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George Bähr (15 March 1666 – 16 March 1738) was a German architect.

Vitaly Mefodievich Solomin (Russian: Виталий Мефодьевич Соломин; 12 December 1941 – 27 May 2002) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter.

Jacques Daviel (11 August 1696 – 30 September 1762) was a French ophthalmologist credited with originating the first significant advance in cataract surgery since couching was invented in ancient India.

Egon Erwin Kisch (29 April 1885, Prague – 31 March 1948, Prague) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak writer and journalist, who wrote in German.

Jean-Pierre Maurice Georges Beltoise (26 April 1937 – 5 January 2015) was a French Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver who raced for the Matra and BRM teams.

Patriarch Ignatius IV (Hazim) of Antioch and All The East (Arabic: إغناطبوس الرابع هزيم، بطريرك أنطاكيا وسائر المشرق ‎‎ (April 4, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All The East from 1979 to 2012.

Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro (December 20, 1916 – April 25, 2011) was a Chilean poet.

Damaskinos Papandreou (born Vasileos Papandreou, Βασίλειος Παπανδρέου; February 23, 1936 in Thermo, Aetolia-Acarnania – November 5, 2011 in Genève) was the Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Adrianople from 2003 until his death.

(10 May 1878 – 3 October 1929) was a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor in 1923 (for a brief period of 102 days) and Foreign Minister 1923–1929, during the Weimar Republic.

Joshua "Josh" Gibson (December 21, 1911 – January 20, 1947) was an American Negro league baseball catcher.

Friedrich (Fritz) Carl Heckert (born 28 March 1884 in Chemnitz, died 7 April 1936 in Moscow) was a German politician, co-founder of the Spartacus League and the Communist Party of Germany and a leading member of the Communist International (Comintern).

Hermann Panzo (8 February 1958 – July 30, 1999 in Fort de France, Martinique) was a French athlete who mainly competed in the 100 metres.

Miloslav Ransdorf (15 February 1953 – 22 January 2016) was a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left party group in the European Parliament.

Giancarlo de' Medici (24 July 1611 – 23 January 1663) was an Italian cardinal of the House of Medici.

William Smith Monroe (/mənˈroʊ/; September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter who created the style of music known as bluegrass.

Mikhail Semyonovich Svetin (Russian: Михаил Семёнович Светин; born Michail Solomonovitch Goltsman; 11 December 1929 – 30 August 2015) was a Soviet, Russian actor.

Rosella Hightower (January 10, 1920 – November 4, 2008) was an American ballerina who achieved fame in both the United States and Europe.

Pyotr Ivanovich Zayev (Russian: Пётр Иванович Заев; 26 July 1953 − 29 November 2014) was a Russian amateur heavyweight boxer who won a silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Nicola Perscheid (3 December 1864 – 12 May 1930) was a German photographer.

Yoshikatsu Yoshida (吉田 義勝 Yoshida Yoshikatsu, born October 30, 1941) is a retired Japanese freestyle wrestler.

Pavel Romanovich Popovich (Russian: Па́вел Рома́нович Попо́вич, Ukrainian: Павло Романович Попович, Pavlo Romanovych Popovych) (October 5, 1930 – September 29, 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut.

Roman Dmitriyev (Russian: Роман Михайлович Дмитриев ; 1949 – 2010) was a Russian competitive wrestler and coach, and politician.

Gaetano Bedini (15 May 1806 – 6 September 1864) was an Italian ecclesiastic, Cardinal and diplomat of the Catholic Church.

Billy Bones is a fictional character, in the first section of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island.

Andrei Boltnev born January 5, 1946 in Ufa.

Ivan Aleksandrovich Bukavshin (Russian: Иван Александрович Букавшин; 3 May 1995 – 12 January 2016) was a Russian chess Grandmaster (2011).

José Aguilar Pulsar (24 November 1958 – 4 April 2014) was a Cuban boxer.

Jerome Robbins (October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American choreographer, director, dancer, and theater producer who worked in classical ballet, on Broadway, and in films and television.

Yevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik (Russian: Евге́ний Я́ковлевич Ве́сник; January 15, 1923 in Petrograd – April 10, 2009 in Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet stage and a film actor.

Natalya Georgyevna Gundareva (Russian: Ната́лья Гео́ргиевна Гу́ндарева, August 28, 1948, Moscow, USSR, - May 15, 2005, Moscow, Russian Federation) was a Soviet Russian film and theatre actress, one of the leading figures at the Mayakovsky Theatre where she worked since 1971.

Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847), later Fanny [Cäcilie] Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer.

Rudolf Spanner (born 17 April 1895 in Metternich bei Koblenz; died 1960) was Director of the Danzig Anatomical Institute during World War II.

Pope Gregory XIII (Latin: Gregorius XIII; 7 January 1502 – 10 April 1585), born Ugo Boncompagni, was Pope of the Catholic Church from 13 May 1572 to his death in 1585.

William Amos Poynter (May 29, 1848 – April 5, 1909) was a Nebraska politician and the tenth Governor of Nebraska from 1899 to 1901, running under a fusion ticket between the Populist and the Democratic Party.

(This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Muñoz and the second or maternal family name is Marín.) José Luis Alberto Muñoz Marín (February 18, 1898 – April 30, 1980), known as Luis Muñoz Marín, was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist, politician and statesman, regarded as the "Father of Modern Puerto Rico," and the "Architect of the Commonwealth.

