04/28/1937 - 12/30/2006
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionar...
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12/13/1914 - 04/13/1975
Larry Parks (December 13, 1914 – April 13, 1975) was an American stage and movie actor. He was born Samuel Klausman Lawrence Parks. His career was virtually ended when he admitted to having once been a member of a Communist party cell, which...
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05/13/1909 - 11/05/1956
Arthur "Art" Tatum, Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist and virtuoso. He was nearly blind.
Tatum is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all tim...
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Mollie Sagden (Isabel Mary Sugden)
07/21/1922 - 07/01/2009
Isabel Mary 'Mollie' Sugden (21 July 1922 – 1 July 2009) was an English comedy actress best known for portraying the saleswoman Mrs. Slocombe in the British sitcom Are You Being Served?...
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03/24/1912 - 04/20/2010
Dorothy Irene Height (March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010) was an American administrator, educator, and social activist. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years, and wa...
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04/03/1921 - 03/26/2004
Jan Sterling (April 3, 1921 – March 26, 2004) was an American actress.
Most active in films during the 1950s, Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954), and w...
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05/31/1941 - 04/06/1970
Sean Leslie Flynn (born May 31, 1941, in Los Angeles, California; disappeared April 6, 1970, in Cambodia, age 28; declared legally dead in 1984) was an American actor and freelance photojournalist best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War.
03/15/1926 - 10/17/2009
Sheldon Jerome Segal (March 15, 1926 – October 17, 2009) was an American embryologist and biochemist who spent his entire career working on contraception and made major innovations in the field of long...
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04/27/1899 - 05/05/1951
Leo Harvey Diegel (April 27, 1899 – May 5, 1951) was a prominent American professional golfer of the 1920s and early 1930s. He captured two PGA Championships for his only major titles, and played on four Ryder Cup teams. Diegel is a member o...
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07/07/1887 - 03/28/1985
Marc Chagall (born July 7, 1887, Vitebsk, Belorussia—died March 28, 1985, Saint-Paul, Alpes-Maritimes, France) Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer. He composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rath...
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02/08/1931 - 09/30/1955
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied by the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as a troubled Los Ange...
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02/25/1841 - 12/03/1919
Pierre Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that...
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Marty Springstead (Martin John Springstead)
07/9/1937 - 01/17/2012
Martin John Springstead (July 9, 1937 – January 17, 2012) was a former umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1966 to 1985 and had since worked as an umpire supervisor. He was the youngest umpire ever to serve...
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06/12/1892 - 06/18/1892
Djuna Barnes (12 June 1892 – 18 June 1982) was an American writer who played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling...
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