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William Robert (Billy) Haughton was an American harness driver and trainer. He was one of only three drivers to win the Hambletonian four times, the only one to win the Little Brow…
Billy Haughton, American harness racer and trainer (born 1923)
Ede Ulfert Staal was a Dutch singer-songwriter from the Northern province of Groningen who sang mainly in the Gronings dialect.
Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (born 1941)
Fritz Albert Lipmann was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded the Nobel Priz…
Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Qudrat Ullah Shahab was an eminent Urdu writer, civil servant and diplomat from Pakistan.
Qudrat Ullah Shahab, Pakistani civil servant and author (born 1917)
Arthur Floyd Gottfredson was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip, which he worked on from 1930 until his retirement in 1975. His…
Floyd Gottfredson, American author and illustrator (born 1905)
Vincente Minnelli was an American stage director and film director. From a career spanning over half a century, he is best known for his sophisticated innovation and artistry in mu…
Vincente Minnelli, American director and screenwriter (born 1903)
William Averell Harriman was an American politician, businessman, and scion of the wealthy Harriman family. He was a founder of Harriman & Co. which merged with the older Brown Bro…
W. Averell Harriman, American politician and diplomat, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (born 1891)
Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat who served as vice-consul for the Japanese Empire in Kaunas, Lithuania. During the Second World War, Sugihara helped thousands of Jews flee…
Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (born 1900)
Roy Marcus Cohn was an American lawyer and prosecutor. He first gained fame as a prosecutor of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in their trials (1952–1953) and as Senator Joseph McCarthy…
Roy Cohn, American lawyer and politician (born 1927)
Emilio Fernández Romo, nicknamed "El Indio", was a Mexican film director, screenwriter, and actor. He was one of the most prolific and acclaimed film directors of the Golden Age of…
Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1904)
Eoin McNamee was an Irish Republican and Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army.
Eoin McNamee (Irish republican), Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (born 1914)
Evaline Ness was an American commercial artist, illustrator, and author of children's books. She illustrated more than thirty books for young readers and wrote several of her own. …
Evaline Ness, American author and illustrator (born 1911)
Jaime Saenz Guzmán was a Bolivian writer, poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, illustrator, dramaturge, and professor, known best for his narrative and poetic works. His poetry, t…
Jaime Sáenz, Bolivian author and poet (born 1921)
Harun Babunagari was a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, Sufi, and an exegete of the Quran. He was the founder and first Principal of Al-Jamiatul Islamiah Azizul Uloom Babunaga…
Harun Babunagari, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist (born 1902)
Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley was an English actress of theatre, film, and television. She typically played brash, vulgar characters, often referred to as "brassy" or "bl…
Hermione Baddeley, English actress (born 1906)
János Drapál was a Hungarian motorcycle road racer. He had little chance to race in the Grand Prix world championships during the Cold War, but still won four Grand Prix races. Dra…
János Drapál, Hungarian motorcycle racer (born 1948)
Helen Mack was an American actress. She started her career as a child actress in silent films, moving to Broadway plays and touring one of the vaudeville circuits. Her greater succ…
Helen Mack, American actress (born 1913)
Ronald Aird was an English first-class cricketer, cricket administrator and British Army officer. Aird began his first-class cricket career with Hampshire County Cricket Club in 19…
Ronnie Aird, English cricketer and administrator (born 1902)
Viv Thicknesse (1910–1986) was an Australian dual-code rugby half-back, a state representative in both rugby league and rugby union. His rugby league career was spent with the cham…
Viv Thicknesse, Australian rugby player (born 1910)
Milton James Rhode Acorn, nicknamed The People's Poet by his peers, was a Canadian poet, writer, and playwright.
Milton Acorn, Canadian poet and playwright (born 1923)
Mahmut Celâlettin "Celâl" Bayar was a Turkish economist and politician who was the president of Turkey from 1950 to 1960. He previously served as the prime minister of Turkey from …
Celâl Bayar, Turkish lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Turkey (born 1883)
Ted Knight was an American actor known for playing the comic roles of Ted Baxter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Henry Rush in Too Close for Comfort, and Judge Elihu Smails in Caddys…
Ted Knight, American actor (born 1923)
Russell Werner Lee was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression. His images docu…
Russell Lee, American photographer and journalist (born 1903)
Henri Pauli Toivonen was a Finnish rally driver born in Jyväskylä, the home of Rally Finland. His father, Pauli, was the 1968 European Rally Champion for Porsche and his younger br…
Henri Toivonen was killed in an accident while leading the Tour de Corse rally, resulting in FISA banning the popular Gr