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Professor Kandiah David Arulpragasam was a Sri Lankan Tamil academic. He was the first vice-chancellor of Eastern University, Sri Lanka.
K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (born 1931)
Maurice Joseph "Mickey" McDermott Jr. was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball.
Mickey McDermott, American baseball player and coach (born 1929)
Dirk Hoogendam, a.k.a. Dieter Hohendamm, alias The Boxer, was a Dutch war criminal.
Dirk Hoogendam, Dutch-German SS officer and war criminal (born 1922)
Falaba Issa Traoré was a Malian writer, comedian, playwright, and theatre and film director.
Falaba Issa Traoré, Malian director and playwright (born 1930)
Jacques Deray was a French film director and screenwriter. Deray is prominently known for directing many crime and thriller films.
Jacques Deray, French director and screenwriter (born 1929)
Raymond Thomas Harford was an English footballer, better known for his successes as a coach and manager than as a player. He is considered to have been one of the top coaches of hi…
Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (born 1945)
Gregory Oliver Hines was an American dancer, actor, choreographer, and singer. He is one of the most celebrated tap dancers of all time. As an actor, he is best known for History o…
Gregory Hines, American actor, dancer, and choreographer (born 1946)
Kalasuri Ratnadurai Sivagurunathan was a Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, academic and editor of Thinakaran.
R. Sivagurunathan, Sri Lankan lawyer, journalist, and academic (born 1931)
Armand Borel was a Swiss mathematician, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, and was a permanent professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States from 19…
Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician and academic (born 1923)
Herbert Paul Brooks was an American ice hockey player and coach. His most notable achievement came in 1980 as head coach of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic team at Lake Placid.…
Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (born 1937)
Edward Benjamin Townsend was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He performed and composed "For Your Love", a rhythm and blues doo-wop classic, and co-wrote "Let's…
Ed Townsend, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1929)
Helmut Rahn, known as Der Boss, was a German footballer who played as a forward. He became a legend for having scored the winning goal in the final of the 1954 FIFA World Cup. Rahn…
Helmut Rahn, German footballer (born 1929)
Awon'go Idi Amin Dada Oumee was a Ugandan military officer and politician who seized and held power as the third president of Uganda from 1971 until his overthrow in 1979. In 1971,…
Idi Amin, Ugandan field marshal and politician, 3rd President of Uganda (born 1928)
Anthony Paul Jackson was a British musician. He was known for being a member of the Merseybeat band The Searchers.
Tony Jackson, English singer and bassist (born 1938)
Carlos Roberto Reina Idiáquez was a Honduran politician, lawyer and diplomat who served as the President of Honduras from 1994 to 1998. He was a member of the Honduran Liberal Part…
Carlos Roberto Reina, Honduran lawyer and politician, President of Honduras (born 1926)
Sérgio Vieira de Mello was a Brazilian United Nations diplomat who worked on several UN humanitarian and political programs for over 34 years. The Government of Brazil posthumously…
Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (born 1948)
John Rivers Coplans was a British artist, art writer, curator, and museum director. A veteran of World War II and a photographer, he emigrated to the United States in 1960 and had …
John Coplans, British artist (born 1920)
Kathleen Vaughan Wilkes was an English philosopher and academic who played an important part in reform education systems of former Communist countries after 1990. She established h…
Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and academic (born 1946)
Arnold Gerschwiler OBE was a Swiss figure skating coach.
Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater and coach (born 1914)
Bobby Lee Bonds was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball from 1968 to 1981. He played for the San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, California Angels, Chicago White…
Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (born 1946)
John Raymond Dyer Sr. OAM, nicknamed Captain Blood, was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1931…
Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach (born 1913)
Jan Boleslav Sedivka, Czech-born, was one of Australia's foremost violinists and teachers.
Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist and educator (born 1917)
Michael Christopher Kijana Wamalwa was a renowned Kenyan politician who at the time of his death was serving as the eighth Vice-President of Kenya.
Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Kenyan lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of Kenya (born 1944)
Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, also known as Mubarak bin Landan, was a British military officer, explorer, and writer. Thesiger's travel books include Arabian Sands (1959), on his f…
Wilfred Thesiger, Ethiopian-English explorer and author (born 1910)