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Tommy Wayne Cannon was an important Native American artist of the 20th century. He was popularly known as T. C. Cannon. He was an enrolled member of the Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklah…
T. C. Cannon, American painter and sculptor (died 1978)
Thomas Michael Bower is a British writer and former BBC journalist and television producer. He is known for his investigative journalism and for his unauthorised biographies, often…
Tom Bower, English journalist and author
Jeffrey Duncan Jones is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus (1984), Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), Charles Deetz in B…
Jeffrey Jones, American actor
Majid Jahangir Khan, nicknamed "Majestic Khan" by the British press, is a former cricketer, batsman and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. In his prime, he was consider…
Majid Khan, Indian-Pakistani cricketer
Patricia Hodge is an English actress. She is known on-screen for playing Phyllida Erskine-Brown in Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992), Jemima Shore in Jemima Shore Investigates (198…
Patricia Hodge, English actress
Arturo Lindsay is a Panamanian-born artist and professor of art and art history at Spelman College. His scholarship specializes in ethnographic research on African spiritual and ae…
Arturo Lindsay, Panamanian-American artist
Fran Brill is an American actress and puppeteer, best known for her roles on Sesame Street, as well as playing Sally Hayes in the Hal Ashby film Being There (1979), Dana Mardukas i…
Fran Brill, American actress, singer, and puppeteer
Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, Baron Gascoyne-Cecil is a British Conservative politician. From 1979 to 1987 he represented South Dorset in the Hous…
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Leader of the House of Lords
Héctor Juan Pérez Martínez, better known as Héctor Lavoe, was a Puerto Rican salsa singer. Widely regarded as one of salsa's most important and influential vocalists, Lavoe played …
Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (died 1993)
Jochen Richard Mass was a German racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1973 to 1982. Mass won the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix with McLaren. In endurance racin…
Jochen Mass, German race car driver (died 2025)
Andrew Paul Sheahan is a former Australian international cricketer who played 31 Test matches and three One Day Internationals as an opening and middle order batsman between 1967 a…
Paul Sheahan, Australian cricketer and educator
Raël is a French journalist and religious leader who founded and leads the Raëlian Movement, an international UFO religion.
Claude Vorilhon, French journalist, founded Raëlism
David Holland is an English double bassist, bass guitarist, cellist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United Stat…
Dave Holland, English bassist, composer, and bandleader
Tim O'Brien is an American author who served as a soldier in the Vietnam War. Much of his writing is about wartime Vietnam, and his work later in life often explores the postwar li…
Tim O'Brien, American novelist and short story writer
Patricia Ann Cole, known professionally as P. P. Arnold, is an American-born soul singer. She rose to prominence in the 1960s after performing as an Ikette with the Ike & Tina Turn…
P. P. Arnold, American soul singer
Sonthi Boonyaratglin is a Thai former general who was Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army and former head of the Council for Democratic Reform, the military junta that ruled …
Sonthi Boonyaratglin, Thai general and politician
Larry R. Clapp was an American lawyer and politician.
Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician (died 2013)
Charles Timothy Hagel is an American politician and Army veteran who served as the 24th United States secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015 in the administration of Barack Obama. …
Chuck Hagel, American sergeant and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Defense
Michael Glenn "Mike" Mullen is a retired United States Navy admiral who served as the 17th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 2007 to September 2011.
Michael Mullen, American admiral
Susan Abigail Sarandon is an American actor. With a career spanning over five decades, she has received accolades, including an Academy Award, an Actor Award, and a British Academy…
Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist
Zahida Hina is a noted Urdu columnist, essayist, short story writer, novelist and dramatist from Pakistan
Zahida Hina, Pakistani journalist and author
Robin James Lane Fox, is an English classicist, ancient historian, and gardening writer known for his works on Alexander the Great. Lane Fox is an Emeritus Fellow of New College, O…
Robin Lane Fox, English historian and author
Jean Perron is a Canadian ice hockey coach and sports commentator, best known for being the 16th head coach of the Montreal Canadiens, serving from 1985 to 1988. Perron has more re…
Jean Perron, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
David Vernon Watson is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. During his club career, he played for Notts County, Rotherham United, Sunderland, Manches…
David Watson, English footballer