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Douglas Marjoribanks Fisher was an English actor best known for playing Larry Simmonds in Man About the House (1973–1976), Sammy in the films The Stud (1978) and The Bitch (1979) a…
Doug Fisher, English actor (born 1941)
Vakkom Majeed was an Indian freedom fighter, politician and a former member of the Travancore-Cochin State Assembly. He was born into one of the most prominent aristocratic Muslim …
Vakkom Majeed, Indian journalist and politician (born 1909)
Pedro Julio Mir Valentín was a Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of…
Pedro Mir, Dominican lawyer, author, and poet (born 1913)
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie, was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991, having previously been Bishop of St Albans. He…
Robert Runcie, English archbishop (born 1921)
Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt VC, ED was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Dieppe Raid in 1942. Later he served as Member of Parliament.
Charles Merritt, Canadian colonel and politician, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1908)
Jan Karski was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and …
Jan Karski, Polish-American activist and academic (born 1914)
René Ríos Boettiger, also known as Pepo, was a Chilean cartoonist, creator of the famous character Condorito. He has been credited as the most prominent Chilean graphic humorist of…
Pepo, Chilean cartoonist; creator of Condorito (born 1911)
Louis Quilico, was a Canadian opera singer. One of the leading dramatic baritones of his day, he was an ideal interpreter of the great Italian and French composers, especially Gius…
Louis Quilico, Canadian opera singer and educator (born 1925)
Marc Reisner was an American environmentalist and writer best known for his book Cadillac Desert, a history of water management in the American West.
Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (born 1948)
Eric Cuthbert Christmas was an English actor, with over 40 films and numerous television roles to his credit. He is probably best known for his role as Mr. Carter, the principal of…
Eric Christmas, English-born Canadian actor (born 1916)
Carmen Martín Gaite was a Spanish author who wrote many novels, short stories, screenplays, and essays across multiple genres. Her work has received significant recognition: in 195…
Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (born 1925)
Raymond Urgel Lemieux, CC, AOE, FRS was a Canadian organic chemist, who pioneered many discoveries in the field of chemistry, his first and most famous being the synthesis of sucro…
Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (born 1920)
Claude Sautet was a French film director and screenwriter.
Claude Sautet, French director and screenwriter (born 1924)
Ahmad Shamlou, also known under his pen name A. Bamdad was an Iranian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most influential poet of modern Iran. His initial poetr…
Ahmad Shamloo, Iranian poet and journalist (born 1925)
Rudolf "Rudi" Faßnacht was a German football manager.
Rudi Faßnacht, German footballer, coach, and manager (born 1934)
John Wilder Tukey was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm, the box plot and for laying the foun…
John Tukey, American mathematician and academic (born 1915)
Gordon Solie was an American professional wrestling play-by-play announcer. He is best known for working for Georgia Championship Wrestling, Championship Wrestling from Florida, US…
Gordon Solie, American sportscaster (born 1929)
Abraham Pais was a Dutch-American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch univer…
Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (born 1918)
William Keepers Maxwell Jr. was an American editor, novelist, short story writer, essayist, children's author, and memoirist. He served as a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1…
William Keepers Maxwell Jr., American editor, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1908)
Joann Lõssov, also known as Ioann Fyodorovich Lysov, was an Estonian basketball player. Lõssov trained at VSS Kalev, in Tallinn. He was named MVP of the 1947 EuroBasket. Member of …
Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (born 1921)
Otto Buchsbaum was born in Vienna, Austria. He moved to Brazil in 1939. In 1967, he led, together with his wife, Florence Buchsbaum, the movement "Teatro ao Encontro do Povo", whos…
Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-Brazilian journalist and activist (born 1920)
Tullio Crali was a Dalmatian Italian artist associated with Futurism. A self-taught painter, he was a late adherent to the movement, not joining until 1929. He is noted for realist…
Tullio Crali, Montenegrin-Italian pilot and painter (born 1910)
Lala Amarnath Bhardwaj was an Indian cricketer. He is considered to be the father figure of Indian cricket. He scored the first ever century for India in Test Cricket in 1933. He w…
Lala Amarnath, Indian cricketer (born 1911)
Sir Alec Guinness was an English actor. In the BFI listing of the 100 most important British films of the 20th century, he was the single most noted actor, represented across nine …
Alec Guinness, English actor (born 1914)