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Helen Mack was an American actress. She started her career as a child actress in silent films, moving to Broadway plays and touring one of the vaudeville circuits. Her greater succ…
Helen Mack, American actress (born 1913)
Ronald Aird was an English first-class cricketer, cricket administrator and British Army officer. Aird began his first-class cricket career with Hampshire County Cricket Club in 19…
Ronnie Aird, English cricketer and administrator (born 1902)
Jaime Saenz Guzmán was a Bolivian writer, poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, illustrator, dramaturge, and professor, known best for his narrative and poetic works. His poetry, t…
Jaime Sáenz, Bolivian author and poet (born 1921)
Harun Babunagari was a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, Sufi, and an exegete of the Quran. He was the founder and first Principal of Al-Jamiatul Islamiah Azizul Uloom Babunaga…
Harun Babunagari, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist (born 1902)
Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley was an English actress of theatre, film, and television. She typically played brash, vulgar characters, often referred to as "brassy" or "bl…
Hermione Baddeley, English actress (born 1906)
Viv Thicknesse (1910–1986) was an Australian dual-code rugby half-back, a state representative in both rugby league and rugby union. His rugby league career was spent with the cham…
Viv Thicknesse, Australian rugby player (born 1910)
Milton James Rhode Acorn, nicknamed The People's Poet by his peers, was a Canadian poet, writer, and playwright.
Milton Acorn, Canadian poet and playwright (born 1923)
Mahmut Celâlettin "Celâl" Bayar was a Turkish economist and politician who was the president of Turkey from 1950 to 1960. He previously served as the prime minister of Turkey from …
Celâl Bayar, Turkish lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Turkey (born 1883)
Ted Knight was an American actor known for playing the comic roles of Ted Baxter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Henry Rush in Too Close for Comfort, and Judge Elihu Smails in Caddys…
Ted Knight, American actor (born 1923)
Russell Werner Lee was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression. His images docu…
Russell Lee, American photographer and journalist (born 1903)
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth was an American writer of fiction and poetry for children and adults. She won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association award recognizi…
Elizabeth Coatsworth, American author and poet (born 1893)
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, often referred to by his initials UKK, was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland from 1956 to 1982. He also s…
Urho Kekkonen, Finnish journalist, lawyer, and politician, 8th President of Finland (born 1900)
Henry Spencer Moore was an English visual artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. Moo…
Henry Moore, English sculptor and illustrator (born 1898)
Murray Hamilton was an American stage, screen and television character actor who appeared in such acclaimed films as The Spirit of St. Louis, Anatomy of a Murder, The Hustler, The …
Murray Hamilton, American actor (born 1923)
Otto Martins Glória was a Brazilian football coach.
Otto Glória, Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1917)
Sarah Blanche Sweet was an American silent film actress who began her career in the early days of the motion picture film industry. Throughout her career, Sweet appeared in 121 sil…
Blanche Sweet, American actress (born 1896)
Leslie Harry Ernest Bury CMG was an Australian politician and economist. He was a member of the Liberal Party and was a senior cabinet minister in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Les Bury, English-Australian public servant and politician, 26th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1913)
Magdalena Maria Yvonne Tagliaferro was a Brazilian pianist.
Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist and educator (born 1893)
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos or Panayotis Kanellopoulos was a Greek writer, politician and Prime Minister of Greece. He was the Prime Minister of Greece deposed by the Greek military j…
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Greek academic and politician, 138th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1902)
Jacques Henri Lartigue was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models.
Jacques Henri Lartigue, French painter and photographer (born 1894)
Charlotte Wolff was a German-British physician who worked as a psychotherapist and wrote on sexology and hand analysis. Her writings on lesbianism and bisexuality were influential…
Charlotte Wolff, German-English psychotherapist and physician (born 1897)
Henry Benjamin Greenberg, nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank", "Hankus Pankus", and "the Hebrew Hammer", was an American professional baseball player and team executive. He played in Major …
Hank Greenberg, American baseball player and manager (born 1911)
Neerja Bhanot was an Indian flight attendant. On 5 September 1986, she saved a large number of passengers on board Pan Am Flight 73, which had been hijacked by four Palestinian ter…
Neerja Bhanot, Indian flight purser, known for her heroic actions on Pan Am Flight 73, during which she was killed…
Mary Noel Streatfeild was an English author, best known for children's books including the "Shoes" books, which were not a series. Random House, the US publisher of the 1936 novel …
Noel Streatfeild, English author (born 1895)