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Jonathan Mark Hamilton Priaulx Raban was a British award-winning travel writer, playwright, critic and novelist.
Jonathan Raban, English author and academic (died 2023)
Roberto García-Calvo Montiel was a Spanish judge. Since 2001, he was a member of the Constitutional Court of Spain, sponsored by the conservative People's Party. In the last year o…
Roberto García-Calvo Montiel, Spanish judge (died 2008)
Ian Greenberg was a Canadian businessman and media pioneer. He was the co-founder of Astral Media Inc. and served as its president and chief executive officer from 1996 until 2013.
Ian Greenberg, Canadian broadcaster, founded Astral Media (died 2022)
John Edward McLaughlin is a retired American intelligence official who was Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and briefly acting Director of Central Intelligence.
John E
Peter George Norman was an Australian track athlete. He won the silver medal in the 200 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, with a time of 20.06 seconds, which remai…
Peter Norman, Australian sprinter (died 2006)
Edward Willis Levert is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the O'Jays. He is the father of sons Edward Jr (1964-), Gerald (1966–2006) and Sean Levert (1968–2008)…
Eddie Levert, American R&B/soul singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
Mohamed Mostafa ElBaradei is an Egyptian lawyer and diplomat who served as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 1997 to 2009, then as vice preside…
Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian politician, Vice President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate
Giacomo Agostini is an Italian former professional motorcycle road racer and racing team manager. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Championships from 1963 …
Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcycle racer and manager
Doğu Perinçek is a Turkish politician, doctor of law and former communist revolutionary who has been chairman of the left-wing nationalist Patriotic Party since 2015. He was also a…
Doğu Perinçek, Turkish lawyer and politician
Roger Steffens is an American actor, author, lecturer, editor, reggae archivist, photographer, and producer. Six rooms of his home in Los Angeles house reggae archives, which inclu…
Roger Steffens, American actor and producer
John Bellany was a Scottish painter.
John Bellany, Scottish painter (died 2013)
Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic, film historian, essayist, screenwriter, journalist, and author. He wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013…
Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (died 2013)
Patricia Evelyn Hutchins was an English illustrator, writer of children's books, and broadcaster. She won the 1974 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association for her book Th…
Pat Hutchins, English author and illustrator (died 2017)
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki is a South African politician and economist who served as the president of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008, when he resigned at the request…
Thabo Mbeki, South African politician and 2nd President of South Africa
Richard Van Perry was an American record producer. He began his musical career as a performer while attending Poly Prep, his high school in Brooklyn. After graduating from college …
Richard Perry, American record producer (died 2024)
Carl Dean Radle was an American bassist who toured and recorded with many of the most influential recording artists of the late 1960s and 1970s. Radle is best remembered for his wo…
Carl Radle, American bass player and producer (died 1980)
Nicholas John Tate is an Australian actor. He is known for his extensive film work as well as roles as pilot Alan Carter in the 1970s science fiction series Space: 1999 and James H…
Nick Tate, Australian actor and director
Sir James Paul McCartney is an English musician and songwriter. He gained global fame with the Beatles, for whom he was the bassist and keyboardist, and shared primary songwriting …
Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Hans Vonk was a Dutch conductor.
Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (died 2004)
Merata Mita was a New Zealand filmmaker, producer, and writer, and a key figure in the growth of the Māori screen industry. Mita was the first indigenous woman and the first woma…
Merata Mita, New Zealand director and producer (died 2010)
Neil Sidney Trudinger is an Australian mathematician, known particularly for his work in the field of nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations.
Neil Trudinger, Australian mathematician and theorist
Brian Douglas Wilson was an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and significant m…
Brian Wilson, American singer, songwriter and producer (died 2025)
Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe is a British trade unionist, and Labour Member of the House of Lords.
Clive Brooke, Baron Brooke of Alverthorpe, English businessman and politician
Norbert Brunner is a Swiss prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sion in Switzerland from 1995 to 2014. He was the elected Pres…
Norbert Brunner, Swiss Catholic bishop