- H. R. Haldeman
Harry Robbins Haldeman (publicly known as H. R. Haldeman, and informally as Bob Haldeman) (October 27, 1926 - November 12, 1993) was a U.S. political aide and businessman, best known for his service as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and for his role in events leading to the Watergate burglaries and the Watergate scandal - for which he was convicted of criminal activity. He was imprisoned for 18 months for his crimes. - Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) was an American writer and is considered to have acted as a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. She spent most of her life in France. - James Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, and essayist, best known for his novel "Go Tell It on the Mountain". Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century United States. - Joseph Stilwell
Joseph Warren Stilwell was a United States Army four-star general best-known for his service in China. He was nicknamed "Uncle Joe" and "Vinegar Joe" for his concern for the average soldier and forthright manner. - Anita Roberts
Anita B. Roberts, (April 3, 1942 - May 26, 2006) was a molecular biologist who made pioneering observations of a protein, TGF beta, that is critical in healing wounds and bone fractures and that has a dual role in blocking or stimulating cancers. Roberts was the 49th most-cited scientist in the world and the second most-cited female scientist as of 2005. Roberts was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she grew up. - Paul Hunter
Paul Alan Hunter was an English professional snooker player. His media profile developed swiftly and he became known as the ’Beckham of the Baize’ for his glamorous image - Andrew Mattison
Andrew Michael Mattison was a medical psychologist and researcher. He performed influential research in both clinical and social aspects of sexology, as well as drug use. He spent the majority of his career as a professor, practicing psychotherapist, and research scientist at the University of California, San Diego. Mattison received his Ph.D. from United States International University (now Alliant International University) in 1975, … - John Chancellor
John William Chancellor was a well-known American journalist, who spent most of his career associated with the NBC television network. Chancellor was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1949. Originally a reporter for the "Chicago Sun-Times", he first started his career in national television news as a correspondent on NBC's evening newscast, the "Huntley-Brinkley Report". - Theda Bara
Theda Bara was the stage name of Theodosia Burr Goodman (July 29, 1885 - April 7, 1955), a silent film actress. Movie executives made promotional claims that her stage name was chosen because it is an anagram for "Arab Death." In reality, "Theda" was a childhood nickname for Theodosia. "Bara" was a shortened form of her maternal grandfather's last name, Baranger. Bara was one of the most popular screen actresses of her era, … - Mack Jones
Mack Jones, nicknamed "Mack The Knife", was a MLB left fielder who played for the Milwaukee & Atlanta Braves (1961-1967), Cincinnati Reds (1968) and Montreal Expos (1969-1971). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Jones was signed by the Milwaukee Braves as a non-draft amateur agent in 1958. In his major-league debut, on July 13, 1961, … - Claude Ryan
Claude Ryan, CC, D.h.c. (January 26, 1925 - February 9, 2004) was a Canadian politician and leader of the Parti libéral du Québec from 1978 to 1982. He was also the National Assembly of Quebec member for Argenteuil from 1979 to 1994. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was the director of "Le Devoir", a French-language newspaper available in the province of Quebec, from 1964 to 1978. - Fathi Arafat
Fathi Arafat (January 11, 1933 - December 1, 2004), born in Cairo, was a Palestinian physician and the founder and long-term chairman of the Palestine Red Crescent Society. He studied medicine at Cairo University from 1950 until 1957 and thereafter practiced as a pediatrician in Cairo, Kuwait and Jordan. He was a younger brother of the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat. Arafat became a member of the Palestinian National Council in 1967. - Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 - November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics and statistical mechanics. Fermi won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity. - John Wayne
John Wayne (May 26, 1907 - June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. He epitomized ruggedly individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne thirteenth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. A Harris Poll released in 2007 placed Wayne third among America's favorite film stars, … - Jim Capaldi
Jim Capaldi (2 August 1944 - 28 January 2005) was an English musician and songwriter and a founding member of Traffic. He drummed with several famous singers and musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and George Harrison. - Brian Clough
Brian Howard Clough, OBE (21 March, 1935 – 20 September, 2004) was a successful footballer and subsequently football manager, most notable for his success with Derby County and Nottingham Forest. - Harry Hopkins
Harry Lloyd Hopkins (August 17 1890 - January 29 1946) was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers. He was one of the architects of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country. In World War II he was Roosevelt's chief diplomatic advisor and troubleshooter and was a key policy maker in the $50 billion Lend Lease program that sent aid to the allies. - Christopher Skase
Christopher Charles Skase (September 18, 1948 - August 5, 2001) was an Australian businessman who later became one of his country's most wanted fugitives, after his business empire crashed spectacularly and he fled to Majorca in Spain. - Barry Sheene
Barry Sheene MBE was a British former World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. - Michelle Thomas
Michelle Thomas was an actress who is best known for her roles as Myra Monkhouse, the girlfriend of Steve Urkel, on the American sitcom "Family Matters" from 1993 to 1998 and Justine Phillips, girlfriend of Theo Huxtable on "The Cosby Show". Thomas was born in Boston, Massachusetts but grew up in New York City, where she attended the Montclair School of the Arts and the Broadway Dance Center. Her mother was Phynjuar Thomas, a stage performer, … - Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 - 9 November 1940), known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain's legacy is marked by his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the concession of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler, marked by the Munich Agreement in 1938. In the same year he also gave up the Irish Free State Royal Navy ports. - Samira Bellil
