- Cary Grant
Archibald Alec Leach, better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was an English film actor. With his distinctive Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, witty and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time of American cinema (after Humphrey Bogart) by the American Film Institute. - Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 - May 29, 1979) was an Oscar-winning Canadian motion picture star and co-founder of United Artists in 1919. She was known as "America's Sweetheart," "Little Mary" and "the girl with the curls." She was one of the first Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and one of film's greatest pioneers. Her influence in the development of film acting was enormous. Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, … - Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson, was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it. He was also greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov. - Frank Thomas
Franklin Thomas was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as the Nine Old Men. He graduated from Stanford University - where he worked on campus humor magazine the Stanford Chaparral with Ollie Johnston -- then later attended Chouinard Art Institute, then joined The Walt Disney Company on September 24, 1934 as employee number 224. There he animated dozens of feature films and shorts, and also was a member of the Dixieland band Firehouse Five Plus Two, … - Richard Burton
Richard Burton CBE (November 10 1925 - August 5 1984) was a Welsh actor. He was at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood.. Known for his distinctive voice, he was nominated seven times for Academy Awards for acting, yet never won. - Bülent Ecevit
Mustafa Bülent Ecevit was a Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist. - Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Pierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet (Paris, July 23 1930 - Nice, July 29, 2006) was a French historian who began teaching at the "Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales" (EHESS) in 1969. Vidal-Naquet was a specialist in the study of Ancient Greece, but was also interested in contemporary history, particularly the Algerian War (1954-62), during which he opposed the systematic use of torture by the French Army, as well as Jewish history. - Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887) was a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th Century. He was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the son of evangelist Lyman Beecher. He was the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin") and Isabella Beecher Hooker, a suffragist. - Albert Tillman
Albert Tillman (January 16 1928 - January 16 2004) was an American educator and underwater diver. He is widely considered to be the father of diving education. Tillman was born in Los Angeles, California. He became interested in marine and underwater life when, at age 10, he peered through a pair of goggles in the waters off Redondo Beach, California. He soon became a free diver and served in the United States Coast Guard at the end of World War II, … - Kuroda Kiyotaka
Duke , (16 October 1840 - 23 August 1900), also known as Kuroda Ryōsuke, was a Japanese politician of the Meiji era, and the second Prime Minister of Japan from 30 April 1888 to 25 October 1889. - Homer Pace
Homer St. Clair Pace (April 131879-May 221942) was an American business educator and innovator in the field of accountancy who, along with his brother Charles Ashford Pace, founded Pace University in New York. A native of Rehoboth, Ohio, Homer Pace first worked as an assistant to his father, John Fremont Pace, a Civil War veteran, in editing and publishing a weekly newspaper. He left journalism following his father's death in 1896. - Amrish Puri
Amrish Lal Puri was an Indian actor who appeared primarily in Bollywood movies. He acted as a main or supporting role in over 400 movies. He played character roles and was well-known as a villain. He had a striking bass voice and an outsize acting style that made him a convincing villain in even the most melodramatic movies. - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Jaber III al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, of the al-Sabah dynasty, served as the thirteenth Emir of Kuwait, and third Emir since Kuwait's independence from Britain, from December 31, 1977, until his death. Sheikh Jaber was known to have married at least thirteen times, and had thirty-nine children. Jaber was born in Kuwait City. Sheikh Jaber (of the Al-Sabah dynasty, which has ruled Kuwait since the 18th century) was the third son of the late Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, … - Christer Pettersson
Christer Pettersson (April 23, 1947 - September 29, 2004) was a suspect in the 1986 assassination of Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden. In 1988, he was arrested, tried and convicted of the murder but was freed on appeal the following year. - Agnes Ayres
Agnes Ayres (April 4, 1898 - December 25, 1940) was a silent film star in the 1920s. Born Agnes Hinkle in Carbondale, Illinois, she had planned to have a career in law, but in 1915 at the age of 17 she made her film debut at Essanay Studios in Chicago, and was signed by Fox Studios in 1919. Moving to New York, Agnes gained popularity after being cast in "Richard the Brazen" (1917), and was signed by Paramount Pictures in 1920. - Django Reinhardt
Jean "Django" Reinhardt. His name is pronounced - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was the thirty-second President of the United States. Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945, and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. A central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war, … - Jim Gary
Jim Gary was an American sculptor popularly known for his large, colorful creations of dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts and was recognized internationally for his fine, architectural, landscape, and whimsical monumental art. He was born in Sebastian, Florida, but lived in Colts Neck, New Jersey from early infancy. - Franky Gee
Francisco Alejandro Gutierrez (February 19, 1962 - October 22, 2005), more familiarly known as Franky Gee, was a former American soldier who became the frontman for the German Europop group Captain Jack. Though born in Havana, his family emigrated to Miami, and he then went on to Mallorca when he was young. After college, he enlisted in the United States Army, and was stationed in Germany. While there, he began his career as a disc jockey. - Gianfranco Ferrè
