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Gabriel Vargas Bernal was a Mexican cartoonist, whose comic strip La Familia Burrón was created in 1937. This cartoon has been described as one of the most important in Mexican pop…
Gabriel Vargas, Mexican painter and illustrator (born 1915)
Jarvis Eric Williams, Sr. was an American professional football player who was a defensive back for seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) during the 1980s and 1990s. …
Jarvis Williams, American football player and coach (born 1965)
Arthur Gordon Linkletter was a Canadian-born American radio and television personality. He was the host of House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and Peop…
Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television host (born 1912)
Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Hugh Moran, was a fast jet pilot and later a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. He was Commander-in-Chief of Air Command at the time of his …
Chris Moran, English air marshal and pilot (born 1956)
Kieran Phelan was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and member of Seanad Éireann on the Industrial and Commercial Panel.
Kieran Phelan, Irish politician (born 1949)
Payut Ngaokrachang was a Thai cartoonist and animator. He created Thai cinema's first cel-animated feature film, The Adventure of Sudsakorn.
Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator and director (born 1929)
Gary Wayne Coleman was an American actor, known as a high-profile child star of the late 1970s and 1980s. Born in Zion, Illinois, Coleman grew up with his adoptive parents. Due to …
Gary Coleman, American actor (born 1968)
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. He is considered one of the key figures of the New Hollywood era. He earned prizes from the Cann…
Dennis Hopper, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1936)
Yuri Borisovich Chesnokov was a Russian volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in Moscow.
Yuri Chesnokov, Russian volleyball player and coach (born 1933)
Dufferin "Duff" Roblin was a Canadian businessman and politician. He served as the 14th premier of Manitoba from 1958 to 1967. Roblin was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the a…
Dufferin Roblin, Canadian commander and politician, 14th Premier of Manitoba (born 1917)
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and pr…
Louise Bourgeois, French-American sculptor and painter (born 1911)
Brian Duffy was an English photographer and film producer, best remembered for his fashion and portrait photography of the 1960s and 1970s.
Brian Duffy, English photographer and producer (born 1933)
William Ashman Fraker, ASC, BSC was an American cinematographer and director.
William A
Rubén Juárez was an Argentine bandoneonist and singer-songwriter of tango.
Rubén Juárez, Argentinian singer-songwriter and bandoneón player (born 1947)
Merata Mita was a New Zealand filmmaker, producer, and writer, and a key figure in the growth of the Māori screen industry. Mita was the first indigenous woman and the first woma…
Merata Mita, New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1942)
Kazuo Ohno was a Japanese dancer who became a guru and inspirational figure in the dance form known as Butoh. He is the author of several books on Butoh, including The Palace Soar…
Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (born 1906)
Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of the greatest living poets in any language." He was one …
Andrei Voznesensky, Russian poet (born 1933)
Eddi-Rue McClanahan was an American actress, primarily known for her work in television sitcoms. She portrayed Vivian Harmon on Maude (1972–1978), Aunt Fran Crowley on Mama's Famil…
Rue McClanahan, American actress (born 1934)
John Robert Wooden was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed "the Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championship…
John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (born 1910)
Denise Lorraine Narcisse-Mair was a Canadian musicologist, music educator, choral conductor, and composer.
Denise Narcisse-Mair, Canadian musician (born 1940)
Kenneth Brown was a British guitarist with The Quarrymen, a precursor to The Beatles.
Ken Brown, British Guitarist who was a member of The Quarrymen (born 1940)
Basil Myron Schott was the Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh from 2002 until his death.
Basil Schott, American archbishop (born 1939)
Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, ret…
Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (born 1941)
Alfonso Williamson was an American cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator specializing in adventure, Western, science fiction and fantasy.
Al Williamson, American illustrator (born 1931)