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Darryl Grant Cotton was an Australian pop, rock singer-songwriter, television presenter and actor. He was a founding member of Australian rock group Zoot in 1965, with Beeb Birtles…
Darryl Cotton, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1949)
Geoffrey William Hughes DL was an English actor. Hughes provided the voice of Paul McCartney in the animated film Yellow Submarine (1968), and rose to fame for portraying bin man E…
Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (born 1944)
Alvin Morris, known professionally as Tony Martin, was an American actor and singer of popular music.
Tony Martin, American actor and singer (born 1913)
John Keith Taylor was an English football referee. Later described by the Football League as "perhaps the finest English referee of all time", Taylor was famous for officiating in …
Jack Taylor, English footballer and referee (born 1930)
Colin Robert Horsley was a New Zealand classical pianist and teacher who was based in the United Kingdom all his working life. He had a significant artistic association with the …
Colin Horsley, New Zealand-English pianist and educator (born 1920)
Sepp Mayerl, also known as Blasl-Sepp was an Austrian mountaineer.
Sepp Mayerl, Austrian mountaineer (born 1937)
William F. Milliken Jr. was an aerospace engineer, automotive engineer and racecar driver. He was born in Old Town, Maine.
William F. Milliken Jr., American race car driver and engineer (born 1911)
Tatiana Egorova was a Russian footballer and manager. She played for CSK VVS Samara and Rossiyanka in the Russian Championship, and Turbine Potsdam in the German Bundesliga, and sh…
Tatiana Egorova, Russian footballer and manager (born 1970)
August Marian Kowalczyk was a Polish actor, theatre, television and film director who was the last survivor of a breakout of prisoners from Auschwitz Concentration Camp on 10 June …
August Kowalczyk, Polish actor and director (born 1921)
Chris Marker was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977…
Chris Marker, French photographer and journalist (born 1921)
James Mellaart FBA was a British and Dutch archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. He was expelled from Turkey …
James Mellaart, English archaeologist and author (born 1925)
John Stampe Møller was a Danish football player and coach.
John Stampe, Danish footballer and coach (born 1957)
Anne Maeve Binchy Snell was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist, and speaker. Her novels were characterised by a sympathetic and often humorous portrayal o…
Maeve Binchy, Irish author, playwright, and journalist (born 1939)
Bill Doss was an American rock musician. He co-founded The Elephant 6 Recording Company in Athens, Georgia, and was a key member of the Olivia Tremor Control. Following the band's …
Bill Doss, American singer and guitarist (born 1968)
Stig Ossian Ericson was a Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter.
Stig Ossian Ericson, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1923)
Leslie Green was an English footballer and manager.
Les Green, English footballer and manager (born 1941)
Jonathan Hardy was a New Zealand-Australian film and television actor, writer and director.
Jonathan Hardy, New Zealand-Australian actor and screenwriter (born 1940)
William Percy Kitchen was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played 41 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs between 19…
Bill Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1960)
Mary Louise Milligan Rasmuson was an American army officer, and fifth director of the Women's Army Corps (WAC).
Mary Louise Rasmuson, American colonel (born 1911)
San Diego is a city on the Pacific coast of Southern California, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. It is the eighth-most populous city in the U.S. and second-most populo…
Daniel Chong is discovered in a holding room in San Diego, having been incarcerated for five days without food or water
The 2012 Dnipropetrovsk explosions were a series of co-ordinated explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine on 27 April 2012. The bombs went off between 11:50 and 13:00 near four tram s…
Unknown perpetrators carried out a series of four bombings in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
In May 2012, two major earthquakes struck Northern Italy, causing 27 deaths and widespread damage. The events are known in Italy as the 2012 Emilia earthquakes, because they mainly…
The first of two major earthquakes struck Northern Italy, resulting in seven deaths
The president of the Republic of Liberia is the head of state and government of Liberia. The president serves as the leader of the executive branch and as commander-in-chief of the…
Former Liberia president Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during
The Yakovlev SJ-100 is a regional jet originally designed by the now-merged Russian aircraft company Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, a division of the United Aircraft Corporation. With deve…
The pilots of a Sukhoi Superjet, ignoring alerts from the terrain warning system, crashed the aircraft into Mount Salak