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Frederick Christ Trump was an American real estate developer and businessman. He was the father of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, along with four o…
Fred Trump, American real estate developer and businessman (born 1905)
Georgios Papadopoulos was a Greek military officer and dictator who led a coup d'etat in Greece in 1967 and became the country's prime minister from 1967 to 1973. He was the presid…
Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)
Sir Vere Cornwall Bird was an Antiguan politician who was the first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. His son, Lester Bryant Bird, succeeded him as prime minister. In 1994, he…
Vere Bird, first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1910)
Karekin I served as the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1994 and 1999. Previously, he served as the Catholicos of Cilicia from 1983 to 1994 as Karekin II.
Karekin I, Syrian-Armenian patriarch (born 1950)
Allan Carr was an American producer and manager of stage and screen. He was nominated for numerous awards, winning a Tony Award and two People's Choice Awards, and was named Produc…
Allan Carr, American screenwriter and producer (born 1937)
Edward Dmytryk was a Canadian-born American film director and editor. He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfire (1947).…
Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer (born 1908)
Forrest Edward Mars Sr. was an American billionaire businessman and the driving force of the candy company Mars Inc. until 1973.
Forrest Mars Sr., American businessman, creator of M&M's and the Mars chocolate bar (born 1904)
Sylvia Sidney was an American stage, screen, and film actress whose career spanned over 70 years. She rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s. She was nominated …
Sylvia Sidney, American actress (born 1910)
Sola Sierra Henríquez was a Chilean human rights activist. She was director of Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared organization, and campaigned to find out the truth about the pe…
Sola Sierra, Chilean human rights activist (born 1935)
Pelageya Yakovlevna Polubarinova-Kochina was a Soviet and Russian applied mathematician, known for her work on fluid mechanics and hydrodynamics, particularly, the application of F…
Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, Russian mathematician (born 1899)
Leo Garel was an American artist. He illustrated cartoons for such notable magazines as The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post and Playboy.
Leo Garel, American illustrator and educator (born 1917)
Mario Francis Puzo was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he l…
Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter (born 1920)
Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor, multi-instrumentalist and comic writer. Sandman possessed a distinctive, deep bass-baritone voice and …
Mark Sandman, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1952)
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquess of the Gardens of Aranjuez, was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist. He is best known for composing the Concierto de Aranjuez, a cornersto…
Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (born 1901)
Captain Vikram Batra, was an Indian Army officer. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration, for his actions during the Kargil War. On 7…
Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra, Indian Army personnel (born 1974)
Julie Campbell Tatham was an American writer of children's novels, who also wrote for adults, especially on Christian Science. As Julie Campbell she was the creator of the Trixie B…
Julie Campbell Tatham, American author (born 1908)
Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer, aviator, and test pilot who commanded the Apollo 12 mission, on which he became the …
Pete Conrad, American captain, pilot, and astronaut. Third man to walk on the moon. (born 1930)
Jean Robert René de Cotret was a Canadian economist and politician.
Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician, 56th Secretary of State for Canada (born 1944)
Helen Forrest was an American singer of traditional pop and swing music. She served as the "girl singer" for three of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era, thereby earning a…
Helen Forrest, American singer (born 1917)
The Sloot Digital Coding System (SDCS) is an alleged technique for data encoding claimed to have been invented in 1995 by Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot (1944–1999), an electronics engin…
Jan Sloot, Dutch computer scientist and electronics technician (born 1945)
Rajendra Kumar was an Indian actor who starred in Bollywood films. Starting his career in 1949, he worked in more than 80 films in a career spanning over four decades. Kumar is con…
Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (born 1921)
Konstantinos Kollias was a Greek politician and jurist, who became the Attorney General of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court and who later was proclaimed Prime Minister by the f…
Konstantinos Kollias, Greek general and politician, 168th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1901)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., also referred to as JFK Jr., was an American businessman, attorney, magazine publisher, and journalist. He was the son of the 35th U.S. president John …
John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer and publisher (born 1960)
Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy was an American fashion publicist. Raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, she graduated from Boston University and joined Calvin Klein, where she rose fr…
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist and wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. (born 1966)