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Gordon Eugene Smiley was an American race car driver who was killed in a single-car crash at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He was inducted into the Nebraska Auto Racing Hall of …
Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (born 1946)
Ahmet Cevdet Sunay was a Turkish politician and military officer who served as the president of Turkey from 1966 to 1973.
Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (born 1899)
Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Jones,, known as H. Jones, was a British Army officer and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC). He was awarded the VC after being killed in ac…
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Rosemarie Magdalena Albach, known professionally as Romy Schneider, was a German and French actress. She is regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses of all time and became …
Romy Schneider, German-French actress (born 1938)
Albert Norden was a German communist politician, academic and journalist who held several senior positions in the ruling Socialist Unity Party of East Germany from the 1950s until …
Albert Norden, German journalist and politician (born 1904)
Carlo Mauri was an Italian mountaineer and explorer. Mauri was born in Lecco. Among his early climbs in the Alps two stand out: the first winter ascent of the via Comici route on t…
Carlo Mauri, Italian mountaineer and explorer (born 1930)
Fazal Elahi Chaudhry was a Pakistani barrister, politician and statesman who served as the fifth president of Pakistan from 1973 until his resignation in 1978, due to Zia-ul-Haq's …
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th President of Pakistan (born 1904)
Shah Abdul Wahhab was a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, educator, jurist, and spiritual leader. He served as the second rector of Darul Uloom Hathazari, primarily participati…
Shah Abdul Wahhab, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (born 1894)
Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwor…
Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and academic (born 1905)
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB). His career spanned five decades and …
Satchel Paige, American baseball player (born 1906)
Ian John McKay, VC was a British Army soldier and a posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to Brit…
Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1953)
Karl Ritter von Frisch was a German-Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz.
Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
James Honeyman-Scott was an English guitarist, songwriter and founding member of the rock band the Pretenders.
James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1956)
Roberto Calvi was an Italian banker, dubbed "God's Banker" by the press because of his close business dealings with the Holy See. He was a native of Milan and was chairman of Banco…
Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (born 1920)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker, dramatist and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of th…
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1945)
Howard Radclyffe Roberts Jr. was an American entomologist known for his work on grasshoppers. His 1941 University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. dissertation was an early work highlighting …
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Djuna Barnes was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an importan…
Djuna Barnes, American novelist, journalist, and playwright (born 1892)
John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manha…
John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (born 1912)
Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was best known for playin…
Curd Jürgens, German-Austrian actor and director (born 1915)
Alexander Harbord Mitscherlich was a German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (born 1908)
Pierre Alexandre Claudius Balmain was a French fashion designer and founder of leading post-war fashion house Balmain. Known for sophistication and elegance, he described the art o…
Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer, founded Balmain (born 1914)
Henry King was an American actor and film director. Widely considered one of the finest and most successful filmmakers of his era, King was nominated for two Academy Awards for Bes…
Henry King, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1886)
Bhakti Hridaya Bon, also known as Swami Bon, was a disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and a guru in the Gaudiya Math following the philosophy of bhakti, specifically that of Cai…
Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious writer (born 1901)
Kenneth Gilbert More was an English actor.
Kenneth More, English actor (born 1914)