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James Hoyt Wilhelm, nicknamed "Old Sarge", was an American professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Ind…
Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player and coach (died 2002)
Masutatsu Ōyama, commonly known outside Japan as Mas Oyama, was a Korean-Japanese karateka. He was the founder of Kyokushin Karate, considered the first and most influential style …
Mas Oyama, South Korean-Japanese martial artist (died 1994)
Ray Ellis was an American record producer, arranger, conductor, and saxophonist. He was responsible for the orchestration in Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin (1958).
Ray Ellis, American conductor and producer (died 2008)
George Henry Burditt was an American television writer and producer who wrote sketches for television variety shows and other programs such as Three's Company, for which he was als…
George Burditt, American screenwriter and producer (died 2013)
Edgar Maurice Cortright was a scientist and engineer, and senior official at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States. His most prominent posit…
Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (died 2014)
James Charles Marshall known as The Father of Loud or The Lord of Loud, was an English businessman and pioneer of guitar amplification. His company, Marshall Amplification, founded…
Jim Marshall, English businessman, founded Marshall Amplification (died 2012)
Gordon Mitchell was an American actor and bodybuilder, known for his starring roles in Italian sword-and-sandal and Spaghetti Western films.
Gordon Mitchell, American bodybuilder and actor (died 2003)
Raymond Otis Boone was an American professional baseball infielder and scout who played in Major League Baseball (MLB). Primarily a third baseman and shortstop, he was a two-time A…
Ray Boone, American baseball player (died 2004)
Ahmet Ertegun was a Turkish-American businessman, songwriter, record executive and philanthropist.
Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-American songwriter and producer, founded Atlantic Records (died 2006)
Stephanie Louise Kwolek was a Polish-American chemist known for inventing Kevlar. Her career at the DuPont company spanned more than 40 years.
Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and engineer, invented Kevlar (died 2014)
Shimon Peres was an Israeli politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of Israel from 1984 to 1986 and from 1995 to 1996 and as the president of Israel from 2007 to …
Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli lawyer and politician, 9th President of Israel (died 2016)
Jean Hagen was an American actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain (1952), and for three…
Jean Hagen, American actress (died 1977)
Pope Shenouda III was the 117th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. His papacy lasted 40 years, 4 months, and 4 days, from 14 November 1971 until his death in …
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria (died 2012)
Chengara Veetil Devan Nair was a Singaporean union leader and politician who served as the third president of Singapore from 1981 until his resignation in 1985.
Devan Nair, Malaysian-Singaporean union leader and politician, 3rd President of Singapore (died 2005)
Isiah "Ike" Williams was an American professional boxer known as the Trenton Tornado. He was a lightweight world boxing champion. He took the World Lightweight Championship in Apri…
Ike Williams, American boxer (died 1994)
Jess Collins, known today simply as Jess, was an American visual artist.
Jess Collins, American painter (died 2004)
Paul Theodore Hellyer was a Canadian engineer, politician, writer, and commentator. He was the longest serving member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada at the time of his dea…
Paul Hellyer, Canadian engineer and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Defence (died 2021)
Francis William Doolittle was an American football player and coach. Doolittle attended high school in Mansfield, Ohio, where he was selected as an all-state quarterback in his sen…
Bill Doolittle, American football player and coach (died 2014)
Rhonda Fleming was an American film and television actress and singer. She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most glamor…
Rhonda Fleming, American actress (died 2020)
Frederick Ridgway was an English professional cricketer who played in five Test matches for the England cricket team on the 1951–52 tour of India. Ridgway played county cricket as …
Fred Ridgway, English cricketer and footballer (died 2015)
Sheikh Mohammed Sultan, popularly known as S M Sultan, was a Bengali decolonial artist who worked in painting and drawing. His fame rests on his striking depictions of exaggeratedl…
SM Sultan, Bangladeshi painter and illustrator (died 1994)
Stanley Holroyd "Stan" Chambers was an American television reporter who worked for KTLA in Los Angeles from 1947 to 2010.
Stan Chambers, American journalist and actor (died 2015)
John Kenneth Constantine Holt, known as J. K. Holt junior, OD was a West Indian international cricketer who played in 17 Test matches between 1954 and 1959.
John Holt, Jamaican cricketer (died 1997)
Alice Margaret Ghostley was an American actress and singer on stage, film and television. Ghostley was best known for her roles as bumbling witch Esmeralda (1969–72) on Bewitched, …
Alice Ghostley, American actress (died 2007)