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Ronald Timothy Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry, was a British Conservative Party politician.
Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry, English politician, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industrie
Richard Vincent Guerin is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played with the National Basketball Association's (NBA) New York Knicks from 1956 to 1963 …
Richie Guerin, American basketball player and coach
Raymond George Alfred Cooney OBE is a retired English playwright, actor, and director.
Ray Cooney, English actor and playwright
Pauline Oliveros was an American composer and accordionist.
Pauline Oliveros, American accordion player and composer (died 2016)
Ivor Seward Richard, Baron Richard, was a British Labour politician who served as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1964 until 1974. He was also a member of the European Commission …
Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, Welsh politician and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2018)
Paul Ralph Ehrlich was an American biologist, author, and environmentalist known for his predictions and warnings about the consequences of population growth, including famine and …
Paul R
Ed Lincoln was a Brazilian musician, composer and arranger known for a wide variety of styles. As a bassist, he was present at the earliest moments of bossa nova and as a Hammond o…
Ed Lincoln, Brazilian pianist, bassist, and composer (died 2012)
Jay Glenn Miner was an American integrated circuit designer, known primarily for developing graphics and audio chips for the Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit computers and as the "father…
Jay Miner, American computer scientist and engineer (died 1994)
Francis James Cameron was a New Zealand cricketer who played 19 Tests for New Zealand as a fast bowler.
Frank Cameron, New Zealand cricketer (died 2023)
Robert Christopher Lasch was an American historian and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. Lasch's books, including The New Radicalism in Amer…
Christopher Lasch, American historian and critic (died 1994)
John Drew Barrymore was an American film actor and member of the Barrymore family of actors, which included his father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel.…
John Drew Barrymore, American actor (died 2004)
Oliver Edward Nelson was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. His 1961 Impulse! album The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961) is regarded …
Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist and composer (died 1975)
Maurice Francis Richard Shadbolt was a New Zealand writer and occasional playwright.
Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand author and playwright (died 2004)
Paul Ralph Ehrlich was an American biologist, author, and environmentalist known for his predictions and warnings about the consequences of population growth, including famine and …
Paul R
Christy Brown was an Irish writer and painter. He had cerebral palsy, and this allowed him to write or type only with the toes of one foot. His most recognized work is his autobiog…
Christy Brown, Irish painter and author (died 1981)
Dave Gold was an American businessman who established the 99 Cents Only chain of discount stores, later also known as The 99 Store.
Dave Gold, American businessman, founded the 99 Cents Only Stores (died 2013)
David Randolph Scott is an American retired test pilot and NASA astronaut who was the seventh person to walk on the Moon. Selected as part of the third group of astronauts in 1963,…
David Scott, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut who was the commander of Apollo 15
Per Maurseth was a Norwegian historian and politician for the Socialist Left Party.
Per Maurseth, Norwegian historian, academic, and politician (died 2013)
Raymond Illingworth CBE was an English cricketer, cricket commentator and administrator. He is one of only nine players to have taken 2,000 wickets and made 20,000 runs in first-cl…
Ray Illingworth, English cricketer and sportscaster (died 2021)
Ian Candlish Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood QC was a Senator of the College of Justice of the Supreme Courts of Scotland. He was appointed to the Inner House in 1987.
Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, Scottish lawyer and judge (died 2017)
Pierre Émile Cartier was a French mathematician. An associate of the Bourbaki group and at one time a colleague of Alexander Grothendieck, his interests have ranged over algebraic …
Pierre Cartier, French mathematician and academic (died 2024)
Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard was a South African playwright, novelist, actor and director. Widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright and acclaimed as "the greatest activ…
Athol Fugard, South African-American actor, director, and playwright (died 2025)
Sir Timothy Alan Davan Sainsbury is a Conservative politician and businessman in the United Kingdom.
Tim Sainsbury, English businessman and politician, Minister of State for Trade
Maria Sophia Coertse was a South African soprano who appeared professionally as Mimi Coertse. Born in Durban, she began her vocal studies in 1949. She moved to Europe in 1953, firs…
Mimi Coertse, South African soprano and producer (died 2026)