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James Goldman was an American playwright and screenwriter. He won an Academy Award for his screenplay The Lion in Winter (1968). His younger brother was novelist and screenwriter W…
James Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (died 1998)
Mario Lanfranchi was an Italian film, theatre, and television director, screenwriter, producer, collector, and actor.
Mario Lanfranchi, Italian director, screenwriter, producer, collector and actor (died 2022)
Frank Reilly McCabe was an American basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, McCabe played collegiately at Marquette University. …
Frank McCabe, American basketball player (died 2021)
Enrique Simonet Lombardo was a Spanish painter.
Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and educator (born 1866)
Ernest Henry Starling was a British physiologist who contributed many fundamental ideas to this subject. These ideas were important parts of the British contribution to physiology,…
Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (born 1866)
José Victoriano González-Pérez , better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to …
Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1887)
Major Harold Geiger was an American military officer and pioneer U.S. Army aviator, who was killed in an airplane crash in 1927. He was U.S. military aviator number 6. He was also …
Harold Geiger, American pilot and lieutenant (born 1884)
William Payne Whitney was an American businessman and member of the influential Whitney family. He inherited a fortune and enlarged it through business dealings, then devoted much …
Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1876)
Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev was a Russian painter, draughtsman, and stage designer during the Modernist period.
Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer (born 1878)
Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was…
Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (born 1860)
John Bagnell Bury was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the…
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Hüseyin Avni Lifij was a Turkish impressionist painter of Circassian origin. He is known for landscapes with architectural features.
Hüseyin Avni Lifij, Turkish painter (born 1886)
Charles Archibald Cecil Birkin was an English motorcycle racer, brother of Tim Birkin, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s.
Archie Birkin, English motorcycle racer (born 1905)
Edmund James Flynn was a Canadian lawyer, politician and the tenth premier of Quebec, from 1896 to 1897.
Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (born 1847)
Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. …
Victoria Woodhull, American activist for women's rights (born 1838)
William Attewell was a cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and England. Attewell was a medium pace bowler who was renowned for his extraordinary accuracy a…
William Attewell, English cricketer (born 1861)
Ottavio Bottecchia was an Italian cyclist and the first Italian winner of the Tour de France.
Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (born 1894)
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of …
Jerome K
Armand Guillaumin was a French Impressionist painter and lithographer.
Armand Guillaumin, French painter (born 1841)
Mary Jane "Mae" West was an American actress, singer, comedian, screenwriter, and playwright whose career spanned more than seven decades. Recognized as a prominent sex symbol of h…
American actress Mae West (pictured) was sentenced to ten days in jail for "corrupting the morals of youth" with her pla
Cardiff City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales that competes in EFL League One, the third tier of English football. The club will co…
Cardiff City defeated Arsenal 1–0 in the FA Cup final (match programme pictured) in the only time the FA Cup has been wo
The Federal Prison Camp, Alderson is a minimum-security United States federal prison for female inmates in West Virginia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a divisio…
The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opened near Alderson, West Virginia, as the first federal prison for women in
The 1927 Treaty of Jeddah, formally the Treaty between His Majesty and His Majesty the King of the Hejaz and of Nejd and Its Dependencies was signed between the United Kingdom and …
By the Treaty of Jeddah, the United Kingdom recognised the sovereignty of King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia (pictured) over
The 1927 Treaty of Jeddah, formally the Treaty between His Majesty and His Majesty the King of the Hejaz and of Nejd and Its Dependencies was signed between the United Kingdom and …
With the signing of the Treaty of Jeddah, the United Kingdom recognized the sovereignty of Ibn Saud over Hejaz and Nejd,