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Marco Bollesan was an Italian rugby union player, coach and manager.
Marco Bollesan, Italian rugby player and coach (died 2021)
Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne is a British politician who was Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005. He previou…
Michael Howard, Welsh lawyer and politician
Ni John Fru Ndi was a Cameroonian politician who served as first and founding Chairman of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), the main opposition party in Cameroon, from party found…
John Fru Ndi, Cameroonian politician (died 2023)
William Edgar Oddie is an English actor, artist, birder, comedian, conservationist, musician, songwriter, television presenter and writer. He was a member of comedy trio The Goodie…
Bill Oddie, English comedian, actor, and singer
James Walter Rodford was an English musician, who played bass for several British rock bands. He was a founding member of Argent, which was led by his cousin Rod Argent, and perfor…
Jim Rodford, English bass player (died 2018)
Dario Gradi is an Italian-English former football player, coach and manager. He was associated for more than 36 years with Crewe Alexandra, where he was variously manager, director…
Dario Gradi, Italian-English footballer, coach, and manager
Keith "Mac" MacLeod, was an English musician who was a part of the Hertfordshire folk and blues scene from 1959 onwards. He played in St Albans alongside Mick Softley and Maddy Pri…
Mac MacLeod, English musician (died 2020)
Jake Eberts, OC was a Canadian film producer, executive and financier. He was known for his work on Academy Award-winning titles Chariots of Fire, Gandhi (1982), Dances with Wolves…
Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer (died 2012)
David Geddes Hartwell was an American critic, publisher, and editor of thousands of science fiction and fantasy novels. He was best known for work with Signet, Pocket, and Tor Book…
David G. Hartwell, American anthologist, author, and critic (died 2016)
Robert Pine is an American actor. He is best known as Sgt. Joseph Getraer on the television series CHiPs (1977–1983). Including CHiPs, Pine has appeared in over 400 episodes of var…
Robert Pine, American actor and director
Ian Timothy Whitcomb was an English entertainer, singer-songwriter, record producer, writer, broadcaster and actor. As part of the British Invasion, his hit song "You Turn Me On" r…
Ian Whitcomb, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2020)
William Boggs III is an American television host and journalist.
Bill Boggs, American journalist and producer
Thomas Henry Lowther is an English jazz trumpeter who also plays violin.
Henry Lowther, English trumpet player
Benjamin Stewart Parsons was an American NASCAR driver, and later an announcer/analyst/pit reporter on SETN, TBS, ABC, ESPN, NBC, and TNT. He became famous as the 1973 NASCAR Winst…
Benny Parsons, American race car driver and sportscaster (died 2007)
Grahame Edward Corling is a former Australian cricketer who played in five Test matches in 1964. He took 12 wickets, including that of Geoffrey Boycott in his debut innings.
Grahame Corling, Australian cricketer
Ehud Manor was an Israeli lyricist, translator, poet and radio and TV personality. He is widely considered to have been Israel's most prolific lyricist of all time, having written …
Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter and translator (died 2005)
Robert Wallace Foster Jr., known professionally as Robert Forster, was an American actor. He made his screen debut as Private L.G. Williams in John Huston's Reflections in a Golden…
Robert Forster, American actor and producer (died 2019)
Jacques Perrin was a French actor and film producer. He was occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet.
Jacques Perrin, French actor, director, and producer (died 2022)
Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga, previously known as Ron Karenga, is an American activist, author and professor of Africana studies, best known as the creator of the pan-African and Afr…
Maulana Karenga, American philosopher, author, and activist, created Kwanzaa
Andreas Khol is an Austrian politician of the centre-right Austrian People's Party, President of the National Council from 2002 to 2006.
Andreas Khol, German-Austrian lawyer and politician
Livia Margarita Gouverneur Camero was a Venezuelan student who was killed during a protest in support of the Cuban Revolution and against the presence in Venezuela of allies of Ful…
Livia Gouverneur, Venezuelan activist (died 1961)
Desmond Dekker was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician. Together with his backing group the Aces, he had one of the earliest international reggae h…
Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer-songwriter (died 2006)
Dag Solstad was a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer and dramatist whose work has been translated into 20 languages.
Dag Solstad, Norwegian author and playwright (died 2025)
Hans Wiegel was a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businessman.
Hans Wiegel, Dutch journalist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2025)