Bettye Lane (1930)
Bettye Lane was an American photojournalist known for documenting major events within the feminist movement, the civil rights movement, and the gay rights movement in the United States. She joined…
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Helen Merrill (1930)
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Gram Parsons (1946)
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Émile Waldteufel (1837)
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César Gutiérrez (1943)
César Dario Gutiérrez [goo-te-er’-rez], also nicknamed “Cocoa”, was a Venezuelan professional baseball player. He played as a shortstop in Major League Baseball for the San Francisco Giants in the…
Richard Borcherds (1959)
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