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Kazimierz Deyna was a Polish professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder in the playmaker role and was one of the most highly regarded players of his generation, …
Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (died 1989)
Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi was a Palestinian political leader and co-founder of Hamas, along with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in 1987. He also served as the chairman of the Hamas Shura Council …
Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, co-founder of the Palestinian movement Hamas (died 2004)
Alfred Gregory Ridley was an English bassist who was the bassist and a founding member of the rock band Humble Pie and Spooky Tooth.
Greg Ridley, English bass player (died 2003)
Kevin Delaney Kline is an American actor. In a career spanning over five decades, he has become a prominent leading man across both stage and screen. His accolades include an Acade…
Kevin Kline, American actor and singer
José Requena Nozal is a self-taught artist-painter who uses different techniques. His works are scattered both Spain, Europe and the United States. He has held various exhibitions …
Requena Nozal, Spanish artist
Glenn Raymond Tipton is an English guitarist. Often noted for his complex playing style and classically influenced solos, he is best known as one of the lead guitarists for the hea…
Glenn Tipton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Ricardo Hector Asch is an Argentine-Mexican obstetrician, gynecologist, and endocrinologist. He worked with reproductive technology and pioneered gamete intrafallopian transfer (GI…
Ricardo Asch, Argentinian gynecologist and endocrinologist
Ian Hugh Gordon Ashley is a British and German racing driver who raced in Formula One for the Token, Williams, BRM and Hesketh teams.
Ian Ashley, German-English race car driver
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, lawyer and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 20…
Hillary Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 67th United States Secretary of State and 44th First Lady of the…
Trevor Joyce is an Irish poet, born in Dublin.
Trevor Joyce, Irish poet and scholar
Kenzo Kitakata is a Japanese novelist, especially known for his hardboiled novels. He studied law at Chuo University in the early 1970s. He served as the 10th President of the Mys…
Kenzo Kitakata, Japanese author
Terry Alan Anderson was an American journalist and combat veteran. He reported for the Associated Press. In 1985, he was taken hostage by Shia Hezbollah militants of the Islamic Ji…
Terry A. Anderson, American journalist (died 2024)
Reginald Norman Morgan Empey, Baron Empey,, best known as Reg Empey, is a Northern Irish politician who served as the acting First Minister of Northern Ireland in 2001. He was the …
Reg Empey, Northern Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast
Helen Lloyd Coonan is a former Australian politician who was a Senator for New South Wales from 1996 to 2011, representing the Liberal Party. She was a minister in the Howard gover…
Helen Coonan, Australian lawyer and politician, 52nd Australian Minister for Communications
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is an American actor. He emerged from the New Hollywood wave of American cinema, finding fame with a succession of leading man parts in the 1970s. He has r…
Richard Dreyfuss, American actor and activist
Glenn Urban Andreotta was an American helicopter crew chief in the Vietnam War noted for being one of three who intervened in the Mỹ Lai massacre, in which 504 unarmed children, wo…
Glenn Andreotta, American soldier (died 1968)
Tim Kirk is both a professional artist and an American fan artist. He worked as a senior designer at Tokyo DisneySea, as an Imagineer for the Walt Disney company.
Tim Kirk, American illustrator and designer
Timothy Bruce Schmit is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He has performed as the bassist and vocalist for rock bands Poco and Eagles, having replaced Randy Meisner in …
Timothy B. Schmit, American singer-songwriter and bass player
Herschel Alan Weingrod is an American screenwriter. He has written and co-written a number of Hollywood films, including Trading Places, Twins, Kindergarten Cop, and Space Jam wi…
Herschel Weingrod, American screenwriter and producer
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II, he lived u…
Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (born 1900)
Jozef Gašpar Tiso was a Slovak politician, dictator and Catholic priest who served as president of the First Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany during World War II, fr…
Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (born 1887)
Christian X was King of Denmark from 1912 until his death in 1947, and the only King of Iceland as Kristján X, holding the title as a result of the personal union between Denmark a…
Christian X of Denmark (born 1870)
Meir Feinstein was an Irgun member in Mandatory Palestine, during the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine. Feinstein, who was sentenced to death by the British authorities, is…
Meir Feinstein (born 1929, disputed) with Moshe Barazani (born c
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded t…
Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1873)