Page 1 of 20
Jack Walter Keller was an American composer, songwriter and record producer. He cowrote, with Howard Greenfield and others, several pop hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including Just Between You and Me, Everybodys Somebodys Fool, My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own, Venus in Blue Jeans and Run to Him. He also wrote the theme songs for TV series including Bewitched and Gidget, and later worked in Los Angeles where he wrote for, and produced, The Monkees and in Nashville.....
Source: Wikipedia
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie 160 pronunciation 160 FREng is an Indonesian engineer who was President of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999. He succeeded Suharto, who resigned in 1998. His presidency is seen as a transition to the postSuharto era. Upon becoming president, he liberalised Indonesias press and political party laws, and held an early democratic election in 1999, which resulted in the end of his presidency. His presidency was the third, and the shortest, after independence.....
Source: Wikipedia
The early life and military career of John Sidney McCain III spans the first fortyfive years of his life . McCains father and grandfather were admirals in the United States Navy. McCain was born on August 29, 1936, in the Panama Canal Zone, and attended many schools growing up as his family moved among naval facilities. McCain graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1958. He married the former Carol Shepp in 1965 he adopted two children from her previous marriage and they had another c....
Source: Wikipedia
Major H. P. S. Ahluwalia is an Indian mountaineer. During his career of 45160years, he has made contributions in the fields of adventure, sports, environment, disability and social work. Following his advanced training at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling, he climbed extensively in Sikkim, Nepal and later he climbed Mount Everest on 29 May 1965. During the IndoPakistani War of 1965, he suffered a bullet injury which resulted in his confinement to a wheelchair. Presently, he is t....
Source: Wikipedia
Frederik Willem de Klerk is a South African politician who served as the countrys State President from September 1989 to May 1994. He was the seventh and last head of state of South Africa under the apartheid era. De Klerk was also leader of the National Party from February 1989 to September 1997.....
Source: Wikipedia
Charles Gordon Fullerton was a United States Air Force colonel, a USAF and NASA astronaut, and a research pilot at NASAs Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California. His assignments included a variety of flight research and support activities piloting NASAs B52 launch aircraft, the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft , and other multiengine and high performance aircraft. Fullerton, who logged more than 380 hours in space flight, was a NASA astronaut from September 1969 until November 1....
Source: Wikipedia
Eddie Hill is a retired American drag racer who won numerous drag racing championships on land and water. Hill had the first run in the four160second range , which earned him the nickname Four Father of Drag Racing. His other nicknames include The Thrill, Holeshot Hill, and Fast Eddie. In 1960, he set the NHRA record for the largest improvement in the elapsed time when he drove the quarter mile in 8.84160seconds to break the previous 9.40second record.....
Source: Wikipedia
Hansford Tillman Johnson is a retired fourstar general in the U.S. Air Force who served as the Acting United States Secretary of the Navy, overseeing the United States Navy and Marine Corps in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. He is the only retired Air Force officer to ever hold that position. Prior to that he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy . He currently works at the Institute for Defense Analyses.....
Source: Wikipedia
Gary Warren Hart is an American diplomat, politician, lawyer, author, professor and commentator. He served as a U.S. Senator representing Colorado , and sought the Democratic nomination for President in 1984 and 1988. Hart was appointed to be the United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland in October 2014. He and his wife, Lee, live in Kittredge, Colorado, where they own a cabin on Troublesome Gulch. They have two grown children, Andrea and John.....
Source: Wikipedia
Edward Carroll Stone is an American space scientist, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, and former director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory .....
Source: Wikipedia
Charles Edward Charlie Daniels is an American multiinstrumentalist, lyricist, and singer, known for his contributions to country, bluegrass, and Southern rock music. He is perhaps best known for his number one country hit The Devil Went Down to Georgia, and multiple other songs he has written and performed. Daniels has been active as a singer and musician since the 1950s. He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on January 24, 2008 and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009. Daniels was i....
Source: Wikipedia
Edward George Gibson, Ph.D. is a former astronaut for NASA, a pilot, an engineer, and a physicist.....
Source: Wikipedia
Shri Harakh Chand Nahata was a prominent Indian businessman and social leader.....
Source: Wikipedia
David Carradine was an American actor and martial artist, best known for his leading role as a Shaolin peaceloving monk, Kwai Chang Caine, in the 1970s television series Kung Fu. He was a member of a productive acting family that began with his father, John Carradine. Carradines acting career, which included major and minor roles on stage and television, and in cinema, spanned over four decades. A prolific B movie actor, he appeared in more than 100 feature films and was nominated four times fo....
Source: Wikipedia
David Edward Crombie PC OC OOnt is a Canadian politician, professor and consultant. Crombie served as mayor of Toronto from 1972 to 1978. In federal politics, he served as a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament from 1978 to 1988 serving in several cabinet positions.....
Source: Wikipedia
Harry Norbert Kalas was an American sportscaster, best known for his Ford C. Frick Awardwinning role as lead playbyplay announcer for Major League Baseballs Philadelphia Phillies, a position he held from 1971 until his death in 2009.....
Source: Wikipedia
David Oswald Nelson was an American actor, director, producer. He was the elder son of bandleaderTV actor Ozzie Nelson and singer Harriet Hilliard and the older brother of singer Eric Ricky Nelson.....
Source: Wikipedia
David Prentice was an English artist and former art teacher. In 1964 he was one of the four founder members of Birminghams Ikon Gallery.....
Source: Wikipedia
David Takayoshi Suzuki, CC OBC is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001. Since the mid1970s, Suzuki has been known for his television and radio series, documentaries and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host of the popular and longrunning CBC ....
Source: Wikipedia
Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford Liddy Dole is an American politician who served in both the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush presidential administrations, as well as in the United States Senate.....
Source: Wikipedia