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Arman was a French and American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave to using them…
Arman, French-American painter and sculptor (born 1928)
Anthony Patrick Adams was an Irish film and theatrical producer.
Tony Adams, Irish-American actor and producer (born 1953)
William Michael Hootkins was an American actor, long based in the United Kingdom. He was known to film audiences for his supporting roles in several blockbusters of the 1970s and 1…
William Hootkins, American actor (born 1948)
John Fraser Muth was an American economist. He is "the father of the rational expectations revolution in economics", primarily due to his article "Rational Expectations and the The…
John Muth, American economist and academic (born 1930)
Stella Obasanjo was the First Lady of Nigeria from 1999 until her death. She was the wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, although she was not the First Lady in 1976, when O…
Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian wife of Olusegun Obasanjo, 10th First Lady of Nigeria (born 1945)
Joy Clements was an American lyric coloratura soprano who had a substantial opera and concert career from 1956 through the late 1970s. She notably sang regularly with both the New …
Joy Clements, American soprano and actress (born 1932)
José Simón Azcona del Hoyo was President of Honduras from 27 January 1986 to 27 January 1990 for the Liberal Party of Honduras (PLH). He was born in La Ceiba in Honduras.
José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran businessman and politician, President of Honduras (born 1926)
Mokarrameh Ghanbari was an Iranian self-taught painter who won several international art awards. She started painting at the age of 61 in 1991.
Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (born 1928)
Immanuel Chung-Yueh Hsu was a sinologist, a scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history, and a professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barba…
Immanuel C. Y. Hsu, Chinese sinologist and scholar (born 1923)
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim C…
Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (born 1913)
Robert Sloman was an English screenwriter and actor who later worked at The Sunday Times circulation department for more than 20 years, becoming distribution manager; but is best k…
Robert Sloman, English actor and screenwriter (born 1926)
Keith A. Parkinson was an American fantasy artist and illustrator known for book covers and artwork for games such as EverQuest, Guardians, Magic: The Gathering, and Vanguard: Saga…
Keith Parkinson, American illustrator (born 1958)
George Hedley Swindin was an English football player and manager.
George Swindin, English footballer and manager (born 1914)
Jerry Cooke was an American photojournalist from the 1940s-1990s.
Jerry Cooke, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (born 1921)
Robert William Patrick Broeg was an American sportswriter and newspaper editor who covered the St. Louis Cardinals for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for forty years.
Bob Broeg, American soldier and journalist (born 1918)
Tony B. Jackson was an American professional basketball player.
Tony Jackson, American basketball player (born 1942)
Fernando Aguilar Quejas was a singer and a songwriter of Cape Verde.
Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean-Portuguese singer-songwriter (born 1922)
Ljubomir "Ljuba" Tadić was a Yugoslav actor who enjoyed a reputation as one of the greatest names in the history of former Yugoslav cinema.
Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor and screenwriter (born 1929)
Ion Irimescu was a Romanian sculptor and sketcher. From 1992, he was an honorary member of the Romanian Academy. In 2001 he was awarded the Prize of Excellence for Romanian Culture…
Ion Irimescu, Romanian sculptor and illustrator (born 1903)
Raymond Hains was a French visual artist and a founder of the Nouveau réalisme movement. In 1960, he signed, along with Arman, François Dufrêne, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Jacques …
Raymond Hains, French photographer (born 1926)
Richard Errett Smalley was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert C…
Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1943)
Lloyd Wolfe Bochner was a Canadian actor. He appeared in many Canadian and Hollywood productions between the 1950s and 1990s, including the films Point Blank (1967), The Detective …
Lloyd Bochner, Canadian-American actor (born 1924)
Alfonso Ramón López was a Spanish-American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Brooklyn Robins / Dodgers, Boston Bees, Pitts…
Al López, American baseball player and manager (born 1908)
Shamsher Singh Sheri, commonly known by his nom de guerre, Karam Singh, was a communist leader and a Politburo member of the CPI (Maoist) in India.
Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian politician (born 1942)