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William Alton Carter was an American farmer, businessman and brewer. The younger brother of U.S. President Jimmy Carter, he promoted Billy Beer and Peanut Lolita; and he was a cand…
Billy Carter, American farmer and businessman (born 1937)
Arthur Võõbus was an Estonian theologian, orientalist, scholar, author, professor, and church historian.
Arthur Võõbus, Estonian-American orientalist and scholar (born 1909)
Branislav "Branko" Zebec was a Croatian footballer and manager who played for Yugoslavia.
Branko Zebec, Croatian and Yugoslav football player and coach (born 1929)
Charles Samuel Addams was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters. Some of his recurring characters became known as the Addams Family, and were …
Charles Addams, American cartoonist (born 1912)
Alvah Robert Holbert was an American automobile racing driver who was a five-time champion of the IMSA Camel GT series and the fifth driver to complete the informal triple Crown of…
Al Holbert, American race car driver (born 1946)
Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet, was an English writer, particularly on baroque architecture, and an art and music critic. Sitwell produced some 50 volumes of poetry a…
Sacheverell Sitwell, English author, poet, and critic (born 1897)
Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis was a British-Greek automotive designer. He designed the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and voted the second mo…
Alec Issigonis, English car designer, designed the Mini (born 1906)
Hamengkubuwono IX, 9th Sri Sultan of Yogyakarta, often abbreviated as HB IX, was an Indonesian politician and Javanese royal who was the second vice president of Indonesia, the nin…
Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician, 2nd vice president of Indonesia (born 1912)
Franz Josef Strauss was a German politician. He was the long-time chairman of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) from 1961 until 1988, member of the federal cabinet in dif…
Franz Josef Strauss, Bavarian lieutenant and politician, Minister President of Bavaria (born 1915)
Zlatko Grgić was a Croatian animator who emigrated to Canada in the late 1960s.
Zlatko Grgić, Croatian-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (born 1931)
Felix Heinrich Wankel was a German mechanical engineer and inventor after whom the Wankel engine was named. Wankel joined various radical antisemitic organizations after World War …
Felix Wankel, German engineer, invented the Wankel engine (born 1902)
Bonita Gloria Granville Wrather was an American character actress and producer. The daughter of vaudevillians, Granville began her career on the stage at age three. She began as a …
Bonita Granville, American actress (born 1923)
Ruth Manning-Sanders was an English poet and author born in Wales, known for a series of children's books for which she collected and related fairy tales worldwide. She published o…
Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English poet and author (born 1886)
Maxwell Coburn Whitmore was an American painter and magazine illustrator known for his Saturday Evening Post covers, and a commercial artist whose work included advertisements for …
Coby Whitmore, American painter and illustrator (born 1913)
Edward James "Son" House Jr. was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing.
Son House, American singer and guitarist (born 1902)
Sheila Christine Scott OBE was an English aviator who broke over 100 aviation records through her long-distance flight endeavours, which included a 34,000-mile (55,000 km) "world a…
Sheila Scott, English pilot and author (born 1922)
Beatrice Cynthia Freeman, later Beatrice Feinberg, best-known under the pen name Cynthia Freeman, was an American romance novelist. She was known for multigenerational romances cen…
Cynthia Freeman, American author (born 1915)
Asashio Tarō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Tokunoshima in the Amami Islands. He was the sport's 46th yokozuna. He was also a sumo coach and head of Takasago stabl…
Asashio Tarō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (born 1929)
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was an English composer, music critic, pianist and writer. His music, written over a period of seventy years, ranges from sets of miniatures to works las…
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (born 1892)
George Frederick Joffre Hartree, known professionally as Charles Hawtrey, was an English actor, comedian, singer, pianist and theatre director.
Charles Hawtrey, English actor, singer, and pianist (born 1914)
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was an Indian social reformer. She worked for the promotion of Indian handicrafts, handlooms, and theatre in independent India to uplift the socio-economic…
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian author and activist (born 1903)
Thornton Hee, commonly known as T. Hee, was an American animator, director, and teacher. He taught character design and caricature.
T. Hee, American animator and screenwriter (born 1911)
Florence Nagle was a British trainer and breeder of racehorses, a breeder of pedigree dogs, and an active feminist. Nagle purchased her first Irish Wolfhound in 1913, and went on t…
Florence Nagle, English trainer and breeder of racehorses (born 1894)
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight flown by Aloha Airlines between Hilo and Honolulu in Hawaii. On April 28, 1988, the Boeing 737-297 airplane serv…
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 experienced explosive decompression while airborne between Hilo and Honolulu, Hawaii, with one