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Judith Jones was an American writer and editor, initially known for having rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile. Jones is also known as the editor who championed Si…
Judith Jones, American literary and cookbook editor (born 1924)
Elizabeth Alyse Cuthbert, was an Australian athlete and a four-time Olympic champion. She was nicknamed Australia's "Golden Girl". During her career, she set world records for 60 m…
Betty Cuthbert, Australian sprinter (born 1938)
Don Edward Baylor, nicknamed "Groove," was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. During his 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), Baylor was a power hit…
Don Baylor, American baseball player (born 1949)
Glen Travis Campbell was an American country musician and actor. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour…
Glen Campbell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1936)
Segun Bucknor was a Nigerian musician and journalist active during the 1960s and 1970s. He was a pianist and guitarist specializing in genres ranging from soul music to pop music a…
Segun Bucknor, Nigerian musician and journalist (born 1946)
Gunnar Birkerts was a Latvian American architect who, for the most of his career, was based in the metropolitan area of Detroit, Michigan.
Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian-American architect (born 1925)
Zoe Laskari (Greek: Ζωή Λάσκαρη, pronounced [zoˈi ˈlaskari]; 12 December 1944 – 18 August 2017 was a Greek actress and beauty pageant titleholder. After being crowned Star Hellas 1…
Zoe Laskari, Greek actress and beauty pageant winner (born 1944)
Richard Claxton Gregory was an American comedian, actor, writer, activist and social critic. Gregory became popular among the African-American communities in the southern United St…
Dick Gregory, American comedian, author and activist (born 1932)
Yisrael Kristal or Israel Kristal; was a Polish-Israeli confectioner, Holocaust survivor, and supercentenarian. In 2014, he was recognized as the oldest known living Holocaust surv…
Yisrael Kristal, Polish-Israeli supercentenarian; oldest living Holocaust survivor and one of the ten oldest men ever…
Bryan Clarence Murray was a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and coach. He served as general manager of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 2007 …
Bryan Murray, Canadian ice hockey coach (born 1942)
Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson, also known as Brucie, was a British entertainer and television personality whose career spanned over 75 years. His appeal stemmed from his showman…
Bruce Forsyth, English television presenter and entertainer (born 1928)
Jerry Lewis was an American comedian, actor, singer, filmmaker and humanitarian. Across his seven-decade career, Lewis was regarded as one of the greatest comedians of the 20th cen…
Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (born 1926)
Bajram Rexhepi, was a Kosovar politician who served as the first elected post-war Prime Minister of Kosovo, and later as interior minister and as a member of the Kosovo Assembly. H…
Bajram Rexhepi, First Kosovan Prime Ministers of UN mission administration in Kosovo (born 1954)
Michael John Caldwell Gordon was a British computer scientist.
Michael J. C. Gordon, British Computer scientist (born 1948)
Jon "Jay" Thomas Terrell was an American actor, comedian, and radio personality. He was heard in New York from 1976 to 1979 on top-40 station 99X, and later on rhythmic CHR station…
Jay Thomas, American actor, comedian, and radio talk show host (born 1948)
Richard Eugene Piana was an American bodybuilder, businessman, and YouTuber. He won the National Physique Committee (NPC) Mr. Teen California title in 1989, NPC Mr. California in 1…
Rich Piana, American bodybuilder (born 1971)
Willard Tobe Hooper was an American filmmaker, best known for his work in the horror genre. The British Film Institute cited Hooper as one of the most influential horror filmmakers…
Tobe Hooper, American film director (born 1943)
Mireille Darc was a French actress, director, photographer, singer and model. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Weekend. Darc was a Knight of the Legi…
Mireille Darc, French actress and model (born 1938)
A series of four initial deadly wildfires erupted across central Portugal in the afternoon of 17 June 2017 within minutes of each other, resulting in at least 66 deaths and 204 inj…
Wildfires erupted across central Portugal, eventually causing the deaths of 66 people
Shandong is a Chinese aircraft carrier that was launched on 26 April 2017 for the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of the People's Republic of China. She is the country's first…
The Shandong was launched for the People's Liberation Army Navy, China's first domestically built aircraft carrier
The Syrian civil war was an armed conflict that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered…
Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces, assisted by the U
The WannaCry ransomware attack was a worldwide cyberattack in May 2017 by the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm, which targeted computers running the Microsoft Windows operating syste…
The WannaCry ransomware attack affected more than 400,000 computers worldwide, including systems used by the National He
The Eurovision Song Contest 2017 was the 62nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It consisted of two semi-finals on 9 and 11 May and a final on 13 May 2017, held at the Intern…
Eurovision Song Contest: Portugal won the contest for the first time, with the song "Amar pelos dois," performed by Salv
On 31 May 2017, a truck bomb exploded at a crowded intersection in Kabul, Afghanistan, near the German embassy at about 08:25 local time during rush hour, killing over 150 and inju…
A car bomb exploded near the German embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing more than 90 people and injuring 463 others