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Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman was an English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of the sports car company Lotus Cars.
Colin Chapman, English engineer and businessman, founded Lotus Cars (died 1982)
Air Chief Marshal Sir Thomas Lawrie "Jock" Kennedy, was a senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as Deputy Commander of RAF Strike Command from 1979 to 1981, and Air Member for …
Thomas Kennedy, English air marshal (died 2013)
Gilbert James McDougald was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) infielder who played for the New York Yankees from 1951 through 1960.
Gil McDougald, American baseball player and coach (died 2010)
Adolph Schayes was an American professional basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A top scorer and rebounder, he was a 12-time NBA All-Star and …
Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach (died 2015)
Tom "Big Daddy" Donahue, was an American rock and roll radio disc jockey, record producer and concert promoter.
Tom Donahue, American radio host and producer (died 1975)
Alice Elizabeth Drummond was an American actress. A veteran Off-Broadway performer, she was nominated in 1970 for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her perform…
Alice Drummond, American actress (died 2016)
Julien Serge Doubrovsky was a French writer and 1989 Prix Médicis winner for Le Livre brisé. He is also a critical theorist, and coined the term "autofiction" in the drafts for his…
Serge Doubrovsky, French theorist and author (died 2017)
John Leonard Duncan Mackenzie was a Scottish film and television director. He worked in British film from the late 1960s, first as an assistant director and later as an independent…
John Mackenzie, Scottish director and producer (died 2011)
Thomas Boone Pickens Jr. was an American business magnate and financier. Pickens chaired the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate r…
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Ichiro Maruyama, who wrote under the pen name You Sano, was a Japanese mystery writer and critic.
Hiroshi Sano, Japanese novelist (died 2013)
Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers such as "…
Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (died 2002)
Arthur Nigel Davenport was an English stage, television and film actor, best known for his film roles as the Duke of Norfolk in A Man for All Seasons, and Lord Birkenhead in Chario…
Nigel Davenport, English actor (died 2013)
Nina Grigoryevna Otkalenko, née Pletnyova, was a Soviet middle-distance runner. She won a European title in the 800 m at the inaugural 1954 European Athletics Championships and set…
Nina Otkalenko, Russian runner (died 2015)
William Trevor Cox was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest c…
William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer (died 2016)
Murad Jacob Kevorkian, also known by the nickname "Dr. Death", was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by phy…
Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, author, and assisted suicide activist (died 2011)
Thea Musgrave CBE is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music. She has lived in the United States since 1972.
Thea Musgrave, Scottish-American composer and educator
Sally Forrest was an American film, stage and TV actress of the 1940s and 1950s. She studied dance from a young age and shortly out of high school was signed to a contract by Metro…
Sally Forrest, American actress and dancer (died 2015)
Freddie Redd was an American hard-bop pianist and composer. He is best known for writing music to accompany The Connection (1959), a play by Jack Gelber. According to Peter Watrous…
Freddie Redd, American jazz pianist and composer (died 2021)
Kevin Charles "Pro" Hart, MBE, was an Australian artist, born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, who was considered the father of the Australian Outback painting movement and his wor…
Pro Hart, Australian painter (died 2006)
Agnès Varda was a Belgian-born French filmmaker, artist, and photographer.
Agnès Varda, Belgian-French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2019)
Radoslav Rotković was a Montenegrin historian, philologist and academician. He is known for his works in Montenegrin history and literature.
Radoslav Rotković, Montenegrin historian (died 2013)
Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. They became the world's first space station crew aboard Salyut 1…
Georgy Dobrovolsky, Soviet Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (died 1971)
Steve Dodd was an Aboriginal Australian actor, notable for playing Aboriginal characters across seven decades of Australian film. After beginning his working life as a stockman and…
Steve Dodd, Australian actor and composer (died 2014)
Pankaj Roy was an Indian cricketer who played in 43 Test matches, including once as captain. He was a right-handed opening batsman, perhaps best known for establishing the world re…
Pankaj Roy, Indian cricketer (died 2001)