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Michel Raymond "Bunny" Larocque was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers and St. Louis Blue…
Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (born 1952)
Brenda Marshall was an American film actress.
Brenda Marshall, Filipino-American actress and singer (born 1915)
Joseph Shuster was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with Jerry Siegel, in Action Comics #1.
Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (born 1914)
Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire was a British Royal Air Force pilot, officer and philanthropist.
Leonard Cheshire, English captain and pilot (born 1917)
Michel Jean Hamburger, known professionally as Michel Berger, was a French singer and songwriter. He was a figure of France's pop music scene for two decades as a singer. As a song…
Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter and producer (born 1947)
Wang Hongwen was a Chinese politician who was the youngest member of the Gang of Four. He rose to prominence during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), after organizing the Shangh…
Wang Hongwen, Chinese labor activist and politician, member of the Gang of Four (born 1935)
Seichō Matsumoto was a Japanese writer, credited with popularizing detective fiction in Japan.
Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese author (born 1909)
Sir Robert David Muldoon was a New Zealand politician who served as the 31st prime minister of New Zealand, from 1975 to 1984, while leader of the National Party. Departing from Na…
Robert Muldoon, New Zealand politician, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1921)
Leszek Błażyński was a Polish boxer who twice won the bronze medal in the men's flyweight division at the Summer Olympics. He first did so in 1972, when Munich hosted the Games. Fo…
Leszek Błażyński, Polish boxer (born 1949)
Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khoei was a major Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja and dean of the Hawza of Najaf. Khoei was widely considered the most influential Twelver Shia Muslim scholar of…
Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (born 1899)
Fereydoun Farrokhzad was an Iranian showman, host, poet, actor, political activist, singer, humanitarian, and writer. He is best known for his television variety show, The Silver C…
Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer and actor (born 1938)
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, artist, and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, …
John Cage, American composer and theorist (born 1912)
John Joseph Sirica was an American lawyer and jurist who was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 1957 to 1992. Siri…
John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (born 1904)
Linda Jane Laubenstein was an American physician and early HIV/AIDS researcher. She was among the first doctors in the United States to recognize the AIDS epidemic of the early 198…
Linda Laubenstein, American physician and academic (born 1947)
John Mark Heard III was an American record producer, folk rock singer and songwriter from Macon, Georgia.
Mark Heard, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1951)
Andreas Matthias Donner was a Dutch judge and the second President of the European Court of Justice, a position which he served between 1958 and 1964.
André Donner, Dutch academic and judge (born 1918)
Robert Frans Marie De Moor, better known under his pen name Bob de Moor, was a Belgian comics creator. Chiefly noted as an artist, he is considered an early master of the Ligne cla…
Bob de Moor, Belgian author and illustrator (born 1925)
Bengt Holbek was a Danish folklorist known for his unorthodox approach to folklore theory. He wrote one of the definitive works of fairy tale scholarship entitled Interpretation of…
Bengt Holbek, Danish folklorist (born 1933)
Rodney Glen King was an African American victim of police brutality. On March 3, 1991, he was severely beaten by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) during his arr…
The acquittal of policemen who had beaten African-American motorist Rodney King sparked six days of civil unrest in Los
The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution states that any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress may take effect only after the next…
The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, 202 years after it was first proposed
Methane is a chemical compound that has the chemical formula CH4. It is a group-14 hydride, the simplest alkane, and the main constituent of natural gas. The abundance of methane o…
An underground methane explosion occurred at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killing all 26 Canadian coal min
Li Hongzhi is a Chinese religious leader. He is the founder and leader of Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, a United States–based new religious movement. Li began his public teachings of …
Li Hongzhi introduced the Falun Gong movement at a public lecture in Changchun, China
22-year-old Helena Andersson disappeared on 14 June 1992 in Mariestad, Sweden. Since then, several suspects in her disappearance have been arrested and later released without charg…
Swedish woman Helena Andersson disappeared in Mariestad, one suspect were ”the man with the pilot glasses"
The Croatian War of Independence was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence f…
Croatian War of Independence: The Battle of the Miljevci Plateau ended after a failed counterattack by forces of the Rep