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Demont Mitchell is a retired association football player from The Bahamas who had his career cut short by injuries suffered in a car accident.
Demont Mitchell, Bahamian footballer
Tarek Hamed is an Egyptian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Tarek Hamed, Egyptian footballer
Robson Donato Conceição is a Brazilian professional boxer who has held the World Boxing Council (WBC) super featherweight title in 2024. As an amateur, he became the first Brazilia…
Robson Conceição, Brazilian boxer
Lewis Shay McGugan is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. A player with excellent natural stamina, technical skills and mental attributes, he repr…
Lewis McGugan, English professional footballer
Chandler Evan Parsons is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Florida Gators and was drafted by the Houston Rockets with the 38th…
Chandler Parsons, American basketball player
Kaz Phonesak Patafta is an Australian sports administrator and former professional footballer. He has been the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Brisbane Roar FC since …
Kaz Patafta, Australian footballer
Abdoul Karim Yoda is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Al-Raed.
Karim Yoda, French footballer
Nosliw Rodríguez Franco is a Venezuelan politician. Nosliw was deputy of the National Assembly for Cojedes. She is currently a member of the 2017 Constituent National Assembly.
Nosliw Rodríguez, Venezuelan politician
Greg Zuerlein is an American former ice dancer. With Madison Chock, he was the 2009 World Junior champion, 2008 JGP Final champion, and 2011 U.S. national bronze medalist. They com…
Greg Zuerlein, American figure skater
Brady Ellison is an American archer who competes in recurve archery. He holds the record for the longest continuous period as the world number-one-ranked men's recurve archer, from…
Brady Ellison, American archer
Viktor Viktorov Genev is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Rilski Sportist Samokov.
Viktor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
Illimar Pärn is an Estonian ski jumper. Pärn made his individual World Cup debut in Kuopio 2010. In 2005 he was a part of the Estonian World Cup team in Lahti.
Illimar Pärn, Estonian ski jumper
Evan Marcel Turner is an American professional basketball coach and former player. He was most recently an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Associa…
Evan Turner, American basketball player
Edward Duncan Ernest Gould was a British animator, cartoonist, artist, and voice actor. He created Eddsworld, a Flash animator and web comic franchise featuring fictionalised versi…
Edd Gould, English cartoonist and animator (died 2012)
Devon Michael Murray is an Irish actor, best known for playing Seamus Finnigan in the Harry Potter film series.
Devon Murray, Irish actor
James Thomas Smith, known professionally as Jamie xx, is an English musician, DJ, record producer, and remixer. He is known for both his solo work and as a member of the indie pop …
Jamie xx, English musician, DJ, record producer and remixer
Janoris Jenkins, nicknamed "Jackrabbit", is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football f…
Janoris Jenkins, American football player
Janel Meilani Parrish is an American actress and singer. She starred as Mona Vanderwaal in Pretty Little Liars (2010–17) and its spin-off, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists (…
Janel Parrish, American actress and singer
Khalil Ibrahim al-Wazir was a Palestinian leader and co-founder of the nationalist party Fatah. As a top aide of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat, al-…
Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian commander, founded Fatah (born 1935)
Youri Aleksandrovich Egorov was a Soviet and Dutch classical pianist.
Youri Egorov, Russian pianist (born 1954)
Louise Nevelson was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. Born in Pereiaslav in the Poltava Governorate of the Ru…
Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-American sculptor and educator (born 1900)
Ali Oktay Rifat, better known as Oktay Rifat, was a Turkish writer and playwright, and one of the forefront poets of modern Turkish poetry since the late 1930s. He was the founder …
Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Turkish poet and playwright (born 1914)
Kwon Ki-ok was the first Korean female aviator, as well as one of the first female pilots in China. Her name in Chinese is Quan Jiyu. Kwon went into exile in China during the Japan…
Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (born 1901)
Grigori Kuzmin was an Estonian astronomer, who worked mainly in the field of stellar dynamics.
Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer and academic (born 1917)