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Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera was a Panamanian military officer, politician, and revolutionary who was the military leader of Panama, as well as the Commander of the Panamanian Nati…
Omar Torrijos, Panamanian general and politician, Military Leader of Panama (born 1929)
Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky was an American playwright and screenwriter. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for writing both Adapted and Original screen…
Paddy Chayefsky, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1923)
William Wyler was a German-born American film director and producer. Known for his work in numerous genres over five decades, he received numerous accolades, including the most nom…
William Wyler, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1902)
Elizabeth Rona was a Hungarian nuclear chemist, known for her work with radioactive isotopes. After developing an enhanced method of preparing polonium samples, she was recognized …
Elizabeth Rona, Hungarian American nuclear chemist (born 1890)
Robert Moses was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid-20th century. Moses is regarded as one of the mo…
Robert Moses, American urban planner, designed the Northern State Parkway and Southern State Parkway (born 1888)
Kevin Lynch was an Irish republican and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) from Park, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The Dungiven hurling team was renamed K…
Kevin Lynch, Irish Republican, died on hunger strike
Kieran Doherty was an Irish republican hunger striker and politician who served as a TD for Cavan–Monaghan from June 1981 to August 1981. He was a volunteer in the Belfast Brigade …
Kieran Doherty, Irish republican, died on hunger strike (born 1955)
Anna Stefanie Nanna Fryland Clausen was a Danish diver. She was a gold medalist at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Stefanie Clausen, Danish diver (born 1900)
Melvyn Douglas was an American actor, whose stage and screen careers spanned from the late 1920s until the early 1980s. He was one of 24 performers to win the Triple Crown of Actin…
Melvyn Douglas, American actor (born 1901)
Gunnar Uusi was an Estonian chess player who won the Estonian Chess Championship six times.
Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (born 1931)
Thomas McElwee was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer who participated in the 1981 hunger strike. From Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, he died at t…
Thomas McElwee, Provisional Irish Republican Army, died on hunger strike (born 1957)
Maximilian Edwin Hoffman, was an Austrian-born, New York-based importer of luxury European automobiles during the 1950s.
Max Hoffman, Austrian-born car importer and businessman (born 1904)
Karl August Leopold Böhm was an Austrian conductor. He was best known for his performances of the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, and Richard Strauss.
Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (born 1894)
Arthur Dudley Nourse was a South African Test cricketer. Primarily a batsman, he was captain of the South African team from 1948 to 1951.
Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (born 1910)
Carol Ryrie Brink was an American writer of over thirty juvenile and adult books. Her novel Caddie Woodlawn won the 1936 Newbery Medal and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.
Carol Ryrie Brink, American author (born 1895)
Jørgen Løvset was a Norwegian professor of medicine, gynecology and obstetrics. He was the son of a farmer Arnt Løvset (1873–1938) and Helle Hove (1870–1911), married Selma Margare…
Jørgen Løvset, Norwegian gynaecologist and academic (born 1896)
Corinne Anita Loos was an American actress, novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 1912, she became the first female staff screenwriter in Hollywood, when D. W. Griffith put her…
Anita Loos, American author and screenwriter (born 1889)
Jessie Margaret Matthews was an English actress, dancer and singer who rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s, with her career continuing into the post-war period.
Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer (born 1907)
Michael James Devine was an Irish militant and Republican activist. He was a volunteer in the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), and the last hunger striker to die during the 1…
Michael Devine, Irish Republican, died on hunger strike (born 1954)
Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar, popularly known as Kaka Kalelkar, was an Indian independence activist, social reformer, journalist and an eminent follower of the philosophy and met…
Kaka Kalelkar, Indian Hindi Writer(born 1885)
Vicente Silva Manansala was a Filipino cubist painter and illustrator. One of the first Abstractionists on the Philippine art scene, Manansala is also credited with bridging the ga…
Vicente Manansala, Filipino painter (born 1910)
Athanasios (Nassos) Kedrakas was a Greek actor.
Nassos Kedrakas, Greek actor and cinematographer (born 1915)
Roger Nash Baldwin was an American author, pacifist, and anti-communist who co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as executive director of the ACLU until …
Roger Nash Baldwin, American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (born 1884)
Lee Elhardt Hays was an American folk singer and songwriter, best known for singing bass with the Weavers. Throughout his life, he was concerned with overcoming racism, inequality,…
Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (born 1914)