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Leroy "Roy" Buchanan was an American guitarist and blues rock musician. A pioneer of the "Telecaster sound", Buchanan worked as a sideman and as a solo artist, with two gold albums…
Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939)
Robert Newton Calvert was a South African-British writer, poet, and musician. He is principally known for his role as lyricist, performance poet and lead vocalist of the space rock…
Robert Calvert, South African-English singer-songwriter and playwright (born 1945): 1712
Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari was an Italian racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of Scuderia Ferrari in Grand Prix motor racing, and subsequently of the Ferrari autom…
Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (born 1898)
Victoria Shaw was an Australian film and television actress.
Victoria Shaw, Australian actress (born 1935)
Teodoro "Teddy" de Villa Diaz was a Filipino musician and songwriter, best known as the founder and original guitarist of the Dawn.
Teodoro de Villa Diaz, Filipino guitarist and songwriter (born 1963)
Carlos Manuel de Marques Paião was a singer and songwriter from Portugal. He represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 with the song "Playback". Carlos Paião was als…
Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (born 1957)
Jean Marchand was a Québécois public figure, trade unionist and politician in Quebec, Canada.
Jean Marchand, Canadian union leader and politician, 43rd Secretary of State for Canada (born 1918)
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq was a Pakistani general who ruled Pakistan from his coup in 1977 until his death in an airplane crash in 1988. He served as the chief martial law administrator …
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan (born 1924)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman. He served as a United States congressman from New York from 1949 to 1955 and in 1963 was appointe…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician (born 1914)
Charles Eames Jr. and Ray-Bernice Eames were an American married couple of industrial designers who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architect…
Ray Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (born 1912)
Arthur Joseph Rooney Sr., often referred to as "the Chief", was an American professional football executive. He was the founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, an American footb…
Art Rooney, American businessman, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers (born 1901)
Maximilian Shulman was an American writer and humorist best known for his television and short story character Dobie Gillis, as well as for best-selling novels.
Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (born 1919)
Marion Price Daniel Sr. was an American jurist and politician who served as a U.S. senator and the 38th governor of Texas. A member of the Democratic Party, he was appointed by Pre…
Price Daniel, American politician, 38th Governor of Texas (born 1910)
Sir John Ross Marshall was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He entered Parliament in 1946 and was first promoted to Cabinet in 1951. After spending eleven years as t…
Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1912)
Luis Walter Alvarez was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in part…
Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
Ferit Sadi Melen was a Turkish civil servant, politician and Prime Minister of Turkey.
Ferit Melen, Turkish civil servant and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1906)
Roland C. Daniels, better known by his ring name "Bad Bad" Leroy Brown, was an American professional wrestler. He took his ring name from the Jim Croce song "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown",…
Leroy Brown, American wrestler (born 1950)
Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe was a German actor who appeared in over 100, mostly German-produced films. He was best known in English-speaking countries for his work as the title chara…
Gert Fröbe, German actor and singer (born 1913)
Sedad Hakkı Eldem was a Turkish architect known as a proponent of nationalized modern architecture in Turkey.
Sedad Hakkı Eldem, Turkish architect (born 1908)
Virginia Satir was an American author, clinical social worker and psychotherapist, recognized for her approach to family therapy. Her pioneering work in the field of family reconst…
Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (born 1916)
Charles Roger Hargreaves was an English cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books. He created the Mr. Men, Little Miss and Timbuctoo series;, intended for young reader…
Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator (born 1935)
Sir Alan Stewart Watt was an Australian diplomat.
Alan Watt, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian Ambassador to Japan (born 1901)
Syed Muhammad Mahdi, commonly known as Rais Amrohvi, was a Pakistani Urdu poet, paranormal investigator and psychoanalyst. He was known for his style of qatanigari. He wrote quatra…
Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani psychoanalyst, scholar, and poet (born 1914)
Tibor Sekelj, also known as Székely Tibor according to Hungarian orthography, was a Hungarian born polyglot, explorer, author, and 'citizen of the world.' In 1986 he was elected a …
Tibor Sekelj, Hungarian-Serbian explorer and author (born 1912)