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Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino, better known by her stage name Elvira Pagã, was a Brazilian vedette, actress, singer, writer, and painter. She was the first Rio Carnival Queen, the firs…
Elvira Pagã, Brazilian actress, singer, and author (died 2003)
Robert Wood Johnson III was an American businessman. He was a grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I.
Robert Wood Johnson III, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1970)
Fabio Taglioni was an Italian engineer. He is known for creating the Ducati 125 Desmo engine.
Fabio Taglioni, Italian engineer (died 2001)
Else Holmelund Minarik was an American author of more than 40 children's books. She was most commonly associated with her Little Bear series of children's books, which were adapted…
Else Holmelund Minarik, Danish-American journalist and author (died 2012)
Mario Benedetti Farrugia, was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published …
Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist and author (died 2009)
Lawrence Robert Klein was an American economist. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics in the Department of Economics at…
Lawrence Klein, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
Alberto Pedro Calderón was an Argentine-American mathematician. His name is associated with the University of Buenos Aires, but first and foremost with the University of Chicago, w…
Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (died 1998)
Hugh Reskymer "Kym" Bonython, was an Australian politician, World War Two veteran, musician, gallery owner, and racing driver.
Kym Bonython, Australian racing driver, drummer, and radio host (died 2011)
Staryl Chester Austin, Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He was a P-47 pilot during World War II. He later joined the Oregon Air National Guard. Austin co…
Staryl C. Austin, American air force general (died 2015)
Dame Sheila Margaret Imelda Quinn, DBE, FRCN, RGN, RM, RNT, was a British nurse and fellow of the Royal College of Nursing. She was president of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) …
Sheila Quinn, English nurse and educator (died 2016)
Arthur Baldwin Sansom Jr., better known as Art Sansom, was an American comic strip cartoonist who created the long-running comic strip The Born Loser.
Art Sansom, American cartoonist (died 1991)
Dinah Sheridan was an English actress with a career spanning seven decades. She was best known for the films Genevieve (1953) and The Railway Children (1970), the long-running BBC …
Dinah Sheridan, English actress (died 2012)
Hans Otto Jung was a German viticulturist, jazz musician and patron of music. In the 1940s, he played as a pianist in the Hotclub Combo, which he cofounded with Emil Mangelsdorff a…
Hans Otto Jung, German viticulturist, jazz musician and patron of music (died 2009)
Jack Warden was an American actor who worked in film and television. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978).…
Jack Warden, American actor (died 2006)
Roger Angell was an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball. He was a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many…
Roger Angell, American journalist, author, and editor (died 2022)
Joseph Ward Cohen Jr., known professionally as Jay Ward, was an American animator and producer. He is best known for creating The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, al…
Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (died 1989)
Kenneth McAlpine was a British racing driver from England.
Kenneth McAlpine, British race car driver (died 2023)
Eric Baker was a British activist and one of the founders of the human rights group Amnesty International, and the second Secretary-General of the organization. He was also a found…
Eric Baker, English activist, co-founded Amnesty International (died 1976)
Major Anders Frederik Emil Victor Schau Lassen,, was a Danish military officer who was the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War. Servin…
Anders Lassen, Danish-English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1945)
Robert Granville Lemon was an American right-handed pitcher and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.
Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (died 2000)
William Harrison Riker was an American political scientist known for applying game theory and mathematics to political science. He helped establish University of Rochester as a cen…
William H. Riker, American political scientist and academic (died 1993)
Mickey Rooney was an American actor. In a career spanning nearly nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era. He …
Mickey Rooney, American actor, singer, director, and producer (died 2014)
Jan Rynveld Carew was a Guyana-born novelist, playwright, poet and educator, who lived at various times in The Netherlands, Mexico, the UK, France, Spain, Ghana, Jamaica, Canada an…
Jan Carew, Guyanese-American author, poet, and playwright (died 2012)
Ovadia Yosef, also known as Maran, was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, hakham, posek, and the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1972 to 1983. Also known as Gadol Yisrael, Yosef i…
Ovadia Yosef, Iraqi-Israeli rabbi and scholar (died 2013)