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Ralph Edmund Stanley was an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing. He began playing music in 1946, originally with his older brother Carter…
Ralph Stanley, American singer and banjo player (born 1927)
Adam Small was a South African writer who was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and other activism. He was noted as a Coloured writer who wrote works in Afrikaans that d…
Adam Small, South African writer of apartheid-period (born 1936)
Bud Spencer was an Italian actor, professional swimmer and water polo player. He was known for action-comedy and spaghetti Western roles with his long-time film partner and friend …
Bud Spencer, Italian swimmer, actor, and screenwriter (born 1929)
Winfield Scott Moore III was an American guitarist who formed the Blue Moon Boys in 1954, Elvis Presley's backing band. He was studio and touring guitarist for Presley between 1954…
Scotty Moore, American guitarist (born 1931)
Jenny Diski FRSL was an English novelist, non-fiction writer and memoirist. She was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books; articles and essays she wrote for the publi…
Jenny Diski, English author and screenwriter (born 1947)
Alan Young was a British Canadian and American actor. Young is best known for portraying Wilbur Post in the television comedy Mister Ed (1961–1966) and voicing Disney's Scrooge McD…
Alan Young, English-born Canadian-American actor (born 1919)
Kho Jabing, later in life Muhammad Kho Abdullah, was a Malaysian of mixed Chinese and Iban descent from Sarawak, Malaysia, who partnered with a friend to rob and murder a Chinese c…
Kho Jabing, Malaysian convicted murderer who was executed by hanging in Singapore (born 1984)
Harambe was a western lowland gorilla who lived at the Cincinnati Zoo. On May 28, 2016, a three-year-old boy visiting the zoo climbed under a fence into an outdoor gorilla enclosur…
Harambe, Cincinnati Zoo western lowland gorilla (born 1999)
Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. A global cultural icon, widely known by the nickname "the Greatest", he is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight …
Muhammad Ali, American boxer (born 1942)
Jerome Seymour Bruner was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. Bruner …
Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (born 1915)
Jan Hettema was a South African cyclist. He competed in three events at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was also a successful rally driver and won the South African National Rally Cha…
Jan Hettema, Springbok cyclist and five times South African National Rally Champion (born 1933)
Robin St. Clair Rimington Hardy was an English author and film director. His most famous directorial work is The Wicker Man (1973), and his last project was a film adaptation of hi…
Robin Hardy, English author and film director (born 1929)
Caroline Mary Aherne was an English actress, comedian, writer and director.
Caroline Aherne, English actress and comedian (born 1963)
Sir Peter Levin Shaffer was an English playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. His best-known works are the plays Equus and Amadeus, both of which earned him the Tony Award for Bes…
Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter; works included Equus and Amadeus (born 1926)
Gordon Howe was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. From 1946 to 1980, he played 26 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and six seasons in the World Hockey Associati…
Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1928)
Anton Viktorovich Yelchin was an American actor. Born in the Soviet Union to a Russian Jewish family, he immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of six months. …
Anton Yelchin, American actor (born 1989)
Patricia Susan Summitt was an American women's college basketball head coach and college basketball player. She coached 1,098 career wins, the most in college basketball history at…
Pat Summitt, American women's college basketball head coach (born 1952)
James David "Buddy" Ryan was an American football coach in the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL). During his 35-season coaching career, Ryan served …
Buddy Ryan, American football coach (born 1931)
Michael Antonio Cimino was an American film director, screenwriter, producer and author. Notorious for his obsessive attention to detail and determination for perfection, Cimino ac…
Michael Cimino, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1939)
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and…
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, activist, and author (born 1928)
Abdul Sattar Edhi NI LPP was a Pakistani humanitarian, philanthropist and ascetic who founded the Edhi Foundation, which runs the world's largest volunteer ambulance network, along…
Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist (born 1928)
Katharina Focke was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth from 197…
Katharina Focke, German politician (born 1922)
Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning was a Trinidadian politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago twice from 1991 to 1995, and again from 2001 to 2010. A …
Patrick Manning, 4th & 6th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (born 1946)
Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of…
Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, and photographer (born 1940)