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Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s. He worked with many vocalists a…
Nelson Riddle, American composer, conductor, and bandleader (born 1921)
Cemal Reşit Rey was a Turkish composer, pianist, script writer and conductor. He was well known for a string of successful and popular Turkish-language operettas for which his brot…
Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1904)
Malcolm David Ross was a captain in the United States Naval Reserve (USNR), an atmospheric scientist, and a balloonist who set several records for altitude and scientific inquiry, …
Malcolm Ross, American captain, physicist, and balloonist (born 1919)
William Gordon Welchman was an English mathematician. During World War II, he worked at Britain's secret decryption centre at Bletchley Park, where he was one of the most important…
Gordon Welchman, English-American mathematician and scholar (born 1906)
Emílio Garrastazu Médici was a Brazilian military leader and dictator who was the 28th president of Brazil from 1969 to 1974. His authoritarian rule marked the apex of the Brazilia…
Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian general and politician, 28th President of Brazil (born 1905)
George Orson Welles was an American actor and filmmaker. Remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre, he is considered among the greatest and most influential fi…
Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1915)
Tage Ivar Roland Danielsson was a Swedish author, actor, comedian, poet and film director. He worked together with Hans Alfredson in the comedy duo Hasse & Tage.
Tage Danielsson, Swedish author, actor, and director (born 1928)
Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Russian and Soviet pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. His sister Elizabeth, three years his junior, was a vi…
Emil Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian pianist (born 1916)
Alfred Rouleau, was a Canadian businessman and President of the Fédération du Québec des Caisses Populaires Desjardins, Quebec's largest credit union.
Alfred Rouleau, Canadian businessman (born 1915)
Yuliy Borisovich Briner, known professionally as Yul Brynner, was a Russian and American actor. He was known for his portrayal of King Mongkut in the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage …
Yul Brynner, Russian-American actor (born 1920)
John Leonard Olson was an American radio personality and television announcer. Olson is perhaps best known for his work as an announcer for game shows, particularly the work he did…
Johnny Olson, American radio host and game show announcer (born 1910)
Ricky Helton Wilson was an American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of rock band the B-52s. Born in Athens, Georgia, Wilson was the brother of fel…
Ricky Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1953)
Daniel James White was an American politician who assassinated George Moscone, the 37th mayor of San Francisco, and Harvey Milk, a fellow member of the San Francisco Board of Super…
Dan White, American assassin and politician (born 1946)
Viorica Ursuleac was a Romanian operatic dramatic soprano.
Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano and educator (born 1894)
Richard Ernest Evans, was an American racing driver who won nine NASCAR National Modified Championships, including eight in a row from 1978 to 1985. The International Motorsports H…
Richie Evans, American race car driver (born 1941)
Maurice Roy was a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1947 to 1981. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.
Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (born 1905)
Gary Frederick Holton was an English singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He was the frontman of the band Heavy Metal Kids (1972–1977), worked with Casino Steel (1981–1984), and …
Gary Holton, English singer-songwriter (born 1952)
Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz was a Soviet physicist and brother of the physicist Ilya Lifshitz.
Evgeny Lifshitz, Soviet physicist (born 1915)
Ryan Wayne White was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after his school barred him from attending clas…
Ryan White, an HIV/AIDS patient in the U
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is an anarchist international, leaderless, decentralized movement that emerged in Britain in the 1970s, evolving from the Bands of Mercy. It opera…
The Animal Liberation Front raided a laboratory at the University of California, Riverside, rescuing 467 animals and cau
The 1985 World Snooker Championship final, also known as the black-ball final, was played on the weekend of 27–28 April 1985 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The fina…
The black-ball final, one of the most famous snooker matches in history, began between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor
Black theology, or black liberation theology, refers to a Christian theological perspective that originated among African-American churchmen and scholars, and has since spread to m…
Eleven members of the American Black liberation group MOVE were killed when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped a b
Josef Mengele, often dubbed the "Angel of Death", was a German military officer and physician during World War II at the Soviet front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He…
The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exh
The White House Farm murders took place near the village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, England, during the night of 6–7 August 1985. Nevill and June Bamber were shot and killed insi…
Five members of the Bamber family were found murdered at a farmhouse in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, England.