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Keith Hernandez is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, and Cleve…
Keith Hernandez, American baseball player and sportscaster
Richard P. McWilliam was the chairman and co-founder of Upper Deck Company, a successful and award-winning Carlsbad-based collectibles business that specializes in trading cards fo…
Richard McWilliam, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Upper Deck Company (died 2013)
Marc Alan Johnson is an American jazz bass player, composer and band leader. Johnson was born in Nebraska and grew up in Texas. He is married to the Brazilian jazz pianist and sing…
Marc Johnson, American bassist, composer, and bandleader
Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, is a British former Labour Party politician, lobbyist and diplomat. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004…
Peter Mandelson, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
René Arce Islas is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PVEM. He served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the Federal District and as Senato…
René Arce Islas, Mexican politician
Altuğ Taner Akçam is a Turkish-German historian and sociologist. During the 1990s, he was the first Turkish scholar to acknowledge the Armenian genocide, and has written several bo…
Taner Akçam, Turkish sociologist and historian
Joaquín José Lavín Infante is a Chilean politician of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) party and former mayor of Las Condes, in the northeastern zone of Santiago. Formerly La…
Joaquín Lavín, Chilean politician and economist
Belinda Magnus, better known as Pauline Black, is an English singer, actress and author.
Pauline Black, English singer, actress and author
Daniele Bagnoli was an Italian volleyball coach.
Daniele Bagnoli, Italian volleyball coach
Jasem Yaqoub Sultan Al-Besara is a Kuwaiti former professional footballer who played as a forward. He represented the Kuwait national team at both the 1980 Summer Olympics and the …
Jasem Yaqoub, Kuwaiti footballer
Roger William Allam is an English actor. Known for his work on stage and screen, he has received three Laurence Olivier Awards.
Roger Allam, British actor
The Honourable Timothy Mark Hely Hutchinson is a British publisher, former group CEO of the second largest British publisher, Hachette UK, and the second son of the 8th Earl of Don…
Tim Hely Hutchinson, English publisher
Christoph Paul Daum was a German professional football manager and player. As a manager, he won eight trophies with clubs from Germany, Turkey and Austria. In 1992, he won the Bund…
Christoph Daum, German footballer and manager (died 2024)
Joe C. Meriweather was an American professional basketball player.
Joe Meriweather, American basketball player and coach (died 2013)
Julian Keith Strickland is an American singer-songwriter, composer, musician, multi-instrumentalist, and one of the founding members of the B-52s. He was born in Athens, Georgia.
Keith Strickland, American guitarist and songwriter
Abu Ahsan Mohammad Shamsul Arefin Siddique was a Bangladeshi academic who served as the 27th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka during 2009–2017. On 15 July 2020, he was ap…
AAMS Arefin Siddique, Bangladeshi academic administrator (died 2025)
Peter Macintosh Firth is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Sir Harry Pearce in the BBC One programme Spooks ; he is the only actor to have appeared in every episod…
Peter Firth, English actor
Robert Alphonse Picardo is an American actor. He is best known for playing The Doctor in the Star Trek franchise, starting on Star Trek: Voyager. He also appeared as Richard Woolse…
Robert Picardo, American actor, director, and screenwriter
Pierre Boivin is a Canadian businessman and was president of the Montreal Canadiens from September 2, 1999, through June 30, 2011, succeeding Ronald Corey. On July 9, 2024, he succ…
Pierre Boivin, Canadian businessman
John Charles Barrett, known professionally as Desmond Child, is an American songwriter and record producer. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008. He has been n…
Desmond Child, American musician, songwriter, and producer
Cornelis Piet Hoekstra is an American politician and diplomat serving since 2025 as the 33rd United States ambassador to Canada. A member of the Republican Party, he previously ser…
Pete Hoekstra, Dutch-American lawyer and politician
Charles Martin Smith is an American actor, film and television director and screenwriter, long based in British Columbia, Canada.
Charles Martin Smith, American actor, director, and screenwriter
Jakob Linzbach was an Estonian linguist.
Jacob Linzbach, Estonian linguist and author (born 1874)
Everett Shinn was an American painter and member of the urban realist Ashcan School.
Everett Shinn, American painter and illustrator (born 1876)