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Rachel Sarah Bilson is an American actress. Born to a California show-business family, Bilson made her television debut in 2003, and then landed the role of Summer Roberts on the p…
Rachel Bilson, American actress
Tino la Bertram Best is a West Indian former cricketer. Since 2002, he has played domestic cricket for his native Barbados, with a season at English club Yorkshire in 2010. Best ma…
Tino Best, Barbadian cricketer
Peter Williams III is a Canadian professional wrestler and musician. He is signed to WWE as a backstage producer. He is best known for his time in Impact Wrestling, where he is a t…
Petey Williams, Canadian wrestler
Patrick Johannes Adams is a Canadian-American actor. He is best known for his role as Mike Ross, a college dropout turned unlicensed lawyer, in the USA Network legal drama series S…
Patrick J. Adams, Canadian actor
Maxwell Scherrer Cabelino Andrade, known as Maxwell, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a left-back. He is currently employed by Paris Saint-Germain as ass…
Maxwell Cabelino Andrade, Brazilian footballer
Chantal Vinadou Tohouégnon Djotodia is a Beninese-born nurse who became the First Lady of the Central African Republic from 2013 to 2014.
Chantal Djotodia, Beninese-Central African nurse and politician
Alessandro Gamberini is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a central defender. He is working as assistant coach for Virtus Verona.
Alessandro Gamberini, Italian footballer
Karla Cheatham Mosley is an American actress and singer. She starred on the Emmy-nominated children's show Hi-5; she has starred in numerous plays and also had minor roles in sever…
Karla Mosley, American actress
Kezia Alexandra Ross Dugdale is a Scottish former politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2015 to 2017. A former member of the Scottish Labour Party and C…
Kezia Dugdale, Scottish politician
Daniel Gygax is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a winger or attacking midfielder. He earned 35 caps for the Swiss national team, playing at two European Champi…
Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
Raphael "Rafa" Matos is a Brazilian professional racing driver. He was the 2008 Firestone Indy Lights Series champion and the 2007 Champ Car Atlantic Series champion. In sports car…
Raphael Matos, Brazilian race car driver
Ahmed Talbi is a Moroccan footballer. As of 2005, he played for Wydad Casablanca. As of 2013, he was a starting player for Renaissance de Berkane.
Ahmed Talbi, Moroccan footballer
Agata Ewa Wróbel is a Polish weightlifter, and is a world record-breaker in the +75 kg category.
Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter
Josep Pla i Casadevall was a Spanish journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, from where he wrote politi…
Josep Pla, Catalan journalist and author (born 1897)
Jim Davis was an American actor, best known for his roles in television Westerns. In his later career, he became famous as Jock Ewing in the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas, a role…
Jim Davis, American actor (born 1909)
Nargis Dutt, known mononymously as Nargis, was an Indian actress and politician who worked in Hindi cinema. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Hindi cinema…
Nargis, Indian actress (born 1929)
Chelliah Loganathan was a Ceylon Tamil banker and the first Ceylonese general manager of the Bank of Ceylon.
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Robert Gerard Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to pl…
Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer and hunger striker (born 1954)
Uri Zvi Greenberg was an Israeli poet, journalist and politician who wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew.
Uri Zvi Greenberg, Israeli poet and journalist (born 1896)
Nelson Algren was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
Nelson Algren, American novelist and short story writer (born 1909)
Rolf Just Nilsen was a Norwegian singer, impressionist and actor. He was particularly known for his imitations of famous comedians at the time. He worked for the theatres Studiot…
Rolf Just Nilsen, Norwegian singer and actor (born 1931)
Odd Hassel was a Norwegian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate.
Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
Robert Nesta Marley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, he fused elements of reggae, ska, and rocksteady, and was renowned f…
Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1945)
Francis Joseph Sean Hughes was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Hughes was the most wanted man in Nor…
Francis Hughes, Provisional IRA hunger striker (born 1956)