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Carl Johan Arthur, Prince Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg, was the fourth son and fifth and youngest child of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife, Princess Margaret of C…
Carl Johan Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (born 1916)
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)
Samuel Alexander Barr was a British shipyard worker, trade unionist and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) work-in veteran. Barr was an "inspiring speaker" and organiser who was a "wid…
Sammy Barr, Scottish trade union leader (born 1931)
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)
United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, continuing to…
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Maurice Bernard Sendak was an American author and illustrator of children's books. Born to Polish-Jewish parents, his childhood was impacted by the death of many of his family memb…
Maurice Sendak, American author and illustrator (born 1928)
Ampon Tangnoppakul, commonly known in Thai as Ah Kong or in English as Uncle SMS, was a Thai national accused of sending four Short Message Service (SMS) messages from his cell pho…
Ampon Tangnoppakul, Thai criminal (born 1948)
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)
Bertram Joseph Cohler was an American psychologist, psychoanalyst, and educator primarily associated with the University of Chicago, the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and H…
Bertram Cohler, American psychologist, psychoanalyst, and academic (born 1938)
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)
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)
Carroll Hall Shelby was an American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur.
Carroll Shelby, American race car driver and designer (born 1923)
Gunnar Fridtjof Thurmann Sønsteby DSO was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement during the German occupation of Norway in World War II. Known by the nickname "Kjakan" and a…
Gunnar Sønsteby, Norwegian captain and author (born 1918)
Jan Bens was a Dutch professional football player and coach; he was also an amateur boxer and trainer.
Jan Bens, Dutch footballer and coach (born 1921)
Edouard Paape, commonly known as Eddy Paape, was a Belgian comics artist best known for illustrating the science fiction comic series Luc Orient.
Eddy Paape, Belgian illustrator (born 1920)
Arsala Rahmani Daulat was selected to serve in the Meshrano Jirga, the upper house of Afghanistan's national assembly, in 2005 and 2010. He was appointed a Deputy Minister for High…
Arsala Rahmani Daulat, Afghan politician (born 1937)
Donald "Duck" Dunn was an American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer, and songwriter. Dunn was notable for his 1960s recordings with Booker T. & the M.G.'s and as a…
Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (born 1941)
Ada María Isasi-Díaz was a Cuban-American theologian who served as professor emerita of ethics and theology at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. As a Hispanic theologian, she…
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Cuban-American theologian, author, and academic (born 1943)