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Dennis Franz Schlachta, known professionally as Dennis Franz, is a retired American actor best known for his role as NYPD Detective Andy Sipowicz in the ABC television series NYPD …
Dennis Franz, American actor
Anton Kut Schlecker is a German businessman, founder and owner of the Schlecker drug store chain in Germany.
Anton Schlecker, German businessman, founded the Schlecker Company
Claude Brochu, CM, is a Canadian businessman best known as former president and principal owner of the Montreal Expos.
Claude Brochu, Canadian businessman
Mehmet Haberal, is the founder of Başkent University in Ankara, Turkey, best known for becoming the first transplant surgeon in Turkey after leading the team that performed Turkey'…
Mehmet Haberal, Turkish surgeon and academic
Brian Frederick Hines, known professionally as Denny Laine, was an English musician who co-founded two major rock bands: the Moody Blues and Paul McCartney and Wings. Laine played …
Denny Laine, English singer-songwriter and musician (died 2023)
Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi was an Iraqi politician and founder of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) who served as the President of the Governing Council of Iraq and a Deputy Prime Mi…
Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi businessman and politician (died 2015)
John Thomas Hearne was a Middlesex and England medium-fast bowler. His aggregate of 3061 first-class wickets is the greatest for any bowler of medium pace or above, and his 257 wic…
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Robbie van Leeuwen is a Dutch musician who was a guitarist, sitarist, background vocalist and main songwriter for multiple Dutch bands, including The Motions and Shocking Blue, wit…
Robbie van Leeuwen, Dutch musician and songwriter
Dimitrios Psarros was a Greek army officer, founder and leader of the resistance group National and Social Liberation (EKKA), the third-most significant organization of the Greek R…
Dimitrios Psarros, Greek lieutenant, founded the National and Social Liberation (born 1893)
Elmer John Gedeon was an American professional baseball player, appearing in several games for the Washington Senators in 1939. Gedeon and Harry O'Neill were the only two Major Lea…
Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot (born 1917)
Charles Thorton Jordan was an American magician.
Charles Jordan, American magician (born 1888)
George Joseph Herriman III was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Krazy Kat (1913–1944). More influential than popular, Krazy Kat had an appreciative audience am…
George Herriman, American cartoonist (born 1880)
Anthony John Mullane, nicknamed "Count" and "the Apollo of the Box", was an Irish professional baseball player who pitched for seven major-league teams during 1881–1894. He is best…
Tony Mullane, Irish-American baseball player (born 1859)
William Dennison Stephens was an American federal and state politician. A three-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1911 to 1916, Stephens was the 24th governor o…
William Stephens, American engineer and politician, 24th Governor of California (born 1859)
Violette Morris was a French athlete and Nazi collaborator who won two gold and one silver medal at the Women's World Games in 1921–1922. She was later banned from competing for vi…
Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (born 1893)
Emir Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan was the last emir of the Uzbek Manghit dynasty, rulers of the Emirate of Bukhara in Central Asia. Although Bukhara was a protectorate of the Russ…
Mohammed Alim Khan, Manghud ruler (born 1880)
William Franklin Knox was an American politician, soldier, newspaper editor, and publisher. He was the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1936 and Secretary of the Navy unde…
Frank Knox, American journalist and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1874)
Gottfried Wilhelm Bitzer was an American cinematographer, notable for his close association and work with D. W. Griffith.
Billy Bitzer, American cinematographer (born 1872)
Pyotr Solomonovich Stolyarsky was a Soviet violinist and eminent pedagogue, honored as People's Artist of UkSSR (1939). He was a member of CPSU from 1939.
Pyotr Stolyarsky, Soviet violinist (born 1871)
Napoleon Soukatzidis was a Greek communist, trade unionist and one of the 200 prisoners executed at the firing range of the Athens suburb of Kaisariani by the Nazi occupation force…
Napoleon Soukatzidis, Greek communist and trade unionist (born 1909)
Themistoklis Diakidis was a Greek track and field athlete who competed in the high jump.
Themistoklis Diakidis, Greek high jumper (born 1882)
Han Yong-un was a twentieth century Korean Buddhist reformer, poet, and independence activist against colonial rule. This name was his religious name, given by his meditation instr…
Han Yong-un, Korean poet and social reformer (born 1879)
Frederick Schiller Faust was an American writer known primarily for his Western stories using the pseudonym Max Brand. As Max Brand, he also created the popular fictional character…
Max Brand, American journalist and author (born 1892)
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a British writer and literary critic who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monument…
Arthur Quiller-Couch, English author, poet, and critic (born 1863)