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Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. Tomlin started her career in stand-up comedy and sketch comedy before transitioning her care…
Lily Tomlin, American actress, comedian, screenwriter and producer
William Joseph Devane is an American actor. He is known for his role as Greg Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing (1983–1993) and as James Heller on the Fox serial dram…
William Devane, American actor, director, and screenwriter
George Robert Lazenby is a retired Australian actor. He began his professional career as a model and an actor in commercials. He had no film acting experience when he was cast as t…
George Lazenby, Australian actor, the second to play James Bond
John Coburn Stewart was an American songwriter and singer. He is known for his contributions to the American folk music movement of the 1960s while with the Kingston Trio (1961–196…
John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2008)
George William Tremlett was an English author, bookshop owner, and politician.
George Tremlett, English journalist, author, and politician (died 2021)
Brigid Emmett Berlin, also known as Brigid Polk, was an American artist and Warhol superstar.
Brigid Berlin, American actress, painter, and photographer (died 2020)
Susumu Tonegawa was a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mec…
Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026)
Benjamin William Lattimore, known professionally as Latimore, was an American blues and R&B singer, songwriter, and pianist. In 2017, Latimore was inducted in to the Blues Hall of …
Latimore, American singer-songwriter and pianist
Peter Gill was a Welsh theatre director, playwright and actor.
Peter Gill, Welsh actor, director, and playwright
Carsten Keller is a former field hockey player from West-Germany, who won a gold medal for his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He played 133 international mat…
Carsten Keller, German field hockey player and coach
David William Kearney, known as Guitar Shorty, was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was known for his explosive guitar style and wild stage antics. Credited …
Guitar Shorty, American singer and guitarist (died 2022)
David Allan Coe, also known by his initials DAC, was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Coe took up music after spending much of his early life in reform schools and priso…
David Allan Coe, American outlaw country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2026)
Roland Owen (Ron) McDole is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He pla…
Ron McDole, American football player
Charles Matthew "Chuck" Geschke was an American businessman and computer scientist best known for founding the graphics and publishing software company Adobe Inc. with John Warnock…
Charles Geschke, American businessman, co-founded Adobe Systems (died 2021)
Henry Arnold Waxman is an American politician and lobbyist who was a U.S. representative from California from 1975 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Henry Waxman, American lawyer and politician
Joyce Arleen Auger was an American coloratura soprano, known for her interpretations of works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Mozart, and Schubert. She won a posthumous Grammy …
Arleen Auger, American soprano and educator (died 1993)
Richard Dawson Kiel was an American actor. Standing 7 feet 1.5 inches (2.17 m) tall, he was notable for portraying Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979), and Mr.…
Richard Kiel, American actor and voice artist (died 2014)
Guntis Ulmanis is a Latvian politician and the fifth president of Latvia from 1993 to 1999.
Guntis Ulmanis, Latvian economist and politician, 5th President of Latvia
Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with themes such as death, corpses, often featuring ornately decorated phot…
Joel-Peter Witkin, American photographer
DeWitt Thompson Weaver Jr. was an American golf consultant and professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour.
DeWitt Weaver, American golfer (died 2021)
George Gordon Harvey Walden is an English journalist, former diplomat and former politician for the Conservative Party, who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham from …
George Walden, English journalist and politician
Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid, and as…
Breyten Breytenbach, South African-French poet and painter (died 2024)
Bill "the Hill" McGill was an American basketball player best known for inventing the jump hook. McGill was the No. 1 overall pick of the 1962 NBA draft out of the University of Ut…
Bill McGill, American basketball player (died 2014)
Carl Dennis is an American poet and educator. His book Practical Gods won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Carl Dennis, American poet and educator