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Russell Ash was the British author of the Top 10 of Everything series of books, as well as Great Wonders of the World, Incredible Comparisons and many other reference, art and humo…
Russell Ash, English author (born 1946)
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with wh…
José Saramago, Portuguese novelist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
Anthony Meredith Quinton, Baron Quinton was an English political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind. He served as President of Trinity Colleg…
Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, English philosopher and academic (born 1925)
Carlos Monsiváis Aceves was a Mexican philosopher, writer, critic, political activist, and journalist. He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers within the coun…
Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, journalist and political activist (born 1938)
Harry Blackmore Whittington FRS was a British palaeontologist who made a major contribution to the study of fossils of the Burgess Shale and other Cambrian fauna. His works are lar…
Harry B
Irwin Barker was a Canadian comedian and writer. He wrote for This Hour Has 22 Minutes and The Rick Mercer Report, and was nominated for four Gemini Awards as a writer and one as s…
Irwin Barker, Canadian actor and screenwriter (born 1956)
İlhan Selçuk was a Turkish lawyer, journalist, author, novelist and editor.
İlhan Selçuk, Turkish lawyer, journalist, and author (born 1925)
John Wear Burton was an Australian public servant, high commissioner and academic.
John Burton, Australian public servant and diplomat (born 1915)
Alan Frederick Plater was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s. He is best known for the sitcom Oh No It…
Alan Plater, English playwright and screenwriter (born 1935)
Richard Beverland Sellars was an American business executive who served as chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson as part of 40 years with the healthcare product firm. Sellars playe…
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Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas was the fourth president of Lithuania, in office from 1993 to 1998. He also served as Prime Minister of Lithuania from 2001 to 2006. Brazauskas was the …
Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian engineer and politician, 4th President of Lithuania (born 1932)
Fred Anderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who was based in Chicago, Illinois. Anderson's playing was rooted in the swing music and hard bop idioms, but he also incorpora…
Fred Anderson, American jazz tenor saxophonist (born 1929)
Harald Keres was an Estonian physicist considered to be the father of the Estonian school of relativistic gravitation theory. In 1961 Keres became a member of the Estonian Academy …
Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (born 1912)
Corey Allen was an American film and television director, writer, producer, and actor. He began his career as an actor but eventually became a television director. He is best known…
Corey Allen, American film and television actor, writer, director, and producer (born 1934)
Robert Carlyle Byrd was an American politician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. A Democrat, Byrd also …
Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (born 1917)
Donald David Coryell was an American football coach. He coached in high school, college, and the professional ranks; his most notable NCAA post was with the San Diego State Aztecs …
Don Coryell, American football player and coach (born 1924)
Arnold Friberg was an American illustrator and painter of religious and patriotic works. One example is his 1975 painting The Prayer at Valley Forge, a depiction of George Washingt…
Arnold Friberg, American painter and illustrator (born 1913)
Jacqueline Ruth Woods, better known as Ilene Woods, was an American actress and singer. Woods was best known as the original voice of the title character of Walt Disney animated fi…
Ilene Woods, American actress and singer (born 1929)
Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge was an English writer. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. She w…
Beryl Bainbridge, English screenwriter and author (born 1932)
Mohammad Daoud Oudeh, commonly known by his nom de guerre Abu Daoud or Abu Dawud, was a Palestinian militant, teacher and lawyer known as the planner, architect and mastermind of t…
Abu Daoud, Palestinian terrorist, planned the Munich massacre (born 1937)
Robert Neil Butler was an American physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, and author, who was the first director of the National Institute on Aging. Butler is known for his work o…
Robert Neil Butler, American physician and author (born 1927)
Robert Alan Probert was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward. Probert played for the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks. While a successful pla…
Bob Probert, Canadian ice hockey player and radio host (born 1965)
Harvey Fuqua was an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, and record label executive.
Harvey Fuqua, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1929)
Jessica Margaret Anderson was an Australian novelist and short story writer. Born in Gayndah, Anderson lived the bulk of her life in Sydney apart from a few years in London. She be…
Jessica Anderson, Australian author and playwright (born 1916)