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James Dennis Carroll was an American author, poet, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired a 1995 film o…
Jim Carroll, American poet, author, and musician (died 2009)
Ray Nettles was a football linebacker at the University of Tennessee who played professional Canadian football from 1972 to 1980. He was a five-time Canadian Football League (FL) A…
Ray Nettles, American football player (died 2009)
James Mackenzie Fallows is an American writer and journalist. He is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazi…
James Fallows, American journalist and author
Bertalan Farkas is the first Hungarian cosmonaut, space explorer and fighter pilot. With his flight, Hungary became the seventh nation to be represented in space. Farkas is also th…
Bertalan Farkas, Hungarian general and cosmonaut
Philip Casnoff is an American actor and director, known for his roles in TV series and on Broadway. He is probably best known for his portrayal of the sadistic, egomaniacal antagon…
Philip Casnoff, American actor and director
War is an American funk/soul/rock band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1969.
B. B. Dickerson, American bass player and songwriter (died 2021)
Susan Slipman was President of the National Union of Students between 1977 and 1978. She later joined the National Union of Public Employees. Since then she has held a wide range o…
Sue Slipman, English politician
Robert John Riggins, nicknamed "Riggo" and "Diesel", is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Jets…
John Riggins, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
Adolfo Bresciano, better known by the ring name Dino Bravo, was an Italian Canadian professional wrestler and promoter and alleged organized crime figure.
Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian wrestler (died 1993)
Walid Kamal Jumblatt is a Lebanese politician who served as the leader of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) from 1977 until 2023. A hereditary leader of the Lebanese Druze and …
Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese journalist and politician
Matthew Francis Parris is a British political writer, broadcaster, and former politician. He served as Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire from 1979 to 1986. Ideologically a l…
Matthew Parris, South African-English journalist and politician
Elizabeth Teresa "Terry" Burnham was an American actress. She had most of her career as a child actress in television series. She is best known for her performance in the Twilight …
Terry Burnham, American actress (died 2013)
Keith Ian Carradine is an American actor. In film, he is known for his roles as Tom Frank in Robert Altman's Nashville, E. J. Bellocq in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, and Mickey in Al…
Keith Carradine, American actor
Ricardo Londoño Bridge was a racing driver from Colombia. He had an unremarkable international career apart from his one attempt at Formula One in the 1981 Brazilian Grand Prix wit…
Ricardo Londoño, Colombian racing driver (died 2009)
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
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)
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)
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