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Sir Reginald Carey Harrison was an English actor. Harrison began his career on the stage at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1924. He made his West End debut in 1936 appearing in the Ter…
Rex Harrison, English actor (born 1908)
Steven John Bator, known professionally as Stiv Bator and later as Stiv Bators, was an American punk rock vocalist and guitarist from Youngstown, Ohio. He is best remembered for hi…
Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1949)
Zdenka Ziková, also known as Zdenka Zika, was a Czech soprano opera singer and music teacher.
Zdenka Ziková, Czech opera singer (born 1902)
Erna Berger was a German lyric coloratura soprano. She was best known for roles such as Queen of the Night and Konstanze.
Erna Berger, German soprano and actress (born 1900)
George F. Addes was a founder of the United Automobile Workers of America (UAW) union and its secretary-treasurer from 1936 until 1947. Along with R. J. Thomas and Richard Frankens…
George Addes, American trade union leader, co-founded United Automobile Workers (born 1911)
Isabella Smith Andrews, known professionally as Isobel Andrews, was a New Zealand playwright, novelist, short-story writer and poet. She wrote over sixty plays, many of which were …
Isobel Andrews, New Zealand writer (born 1905)
Robert Norton Noyce, nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 196…
Robert Noyce, American physicist and businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation (born 1927)
Terence Marne O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, PC (NI), was the fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and leader (1963–1969) of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). A moderate …
Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, English captain and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (bor
Cedric Henning Belfrage was an English film critic, journalist, writer and political activist. He is best remembered as a co-founder of the radical US weekly National Guardian. Lat…
Cedric Belfrage, English journalist and author, co-founded the National Guardian (born 1904)
June Christy was an American singer, known for her work in the cool jazz genre and for her silky smooth vocals. Her success as a singer began with The Stan Kenton Orchestra. She pu…
June Christy, American singer (born 1925)
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. H…
Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)
Harindranath Chattopadhyay was an Indian English poet, dramatist, actor, musician, and a member of the 1st Lok Sabha from Vijayawada constituency. He was the younger brother of Sar…
Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Indian poet, actor, and politician (born 1898)
Ronald Gene Simmons Sr. was an American spree killer and former military serviceman who murdered 16 people, including 14 members of his own family, over a week in December 1987 in …
Ronald Gene Simmons, American sergeant and murderer (born 1940)
Anni Viktoria Blomqvist was a Finland-Swedish novelist.
Anni Blomqvist, Finnish author (born 1909)
Irving Wallace was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. He was known for his heavily researched novels, many with a sexual theme.
Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (born 1916)
Gruinard Island is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately two kilometres long by one kilometre wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapoo…
Gruinard Island in Scotland, the site of biological warfare testing by British scientists, was declared free of anthrax
The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the …
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard STS-31 by Space Shuttle Discovery
Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro was a Nicaraguan politician who served as the president of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997. She was the country's first female president. Previously,…
Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created …
Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr
Paperback Software International Ltd. was a software company founded in 1983 by Adam Osborne to manufacture discount software such as word processor Paperback Writer and related sp…
Paperback Software, a company founded by Adam Osborne, was found guilty of copyright infringement for using Lotus 1-2-3'