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Roberto Assagioli was an Italian psychiatrist in the fields of humanistic and transpersonal psychology. Assagioli founded the psychological movement known as psychosynthesis, which…
Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and author (born 1888)
Alexander Nikolayevich Prokofiev de Seversky was a Russian-American aviation pioneer, inventor, and influential advocate of strategic air power. He was also a World War I flying ac…
Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American pilot and businessman, co-founded Republic Aviation (born 1894)
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, and author. On May 20–21, 1927, he made the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris, a distance of 3,600 m…
Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer (born 1902)
William Pershing Benedict was an American pilot who was born in Ruth, Nevada and raised in California. He was a highly decorated World War II fighter pilot who served in both the R…
William Pershing Benedict, American soldier and pilot (born 1918)
Norman Eric Kirk was a New Zealand politician who served as the 29th prime minister of New Zealand and as well as the minister of Foreign Affairs from 1972 until his sudden death …
Norman Kirk, New Zealand engineer and politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1923)
Harry Partch was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of t…
Harry Partch, American composer and theorist (born 1901)
Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. was a United States Army general who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1972. He was then Chief of Staff of the United Stat…
Creighton Abrams, American general (born 1914)
Gerd Neggo was an Estonian dancer, dance teacher and choreographer. She studied the musical response methods of É. Jaques-Dalcroze, trained under Rudolf von Laban in Hamburg, Germa…
Gerd Neggo, Estonian dancer, dance teacher, and choreographer (born 1891)
Marcel Achard was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly recognizable name in his country's theatrical and lite…
Marcel Achard, French playwright and screenwriter (born 1899)
Lieutenant Charles Henry Arnison was a British World War I flying ace credited with nine aerial victories. He won the Military Cross for valour in World War I, and returned to the …
Charles Arnison, English airman (born 1893)
Lewi Pethrus was a Swedish Pentecostal minister who played a decisive role in the formation and development of the Pentecostal movement in his country. In 1964, he founded the pol…
Lewi Pethrus, Swedish minister and hymn-writer (born 1884)
Olga Vladimirovna Baklanova, known professionally as Olga Baclanova, was a Russian-born actress who found success in Hollywood films, as well as stage roles in the US and the Unite…
Olga Baclanova, Russian-Swiss actress and ballerina (born 1896)
Otto Kruger was an American actor. Originally a Broadway matinée idol, he established a niche as a charming villain in films, such as in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942) and Doug…
Otto Kruger, American actor (born 1885)
Sinnappu Moothathamby Rasamanickam was a Ceylon Tamil politician and Member of Parliament.
S. M. Rasamanickam, Ceylon politician (born 1913)
Wolfgang Windgassen was a German heldentenor internationally known for his performances in Wagner operas.
Wolfgang Windgassen, French-German tenor (born 1914)
Lois Lenore Lenski Covey was a Newbery Medal-winning author and illustrator of picture books and children's literature. Beginning in 1927 with her first books, Skipping Village and…
Lois Lenski, American author and illustrator (born 1893)
Walter Andrew Brennan was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940), mak…
Walter Brennan, American actor (born 1894)
Jacqueline Susann was an American novelist and actress. Her novel Valley of the Dolls (1966) is one of the best-selling books in publishing history. With her two subsequent works, …
Jacqueline Susann, American author and actress (born 1918)
Clifford Charles Arquette was an American actor and comedian. He was best known for performing comedic routines as his alter-ego Charley Weaver on numerous television and radio sho…
Cliff Arquette, American actor and comedian (born 1905)
Robert Broderick James McIntosh was a Scottish drummer from Dundee who was a founder-member of the Average White Band (AWB).
Robbie McIntosh, Scottish drummer (born 1950)
Ustad Amanat Ali Khan was a Pakistani classical vocalist from the Patiala gharana tradition of music and is widely regarded as one of the finest classical and ghazal singers of all…
Amanat Ali Khan, Pakistani classical singer (born 1922)
Silvio Frondizi was an Argentine intellectual and lawyer, brother of President Arturo Frondizi and of the philosopher Risieri Frondizi. He became active in leftist groups, and was …
Silvio Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and academic (born 1907)
Carlos Prats González was a Chilean Army officer and politician. He served as a minister in Salvador Allende's government while Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army. He resigned …
Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician, Chilean Minister of Defense (born 1915)
Spyridon Marinatos was a Greek archaeologist who specialised in the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations of the Aegean Bronze Age. He is best known for the excavation of the Minoan s…
Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist and academic (born 1901)