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John Paul Cunniff was an American ice hockey coach and former professional player who appeared in 65 World Hockey Association regular season games between 1972 and 1976. After his …
John Cunniff, American ice hockey player and coach (died 2002)
Tabassum, was an Indian actress, talk show host and YouTuber, who started her career as child actor Baby Tabassum in 1947. She later had a television career as the host of first TV…
Tabassum, Indian actress and talk show host (died 2022)
Michael Grant is an English former professional motorcycle road racer and TT rider. A works-supported rider for Norton, Kawasaki, Honda and Suzuki, he is a seven-time winner of the…
Mick Grant, English motorcycle racer
Norman Hammond is a British archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar, noted for his publications and research on the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.
Norman Hammond, English archaeologist and academic
Byron Douglas Berline was an American fiddle player who played many American music styles, including old time, ragtime, bluegrass, Cajun, country, and rock.
Byron Berline, American world champion bluegrass fiddle player (died 2021)
Margaret Walsh Rossiter was an American historian of science who was based at Cornell University. Rossiter coined the term Matilda effect in 1993 to describe bias against acknowled…
Margaret W. Rossiter, American historian and author (died 2025)
Louis Clyde Hudson was an American National Basketball Association (NBA) player, who was an All-American at the University of Minnesota and a six-time NBA All-Star, scoring 17,940 …
Lou Hudson, American basketball player and coach (died 2014)
Michael Abraham Levy, Baron Levy, is a British life peer and former chartered accountant who was chairman and CEO of a large independent group of music companies. A long-standing f…
Michael Levy, Baron Levy, English philanthropist
Patricia Barber Polacco is an American author and illustrator. Throughout her school years, Polacco struggled to learn to read but found relief by expressing herself through art. P…
Patricia Polacco, American author and illustrator
Simon Walter Blackburn is an English philosopher known for his work in metaethics, where he defends quasi-realism, and in the philosophy of language. More recently, he has gained a…
Simon Blackburn, English philosopher and academic
Delia Ephron is an American writer and film producer.
Delia Ephron, American author, playwright, and screenwriter
Eric Walter "Fritzy" Freeman was an Australian cricketer who played in 11 Test matches from 1968 to 1970. He was also a leading Australian rules footballer with Port Adelaide Footb…
Eric Freeman, Australian cricketer (died 2020)
Cyril Barry Knowles was a footballer who played left-back for Tottenham Hotspur and England. He was the son of the rugby league footballer Cyril Knowles, and the older brother of f…
Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (died 1991)
Ernő Rubik is a Hungarian architect and inventor widely known for creating the Rubik's Cube (1974), Rubik's Magic, and Rubik's Snake.
Ernő Rubik, Hungarian game designer, architect, and educator, invented the Rubik's Cube
Mildred Virginia Jackson is an American R&B and soul recording artist. Beginning her career in the early 1960s, three of Jackson's albums have been certified gold by the RIAA for o…
Millie Jackson, American singer-songwriter
Jan-Michael Vincent was an American actor. He emerged as a leading man in the 1970s, playing notable roles in films like Going Home (1971), which earned him a Golden Globe nominati…
Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (died 2019)
Nigel Reuben Rook Williams was an English conservator and expert on the restoration of ceramics and glass. From 1961 until his death he worked at the British Museum, where he becam…
Nigel Williams, English conservator (died 1992)
Angharad Rees was a Welsh actress, best known for her British television roles during the 1970s and in particular her leading role as Demelza in the 1970s BBC TV costume drama Pold…
Angharad Rees, English-Welsh actress and jewellery designer (died 2012)
Mark Gordon Burgess is a former cricketer who played Test cricket for New Zealand from 1968 to 1980, captaining the team from 1978 to 1980. A right-handed batsman, who bowled right…
Mark Burgess, New Zealand cricketer and footballer
Catherine Schell is a Hungarian-born British actress who came to prominence in British film and television productions from the 1960s. Her notable roles include the Bond girl Nancy…
Catherine Schell, Hungarian-English actress
Carlos Alberto "Capita" Torres, also known as "O Capitão do Tri", was a Brazilian football player and manager who played as an attacking right-sided full-back or wing-back. A techn…
Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer and manager (died 2016)
David Peter Hemery is an English former track and field athlete. He was the winner of the 400 metres hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City in a new world record.
David Hemery, English hurdler and author
Timothy John McIntire was an American character actor who starred as Alan Freed in the film American Hot Wax (1978), as singer George Jones in the television movie Stand by Your Ma…
Tim McIntire, American actor and singer (died 1986)
Andres Vooremaa was an Estonian chess player, who twice won the Estonian Chess Championship. He was awarded the Soviet Master title in 1969.
Andres Vooremaa, Estonian chess player (died 2022)