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Pietro Consagra was an Italian sculptor. In 1947 he was among the founding members of the Forma 1 group of artists, who advocated both Marxism and structured abstraction.
Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (born 1920)
Camillo Jean Nicolas Felgen was a Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, disc jockey, and television presenter, who represented Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 and in 1962.
Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgian singer-songwriter and radio host (born 1920)
Geraldine Mary Wilma Fitzgerald was an Irish American actress. She received the Daytime Emmy Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony A…
Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (born 1913)
Sir Edward Richard George Heath was a British statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party fro…
Edward Heath, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1916)
Joe Vialls was an Australian conspiracy theorist and internet journalist based in Perth, Western Australia. His claims that major incidents such as the Port Arthur massacre, terror…
Joe Vialls, Australian journalist and theorist (born 1944)
Amy Elizabeth Gillett was an Australian track cyclist and rower who represented Australia in both sports. She was killed when a driver crashed into the Australian squad of cyclists…
Amy Gillett, Australian cyclist and rower (born 1976)
William Childs Westmoreland was a United States Army general, most notably the commander of United States forces during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968. He later served as Chief …
William Westmoreland, American general (born 1914)
Edward Heward Bunker was an American author of crime fiction, screenwriter, and actor. He wrote numerous books, some of which have been adapted into films. He wrote the scripts for…
Edward Bunker, American author and screenwriter (born 1933)
James Montgomery Doohan was a Canadian actor, best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek. Doohan's characterization of the Sco…
James Doohan, Canadian-American actor (born 1920)
Finn Gustavsen was a Norwegian socialist politician active from 1945 to the late 1970s. He was noted for his uncompromising style and willingness to take contrarian stands.
Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian journalist and politician (born 1926)
Kayo Hatta was an American filmmaker, writer, and community activist. She directed and co-wrote the independent dramatic feature-length film Picture Bride, which won the Sundance F…
Kayo Hatta, American director and cinematographer (born 1958)
John William "Long John" Baldry was a British and Canadian musician and actor. In the 1960s, he was one of the first British vocalists to sing the blues in clubs and shared the sta…
Long John Baldry, English-Canadian singer and actor (born 1941)
Alfred George James Hayes was an English professional wrestler, manager and commentator, best known for his appearances in the United States with the World Wrestling Federation bet…
Lord Alfred Hayes, English-American wrestler and manager (born 1928)
Eugene Booker Record was an American singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer. He was best known as the lead vocalist of the Chicago-based vocal group The Chi-Lites. He ha…
Eugene Record, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1940)
Theodore Greene was an American fingerstyle guitarist, columnist, session musician and educator based in Encino, California.
Ted Greene, American guitarist and journalist (born 1946)
Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll was a British physician who became an epidemiologist in the mid-20th century and made important contributions to that discipline. He was a pioneer i…
Richard Doll, English physiologist and epidemiologist (born 1912)
Albert Mangelsdorff was a German jazz trombonist. Working mainly in free jazz, he was an innovator in multiphonics.
Albert Mangelsdorff, German trombonist (born 1928)
Prince Alexander Golitzen (Golitsyn) was a Russian-born American production designer who oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.
Alexander Golitzen, Russian-born American production designer and art director (born 1908)
Jack Hirshleifer was an American economist and long-time professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Jack Hirshleifer, American economist and academic (born 1925)
Jean Gilles "Captain Crunch" Marotte was a Canadian defenceman in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers and St…
Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1945)
Marten Toonder was a Dutch comic strip creator. He was probably the most successful comic artist in the Netherlands and had a great influence on the Dutch language by introducing n…
Marten Toonder, Dutch author and illustrator (born 1912)
Raymond Lee Cunningham was an American professional baseball third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1931 and 1932. He batted and threw rig…
Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (born 1905)
Al Held was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. As an artist, multiple stylistic changes occurred th…
Al Held, American painter and academic (born 1928)
John Garang De Mabior was a Sudanese politician and revolutionary leader. From 1983 to 2005, he led the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement as a commander in chief during the S…
John Garang, Sudanese colonel and politician, 6th President of South Sudan (born 1945)