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Jeffrey Catherine Jones was an American artist whose work is best known from the late 1960s through the 2000s. Jones created the cover art for more than 150 books through 1976, as …
Jeffrey Catherine Jones, American artist (born 1944)
Randy Mario Poffo, better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was an American professional wrestler, rapper, and professional baseball player. Widely regarded as one o…
Randy Savage, American wrestler and actor (born 1952)
Joseph Brooks was a serial rapist, American songwriter, composer, and filmmaker. He was a successful author of commercial jingles during the 1960s, before pivoting to a filmmaking …
Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (born 1938)
Xavier Tondo Volpini was a Spanish professional road racing cyclist who specialized in mountain stages of bicycle races.
Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (born 1978)
Huguette Marcelle Clark was an American painter, heiress, and philanthropist. She became well known again late in life as a recluse, living in hospitals for more than 20 years whil…
Huguette Clark, American heiress, painter, and philanthropist (born 1906)
Hakim Ali Zardari was a Pakistani politician who served as a member of National Assembly of Pakistan from 1972 to 1977,1988 to 1990 and then again from 1993 to 1996.
Hakim Ali Zardari, Indian-Pakistani businessman and politician (born 1930)
Terrence James Jenner was an Australian cricketer who played nine Tests and one ODI from 1970 to 1975. He was primarily a leg-spin bowler and was known for his attacking, loopy sty…
Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer and coach (born 1944)
Kalasuri Arisen Ahubudu was a Sri Lankan writer, orator, scholar, playwright, teacher (Guru), Sinhala lyricist, author and poet. He is a member of the Hela Havula. He has received …
Arisen Ahubudu, Sri Lankan scholar, author, and playwright (born 1920)
Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway was an American actor. He portrayed Kenickie in the film Grease and had roles in three television series: struggling actor Bobby Wheeler in …
Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (born 1950)
Małgorzata Teresa Dydek-Twigg, better known as Margo Dydek, was a Polish professional basketball player. Standing 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) tall, she was the tallest professional female b…
Margo Dydek, Polish-American basketball player (born 1974)
Luigi "Gino" Valenzano was an Italian racing driver. He entered 39 races between 1947 and 1955 in Abarths, Maseratis and Lancias as a teammate of drivers like Robert Manzon and Fro…
Gino Valenzano, Italian racing driver (born 1920)
Gilbert Scott-Heron was an American jazz poet, singer, musician and author, known for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with mus…
Gil Scott-Heron, American singer-songwriter and poet (born 1949)
Sergei Uasyl-ipa Bagapsh was an Abkhaz politician who served as the second president of Abkhazia from 12 February 2005 until his death on 29 May 2011. He previously served as Prime…
Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian politician, 2nd President of Abkhazia (born 1949)
William Perry Clements Jr. was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who served two nonconsecutive terms as the governor of Texas between 1979 and 1991. His terms…
Bill Clements, American soldier and politician, 42nd Governor of Texas (born 1917)
Ferenc Mádl was a Hungarian legal scholar, professor, and politician who served as President of Hungary from 2000 until 2005. Prior to that he had been minister without portfolio f…
Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian academic and politician, 14th President of Hungary (born 1931)
Isikia Rabici Savua was a senior Fijian diplomat who had a distinguished career in the military and police forces before taking up his last post as Ambassador and Permanent Repre…
Isikia Savua, Fijian police officer and diplomat (born 1952)
Syed Saleem Shahzad was a Pakistani investigative journalist who wrote widely for leading European and Asian media. He served as the Pakistan Bureau Chief of Asia Times Online and …
Saleem Shahzad, Pakistani journalist (born 1970)
Marek Jan Siemek was a Polish philosopher and historian of German transcendental philosophy. He was a professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw and the d…
Marek Siemek, Polish philosopher and historian (born 1942)
Clarice Taylor was an American stage, film and television actress. She is best known for playing Cousin Emma on Sanford and Son; Anna Huxtable, the mother of Cliff Huxtable, on The…
Clarice Taylor, American actress (born 1917)
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She wa…
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921)
Pauline May Betz Addie was an American professional tennis player. She won five Grand Slam singles titles and was the runner-up on three other occasions. Jack Kramer called her the…
Pauline Betz, American tennis player (born 1919)
Jonas Bevacqua was an American clothing designer and entrepreneur.
Jonas Bevacqua, American fashion designer, co-founded the Lifted Research Group (born 1977)
Derek Michael Hodge was an American Virgin Islander politician and lawyer who served as the sixth lieutenant governor of the United States Virgin Islands for two terms from 1987 to…
Derek Hodge, Virgin Islander lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (born 1941)
Hans Alex Keilson was a German-Dutch novelist, poet, psychoanalyst and child psychologist. He was best known for his novels set during the Second World War, during which he was an …
Hans Keilson, German-Dutch psychoanalyst and author (born 1909)