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John Richard Basehart was an American actor. Known for his "deep, resonant baritone voice and craggy good looks," he was active in film, theatre and television from 1947 until 1983…
Richard Basehart, American actor and director (born 1914)
Steven Benjamin Goodman was an American folk and country singer-songwriter from Chicago. He wrote the song "City of New Orleans", which was recorded by artists including Arlo Guthr…
Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1948)
James Neil Hamilton was an American stage, film and television actor, best remembered for his role as Commissioner Gordon on the Batman TV series of the 1960s. During his motion pi…
Neil Hamilton, American actor (born 1899)
Walter Davis Pidgeon was a Canadian-American actor. A major leading man during the Golden Age of Hollywood, known for his "portrayals of men who prove both sturdy and wise," Pidgeo…
Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-American actor (born 1897)
Francisco Rivera Pérez, better known as Paquirri, was a Spanish bullfighter. He died after being gored by a bull named Avispado at the Pozoblanco bullring. During his career, he wa…
Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (born 1948)
John Thomas Ralph Augustine James Facenda was an American broadcaster and sports announcer. He was a fixture on Philadelphia radio and television for decades, and achieved national…
John Facenda, American sportscaster (born 1913)
Hronis Exarhakos was a Greek actor.
Chronis Exarhakos, Greek actor (born 1932)
Mustafa Cihad Baban was a Turkish journalist, author and politician. He was a parliamentary deputy in the 1950s and 1960s.
Cihad Baban, Turkish journalist, author, and politician (born 1911)
Vernon "Geater" Davis was an American soul singer and songwriter. He has been described as "one of the South's great lost soul singers, an impassioned stylist whose voice was a com…
Geater Davis, American singer and songwriter (born 1946)
Harold Edward "Hal" Porter was an Australian novelist, playwright, poet, and short story writer. He is known for his 1963 memoir, The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony. The Hal Port…
Hal Porter, Australian novelist, playwright and poet (born 1911)
Walter Emmons Alston, nicknamed "Smokey", was an American professional baseball manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who managed the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1954 thro…
Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (born 1911)
Benno Schotz was an Estonian-born Scottish sculptor, and one of Scotland's leading artists during the twentieth century.
Benno Schotz, Scottish sculptor and engineer (born 1891)
Sir Anthony George Berry was a British Conservative politician. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield Southgate and a Whip in Margaret Thatcher's government.
Anthony Berry, English politician (born 1925)
Jerzy Aleksander Popiełuszko was a Polish Roman Catholic priest who became associated with the opposition Solidarity trade union in communist Poland. He was murdered in 1984 by thr…
Jerzy Popiełuszko, Polish priest and activist (born 1947)
August Rodney Mancuso, nicknamed "Blackie", was an American professional baseball player, coach, scout and radio sports commentator. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball…
Gus Mancuso, American baseball player and coach (born 1905)
Sir Martin Ryle was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources. In 1946 R…
Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
Henri Michaux was a Belgian-born French experimental poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Pari…
Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (born 1899)
Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS was an Austrian-American biochemist and pharmacologist. He, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a …
Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was an English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Dirac laid the foundations for both quantum electro…
Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
François Roland Truffaut was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. Widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave, he came under the tutelage of film critic André B…
François Truffaut, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1932)
Oskar Werner was an Austrian stage and cinema actor who reached international fame. His most prominent roles include two 1965 films, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and Ship of F…
Oskar Werner, Austrian-German actor (born 1922)
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police, Met Police, or the "Met", is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and crim…
Metropolitan Police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embass
"Advance Australia Fair" is the national anthem of Australia. Written by Scottish-born Australian composer Peter Dodds McCormick, the song was first performed as a patriotic song i…
"Advance Australia Fair", written by Scottish-born composer Peter Dodds McCormick, officially replaced "God Save the Que
The boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles followed four years after the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The boycott involved nineteen count…
The Soviet Union announced the boycott of the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, citing security concerns