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Sandeep Patil is an Indian former cricketer, India national age-group cricket manager and former Kenya national team coach, who guided the underdogs to the semi-finals of the 2003 …
Sandeep Patil, Indian cricketer and coach
Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz is a drummer best known for working with the singer-songwriter "Weird Al" Yankovic. The two met while recording "Another One Rides the Bus" at the Dr. Dement…
Jon Schwartz, American drummer and producer
Kelly Willard is a contemporary Christian musician best known for her praise and worship recordings. She was featured as a soloist on recordings from Integrity, Vineyard Music, and…
Kelly Willard, American singer-songwriter
Rainer Maria Woelki is a German Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Cologne since 2014. This came following his election by the Cathedral Chapter to succeed Joachim Me…
Rainer Woelki, German cardinal
Adam Arkin is an American actor and director. He is best known for playing the role of Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope. He has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Tony as w…
Adam Arkin, American actor, director, and producer
José Rubén Zamora Marroquín is a Guatemalan industrial engineer, entrepreneur, and the founder of three Guatemalan newspapers: Siglo Veintiuno in 1990, El Periódico in 1996, and Nu…
José Rubén Zamora, Guatemalan journalist
Joan Allen is an American actress. Known for her work on stage and screen, she has received various accolades, including a Tony Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy …
Joan Allen, American actress
Alvin Ethelbert Greenidge is a former West Indian cricketer who played in six Tests and one ODI from 1978 to 1979. Born in Barbados, he was an opening batsman who shares his name w…
Alvin Greenidge, Barbadian cricketer
Sir Desmond Angus Swayne is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for New Forest West since 1997.
Desmond Swayne, English soldier and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
Kim Victoria Cattrall is a British and Canadian actress. She is known for her portrayal of Samantha Jones on HBO's Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she received five Primeti…
Kim Cattrall, English-Canadian actress
Raymond Jon Tester is an American politician and farmer who served from 2007 to 2025 as a United States senator from Montana. A member of the Democratic Party, Tester served in the…
Jon Tester, American farmer and politician
Peter Laurence Taylor is a former Australian cricketer who played in 13 Test matches and 83 One Day Internationals between 1987 and 1992. He became a Test match selector for Austra…
Peter Taylor, Australian cricketer
Valgerd Svarstad Haugland is a Norwegian teacher, politician and civil servant.
Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Norwegian educator and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture
Robert Lee "Skipp" Sudduth IV is an American theater, film and television actor. He appeared in the 1998 film Ronin and the TV drama Third Watch.
Skipp Sudduth, American actor
Gerald Arthur Cooney is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 1990. He challenged twice for world heavyweight titles in 1982 and 1987. He is widely regard…
Gerry Cooney, American boxer
Matthew James Aitken is an English songwriter and record producer, brought up in Astley, Greater Manchester, best known as part of the 1980s/early-1990s songwriting/production trio…
Matt Aitken, English songwriter and record producer
Takeshi Okada is a Japanese football manager and former player who played as a defender. He is currently the owner of FC Imabari.
Takeshi Okada, Japanese footballer, coach, and manager
Paul Leo Molitor, nicknamed "Mollie" and "the Ignitor", is an American former professional baseball player and manager. During his 21-year playing career in Major League Baseball (…
Paul Molitor, American baseball player and coach
Andreas Floer was a German mathematician who made seminal contributions to symplectic topology, and mathematical physics, in particular the invention of Floer homology. Floer's fir…
Andreas Floer, German mathematician and academic (died 1991)
Henri Pauli Toivonen was a Finnish rally driver born in Jyväskylä, the home of Rally Finland. His father, Pauli, was the 1968 European Rally Champion for Porsche and his younger br…
Henri Toivonen, Finnish race car driver (died 1986)
Sarah Frances Beamish is a British composer and violist. Her works include chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral music. She has also worked in theatre, film and television, as well…
Sally Beamish, English viola player and composer
Peter Brett Cullen is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Dan Fixx in Falcon Crest (1986–1988), Sam Cain in The Young Riders (1989–1990), Governor Ray Sullivan in …
Brett Cullen, American actor
Mark Thomas Mangino is a former American college football coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Kansas from 2002 to 2009. In 2007, Mangino received sever…
Mark Mangino, American football player and coach
Glen Matlock is an English musician and the bass guitarist in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. He is credited as a songwriter on 10 of the 12 songs on th…
Glen Matlock, English singer-songwriter and bass player