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Correlli Douglas Barnett was an English military historian, who also wrote works of economic history, particularly on the United Kingdom's post-war deindustrialization.
Correlli Barnett, English historian and author (died 2022)
Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and c…
Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)
Pierre Perrault was a Canadian documentary film director with the National Film Board of Canada. Over his 40-year career, he directed 32 films and was one of Canada's most importan…
Pierre Perrault, Canadian director and screenwriter (died 1999)
Marie Thérèse Rollande Killens is a former Canadian politician who served as a Liberal member of the House of Commons of Canada. She is an administrator by career.
Marie Thérèse Killens, Canadian politician
Shirley June Fry Irvin was an American tennis player. During her career, which lasted from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s, she won the singles title at all four Grand Slam eve…
Shirley Fry Irvin, American tennis player (died 2021)
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)
Alan Jack Charig was an English palaeontologist and writer who popularised his subject on television and in books at the start of the wave of interest in dinosaurs in the 1970s.
Alan J. Charig, English paleontologist and author (died 1997)
Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn was an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd governor of Tennessee from 1971 to 1975. He was the state's first Republican govern…
Winfield Dunn, American politician, 43rd Governor of Tennessee (died 2024)
Joseph Martin Sartoris was an American Catholic prelate who served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in California from 1994 to 2002.
Joseph Martin Sartoris, American bishop (died 2025)
Chandra Shekhar Singh, known popularly as Babu Sahab, was an Indian politician and the prime minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority gov…
Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (died 2007)
Lee Francis Allen was an American tenor saxophone player. Phil Alvin, Allen's bandmate in The Blasters, called him one of the most important instrumentalists in rock'n'roll. Allen'…
Lee Allen, American saxophone player (died 1994)
James Peter Hymers Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern is a British lawyer. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Lord Advocate, and Lord Chancellor (1987–1997). He was form…
James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell was a British film director known for his pioneering work in television and film, and for his flamboyant and controversial style. His films were mainly…
Ken Russell, English actor, director, and producer (died 2011)
Timothy Joseph O'Connor was an American character actor known for his work in television. O'Connor specialized in playing officials, military men, and police officers.
Tim O'Connor, American actor (died 2018)
Alan John Dixon was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served in the Illinois General Assembly from 1951 to 1971, as the Illinois Treasurer from 1971 to …
Alan J. Dixon, American lawyer and politician, 34th Illinois Secretary of State (died 2014)
Charles Elzer Loudermilk, known professionally as Charlie Louvin, was an American country music singer and songwriter. He is best known as one of the Louvin Brothers, and was a mem…
Charlie Louvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)
Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen is an American retired jazz trumpeter who led the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Doc Severinsen, American trumpet player and conductor
Brock Peters was an American actor, best known for playing the villainous "Crown" in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, and Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbir…
Brock Peters, American actor (died 2005)
Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida was an Italian actress, model, photojournalist, and sculptor. She was one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, a period in w…
Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress and photographer (died 2023)
Marvin Neil Simon was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his p…
Neil Simon, American playwright and screenwriter (died 2018)
Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner was a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. He was born in The Hague. His father Jan Donner was a prominent Dutch politician and judge. Donner won th…
Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player and journalist (died 1988)
Jeanette Helen Morrison, known professionally as Janet Leigh, was an American actress, businesswoman and author. Leigh was established as one of the earliest scream queens for star…
Janet Leigh, American actress and author (died 2004)