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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)
Valeri Borisovich Kharlamov was a Russian ice hockey forward who played for CSKA Moscow in the Soviet League from 1967 until his death in 1981. Kharlamov was a speedy, intelligent,…
Valeri Kharlamov, Russian ice hockey player (born 1948)
Béla Guttmann was a Hungarian footballer and coach, most famously remembered for his manegerial stints at S.L. Benfica. Before the war, he played as a midfielder for MTK Hungária, …
Béla Guttmann, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1899)
Lowell Jackson Thomas was an American writer, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker, known as a world traveler. He authored more than fifty non-fiction books, mostly travel narrat…
Lowell Thomas, American journalist and author (born 1892)
Vera-Ellen was an American dancer, actress, and singer. She is known for her solo performances as well as her work with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Danny Kaye, and Donald O'Connor. S…
Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (born 1921)
Mohammad-Ali Rajai was an Iranian politician who served as the second president of Iran from 2 August 1981 until his assassination four weeks later. Before his presidency, Rajai ha…
Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian politician, 2nd President of Iran (born 1933)
Ann Harding was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress. Harding was a regular on Broadway and on tour in the 1920s. In the 1930s, Harding was one of the…
Ann Harding, American actress (born 1901)
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer was a German architect who served as Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close friend and a…
Albert Speer, German architect and author (born 1905)