Richard Cassilly was an American operatic tenor who had a major international opera career between 1954–90. Cassilly "was a mainstay in the heldentenor repertory in opera houses around the world for 30 years", and particularly excelled in Wagnerian roles like Tristan, Siegmund and Tannhäuser, and in dramatic parts that required both stamina and vocal weight, such as Giuseppe Verdi's Otello and Camille Saint-Saëns's Samson.

1927Koos Rietkerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (died 1986)^[†]

Jacobus Gijsbert "Koos" Rietkerk was a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and jurist.

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1927Julian Sochocki, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1842)^[†]

Julian Karol Sochocki was a Polish-Russian mathematician. His name is sometimes transliterated from Russian in several different ways.

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