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8 hours ago · Major-General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874—1957), Head of British Mission Belgian, Grand Quartier Général. Brigadier-General John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl (1871—1942), Scottish Horse Mounted Brigade. Brigadier Robert Ringrose Gelston Atkins [ 2 ] (1891—1969), Royal Army Medical Corps.
8 hours ago · Joseph Mendelssohn (1770–1848), founder of former bank Mendelssohn & Co. Friedrich Jacob Merck (1621–1678), founder of Merck KGaA (Engel-Apotheke in Darmstadt) George Merck (1867–1926), founder of Merck & Co. Willy Messerschmitt (1875–1978), founder of Messerschmitt, airplane manufacturer
8 hours ago · This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
8 hours ago · James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
8 hours ago · Antony J. Blinken: US secretary of the State under President Joseph R. Biden, director of the Penn Biden Center 2018–2020; Adolph E. Borie: US secretary of the Navy under President Ulysses S. Grant; William Bradford: United States attorney general under President George Washington
8 hours ago · Joseph Aspdin (1778–1855), GB – Portlandzement 1824; John Jacob Astor IV (1864–1912), USA – Fahrradbremse, Turbine; John Vincent Atanasoff (1903–1995), USA – Atanasoff-Berry-Computer 1937; Stain Atkinson, GB – Komplettgießmaschine 1862 (mit John Robert Johnson) George Atwood (1745–1807), GB – Atwoodsche Fallmaschine 1784
8 hours ago · John Paul Getty III, 54, American heir and kidnapping victim, grandson of J. Paul Getty and father of Balthazar Getty, after long illness. [52] Miriam Hansen, 61, American cinema scholar and professor (University of Chicago), cancer. [53] Brian Jacques, 71, British fantasy author (Redwall), heart attack.
