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Robert Douglas Melvin is a Canadian front-office executive in Major League Baseball (MLB) who previously served as the general manager of the Texas Rangers (1995–2001) and Milwauke…
Doug Melvin, Canadian baseball player and manager
Robin Ophelia Quivers is an American radio personality best known for being the long-running co-host of The Howard Stern Show.
Robin Quivers, American nurse, radio host/personality, and author
Ramchandra Sudhakar Rao is a former Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Karnataka and played one One Day International for India against New Zealand in 1976.
Sudhakar Rao, Indian cricketer
Prateep Ungsongtham Hata is a Thai activist noted for her work with slum dwellers in the Khlong Toei District of Bangkok, Thailand. Among her supporters, she is known as Khru Prate…
Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, Thai activist and politician
Daniel Hugh Kelly is an American stage, film and television actor. He is best known for his role on the 1980s ABC TV series Hardcastle and McCormick (1983–1986) as the ex-con Mark …
Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
Diane Venora is an American stage, television and film actress. She graduated from the Juilliard School in 1977 and made her film debut in 1981 opposite Albert Finney in Wolfen. Sh…
Diane Venora, American actress
Reid Turner Blackburn was an American photographer killed in the 1980 volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens. A photojournalist covering the eruption for a local newspaper—the Vanco…
Reid Blackburn, American photographer (died 1980)
Robert Leroy Mothersbaugh Jr., also known by his stage name Bob 1, is an American musician, singer, songwriter and composer.
Bob Mothersbaugh, American singer, guitarist, and producer
William Daniel Biles is a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court. Biles was appointed on January 7, 2009, by Governor Kathleen Sebelius to replace retiring Chief Justice Kay McFarland…
Daniel Biles, American associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court
Sitaram Yechury was an Indian Marxist politician, theorist and statesman who was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He also a member of the Politburo …
Sitaram Yechury, Indian politician and leader of CPI(M) (died 2024)
Dave Carter was an American folk music singer-songwriter who described his style as "post-modern mythic American folk music". He was one half of the duo Dave Carter and Tracy Gramm…
Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2002)
Gary Gibbs is an American football coach and former player who previously served as the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma for six years, compiling a record of 44–23…
Gary Gibbs, American football player and coach
Suzanne Muldowney, nicknamed Underdog Lady or simply Underdog, is a performance artist known for her appearances in parades in various cities throughout the year in her elaborate h…
Suzanne Muldowney, American performance artist
Herbert Ritts Jr. was an American fashion photographer and music video director known for his photographs of celebrities, models, and other cultural figures throughout the 1980s an…
Herb Ritts, American photographer and director (died 2002)
Hugh Edward "Hughie" Thomasson Jr. was an American guitarist and singer, best known as a founding member of Outlaws. The band found success in the late 1970s and early 1980s with a…
Hughie Thomasson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2007)
Eugenio Gabriel "Gabby" Lopez III is a Filipino-American businessman who was the CEO (1993–2013), chairman (1997–2018) and chairman emeritus (2018–2020) of the Filipino media compa…
Eugenio Lopez III, Filipino businessperson, CEO and chairman of ABS-CBN Corporation
Deborah Elizabeth Meyer, also known by her married name Deborah Meyer Weber, is an American former competition swimmer, a 1968 three-time Olympic champion, and a former world recor…
Debbie Meyer, American swimmer
Charles Arnold Burgi III is an American drummer. He has performed with many rock bands and musicians, ranging from local New Jersey/New York-area artists to international groups, t…
Chuck Burgi, American drummer
Reginald VelJohnson is an American actor. He is best known for portraying police officers on screen, such as Sergeant Al Powell in the Die Hard franchise and Carl Winslow in the te…
Reginald VelJohnson, American actor
Aleksandr Ivanovich Maksimenkov was a Soviet and Russian football player and coach.
Aleksandr Maksimenkov, Russian footballer and coach (died 2012)
Nelson Piquet Souto Maior is a Brazilian former racing driver and businessman, who competed in Formula One from 1978 to 1991. Piquet won three Formula One World Drivers' Championsh…
Nelson Piquet, Brazilian race car driver and businessman
Mario Albert Theissen is the former BMW Motorsport Director and was team principal of BMW Sauber, the company's Formula One team from 2005 until 2009, when BMW sold the team back t…
Mario Theissen, German engineer and businessman
Guillermo Vilas is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He was the world No. 1 of the ITF Grand Prix seasons in 1974, 1975 and 1977. He won 62 singles titles and 16 doub…
Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player
Elayne Boosler is an American comedian, writer, and actress.
Elayne Boosler, American actress, director, and screenwriter