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Imero (Immie) Fiorentino was an American lighting designer, considered one of the most respected pioneers and leaders in the American entertainment industry. Beginning his career a…
Imero Fiorentino, American lighting designer (died 2013)
Robert Edward Crane was an American actor, drummer, radio personality, disc jockey and star of the CBS sitcom Hogan's Heroes.
Bob Crane, American actor (died 1978)
Sven Viktor Davidson was a Swedish tennis player who became the first Swede to win a Grand Slam title when he won the French Championships in 1957, beating Ashley Cooper and Herber…
Sven Davidson, Swedish-American tennis player (died 2008)
John Lewis Gilbert III is an American show business personality who has worked mainly on television game shows. Originally a nightclub singer and entertainer, he has hosted and ann…
Johnny Gilbert, American game show host and announcer
Albert Floyd Piccirilli, also known by his stage name Al Rex, was an American bass player for Bill Haley & His Comets and its predecessor Bill Haley and the Saddlemen.
Al Rex, American musician (died 2020)
Nancy Ann Olson is an American retired actress. She made her film debut Canadian Pacific (1949), before gaining prominence as Betty Schaefer in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (195…
Nancy Olson, American actress
William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg was a British newspaper journalist who was Editor of The Times from 1967 to 1981. In the late 1970s, he served as High Sheriff of Somerset, and i…
William Rees-Mogg, English journalist and public servant (died 2012)
Carl Richard Woese was an American microbiologist and biophysicist. Woese defined the Archaea in 1977 through a pioneering phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique t…
Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (died 2012)
Dr. Veeramachaneni Vimala Devi was an Indian parliamentarian. She was elected to the 3rd Lok Sabha from Eluru constituency as a member of Communist Party of India in 1962.
Viramachaneni Vimla Devi, Indian parliamentarian (died 1967)
Anita Brookner was an English novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this …
Anita Brookner, English novelist and art historian (died 2016)
Bella Mikhaylovna Davidovich is a Soviet-American pianist.
Bella Davidovich, Soviet-American pianist
Robert Sheckley was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdi…
Robert Sheckley, American author and screenwriter (died 2005)
Royal Richard "Jim" Rathmann, was an American racing driver who competed primarily in Championship Cars. Rathmann is best known for winning the Indianapolis 500 in 1960, emerging v…
Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (died 2011)
David Conner Treen Sr. was an American politician and attorney from Louisiana. A member of the Republican Party, Treen served as U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 3rd congression…
Dave Treen, American lawyer and politician, 51st Governor of Louisiana (died 2009)
Andrzej Zawada was a Polish mountaineer, expedition leader and pioneer of winter Himalayism. Zawada was an organiser and leader of numerous high-mountains expeditions, author of mo…
Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer and author (died 2000)
Vincent Anthony Guaraldi was an American jazz pianist who composed music for animated television adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. His compositions for this series included t…
Vince Guaraldi, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1976)
Don Andrea Gallo was an Italian priest. He was the founder and leader of the Community of San Benedetto al Porto. He often called himself a "priest of the sidewalk", referring to h…
Andrea Gallo, Italian priest and author (died 2013)
Helen Elam Van Winkle, better known as Baddiewinkle or Baddie Winkle, was an American Internet personality. She became an Internet sensation at the age of eighty-five. Her popular …
Baddiewinkle, American internet personality
Samuel John Hazo is a poet, playwright, fiction novelist, and the founder and director emeritus of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also McAnulty D…
Samuel John Hazo, American author
Choi Yoon-chil was a South Korean long-distance runner who was a two-time Olympian and a two-time national champion in the marathon.
Choi Yun-chil, South Korean long-distance runner and a two-time national champion in the marathon (died 2020)
Józef Czyrek was a Polish politician who served as the minister of foreign affairs of the People's Republic of Poland from 1980 to 1982.
Józef Czyrek, Polish economist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2013)
Belaid Abdessalam was an Algerian politician, who served as Prime Minister from 1992 to 1993.
Belaid Abdessalam, Prime Minister of Algeria (died 2020)
Pal Charles Benko was a Hungarian and American chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems.
Pál Benkő, Hungarian-American chess player (died 2019)
Joseph Albert Morello was an American jazz drummer best known for serving as the drummer for pianist Dave Brubeck, as part of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, from 1957 to 1972, including…
Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Blue Rondo à la Turk") (died 2011)