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Guy Favreau was a Canadian lawyer, politician and judge.
Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 28th Canadian Minister of Justice (born 1917)
Thomas Simpson was one of Britain's most successful professional cyclists. He was born in Haswell, County Durham, and later moved to Harworth, Nottinghamshire. Simpson began road c…
Tom Simpson, English cyclist (born 1937)
John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century mus…
John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer (born 1926)
Tudor Arghezi was a Romanian writer and political figure, widely considered one of his country's greatest poets. An illegitimate, part-Hungarian child who was purposely vague about…
Tudor Arghezi, Romanian author and poet (born 1880)
John Theodore McNaughton was an American government official who was United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Robert S. McNamara's closes…
John T. McNaughton, United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and an advisor to…
Odell Shepard was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the 86th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.
Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (born 1884)
James Emory Foxx, nicknamed "Double X" and "the Beast", was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphi…
Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1907)
Albert John Luthuli was a South African anti-apartheid activist, traditional leader, and politician who served as the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 u…
Albert Lutuli, South African academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)
Philip St. John Basil Rathbone was an English actor. Born in South Africa and raised in Derbyshire, he rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean stage actor and w…
Basil Rathbone, South African-American actor and singer (born 1892)
Carl August Sandburg was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During…
Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (born 1878)
Konstantinos Parthenis was a Greek painter. Born in Alexandria, part of the Greek community in Egypt, Parthenis broke with the Greek academic tradition of the 19th century and intr…
Konstantinos Parthenis, Egyptian-Greek painter (born 1878)
Tone Peruško, was a Croatian educator, social worker and writer.
Tone Peruško, Croatian educator and social worker (born 1905)
Karl Wendell Richter was an officer in the United States Air Force and an accomplished fighter pilot during the Vietnam War. At the age of 23 he was the youngest pilot in that conf…
Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (born 1942)
Richard Johann Kuhn was an Austrian-German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins".
Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (born 1900)
Walter Terence Stace was a British civil servant, educator, public philosopher and epistemologist, who wrote on Hegel, mysticism, and moral relativism. He worked with the Ceylon Ci…
Walter Terence Stace, English-American epistemologist, philosopher, and academic (born 1886)
Thomas Peter Bromley Smith was an English cricketer, who played for Essex and England. Smith was one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1947. An all-rounder, Smith played…
Peter Smith, English cricketer (born 1908)
John Kingsley "Joe" Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist.
Joe Orton, English author and playwright (born 1933)
Esther Louise Forbes was an American novelist, historian, and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal. She was the first woman elected to membership…
Esther Forbes, American historian and author (born 1891)
Robert Hugh Fearon Anderson was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and racing driver. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1958 to 1960 and in Formula One from …
Bob Anderson, English motorcycle racer and race car driver (born 1931)
René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions abou…
René Magritte, Belgian painter (born 1898)
Hugo Gernsback was a Luxembourgish American editor and magazine publisher whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. For his significant contr…
Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born American author and publisher (born 1884)
Isaac Deutscher was a Polish Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom before the outbreak of World War II. He is best known as a biographer…
Isaac Deutscher, Polish-English journalist and historian (born 1907)
Gregory Goodwin Pincus was an American biologist and researcher who co-invented the combined oral contraceptive pill.
Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (born 1903)
Georges Berger was a racing driver who raced a Gordini in his two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix.
Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (born 1918)