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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)
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…
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)
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)
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)
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)
Hélène Glykatzi-Ahrweiler was a Greek-French academic Byzantinologist. She was also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Greece.
Hélène Ahrweiler, Greek historian and academic (died 2026)
René Depestre is a Haitian-French poet and former communist activist. He is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature. He lived in Cuba as an exile f…
René Depestre, Haitian writer
Elizabeth Ann Theresa Lynn was an American actress. She played Thelma Lou, Deputy Barney Fife's girlfriend, on The Andy Griffith Show. During the 1940s and 1950s, she appeared in m…
Betty Lynn, American actress (died 2021)
Donn Charles Fendler was an American author and public speaker. Born in Rye, New York, Fendler, at the age of 12, became separated from his family and was lost on Maine's Mount Kat…
Donn Fendler, American author and speaker (died 2016)
Daryl Francis Gates was an American police officer who served as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1978 to 1992. His length of tenure in this position was second only…
Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program (died 2010)
Abdur Rahman Biswas was a Bangladeshi politician. He was the President of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996. Biswas represented Pakistan at the United Nations General Assembly, prior to…
Abdur Rahman Biswas, Bangladeshi banker and politician, 10th President of Bangladesh (died 2017)
Eugene Jules Colan was an American comic book artist best known for his work for Marvel Comics, where his signature titles include the superhero series Daredevil, the cult-hit sati…
Gene Colan, American illustrator (died 2011)
Alison Stewart Lurie was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she wrot…
Alison Lurie, American author and academic (died 2020)
Irene Papas or Pappas was a Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years. She gained international recognition through such popular…
Irene Papas, Greek actress (died 2022)
Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay, known professionally as Uttam Kumar, was an Indian actor, director, producer, screenwriter, composer, and playback singer who predominantly worked in Beng…
Uttam Kumar, Indian Bengali actor, director, producer, singer, composer and playback singer (died 1980)