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Clodovil Hernandes was a Brazilian fashion designer, television presenter, and politician.
Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian fashion designer, television presenter and politician (died 2009)
Delmer William Harris is an American basketball coach who is currently the vice president of the Texas Legends, the NBA G League affiliate of the Dallas Mavericks. He served as a h…
Del Harris, American basketball player and coach
John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV is an American retired politician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia from 1985 to 2015 and governor of West Virginia from 19…
Jay Rockefeller, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of West Virginia
Bruce Graham Trigger was a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian. He was appointed the James McGill Professor at McGill University in 2001.
Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist and historian (died 2006)
Vitaly Mikhaylovich Zholobov is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on Soyuz 21 space flight as the flight engineer, and a former head of Kherson Regional Council in Ukraine.
Vitaly Zholobov, Ukrainian colonel, engineer, and astronaut
Stafford Dean is a British bass opera singer.
Stafford Dean, English actor and singer
Jerry Paul Keller is an American pop singer and songwriter, best known for his 1959 hit song "Here Comes Summer".
Jerry Keller, American singer-songwriter
John Hugh Edrich, was an English first-class cricketer who, during a career that ran from 1956 to 1978, was considered one of the best batsmen of his generation. Born in Blofield, …
John Edrich, English cricketer and coach (died 2020)
Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell OJ is a Jamaican-British former record producer and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labe…
Chris Blackwell, English record producer, co-founded Island Records
André Glucksmann was a French philosopher, activist, and writer. He was a leading figure of the new philosophers. Glucksmann began his career as a Marxist, who went on to reject Ma…
André Glucksmann, French philosopher and author (died 2015)
Bernard Francis McGann was an Australian jazz alto saxophone player. He began his career in the late 1950s and remained active as a performer, composer and recording artist until n…
Bernie McGann, Australian saxophonist and composer (died 2013)
Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari was a Finnish politician and diplomat who was the president of Finland from 1994 to 2000. He was Finland's Ambassador to Tanzania from 1973 to 1977 and…
Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish captain and politician, 10th President of Finland, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst, Baron Haselhurst, was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden from 1977 to 2017, havi…
Alan Haselhurst, English academic and politician
Niki Sullivan was an American rock and roll guitarist, born in South Gate, California. He was one of the three original members of Buddy Holly's backing band, the Crickets. Though …
Niki Sullivan, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2004)
Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and the emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Pri…
Anita Desai, Indian-American author and academic
Eddie Lee Floyd is an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter, best known for his work on the Stax record label in the 1960s and 1970s, including a No. 1 R&B hit song, "Knock o…
Eddie Floyd, American R&B/soul singer-songwriter
Doreen Patricia Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry is a British former ballet dancer.
Doreen Wells, English ballerina and actress
Reginald "Reggie" Workman is an American avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist, recognized for his work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey, in addition to Alice Coltrane…
Reggie Workman, American bassist and composer
Joseph Percival Allen IV is an American former NASA astronaut. He logged more than 3,000 hours flying time in jet aircraft.
Joseph P
Otto Herrigel was a Namibian businessman, and politician. He served as Namibia's first Minister of Finance between 1990 and 1992.
Otto Herrigel, Namibian lawyer and politician (died 2013)
Kirkpatrick Sale is an American author who has written prolifically about political decentralism, environmentalism, luddism and technology. He has been described as having a "philo…
Kirkpatrick Sale, American author and scholar
Robert Coleman Richardson was an American experimental physicist whose area of research included sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3. Richardson, along with David Lee, …
Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
George Alfred Christian Knudson, CM was a Canadian professional golfer, who along with Mike Weir holds the record for the Canadian with the most wins on the PGA Tour, with eight ca…
George Knudson, Canadian golfer (died 1989)
Fernand Labrie, was a Canadian medical researcher who specialized in endocrinological research and prostate cancer research.
Fernand Labrie, Canadian endocrinologist and academic (died 2019)