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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)
Félix-Antoine Savard, was a Canadian priest, academic, poet, novelist and folklorist.
Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author (born 1896)
Anna Wiktoria German-Tucholska was a Polish singer (lirico-spinto), immensely popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and the 1970s. She released over a dozen music …
Anna German, Polish singer (born 1936)
Geoffrey Walter Ashton Chubb was a South African cricketer who played five Test matches for South Africa on the tour of England in 1951 aged 40.
Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (born 1911)
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress. With a career spanning five decades, Bergman is often regarded as one of the most influential actresses in the history of cinema. She won nume…
Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (born 1915)
A. Lehman Engel was an American composer for television, film, and operas and a conductor of Broadway musicals and operas.He was nominated five times and won twice a Tony Award for…
Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor (born 1910)
Haskell Brooks Curry was an American mathematician and computer scientist. Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic. Although its initial concept was based on a paper …
Haskell Curry, American mathematician and academic (born 1900)
Władysław Gomułka was a Polish communist politician. He was the de facto leader of post-war Poland from 1947 until 1948, and again from 1956 to 1970.
Władysław Gomułka, Polish activist and politician (born 1905)
Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos was a Brazilian Catholic laywoman. She served as a Vincentian in her parish, although she never formally joined the movement. In her spare time, she dev…
Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos, Brazilian student; honored by the Catholicism (born 1962)
Jack Tworkov was an American abstract expressionist painter.
Jack Tworkov, Polish-American painter (born 1900)
Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War, who achieved great success despite loss of the lower part of both his l…
Douglas Bader, English captain and pilot (born 1910)
Azra Erhat was a Turkish author, archaeologist, academic, classical philologist, and translator. A pioneer of Turkish Humanism, Azra Erhat is especially well known for her publishe…
Azra Erhat, Turkish archaeologist, author, and academic (born 1915)
Kenton Lloyd Boyer was an American professional baseball third baseman and manager. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, …
Ken Boyer, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1931)