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Yossel Mashel "Joe" Slovo was a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist. A Marxist-Leninist, he was a long-time leader and theorist in the South African Communist Part…
Joe Slovo, Lithuanian-South African activist and politician (died 1995)
Aileen Hernandez was an African-American union organizer, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist. She served as the president of the National Organization for Women (NO…
Aileen Hernandez, American union organizer and civil rights activist (died 2017)
Stanley Livingstone Baxter was a Scottish actor, comedian, impressionist and author. Baxter began his career as a child actor on the BBC and later became known for his British tele…
Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and screenwriter (died 2025)
Claude Aubrey Akins was an American character actor. He played Sonny Pruit in Movin' On, a 1974–1976 American drama series about a trucking team; Sheriff Lobo on The Misadventures …
Claude Akins, American actor (died 1994)
William Bowyer was a British portrait and landscape painter, who worked in a traditional manner.
William Bowyer, English painter and academic (died 2015)
Phyllis Fay Gotlieb was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet.
Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author and poet (died 2009)
William Walton Sharman was an American professional basketball player and coach. He is mostly known for his time with the Boston Celtics in the 1950s, partnering with Bob Cousy in …
Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (died 2013)
David Wynne was a British sculptor of figures, animals, and portraits.
David Wynne, English sculptor and painter (died 2014)
Miles Dewey Davis III was an American trumpeter, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. In a…
Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (died 1991)
Caterina Irene Elena Maria Boyle, Lady Saunders, usually known as Katie Boyle, was an Italian-born British actress, writer, radio announcer and television personality. She became b…
Katie Boyle, Italian-English actress and television host (died 2018)
Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe was Queen of Tonga from 1965 to 2006, as the wife of King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV. She was the mother of kings George Tupou V and Tupou VI.
Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe, Queen Consort of Tonga (died 2017)
Abdoulaye Wade is a Senegalese politician who served as the third president of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. He is also the Secretary-General of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS),…
Abdoulaye Wade, Senegalese academic and politician, 3rd President of Senegal
John Paul Gimble was an American country musician associated with Western swing. He was considered one of the most important fiddlers in the genre. He was inducted into the Rock an…
Johnny Gimble, American country/western swing musician (died 2015)
Reginald John Berry, also listed as John James Berry, was an English footballer. Berry joined Manchester United from Birmingham City in 1951. Despite his diminutive stature, he was…
Johnny Berry, English footballer (died 1994)
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s…
Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (died 1962)
George Robb was a footballer who played outside left for Tottenham Hotspur and England. Robb represented Great Britain at the 1952 Olympic Games. He also had a career as a school…
George Robb, English international footballer and teacher (died 2011)
Milo Donal O'Shea was an Irish actor. He received nomination for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his breakthrough role of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses (1967), and was t…
Milo O'Shea, Irish-American actor (died 2013)
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac…
Allen Ginsberg, American poet (died 1997)
Andy Samuel Griffith was an American actor, comedian, television producer, singer, and writer whose career spanned seven decades in music and television. Known for his Southern dra…
Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
Richard Schultz Schweiker was an American businessman and politician who served as the 14th U.S. secretary of health and human services under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1…
Richard Schweiker, American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (died 2015
Chiyonoyama Masanobu was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Fukushima, Hokkaidō. He was the sport's 41st yokozuna, between 1951 until 1959. He is regarded as the first "mo…
Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (died 1977)
Flora Isabel MacDonald was a Canadian politician and humanitarian. Canada's first female foreign minister, she was also one of the first women to vie for leadership of a major Cana…
Flora MacDonald, Canadian banker and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Communications (died 2015)
Robert Earl Hughes was an American man who was, during his lifetime, the heaviest human being recorded, weighing 1,071 pounds (486 kg). He remains the heaviest human in the world a…
Robert Earl Hughes, American who was the heaviest human being recorded in the history of the world during his lifetime (
Ain Kaalep was an Estonian poet, playwright, literary critic and translator.
Ain Kaalep, Estonian poet, playwright, and critic (died 2020)