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David Mark Winfield is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder. He is the special assistant to the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Asso…
Dave Winfield, American baseball player and sportscaster
Bakhytzhan Musakhanuli Kanapyanov is a Kazakh poet, writer, publisher, and translator. Kanapyanov is a member of the Russian and the Kazakh PEN clubs, an honorary professor at the …
Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet and author
Leonard Eugene "Truck" Robinson is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Washington Bullets (1…
Truck Robinson, American basketball player and coach
Karen Jane Allen is an American film, television and stage actress. She made her film debut in the comedy film Animal House (1978), which was soon followed by a small role in Woody…
Karen Allen, American actress
Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof is an Irish singer-songwriter, political activist, television producer and entrepreneur. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead singer of…
Bob Geldof, Irish singer-songwriter and actor
Kevin Patrick Cronin Jr. is an American musician who was the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band REO Speedwagon. The band had several hits on the Billboard Hot 100…
Kevin Cronin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Clive Frederick William Rees is a Welsh former rugby union player. He won thirteen caps as left wing for Wales between 1973 and 1983.
Clive Rees, Singaporean-Welsh rugby player and educator
Manfred Winkelhock was a German racing driver, who competed in Formula One between 1980 and 1985.
Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (died 1985)
Enki Bilal is a French comic book creator and film director.
Enki Bilal, French comic book creator, comics artist and film director
The Sutherland Brothers were a Scottish folk and soft rock duo. From 1973 to 1978, they performed with rock band Quiver, and recorded and toured as Sutherland Brothers & Quiver. Un…
Gavin Sutherland, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player
John J. Mellencamp, previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for his brand of heartland rock, which…
John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
Jack T. O'Connell is an American politician, educator and formerly the 26th California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, having been elected to the post in November 2002 …
Jack O'Connell, American educator and politician
Timo Olavi Salonen is a Finnish former rally driver who won the 1985 World Rally Championship season for Peugeot. It was commented of him that he stood out from other drivers, beca…
Timo Salonen, Finnish race car driver
Shannon C. Stimson is an American political theorist and historian of ideas, whose more recent work and teaching spans the economic and political thought of the early modern period…
Shannon C. Stimson, American philosopher, historian, and theorist
Adrian Bailie Nottage Palmer, 4th Baron Palmer, was a British aristocrat and landowner in Scotland. Lord Palmer succeeded his uncle in the peerage in 1990, and was one of the origi…
Adrian Palmer, 4th Baron Palmer, British aristocrat and landowner (died 2023)
Robert Wuhl is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known as the creator and star of the television comedy series Arliss (1996–2002) and for his portrayal of newspap…
Robert Wuhl, American actor, comedian, and writer
Bruce Reeves Bartlett is an American historian and author. He served as a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and as a Treasury official under George H. W. Bush. Bartlett also…
Bruce Bartlett, American economist, historian, and author
Jon Miller is an American sportscaster, known primarily for his broadcasts of Major League Baseball. Since 1997, he has been employed as a play-by-play announcer for the San Franci…
Jon Miller, American sportscaster
Brigadier-General Ratu Epeli Ganilau, MC, MSD, was a Fijian military officer and politician. His career previously encompassed such roles as Commander of the Fiji Military Forces…
Epeli Ganilau, Fijian general and politician, 16th Minister for Fijian Affairs (died 2023)
Miroslav Dvořák was a Czechoslovak ice hockey defenseman. He played three seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers from 1982 to 1985. The rest of hi…
Miroslav Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player (died 2008)
Jean-Jacques Goldman is a French singer-songwriter and record producer whose work remains hugely popular in the French-speaking world. Since the death of Johnny Hallyday in 2017, h…
Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
Louise Rennison was an English author and comedian who wrote the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series for teenage girls. The series records the exploits of a teenage girl, Georgi…
Louise Rennison, English author and comedian (died 2016)
Charles Richard Shyer was an American filmmaker. Shyer's films are mainly comedies, often with a romcom overtone. His writing-directing credits include Private Benjamin (1980), Irr…
Charles Shyer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2024)
Sally Little is a South African-born professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1971 and won 15 LPGA Tour events, including two major championships, during her ca…
Sally Little, South African-American golfer