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Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was an American actor. He was known for his natural performing style and versatility. One of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tracy was the firs…
Spencer Tracy, American actor (born 1900)
"Geki" was the racing pseudonym of Giacomo Russo, who was a racing driver from Italy. An experienced driver in the Italian lower formulae, he also participated in three Formula One…
Geki, Italian race car driver (born 1937)
Claude Beat Fehr was a Swiss racing driver.
Beat Fehr, Swiss race car driver (born 1942)
Theodore Sizer was an American professor of the history of art at Yale University and a director of the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. He was named the firs…
Theodore Sizer, American professor of the history of art (born 1892)
Françoise Paulette Louise Dorléac was a French actress. She was the elder sister of Sylvie Dorléac and Catherine Deneuve, with whom she starred in the musical comedy film, The Youn…
Françoise Dorléac, French actress and singer (born 1942)
Jaan Lattik was an Estonian politician, writer and a former Estonian Minister of Education and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia.
Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (born 1878)
Primo Carnera was the first Italian Heavyweight Champion boxer, holding the title from 1933 to 1934. Nicknamed the Ambling Alp, he was best known for his immense size and status as…
Primo Carnera, Italian boxer and actor (born 1906)
Jayne Mansfield was an American actress, Playboy Playmate, and singer. Mansfield was a sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s, and was known for her numerous publicity stunts, her…
Jayne Mansfield, American actress (born 1933)
Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter was a German historian who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956. He studied under Professor Hermann Oncken…
Gerhard Ritter, German historian and academic (born 1888)
Eugen Fischer was a German professor of medicine, anthropology, and eugenics, and a member of the Nazi Party. He served as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology,…
Eugen Fischer, German physician and academic (born 1874)
Fatima Jinnah was a Pakistani politician, stateswoman, author, and activist. She was the younger sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder and first governor-general of Pakistan.
Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani dentist and politician (born 1893)
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)
Hilda Taba was an architect, a curriculum theorist, a curriculum reformer, and a teacher educator. Taba was born in the small village of Kooraste, Estonia. Her mother's name was Li…
Hilda Taba, Estonian architect and educator (born 1902)
Vivian Mary Olivier, known professionally as Vivien Leigh and styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress. After completing her drama school education, Leigh appeared …
Vivien Leigh, British actress (born 1913)
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 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)