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi. …
M. M. Kalburgi, Indian scholar, author, and academic (born 1938)
Marvin Mandel was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 56th governor of Maryland from January 7, 1969, to January 17, 1979, including a one-and-a-half-year period wh…
Marvin Mandel, American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (born 1920)
Oliver Wolf Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist, author, and academic (born 1933)
Richard Greening Hewlett was an American public historian best known for his work as the Chief Historian of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
Richard G. Hewlett, American historian and author (born 1923)
Ben Kuroki was the only American of Japanese descent in the United States Army Air Forces to serve in combat operations in the Pacific theater of World War II. He flew a total of 5…
Ben Kuroki, American sergeant and pilot (born 1917)
Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, was a British aristocrat and Conservative politician, best known for founding the National Motor Museum…
Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, English politician, founded the National Motor Museum…
Thomas Coster Scott was an American professional football player who was a linebacker and defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles and New Yo…
Tom Scott, American football player (born 1930)
Gurgen Harutyun Dalibaltayan was an Armenian military commander. He was the Chief of General Staff of Armenian Armed Forces during the 1992 Battle of Shusha, a battle to capture th…
Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Armenian general (born 1926)
Dean Carroll Jones was an American actor. He was best known as the Walt Disney Company's main leading man in the 1970s with his roles as Agent Zeke Kelso in That Darn Cat! (1965), …
Dean Jones, American actor and singer (born 1931)
Ephraim Engleman was an American rheumatologist and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He had a major national and international impac…
Ephraim Engleman, American rheumatologist, author, and academic (born 1911)
Sir George Adrian Hayhurst Cadbury, was an English businessman who served as the chairman of Cadbury and Cadbury Schweppes for 24 years. He was also a British Olympic rower. Cadbur…
Adrian Cadbury, English rower and businessman (born 1929)
Joyce Audrey Botterill, known professionally as Judy Carne, was an English actress. She appeared on American television in the late 1960s in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, where she em…
Judy Carne, English actress and comedian (born 1939)
Jessy Chapman Carter Lay was an American businessman, philanthropist, and an heir to part of the Frito-Lay family fortune. Herman Lay sold Frito-Lay to Pepsico in 1965. Lay, 44, ha…
Carter Lay, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1971)
Zhang Zhen was a general of the People's Liberation Army of China and a member of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party.
Zhang Zhen, Chinese general and politician (born 1914)
Chandra Bahadur Dangi was a Nepalese man who holds the world record as the shortest person in recorded history. Measuring 54.6 cm, he was recognized by Guinness World Records as th…
Chandra Bahadur Dangi, world record holder for shortest man (born 1939)
Graham Philip Brazier was a New Zealand musician and songwriter. He first came to prominence in the band Hello Sailor. After Hello Sailor, he formed a band called the Legionnaires.…
Graham Brazier, New Zealand singer-songwriter (born 1952)
Jean Darling was an American child actress who was a regular in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1927 to 1929. Prior to her death, she was one of four surviving cast members…
Jean Darling, American actress (born 1922)