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Lorenzo Hormisdas Zambrano Treviño was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist. He took over Cemex, a regional cement company founded by his grandfather, and transformed it into o…
Lorenzo Zambrano, Mexican businessman and philanthropist (born 1944)
David Malet Armstrong, often D. M. Armstrong, was an Australian philosopher. He is well known for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and for his defence of a factu…
David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher and author (born 1926)
Malik Bendjelloul was a Swedish documentary filmmaker, journalist and actor. He directed the 2012 documentary Searching for Sugar Man, which won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award.
Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish director and producer (born 1977)
James Francis Coleman, nicknamed "Skeets", was an American military fighter and test pilot.
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Ronald Gordon "Ron" Stevens was a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Glenmore as a Progressive Con…
Ron Stevens, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1949)
Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, born as Diana Moore, subsequently known as Morning Glory Ferns, Morning Glory Zell and briefly Morning G'Zell, was an American community leader, writ…
Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, American occultist and author (born 1948)
Jeffrey Sonny Kruger MBE was a British entertainment business executive who owned the Flamingo Club in Soho, London, established the independent record label Ember Records, and set…
Jeffrey Kruger, English-American businessman (born 1931)
Emanuel Raymond Lewis was the longest-serving and final House Librarian for the United States House of Representatives Library in the U.S. Capitol Building. He was appointed House …
Emanuel Raymond Lewis, American librarian and author (born 1928)
Morvin Te Anatipa Simon was a New Zealand Māori composer, kapa haka leader, choirmaster and historian.
Morvin Simon, New Zealand historian, composer, and conductor (born 1944)
Jean Luc Joseph Marie "Jean-Luc" Dehaene was a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999. During his political career, he was nicknamed "T…
Jean-Luc Dehaene, French-Belgian politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (born 1940)
Norifumi Suzuki , was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the Torakku Yarō series.
Noribumi Suzuki, Japanese director and screenwriter (born 1933)
Gerald Maurice Edelman was an American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel …
Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1929)
Captain Chittarath Poovakkatt Krishnan Nair was an Indian businessman who founded The Leela Group. He was a 2010 recipient of the Padma Bhushan, given by Government of India. He wa…
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Lieutenant general Douangchay Phichit was a Laotian politician from Attapeu and a Politburo member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister a…
Douangchay Phichit, Laotian politician (born 1944)
Thongbanh Sengaphone was a Laotian politician and member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). He served as Minister of Public Security and held seats in the LPRP's Centr…
Thongbanh Sengaphone, Laotian politician (born 1953)
Dobrica Ćosić was a Yugoslav and Serbian writer, politician and political theorist.
Dobrica Ćosić, Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1921)
Hans-Peter Dürr was a German physicist. He worked on nuclear and quantum physics, elementary particles and gravitation, epistemology, and philosophy, and he advocated responsible s…
Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist and academic (born 1929)
Kaiketsu Masateru was a Japanese sumo wrestler, who reached the second highest rank of ōzeki on two occasions. He also won two top division tournament championships. After his reti…
Kaiketsu Masateru, Japanese sumo wrestler (born 1948)
Chukwuedu Nathaniel II Nwokolo was a Nigerian physician specialist in tropical diseases. He was recognised for discovering and mapping out the area of paragonimiasis lung disease i…
Chukwuedu Nwokolo, Nigerian physician and academic (born 1921)
Wubbo Johannes Ockels was a Dutch physicist and astronaut with the European Space Agency who, in 1985, became the first Dutch citizen in space when he flew on STS-61-A as a payload…
Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut (born 1946)
Christopher Anthony Russell Duckworth was a Rhodesian cricketer who played in two Tests for South Africa in 1957.
Chris Duckworth, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (born 1933)
Vito Favero was an Italian road racing cyclist. He was professional from 1956 to 1962. In the 1958 Tour de France, he finished second. Stage 14 of the 1958 Tour was won by Federico…
Vito Favero, Italian cyclist (born 1932)
Buddy Ryan "Bud" Hollowell was an American professional baseball player and minor league manager. After his athletic career, he became an educator and author.
Bud Hollowell, American baseball player and manager (born 1943)
Clyde Snow was an American forensic anthropologist. Some of his skeletal confirmations include John F. Kennedy, victims of John Wayne Gacy, King Tutankhamun, victims of the Oklahom…
Clyde Snow, American anthropologist and author (born 1928)