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Clement Walter Labine was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) best known for his years with the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1950 to 1960.
Clem Labine, American baseball player and manager (died 2007)
János Rózsás was a Hungarian writer.
János Rózsás, Hungarian author (died 2012)
Perry Lee Moss was an American professional football player, coach, and executive. Moss played tailback at the University of Tulsa and quarterback at Illinois during the 1940s. As …
Perry Moss, American football player and coach (died 2014)
Francis Finlay was an English actor. He earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance as Iago in Othello (1965). His first leading television role came in 1971 in Casanova…
Frank Finlay, English actor (died 2016)
Norman Wexler was an American screenwriter. He was a two-time Academy Award nominee, Best Original Screenplay for Joe (1970) and Best Adapted Screenplay for Serpico (1973).
Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (died 1999)
Stan Freberg was an American actor and entertainer.
Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (died 2015)
Richard Norman Anderson was an American film and television actor. One of his best-known roles was his portrayal of Oscar Goldman, the boss of Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers in bot…
Richard Anderson, American actor and producer (died 2017)
Denis St Eval Atkinson was a West Indian cricketer who played 22 Test matches in the 1950s as an all-rounder, hitting 922 runs and taking 47 wickets. He also played first-class cri…
Denis Atkinson, Barbadian cricketer (died 2001)
Marie-Claire Geneviève Alain-Gommier was a French organist, scholar and teacher best known for her prolific recording career, with 260 recordings, making her the most-recorded clas…
Marie-Claire Alain, French organist and educator (died 2013)
Carol Karp, born Carol Ruth Vander Velde, was an American mathematician of Dutch ancestry best known for her work on infinitary logic. She also played viola in an all-women orchest…
Carol Ruth Vander Velde, American mathematician (died 1972)
Betye Irene Saar was an American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. She was a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker. Saar was a part of the Black Ar…
Betye Saar, American artist (died 2026)
Sir Aaron Klug was a British biophysicist and chemist. He was a winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his stru…
Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)
Douglas Croft was an American teen actor who is best remembered for being the first person to portray the DC Comics character Robin, the Boy Wonder, as well as his secret identity …
Douglas Croft, American child actor (died 1963)
John Derek was an American actor, filmmaker and photographer. He appeared in such films as Knock on Any Door, All the King's Men, Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950), and The Ten Comm…
John Derek, American actor, director, and cinematographer (died 1998)
Joseph Charles Jones was an American R&B singer, songwriter and arranger, who was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Jones is also generally credited with discovering t…
Joe Jones, American R&B singer-songwriter and producer (died 2005)
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and statesman who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2011. He served as prime minister from 1959 to 1976, president …
Fidel Castro, Cuban lawyer and politician, ex-President of Cuba (died 2016)
René Goscinny was a French comic editor and writer, who created the Asterix comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo. Born in France to a Jewish family from Poland, he spen…
René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (died 1977)
Armando Joseph "Buddy" Greco was an American jazz and pop singer and pianist who had a long career in the US and UK. His recordings have sold millions, including "Oh Look A-There A…
Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist (died 2017)
Julius Katchen was an American concert pianist, possibly best known for his recordings of Johannes Brahms's solo piano works.
Julius Katchen, American pianist and composer (died 1969)
Eddie Little Sky, also known as Edward Little, was an American actor. A citizen of the Oglala Lakota tribe Eddie had parts in 36 feature films and over 60 television shows, mainly …
Eddie Little Sky, American actor (died 1997)
Sami Michael was an Iraqi-Israeli author, having migrated from Iraq to Israel at the age of 23. From 2001, Michael was the President of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (…
Sami Michael, Iraqi-Israeli author and playwright (died 2024)
John Robert Silber was an American academician and candidate for public office. From 1971 to 1996, he was President of Boston University (BU) and, from 1996 to 2002, Chancellor. Fr…
John Silber, American philosopher and academic (died 2012)
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)