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Robert George Pickett, better known as Bobby "Boris" Pickett, was an American singer-songwriter and comedian. He is best known for co-writing and performing the 1962 smash hit nove…
Bobby Pickett, American singer-songwriter (born 1938)
Robert William "Dabbs" Greer was an American character actor in film and television for over 60 years. Greer appeared in nearly 100 film roles and in nearly 600 television episodes…
Dabbs Greer, American actor (born 1917)
Jack Joseph Valenti was an American political advisor and lobbyist who served as a Special Assistant to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was also the longtime president of the …
Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (born 1921)
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. In addition to his interpretations and technique, he was well known for both inspiring and commis…
Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (born 1927)
René Mailhot was a Canadian journalist from the province of Quebec. He began his career at the age of twenty with the French-language newspaper Le Droit, published in Ottawa. After…
René Mailhot, Canadian journalist (born 1942)
Thomas Penn Newsom was a saxophone player in the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, for which he later became assistant director. Newsom was frequently the b…
Tommy Newsom, American saxophonist and bandleader (born 1929)
Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the team which performed nuclear research in Nazi Germany during …
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (born 1912)
Bertha Wernham Wilson was a Canadian jurist and the first female puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Before her ascension to Canada's highest court, she was the first fe…
Bertha Wilson, Scottish-Canadian lawyer and jurist (born 1923)
Joshua Morgan Hancock was an American professional baseball pitcher, who played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, and St. …
Josh Hancock, American baseball player (born 1978)
Richard Charles Motz was a New Zealand cricketer. A right-arm fast bowler and hard-hitting lower order batsman, Motz played 32 Test matches for the New Zealand national cricket tea…
Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player (born 1940)
Ivica Račan was a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2000 to 2003, heading two centre-left coalition governments.
Ivica Račan, Croatian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (born 1944)
Kevin Danyelle Mitchell was an American professional football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He played for the San Francisco 49ers,…
Kevin Mitchell, American football player (born 1971)
Gordon Scott was an American film and television actor known for his portrayal of the fictional character Tarzan in five films of the Tarzan film series from 1955 to 1960. Gordon S…
Gordon Scott, American film and television actor (born 1926)
Mitiarjuk Attasie Nappaaluk was an Inuk author, educator, and sculptor from Kangiqsujuaq in Nunavik, in northern Quebec, Canada. She was noted for writing Sanaaq, one of the first …
Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, Inuk writer (born 1931)
Thomas Gordon Poston was an American actor, appearing in television roles from the 1950s through the early to mid-2000s, reportedly appearing in more sitcoms than any other actor. …
Tom Poston, American actor, comedian, and game show panelist (born 1921)
Brad McGann MNZM, was a New Zealand film director and screenwriter.
Brad McGann, New Zealand director and screenwriter (born 1964)
Warja Lavater was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. She was a Swiss artist and illustrator noted primarily for working in the artist's books genre by creating accordion fold books t…
Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (born 1913)
Walter Marty Schirra Jr. was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which wa…
Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (born 1923)
Knock Yokoyama was a Japanese politician and comedian.
Knock Yokoyama, Japanese politician (born 1932)
Theodore Harold Maiman was an American engineer and physicist who is widely credited with the invention of the laser. Maiman's laser led to the subsequent development of many other…
Theodore Harold Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer, created the laser (born 1927)
Isabella Blow was an English magazine editor. She was mentor to Philip Treacy, and is credited with discovering the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl, and fashion designer Alex…
Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (born 1958)
Diego "Chico" Corrales Jr. was an American professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2007. He was a multiple-time world champion in two weight divisions, having held the Interna…
Diego Corrales, American boxer (born 1977)
Octavian Paler was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.
Octavian Paler, Romanian journalist and politician (born 1926)