Paul Jones Fannin (January 29, 1907 – January 13, 2002) was an American businessman and politician.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Boloshev (Russian: Александр Александрович Болошев; 12 March 1947, Elektrogorsk, Moscow Oblast, USSR – 16 July 2010, Volgograd, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian basketball player who won gold with the Soviet basketball team in Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Georges Miez (2 October 1904 – 21 April 1999) was a Swiss gymnast.

David Ionovich Bronstein (Russian: Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a Soviet chess grandmaster, who narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951.

Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy Sr.

Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013), (Cmdr, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut.

Nedo Nadi (9 June 1894 – 29 January 1940) was one of the best Italian fencers of all time.

(In this Japanese name, the family name is Kairakutei and Ishii.) Henry James Black (22 December 1858 - 19 September 1923) was a kabuki actor and Japan's first foreign-born rakugoka, or public storyteller, performing under the name Kairakutei Black I (初代 快楽亭 ブラック Shodai Kairakutei Burakku).

Martin Disler (1 March 1949, Seewen – 27 August 1996, Geneva) was a Swiss painter, droughtman and writer.

Gianfranco Ferré (Italian pronunciation: [dʒamˈfraŋko ferˈre]) (15 August 1944 – 17 June 2007) was a fashion designer also known as "the architect of fashion" for his background and his original attitude toward creating fashion design.

Karen Asrian (Armenian: Կարեն Ասրյան) (24 April 1980 – 9 June 2008) was an Armenian chess Grandmaster.

Emil Zátopek (Czech pronunciation: [ˈɛmɪl ˈzaːtopɛk] ; 19 September 1922 – 22 November 2000) was a Czechoslovak long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

(This article contains a patronymic name. This person is addressed by their given name, Abebe, and not as Bikila.) Abebe Bikila (Amharic: አበበ ቢቂላ; August 7, 1932 – October 25, 1973) was a double Olympic marathon champion from Ethiopia, most famous for winning a marathon gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics while running barefoot.

Philippe Grass (born in Wolxheim on May 6, 1801; died in Strasbourg on 9 April 1876) was a French sculptor.

Hélio Oiticica (Portuguese: [ˈε.lju ɔj.tʃi.ˈsi.ka]; July 26, 1937 – March 22, 1980) was a Brazilian visual artist, best known for his participation in the Neo-Concrete Movement, for his innovative use of color, and for what he later termed "environmental art", which included Parangolés and Penetrables, like the famous Tropicália.

Maurice of Savoy (10 January 1593 – 4 October 1657, Turin) was a Prince of Savoy and a 17th-century cardinal.

Phyllis Margery Anderson (13 January 1901 – 29 November 1957) was an Australian pathologist.

Rosalía Mera Goyenechea (28 January 1944 – 15 August 2013) was a Spanish businesswoman and entrepreneur.

Bill Carruthers (September 27, 1930 – March 2, 2003), born in Detroit, Michigan, was a television executive who gained his first fame as the director of The Soupy Sales Show at Detroit television station WXYZ-TV.

Bobby McClure (April 21, 1942 – November 13, 1992) was an American soul singer.

Charles A. "Charlie" Wilson, Jr.

James Miller (April 25, 1776 – July 7, 1851) was the first Governor of Arkansas Territory and a brigadier general in the United States Army during the War of 1812.

Louis DiGiaimo (1938 – December 19, 2015) was an American casting director and film producer.

Danilo L. "Danny" Zialcita (November 24, 1939 – March 10, 2013) was a Filipino film director, writer and producer.

Blessed Julian-Nicolas Rèche (2 September 1838 – 23 October 1890) was a French Roman Catholic religious of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools; he assumed the religious name of "Arnould" upon his profession into the congregation and became a noted educator.

(This name uses Philippine naming customs. The matronymic is Molina and the family name is Moreno.) German Molina Moreno (4 October 1933 – 8 January 2016), also known as Kuya Germs or the Master Showman, was a Spanish Filipino television host, actor, comedian and talent manager (star-builder) popular during the 1980s.

Irving Adler (April 27, 1913 – September 22, 2012) was an author, mathematician, scientist, political activist and educator.

Maria Teresa Merlo (20 February 1894 - 5 February 1964) - in religious "Tecla" - was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the co-founder of the Daughters of Saint Paul that she established alongside Blessed Giacomo Alberione.

Reese J. Llewellyn (c. 1862-1936) was a Welsh-born American businessman.

Jules Furthman (March 5, 1888 – September 22, 1966) was a magazine and newspaper writer before working as a screenwriter.

Kiyoshi Yamashita (山下 清 Yamashita Kiyoshi (born Seiji Obashi, 10 March 1922 – 12 July 1971)) was a Japanese artist.

Molly Bee (August 18, 1939 – February 7, 2009), born Mollie Gene Beachboard, was an American country music singer famous for her 1952 recording of the early perennial, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", and as Pinky Lee's sidekick on The Pinky Lee Show.

Andrew "Andy" White (27 July 1930 – 9 November 2015) was a Scottish drummer, primarily as a session musician.

Marius Alexander Jacques Bauer (25 January 1867 in The Hague – 18 July 1932 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer; best known for his Oriental scenes.

Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III (June 3, 1927 – July 3, 2007) was an American musician best known for his 1963 saxophone hit "Yakety Sax" (which became Benny Hill's signature tune).

Edith Wynne Matthison (November 23, 1875 – September 23, 1955) was an Anglo-American stage actress who also appeared in two silent films.

Arisa Ishikawa (石川 安里沙 Ishikawa Arisa, July 28, 1987 – June 11, 2009), better known by her stage name Sumire (純恋), was a Japanese cabaret hostess and fashion model, who was known as a featured model on the popular gyaru fashion magazine Koakuma Ageha.

In 1917, Samuel Pandolfo raised $9.