Samira Bellil (November 24, 1972 - September 7, 2004) was a French Muslim feminist activist and a campaigner for the rights of Muslim girls and women. Bellil became famous in France with the publication of her autobiographical book "Dans l'enfer des tournantes" (translated as "In the hell of the tournantes (gang-rapes)") (2002). The book discusses the violence she and other young women endured in the predominantly Muslim immigrant outskirts of Paris, … - Napoléon Bonaparte
Napoleon I (born Napoleone Buonaparte, later Napoléon Bonaparte ; 15 August 1769 - 5 May 1821) was a general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul ("Premier Consul") of the French Republic from 11 November 1799 to 18 May 1804, Emperor of the French ("Empereur des Français") from 18 May 1804 to 6 April 1814, and was briefly restored as Emperor from 20 March to 22 June 1815. - Fred Rogers
Reverend Frederick McFeely "Fred" Rogers was an American educator, minister, songwriter and television host. Rogers was the host of the internationally acclaimed children's television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", in production from 1968 to 2001. As Mister Rogers, he became an iconic presence to millions of viewers. Rogers was also an ordained Presbyterian minister. - John Ford
John Ford was an American film director famous for both his westerns such as "Stagecoach" and "The Searchers" and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as "The Grapes of Wrath". His win of four Best Director Academy Awards (1935, 1940, 1941, 1952) is a record till today unmatched, although only one of those films, "How Green Was My Valley", won Best Picture. His style of film-making has been tremendously influential, … - Alice Faye
Alice Faye was an American actress and singer, remembered first for her stardom and then feud at 20th Century Fox and, later, as the radio comedy partner of her second husband, bandleader-comedian Phil Harris. - Leslie Halliwell
Leslie Robert James Halliwell was a British motion picture historian and encyclopedist who shaped domestic tastes through his career as a buyer for television stations. - John Spencer
John Spencer (born 18 September 1935, Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, England; died 11 July 2006, Bolton, Greater Manchester) was an English professional snooker player who dominated the game in the 1970s along with Ray Reardon. Spencer was born in Radcliffe (now part of Greater Manchester, formerly districted in Lancashire). He started his snooker career at the age of 15. Snooker was in decline during Spencer's youth, and he did not turn professional until his early 30s, … - Raúl Juliá
Raúl Rafael Juliá y Arcelay (better known as simply Raúl Juliá) (March 9, 1940 - October 24, 1994) was a Golden Globe award winning actor from Puerto Rico who lived and worked for many years in the United States. His career spanned stage and screen, and included dramatic, comic, and musical roles in theater, film and television, challenging audiences with his complex, often enthralling performances. - Doris Allen
Doris Allen served in the California Assembly from 1982 to 1995 and as Speaker of that body from June 5 to September 14, 1995, before being recalled from office by irate constituents. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Allen was a Republican, but when Republicans gained a one-vote majority in 1995, threatening longtime Democratic Speaker Willie Brown's hold on power, Brown convinced Allen and another Republican, Brian Setencich, to vote with the Democrats. - Bernie Geoffrion
Bernard Joseph André Geoffrion, nicknamed "Boom Boom", was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Generally considered as one of the innovators of the slapshot, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972 following a 16-year career with the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. - Jacques Anquetil
Jacques Anquetil (January 8, 1934 - November 18, 1987), was a French cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964. He stated before the 1961 Tour de France that he would gain the yellow jersey on day one and wear it all through the tour, a tall order with 2 previous winners in the field - Gaul and Bahamontes - but he did just that. - Darlene Conley
Darlene Conley (July 18 1934 - January 14 2007) was an American actress. Conley's career spanned fifty years, but she was best known for her performances in daytime television, and in particular, for her portrayal of larger-than-life fashion industrialist Sally Spectra on "The Bold and the Beautiful". Conley played the Emmy Award-nominated role from 1988 until her death nineteen years later. - Jacques Plante
Joseph Jacques Omer "Jake the Snake" Plante (born January 17, 1929 in Shawinigan Falls, Quebec; died February 27, 1986 in Sierre, Switzerland) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. - Santo Trafficante Sr.
Santo Trafficante, Sr. (May 28, 1886-August, 1954) was a Mafia don who became powerful during the early and mid 20th century in Tampa, Florida, United States. Trafficante was heavily involved in the illegal bolita lotteries which were popular in Florida at the time. Trafficante assumed control of the Tampa mafia after the death of boss James Lumia on June 5, 1950. Upon his own death from stomach cancer in 1954, control passed to his son, Santo Trafficante, Jr. - Nipsey Russell
Julius "Nipsey" Russell was an African-American comedian, best known today for his many appearances as a guest panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, especially "Match Game", "Password", "Hollywood Squares", "To Tell the Truth" and "Pyramid". His appearances were distinguished in part by the short, humorous poems he would recite during the broadcast. - Pedro Pietri
Pedro Pietri (March 21, 1944-March 3, 2004) born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, was a Nuyorican poet and playwright who co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He was the poet laureate of the Nuyorican movement. - Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII (Latin: "Ioannes PP. XXIII"; Italian: "Giovanni XXIII"), born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (November 25, 1881 - June 3, 1963), was elected as the 261st Pope of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City on October 28, 1958. He called the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) but did not live to see it to completion, dying on June 3, 1963, two months after the completion of his final encyclical, "Pacem in Terris". - Bernard Lee
Bernard Lee (10 January 1908 - 16 January 1981) was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films. - Anne Haddy
Anne Haddy was an Australian film, soap opera and television actress.
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