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Robert Steven Ledley, professor of physiology and biophysics and professor of radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, pioneered the use of electronic digital compute…
Robert Ledley, American physiologist and physicist, invented the CT scanner (born 1926)
Themístocles Nazario Lobos Aguirre, better known as Themo Lobos, was a Chilean cartoonist. He created the characters Máximo Chambónez, Ferrilo, Nick Obre, and Alaraco, with his mos…
Themo Lobos, Chilean author and illustrator (born 1928)
Gregorio Peces-Barba Martínez was a Spanish politician and jurist. He was one of the seven jurists who wrote the Spanish Constitution of 1978, acting as a representative of the Spa…
Gregorio Peces-Barba, Spanish jurist and politician (born 1938)
Orleans is an American pop rock band formed in 1972 in Woodstock, New York, by John Hall, Larry Hoppen, and Wells Kelly. Larry's younger brother, bassist Lance Hoppen, and drummer …
Larry Hoppen, American singer and guitarist (born 1951)
John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills was a Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as the 11th president of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012. He was inaugurated on 7 January…
John Atta Mills, Ghanaian lawyer and politician, President of Ghana (born 1944)
Babu Ram Ishara was an Indian film director and screenwriter best known for his films of the 1970s. He filmed 35 Bollywood films between 1964 and 1996. He was much popular for his …
B. R. Ishara, Indian director and screenwriter (born 1934)
Barry Langford was a British television and music director, producer, and businessman. He directed many television programmes for the BBC in the 1960s and 1970s, and also worked as…
Barry Langford, English director and producer (born 1926)
Gregory R. Mohns was an American football coach and executive. He was the head coach of the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1998 to 2000.
Greg Mohns, American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1950)
Franz West was an Austrian artist.
Franz West, Austrian painter and sculptor (born 1947)
Donald Neff Bagley was an American jazz bassist.
Don Bagley, American bassist and composer (born 1927)
Karl Stanley Benjamin was an American painter of vibrant geometric abstractions, who rose to fame in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles–based Abstract Classicists and subsequently pro…
Karl Benjamin, American painter and educator (born 1925)
Miriam Ben-Porat was an Israeli jurist. She was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel and the State Comptroller of Israel from 1988–1998.
Miriam Ben-Porat, Russian-Israeli lawyer and jurist (born 1918)
Guadalupe Ontiveros was an American actress best known for portraying Rosalita in The Goonies, and Yolanda Saldívar in the film Selena. She acted in numerous films and television s…
Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (born 1942)
James David Watkins was a United States Navy admiral and former Chief of Naval Operations who served as the United States Secretary of Energy during the George H. W. Bush administr…
James D. Watkins, American admiral and politician, 6th United States Secretary of Energy (born 1927)
Norman Alden was an American character actor who performed in television programs and motion pictures. He first appeared on television on The 20th Century Fox Hour in 1957. He prov…
Norman Alden, American actor (born 1924)
Robert Golden Armstrong Jr. was an American character actor and playwright. A veteran performer who appeared in dozens of Westerns during his 40-year career, he may be best remembe…
R. G. Armstrong, American actor and playwright (born 1917)
Darryl Grant Cotton was an Australian pop, rock singer-songwriter, television presenter and actor. He was a founding member of Australian rock group Zoot in 1965, with Beeb Birtles…
Darryl Cotton, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1949)
Geoffrey William Hughes DL was an English actor. Hughes provided the voice of Paul McCartney in the animated film Yellow Submarine (1968), and rose to fame for portraying bin man E…
Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (born 1944)
Alvin Morris, known professionally as Tony Martin, was an American actor and singer of popular music.
Tony Martin, American actor and singer (born 1913)
John Keith Taylor was an English football referee. Later described by the Football League as "perhaps the finest English referee of all time", Taylor was famous for officiating in …
Jack Taylor, English footballer and referee (born 1930)
Colin Robert Horsley was a New Zealand classical pianist and teacher who was based in the United Kingdom all his working life. He had a significant artistic association with the …
Colin Horsley, New Zealand-English pianist and educator (born 1920)
Sepp Mayerl, also known as Blasl-Sepp was an Austrian mountaineer.
Sepp Mayerl, Austrian mountaineer (born 1937)
William F. Milliken Jr. was an aerospace engineer, automotive engineer and racecar driver. He was born in Old Town, Maine.
William F. Milliken Jr., American race car driver and engineer (born 1911)
Tatiana Egorova was a Russian footballer and manager. She played for CSK VVS Samara and Rossiyanka in the Russian Championship, and Turbine Potsdam in the German Bundesliga, and sh…
Tatiana Egorova, Russian footballer and manager (born 1970)