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Konstantinos "Kostis" Stephanopoulos was a Greek conservative politician who served two consecutive terms as the president of Greece from 1995 to 2005.
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician, 6th President of Greece (died 2016)
Esmé Valerie Eliot was the second wife and later widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet T. S. Eliot. She was a major shareholder in the publishing firm of Faber and Faber Limited an…
Valerie Eliot, English businesswoman (died 2012)
Jiang Zemin was a Chinese politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as the chairman of the Central Military Commission …
Jiang Zemin, Chinese engineer and politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount…
Angus Scrimm was an American actor, author, and journalist, known for his portrayal of the Tall Man in the 1979 horror film Phantasm and its sequels.
Angus Scrimm, American actor and author (died 2016)
Frank Rosolino was an American jazz trombonist.
Frank Rosolino, American jazz trombonist (died 1978)
Norbert "Nobby" Wirkowski was an American and Canadian football player and coach. He is best known as quarterback of the Toronto Argonauts. The touchdown he engineered in the 1952 …
Nobby Wirkowski, American-Canadian football player and coach (died 2014)
Can Yücel was a Turkish poet noted for his use of colloquial language.
Can Yücel, Turkish poet and translator (died 1999)
Roger Maurice Louis Bohan was a French fashion designer, best known for his 30-year career at the house of Dior.
Marc Bohan, French fashion designer (died 2023)
Robert Lee Flanigan was an American tenor vocalist and founding member of The Four Freshmen, a jazz vocal group.
Bob Flanigan, American pop singer (died 2011)
Clifford James Geertz was an American anthropologist who was known for his influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered "for three decades ... the sing…
Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist and academic (died 2006)
Gyula Hernádi was a Hungarian writer and screenwriter. He wrote for 36 films between 1965 and 2005, mostly for director Miklós Jancsó. He also wrote many novels, mostly surrealisti…
Gyula Hernádi, Hungarian author and screenwriter (died 2005)
Nancy Spero was an American visual artist known for her political and feminist paintings and hand pulled art prints.
Nancy Spero, American painter and academic (died 2009)
Robert Remsen Vickrey was an American artist and author based in Massachusetts who specialized in the ancient medium of egg tempera. His paintings are surreal dreamlike visions of …
Robert Vickrey, American painter and author (died 2011)
George Brecht, born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies …
George Brecht, American-German chemist and composer (died 2008)
Anahit Tsitsikian was an Armenian female violinist. She toured around the world through more than 100 cities during the Soviet times; she taught at the State Conservatory for appro…
Anahit Tsitsikian, Armenian violinist and educator (died 1999)
Kristen Nygaard was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician. Internationally, Nygaard is acknowledged as the co-inventor of object-oriented pro…
Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and academic (died 2002)
Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov or Tschuprov was a Russian statistician who worked on mathematical statistics, sample survey theory and demography.
Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (born 1874)
Elizabeth Coleman was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license, and is the earliest known Black p…
Bessie Coleman, American pilot (born 1892)
Libert H. Boeynaems, formally Libert Hubert John Louis Boeynaems was a Belgian Catholic priest who served as the fourth vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian I…
Libert H
Joseph James Fletcher was an Australian biologist, winner of the 1921 Clarke Medal.
Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (born 1850)
Mehmed VI Vahideddin, also known as Şahbaba among the Osmanoğlu family, was the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the penultimate Ottoman caliph, reigning from 4 July 1918 unti…
Mehmed VI, the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (born 1861)
Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank was an innovative English novelist. His eight short novels, partly inspired by the London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, consist lar…
Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (born 1886)
Symon Vasyliovych Petliura was a Ukrainian revolutionary, politician and journalist. He was the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian People's Army (UNA) and led the Ukrainian People'…
Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (born 1879)
Srečko Kosovel was a Slovenian poet, now considered one of central Europe's major modernist poets. He was labeled an impressionistic poet of his native Karst region, a political po…
Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (born 1904)