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Josip Hrvoje Peruzović, better known by his ring name Nikolai Volkoff, was a Croatian-American professional wrestler, best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF…
Nikolai Volkoff, Croatian-American wrestler (died 2018)
Fatma Hümeyra Akbay is a Turkish actress, singer, composer, and lyricist. In the 1970s she was a noted singer and actress. Her popularity with the new generation rose in the 2000s …
Hümeyra, Turkish singer-songwriter and actress
Jaroslav Erno Šedivý is a Czech rock drummer. He was member of The Primitives Group, thereafter Flamengo and also Energit. In 1973 he emigrated to the United States, where he worke…
Jaroslav Erno Šedivý, Czech drummer
Christopher Wallace is an American broadcast journalist. He is known for his tough and wide-ranging interviews, for which he is often compared to his father, 60 Minutes journalist …
Chris Wallace, American journalist
Samuel Roy Hagar, also known as the Red Rocker, is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and entrepreneur. He rose to prominence in the early 1970s with the hard rock band Mon…
Sammy Hagar, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Nicholas Day is an English actor, who is currently the narrator on the Netflix series Myths & Monsters and also starred as Anthony Fox in ITV soap Emmerdale.
Nicholas Day, English actor
Terence Martin Griffiths was a Welsh professional snooker player, coach, and commentator. He won several amateur championships, including the Welsh Amateur Championship in 1975 and…
Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player and coach (died 2024)
Robert Hall Weir was an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, he performed with the Other Ones, …
Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2026)
David Samuel Zucker is an American filmmaker. Associated mostly with parody comedies, Zucker is recognized for collaborating with Jim Abrahams and his brother Jerry as part of Zuck…
David Zucker, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Omar Azziman, is an advisor to Mohammed VI, King of Morocco.
Omar Azziman, adviser to the King of Morocco
Raymond Eugene Green is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 29th congressional district, serving for 13 terms. He is a member of the Democratic…
Gene Green, American lawyer and politician
Michael John McKean is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, composer, and musician.
Michael McKean, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director
Marius Job Cohen is a retired Dutch politician and jurist who served as Mayor of Amsterdam from 2001 to 2010 and Leader of the Labour Party (PvdA) from 2010 to 2012.
Job Cohen, Dutch scholar and politician, Mayor of Amsterdam
John Howard Getty "J. J." Johnson was an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
John Johnson, American basketball player (died 2016)
Robert Charles Post is an American legal scholar who is currently a professor of law at Yale Law School. He was the dean of Yale Law School from 2009 to 2017. Post has been quoted …
Robert Post, American educator and academic
The Chuckle Brothers were an English comedy double act comprising real-life brothers Barry David Elliott and Paul Harman Elliott. They were known for their BBC children's programme…
Paul Chuckle, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
Joseph Thomas Morton Jr. is an American actor. Known as a character actor for his numerous roles on stage, television and film, he has received several awards including a Primetime…
Joe Morton, American actor
Laura Nyro was an American songwriter and singer. She achieved critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) and New Yo…
Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1997)
Gary Sullivan is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s, and busted caps in the 1990s. An Australian international and New Sout…
Gary Sullivan, Australian rugby league player
Giorgio Cavazzano is an Italian cartoonist and one of the most famous Disney comics artists in the world.
Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian author and illustrator
Dominique Braye is a former member of the Senate of France, representing the Yvelines department from 1995 to 2011. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Dominique Braye, French politician
Raymond Bachand is a former politician, a businessman and a lawyer in Quebec, Canada. He was the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the riding of Outremont, and a …
Raymond Bachand, Canadian lawyer and politician
Haley Reeves Barbour is an American attorney, politician, and lobbyist who served as the 63rd governor of Mississippi from 2004 to 2012. A member of the Republican Party, he previo…
Haley Barbour, American lawyer and politician, 62nd Governor of Mississippi
Adam Gondvi was an Indian poet from Atta Paraspur, Gonda, Uttar Pradesh. He wrote Poetry in Hindi, highlighting the plight of marginalized castes, Dalits, impoverished people. He w…
Adam Gondvi, Indian poet (died 2011)