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Constance Wisniewski was a starting pitcher and outfielder who played from 1944 through 1952 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5' 8", 147 l…
Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (born 1922)
Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who held five world titles in three different reigns. The sixth World Chess Champion, he also worked as an …
Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and coach (born 1911)
Noel Brotherston was an international footballer for Northern Ireland.
Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (born 1956)
Ray McKinley was an American jazz drummer, singer, and bandleader. He played drums and later led the Major Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra in Europe. He also led the new Gle…
Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (born 1910)
Teng Li-Chun, also known as Teresa Teng, was a Taiwanese singer, television personality, musician, and philanthropist. Widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant fig…
Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (born 1953)
Adolfo Alfredo Pedernera was an Argentine football player and coach. Nicknamed "El Maestro", he was widely considered to be one of the best world football players in the 1940s and …
Adolfo Pedernera, Argentine footballer and manager (born 1918)
Hao Wang was a Chinese-American logician, philosopher, mathematician, and commentator on Kurt Gödel.
Hao Wang, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (born 1921)
Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Jr. was an American biochemist. He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein for work on ribonuclease, especi…
Christian B
Eric Richard Porter was an English actor of stage, film and television.
Eric Porter, English actor (born 1928)
Joseph Hector "Toe" Blake was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League (NHL). Blake played in the NHL from 1935 to 1948 with the Montreal Maroons and Mo…
Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1912)
Elisha Vanslyck Cook Jr. was an American character actor famed for his work in film noir. He played cheerful, brainy collegiates until he was cast against type as the bug-eyed baby…
Elisha Cook, Jr
Alexander Borisovich Godunov was a Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor. A member of the Bolshoi Ballet, he became the troupe's Premier danseur. In 1979, he defected to th…
Alexander Godunov, Russian-American ballet dancer and actor (born 1949)
William Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, 7th Marquess of Heusden, was a prominent ufologist. He was an Irish peer, as well as a nobleman in the Dutch nobilit…
Brinsley Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, Irish ufologist and historian (born 1911)
Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery was an American actress whose career spanned five decades in film, stage and television. She portrayed the good witch Samantha Stephens on the popular…
Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (born 1933)
Leslie Gordon Cowie was an Australian rugby league footballer, a fine lock for the champion South Sydney Rabbitohs teams of the 1950s and an Australia national representative. In 1…
Les Cowie, Australian rugby league player (born 1925)
Leslie Aspin Jr. was an American Democratic Party politician and economist who served as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district from 1971 to 1993 and as…
Les Aspin, American captain and politician, 18th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1938)
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, was a British politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976. He was Le…
Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1916)
Élie Marcel Bayol was a French racing driver who raced in Formula One for the O.S.C.A. and Gordini teams. Bayol also raced sports cars, mostly driving DB-Panhards for the Deutsch B…
Élie Bayol, French racing driver (born 1914)
Krešimir "Krešo" Ćosić was a Croatian professional basketball player and coach. He was a collegiate All-American at Brigham Young University. He was the first basketball player in …
Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player and coach, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer 1996 (born 1948)
Dany Robin was a French actress of the 1950s and the 1960s. Nicknamed ‘la petite fiancée de la France’ in the post-war years, she became one of the leading female stars of the 1950…
Dany Robin, French actress (born 1927)
Isadore "Friz" Freleng, credited as I. Freleng early in his career, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoo…
Friz Freleng, American animator, director, and producer (born 1906)
Edward Joseph Drake was an English football player and manager. As a player, he first played for Southampton but made his name playing for Arsenal in the 1930s, winning two league …
Ted Drake, English footballer and manager (born 1912)
Frank Raymond Wilton "Lofty" England was an engineer and motor company manager from Britain. He rose to fame as the manager of the Jaguar Cars sports car racing team in the 1950s, …
Lofty England, English-Austrian engineer (born 1911)
Robert William Thomas Stokes was an English footballer, best known for scoring the winning goal in the 83rd minute of the FA Cup Final for Southampton against Manchester United in …
Bobby Stokes, English footballer (born 1951)