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Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He was one of the founders of the Soviet …
Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1924)
Lev Zalmanovich (Zinovyevich) Kopelev was a Soviet author and dissident.
Lev Kopelev, Ukrainian-German author and academic (born 1912)
Cahit Külebi was a leading Turkish poet and author. He has an important place in contemporary Turkish poetry due to his attachment to folk poetry traditions. His poetry is enriched…
Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author (born 1917)
Shintaro Katsu was a Japanese actor, singer, and filmmaker. He is known for starring in the Akumyo series, the Hoodlum Soldier series, the Hanzo the Razor series, and the Zatoichi…
Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, singer, director, and producer (born 1931)
Fidel Velázquez Sánchez was the preeminent Mexican union leader of the 20th century. In 1936 he was one of the original founders, along with Vicente Lombardo Toledano, of the Confe…
Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican trade union leader (born 1900)
Ted Arnbjörn Gärdestad, known internationally as Ted, was a Swedish singer, songwriter, and actor. Gärdestad began his acting career in 1966 and began playing music in 1971, signin…
Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter (born 1956)
Gérard Pelletier was a Canadian politician, diplomat and journalist from Quebec best known for his association with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau that started decades befo…
Gérard Pelletier, Canadian journalist and politician (born 1919)
Betty Shabazz, also known as Betty X, was an American educator and civil rights advocate who was married to Malcolm X.
Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (born 1936)
Robert Alba Keith, known professionally as Brian Keith, was an American film, television, and stage actor who in his six-decade career gained recognition for his work in films such…
Brian Keith, American actor (born 1921)
Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatu…
Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer and explorer (born 1910)
Donald Montgomery Hutson, nicknamed "the Alabama Antelope", was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). In the era of the one-plat…
Don Hutson, American football player and coach (born 1913)
William Edward Hickey was an American actor. He is best known for his Academy Award-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston film Prizzi's Honor (1985), as well as U…
William Hickey, American actor (born 1927)
Marjorie Linklater was a Scottish campaigner for the arts and environment on the island of Orkney. She gave up acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to get involved in conser…
Marjorie Linklater, Scottish campaigner for the arts and environment of Orkney (born 1909)
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American actor and singer. He is known for his antihero roles and film noir appearances. He received nominations for an Academy Award and a BAF…
Robert Mitchum, American actor (born 1917)
Charles George Werner was an American editorial cartoonist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939 and later worked 47 years for the Indianapolis Star.
Charles Werner, American cartoonist (born 1909)
James Maitland Stewart was an American actor and military aviator. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart appeared in 80 films from 1935 to 1991. His…
James Stewart, American actor (born 1908)
Charles Bishop Kuralt was an American television, newspaper and radio journalist and author. He is most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segme…
Charles Kuralt, American journalist (born 1934)
John Zachary Young, generally known as "JZ" or "JZY", was an English zoologist and neurophysiologist, described as "one of the most influential biologists of the 20th century".
John Zachary Young, English zoologist and neurophysiologist (born 1907)
Arunasalam Thangathurai was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament.
A. Thangathurai, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (born 1936)
Chetan Anand was a Bollywood film producer, screenwriter and director from India, whose first film, Neecha Nagar, was awarded the Grand Prix Prize at the first ever Cannes Film Fes…
Chetan Anand, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)
François Furet was a French historian and president of the Saint-Simon Foundation, best known for his books on the French Revolution. From 1985 to 1997, Furet was a professor of Fr…
François Furet, French historian and author (born 1927)
Miguel Ángel Blanco Garrido was a Spanish economist and municipal politician and a member of the People's Party, in Ermua, the Basque Country. He was kidnapped and murdered by the …
Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (born 1968)
Justinas Lagunavičius was a Lithuanian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He trained at VSS Žalgiris in Kaunas.
Justinas Lagunavičius, Lithuanian basketball player (born 1924)
Mohamed Ehuttar Hadjiar Maharoof was a Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament.
M. E. H. Maharoof, Sri Lankan politician (born 1939)