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Patricia Ethel McDonald known professionally as Miss Patricia McDonald, and subsequently as Pat McDonald was an Australian Gold Logie winning actress of radio, stage and screen, pr…
Pat McDonald, Australian actress (died 1990)
George Davis Wilson Jr. was an American painter best known for his work in the comics industry as a cover artist for Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics from the 1950s to the early 198…
George Wilson, American comics artist (died 1998)
Richard Adler was an American lyricist, writer, composer and producer of several Broadway shows. He is best known for his work with Jerry Ross on the musicals The Pajama Game (1954…
Richard Adler, American composer and producer (died 2012)
Hayden Carruth was an American poet, literary critic and anthologist. He taught at Syracuse University.
Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic (died 2008)
Marvel Marilyn Maxwell was an American actress and singer.
Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (died 1972)
Mitchell Herbert Ellis was an American jazz guitarist. During the 1950s, he was in a trio with pianist Oscar Peterson.
Herb Ellis, American guitarist (died 2010)
Joseph Henri Maurice Richard was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens. He was the first pl…
Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2000)
Terry Becker was an American film and television actor, director and producer.
Terry Becker, American actor, director, and producer (died 2014)
Ricardo Baliardo, better known as Manitas de Plata, was a French flamenco guitarist of Catalan Gitano descent, born in southern France.
Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (died 2014)
Karel Husa was a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. …
Karel Husa, Czech-American composer and conductor (died 2016)
William Milton Asher was an American television and film producer, film director, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directi…
William Asher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
Michael Webb Pierce was an American country music vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist of the 1950s, one of the most popular of the genre, charting more number-one hits than any oth…
Webb Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1991)
Esther Jane Williams was an American competitive swimmer and actress. She set regional and national records in her late teens on the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team. Unable to …
Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (died 2013)
Ernest Winston Angley was an American Christian evangelist, author, and television station owner who was based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio from the 1950s until his death in 2021.
Ernest Angley, American evangelist and author (died 2021)
John James Exon was an American businessman and politician who served as the 33rd governor of Nebraska from 1971 to 1979, and as a United States senator from Nebraska from 1979 to …
J. James Exon, American soldier and politician, 33rd Governor of Nebraska (died 2005)
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the s…
Alex Haley, American historian and author (died 1992)
Louis Joseph Félix Frémaux was a French conductor.
Louis Frémaux, French conductor (died 2017)
James David Walker Jr., better known by his stage name Jimmy McCracklin, was an American pianist, singer, and songwriter. His style contained West Coast blues, Jump blues, and R&B.…
Jimmy McCracklin, American blues/R&B singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2012)
Mary Lee was a Scottish singer, variety performer and broadcaster whose career spanned the 1930s to the 1990s. She achieved early recognition whilst still a teenager as a vocalist …
Mary Lee, Scottish singer (died 2022)
August Marian Kowalczyk was a Polish actor, theatre, television and film director who was the last survivor of a breakout of prisoners from Auschwitz Concentration Camp on 10 June …
August Kowalczyk, Polish actor and director (died 2012)
Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a German-born British political and constitutional historian, specialising in the Tudor period. He taught at Clare College, Cambridge, and was the Re…
Geoffrey Elton, German-English historian and academic (died 1994)
Zdzisław Żygulski was a Polish art historian and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. The son of Zdzisław Żygulski (senior), he was the curator of the Arms and Armour S…
Zdzisław Żygulski, Polish historian and academic (died 2015)
Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak, also known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Historians' estimates for her total victories range from thirteen …
Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (died 1943)
Eugene "Gene" Wesley Roddenberry Sr. was an American television screenwriter and producer who created the science fiction series and fictional universe Star Trek. Born in El Paso, …
Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer (died 1991)