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Tage Fritjof Erlander was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden and leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1946 to 1969. During his record-l…
Tage Erlander, Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (born 1901)
Haruo Ignacio Remeliik was the first President of Palau from 2 March 1981 until his assassination on 30 June 1985. He is buried at Kloulklubed in his home state of Peleliu. Remelii…
Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (born 1933)
Francis Joseph Aloysius Selke was a Canadian professional ice hockey executive in the National Hockey League. He was a nine-time Stanley Cup champion with the Toronto Maple Leafs a…
Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (born 1893)
Phil Foster was an American actor and performer, best known for his portrayal of Frank DeFazio in Laverne & Shirley.
Phil Foster, American actor and screenwriter (born 1913)
Lynd Kendall Ward was an American artist and novelist, known for his series of wordless novels using woodcuts, and his illustrations for juvenile and adult books. His wordless nove…
Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator (born 1905)
Jean-Paul Étienne Dreyfus, better known as Jean-Paul Le Chanois, was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. His film ...Sans laisser d'adresse won the Golden Bear (Comedie…
Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1909)
Charlotte was Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 14 January 1919 until her abdication on 12 November 1964. Her reign is the longest of any Luxembourgish monarch since 1815 when the c…
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (born 1896)
James Patrick Kinnon, commonly known as Jimmy Kinnon or "Jimmy K.", was one of the primary founders of Narcotics Anonymous (NA), a worldwide fellowship of recovering addicts. Dur…
Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish-American activist, founded Narcotics Anonymous (born 1911)
Fernando Pereira was a Portuguese-Dutch freelance photographer, who drowned when French intelligence (DGSE) detonated a bomb and sank the Rainbow Warrior, owned by the environmenta…
Fernando Pereira, Dutch photographer (born 1950)
Heinrich Theodor Böll was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post–World War II writers, Böll received the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Lite…
Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
Harold Wayne King was an American musician, songwriter, and bandleader with a long association with both NBC and CBS. He was referred to as "the Waltz King" because much of his mos…
Wayne King, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (born 1901)
Janusz Andrzej Zajdel was a Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland to Stanisław Lem. His major genres were social science fiction and dystopia. His main recu…
Janusz Zajdel, Polish author (born 1938)
Johnny Wardle was an English spin bowling cricketer whose Test Match career lasted between 1948 and 1957. His Test bowling average of 20.39 is the lowest in Test cricket by any rec…
Johnny Wardle, English cricketer and manager (born 1923)
Ezechiele "Lele" Ramin, MCCJ was an Italian Comboni missionary and artist. He was described as a martyr of charity by Pope John Paul II after his murder in Brazil while defending t…
Ezechiele Ramin, Italian missionary and martyr (born 1953)
Howard Ellsworth "Smoky Joe" Wood was an American professional baseball player for 14 years. He played for the Boston Red Sox from 1908 to 1915, where he was primarily a pitcher, a…
Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball player and coach (born 1889)
Julia Hall Bowman Robinson was an American mathematician noted for her contributions to the fields of computability theory and computational complexity theory—most notably in decis…
Julia Robinson, American mathematician and theorist (born 1919)
Eugene Carson Blake was an American Presbyterian Church leader.
Eugene Carson Blake, American religious leader (born 1906)
Donald Desbrow Whillans was an English rock climber and mountaineer. He climbed with Joe Brown and Chris Bonington.
Don Whillans, English rock climber and mountaineer (born 1933)
Arnold Horween was an American football player and coach. He played and coached both collegiately for Harvard University and professionally in the National Football League (NFL).
Arnold Horween, American football player and coach (born 1898)
Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham was a Guyanese politician and the leader of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana from 1964 until his death in 1985. He served as Premier of British Gui…
Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 2nd President of Guyana (born 1923)
Grayson Hall was an American actress. She was widely regarded for her avant-garde theatrical performances from the 1960s to the 1980s, and was known to television audiences for pla…
Grayson Hall, American actress (born 1922)
Mary Louise Brooks was an American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helpe…
Louise Brooks, American actress (born 1906)
Clive Bernard Churchill AM was an Australian professional rugby league footballer and coach in the mid-20th century. An Australian international and New South Wales and Queensland …
Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1927)
Nathan Robert Barragar was an American collegiate and professional football player.
Nate Barragar, American football player and sergeant (born 1906)