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Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, with th…
Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (born 1908)
Donnie Ray Moore was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals (1980), Milwaukee Brewers (1981), Atlanta Braves…
Donnie Moore, American baseball player (born 1954)
Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer was an American actress and model. She began her career as a teen model before moving on to acting. In 1986, she landed the role of Patricia "Patti" Russel…
Rebecca Schaeffer, American model and actress (born 1967)
Donald Barthelme Jr. was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for …
Donald Barthelme, American short story writer and novelist (born 1931)
Lane Clyde Frost was an American professional rodeo cowboy who specialized in bull riding, and competed in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA). He was the 1987 PRCA W…
Lane Frost, American professional bull rider (born 1963)
John Andrew Howard Ogdon was an English pianist and composer.
John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (born 1937)
George Thomas "Mickey" Leland III was an American politician and anti-poverty activist. He served as a congressman from the Texas 18th District and chair of the Congressional Black…
Mickey Leland, American lawyer and politician (born 1944)
John Meillon was an Australian character actor known for dramatic as well as comedy roles. He portrayed Walter Reilly in the films Crocodile Dundee and Crocodile Dundee II. He also…
John Meillon, Australian actor (born 1934)
Aimo Allan Koivunen was a Finnish soldier in the Continuation War and the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on methamphetamine during combat. The case gained more notor…
Aimo Koivunen, Finnish soldier and corporal (born 1917)
William Bradford Shockley was an American physicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were j…
William Shockley, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)
Timothy Lee Richmond was an American race car driver from Ashland, Ohio. He competed in IndyCar racing before transferring to NASCAR's Winston Cup Series. Richmond was one of the f…
Tim Richmond, American race car driver (born 1955)
Larkin Irvin Smith was an American congressman from Mississippi serving for seven months until he was killed in a plane crash in Perry County, Mississippi in 1989.
Larkin I. Smith, American police officer and politician (born 1944)
General Minoru Genda was an Imperial Japanese Navy flight officer, JASDF general and politician. He is best known for helping to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the war he …
Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician (born 1904)
Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos was a distinguished Hellenic Army Lieutenant General who served in World War I, the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, World War II and the Greek Civil War, ri…
Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek general and diplomat (born 1897)
Amanda Blake was an American actress best known for the role of the red-haired saloon proprietress "Miss Kitty Russell" on the Western television series Gunsmoke. Along with her fo…
Amanda Blake, American actress (born 1929)
Raul Santos Seixas was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, considered the "Father of Brazilian Rock". His musical work consists of seventeen albums…
Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (born 1945)
Robert Grondelaers was a road cyclist from Belgium. He won the silver medal in the men's individual road race at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. At the same tournam…
Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (born 1933)
Huey Percy Newton was an African American revolutionary and political activist who co-founded the Marxist–Leninist political and militant organization the Black Panther Party (BPP)…
Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (born 1942)
Mohammed Abdul-Hayy or Muhammad Abd al-Hayy was a member of the first generation of post-colonial Sudanese writers and academics. Together with Ali El-Mak and Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, …
Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese poet and academic (born 1944)
Ronald David Laing, usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness, particularly psychosis and schizophrenia. Politically, Laing …
R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (born 1927)
Irving Stone was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. Among the best known are Lust for Life (1934), abou…
Irving Stone, American author (born 1903)
John Steptoe was an author and illustrator children's books dealing with aspects of the African-American experience. He is best known for Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (1987), which…
John Steptoe, American author and illustrator (born 1950)
Sir Peter Markham Scott was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, h…
Peter Scott, English explorer and painter (born 1909)
Seymour Krim was an American author, editor and literary critic. In the 1950s and '60s, he contributed essays and journalistic pieces to The Village Voice, New York Herald Tribune,…
Seymour Krim, American journalist and critic (born 1922)