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1993 deaths
- Audrey HepburnAudrey Kathleen Hepburn was born on the 4th of May 1929 at number 48 Rue Keyenveld in Ixelles, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium.
- Hans SuessHans Eduard Suess entered the world on the 16th of December 1909 in Austria. He carried a significant family name as the grandson of geologist Eduard Suess.
- Deke SlaytonDonald Kent Slayton was born on the 1st of March 1924, on a farm near Leon, Wisconsin. His family home lacked electricity and indoor plumbing during his…
- Frank ZappaFrank Vincent Zappa was born on the 21st of December 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked at the Edgewood Arsenal chemical warfare facility of the…
- Thurgood MarshallThoroughgood Marshall was born on the 2nd of July 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked as a waiter in hotels and railroad cars while his mother…
- Hans JonasHans Jonas was born in the German city of Mönchengladbach on the 10th of May 1903. He grew up within a Jewish family during a time when European society was…
- Penelope GilliattPenelope Gilliatt was born on the 25th of March 1932 in London. Her parents were Cyril Conner and Marie Stephanie Douglass, both hailing from Newcastle upon…
- Marian AndersonMarian Anderson was born on the 27th of February 1897 in Philadelphia. Her father sold ice and coal at the Reading Terminal while her mother worked as a…
- Dražen PetrovićIn 1979, a thirteen-year-old boy named Dražen Petrović stepped onto the court of his hometown club Šibenka in Yugoslavia.
- Leonid GaidaiOn the 30th of January 1923, Leonid Iovich Gaidai was born in Svobodny, a town in the Amur Oblast. His father had been sentenced to hard labor for…