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Inez Foxx and her elder brother Charlie Foxx were an American rhythm and blues and soul duo from Greensboro, North Carolina. Inez sang lead vocal, while Charlie sang backing vocals…
Charlie Foxx, American singer and guitarist (Inez and Charlie Foxx) (born 1939)
Patricia Lawlor Hayes was an English character actress. She is best known for playing the titular Edna in the Play for Today, Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971), for which she won th…
Patricia Hayes, English actress (born 1909)
Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner, also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete who set world records in the 100m and 200m in 1988. During the late 1980s, she becam…
Florence Griffith Joyner, American sprinter (born 1959)
Edwin Raymond Bowden was an English footballer who played as an inside forward. He scored 130 goals from 316 appearances in the Football League, playing for Plymouth Argyle, Arsena…
Ray Bowden, English footballer (born 1909)
Mary Frann was an American stage, film, and television actress.
Mary Frann, American actress (born 1943)
Jeff Moss was an American composer, lyricist, playwright and television writer, best known for his award-winning work on the children's television series Sesame Street.
Jeff Moss, American composer and screenwriter (born 1942)
Betty Carter was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative in…
Betty Carter, American singer (born 1930)
Ewell Doak Walker II was an American football player who was a halfback and kicker. He played college football for the SMU Mustangs, winning the Maxwell Award in 1947 and the Heism…
Doak Walker, American football player (born 1927)
Thomas Bradley was an American politician, athlete, police officer, and lawyer who served as the 38th mayor of Los Angeles from 1973 to 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, he w…
Tom Bradley, American lieutenant and politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (born 1917)
(Charles) David Marsden, FRS was a British neurologist who made a significant contribution to the field of movement disorders. He was described as 'arguably the leading academic ne…
C. David Marsden, British neurologist (born 1938)
Bruno Munari was "one of the greatest actors of 20th-century art, design and graphics". He was an Italian artist, designer, and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields…
Bruno Munari, Italian artist, designer, and inventor (born 1907)
Marius Re Goring was an English stage and screen actor. He often portrayed urbane and morally grey characters, and is best remembered for the four films he made with Powell & Press…
Marius Goring, English actor (born 1912)
Robert Lewis Taylor was an American writer who won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. His writing has been adapted into a television series, …
Robert Lewis Taylor, American soldier and author (born 1912)
Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry, nicknamed the Singing Cowboy, was an American actor, musician, singer, composer, rodeo performer, and baseball team owner, who largely gained fame by sin…
Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and guitarist (born 1907)
Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall was a British-born American actor, whose career spanned over 270 screen and stage roles across more than 60 years.
Roddy McDowall, English-American actor (born 1928)
Daniel Raymond Quisenberry, nicknamed "Quiz", was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played primarily for the Kansas City Royals. Notable for his …
Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player and poet (born 1953)
Sinnappah Arasaratnam was a Sri Lankan academic, historian and author, born during British colonial rule. Known as 'Arasa', he was a lecturer at the University of Ceylon, Universit…
S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian and academic (born 1930)
Mark Henry Belanger, nicknamed "the Blade", was an American professional baseball player and coach. He played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1965 through 1…
Mark Belanger, American baseball player (born 1944)
Cees de Vreugd, also known as "Kees de Vreugd" was a butcher, strongman and powerlifter from Katwijk, Netherlands. He finished third at the World's Strongest Man games in 1985.
Cees de Vreugd, Dutch strongman and weightlifter (born 1952)
Clark McAdams Clifford was an American lawyer who served as an important political adviser to Democratic presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Jimmy C…
Clark Clifford, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 9th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1906)
Marvin Pentz Gay Sr. was an American Pentecostal minister. He was the father of recording artists Marvin Gaye and Frankie Gaye and gained notoriety after shooting and killing his s…
Marvin Gay Sr., American minister (born 1914)
Tommy Quaid was an Irish sportsperson. He played hurling at various times with his local clubs Feohanagh-Castlemahon and Effin and was the goalkeeper on the Limerick senior inter-c…
Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler and manager (born 1957)
Richard Denning was an American actor who starred in science fiction films of the 1950s, including Unknown Island (1948), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Target Earth (1954)…
Richard Denning, American actor (born 1914)
Mario Beaulieu was a Canadian notary, politician and senator.
Mario Beaulieu, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1930)