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Aleksei Turovski is an Estonian zoologist and ethologist, specialising in parasitology and zoosemiotics. In 1973, he graduated from Tartu University with a degree in zoology; since…
Aleksei Turovski, Estonian zoologist and ethologist
Bruce Noel Coslet is an American former professional football player and coach. A tight end, he played for the University of the Pacific and in 1969 debuted with the American Footb…
Bruce Coslet, American football player and coach
Shirley Ann Jackson is an African American physicist and the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African American woman to earn a doctorate at the …
Shirley Ann Jackson, American physicist
Rick van der Linden was a Dutch composer and keyboardist. Van der Linden first gained fame as a member of Ekseption, but he played in several other bands including most notably Tra…
Rick van der Linden, Dutch keyboard player and songwriter (died 2006)
John Whitaker Straw is a British politician who served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional …
Jack Straw, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Robert John McCarthy MBE is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach. He played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, New South …
Bob McCarthy, Australian rugby league player and coach
Erika Alma Slezak is an American actress, best known for her role as Victoria "Viki" Lord on the American daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1971 through the television final…
Erika Slezak, American actress
Xavier Trias i Vidal de Llobatera is a Catalan politician, member of Together for Catalonia and was Mayor of Barcelona from July 2011 to June 2015. Among other responsibilities to …
Xavier Trias, Spanish pediatrician and politician, 118th Mayor of Barcelona
Allan Holdsworth was a British jazz and rock guitarist, violinist and composer. He contributed to numerous bands, including Soft Machine, U.K., The Tony Williams Lifetime, Pierre M…
Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (died 2017)
Wiltz Joseph Bethancourt III was an American folk musician.
Joe Bethancourt, American singer-songwriter (died 2014)
Marinus Gerritsen is a Dutch bassist. Best known for being a founding member of Dutch group Golden Earring, he is also a producer of artists like Herman Brood.
Rinus Gerritsen, Dutch rock bass player
John Wayne Conlee is an American country music singer.
John Conlee, American singer-songwriter
Marilyn vos Savant is an American magazine columnist who has the highest recorded intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication…
Marilyn vos Savant, American journalist and author
Terence Paul Nutkins was an English naturalist. He appeared in the UK children's programmes Animal Magic, The Really Wild Show, Brilliant Creatures and Growing Up Wild.
Terry Nutkins, English television host and author (died 2012)
Antonio Fargas is an American actor known for his roles in 1970s blaxploitation and comedy movies, as well as his portrayal as Huggy Bear in the 1970s TV series Starsky & Hutch.
Antonio Fargas, American actor
Susan Saint James is an American former actress. She is most widely known for the spy series It Takes a Thief, detective series McMillan & Wife (1971–1976) and the sitcom Kate & Al…
Susan Saint James, American actress
Thomas Dobbie Thomson Walkinshaw was a British racing car driver from Scotland and the founder of the racing team Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR). He was also involved in professional …
Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and businessman (died 2010)
Jimmy Layne Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He achieved success at an early age, winning the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the age of 21.
Jimmy Webb, American singer-songwriter and pianist
Masoud Barzani is a Kurdish politician who has been leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) since 1979, and was President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq from 2005 to 2017.
Masoud Barzani, Iranian-Kurdish politician, President of Iraqi Kurdistan
Janet Louise Yellen is an American economist who served as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury from 2021 to 2025 and as chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018.…
Janet Yellen, American economist, 78th United States secretary of the treasury
Larry Graham Jr. is an American bassist and baritone singer, with the psychedelic soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station.…
Larry Graham, American soul/funk bass player and singer-songwriter
Lesley Ann Warren is an American actress and singer.
Lesley Ann Warren, American actress
Hugh John Baiocchi is a South African professional golfer who has won more than 20 professional tournaments around the world.
Hugh Baiocchi, South African golfer
Martha Coolidge is an American film director and former President of the Directors Guild of America. She has directed such films as Valley Girl, Real Genius and Rambling Rose.
Martha Coolidge, American director, producer, and screenwriter