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Shōhei Imamura was a Japanese film director. His main interest as a filmmaker lay in the depiction of the lower strata of Japanese society. A key figure in the Japanese New Wave, …
Shohei Imamura, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)
Jean-Pierre Serre is a French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 195…
Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician and academic
Henry Silva was an American actor, with a film and television career which spanned fifty years. A prolific character actor in over 140 productions, he was known for his "dark, sepu…
Henry Silva, American actor (died 2022)
Eric Gross AM was an Austrian–Australian pianist, composer and teacher.
Eric Gross, Austrian-Australian pianist and composer (died 2011)
John Knowles was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace (1959).
John Knowles, American novelist (died 2001)
Roger Hornsby McKee was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1943–44 for the Philadelphia Phillies while still a teenager.
Roger McKee, American baseball player (died 2014)
William Patton Black Jr. was an American musician and bandleader who is noted as one of the pioneers of rock and roll. He played in Elvis Presley's early trio, the Blue Moon Boys. …
Bill Black, American bass player and bandleader (died 1965)
Robert Harold Schuller was an American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author. Over five decades, Schuller pastored his church in Garden Grove, Californi…
Robert H. Schuller, American pastor and author (died 2015)
Gene Curtis Harrington was an American film and television director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor. He emerged in the experimental film scene of the 1940s and ‘50s, …
Curtis Harrington, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2007)
Hovie Franklin Lister was an American gospel musician, Baptist Minister, and politician. Lister was best known for his time as the front man of the Statesmen Quartet, perhaps the m…
Hovie Lister, American minister and pianist (died 2001)
Jean-Marie Aron Lustiger was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1981 until his resignation in 2005. He was made a cardinal in 1983 by P…
Jean-Marie Lustiger, French cardinal (died 2007)
Eugene McDuffy, known professionally as "Brother" Jack McDuff or "Captain" Jack McDuff, was an American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader. He was most prominent during the ha…
Jack McDuff, American singer and organist (died 2001)
Jonah J. "Bud" Greenspan was an American film director, writer, and producer known for his sports documentaries.
Bud Greenspan, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2010)
Joseph Kubert was a Polish-born American comic book artist, art teacher, and founder of The Kubert School. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and H…
Joe Kubert, American author and illustrator, founded The Kubert School (died 2012)
Victoria Ivanovna Barbă was a Moldovan animated film director, focused on movies for children. Having been born in modern Russia, she studied in Saint Petersburg and then in Chișin…
Victoria Barbă, Moldovan animated film director (died 2020)
Masatoshi Koshiba was a Japanese physicist and one of the founders of neutrino astronomy. His work with the neutrino detectors Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande was instrumental in …
Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)
Louis James Lipton was an American writer, actor, talk show host, and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He was the executive prod…
James Lipton, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2020)
Edwin Donald "Duke" Snider, nicknamed "the Duke of Flatbush", was an American professional baseball player. Primarily a center fielder, he spent most of his Major League Baseball (…
Duke Snider, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2011)
Margarita Andrey was a Spanish film actress. She appeared in a number of female lead roles during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Margarita Andrey, Spanish actress (died 2026)
Libero Liberati was an Italian former professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1952 to 1959, most prominentl…
Libero Liberati, Italian motorcycle racer (died 1962)
Carmen Petra Basacopol was a Romanian composer, pianist, musicologist and academic teacher. She taught at the National University of Music Bucharest, between 1962 and 2003, and at …
Carmen Petra Basacopol, Romanian composer, pianist and musicologist (died 2023)
Donald Allan Dunstan was an Australian politician who served as the 35th premier of South Australia from 1967 to 1968, and again from 1970 to 1979. He was a member of the House of …
Don Dunstan, Fijian-Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of South Australia (died 1999)
Donald Arthur Glaser was an American physicist and biologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for his invention of the bubble chamber.
Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
Fereydoon Moshiri was one of the prominent contemporary Persian poets who wrote poems in both modern and classic styles of the Persian poem.
Fereydoon Moshiri, Iranian poet and critic (died 2000)