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William Everett Justis Jr. was an American pioneer rock and roll musician, composer, and musical arranger, best known for his 1957 Grammy Hall of Fame song, "Raunchy". As a songwri…
Bill Justis, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (born 1926)
Charles Robberts Swart, nicknamed "Blackie", was a South African politician who served as the last governor-general of the Union of South Africa from 1959 to 1961 and the first sta…
Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State President of South Africa (born 1894)
Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian linguist and literary theorist. A pioneer of structural linguistics, Jakobson was one of the most celebrated and influential linguists of the…
Roman Jakobson, Russian–American linguist and theorist (born 1896)
Hugh Everett III was an American physicist who proposed the relative state interpretation of quantum mechanics. This influential approach later became the basis of the many-worlds …
Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (born 1930)
David Cunningham Garroway was an American radio and television host on NBC. He was the host of Garroway at Large from 1949 to 1951, the founding host and anchor of Today from 1952 …
Dave Garroway, American journalist and actor (born 1913)
Victor Harry Morrow was an American actor. Active on screen for over three decades, he made his debut in the drama film Blackboard Jungle (1955). Morrow came to prominence as one o…
Vic Morrow, American actor (born 1929)
Harold Rudolf Foster was a Canadian-American comic strip artist and writer best known as the creator of the comic strip Prince Valiant. His drawing style is noted for its high leve…
Hal Foster, Canadian-American author and illustrator (born 1892)
Keith Gordon Green was an American pianist, singer, songwriter, and musician. Originally from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, Green is known as a pioneer in the Christian conte…
Keith Green, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1953)
Toshiyuki Sakata , known as Harold Sakata, was an American Olympic weightlifter, professional wrestler, and film actor. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London …
Harold Sakata, American wrestler and actor (born 1920)
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing …
Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer, invented the Iconoscope (born 1889)
Thamodarampillai Thirunavukarasu was a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and Member of Parliament.
T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (born 1933)
Bruce Alonzo Goff was an American architect, distinguished by his organic, eclectic, and often flamboyant designs for houses and other buildings in Oklahoma and elsewhere.
Bruce Goff, American architect, designed the Boston Avenue Methodist Church (born 1904)
Eric Brandon was a motor racing driver and businessman. He was closely associated with the Cooper Car Company, and was instrumental in the early development of the company.
Eric Brandon, English racing driver and businessman (born 1920)
Anderson Bigode Herzer was a writer and poet. He died by suicide at the age of 20. The film Vera by Sérgio Toledo is based on Herzer's life.
Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian author and poet (born 1962)
Tom Drake was an American actor. Drake made films starting in 1940 and continuing until the mid-1970s, and also made TV acting appearances.
Tom Drake, American actor and singer (born 1918)
Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Known for his work on screen and stage, he often portrayed characters who e…
Henry Fonda, American actor (born 1905)
Salvador "Sal" Sánchez Narváez was a Mexican professional boxer. Sánchez was the WBC and The Ring featherweight champion from 1980 to 1982. Many of his contemporaries as well as bo…
Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer (born 1959)
Mahāsī Sayādaw U Sobhana was a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and meditation master who had a significant impact on the teaching of Vipassana (insight) meditation in the West and …
Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (born 1904)
Ernest Paul Bushmiller Jr. was an American cartoonist, best known for creating the comic strip character Nancy in 1933, now in print for over 90 years. His work is noted for its si…
Ernie Bushmiller, American cartoonist (born 1905)
John Robert "Jock" Taylor was a Scottish World Champion motorcycle sidecar racer.
Jock Taylor, Scottish motorcycle sidecar racer (born 1954)
Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell was a Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine.
Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
August "Ago" Neo was an Estonian wrestler who won two medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics: a silver medal in the freestyle wrestling and a bronze in Greco-Roman wrestling. His achie…
August Neo, Estonian wrestler (born 1908)
Ulla Jacobsson was a Swedish actress. She had the lead role in One Summer of Happiness (1951) and played the only female speaking role in the film Zulu (1964).
Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (born 1929)
Stanford Moore was an American biochemist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972, with Christian B. Anfinsen and William Howard Stein, for work done at Rockefeller Universit…
Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)