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Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay was an Indian Bengali language author.
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (born 1894)
Joseph Edward Levine was an American film distributor, financier and producer. At the time of his death, it was said he was involved in one or another capacity with 497 films. Levi…
Joseph E. Levine, American film producer (b, 1905)
Georg Gaßmann was a German politician.
Georg Gaßmann, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (born 1910)
Lieutenant general Ira Clarence Eaker was a general of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Eaker, as second-in-command of the prospective Eighth Air Force, was s…
Ira C. Eaker, American general (born 1896)
Camille Nimr Chamoun was a Lebanese politician and statesman who served as the 2nd president of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958. He was one of the country's main Christian leaders during…
Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (born 1900)
Danilo Blanuša was a Croatian mathematician, physicist, engineer and a professor at the University of Zagreb.
Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician and physicist (born 1903)
Georgios Athanasiadis–Novas was a Greek poet, lawyer and politician who briefly served as Prime Minister in 1965.
Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (born 1893)
Gary Chester was an American studio drummer, author, and teacher. Beginning in the 1960s, he played on hundreds of records for bands such as the Coasters, the Monkees and the Lovin…
Gary Chester, Italian drummer and educator (born 1924)
Shaike Ophir was an Israeli actor, comedian, playwright, screenwriter, director, and the country's first mime.
Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor and screenwriter (born 1929)
Walenty Kłyszejko was an Estonian–Polish basketball coach and player. He was also a professor of physical education at the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsa…
Walenty Kłyszejko, Estonian–Polish basketball player and coach (born 1909)
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a German politician, convicted war criminal, and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Germany. Appointed Deputy to the Führer in 1933, Hess held tha…
Rudolf Hess, German soldier and politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (born 1894)
Joseph Paul Lash was an American radical political activist, journalist, and writer. A close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Lash won both the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Nat…
Joseph P. Lash, American author and journalist (born 1909)
Didier Joseph Louis Pironi was a French racing driver and offshore powerboat racer, who competed in Formula One from 1978 to 1982. Pironi was runner-up in the Formula One World Dri…
Didier Pironi, French race car and boat driver (born 1952)
Malcolm Kirk was an English professional wrestler who went by the ring name of "King Kong" Kirk as well as Kojak Kirk, Killer Kirk and "Mucky" Mal Kirk. He started as a professiona…
Malcolm Kirk, English rugby player and wrestler (born 1936)
John Douglas Claude Goddard OBE was a cricketer from Barbados who captained the West Indies in 22 of his 27 Tests between 1948 and 1957.
John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (born 1919)
Georg Wittig was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He sha…
Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
John Marcellus Huston was an American and Irish filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning five decades, he wrote the screenplays for many of the 37 feature films he directed, many …
John Huston, Irish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1906)
The Simpson family are the titular main characters featured in the animated television series The Simpsons. The Simpsons are a nuclear, dysfunctional family consisting of married c…
The fictional Simpson family made their first appearance in the short "Good Night", aired in a segment of the The Tracey
The USS Stark incident occurred during the Iran–Iraq War in the Persian Gulf on 17 May 1987, when an Iraqi jet aircraft fired two Exocet missiles at the U.S. frigate USS Stark. A t…
An Iraqi jet fired two Exocet missiles at the American frigate USS Stark, killing 37 personnel and injuring 21 others
Intelligence assessment is a specific phase of the intelligence cycle which oversees the development of behavior forecasts or recommended courses of action to the leadership of an …
American intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard pleaded guilty to charges of spying for Israel
The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army. It was founded as a regiment in 1941 by David Stirling, and in 1950 it was reconstituted as a corps. The…
A British Special Air Service unit ambushed a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit in Loughgall, Northern Irelan
Religious violence in India includes acts of violence by followers of one religious group against followers and institutions of another religious group, often in the form of ri…
During Hindu–Muslim rioting in Meerut, India, 19 members of the Provincial Armed Constabulary allegedly massacred 42 Mus
Mathias Rust is a German aviator. In 1987, as a teenage amateur pilot, he flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, without authorization. According to Russian claims, he was tracked…
Mathias Rust, a West German aviator, flew his Cessna 172 from Helsinki, Finland, through Soviet air defences, landing il
The June Democratic Struggle, also known as the June Democracy Movement and the June Uprising, was a nationwide pro-democracy movement in South Korea that generated mass protests f…
Mass protests demanding direct presidential elections broke out across South Korea