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Martha Helen Stewart is an American retail businesswoman, writer, and television personality. As the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, focusing on home and hospitality, s…
Martha Stewart, American businesswoman, publisher, and author, founded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Francisco Régis Monte Barroso was a Brazilian politician. A member of the National Renewal Alliance, he served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1967 to 1971.
Régis Barroso, Brazilian politician (died 2026)
Benjamin Robert Clark was an American film director and screenwriter. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was responsible for some of the most successful films in Canadian film history such…
Bob Clark, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2007)
Leonid Denisovich Kizim was a Soviet cosmonaut.
Leonid Kizim, Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut (died 2010)
Airto Guimorvan Moreira is a Brazilian jazz drummer, composer and percussionist. He is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. Coming…
Airto Moreira, Brazilian-American drummer and composer
Raymond Leonard Culp Jr. is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies (1963–1966), Chicago Cubs (1967…
Ray Culp, American baseball player
Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting,, was a British Labour Party politician. Evans' father was the writer George Ewart Evans.
Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting, English publisher and politician (died 2016)
Anita Lonsbrough,, later known by her married name Anita Porter, is an English former swimmer from Great Britain who won a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Anita Lonsbrough, English swimmer and journalist
Susan Dorothea White is an Australian artist and author. She is a narrative artist and her work concerns the natural world and human situation, increasingly incorporating satire …
Susan Dorothea White, Australian painter and sculptor
John Ellison is an American/Canadian musician, best known for writing the song "Some Kind of Wonderful." He was born in Montgomery, West Virginia, and was raised in Landgraff, West…
John Ellison, American-Canadian musician and songwriter
Lewis Minor "Kit" Carson was an American actor screenwriter, director and film producer.
L. M. Kit Carson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)
Réjean Ducharme was a Canadian writer, novelist and playwright who resided in Montreal. He was known for his reclusive personality and did not appear at any public functions since …
Réjean Ducharme, Canadian author and playwright (died 2017)
Edwin John Feulner Jr. was an American political scientist, think tank executive, congressional aide and foreign relations consultant who was co-founder of The Heritage Foundation,…
Edwin Feulner, American political scientist (died 2025)
Dana Ivey is an American retired actress. She is known for her work on Broadway, earning the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her work in both S…
Dana Ivey, American actress
David Van Cortlandt Crosby was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He first found fame as a member of the Byrds, with whom he helped pioneer the genres of folk rock and …
David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)
Constance June Stuart, known professionally as Connie Smith, is an American country music singer and songwriter. Her contralto vocals have been described by music writers as signif…
Connie Smith, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
Jim Brothers was an American figurative sculptor from the U.S. state of Kansas. He died at the age of 72 at his home in Lawrence, Kansas, where he had received hospice care for can…
Jim Brothers, American sculptor (died 2013)
Donald Eugene Ulrich, best known by the stage name Don Rich, was an American country musician who helped develop the Bakersfield sound in the early 1960s. He was a noted guitarist …
Don Rich, American country musician (died 1974)
Lothar Bisky was a German politician. He was the chairman of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the successor of East Germany's Socialist Unity Party (SED). In June 2007, he …
Lothar Bisky, German businessman and politician (died 2013)
Jean Pierre Lefebvre is a Canadian filmmaker. He is widely admired as "the godfather of independent Canadian cinema," particularly among young, independent filmmakers.
Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Canadian director and screenwriter
John Cootes, nicknamed "the footballing priest", is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s, and Roman Catholic priest. An Austr…
John Cootes, Australian rugby league player, priest, and businessman
Mihalis Papayiannakis was a Greek politician. He was born in Kalamata; his father was executed by the Nazis during World War II. He died on 26 May 2009 after a long battle with can…
Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek educator and politician (died 2009)
John Wesley "Boog" Powell is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman and left fielder from 1961 through 1977, most pr…
Boog Powell, American baseball player
David Anthony Brock is an English musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the founder, the sole constant member and the musical focus of the space rock group Hawkwind. Br…
Dave Brock, English singer-songwriter and guitarist