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Renaldo "Obie" Benson was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He was best known as a founding member and the bass singer of Motown group the Four Tops, which he joined …
Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (Four Tops) (born 1936)
August Bodnar was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who was the Calder Memorial Trophy winner as the National Hockey League's rookie of the year for the 1943–44 season. He …
Gus Bodnar, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1923)
Norman Zachary Prescott was co-founder and executive producer at Filmation Associates, an animation studio he created with veteran animator Lou Scheimer.
Norm Prescott, American actor, composer, and producer, co-founded Filmation Studios (born 1927)
Mario Alberto Lattuada was an Italian film director.
Alberto Lattuada, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1914)
Joseph Emilien Clifford "Red" Goupille was a Canadian ice hockey player who played 224 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens between 1936 and 1942.
Cliff Goupille, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1915)
Henry Louis Stram was an American football coach. He is best known for his 15-year tenure with the Dallas Texans / Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League (AFL) and Nati…
Hank Stram, American football player and coach (born 1923)
James Bond Stockdale was a U.S. Navy vice admiral, aviator, and Stoic philosopher who received the Medal of Honor in 1976 for his leadership as a POW for more than seven years duri…
James Stockdale, American admiral (born 1923)
Luther Ronzoni Vandross Jr. was an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and record producer. Over his career, he achieved eleven consecutive RIAA-certified platinum albums and…
Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter and producer (Change) (born 1951)
Ernest Paul Lehman was an American screenwriter and film producer. He was nominated six times for Academy Awards for his screenplays during his career, but did not win. At the 73rd…
Ernest Lehman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1915)
Gaylord Anton Nelson was an American lawyer, Democratic politician, and environmentalist from Wisconsin. He served three terms as a United States senator from Wisconsin, from 1963 …
Gaylord Nelson, American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (born 1916)
Evan Hunter was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of the 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are consi…
Ed McBain, American author and screenwriter (born 1926)
Claude Eugène Henri Simon was a French novelist and recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)
Maurice Louis Baquet was a French actor and cellist.
Maurice Baquet, French actor and cellist (born 1911)
Charles Cadman was a Canadian politician and Member of Parliament (MP) from 1997 to 2005, representing the riding of Surrey North in Surrey, British Columbia.
Chuck Cadman, Canadian engineer and politician (born 1948)
Yevgeny Romanovich Grishin was a Soviet and Russian speedskater. Grishin trained for the largest part of his speedskating career at CSKA Moscow. A four-time Olympian, he became Eur…
Yevgeny Grishin, Russian speed skater (born 1931)
Alexandre Dimitri Shibicky was a Canadian ice hockey forward who played for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League from 1935 to 1946.
Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1914)
Philip Nicholson, known by his pen name A. J. Quinnell, was an English novelist. He is best known for his novel Man on Fire, which has been adapted to film twice and a television s…
A. J. Quinnell, English author (born 1940)
Shinya Hashimoto was a Japanese professional wrestler, promoter and actor. Along with Masahiro Chono and Keiji Mutoh, Hashimoto was dubbed one of the "Three Musketeers" that began…
Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese professional wrestler (born 1965)
Jesús Ricardo Iglesias, was a racing driver from Argentina. He initially competed with some success in long distance races in Argentina with a Chevrolet Special, before being invit…
Jesús Iglesias, Argentinian racing driver (born 1922)
Gretchen Gordon Franklin was an English actress and dancer with a career in show business spanning over 70 years. She played Ethel Skinner in the long-running BBC1 soap opera EastE…
Gretchen Franklin, English actress and dancer (born 1911)
Frances Langford was an American singer and actress who was popular during the Golden Age of Radio and made film and television appearances for over two decades.
Frances Langford, American actress and singer (born 1913)
John Leonard King, Baron King of Wartnaby was a British businessman, who was noted for leading British Airways. He was also directly involved with the "dirty tricks" campaign waged…
John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, English businessman (born 1917)
Robert Edward Ogren was an American zoologist.
Robert E. Ogren, American zoologist (born 1922)
Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hos…
Cicely Saunders, English hospice founder (born 1918)