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Sir Antony Sher was a British actor, writer and theatre director of South African origin. A two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and a five-time nominee, he joined the Royal Shak…
Antony Sher, South African-British actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2021)
Harry Norman Turtledove is an American historian and author who is best known for his work in the genres of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and mys…
Harry Turtledove, American historian and author
Alan White was an English drummer, best known for his almost 50-year tenure in the progressive rock band Yes. He joined Yes in 1972 as a replacement for original drummer Bill Brufo…
Alan White, English drummer and songwriter (died 2022)
Johnnie B "Dusty" Baker Jr. is an American former professional baseball outfielder and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for 19 seasons, most notably with th…
Dusty Baker, American baseball player and manager
Simon Phillip Hugh Callow is an English actor. Known as a character actor on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades including an Olivier Award and Screen Actors Guild…
Simon Callow, English actor and director
Russell Charles Hitchcock is an Australian musician and lead vocalist of the soft rock duo Air Supply.
Russell Hitchcock, Australian singer-songwriter
James Albert Varney Jr. was an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his Emmy Award winning comedic role as Ernest P. Worrell, originating in a series of television com…
Jim Varney, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (died 2000)
Paulo Cézar Lima, known as Caju, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. During his career, he played for clubs in Brazil, including Bo…
Caju, Brazilian footballer
Ralph Vernon Mann was an American sprinter and hurdler. He was an undergraduate at Brigham Young University, and later earned a Ph.D. in Biomechanics from Washington State Universi…
Ralph Mann, American hurdler and author
Philip Charles Lithman, who performed under the stage name Snakefinger, was an English musician, singer and songwriter. A multi-instrumentalist, he was best known for his guitar an…
Snakefinger, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1987)
John Anthony George Craven is a British economist, a former vice-chancellor of the University of Portsmouth. In 2006, he founded the University Alliance, and served as its first ch…
John Craven, English economist and academic
Howard Russell Smith was an American singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer of the groups The Amazing Rhythm Aces and Run C&W. As a solo artist, he released four studio albu…
Russell Smith, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński was a Polish politician who served as the 4th president of Poland from 2005 to 2010, when he died in the Smolensk air disaster. Earlier, he served as the …
Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 4th President of Poland (died 2010)
Lieutenant colonel Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan former politician and retired military officer who served as the eighth president of Sri Lanka from 18 November 2019…
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 8th president of Sri Lanka
Chris Van Allsburg is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar E…
Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński is a Polish politician. He co-founded the Law and Justice (PiS) party in 2001 with his twin brother, Lech Kaczyński, and has served as its leader sinc…
Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Poland
Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1970s as a songwriter and the co-lead si…
Lionel Richie, American singer, songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
John Agard FRSL is a Guyanese-born British playwright, poet and children's writer. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He was awarded BookTrust's Lifeti…
John Agard, Guyanese-English author, poet, and playwright
Derek Robert Alexander Emslie, Lord Kingarth is a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session. He i…
Derek Emslie, Lord Kingarth, Scottish lawyer and judge
Lawrence Edward Junstrom was an American bassist who was a member of the rock band .38 Special from 1977 until 2014. He was also one of the founding members of the southern rock ba…
Larry Junstrom, American bass player (died 2019)
Sir Brian Henry Leveson is an English retired senior judge who is the current Investigatory Powers Commissioner, having previously served as the President of the Queen's Bench Divi…
Brian Leveson, English lawyer and judge
Alan Ralph Osmond was an American singer and musician. He was best known for being a member of the family musical group The Osmonds. Prior to that, Alan and his brothers were perfo…
Alan Osmond, American singer and producer
Luís Filipe Ferreira Vieira is a Portuguese real estate businessman who was the 33rd president of sports club Benfica, from 31 October 2003 to 15 July 2021.
Luís Filipe Vieira, Portuguese businessman
Gordon Timothy Bray is an Australian sports commentator and sports journalist. He is colloquially known as "The Voice of Rugby".
Gordon Bray, Australian journalist and sportscaster