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James Norman Beaver Jr. is an American actor, writer, and film historian. He portrayed Bobby Singer in Supernatural. He also played Whitney Ellsworth on the HBO Western drama serie…
Jim Beaver, American actor, director, and screenwriter
Thomas August Darnell Browder, known professionally as August Darnell and under the stage name Kid Creole, is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He co-founded Dr. Buzzard…
August "Kid Creole" Darnell, American musician, bandleader, singer-songwriter, and record producer
James Edward Dunn was an Australian television and radio personality, puppeteer, comedian and voice artist. He began his entertainment career as a drummer and a singer-songwriter, …
Jamie Dunn, Australian actor, radio and television host (died 2026)
George F. McGinnis was an American professional basketball player who played 11 seasons in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA). He p…
George McGinnis, American basketball player (died 2023)
Jane Carr is an English actress. She is well known for her first film role as Mary McGregor in drama The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and the voice role of "Pud'n" on the anima…
Jane Carr, English actress
Allen Russell Gerhardt is an American former professional baseball player. He was a left-handed pitcher who appeared in 23 games, 22 in relief, for the San Diego Padres of Major Le…
Rusty Gerhardt, American baseball player, coach, and manager
Gary Larson is an American cartoonist who created The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. T…
Gary Larson, American cartoonist
Tommy Aldridge is an American heavy metal and hard rock drummer. He is noted for his work with numerous bands and artists since the 1970s, such as Black Oak Arkansas, Pat Travers B…
Tommy Aldridge, American drummer
Tessie Jean Harper is an American actress. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her first film role in 1983's Tender Mercies, and for the Ac…
Tess Harper, American actress
Jay Thomas Kelly is an American former professional baseball player, coach and manager. As the manager of the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB) over 16 seasons from mi…
Tom Kelly, American baseball player
Anne, Princess Royal, is a member of the British royal family. She is the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the sister …
Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom
Hasely Joachim Crawford TC, OLY is a former track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago. In 1976, he became his country's first Olympic champion. Hasely Crawford Stadium, in P…
Hasely Crawford, Trinidadian runner
Marshall Manesh is an Iranian-American actor.
Marshall Manesh, Iranian-American actor
Jeffrey Robert Thomson is a former Australian cricketer. Known as "Thommo", he is one of the fastest bowlers in the history of cricket; he bowled a delivery with a speed of 160.6 k…
Jeff Thomson, Australian cricketer
Geraint Jarman was a Welsh musician, poet and television producer whose career dates back to the early years of Welsh popular music. He recorded many albums as a solo artist and wi…
Geraint Jarman, Welsh musician, poet and television producer (died 2025)
Dennis Leslie Elliott is a British musician and artist who was the original drummer for the rock band Foreigner. He played with the band from 1976 until leaving between 1991 and 19…
Dennis Elliott, English drummer and sculptor
Jennifer Bond is an English journalist and television presenter. Bond worked for fourteen years as the BBC's royal correspondent. She has also hosted Cash in the Attic and narrated…
Jennie Bond, English journalist and author
Sudha Murty is an Indian educator, author, and philanthropist. She is the Founder-Chairperson of the non-profit charitable organization Infosys Foundation. She is married to the co…
Sudha Murty, Indian author and teacher, head of Infosys Foundation
Patrick Juvet was a Swiss singer-songwriter, who had a string of hit records in Europe. While his early career was focused on making pop records, he found international success as …
Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer-songwriter and model (died 2021)
Arthur Herman Bremer is an American convicted criminal who attempted to assassinate U.S. Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace on May 15, 1972, in Laurel, Maryland, leav…
Arthur Bremer, American attempted assassin of George Wallace
Bertram Ray Burris is an American former pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB), and the current rehabilitation pitching coordinator in the Philadelphia Phillies organization. He p…
Ray Burris, American baseball player and coach
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is an American lawyer and former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. He became known as a high-ranking staff person to be indicted by a grand jur…
Scooter Libby, American lawyer and politician, Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States
Luigi Delneri, often incorrectly written as Del Neri, is an Italian football manager and a former player.
Luigi Delneri, Italian footballer and manager
Willy DeVille was an American singer and songwriter. During his thirty-five-year career, first with his band Mink DeVille (1974–1986) and later on his own, DeVille created songs ro…
Willy DeVille, American singer and songwriter (died 2009)