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Earl Thomas Conley was an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for RCA Records. In the 1980s and into the…
Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)
Seals & Crofts were an American soft rock duo formed in 1969 by Jim Seals and Dash Crofts in Los Angeles, California. They are best known for their hits "Summer Breeze" (1972), "Di…
Jim Seals, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and violinist (died 2022)
Timothy John Leigh Bell, Baron Bell, was a British advertising and public relations executive, best known for his advisory role in Margaret Thatcher's three successful general elec…
Timothy Bell, Baron Bell, English businessman (died 2019)
Martha Gertrude Burk is an American political psychologist, feminist, and former (2000-2005) Chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations.
Martha Burk, American psychologist and author
Simon Anthony Fox Ward was a British stage and film actor from Beckenham, England. He was known chiefly for his performance as Winston Churchill in the 1972 film Young Winston. He …
Simon Ward, English actor (died 2012)
Anneke Wills is an English actress, best known for her role as the companion Polly in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Anneke Wills, English actress
Charles Keating was an English actor.
Charles Keating, English-American actor (died 2014)
René Jean Metge was a French professional rally driver. He won the Dakar Rally three times, in 1981, 1984 and 1986.
René Metge, French rally driver (died 2024)
Colin Milburn was an English cricketer, who played in nine Test matches for England, before an accident led to the loss of much of his sight and prompted his retirement.
Colin Milburn, English cricketer (died 1990)
Peter William Thornley is an English professional wrestler who is best known for the ring character Kendo Nagasaki. The character of Nagasaki was a Japanese samurai with a mysterio…
Peter Thornley, English professional wrestler best known for the ring character Kendo Nagasaki
Stephen Lee Cropper, sometimes known as "The Colonel", was an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He was the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T. & t…
Steve Cropper, American guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2025)
Igor Nikolaevich Smirnov is a Russian-born Transnistrian politician who served as the first president (1991–2011) of the internationally unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Repub…
Igor Smirnov, Moldovan engineer and politician, 1st President of Transnistria
Dr. Bill Dobelle was a biomedical researcher who developed experimental technologies that restored limited sight to blind patients, and also known for the impact he and his company…
William H. Dobelle, American medical researcher (died 2004)
Peter Takeo Okada was a Japanese prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Tokyo from 2000 to 2017.
Peter Takeo Okada, Japanese archbishop (died 2020)
Merle Woo is an lesbian socialist feminist Asian American academic, poet, and activist who has been described as "a leading member of the Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Pa…
Merle Woo, Asian American activist
Lynda Benglis is an American sculptor and visual artist known especially for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. She maintains residences in New York City, Santa Fe, New…
Lynda Benglis, American sculptor and painter
Helen Maxine Reddy was an Australian-American singer, actress, television host, and activist. Born in Melbourne to a show business family, Reddy started her career as an entertaine…
Helen Reddy, Australian-American singer-songwriter and actress (died 2020)
David Lawson Weill is an American former athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw.
Dave Weill, American discus thrower
Steven Castle Kellogg is an American author and illustrator who has created more than 90 children's books.
Steven Kellogg, American author and illustrator
Charles Alexander Landsborough is a British country and folk musician and singer-songwriter. He started singing professionally in the 1970s, although his major success did not come…
Charlie Landsborough, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Gordon Tootoosis was a First Nations actor of Cree and Stoney descent. Tootoosis was a descendant of Yellow Mud Blanket, brother of the famous Cree leader Poundmaker. He was acclai…
Gordon Tootoosis, Aboriginal Canadian actor (died 2011)
Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidenta…
Anne Tyler, American author and critic
David Joseph Costa was an American professional football defensive tackle. He played college football at the University of Utah and Northeastern Junior College, was selected to pla…
Dave Costa, American football player (died 2013)
Warren Redman Ryan is an Australian former professional rugby league football coach and player. He is considered one of the most influential rugby league coaches of the 20th centur…
Warren Ryan, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster