Billie Burke (1884)
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton “Billie” Burke was an American actress who was famous on Broadway and radio, and in silent and sound films. She is best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good…
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton “Billie” Burke was an American actress who was famous on Broadway and radio, and in silent and sound films. She is best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good…
Dave Hope is an American bass guitarist who played with the American progressive rock band Kansas from 1970 until the band’s first split in 1983. When he was in high school, he played the tuba and…
Jean Toomer was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the latter association. His reputation stems from his novel…
Yehuda Nir was a Polish-born American Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist and author of The Lost Childhood. Nir posed as a Roman Catholic and learned Latin to escape Nazi persecution in Poland during…
Oscar Daniel Bezerra Schmidt, nicknamed Mão Santa, is a Brazilian retired professional basketball player. Schmidt primarily played the power forward and small forward position, was 2.06 m tall and…
Tolossa Kotu Terfe is an Ethiopian long-distance runner and coach. He placed fourth in men’s 10,000 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics and has coached the national teams of both Ethiopia and Bahrain.
Munetaka Higuchi was a Japanese musician and record producer. He is best known as the original drummer of the heavy metal band Loudness, but first rose to prominence as a member of Lazy in the 1970s.