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John Cunningham Cleland is a British retired auto racing driver, best known for winning the British Touring Car Championship in 1989 and 1995.
John Cleland, British racing driver
Celia Diana Savile Imrie is an English actress.
Celia Imrie, English actress
Terrance Quinn, known professionally as Terry O'Quinn, is an American actor. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for his performance as John Locke on the TV series Lost (2004–2010). In f…
Terry O'Quinn, American actor
David Robert Pack is an American singer, songwriter, who is best known as co-founder, lead vocalist and guitarist of the rock band Ambrosia in the 1970s and 1980s. Pack wrote and s…
David Pack, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Irina Georgieva Bokova is a Bulgarian politician and a former Director-General of UNESCO (2009–2017). During her political and diplomatic career in Bulgaria, she served, among othe…
Irina Bokova, Bulgarian politician, Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Robert Edward Casale Jr., or "Bob 2", was an American musician, composer and record producer. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as the rhythm guitarist and keyboardist of the…
Bob Casale, American musician, member of Devo (died 2014)
Marc Steven Bell, better known as Marky Ramone, is an American drummer. He began playing in hard rock bands in the New York City area, notably Dust and Estus. He was asked to drum …
Marky Ramone, American drummer and songwriter
John Anthony Genzale, known professionally as Johnny Thunders, was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of New York D…
Johnny Thunders, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1991)
Stewart Armstrong Copeland is an American musician and composer who was the drummer of the English rock band the Police. Before the Police, he played drums with the progressive roc…
Stewart Copeland, American drummer and songwriter
Marc Esposito is a French film director and screenwriter. Esposito was first a journalist, critic and press manager. He created two movie magazines: Premiere with Jean-Pierre Frimb…
Marc Esposito, French director and screenwriter
Kenneth Scott McEwan, is a South African-Scottish retired cricketer and businessman who played principally for Eastern Province and Essex.
Ken McEwan, South African cricketer
David Michael Hasselhoff, nicknamed "The Hoff", is an American actor, singer, and television personality. Hasselhoff first gained recognition on the soap opera The Young and the Re…
David Hasselhoff, American actor, singer, and producer
Nicolette Larson was an American singer. She is best known for her work in the late 1970s with Neil Young and her 1978 hit single of Young's "Lotta Love", which hit No. 1 on the Ho…
Nicolette Larson, American singer-songwriter (died 1997)
Matheus J. "Thé" Lau was a Dutch musician and writer. Besides his solo career, he was the lead singer of the Dutch band The Scene. He was born in Bergen, North Holland.
Thé Lau, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)
Robert Rick McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. One of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon …
Robert R. McCammon, American author
Larkin Allen Collins Jr. was an American guitarist, and one of the founding members of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He co-wrote many of the band's songs with frontman and…
Allen Collins, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1990)
Jayne Anne Phillips is an American novelist and short story writer who was born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. She was a professor of English at Rutgers-Newark fro…
Jayne Anne Phillips American novelist and short story writer
Jay Jay French is an American guitarist, manager, record producer and the only continuous founding member of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister. He is a columnist, author and moti…
Jay Jay French, American guitarist
John Anthony Barrasso III is an American physician and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Wyoming, a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the Republica…
John Barrasso, American physician and politician
Ahmad Husni bin Mohamad Hanadzlah is a former Second Minister of Finance of Malaysia. He was appointed on 10 April 2009 when Najib Razak became Prime Minister. He was also the Memb…
Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah, Malaysian economist
Phillip Douglas Russell is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played over one thousand games in the National Hockey League. Russell featured in the 1973 Stanl…
Phil Russell, Canadian ice hockey player
Paul Anthony Hibbert was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1977. He was born in Brunswick, Victoria.
Paul Hibbert, Australian cricketer and coach (died 2008)
William Donald Nyrop was an American professional ice hockey player. He played 207 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and Minnesota North Stars from 19…
Bill Nyrop, American ice hockey player and coach (died 1995)
John Howard Rutsey was a Canadian musician best known as a founding member and original drummer of Rush. He performed on the band's 1974 debut album, but left shortly after its rel…
John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (died 2008)