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Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet was a French painter and sculptor of the École de Paris. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so-called "low art" and eschewed traditional s…
Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (born 1901)
Leatrice Joy was an American actress most prolific during the silent film era.
Leatrice Joy, American actress (born 1893)
Richard David Ellmann, FBA, was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S. National Book Aw…
Richard Ellmann, American literary critic and biographer (born 1918)
Jackie Curtis was an American underground actor, singer, and playwright best known as a Warhol superstar. Primarily a stage actor in New York City, Curtis performed as a man and al…
Jackie Curtis, American actress and writer (born 1947)
Abe Burrows was an American writer, composer, humorist, director for radio and the stage, and librettist for Broadway musicals. His versatile career in radio, Broadway, and televis…
Abe Burrows, American director, composer, and author (born 1910)
Margaret Brainard Hamilton was an American character actress, vaudevillian and educator, whose fifty-year career in entertainment spanned theater, film, radio and television. She o…
Margaret Hamilton, American actress (born 1902)
Maqbular Rahman Sarkar, popularly known as M. R. Sarkar, was a Bangladeshi academic who served as the tenth vice-chancellor of the University of Rajshahi.
Maqbular Rahman Sarkar, Bangladeshi academic (born 1928)
Wolfgang Reitherman, also known and sometimes credited as Woolie Reitherman, was a German-American animator, director and producer. As a member of the "Nine Old Men" at Walt Disney…
Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (born 1909)
Gaston Rébuffat was a French alpinist, mountain guide, and author. He is well known as a member of the first expedition to summit Annapurna 1 in 1950 and the first man to climb all…
Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer and author (born 1921)
Richard Marius Joseph Greene was a noted English film and television actor. A matinée idol who appeared in more than 40 films, he was perhaps best known for the lead role in the lo…
Richard Greene, English actor and soldier (born 1918)
Klaudia Taev was an Estonian vocal pedagogue.
Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (born 1906)
Khan Bahadur Abdul Hakim CIE was a Bangladeshi educationist, mathematician and writer. He was the former Dhaka Division school inspector. He was awarded both Khan Sahib and Khan Ba…
Khan Bahadur Abdul Hakim, Bangladeshi mathematician (born 1905)
Andrew William Stanfield was an American sprinter and Olympic gold and silver medallist.
Andy Stanfield, American sprinter (born 1927)
John Edward Boulting and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting, known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their series of…
John Boulting, English director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1913)
Paul Colin born in Nancy, France, died in Nogent-sur-Marne. Colin was a prolific master illustrator of Decorative Arts posters. Alexandre-Marie Colin was a relative.
Paul Colin, French illustrator (born 1892)
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is an anarchist international, leaderless, decentralized movement that emerged in Britain in the 1970s, evolving from the Bands of Mercy. It opera…
The Animal Liberation Front raided a laboratory at the University of California, Riverside, rescuing 467 animals and cau
The 1985 World Snooker Championship final, also known as the black-ball final, was played on the weekend of 27–28 April 1985 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The fina…
The black-ball final, one of the most famous snooker matches in history, began between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor
Black theology, or black liberation theology, refers to a Christian theological perspective that originated among African-American churchmen and scholars, and has since spread to m…
Eleven members of the American Black liberation group MOVE were killed when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped a b
Josef Mengele, often dubbed the "Angel of Death", was a German military officer and physician during World War II at the Soviet front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He…
The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exh
The Korean Martyrs were the victims of religious persecution against Catholics during the 19th century in Korea. Among them are 103 Saints and 124 Blesseds officially recognized by…
One hundred and three Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul
Charles III is King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms.
Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-l
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between people of the same sex or gender. It also denotes identity based on attraction, related behavior…
Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Australian state of New South Wales
Teddy Blass is an American film composer and record producer.
Teddy Blass, American composer and producer
Claire Elizabeth Foy is a British actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix drama series The Crown, for which she received various accolades…
Claire Foy, English actress