Gianfranco Ferré was a fashion designer also known as "the architect of fashion" for his background and his original attitude toward creating fashion design. Born in Legnano, Italy, he received a degree in architecture in 1969. Ferré began his fashion career in 1970 by designing accessories, then worked as a raincoat designer in 1972-74. He started his own company Baila in 1974 and launched his signature collection for women in 1978. - Michael Desisto
Albert Michael DeSisto (1939 - 2003) was an American educator, known for his DeSisto School. - Thomas Brassey 2nd Earl Brassey
Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 - 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building a large portion of the world's railways in the 19th century. By the time of his death he had been responsible for building about one-third of the railways in Britain, three-quarters of those in France, and major lines in many countries throughout Europe, and in Canada, Australia, South America and India, … - Lloyd Bacon
Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4 1889 in San Jose, California - November 15 1955 in Burbank, California) was a screen, stage, and vaudeville actor and film director. He started in films with Charlie Chaplin and Bronco Billy Anderson and appeared in more than 40 total. As an actor he is best known for supporting Chaplin in such films as 1915's "The Tramp", "The Champion" and 1917's "Easy Street". - Okamoto Kanoko
was the pen-name of a Japanese author, tanka poet, and Buddhism scholar active during Taisho and early Showa period Japan. - Tony Banks Baron Stratford
Anthony Louis Banks, Baron Stratford (8 April 1943 - 8 January 2006), usually known as Tony Banks, was a British politician and Labour Party MP and member of the House of Lords. He was formerly the Member of Parliament for West Ham and served as Sports Minister from 1997 to 1999. On 5 January 2006 he suffered a serious cerebral hemorrhage while on holiday in Florida, and died in hospital on 8 January, aged 62. He was known for his acid tongue and sharp wit. - D. W. Griffith
David Llewelyn Wark "D.W." Griffith (January 22, 1875 - July 23, 1948) was an American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation". - Eddie Barlow
Edgar ("Eddie") John Barlow (born 12 August 1940 in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa; died 30 December 2005 in Jersey) was a South African cricketer (All rounder). Barlow played first-class cricket for Transvaal and Eastern Province from 1959-60 to 1967-68 before moving to Western Province for the seasons from 1968-69 to 1980-81. During this time he also played three seasons with Derbyshire in the English County Championship from 1976 - 1978. - Ed Summers
Oron Edgar Summers, nicknamed "Kickapoo Ed," was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played five seasons with the Detroit Tigers (1908-12). Summers was born in Ladoga, Indiana, and attended Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana. He began his baseball playing career in the American Association before joining the Tigers in the American League in 1908. In his rookie season, Summers emerged as the Tigers' best pitcher, … - Ugo La Malfa
Ugo La Malfa (1903-05-16 - 1979-03-26) was an Italian politician, and an important leader in the Italian Republican Party, which his son, Giorgio La Malfa, is now president of. - Maurice Dodd
Maurice Dodd (October 25 1922 - December 31 2005) was a writer and cartoonist most notable for his years spent working on The Perishers comic strip published in "The Daily Mirror. Dodd was born in Hackney, England, and during World War II served in the Royal Air Force as a Servicing Commando, alongside Bill Herbert. After the war, Dodd was demobbed and studied art. - Anil Biswas
Anil Biswas (nick name 'Keru')(March 2, 1944, Karimpur, India - March 26, 2006, Kolkata, India) was an Indian politician. He was the secretary of the West Bengal State Committee of CPI(M) and member of the politbureau of the same since 1998. He was the editor of "Marxbadi Path" the theoretical quarterly in Bengal. He hailed from a village in Nadia District of West Bengal. He was known to be a deft strategist of the party. - Arthur J. O. Anderson
Arthur James Outram Anderson was an anthropologist specializing in Aztec culture and translator of the Nahuatl language. He was renowned for his and Charles E. Dibble's translation of the Florentine Codex by fray Bernardino de Sahagún, a project which took 30 years. Anderson died of a cerebral hemorrhage on June 3 1996. - Lynne Thigpen
Lynne Thigpen (December 22, 1948 - March 12, 2003) was a Tony Award-winning, Image Award-nominated American film and television actress. - Janice Rule
Janice Rule (Norwood, Ohio, 15 August 1931 - New York, New York, 17 October 2003) was an American actress. Among her noteworthy film roles were her portrayal of Viriginia in "Goodbye My Fancy", Willie in Robert Altman's "3 Women" and as journalist Kate Newman in Costa Gavras' 1982 political thriller" Missing". She was married three times, to N. Richard Nash (1956 - 1956), Robert Thom (1960 - 1961), and Ben Gazzara (1961 - 1979). - Constance Bennett
Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 - July 24, 1965) was a US actress known as much for her elegant persona as for her acting career. Largely underrated today, Bennett was one of Hollywood's most luminous stars, delivering amusing, madcap, and occasionally arch performances that belie her ornamental reputation. - Tillie K. Fowler
Tillie Kidd Fowler was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. - Barbara Lyon
Barbara Lyon was a singer of popular songs, born in the United States but having her career primarily in the United Kingdom. She was born in Hollywood, California, USA. Her parents, Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels, were both Hollywood actors, beginning in silent films with careers extending into the 1930s. In the early part of World War II, Ben Lyon joined the Royal Air Force, and though the family returned later to the United States, they made Britain their adopted home. - Shimazaki Tōson
was the pen-name of a Japanese author, active in the Meiji, Taisho and early Showa period Japan. He began his career as a poet, but went on to establish himself as the major proponent of naturalism in Japanese literature. His real name was Shimazaki Haruki. - Vilgot Sjöman
(David Harald) Vilgot Sjöman (1967), and "I Am Curious (Blue)" ("Jag är nyfiken - blå") (1968), which stretched the boundaries of acceptability of what could then be shown on film, deliberately treating their subjects in a provocative and explicit manner. Sjöman was born in Stockholm, where he grew up in a working-class home. His father, Anders W. Sjöman, was a builder; his mother was Mandis Pettersson. Sjöman became a clerk with a cereal company aged 15, … - Seán Doherty
Seán Doherty, known informally as "The Doc", was a popular and controversial Irish Fianna Fáil politician and former Irish Minister for Justice.
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