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Manfred Sepse Lubowitz, known professionally as Manfred Mann, is a South African-born musician, residing in the UK since 1961. He is best known as a founding member of the eponymou…
Manfred Mann, South African-English keyboard player and producer
Marita Petersen was the first and to date only female prime minister of the Faroe Islands and the first female speaker of the Løgting (Parliament). She was elected to the Løgting i…
Marita Petersen, Faroese educator and politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 2001)
Eleanor Louise Greenwich was an American pop music singer, songwriter, and record producer. She wrote or co-wrote "Da Doo Ron Ron", "Be My Baby", "Maybe I Know", "Then He Kissed Me…
Ellie Greenwich, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2009)
Jane Holzer, also known as Baby Jane, is an American model, actress, art collector, and real estate investor. She rose to prominence during the 1960s as Pop artist Andy Warhol's fi…
Jane Holzer, American model, actress, producer, and art collector
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known by his nickname Pelé, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in h…
Pelé, Brazilian footballer and actor (died 2022)
Martin Campbell is a New Zealand film and television director and producer, long based in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his works in the action and thriller film genres,…
Martin Campbell, New Zealand director and producer
Rafał Maciej Piszcz was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event…
Rafał Piszcz, Polish canoe racer (died 2012)
David John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville is a British politician, businessman and philanthropist. From 1992 to 1997, he served as chairman of Sainsbury's, the supermarket …
David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville, English businessman and academic
Yossi Sarid was an Israeli politician and news commentator. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment, Ratz and Meretz between 1974 and 2006. A former Minister of Educ…
Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (died 2015)
Jimmy Herman was an Indigenous Canadian actor who appeared in several films, including Dances with Wolves.
Jimmy Herman, Canadian actor (died 2013)
Robert Montgomery Knight was an American men's college basketball coach. Nicknamed "the General", he won 902 NCAA Division I men's basketball games, a record at the time of his ret…
Bob Knight, American basketball player and coach (died 2023)
Eddie Henderson is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of pianist Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band, going on to lead…
Eddie Henderson, American trumpet player and educator
John S. Horgan is a former Labour Party politician, professor of journalism at Dublin City University and, from 2007 to 2014. the first Press Ombudsman in Ireland.
John Horgan, Irish academic and politician
Arthur Owen Blessitt was an American traveling Christian preacher who was known for carrying a cross through every nation of the world.
Arthur Blessitt, American Christian preacher (died 2025)
Julius Eastman was an American composer. He was among the first composers to combine the processes of some minimalist music with other methods of extending and modifying his music …
Julius Eastman, American composer (died 1990)
John Joseph Gotti Jr. was an American mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. He ordered and helped to orchestrate the murder of Gambino boss Paul Castellano…
John Gotti, American mob boss (died 2002)
Maxine Hong Kingston is an American novelist. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated in 1962 with a B.A. degree in English. Kings…
Maxine Hong Kingston, American author and academic
Susan Harris is an American former television writer and producer who created the Emmy Award–winning sitcoms Soap (1977–1981) and The Golden Girls (1985–1992). Between 1975 and 199…
Susan Harris, American screenwriter and producer
Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy III, also known as Connie Mack III, is an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Florida's 1…
Connie Mack III, American lawyer and politician
Tony D'Arcy was an Irish Republican militant and activist. A senior leader in the Irish Republican Army (IRA), he died on 16 April 1940 after a 52-day hunger strike, at the age o…
Tony D'Arcy, Irish Republican died while on hunger strike (born 1908)
John Shepherd was an English actor, playwright and theatre director. He was known for his television roles, most notably the title roles in Trevor Griffiths' political drama Bill B…
Jack Shepherd, English actor, director, and playwright (died 2025)
Willard Gordon Galen Weston was a British-Canadian billionaire businessman and Chairman Emeritus of George Weston Limited, a Canadian food processing and distribution company. West…
Galen Weston, English-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded George Weston Limited (died 2021)
Jack McNeela was an Irish republican and a senior member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Ballycroy, County Mayo, Ireland. McNeela was one of 22 Irish republicans who died o…
Jack McNeela, Irish Republican Army, died on hunger strike
Carl Bosch was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one p…
Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)