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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known mononymously as Lula, is a Brazilian politician, trade unionist and former metalworker who has served as president of Brazil since 2023 and from 20…
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian union leader and politician, 35 and 39th President of Brazil
Caroline Louise Snodgress was an American actress. She is best remembered for her role in the film Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award…
Carrie Snodgress, American actress (died 2004)
Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger was a Democratic attorney who served as the 18th US National Security Advisor for U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001 after he had served as…
Sandy Berger, American lawyer and politician, 19th United States National Security Advisor (died 2015)
Glyn Geoffrey Ellis, known professionally as Wayne Fontana, was an English rock and pop singer best known for fronting the beat group the Mindbenders, with whom he recorded the hit…
Wayne Fontana, English pop singer (died 2020)
Donald Iverson is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1970s.
Don Iverson, American golfer
Michael William Gallagher is an English Hammond organ, piano and synthesiser player best known as a member of Ian Dury and the Blockheads and for his contributions to albums by the…
Mick Gallagher, English keyboard player and songwriter
Ron Maag is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, serving in the House from 2009 to 2016.
Ron Maag, American businessman and politician
Beatrice Melba Smith, known by her stage name Melba Moore, is an American singer and actress.
Melba Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress
Gerrit Ybema was a Dutch politician in the Democrats 66 (D66) party. He served as a Member of the House of Representatives from 14 September 1989 to 3 August 1998, when he became S…
Gerrit Ybema, Dutch civil servant and politician (died 2012)
Henry Franklin Winkler is an American actor, producer, director, and author. Widely known for playing Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the sitcom Happy Days (1974–1984), Winkler has d…
Henry Winkler, American actor, comedian, director, and producer
Lynne Marta, also credited as Lynn Marta, was an American actress and singer.
Lynne Marta, American actress (died 2024)
Sir John Ambrose Fleming was a British electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the vacuum tube radio transmitter—with which the first transatlantic radio trans…
John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (born 1849)
Otto Moritz Walter Model was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. Although he was a hard-driving, aggressive panzer commander early in the war, Model became best know…
Walter Model, German field marshal (born 1891)
Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of…
Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (born 1867)
Ernst-Robert Grawitz was a German physician and an SS functionary during the Nazi era. Grawitz funded Nazi programs involving experimentation on inmates in Nazi concentration camps…
Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (born 1899)
Ernest Taylor Pyle was an American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for…
Ernie Pyle, American journalist and soldier (born 1900)
Erwin Konrad Eduard Bumke was the last president of the Reichsgericht, the supreme civil and criminal court of the German Reich, serving from 1929 to 1945. As such, according to th…
Erwin Bumke, Polish-German jurist and politician (born 1874)
Wilhelm Cauer was a German mathematician and scientist. He is most noted for his work on the analysis and synthesis of electrical filters and his work marked the beginning of the f…
Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and academic (born 1900)
Huldreich Georg Früh was a Swiss composer.
Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer (born 1903)
Sigmund Rascher was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor. He conducted deadly experiments on humans pertaining to high altitude, freezing and blood coagulation under the patronage of…
Sigmund Rascher, German physician (born 1909)
Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadsky was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military leader and statesman who served as the hetman of the Ukrainian State throughout 1918 following a coup d'état on 29 …
Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (born 1871)
Roberto Farinacci was a leading Italian fascist politician and important member of the National Fascist Party before and during World War II, as well as one of its ardent antisemit…
Roberto Farinacci, Italian soldier and politician (born 1892)
Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany. He was a member of Adolf Hitler's entourage and brother-in-law to Eva Braun through …
Hermann Fegelein, German general (born 1906)
Eva Anna Paula Hitler was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler in Munich in 1929 when she was an assistant an…
Eva Braun, German photographer and office and lab assistant, wife of Adolf Hitler (born 1912)