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Rudolph William Louis Giuliani is an American politician and disbarred lawyer who served as the 108th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the U.S. Ass…
Rudy Giuliani, American lawyer and politician, 107th mayor of New York City
Gladys Maria Knight is an American singer and actress. Knight recorded hits through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with her family group Gladys Knight & the Pips, which included her b…
Gladys Knight, American singer-songwriter and actress
Sandra Louise Anderson, professionally known as Sondra Locke, was an American actress and director.
Sondra Locke, American actress and director (died 2018)
Rita MacNeil was a Canadian singer and songwriter from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. Her biggest hit, "Flying On Your Own", was a crossover Top 40 …
Rita MacNeil, Canadian singer and actress (died 2013)
Patricia Quinn, Lady Stephens is a Northern Irish actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Magenta in the 1975 musical comedy horror film The Rocky Horror Picture Show…
Patricia Quinn, British actress and singer
Gary Ronnie Stewart was an American musician and songwriter, known for his distinctive vibrato voice. At the height of his popularity in the mid-1970s, Time magazine described him …
Gary Stewart, American singer-songwriter (died 2003)
Billy Vera is an American singer, songwriter, actor, author, and music historian. He has been a singer and songwriter since the 1960s, his most successful record being "At This Mom…
Billy Vera, American singer-songwriter and actor
Robert Herman Benmosche was the president and chief executive officer of American International Group. He was appointed President & Chief Executive Officer by the US Department of …
Bob Benmosche, American businessman (died 2015)
John Quentin Davies, Baron Davies of Stamford was a British Labour politician and life peer who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham and Stamford from 1987 to 2010.…
Quentin Davies, English soldier and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
The Dave Clark Five, also known as the DC5, were an English rock and roll band formed in 1958 in Tottenham, London. Drummer Dave Clark was the group's leader, producer and co-songw…
Lenny Davidson, English guitarist and songwriter
Meredith Lynn MacRae was an American actress, singer and talk show host. She is known for her roles as Sally Morrison on My Three Sons (1963–1965) and as Billie Jo Bradley on Petti…
Meredith MacRae, American actress (died 2000)
Stavro Evangelo "Stav" Prodromou is a Palestinian Greek American businessman, and the founder and former chief executive officer of Poqet Computer Corporation. Prodromou has been C…
Stav Prodromou, Greek-American engineer and businessman
Sir Colin Blakemore was a British neurobiologist, specialising in vision and the development of the brain. He was Yeung Kin Man Professor of Neuroscience and senior fellow of the H…
Colin Blakemore, British neurobiologist (died 2022)
Robert Thomas Powell is an English actor who is known for the title roles in Mahler (1974) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977), and for his portrayal of secret agent Richard Hannay in The…
Robert Powell, English actor
Robert Elliott was an American actor. He is known for his roles in the movies Animal House (1978), Flashpoint (1984) and Vixen Highway (2001). He died on December 25, 2004, in Tucs…
Robert Elliott, American actor (died 2004)
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch was an American composer and conductor. He is one of a handful of people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards, a feat dubbed the "EGOT". He and com…
Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (died 2012)
Roger Ball is a Scottish saxophonist, keyboardist, songwriter and arranger. He was a founding member of the Average White Band (AWB).
Roger Ball, Scottish saxophonist and songwriter
Holly Michelle Phillips is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Described by Time magazine as the "purest soprano in pop music", she rose to fame in the mid-1960s with the f…
Michelle Phillips, American singer-songwriter and actress
Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie ForMemRS is an American cryptographer and mathematician and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle…
Whitfield Diffie, American cryptographer and academic
Montgomery Bernard "Monty" Alexander OJ CD is a Jamaican American jazz pianist. His playing has a Caribbean influence and bright swinging feeling, with a strong vocabulary of bebop…
Monty Alexander, Jamaican jazz pianist
Phillip Allen Sharp is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Rober…
Phillip Allen Sharp, American molecular biologist; 1993 Nobel Prize laureate (Physiology or Medicine)
Tommie C. Smith is an American former track and field athlete and wide receiver in the American Football League. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Smith, aged 24, won the 200-meter spri…
Tommie Smith, American sprinter and football player; winner of 1968 Olympic 200m gold medal in a world record time
Marc Armand Ouellet is a Canadian Catholic prelate who served as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America from 2010 to 2023…
Marc Ouellet, Canadian archbishop and cardinal
William Royce "Boz" Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a bandmate of Steve Miller in the Ardells in the early 1960s and a member of the Steve Miller Ba…
Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist