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Brewster Lurton Kahle is an American digital librarian, computer engineer, and internet entrepreneur. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 with a Bac…
Brewster Kahle, American digital librarian, computer engineer, and internet entrepreneur
Mirwais Ahmadzaï (Pashto/ میرویس احمدزی :, known mononymously as Mirwais, is a French electronic dance music record producer and songwriter, born in Lausanne, Switzerland to an Afg…
Mirwais Ahmadzaï, Swiss-French keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
Katoucha Niane was a Guinean model, activist and author. Nicknamed "The Peul Princess", she worked, and later wrote, under the single name "Katoucha". She was known as the muse of …
Katoucha Niane, French model and actress (died 2008)
Randolph Frederick Pausch was an American educator, a professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Penns…
Randy Pausch, American author and academic (died 2008)
Wayne Wesley Rainey is an American former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships in 1984 and from 1988 to 1993. H…
Wayne Rainey, American motorcycle racer
Ian Michael Baker-Finch is an Australian golfer and sports commentator best known for winning The Open Championship in 1991.
Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer and sportscaster
Jaime Hernando Garzón Forero was a Colombian comedian, journalist, politician, and peace activist. He was popular on Colombian television during the 1990s for his unique political …
Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist, lawyer, and activist (died 1999)
Joachim Winkelhock is a German motor racing driver. He competed in and won German Formula Three before moving onto Formula One. Winkelhock would compete in the 1989 season of F1 wi…
Joachim Winkelhock, German race car driver
Bradley Darryl Wong is an American actor. Wong won a Tony Award for his performance as Song Liling in M. Butterfly, becoming the only actor in Broadway history to receive the Tony …
BD Wong, American actor
Hong Sang-soo is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. His films often deal in love affairs and everyday dilemmas in contemporary South Korea. His work has been widely-acc…
Hong Sang-soo, South Korean director and screenwriter
Joseph Patrick Breen is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director.
Patrick Breen, American actor
Thomas Andrew Nieto was an American professional baseball catcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins, and Philad…
Tom Nieto, American baseball player, coach, and manager
Landon Curt Noll is an American computer scientist, co-discoverer of the 25th Mersenne prime and discoverer of the 26th, which he found while still enrolled at Hayward High School …
Landon Curt Noll, American computer scientist and mathematician
Michael D'Andrea Carter is an American former professional football player and track and field athlete. He played pro football as a nose tackle with the San Francisco 49ers in the …
Michael Carter, American football player and athlete
Fabiola Gianotti is an Italian experimental particle physicist who served as Director-General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) from 2016 to 2026.
Fabiola Gianotti, Italian physicist and academic
Thorsten Schlumberger is a former professional German footballer.
Thorsten Schlumberger, German footballer
Charnele Brown is an American actress, producer, writer, fashion designer and singer. She is known for her roles as Paula in the 1992 film How Ya Like Me Now and as Kimberly Reese …
Charnele Brown, American actress and singer
Grayson Hugh is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, Hammond B3 organ player and composer. He is best known for his 1988 hit "Talk It Over", and his other blue-eyed soul hits "B…
Grayson Hugh, American singer-songwriter
Diego Armando Maradona was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in history, he was one of the two joint winners of …
Diego Maradona, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2020)
Mihály Fekete was a Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director.
Mihály Fekete, Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director (born 1884)
Edward Ray Cochran was an American rock and roll musician. His songs, such as "Twenty Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody" and "Somethin' Else", captured teenage fru…
Eddie Cochran, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1938)
Beardsley Ruml was an American statistician, economist, philanthropist, planner, businessman and man of affairs in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.
Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (born 1894)
Max Theodor Felix von Laue was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 "for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals."
Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1879)
Charles Henry Holden was an English architect best known for designing many London Underground stations during the 1920s and 1930s, the Underground Electric Railways Company of Lon…
Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library (born 1875)