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Alice Childress was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades.…
Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and author (born 1912)
Wouter "Wout" Wagtmans was a Dutch road bicycle racer.
Wout Wagtmans, Dutch cyclist (born 1929)
Luigi Chinetti was an Italian-born racecar driver, who emigrated to the United States during World War II. He drove in 12 consecutive 24 Hours of Le Mans races, taking three outrig…
Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and businessman (born 1901)
Jack Morrison (1905−1994) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s for South Sydney and Canterbury-Bankstown. Morrison was a foundation player for Canterbu…
Jack Morrison, Australian rugby league player (born 1905)
Jack Sharkey was a Lithuanian-American boxer who held the NYSAC, NBA, and The Ring heavyweight titles from 1932 to 1933.
Jack Sharkey, American boxer and referee (born 1902)
Francis Raymond Shea was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the third bishop of the Diocese of Evansville in Indiana from 1969 to 1989.
Francis Raymond Shea, American bishop (born 1913)
Linus Carl Pauling was an American chemist and peace activist. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. Scientific American c…
Linus Pauling, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)
Gilles Groulx was a Canadian film director. He grew up in a working-class family with 14 children. After studying business in school, he went to work in an office but found the whi…
Gilles Groulx, Canadian director and screenwriter (born 1931)
Allan Capron Houser or Haozous was a Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter, and book illustrator born in Oklahoma. He was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modern…
Allan Houser, American sculptor and painter (born 1914)
Frank Jeske was a German footballer.
Frank Jeske, German footballer (born 1960)
Lindsay Gordon Anderson was an English filmmaker, theatre director, critic, and actor. He was considered a leading light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave, an…
Lindsay Anderson, English director and screenwriter (born 1923)
James Thomas Aubrey Jr. was an American television and film executive. As president of the CBS television network from 1959 to 1965, he produced some of television's most enduring …
James Thomas Aubrey, Jr., American screenwriter and producer (born 1918)
John Paul Newman was an Australian politician who served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1986 until his assassination in 1994.
John Newman, Australian politician (born 1946)
Zoltán Fábri was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His films The Boys of Paul Street (1969) and Hungarians (1978) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign La…
Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (born 1917)
William Ambrose Wright was an English footballer who played as a centre-back. He spent his entire club career at Wolverhampton Wanderers. The first footballer in the world to earn …
Billy Wright, English footballer and manager (born 1924)
Shimshon Avraham Amitsur was an Israeli mathematician. A leading figure in twentieth-century noncommutative algebra, he is best known for his wide-ranging contributions to ring the…
Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (born 1921)
Nicholas Christian Hopkins was an English pianist and organist. He performed on many British and American rock music recordings from the 1960s to the 1990s, including on songs reco…
Nicky Hopkins, English pianist (born 1944)
Max Kaminsky was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1908)
Eric Crozier OBE was a British theatrical director, opera librettist and producer, long associated with Benjamin Britten.
Eric Crozier, English director and playwright (born 1914)
Dennis Morgan was an American actor-singer. He used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame.
Dennis Morgan, American actor (born 1908)
Stewart Terence Herbert Young was a British film director and screenwriter who worked in the United Kingdom, Europe and Hollywood. He is best known for directing three James Bond f…
Terence Young, Chinese-English director and screenwriter (born 1915)
Patrick Wisdom O'Neal was an American actor and restaurateur.
Patrick O'Neal, American actor (born 1927)
Charles Drake was an American actor.
Charles Drake, American actor (born 1917)
Luciano Sgrizzi was an Italian harpsichordist, organist, pianist and composer.
Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian harpsichordist, pianist, and composer (born 1910)