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Terrell Lamar Davis is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) from 1995 to 2001. Despit…
Terrell Davis, American football player and sportscaster
Evan Coyne Maloney, is an inactive American documentary filmmaker, the editor of the now defunct website Brain Terminal and a video blogger. A New York Sun profile in 2005 said tha…
Evan Coyne Maloney, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Brad Douglas Paisley is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His first success came in 1997 as the writer of David Kersh's "Another You". After this, he sig…
Brad Paisley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Trista Nicole Sutter is an American television personality who was the runner-up on season 1 of The Bachelor before becoming the star of the first season of its companion show, The…
Trista Sutter, American reality star
Tracee Joy Silberstein, known professionally as Tracee Ellis Ross, is an American actress. The daughter of Motown singer Diana Ross, she is known for her lead roles in the televisi…
Tracee Ellis Ross, American actress and producer
Takafumi Horie is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Livedoor, a website design operation that grew into a popular internet portal. After being arrested and charged with securiti…
Takafumi Horie, Japanese businessman, founded Livedoor
Gabrielle Monique Union-Wade is an American actress, model and author. Her career began in the 1990s, when she made dozens of appearances on television sitcoms before landing suppo…
Gabrielle Union, American actress and producer
Jessica Hynes is an English actress, director and writer. Best known as a comedy actress, she has played Cheryl in The Royle Family (1998–2010), Siobhan Sharpe in Twenty Twelve (20…
Jessica Hynes, English actress, producer, and screenwriter
Yasunari/Kōsei Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japane…
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Francis Alexander O'Connor was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Supply and Shipping (1946–1948) and later the Department of Supply (1953–19…
Frank O'Connor, Australian public servant (born 1894)
Kwame Kofi Nkrumah, baptised Francis, was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it …
Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician, 1st President of Ghana (born 1909)
Fernand Amorsolo y Cueto was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. Nicknamed the "Grand Old Man of Philippine Art," he was the first-ever to be recognized as a …
Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (born 1892)
George Henry Sanders was a British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as soph…
George Sanders, English actor (born 1906)
Gia Scala was a British and American actress.
Gia Scala, English-American model and actress (born 1934)
John Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first director of the Federa…
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Sir Kenneth Hamilton Bailey was a senior Australian public servant and lawyer, best known for his time as Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department between 1946 and 1964.
Kenneth Bailey, Australian lawyer and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to Canada (born 1898)
Emil William Breitkreutz was an American middle-distance runner who won a bronze medal in the Olympic 800 meters final in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri.
Emil Breitkreutz, American runner and coach (born 1883)
Bruce Cabot was an American film actor, best remembered as Jack Driscoll in King Kong (1933) and for his roles in films such as The Last of the Mohicans (1936), Fritz Lang's Fury (…
Bruce Cabot, American actor (born 1904)
Wilhelmus Egbertus Antonius Janssen, better known as Father Chrysanthus OFMCap, was a Dutch priest and biology teacher. He was known for his studies in arachnology. Initially he wa…
Father Chrysanthus, Dutch arachnologist (born 1905)
Edward Calvin Kendall was an American biochemist. In 1950, Kendall was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine along with Swiss chemist Tadeusz Reichstein and Mayo Clini…
Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
Pandurang Vaman Kane was an Indian academic, historian, lawyer, Indologist, and Sanskrit scholar. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award in 1963.
Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indian Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (born 1880)
Bobby Dan Davis Blocker was an American television actor and Korean War veteran, who played Hoss Cartwright in the NBC Western television series Bonanza.
Dan Blocker, American actor (born 1928)
Cecil Day-Lewis, often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death. He also wrote mystery stories under the p…
Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (born 1904)
Beatrice Helen Worsley, better known as "Trixie" Worsely, was a Canadian computer scientist, the first woman in the country to work in that profession. She received her Ph.D. from …
Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist (born 1921)