Since the end of the 1960s, Actor Roscoe Lee Browne made steady television appearances, including on Barney Miller, The Cosby Show, ER and Will & Grace.
Journalist and editor Francis P. Church is remembered best for his 1897 editorial reply to Virginia O'Hanlon, in which he declares Santa Claus is real.
John Galt was a prolific Scottish novelist admired for his depiction of country life. His masterpieces include The Ayrshire Legatees and Lawrie Todd.
Italian Jewish chemist Primo Levi survived a year at Auschwitz against all odds. He is best known his moving memoir, If This Is a Man.
Louis, Grand Dauphin, was the son of Louis XIV of France and the father of Philip V of Spain, but never became king himself.
Maria Tallchief was a revolutionary American ballerina who broke barriers for Native American women.
Kurt Vonnegut was an American author best known for the novels Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions.
American comedian Jonathan Winters was once described by talk-show host Jack Paar as "pound for pound, the funniest man alive."