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Sandy Baron was an American actor and comedian who performed on stage, in films, and on television. He is best known for his recurring role of Jack Klompus on the NBC sitcom Seinfe…
Sandy Baron, American actor and comedian (died 2001)
Sir Anthony John Francis O'Reilly was an Irish businessman and international rugby union player. He was known for his try scoring in rugby, his involvement in the Independent News …
Tony O'Reilly, Irish rugby player and businessman (died 2024)
Albert Finney was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining fame for film acting during the early 1960s, debuting w…
Albert Finney, English actor (died 2019)
Guillermo David Endara Galimany was a Panamanian politician who served as the president of Panama from 1989 to 1994.
Guillermo Endara, Panamanian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Panama (died 2009)
Thomas James Snyder was an American television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows Tomorrow, on NBC in the 1970s and 1980s, and…
Tom Snyder, American journalist and talk show host (died 2007)
Walden Robert Cassotto, known by the stage name Bobby Darin, was an American singer, songwriter, and actor who performed pop, swing, folk, rock and roll and country music.
Bobby Darin, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 1973)
Richard Dalton Howser was an American Major League Baseball shortstop, coach, and manager who was best known as the manager of the Kansas City Royals during the 1980s and for guidi…
Dick Howser, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1987)
Glenda May Jackson was an English actress and politician. Over the course of her distinguished career she received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Emmy Award…
Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician (died 2023)
Frank Philip Stella was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He lived and worked in New York…
Frank Stella, American painter and sculptor (died 2024)
Anna Maria Alberghetti is an American actress and soprano. Alberghetti sang in concert from the time she was a child and performed at Carnegie Hall at age 13.
Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-American actress and singer
Mart Laga was an Estonian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the EuroBasket 1955 and EuroBasket 1957 events.
Mart Laga, Estonian basketball player (died 1977)
Ralph Idris Steadman is a Welsh illustrator and collaborator with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman draws satirical political cartoons, social caricatures, and pictu…
Ralph Steadman, English painter and illustrator
Paul Zindel Jr. was an American playwright, young adult novelist, and educator.
Paul Zindel, American playwright and novelist (died 2003)
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. He is considered one of the key figures of the New Hollywood era. He earned prizes from the Cann…
Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (died 2010)
Leon Walton, better known by his stage name Leon Ashley, was an American country music singer. He is known mainly for his single "Laura ", which topped the country singles charts i…
Leon Ashley, American singer-songwriter (died 2013)
Türker İnanoğlu was a Turkish screenwriter, film director and producer.
Türker İnanoğlu, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2024)
Michael Sandle is a British sculptor and artist. His works include several public sculptures, many relating to themes of war, death, or destruction.
Michael Sandle, English sculptor and academic
Karl Lehmann was a German prelate and cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mainz from 1983 to 2016, being elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.
Karl Lehmann, German cardinal (died 2018)
Anthony Jared Zerbe is an American actor. After pursuing an interest in theater in his early years, including a stint at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City, he enli…
Anthony Zerbe, American actor
Günter Blobel was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their tran…
Günter Blobel, Polish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)
George Harry Heilmeier was an American engineer, manager, and a pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays (LCDs), for which he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall…
George H
Ingeborg Hallstein is a German coloratura soprano, known for the purity and range of her voice. She had an international career as a guest singer on the opera houses of Europe and …
Ingeborg Hallstein, German soprano and actress
Charles Mayberry Kimbrough was an American actor. He was best known for his role as the straight-faced anchorman Jim Dial on Murphy Brown. In 1990, his performance in the role earn…
Charles Kimbrough, American actor (died 2023)
Harold Montgomory Budd was an American composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles and raised in the Mojave Desert, he became a respected composer in the minimal music and avant-garde s…
Harold Budd, American composer and poet (died 2020)