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Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle was a Nicaraguan politician, military officer, hydraulic engineer, and dictator who served as the 53rd President of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 a…
Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan commander and politician, 73rd President of Nicaragua (born 1925)
Katherine Anne Porter was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in t…
Katherine Anne Porter, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist (born 1890)
Jacobus Johannes Fouché, also known as J. J. Fouché, was a South African politician who served as the second state president of South Africa from 1968 to 1975.
Jim Fouché, State President of South Africa (born 1898)
Theodor Luts was an Estonian film director and cinematographer, brother of classic writer Oskar Luts. Theodor Luts was the first major figure of Estonian cinematography
Theodor Luts, Estonian-Brazilian director, producer, and cinematographer (born 1896)
John Henry Bonham was an English musician who was the drummer of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Noted for his speed, power, fast single-footed kick drumming, distinctive sound, and fe…
John Bonham, English drummer and songwriter (born 1948)
Lewis Milestone was a Russian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He twice won the Academy Award for Best Director, for Tw…
Lewis Milestone, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1895)
Marie Under was an Estonian poet. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 16 times in 15 separate years.
Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (born 1883)
Harold Alexander Abramson was an American physician, remembered as a proponent of therapeutic LSD. He played a significant role in the CIA's MKULTRA program to investigate the poss…
Harold Alexander Abramson, American physician (born 1889)
Friedrich Karm was an Estonian international footballer who played as a forward and scored 9 goals in 13 games for the Estonia national team. He was also a bandy player.
Friedrich Karm, Estonian footballer (born 1907)
Pyotr Mironovich Masherov was a Soviet partisan, statesman, and one of the leaders of the Belarusian resistance during World War II who governed the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist R…
Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (born 1918)
Hattie Jacques was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen. She is best known as a regular of the Carry On films, in which she typically played strict, no-nonsense cha…
Hattie Jacques, English actress and producer (born 1922)
Jean Robic was a French road racing cyclist who won the 1947 Tour de France. Robic was a professional cyclist from 1943 to 1961. His diminutive stature and appearance was encapsula…
Jean Robic, French cyclist (born 1921)
Mikhail Alekseyevich Lavrentyev was a Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist.
Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (born 1900)
Apostolos Nikolaidis was a Greek athlete, football manager and businessman. He was a leading board member and president of Panathinaikos A.O.
Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (born 1896)
Edwin Way Teale was an American naturalist, photographer and writer. Teale's works serve as primary source material documenting environmental conditions across North America from 1…
Edwin Way Teale, American photographer and author (born 1899)
Johann Friedrich Karl Asperger was an Austrian physician. He studied atypical neurology, specifically in children, and is the namesake of Asperger syndrome. He wrote more than 300 …
Hans Asperger, Austrian physician and psychologist (born 1906)
Pinchas Tibor Rosenbaum was a Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman. One of the heads of the Jewish community in Switzerland, he saved hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust. A…
Tibor Rosenbaum, Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman (born 1923)
Virgil Keel Fox was an American organist, known especially for his years as organist at Riverside Church in New York City, from 1946 to 1965, and his flamboyant "Heavy Organ" conce…
Virgil Fox, American organist and educator (born 1912)
Víctor Emilio Galíndez Torre was an Argentine boxer who was the third Latin American to win the world Light Heavyweight championship, after Puerto Rico's José Torres and Venezuela'…
Víctor Galíndez, Argentine boxer (born 1948)
Abdul Hayee, popularly known by his pen name (takhallus) Sahir Ludhianvi, was an Indian poet who wrote primarily in Urdu in addition to Hindi. He is regarded as one of the greatest…
Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter (born 1921)
Julia Verlyn LaMarsh was a Canadian politician, lawyer, author and broadcaster. In 1963, she became the second woman to serve as a federal Cabinet minister. Under Prime Minister Le…
Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (born 1924)
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and mathematician who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electr…
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Giorgio Borg Olivier was a Maltese politician. He twice served as Prime Minister of Malta and as the Leader of the Nationalist Party. He was also Leader of the Opposition between 1…
Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1911)
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who led Zimbabwe from 1980 until he was deposed in a coup in 2017. He served as the first Prime Minister of Zimb…
Robert Mugabe became the first prime minister of Zimbabwe, beginning a 37-year period in power