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Marguerite Higgins Hall was an American reporter and war correspondent. Higgins covered World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and in the process advanced the cause of …
Marguerite Higgins, American journalist and author (died 1966)
Carmen Laforet was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literat…
Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (died 2004)
Norman Joseph Woodland was an American inventor and engineer, best known as one of the inventors of the barcode, for which he received a patent in October 1952. Later, employed by …
Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (died 2012)
Peter A. Peyser was a United States representative from New York, serving from 1971 to 1977 as a Republican and from 1979 to 1983 as a Democrat.
Peter A. Peyser, American soldier and politician (died 2014)
Sir Harry Donald Secombe was a Welsh actor, comedian, singer and television presenter. Secombe was a member of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show (1951–1960), playing…
Harry Secombe, Welsh-English actor (died 2001)
Dinko Šakić was a Croatian Ustaše official, and convicted war criminal, who commanded the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) from April to Novem…
Dinko Šakić, Croatian concentration camp commander (died 2008)
Joann Lõssov, also known as Ioann Fyodorovich Lysov, was an Estonian basketball player. Lõssov trained at VSS Kalev, in Tallinn. He was named MVP of the 1947 EuroBasket. Member of …
Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (died 2000)
John Woodland Morris was an American lieutenant general who became Chief of Engineers.
John W. Morris, American general (died 2013)
Leaford Bearskin was a Native American tribal leader and US Air Force officer. He was Chief of the Wyandotte Nation from 1983 to 2011.
Leaford Bearskin, American tribal leader and colonel (died 2012)
Frank McGee was an American television journalist, best known for his work with NBC from the late 1950s into the early 1970s.
Frank McGee, American journalist (died 1974)
Turgut Cansever was a Turkish architect and city planner. He is the only architect to win the Aga Khan Award for Architecture three times. He is known as "the wise architect." He p…
Turgut Cansever, Turkish architect, city planner, and thinker (died 2009)
Constance Baker Motley was an American jurist and politician who served as a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. A key strategist of th…
Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and politician (died 2005)
Albert Jean de Grandpré was a Canadian lawyer and businessman who served as the president and chief executive officer of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc.
A. Jean de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and academic (died 2022)
Paul Howard Poberezny was an American aviator, entrepreneur, and aircraft designer. He founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) in 1953, and spent the greater part of hi…
Paul Poberezny, American pilot and businessman, founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (died 2013)
Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism.…
Stanisław Lem, Polish philosopher and author (died 2006)
Darío Víttori was an Italian-born Argentine comic actor. His real name was Melito Dario Spartaco Margozzi. He was born on 14 September 1921 in Montecelio, Lazio, Italy, and died on…
Dario Vittori, Italian-Argentinian actor and producer (died 2001)
Richard Gordon, was an English ship's surgeon and anaesthetist. As Richard Gordon, Ostlere wrote numerous novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular histor…
Richard Gordon, English surgeon and author (died 2017)
Gene Roland was an American jazz musician, composer, and arranger who contributed richly to American jazz, especially through his work with the Stan Kenton Orchestra. Born in Dalla…
Gene Roland, American pianist and composer (died 1982)
Ursula Martius Franklin was a Canadian metallurgist, activist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years. Franklin is …
Ursula Franklin, German-Canadian metallurgist (died 2016)
John Carl Hendricks, known professionally as Jon Hendricks, was an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instru…
Jon Hendricks, American singer-songwriter (died 2017)
Billy Ward and his Dominoes were an American R&B vocal group. One of the most successful R&B groups of the early 1950s, the Dominoes helped launch the singing careers of two notabl…
Billy Ward, American R&B singer-songwriter (died 2002)
Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He came to prominence as sideman for Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie, and Lena Horne. Hamilton b…
Chico Hamilton, American drummer, composer, and bandleader (died 2013)
John Joseph McHale was an American professional baseball player and executive. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a first baseman for the Detroit Tigers during the 1940s, …
John McHale, American baseball player and manager (died 2008)
Korla Pandit, was an American exotica musician, composer, pianist, and organist. Redd was an African-American man from Missouri who moved to California in the 1940s. After getting …
Korla Pandit, American pianist and composer (died 1998)