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Hussein bin Abdullah al-Hashimi is Crown Prince of Jordan as the eldest son of King Abdullah II and Queen Rania. He is a member of the House of Hashim, the royal family of Jordan s…
Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan
Camila Carraro Mendes is an American actress and producer. She made her acting debut portraying Veronica Lodge on The CW teen drama series Riverdale (2017–2023), for which she won …
Camila Mendes, American actress and model
Paul-Émilien Dalpé C.M., also known as Paul-Émile Dalpé, was a Canadian labour unionist and nurse.
Paul-Émilien Dalpé, Canadian labor unionist (born 1919)
Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.
Ralph Ellison, American novelist and critic (born 1913)
Roger Wolcott Sperry was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate who, together with David H. Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won …
Roger Wolcott Sperry, American psychologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he represented California in b…
Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (born 1913)
Masutatsu Ōyama, commonly known outside Japan as Mas Oyama, was a Korean-Japanese karateka. He was the founder of Kyokushin Karate, considered the first and most influential style …
Masutatsu Ōyama, Japanese martial artist, founded Kyokushin kaikan (born 1923)
Clarence Berton Roueché Jr. was an American medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years. He wrote twenty books, including Eleven Blue Men (1954), Th…
Berton Roueché, American journalist and author (born 1910)
Roland Walter Ratzenberger was an Austrian racing driver, who competed in Formula One at three Grands Prix in 1994.
Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (born 1960)
Ayrton Senna da Silva was a Brazilian racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1984 to 1994. Senna won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles with McLaren, and—…
Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (born 1960)
Dorothy Marie Donnelly was a poet and essayist, the author of six books of poetry and prose and numerous articles published in Europe and the United States.
Dorothy Marie Donnelly, American poet and author (born 1903)
Mário de Miranda Quintana was a Brazilian writer and translator.
Mário Quintana, Brazilian poet and translator (born 1906)
Richard McClure Scarry was an American children's author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million worldwide. He is best known for his Best …
Richard Scarry, American author and illustrator (born 1919)
Clement Greenberg, occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mi…
Clement Greenberg, American art critic (born 1909)
George Peppard was an American actor. He secured a major role as struggling writer Paul Varjak when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and later …
George Peppard, American actor and producer (born 1928)
Elias Mathope Motsoaledi OMSG was a South African anti-apartheid activist. He was Accused No.9 in the Rivonia Trial and was sentenced to life imprisonment in July 1963 with a group…
Elias Motsoaledi, South African activist (born 1924)
Timothy Agoglia Carey was an American film and television character actor who was typically cast as manic or violent characters who are driven to extremes. He is particularly known…
Timothy Carey, American actor, director, and producer (born 1928)
John Wayne Gacy was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered at least thirty-three young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 in Norwood Park Towns…
John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (born 1942)
Erik Homburger Erikson was a German-American child psychoanalyst and visual artist known for his theory on psychosocial development of human beings. He coined the phrase identity c…
Erik Erikson, German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst (born 1902)
John Smith was a British politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his death in May 1994. He was also Member of Parliament (MP…
John Smith, Scottish-English lawyer and politician, Labour Party leader, Leader of the Opposition (born 1938)
James Duncan Hamilton was a British racing driver. He was known for his colourful and extroverted personality. After fighting in the Second World War, he took up motorsport. Althou…
Duncan Hamilton, Irish-English race car driver (born 1920)
John Burley Swainson was a Canadian-American politician and jurist who served as the 42nd governor of Michigan from 1961 to 1963.
John Swainson, Canadian-American jurist and politician, 42nd Governor of Michigan (born 1925)
William Graham Claytor Jr. was an American attorney, United States Navy officer, railroad executive, and administrator of railroad, transportation, and defense affairs for the Unit…
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Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, known professionally as Gilbert Roland, was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until…
Gilbert Roland, American actor (born 1905)