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Roland Petit was a French ballet company director, choreographer and dancer. He trained at the Paris Opera Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets.
Roland Petit, French dancer and choreographer (born 1924)
Sherwood Charles Schwartz was an American television screenwriter and producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, but he now is best known for creating the 1960s television se…
Sherwood Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (born 1916)
Allan Lindsay Jeans was an Australian rules footballer and coach. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame at its inception in 1996. Jeans was known for his orator…
Allan Jeans, Australian footballer and coach (born 1933)
Friedrich "Fritz" Wilhelm Schnitzler was a German landowner and business manager, and also a local politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the founder of the agricultur…
Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler, German landowner and politician (born 1928)
Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers was an English dancer and actress, with a lengthy career spanning some 73 years in theatre, film, and television. She was a well-known actress an…
Googie Withers, British-Australian actress (born 1917)
Forrest Murrell Blue Jr. was an American professional football center who spent eleven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the San Francisco 49ers from 1968 to 1974 …
Forrest Blue, American football player (born 1944)
David Ngoombujarra was an Indigenous Australian actor of the Yamatji people. Born David Bernard Starr in Meekatharra, Western Australia, his acting career spanned over two decades …
David Ngoombujarra, Australian actor (born 1967)
Taiji Sawada , also known mononymously as Taiji, was a Japanese musician and songwriter. He is best known as bassist of the rock band X from 1986 to 1992. The band rose to prominen…
Taiji Sawada, Japanese musician (born 1966)
Lucian Michael Freud was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, who is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists.
Lucian Freud, German-English painter and illustrator (born 1922)
Cees de Wolf was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a left winger.
Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (born 1945)
Amy Jade Winehouse was a British singer, songwriter, musician, and businesswoman. She is known for her distinctive contralto vocals, expressive and autobiographical songwriting, an…
Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (born 1983)
Linda Christian was a Mexican film actress who appeared in Mexican and Hollywood films. Her career reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. She played Mara in the last Johnny Weiss…
Linda Christian, Mexican-American actress (born 1923)
Frank Dietrich was a German politician and member of the CDU. He was a member of the final East German Volkskammer before reunification and from 1990 to 1994 was a member of the La…
Frank Dietrich, German politician (born 1966)
Daniel Milton Peek was an American musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the co-founder of the band America, and later a "pioneer" in contemporary Christian music.
Dan Peek, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950)
Harald Gill Johnsen was a Norwegian jazz double bassist, known for his contributions in bands like Køhn/Johansen Sextet and Tord Gustavsen Trio, and a series of recordings with suc…
Harald Johnsen, Norwegian bassist and composer (born 1970)
David Servan-Schreiber was a French physician, neuroscientist and author. He was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was also …
David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author (born 1961)
Alonzo "Skip" Thomas III, nicknamed "Dr. Death", was an American professional football player. A cornerback, Thomas played college football at Arizona Western Junior College before…
Skip Thomas, American football player (born 1950)
Michael Cacoyannis was a Greek Cypriot director, screenwriter, filmmaker, producer, playwright, actor, and lawyer. He is best known for writing, directing, producing, and editing Z…
Michael Cacoyannis, Cypriot-Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
Álvaro Arroyo González was a Colombian salsa and tropical music singer, composer and songwriter. He is considered one of the greatest performers of Caribbean and salsa music in his…
Joe Arroyo, Colombian singer-songwriter and composer (born 1955)
Thomas William Borton was an American jazz saxophonist, songwriter and composer, and was the founder and CEO of Los Angeles Post Music, Inc.
Tom Borton, American jazz saxophonist, songwriter and composer (born 1956)
Richard Drew Harris was an American professional football player who was a defensive end who played seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was an All-American in 1…
Richard Harris, American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1948)
Sakyo Komatsu was a Japanese science fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the most well known and highly regarded science fiction writers in Japan.
Sakyo Komatsu, Japanese author and screenwriter (born 1931)
Margaret Hannah Olley was an Australian painter. She held over ninety solo exhibitions during her lifetime.
Margaret Olley, Australian painter and philanthropist (born 1923)
Abdul Fatah Younis Al-Obeidi was a Libyan military officer and politician. He served as Libya's interior minister until his resignation on 22 February 2011 when he defected to the …
Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan general (born 1944)