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Jonathan Seth Kellerman is an American novelist, psychologist, and Edgar- and Anthony Award–winning author best known for his popular mystery and psychological thriller novels feat…
Jonathan Kellerman, American psychologist and author
Ted Lyle Simmons, nicknamed "Simba", is an American former professional baseball catcher. He played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee…
Ted Simmons, American baseball player and coach
Eric Howard Carmen was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the lead vocalist of the Raspberries, with whom he recorded the hit "Go All the Way" and four…
Eric Carmen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)
Young Timothy Hutchinson is an American politician, lobbyist, and former United States senator from the U.S. state of Arkansas. A member of the Republican Party, he was the first R…
Tim Hutchinson, American lawyer and politician
Ian Charleson was a Scottish stage and screen actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell in the Oscar-winning 1981…
Ian Charleson, Scottish-English actor and singer (died 1990)
Admiral Panagiotis Chinofotis is a retired Hellenic Navy officer, who served as the Chief of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff from 2005 to 2007. He was also a member of …
Panagiotis Chinofotis, Greek admiral and politician
Mark Freuder Knopfler is a British musician. He was the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits from 1977 to 1995, and he is one of the two members who …
Mark Knopfler, Scottish-English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Louis Michael Martin was a piano and organ player from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was an original member of the London-based band Killing Floor, and also worked with fellow Iris…
Lou Martin, Northern Irish pianist, songwriter, and producer (died 2012)
Alexandra Naumik, better known by her stage name Alex, was a Lithuanian-born, Polish-Norwegian rock and pop artist who rose to fame in the late 1970s.
Alex Naumik, Lithuanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer (died 2013)
Rick Ridgeway is an American mountaineer and adventurer, who during his career has also been an environmentalist, writer, filmmaker and businessman. Ridgeway has climbed new routes…
Rick Ridgeway, American mountaineer and photographer
James Brunzell, best known under the ring name "Jumping" Jim Brunzell, is an American retired professional wrestler known for his successful tag teams, Brunzell performed for vario…
Jim Brunzell, American wrestler
Robert Earle Clarke is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played his entire 15-year National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Philadelphia Flyers and is curren…
Bobby Clarke, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
Philippe Petit is a French highwire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized highwire walks between the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971 and of Sydney Harbour Bri…
Philippe Petit, French tightrope walker
Willy Rey was a Dutch-Canadian model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1971 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.
Willy Rey, Dutch-Canadian model (died 1973)
Robert Louis Backlund is an American retired amateur and professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances in the World Wide Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Federati…
Bob Backlund, American wrestler
Morten Per Olsen is a Danish former football manager and former player. He was the head coach of the Denmark national team for 15 years from 2000 until 2015, guiding Denmark to the…
Morten Olsen, Danish footballer
Phyllis Smith is an American actress and casting director. She is best known for playing Phyllis Vance in the television series The Office and her voice role as Sadness in Pixar's …
Phyllis Smith, American actress
Scott Randolph Asheton was an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock band the Stooges.
Scott Asheton, American drummer (died 2014)
Paul Lucian Pasqualoni is an American football coach who recently served as the linebackers coach for the Memphis Showboats of the United Football League (UFL). He most recently wa…
Paul Pasqualoni, American football player and coach
William "Sputnik" Spooner is an American musician, guitarist, singer and songwriter, and the founder of The Tubes, a theatrical rock band. His songwriting is known for its use of h…
Bill Spooner, American guitarist and songwriter
Norman Bertram Coleman Jr. is an American politician, attorney, and lobbyist. From 2003 to 2009, he served as a United States senator for Minnesota. From 1994 to 2002, he was mayor…
Norm Coleman, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Mayor of St. Paul
Sue Draheim was an American fiddler, boasting a more than forty year musical career in the US and the UK. Growing up in North Oakland, Draheim began her first private violin lesson…
Sue Draheim, American fiddler and composer (died 2013)
Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, known professionally as Julian Fellowes, is an English actor, novelist, writer, producer, film director, and C…
Julian Fellowes, English actor, director, screenwriter, and politician
John Thomas "Sib" Hashian was an American drummer, best known as an original member of the rock band Boston.
Sib Hashian, American rock drummer (died 2017)