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Pádraig Faulkner was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1980 to 1981, Minister for Defence 1979 to 1980, Minister for Posts and Tele…
Pádraig Faulkner, Irish educator and politician, 19th Irish Minister of Defence (born 1918)
Milan Gaľa was a Slovak politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the Slovenská demokraticka a krestanska unia, part of the European People's Party and sat on th…
Milan Gaľa, Slovak politician (born 1953)
Adolfo Calero Portocarrero was a Nicaraguan businessman and the leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest rebel group of the Contras, opposing the Sandinista governmen…
Adolfo Calero, Nicaraguan businessman and political activist (born 1931)
Richard Dawson was an English actor, comedian, game-show host, and panelist. He was well known for playing Corporal Peter Newkirk in Hogan's Heroes, as a regular panelist on Match …
Richard Dawson, English-American soldier, actor, television personality, and game show host (born 1932)
LeRoy Ellis was an American basketball player.
LeRoy Ellis, American basketball player (born 1940)
Kathryn Joosten was an American actress. Her best known roles include Delores Landingham on NBC's The West Wing from 1999 to 2002 and Karen McCluskey on ABC's Desperate Housewives …
Kathryn Joosten, American actress (born 1939)
Carol Ann Abrams was an American television and film producer. She and her husband, television producer Gerald W. Abrams, are the parents of film director and producer J. J. Abrams…
Carol Ann Abrams, American producer, author, and academic (born 1942)
Roy Francesco Salvadori was a British racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1952 to 1962. In endurance racing, Salvadori won the 24 Hours of Le M…
Roy Salvadori, English racing driver and manager (born 1922)
Sir Brian Edward Talboys was a New Zealand politician who served as the seventh deputy prime minister of New Zealand for the first two terms of Robert Muldoon's premiership. If the…
Brian Talboys, New Zealand journalist and politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1921)
Peter Jamieson Beaven was a New Zealand architect based in Christchurch, who lived for his last few months in Blenheim. He was a co-founder of New Zealand's first heritage lobby gr…
Peter Beaven, New Zealand architect, designed the Lyttelton Road Tunnel Administration Building (born 1925)
Rodolfo Ignacio Quezada Toruño was a Guatemalan Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Santiago de Guatemala from 2003 to 2010. He previously served as Bishop of Zacapa y San…
Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, Guatemalan cardinal (born 1932)
Pedro Borbón Rodriguez was a Dominican professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) most notably as a member of the Cincinnati Reds dynasty that won four…
Pedro Borbón, Dominican-American baseball player (born 1946)
Herbert Reed was an American musician, vocalist, and founding/naming member of The Platters, known for songs such as "Only You " and "The Great Pretender". Reed was the last surviv…
Herb Reed, American violinist (born 1929)
Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science…
Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (born 1920)
Harold Kefauver Keller was an American professional baseball player and executive who served as the fourth general manager in the history of the Seattle Mariners of Major League Ba…
Hal Keller, American baseball player and manager (born 1928)
Mihai Pătrașcu was a Romanian-American computer scientist at AT&T Labs in Florham Park, New Jersey, United States.
Mihai Pătrașcu, Romanian-American computer scientist (born 1982)
Charlie Sutton was an Australian rules footballer who represented Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He captained the Bulldogs to their first VFL premiership in 1954…
Charlie Sutton, Australian footballer and coach (born 1924)
Vladimir Yevgenyevich Krutov, nicknamed "The Tank", was a Russian professional ice hockey forward. Together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, he was part of the famed "KLM Lin…
Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player; together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, formed the famed KLM Line
Phillip Vallentine Tobias was a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was best known for his work at …
Phillip V
Charles Edward Miller Pearce was a New Zealand/Australian mathematician. At the time of his death on 8 June 2012 he was the Elder Professor of Mathematics at the University of Adel…
Charles E
Ghassan Tueni was a Lebanese journalist, politician and diplomat who headed An Nahar, one of the Arab world's leading newspapers. Some call him "The Dean of Lebanese Journalism".
Ghassan Tueni, Lebanese journalist, academic, and politician (born 1926)
Régis Clère was a French professional road bicycle racer.
Régis Clère, French cyclist (born 1956)
John Cradock Maples, Baron Maples was a British politician and life peer who served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 1989 to 1992 and Shadow Foreign Secretary from 1999 t…
John Maples, Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (born 1943)
Ivan Minatti was a Slovene poet, translator, and editor. He started writing poetry before World War II but principally belongs to the first postwar generation of Slovene poets. He …
Ivan Minatti, Slovene poet and translator (born 1924)