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Anthony John Burger was an American pianist and singer, most closely associated with Southern gospel music.
Anthony Burger, American singer and pianist (died 2006)
Ramesh Krishnan is an Indian tennis coach and former professional tennis player. As a junior player in the late 1970s, he won the singles titles at both, Wimbledon and the French O…
Ramesh Krishnan, Indian tennis player and coach
Thomas Carl Benson is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooner…
Thomas Benson, American football player
Kimberley Ann Deal is an American musician. She was the original bassist and co-vocalist in the alternative rock band the Pixies from 1986 to 1993 and again from 2004 to 2013. She …
Kim Deal, American singer-songwriter and musician
Aldo Costa is an Italian engineer who is the chief technical officer at Dallara since 2020. After graduating from the University of Bologna, Costa joined the Formula One team Minar…
Aldo Costa, Italian engineer
Mary L. Bonauto is an American lawyer and civil rights advocate who has worked to eradicate discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and has been referred to…
Mary Bonauto, American lawyer and gay rights activist
Michael Andrew Fox, known professionally as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian and American actor and activist. Beginning his career as a child actor in the 1970s, he rose to prominence…
Michael J
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin is an American screenwriter, playwright, and filmmaker. As a writer for stage, television, and film, he is recognized for his trademark fast-paced dialogue an…
Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer, and playwright
Max Alfred Elliott, known by his stage name Maxi Priest, is a British reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with an R&B influence, otherwis…
Maxi Priest, English singer-songwriter
George Alan O'Dowd, known professionally as Boy George, is a British musician, songwriter and DJ who rose to fame as the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club. He is also a solo…
Boy George, English singer-songwriter and producer
Dušan "Koja" Kojić is a Serbian rock bassist, singer, and songwriter. He is the frontman of the Serbian Alternative rock band Disciplin A Kitschme.
Dušan Kojić, Serbian singer-songwriter and bass player
Samuel Bruce Perkins is an American former professional basketball player and executive. Perkins was a three-time college All-American, was a member of the 1982 national champion N…
Sam Perkins, American basketball player
David Anthony McAuley is a former professional boxer from Northern Ireland who competed from 1983 to 1992. He held the IBF flyweight title from 1989 to 1992 and challenged twice fo…
Dave McAuley, Northern Irish boxer and sportscaster
Scott Norton is an American semi-retired professional wrestler and author. He is best known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling and New Japan Pro-Wrestling, in which he…
Scott Norton, American wrestler
Can Dündar is a Turkish journalist, columnist and documentarian. Editor-in-chief of center-left Cumhuriyet newspaper until August 2016, he was arrested in November 2015 after his n…
Can Dündar, Turkish journalist and author
Robert Byers Kerr is an Australian former cricketer who played in two Test matches and four One Day Internationals in 1985. He represented Queensland in four Sheffield Shield final…
Robbie Kerr, Australian cricketer
Steven Donald Larmer is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. After excelling in the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League, Larmer was selected by the Chicago Black Hawks…
Steve Larmer, Canadian ice hockey player
Margus Metstak is a retired Estonian professional basketball player who played mostly at the center position.
Margus Metstak, Estonian basketball player and coach
Koichi Yamadera is a Japanese actor, narrator and singer from Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture. He graduated from Tohoku Gakuin University's economics school and is currently affiliate…
Kōichi Yamadera, Japanese actor and singer
Richard Alfonso Martinez, better known by the stage name Oz Fox, is the lead guitarist of the Christian glam metal band Stryper. Martinez' high school friends called him Oz in hono…
Oz Fox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Andrés José Padovani Galarraga is a Venezuelan former professional baseball first baseman who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Montreal Expos, St. Louis Car…
Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player
Angela Johnson is an American writer of children's books and poetry, with over 40 books to her credit since beginning her writing career in 1989. Her children's picture books are s…
Angela Johnson, American novelist and poet
Geneviève Alison Jane Ballard, formerly known as Alf, is an English singer-songwriter. Noted for her powerful bluesy contralto voice, she came to prominence as a member of the synt…
Alison Moyet, English singer-songwriter
Max Otto Hainle was a German swimmer who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Dortmund. As a member of the German swimming team he won the gold medal at the Paris G…
Max Hainle, German swimmer (born 1882)