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Felix Baumgartner was an Austrian skydiver, extreme sportsman, and BASE jumper. He was widely known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on 14 October 201…
Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere.
On 19 October 2012, Wissam al-Hassan, a brigadier general of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) and the head of its intelligence-oriented information branch, died along wi…
A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.
Aatos Juho Michel Erkko was a Finnish newspaper editor, newspaper publisher, and the main owner of the Sanoma Corporation and the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, of which he was also …
Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist and publisher (born 1932)
George Knobel was a Dutch football manager.
George Knobel, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager (born 1922)
Radhakrishna Lutchmana "Roy" Padayachie was a South African politician and activist. He was a cabinet minister between November 2010 and his death in May 2012. At the same time he …
Roy Padayachie, South African lawyer and politician, South African Minister of Communications (born 1950)
James Robert Browning was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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James Isaac was an American film director and visual effects supervisor.
James Isaac, American director and producer (born 1960)
Jean Laplanche was a French author, psychoanalyst and winemaker. Laplanche is best known for his work on psychosexual development and Sigmund Freud's seduction theory, and wrote mo…
Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst and author (born 1924)
Lance Edward Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist. He achieved international fame for winning the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1…
Cyclist Lance Armstrong is formally stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after being charged for doping.
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The company became influential in the rise of personal computers th…
Microsoft made a public release of Windows 8 and made it available on new PCs.
Hurricane Sandy was an extremely large and devastating tropical cyclone which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in late October 2012. I…
Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing hundreds, while leaving nearly $70 billion in…
René G. Lépine was a Canadian real estate developer and philanthropist. Lépine was the chairman of Groupe Lépine, a real estate development and investment firm he founded in 1953. …
René Lépine, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1929)
Kathy Diane Wentworth, known as K. D. Wentworth, was an American science fiction author. A University of Tulsa graduate, she got her start winning the Writers of the Future Contest…
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Ferenc Bartha was a Hungarian economist who served as the last governor of the Hungarian National Bank during the Communist regime.
Ferenc Bartha, Hungarian economist and politician (born 1943)
Roman Totenberg was a Polish-American violinist and educator. A child prodigy, he lived in Poland, Moscow, Berlin, and Paris, before formally immigrating to the U.S. in 1938, at ag…
Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist and educator (born 1911)
Sir Geoffrey Arama Henry was a Cook Island politician who was twice the Prime Minister of the Cook Islands. He was leader of the Cook Islands Party (CIP) from 1979 to 2006.
Geoffrey Henry, Cook Islander lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (born 1940)
Vidal Sassoon was a British hairstylist and businessman. He was noted for repopularising a simple, close-cut geometric hairstyle called the five-point cut, worn by fashion designer…
Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser and businessman (born 1928)
Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm was an American musician who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the three lead vocalists for The Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll…
Levon Helm, American musician and actor (born 1940)
Herbert Maurice William Weedon was an English guitarist whose style of playing was popular and influential during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the first British guitarist to have a …
Bert Weedon, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1920)
William Taylor Bryans was a Canadian percussionist, songwriter, music producer and DJ, known as one of the founders of The Parachute Club, among other accomplishments in music. As …
Billy Bryans, Canadian drummer, songwriter and producer (born 1947)
Edna Moscelyne Larkin Jasinski was an American ballerina and one of the "Five Moons", Native American ballerinas from Oklahoma who gained international fame in the 20th century. Af…
Moscelyne Larkin, American ballerina and educator (born 1925)
Louis le Brocquy HRHA was an Irish painter born in Dublin to Albert and Sybil le Brocquy. Louis' sister is the sculptor Melanie Le Brocquy. His work received many accolades in a ca…
Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter and illustrator (born 1916)
Tomás Borge Martínez, often spelled as Thomas Borge in American newspapers, was a cofounder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua and was Interior Minister of Ni…
Tomás Borge, Nicaraguan poet and politician, co-founded the Sandinista National Liberation Front (born 1930)
Horst Faas was a German photo-journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He is best known for his images of the Vietnam War.
Horst Faas, German photographer and journalist (born 1933)