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Giampiero Boniperti was an Italian footballer who played his entire 15-season career at Juventus between 1946 and 1961, winning five Serie A titles and two Coppa Italia titles. He …
Giampiero Boniperti, Italian footballer and politician (died 2021)
Teofisto "Tito" Tayko Guingona Jr. is a Filipino statesman and diplomat who served as the 11th vice president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2004, during the first term of Preside…
Teofisto Guingona Jr., Filipino politician; 11th Vice President of the Philippines
Jassem Alwan was a Syrian military officer and prominent military figure in Syria in the early 1960s. He rose to prominence during the period of the United Arab Republic (UAR) when…
Jassem Alwan, Syrian Army Officer (died 2018)
Emeritus Professor Sittampalam Shanmugaratnam, also known as Shan Ratnam, was a Singaporean obstetrician and gynaecologist.
Shan Ratnam, Sri Lankan physician and academic (died 2001)
Pierre Mauroy was a French politician who was Prime Minister of France from 1981 to 1984 under President François Mitterrand. Mauroy also served as Mayor of Lille from 1973 to 2001…
Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 2013)
Warren Mercer Oates was an American actor. He was best known for his roles in Western and crime films, most notably in collaboration with directors Sam Peckinpah and Monte Hellman.…
Warren Oates, American actor (died 1982)
Bernard Malgrange was a French mathematician who worked on differential equations and singularity theory. He proved the Ehrenpreis–Malgrange theorem and the Malgrange preparation t…
Bernard Malgrange, French mathematician (died 2024)
Charles William Tanner was an American professional baseball player and manager. A left fielder and pinch hitter who appeared in 396 games in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 19…
Chuck Tanner, American baseball player and manager (died 2011)
Patricia Alma Hitchcock O'Connell was a British-American actress and producer. She was the only child of English director Alfred Hitchcock and film editor Alma Reville, and had sma…
Patricia Hitchcock, English actress (died 2021)
Kapelwa Sikota (1928–2006) was the first Zambian registered nurse, in the 1950s when her country was still the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia. She trained and qualified …
Kapelwa Sikota Zambian nurse and health official (died 2006)
Sardar Mir Balakh Sher Mazari was a Pakistani politician who served as Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan for five weeks in 1993. He was the tumandar and the paramount sardar of …
Balakh Sher Mazari, former prime minister of Pakistan (died 2022)
Federico Martín Bahamontes, born Alejandro Martín Bahamontes, was a Spanish professional road racing cyclist. He won the 1959 Tour de France and a total of 11 Grand Tour stages bet…
Federico Bahamontes, Spanish cyclist (died 2023)
Vince Edwards was an American actor, director, and singer. He was best known for his TV role as Dr. Ben Casey and as Major Cliff Bricker in the 1968 war film The Devil's Brigade.
Vince Edwards, American actor, singer, and director (died 1996)
Donald Fifield Bolles was an American investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic newspaper who was known for his coverage of organized crime in and around Phoenix, Arizona, es…
Don Bolles, American investigative reporter (died 1976)
Bernard Buffet was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. An extremely prolific artist, he produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative a…
Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (died 1999)
Alejandro de Tomaso was an Argentine racing driver and businessman. His name is sometimes seen in an Italianised form as Alessandro de Tomaso. He participated in two Formula One Wo…
Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentinian-Italian race car driver and businessman, founded De Tomaso (died 2003)
Moshe Greenberg was an American rabbi, Bible scholar, and professor emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (died 2010)
John Glenn was an American professional baseball player who played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder. Over the course of 15 minor league seasons, he made appearances in 32 …
John Glenn, American baseball player (died 2023)
Carl "Bobo" Olson was an American boxer. He was the World Middleweight champion between October 1953 and December 1955, the longest reign of any champion in that division during th…
Bobo Olson, American boxer (died 2002)
Frank Rosenblatt was an American psychologist notable in the field of artificial intelligence. He is sometimes called the father of deep learning for his pioneering work on artific…
Frank Rosenblatt, Psychologist and Computer Scientist, AI pioneer (died 1971)
Greville Ewan Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, was a British politician, barrister and writer. He became a Labour Party Member of Parliament for Leicester in the 1970 general el…
Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, Welsh-English lawyer and politician (died 2015)
Andrea Ofilada Veneracion was a Filipino choral conductor and a recipient of the 1999 National Artist for Music award. She founded the Philippine Madrigal Singers in 1963. She was …
Andrea Veneracion, Filipina choirmaster (died 2014)
Sir James William Alexander Burnet, known as Alastair Burnet, was a British journalist and broadcaster, who had a career working in news and current affairs programmes, including a…
Alastair Burnet, English journalist (died 2012)
Elias James Corey is an American organic chemist. In 1990, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis", specificall…
Elias James Corey, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate