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Jay or James Arthur "Jimmy" Rogers was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters's band in the early 195…
Jimmy Rogers, American singer and guitarist (died 1997)
Torsten Nils Wiesel is a Swedish neurophysiologist. With David H. Hubel, he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information pr…
Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Tofilau Eti Alesana was a Samoan politician who served as the fifth prime minister of Samoa from 1982 to 1985, and again from 1988 until his resignation in 1998.
Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, 5th Prime Minister of Samoa (died 1999)
William Sloane Coffin Jr. was an American Christian clergyman and peace activist. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church, and later received ministerial standing in the United …
William Sloane Coffin, American minister and activist (died 2006)
Muthuvel Karunanidhi, popularly known as Kalaignar was an Indian politician, writer and screenwriter who served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for five terms between 1969 and 2011…
Karunanidhi, Indian screenwriter and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (died 2018)
Colleen Rose Dewhurst was a Canadian-American actress mostly known for theatre roles. She was a renowned interpreter of the works of Eugene O'Neill on the stage, and her career als…
Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (died 1991)
Billy Dennis Weaver was an American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death…
Dennis Weaver, American actor and director (died 2006)
Arthur James "Fatso" Donovan Jr., was an American professional football player who was a defensive tackle for three National Football League (NFL) teams, primarily the Baltimore Co…
Art Donovan, American football player and radio host (died 2013)
Billie Dawe was a Canadian amateur ice hockey player. He was a member of the 1950 World Champion team, the Edmonton Mercurys, and captained that team to a gold medal at the 1952 Wi…
Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (died 2013)
Kenneth Neal Waltz was an American political scientist who was a member of the faculty at both the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University and one of the most p…
Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist and academic (died 2013)
Edward George Farhat was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name The Sheik. In wrestling, Farhat, whose career debuted in 1947, is credited as one of the o…
Ed Farhat, American wrestler and manager (died 2003)
Friedrich Ludwig "Fritz" Bauer was a German pioneer of computer science and professor at the Technical University of Munich.
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George Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Bush was Ronald Reagan's vice president from 1981 to 1989. He was the father of G…
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Grete Franke Dollitz was an American classical music radio presenter, classical guitarist, and guitar teacher in Richmond, Virginia. She was born in Germany, and immigrated to the …
Grete Dollitz, German-American guitarist and radio host (died 2013)
Sir James Whyte Black was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Together with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for pione…
James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2010)
Hédi Fried was a Swedish-Romanian-Hungarian author and psychologist. A Holocaust survivor, she passed through Auschwitz as well as Bergen-Belsen, coming to Sweden in July 1945 with…
Hédi Fried, Swedish author and psychologist (died 2022)
Ezer Weizman was an Israeli major general and politician who served as the president of Israel, first elected in 1993 and re-elected in 1998. Before the presidency, Weizman was com…
Ezer Weizman, Israeli general and politician, 7th President of Israel (died 2005)
Faith Marie Domergue was an American film and television actress. Discovered at age 16 by media and aircraft mogul Howard Hughes, she was signed to a contract with Hughes's RKO Rad…
Faith Domergue, American actress (died 1999)
George Lawrence Mikan Jr., nicknamed "Mr. Basketball", was an American professional basketball player for the Chicago American Gears of the National Basketball League (NBL) and the…
George Mikan, American basketball player and coach (died 2005)
Chester Burton Atkins, nicknamed "Mister Guitar" and "the Country Gentleman", was a fingerpicking guitar player, arranger and producer who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson…
Chet Atkins, American guitarist and record producer (died 2001)
Fritz Koenig was a German sculptor, considered one of the most important international German sculptors of the 20th century.
Fritz Koenig, German sculptor and academic, designed The Sphere (died 2017)
Karl Gunnar Vougt Pontus Hultén was a Swedish art collector and museum director. Pontus Hultén is regarded as one of the most distinguished museum professionals of the twentieth ce…
Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and historian (died 2006)
Ezzatollah Entezami, or Ezzatolah Entezami was an Iranian actor.
Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor (died 2018)
Walter Ernest Fawkes, also known as Trog when signing cartoons, was a Canadian-British jazz clarinettist and satirical cartoonist.
Wally Fawkes, British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and satirical cartoonist (died 2023)