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Jerome Solon Felder, known professionally as Doc Pomus, was an American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the co-writer of many rock and roll hits. Pomus was inducte…
Doc Pomus, American singer-songwriter (died 1991)
Willard Wayne Terwilliger, nicknamed "Twig", was an American professional baseball second baseman. He played nine seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1949 and 1960 for t…
Wayne Terwilliger, American second baseman, coach, and manager (died 2021)
Francis Sherman Currey was a United States Army technical sergeant and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his heroic …
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Giorgio Napolitano was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 2006 to 2015. At the time the longest-serving president in Italian history, and the first to …
Giorgio Napolitano, Italian journalist and politician, 11th President of Italy (died 2023)
Chan Woods, was a common-law wife of jazz musician Charlie Parker. She later married musician Phil Woods.
Chan Parker, American dancer and author (died 1999)
Jacklyn DeVon Taylor, professionally known as Jackie Lynn Taylor, was an American child actress.
Jackie Lynn Taylor, American actress (died 2014)
Cara Williams was an American film and television actress. She was best known for her role as Billy's mother in The Defiant Ones (1958), for which she was nominated for the Academy…
Cara Williams, American actress (died 2021)
Frederick Appleton Schaus was an American basketball player, head coach and athletic director for the West Virginia University Mountaineers, player for the National Basketball Asso…
Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (died 2010)
Ebrahim Haj Amini Najafabadi was an Iranian principlist politician who was a member of the Assembly of Experts. He was also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, and was …
Ebrahim Amini, Iranian politician (died 2020)
Stefan Mikhailov Nerezov was a Bulgarian General and Chief of the Bulgarian Army Staff.
Stefan Nerezov, Bulgarian general (born 1867)
André Léon Caplet was a French composer and conductor of classical music. He was a friend of Claude Debussy who orchestrated several of his compositions, as well as arrangements of…
André Caplet, French composer and conductor (born 1878)
Sir Richard Butler was an Australian politician. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1890 to 1924, representing Yatala (1890–1902) and Barossa (1902–1924…
Richard Butler, English-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of South Australia (born 1850)
Ralph Delahaye Paine was an American journalist and author popular in the early 20th century. Later, he held both elected and appointed government offices.
Ralph Delahaye Paine, American journalist and author (born 1871)
Antun Branko Šimić was a Bosnian and Croatian expressionist poet, considered to be one of the most important poets of Croatian literature of the 20th century.
Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet (born 1898)
Clément Ader was a French inventor and engineer who was born near Toulouse in Muret, Haute-Garonne, and died in Toulouse. He is remembered primarily for his pioneering work in avia…
Clément Ader, French engineer, designed the Ader Avion III (born 1841)
John Graham Hope Horsley de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies PC, styled The Hon. John Beresford until 1910, was an Anglo-Irish army officer, civil servant, and polo player in th…
John Beresford, Irish polo player (born 1847)
Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.
Amy Lowell, American poet and critic (born 1874)
Joseph Howard OBE was the first Prime Minister of Malta, holding this office from 1921 to 1923.
Joseph Howard, Maltese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malta (born 1862)
Hidesaburō Ueno was a Japanese agricultural scientist, well-known as the guardian of Hachikō, a devoted Akita dog.
Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (born 1871)
William Hillman Shockley was an American engineer, photographer, and botanist. After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shockley worked as a mining engineer…
William H
Johann Palisa was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau, Austrian Silesia, now Czech Republic. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, discovering 122 in all, from 136 Austria…
Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (born 1848)
William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme was an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician. Educated at a small private school until the age of nine, then at churc…
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (born 1851)
Arthur Wilhelm Ernst Victor Moeller van den Bruck was a German cultural historian, philosopher, and key intellectual figure of the Conservative Revolution.
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian and author (born 1876)
Thomas Riley Marshall was the 28th vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 under President Woodrow Wilson. A prominent lawyer in Indiana, he became an active and well…
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