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Kai Chresten Winding was a Danish-born American trombonist and jazz composer. He is known for his collaborations with fellow trombonist J. J. Johnson. His version of "More", the th…
Kai Winding, Danish-American trombonist and composer (born 1922)
Ezra Jack Keats was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He is best known for The Snowy Day, which won the 1963 Caldecott Medal and is considered one of the most…
Ezra Jack Keats, American author and illustrator (born 1916)
John Fante was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust (1939) about the life of Arturo Bandini…
John Fante, American author and screenwriter (born 1909)
Brigadier Henry Bachtold, was an Australian soldier and railway engineer. He fought during the First World War as an engineer with the 1st Field Company at the Gallipoli Campaign, …
Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer (born 1891)
Zenna Chlarson Henderson was an American elementary school teacher and science fiction and fantasy author. Her first story was published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fictio…
Zenna Henderson, American writer (born 1917)
Roger John Traynor was an American lawyer who served as Chief Justice of California from 1964 to 1970 and was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from 1940 to 1…
Roger J
Miguel Alemán Valdés was a Mexican politician who served a full term as the President of Mexico from 1946 to 1952. He was the first civilian president after a string of revolutiona…
Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican politician, 46th President of Mexico (born 1900)
Jean Rey was a Belgian Liberal politician who served as the second president of the European Commission from 1967 to 1970. He served as European Commissioner for External Relations…
Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (born 1902)
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark was a British art historian, museum director and broadcaster. His expertise covered a wide range of artists and periods, but he is particularly…
Kenneth Clark, English historian and author (born 1903)
Erna Scheffler was a German senior judge.
Erna Scheffler, German lawyer and justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (born 1893)
Ahmet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek was a Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, Islamist ideologue, and conspiracy theorist. He is also known simply by his initials NFK. He was noticed by th…
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (born 1904)
Albert Claude was a Belgian-American cell biologist and medical doctor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade. H…
Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Idris was King of Libya from 24 December 1951 until his ousting in the 1 September 1969 coup d'état. He ruled over the United Kingdom of Libya from 1951 to 1963, after which the co…
Idris of Libya (born 1889)
John Sherratt Stewart was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was a defenceman for 12 National Hockey League (NHL) seasons for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Haw…
Jack Stewart, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1917)
Erastus Corning 2nd was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician who served as the 72nd mayor of Albany, New York from 1942 to 1983, when Albany County was controlle…
Erastus Corning 2nd, American soldier and politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (born 1909)
Arvīds Pelše was a Latvian Soviet politician, functionary, and historian.
Arvīds Pelše, Latvian-Russian historian and politician (born 1899)
William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey, nicknamed Kid Blackie and The Manassa Mauler, was an American boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and was world heavyweight champion from 1919 to…
Jack Dempsey, American boxer and lieutenant (born 1895)
Prince Charles, Count of Flanders was a member of the Belgian royal family who served as regent of Belgium from 1944 until 1950, while a judicial commission investigated his elder …
Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (born 1903)
Anna Reiling, known by the pen name Anna Seghers, was a German writer. She was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish …
Anna Seghers, German writer (born 1900)
Stanley Allison Rogers was a Canadian folk musician and songwriter who sang traditional-sounding songs frequently inspired by Canadian history and the working people's daily lives,…
Stan Rogers, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1949)
Raymond Ernest Stehr was an Australian rugby league footballer, a state and national representative player whose club career was played at Sydney's Eastern Suburbs club. He has bee…
Ray Stehr, Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1913)
Hans Leip was a German novelist, poet and playwright, best remembered as the lyricist of Lili Marleen.
Hans Leip, German author, poet, and playwright who wrote the lyrics of Lili Marleen (born 1893)
Ghanshyam Das Birla was an Indian businessman and member of the Birla Family.
Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian businessman and politician (born 1894)
Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress who was active on film from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women. She appeared in adaptation…
Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (born 1902)