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Villem Raam was an Estonian art historian, art critic and conservator-restorer. His work in documenting and preserving the cultural heritage of Estonia, not least during the Soviet…
Villem Raam, Estonian art historian, art critic and conservator (born 1910)
Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky was a Russian journalist, dissident, human rights activist and political prisoner.
Kronid Lyubarsky, Russian journalist and activist (born 1934)
Vice Admiral Thomas Francis Connolly Jr. was a three-star rank admiral in the United States Navy, aviator, and gymnast. As a member of the United States men's national artistic gym…
Thomas F
Enrique Álvarez Félix was a Mexican actor.
Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (born 1934)
Joseph Quincy Mitchell was an American writer best known for the work he published in The New Yorker. He is known for his carefully written portraits of eccentrics and people on th…
Joseph Mitchell, American journalist and author (born 1908)
Tamara Toumanova was a Russian-born Georgian-American prima ballerina and actress. A child of exiles in Paris after the Russian Revolution of 1917, she made her debut at the age of…
Tamara Toumanova, American ballerina and actress (born 1919)
Léon-Étienne Duval was a French prelate and cardinal. He served as Archbishop of Algiers from 1954 to 1988, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.
Léon-Étienne Duval, French cardinal (born 1903)
Alo Mattiisen was an Estonian musician and composer.
Alo Mattiisen, Estonian composer (born 1961)
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was an Indian politician who served as the president of India from 1977 to 1982. Beginning a long political career with the Indian National Congress in the ind…
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, 6th President of India (born 1913)
Renzo De Felice was an Italian historian who specialized in the Fascist era. Among other works, he authored a 6000-page biography of Mussolini. He argued that Mussolini was a revol…
Renzo De Felice, Italian historian and author (born 1929)
Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and author known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Evaluations of Leary are polarized, ranging from "bold oracle" to …
Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (born 1920)
John Alton was an American cinematographer of Hungarian-German origin. Alton photographed some of the most famous films noir of the classic period and won an Academy Award for the …
John Alton, Hungarian-American cinematographer and director (born 1901)
Leon Garfield FRSL was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted…
Leon Garfield, English author (born 1921)
Raymond Neil Combs Jr. was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and game show host. He began his professional career in the late 1970s. His popularity on the stand-up circuit led …
Ray Combs, American game show host (born 1956)
Kuber Nath Rai, also written as Kubernath Ray and Kuber Nath Ray, was a writer and scholar of Hindi literature and Sanskrit.
Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Indian poet and scholar (born 1933)
George Davis Snell NAS was an American mouse geneticist and basic transplant immunologist.
George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist; awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 for
George Harris Hees was a Canadian politician and businessman.
George Hees, Canadian soldier, football player, and politician (born 1910)
Jo Van Fleet was an American stage, film, and television actress. During her long career, which spanned over four decades, she often played characters much older than her actual ag…
Jo Van Fleet, American actress (born 1915)
Brigitte Helm was a German actress, best remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis.
Brigitte Helm, German-Swiss actress (born 1908)
Noemí Gerstein was an Argentine sculptor, illustrator and plastic artist.
Noemí Gerstein, Argentinian sculptor and illustrator (born 1908)
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was an American improvisational vocal musician, singer, songwriter and composer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady …
Ella Fitzgerald, American singer and actress (born 1917)
Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean, 1st Baronet, was a British Army officer, writer and politician. A Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) from 1941 to 1974 Maclean was one of only two so…
Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, Scottish general and politician (born 1911)
Hoyt Richard Murdoch was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring names "Dirty" Dick Murdoch and "Captain Redneck". He was best known for his time in the NWA, Wo…
Dick Murdoch, American wrestler (born 1946)
Mel Allen was an American sportscaster, best known for his long tenure as the primary play-by-play announcer for the New York Yankees. During the peak of his career in the 1940s, 1…
Mel Allen, American sportscaster and game show host (born 1913)