10/31/1950 - 03/04/1994
John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian actor and comedian. He rose to fame as a member of the Toronto, Ontario branch of The Second City, its related Second City Television series, and in his role in comedy fil...
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06/13/1897 - 10/02/1973
Paavo Johannes Nurmi (13 June 1897 – 2 October 1973) was a Finnish runner. Born in Turku, he was known as one of the "Flying Finns"; a term given to him, Hannes Kolehmainen, Ville Ritola and others for their distinction in ru...
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09/23/1930 - 06/10/2004
Ray Charles Robinson, better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues,gospel, and blues styles...
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01/30/1920 - 11/11/2007
Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. (January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director.
05/11/1904 - 01/23/1989
Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), commonly known as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in...
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Pete Postlethwaite (Peter William Postlethwaite)
02/07/1946 - 01/02/2011
Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite (7 February 1946 – 2 January 2011), was an English stage, film and television actor. Postlethwaite's first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He played a myst...
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03/19/1928 - 01/13/2009
Patrick Joseph McGoohan (March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009) was an American-born actor, raised in Ireland and England, with an extensive stage and film career, most notably in the 1960s television seriesDanger Man (rename...
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02/26/1920 - 05/17/2004
Tony Randall (February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was a U.S. actor, comic, producer and director.
09/23/1938 - 05/29/1982
Romy Schneider (23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982) was a German film actress who was born in Austria and also held French citizenship.
09/01/1714 - 05/15/1782
Richard Wilson (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was a Welsh landscape painter, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Wilson has been described as '...the most distinguished painter Wales...
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Larry Adler (Lawrence Cecil Adler)
02/14/1914 - 08/07/2001
Lawrence "Larry" Cecil Adler was an American musician, widely acknowledged as one of the world's most skilled harmonica players. During the later stage of his career he was known for his collaborations with p...
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10/01/1921 - 02/06/2009
James Allen Whitmore, Jr. (October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009) was an American film and stage actor.
04/28/1960 - 10/03/2004
John Joseph Cerutti (April 28, 1960 - October 3, 2004) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, and later a broadcaster for the Toronto Blue Jays.
05/11/1897 - 12/18/1961
Leo (F.) Reisman (October 11, 1897 - December 18, 1961) was a violinist and bandleader in the 1920s and 1930s. Born and reared in Boston, Reisman studied violin as a young man, and formed his own band in 1919. He became famous for having...
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09/22/1929 - 12/26/2003
Hugh Cecil Bean, who died at the age of 74, was for more than half a century one of Britain's most distinguished and versatile violinists.
From recording with the bands of Geraldo and Billy Cotton, he went on to lead the Philharmonia Orche...
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