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Catherine May Moylan (July 4, 1904 – September 9, 1969) was an American film actress, model, and beauty queen who won the 1926 International Pageant of Pulchritude. She subsequently appeared in two ...
British television personality and journalist (1943–2005)
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John Richard Whiteley OBE DL (28 December 1943 – 26 June 2005) was an English presenter, and journalist, best known for his twenty-three years as host of the game show Countdown. Countdown was the launch ...
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Savely Viktorovich Kramarov (Russian: Саве́лий Ви́кторович Кра́маров; 13 October 1934 – 6 June 1995) was a Soviet, Russian and American actor. He acted in at least 42 Soviet films, and later appeared in ...
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Florence Madeline "Madge" Syers (née Cave, 16 September 1881 – 9 September 1917) was a British figure skater. She became the first woman to compete at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1902 by ...
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Larry Levan (born Lawrence Philpot, July 20, 1954 – November 8, 1992) was an American DJ best known for his decade-long residency at the New York City night club Paradise Garage, which has been ...
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Gerard William "Jerry" Ford (October 2, 1924 – August 24, 2008) was an American businessman who in 1946 founded Ford Modeling Agency with his wife Eileen Ford in their apartment on the Upper East Side ...
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Ottorino Respighi ( reh-SPEE-ghee, rə-, 9 July 1879 – 18 April 1936) was an Italian composer, violinist, and teacher who was one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century. His ...
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Alvin Christian "Al" Kraenzlein (December 12, 1876 – January 6, 1928), known as "the father of the modern hurdling technique", was an American track-and-field athlete, and the first sportsman in the ...
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Daniel De Leon (December 14, 1852 – May 11, 1914), alternatively spelt Daniel de León, was an American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. He is regarded ...
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William Henry Keeler (March 3, 1872 – January 1, 1923), nicknamed "Wee Willie" because of his small stature, was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1892 to 1910, primarily ...
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Beto Carrero (born João Batista Sergio Murad; September 9, 1937 – February 1, 2008) was a Brazilian theme park owner and entertainer. He was the creator of the Beto Carrero World Park, in the mu ...
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Tōho Shiotsuki (塩月桃甫, Shiotsuki Tōho, February 27, 1886 – January 30, 1954), also known by his birth name Zenkichi Nagano, was a Japanese painter from Miyazaki. From 1921 to 1946, he taught art in Taiwan ...
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Helmut Kolle (24 February 1899 – 17 November 1931) was a German painter who found major success in France in the 1920s, fusing the German modernist style with that of French painting.
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George Dean (14 November 1867 – 7 May 1933) was a ferry boat master in Sydney, Australia, who was charged with attempting to poison his wife. A large part of the Sydney public came to believe that Dean ...
British newspaper and publishing magnate (1865–1922)
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Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (15 July 1865 – 14 August 1922) was a British newspaper and publishing magnate. As owner of the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror, and a pioneer ...
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Philip Heckman Arbuckle (September 6, 1883 – June 11, 1932) was a college football coach at Louisiana Tech University and Rice University. From 1912 to 1923, he coached at Rice, where he compiled a 51–25–8 ...
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Oswald Külpe (3 August 1862 – 30 December 1915) was a German structural psychologists of the late 19th and early 20th century. Külpe, who is lesser known than his German mentor, Wilhelm Wundt, revolut ...
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John Herbert Adler (August 23, 1959 – April 4, 2011) was an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party who served for one term as the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 3rd congr ...