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Fred Ebb was an American lyricist and playwright who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as L…
Fred Ebb, American songwriter (born 1928)
David Mann was a California graphic artist whose paintings celebrated biker culture, and choppers. Called "the biker world's artist-in-residence," his images are ubiquitous in bike…
David Mann, American painter and illustrator (born 1939)
Peter VII was the Greek Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa from 1997 to 2004. During his reign, Petros VII was credited with reviving the Greek Orthodox churc…
Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (born 1949)
Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas was a Mexican chemist known as co-inventor and the first to synthesize an oral contraceptive, progestin norethisterone.
Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-invented the birth-control pill (born 1925)
John William Cummings, better known by his stage name Johnny Ramone, was an American musician who was the guitarist and a founding member of the Ramones, a band that helped pioneer…
Johnny Ramone, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1948)
Walter Douglas Stewart was an outspoken Canadian writer, editor and journalism educator, a veteran of newspapers and magazines and author of more than twenty books, several of them…
Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist and author (born 1931)
Michael Donaghy was a New York City poet and musician, who lived in London from 1985.
Michael Donaghy, American-English poet and author (born 1954)
Carl Eric Brandt was an American serial killer known to have perpetrated at least four murders. In 1971, at age 13, Brandt shot his parents in their family home in Fort Wayne, Indi…
Charlie Brandt, American serial killer (born 1957)
Norman Frank Cantor was a Canadian-American medievalist. Known for his accessible writing and engaging narrative style, Cantor's books were among the most widely read treatments of…
Norman Cantor, Canadian-American historian and educator (born 1929)
Russell Albion Meyer was an American filmmaker and photographer. He was primarily known for writing and directing a successful series of sexploitation films featuring campy humor, …
Russ Meyer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
Edward Thomas Adams was an American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and for coverage of 13 wars. He is best known for his photog…
Eddie Adams, American photographer and journalist (born 1933)
Skeeter Davis was an American country music singer and songwriter who sang crossover pop music songs including 1962's "The End of the World". She started out as part of the Davis S…
Skeeter Davis, American singer-songwriter (born 1931)
Damayanti Joshi was a noted renowned exponent of the Kathak dance form. She believed Kathak is the art of storytelling. She began in the 1930s dancing in Madame Menaka's troupe, wh…
Damayanti Joshi, Indian dancer and choreographer (born 1928)
Ellis Louis Marsalis Sr. was an American businessman from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a former poultry farmer turned hotelier, Esso franchise owner and civil rights activist.
Ellis Marsalis Sr., American businessman and activist (born 1908)
Brian Howard Clough was an English football player and manager, primarily known for his successes as a manager with Derby County and Nottingham Forest. He won the European Cup twic…
Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (born 1935)
Townsend Walter Hoopes II was an American historian and government official, who reached the height of his career as Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1967 to 1969.
Townsend Hoopes, American soldier and historian (born 1922)
Peter Kittilsby Schoening was an American mountaineer. Schoening was one of two Americans to first successfully climb the Pakistani peak Gasherbrum I in 1958, along with Andrew Kau…
Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (born 1927)
Françoise Sagan was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters.…
Françoise Sagan, French author and screenwriter (born 1935)
Ray Washington Traylor Jr. was an American professional wrestler best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring name (The) Big Boss Man, as…
Ray Traylor Jr., American professional wrestler better-known as the Big Boss Man (born 1963)
William Tulip Reay was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Reay played ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1943 to 1953, winning two Stanley Cups.…
Billy Reay, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1918)
Marianna Komlos was a Canadian bodybuilder, fitness model and professional wrestling manager. She is perhaps best known for her stint in World Wrestling Federation in 1999 as Maria…
Marianna Komlos, Canadian bodybuilder, model, and wrestler (born 1969)
John Edward Mack was an American psychiatrist, writer, and professor of psychiatry. He served as the head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 200…
John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (born 1929)
Geoffrey Beene was an American fashion designer. Beene was one of New York's most famous fashion designers, recognized for his artistic and technical skills and for creating simple…
Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (born 1924)
Richard Sainct was a French rally raid motorcycle rider, best known for his three victories on The Paris-Dakar rally in 1999, 2000 and 2003.
Richard Sainct, French motorcycle racer (born 1970)