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Krista Kilvet was an Estonian radio journalist, politician and diplomat.
Krista Kilvet, Estonian journalist, politician, and diplomat (died 2009)
Debbie Moore OBE is an English retired model and businesswoman who founded the Pineapple Dance Studios and its associated clothing brand. She was the first woman to float a company…
Debbie Moore, English model and businesswoman
Brian Denis Cox is a Scottish actor. A classically trained Shakespearean actor, he is known for his work on stage and screen. His numerous accolades include two Laurence Olivier Aw…
Brian Cox, Scottish actor
Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallström is a Swedish film director. He first became known for directing almost all music videos by the pop group ABBA, and came to international attention with …
Lasse Hallström, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter
Michael Clarke was an American musician, best known as the drummer for rock group the Byrds from 1964 to 1968. Clarke was later an original for country rock group The Flying Burrit…
Michael Clarke, American drummer (died 1993)
Peter William Sutcliffe, also known as Peter Coonan, was an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 a…
Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer (died 2020)
Dame Penelope Alice Wilton is an English actress.
Penelope Wilton, English actress
John William Cann, later known by his stage name John Du Cann, was an English guitarist primarily known through his work in the 1970s band Atomic Rooster.
John Du Cann, English guitarist (died 2001)
Bob Grant is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. A New South Wales interstate and Australian international representative halfback, he p…
Bob Grant, Australian rugby league player
Sir Patrick Michael Head is a British motorsport executive who is the co-founder and former Engineering Director of the Williams Formula One team. For 27 years starting from the 19…
Patrick Head, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Williams F1
Wanderléa Charlup Boere Salim is a Brazilian singer and former co-host of the historic television show Jovem Guarda alongside Roberto Carlos and Erasmo Carlos. The show aired on TV…
Wanderléa, Brazilian singer and television host
Anthony Frederick Levin is an American musician and composer specializing in electric bass guitars, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is be…
Tony Levin, American bass player and songwriter
Zbigniew Seifert was a Polish jazz violinist.
Zbigniew Seifert, Polish musician (died 1979)
Sir Graham William Henry is a New Zealand rugby union coach, and former head coach of the country's national team, the All Blacks. Nicknamed 'Ted', he led New Zealand to win the 20…
Graham Henry, New Zealand rugby player and coach
Deyda Hydara was co-founder and primary editor of The Point, a major independent Gambian newspaper. He worked as a radio presenter for Radio Syd during his early years as a freelan…
Deyda Hydara, Gambian journalist and publisher, co-founded The Point (died 2004)
James Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. His fiction and short stories feature accounts of internal mental processes of usually, but not ex…
James Kelman, Scottish author and playwright
Peter Kilfoyle is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Walton from 1991 to 2010.
Peter Kilfoyle, English politician
Michel Bergeron is a Canadian former ice hockey coach.
Michel Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Robert Alfred Gould is an English former footballer and manager.
Bobby Gould, English footballer and manager
Catherine Bréchignac is a French physicist. She is a commander of the Légion d'honneur, "secrétaire perpétuel honoraire" of the Académie des sciences and former president of the CN…
Catherine Bréchignac, French physicist and academic
Giuliomaria Terzi di Sant'Agata is an Italian diplomat and politician. He was Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs in Mario Monti's government from November 2011 until March 2013, P…
Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, Italian politician and diplomat, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Sher Bahadur Deuba is a Nepalese politician who served as the 32nd prime minister of Nepal for five terms. He was the president of the Nepali Congress since 2016 until 2026 and was…
Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepalese politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Nepal
Paul Lawrence Modrich is an American biochemist, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is known for…
Paul L
Gabriel of Komana was an Eastern Orthodox archbishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate who led the Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe f…
Gabriel of Komana, Belgian-Dutch archbishop (died 2013)