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Kjell Inge Røkke is a Norwegian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of the Norwegian-based company Aker ASA, and holds directorships in Aker BP, Kværner, Ocean Yield, Aker …
Kjell Inge Røkke, Norwegian businessman and philanthropist
Shaun Anthony Woodward is a British Labour Party (UK) politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2010.
Shaun Woodward, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Gordon Sidney Cowans is an English retired football player and coach.
Gordon Cowans, English footballer
David Perry Hazeltine is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and educator.
David Hazeltine, American pianist and composer
Simon John Charles Le Bon is an English singer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the new wave band Duran Duran and its offshoot Arcadia. Le Bon has received th…
Simon Le Bon, English singer-songwriter
Jonathan Shapiro, known professionally as Zapiro, is a South African political cartoonist whose work has appeared in numerous South African publications and has been exhibited inte…
Jonathan Shapiro, South African political cartoonist who uses the pseudonym Zapiro
Felix Wurman was an American cellist and composer.
Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (died 2009)
Larry Donnell Thompson was an American professional football player who was a defensive end for the Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). Thompson pla…
Donnell Thompson, American football player (died 2024)
Concepción García Campoy, also known as Concha García Campoy, was a Spanish radio and television journalist and personality.
Concha García Campoy, Spanish journalist (died 2013)
Ashok Shankarrao Chavan is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is the son of the late former Maharashtra Chief Minister Shankarrao Chavan. He was one of the most influential …
Ashok Chavan, Indian businessman and politician, 16th Chief Minister of Maharashtra
William Adam Reid is a Scottish musician, best known for being the lead guitarist, main songwriter, and co-founder of the Scottish alternative rock band, the Jesus and Mary Chain.
William Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Blažej Baláž is a Slovak contemporary artist. His practise as an artist is usually associated with political art, environmental, activist, mail-art and neo-conceptualism. After 198…
Blažej Baláž, Slovak painter, sculptor, and illustrator
Daniel LaDrew Vranes is an American former professional basketball player.
Danny Vranes, American basketball player
Olav Dale was a Norwegian composer, orchestra leader and jazz saxophonist. In addition to saxophone he played other woodwinds. He received little formal education in music, but he …
Olav Dale, Norwegian saxophonist and composer (died 2014)
Joe Alton Delaney was an American professional football player who was a running back for two seasons in the National Football League (NFL). In his two seasons with the Kansas City…
Joe Delaney, American football player (died 1983)
Ramona d'Viola is an American cyclist.
Ramona d'Viola, American cyclist and photographer
David J. Remnick is an American journalist, writer, and editor. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, and is also the autho…
David Remnick, American journalist and author
Pétur Karl Guðmundsson is an Icelandic former professional basketball player and coach. Standing 2.18 m, weighing 118 kg (260 lb) and playing the center position, Pétur was the fir…
Pétur Guðmundsson, Icelandic basketball player and coach
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and gra…
Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist and academic (born 1920)
Maurice Gustave Gamelin was a French general who served as head of the French Army from 1935 and as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies in France from the outbreak of the Secon…
Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (born 1872)
Frank Rowbotham Foster was an English amateur cricketer who played for Warwickshire County Cricket Club from 1908 to 1914, and in Test cricket for England in 1911 and 1912. He was …
Frank Foster, English cricketer (born 1889)
Mihkel Lüdig was an Estonian composer, organist and choir conductor. As a composer, he particularly worked on a cappella choral songs. Lüdig is considered one of the major organise…
Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (born 1880)
Jacob Fichman, also transliterated as Yakov Fichman, was an acclaimed Hebrew poet, essayist and literary critic.
Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and critic (born 1881)
Sir Jadunath Sarkar, was a prominent Indian historian and a specialist on the Mughal dynasty.
Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (born 1870)