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Moyuka Uchijima is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 47, achieved on 5 May 2025, and a best doubles ranking of 86, reached …
Moyuka Uchijima, Japanese tennis player
Dixie Jane D'Amelio is an American social media personality, singer, and model.
Dixie D'Amelio, American social media personality and singer
Jannik Sinner is an Italian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No.1 by Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), and was the year-end No. 1 in 2024. Sinner h…
Jannik Sinner, Italian tennis player
Awak Sabit Bior Kuier is a Finnish professional basketball player who competes for Galatasaray in the Turkish Women's Basketball Super League and in the EuroCup Women, and for the …
Awak Kuier, Finnish basketball player
LaMelo LaFrance Ball is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected by the Charlotte Hor…
LaMelo Ball, American basketball player
Mildred Maldonado Ramírez is a Mexican rhythmic gymnast.
Mildred Maldonado, Mexican rhythmic gymnast
Patrick Lee Williams is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Florida …
Patrick Williams, American basketball player
Franz Jacob Wagner is a German professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Michigan Wolv…
Franz Wagner, German basketball player
Kamilla Stanislavovna Rakhimova is a Russian-born Uzbekistani professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 60, achieved on 30 December 2024 and a be…
Kamilla Rakhimova, Russian tennis player
Robert Osterloh was an American actor. In a career spanning 20 years, he appeared in films such as The Dark Past (1948), The Wild One (1953), I Bury the Living (1958), and Young Di…
Robert Osterloh, American actor (born 1918)[better source needed]
Michael Brunswick Ritchie was an American film director, producer, and writer of films with comical or satirical leanings, such as The Candidate (1972) and Smile (1975). He scored …
Michael Ritchie, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1938)
Alec William Alfred Stock was an English football player and manager. He briefly managed AS Roma, between long spells at Leyton Orient and Queens Park Rangers. At QPR, he won succe…
Alec Stock, English footballer and manager (born 1917)
Giuseppe Sinopoli was an Italian conductor and composer.
Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (born 1946)
Josef Peters was a racing driver from Düsseldorf, Germany. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, on August 3, 1952. He failed to finish, scoring no cham…
Josef Peters, German racing driver (born 1914)
John Theodore Wisniski, better known by his ring name Johnny Valentine, was an American professional wrestler with a career spanning almost three decades. He has been inducted into…
Johnny Valentine, American wrestler (born 1928)
Michele Alboreto was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1981 to 1994. Alboreto was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1985 with Fer…
Michele Alboreto, Italian racing driver (born 1956)
Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker Jr. was an American solar physicist and a pioneer of EUV/XUV optics. He developed normal incidence multilayer XUV telescopes to photograph the solar …
Arthur B
Bonny Lee Bakley was the second wife of actor Robert Blake, who was her tenth husband. Bakley was fatally shot while sitting in Blake's parked car near a restaurant in Studio City …
Bonnie Lee Bakley, American model, wife of Robert Blake (born 1956)
Morris Cole Graves was an American painter. He was one of the earliest Modern artists from the Pacific Northwest to achieve national and international acclaim. His style, referred …
Morris Graves, American painter and educator (born 1910)
Clifton K. Hillegass was the creator and publisher of CliffsNotes.
Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, created CliffsNotes (born 1918)
Jacques de Bourbon, Count of Busset was a French novelist, essayist and politician. He was elected to the Académie française on 4 June 1981. He was a senior member of the House of …
Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, French author and politician (born 1912)
Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter. He was best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a 1978 radio comedy series which he…
Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter (born 1952)
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer, actor, and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century, he recorded exclusively for RCA Victor for…
Perry Como, American singer and television host (born 1912)
Waldyr Pereira, also known as Didi, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a midfielder or as a forward. He played in three FIFA World Cups, winning the latter two.
Didi, Brazilian footballer (born 1928)