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Jean-Marie Aron Lustiger was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1981 until his resignation in 2005. He was made a cardinal in 1983 by P…
Jean-Marie Lustiger, French cardinal (born 1926)
Florian Pittiș was a Romanian stage and television actor, theatre director, folk music singer, and radio producer.
Florian Pittiș, Romanian actor, singer, director, and producer (born 1943)
Zsolt Daczi was a Hungarian guitarist. He was born in Kiskunhalas, Hungary.
Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (born 1969)
Ernesto Ramírez Alonso was a Mexican producer, director, cinematographer and actor. He was nicknamed "El Señor Telenovela" because most of his work centered on telenovelas known ar…
Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, and producer (born 1917)
Barton Lee Hazlewood was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and sin…
Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1929)
Sir Angus McMillan Tait was a New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman.
Angus Tait, New Zealand businessman, founded Tait Communications (born 1919)
Ma Lik, GBS, JP, was a Legislative Councillor, and was the Chairman of the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong.
Ma Lik, Chinese journalist and politician (born 1952)
Melville Shavelson was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. He was President of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAw) from 1969 to 1971, 1979 to 1981,…
Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1917)
Joseph Roger O'Donnell was an American documentarian, photojournalist and a photographer for the United States Information Agency.
Joe O'Donnell, American photographer and journalist (born 1922)
Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler was an American military serviceman and electrician. He was trained with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.
Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American lieutenant and pilot (born 1925)
James Esdras Faust was an American religious leader, lawyer, and politician. Faust was Second Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints f…
James E. Faust, American lawyer and religious leader (born 1920)
Jean Rédélé, was an automotive pioneer, pilot and founder of the French automotive brand Alpine.
Jean Rédélé, French race car driver and pilot, founded Alpine (born 1922)
Anthony Howard Wilson was a British record label owner, radio and television presenter, nightclub manager and impresario, and a journalist for Granada Television, the BBC and Chann…
Tony Wilson, English journalist, producer, and manager, co-founded Factory Records (born 1950)
Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr. was an American television show host and media mogul. He began his career as a radio and big band singer, later appearing in film and on Broadway. From 19…
Merv Griffin, American actor, singer, and producer, created Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune (born 1925)
Michael Lance Wieringo, who sometimes signed his work under the name Ringo, was an American comics artist best known for his work on DC Comics' The Flash, Marvel Comics' Spider-Man…
Mike Wieringo, American author and illustrator (born 1963)
Roberta Brooke Astor was an American philanthropist, socialite, and writer. She served as the chairwoman of the Vincent Astor Foundation, established by her third husband, Vincent …
Brooke Astor, American philanthropist and socialite (born 1902)
Philip Francis Rizzuto, nicknamed "the Scooter", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstop. He spent his entire 13-year baseball career with the New York Yankees (1941–…
Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1917)
Brian Keith Adams was an American professional wrestler. Adams is known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), under the name Crush, and for World Championship Wre…
Brian Adams, American wrestler (born 1964)
Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and General Secretary of the Union of Soviet Composers (1948–1991), who was also known for his political …
Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (born 1913)
Richard James Bradshaw was a British opera conductor and the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company (COC) in Toronto.
Richard Bradshaw, English conductor and director (born 1944)
John William Gofman was an American scientist and advocate. He was professor emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley.
John Gofman, American biologist, chemist, and physicist (born 1918)
Geoffrey Buckland Orbell was a New Zealand doctor and keen hunter and tramper who was responsible for the rediscovery of the takahē in 1948.
Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand physician (born 1908)
Samuel Patterson Smyth Pollock, was a Canadian sports executive who was general manager of the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens for 14 years during which they won nine S…
Sam Pollock, Canadian businessman (born 1925)
Bahaedin Adab, also spelled Bahaeddin or Bahaoddin Adab, Kurdish "Baha Adab" was an Iranian Kurdish politician, engineer and philanthropist. A reformist, he served as an independen…
Bahaedin Adab, Iranian engineer and politician (born 1945)