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Riccardo Cassin was an Italian mountaineer, developer of mountaineering equipment and author, and an important figure in the history of rock climbing, alpine climbing and big wall …
Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author (born 1909)
Willy DeVille was an American singer and songwriter. During his thirty-five-year career, first with his band Mink DeVille (1974–1986) and later on his own, DeVille created songs ro…
Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950)
John Wilden Hughes Jr. was an American filmmaker. He is best known for writing, directing, and producing the films Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), Weird Science …
John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1950)
Louis Emilio Saavedra was an American politician and educator who served as the 25th mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as mayor from Dec…
Louis E. Saavedra, American educator and politician, 48th Mayor of Albuquerque (born 1933)
Mike Seeger was an American folk musician and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who mainly played autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, harm…
Mike Seeger, American singer-songwriter (born 1933)
Daniel Jarque González was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a central defender and spent his entire career with Espanyol. He was named team captain one month before …
Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (born 1983)
Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver was an American philanthropist. Shriver was a member of the Kennedy family by birth, and a member of the Shriver family through her marriage to Sargent …
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, founded the Special Olympics (born 1921)
Lester William Polsfuss, known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body elec…
Les Paul, American guitarist, songwriter, and inventor (born 1915)
Lavelle R Felton was an American professional basketball player. In 2009, he was killed in an unsolved shooting.
Lavelle Felton, American basketball player (born 1980)
Mary Catherine Lamb was an American textile artist, whose quilts reframed traditional Roman Catholic iconography. Recycling vintage textiles popular during the mid-20th century, sh…
Mary Catherine Lamb, American textile artist (born 1949)
Kim Dae-jung was a South Korean politician, activist, and statesman who served as the eighth president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003.
Kim Dae-jung, South Korean lieutenant and politician, 15th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)
Rose Director Friedman ; born Rose Director was a free-market economist and co-founder of the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation.
Rose Friedman, Ukrainian-American economist and author (born 1910)
Robert David Sanders Novak was an American syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. After working for two newspaper…
Robert Novak, American journalist and author (born 1931)
Donald Shepard Hewitt was an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating the CBS television news magazine 60 Minutes in 1968, which, at the time of his…
Don Hewitt, American television producer, created 60 Minutes (born 1922)
Lawrence William Knechtel was an American keyboard player and bassist who was a member of the Wrecking Crew, a collection of Los Angeles–based session musicians who worked with suc…
Larry Knechtel, American keyboardist and bass player (born 1940)
Karla Kuskin was a prolific American author, poet, illustrator, and reviewer of children's literature. Kuskin was known for her poetic, alliterative style.
Karla Kuskin, American author and illustrator (born 1932)
Rex Anthony Shelley was a Singaporean author. A graduate of the University of Malaya in Malaysia and Cambridge trained in engineering and economics, Shelley managed his own busines…
Rex Shelley, Singaporean engineer and author (born 1930)
Elmer Kelton was an American author, known for his Westerns. He was born in Andrews County, Texas.
Elmer Kelton, American journalist and author (born 1926)
Mandé Sidibé was Prime Minister of Mali from 2000 to 2002 and chairman of the Board of Directors of Ecobank from 2006 to 2009. He was also Director of the Malian branch of the Cent…
Mandé Sidibé, Malian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Mali (born 1940)
Muriel Helen Duckworth was a Canadian pacifist, feminist, and social and community activist. She was a practising Quaker, a religious denomination committed to non-violence. Duckwo…
Muriel Duckworth, Canadian pacifist, feminist, and activist (born 1908)
Edward Moore Kennedy was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic P…
Ted Kennedy, American politician (born 1932)
Dominick John Dunne was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer. He began his career in film and television as a producer of the pioneering gay film The Boys in …
Dominick Dunne, American journalist and novelist (born 1925)
Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov was a Russian author of children's books and satirical fables. He wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems.
Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian author and poet (born 1913)
Adam Michael Goldstein, known professionally as DJ AM, was an American DJ. Born in Philadelphia, Goldstein became interested in deejaying as a child after watching Herbie Hancock p…
Adam Goldstein, American drummer, DJ, and producer (born 1973)