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Anna-Lou Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer best known for her portraits, particularly of celebrities, which often feature subjects in intimate settings and poses. Leib…
Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
Lindsey Adams Buckingham is an American musician, record producer, and the lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987 and 1997 to 2018. In…
Lindsey Buckingham, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Jyoti Prakash Dutta is an Indian film director, writer and producer who works in Hindi cinema. He is best known for Ghulami (1985), Yateem (1988), Batwara (1989), Kshatriya (1993) …
J. P. Dutta, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Rogozhkin was a Russian film director and writer.
Aleksandr Rogozhkin, Russian director and screenwriter (died 2021)
Laurie Simmons is an American photographer and filmmaker. Art historians consider her a key figure of The Pictures Generation and a group of late-1970s women artists that emerged a…
Laurie Simmons, American photographer and director
Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal is an American film director and poet. He is the father of actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Peter Ackroyd is an English novelist, biographer and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. He is noted for his "technically innovative novels", th…
Peter Ackroyd, English biographer, novelist and critic
Michael Gaughan was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker who died in 1974 in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, England. Gaughan was one of 22 Irish republi…
Michael Gaughan, Irish Republican died on hunger strike (died 1974)
Armand Anthony Assante Jr. is an American actor. He played mobster John Gotti in the 1996 HBO television film Gotti alongside Anthony Quinn, Odysseus in the 1997 miniseries adaptat…
Armand Assante, American actor and producer
Ralph Edward Goodale is a Canadian diplomat and retired politician who served as the Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2021 to 2025.
Ralph Goodale, Canadian lawyer and politician, 36th Canadian Minister of Finance
George William James is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books abo…
Bill James, American historian and author
Takajin Yashiki , often referred to as simply Takajin (たかじん), was a Japanese singer and television personality.
Yashiki Takajin, Japanese singer and television host (died 2014)
Lonnie George Johnson is an American inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur, best known for inventing the bestselling Super Soaker water gun in 1989. He previously served i…
Lonnie Johnson, American inventor
Penelope Jane Junor is an English journalist and author.
Penny Junor, English journalist and author
Thomas McClary is an American musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as the founder and lead guitarist of The Commodores. McClary is widely credite…
Thomas McClary, American R&B singer-songwriter and guitarist
Leslie Roy Moonves is an American retired media executive who was the chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation from 2006 until his resignation in September 2018 following numerous alleg…
Leslie Moonves, American businessman
Nicolas Peyrac is a French musician, writer and photographer.
Nicolas Peyrac, French singer-songwriter and photographer
Dave Hope is an American bass guitarist who played with the American progressive rock band Kansas from 1970 until the band's first split in 1983. When he was in high school, he pla…
Dave Hope, American bass player and priest
James Hamish Stuart is a Scottish guitarist, bassist, singer, composer and record producer. He was an original member of the Average White Band.
Hamish Stuart, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Rodney Lynn Temperton was an English musician, songwriter, and record producer.
Rod Temperton, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (died 2016)
Warren Burt is an Australia-based composer of American birth. He is known for composing in a wide variety of new music styles, ranging from acoustic music, electroacoustic music, …
Warren Burt, American-Australian composer
Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver is an American actress. Prolific in film since the late 1970s, she is known for her pioneering portrayals of action heroines in blockbusters and …
Sigourney Weaver, American actress and producer
Bernard Lance Cairns is a former all-rounder who played for the New Zealand national cricket team, and is the father of New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns.
Lance Cairns, New Zealand cricketer
Jessica Randolph Harper is an American actress, singer and author. Harper began her feature film career with a starring role in Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974), and…
Jessica Harper, American actress