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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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Henry Warren Hartsfield Jr. was a colonel in the United States Air Force and a NASA astronaut who logged over 480 hours in space. He was inducted into the United States Astronaut H…
Henry Hartsfield, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1933)
Otto Piene was a German-American artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art, often working collaboratively. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Germany; Cambridge, Mass…
Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (born 1928)
Elaine Stritch was an American actress, singer, and comedian, known for her work on Broadway and later, television. She made her professional stage debut in 1944 and appeared in nu…
Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (born 1925)
Andreas Biermann was a German professional footballer who played as a defender.
Andreas Biermann, German footballer (born 1980)
João Ubaldo Ribeiro was a Brazilian writer, journalist, screenwriter and professor. Several of his books and short stories have been turned into movies and TV series in Brazil. Rib…
João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Brazilian journalist, author, and academic (born 1941)
Rubem Azevedo Alves was a Brazilian Presbyterian theologian, philosopher, educator, writer and psychoanalyst. Alves was one of the founders of Latin American liberation theology.
Rubem Alves, Brazilian theologian (born 1933)
Skye McCole Bartusiak was an American child actress and child model. She appeared in The Patriot (2000), Don't Say a Word (2001), as Rose Wilder in Beyond the Prairie: The True Sto…
Skye McCole Bartusiak, American child actress and child model (born 1992)
Dietmar Otto Schönherr was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1944 and 2014. He was famous for playing the role of Major Cliff Allister McLane in the German s…
Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1926)
David Easton was a Canadian-born American political scientist. From 1947 to 1997, he served as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago.
David Easton, Canadian-American political scientist and academic (born 1917)
Paul Murray Fleiss was an American pediatrician and author known for his unconventional medical views. Fleiss was a popular and sought-after pediatrician in the Greater Los Angeles…
Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician and author (born 1933)
James Scott Garner was an American actor. He played leading roles in more than fifty theatrical films, including The Great Escape (1963), The Americanization of Emily (1964), Grand…
James Garner, American actor (born 1928)
Jerzy Władysław Jurka was a Polish–American computational and molecular biologist known for his pioneering work on repetitive DNA and transposable elements (TEs) in eukaryotic geno…
Jerzy Jurka, Polish biologist (born 1950)
Raymond King was an English footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made 278 league and cup appearances in an 11-year career in the Football League. He was the younger brother of…
Ray King, English footballer and manager (born 1924)
Hertur Roland Ingemar Odlander was a Swedish journalist who worked for Sveriges Television on its news programmes Aktuellt and Rapport. Between 1975 and 1978 Odlander was the first…
Ingemar Odlander, Swedish journalist (born 1936)