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Gérard Bourgoin was a French businessman, sports chairman and politician. He was the president of the French football club AJ Auxerre from 24 May 2011 to 19 April 2013.
Gérard Bourgoin, French sports executive, president of AJ Auxerre (2011–2013) and (Ligue de Football Professionnel)…
Elena Vasilyevna Obraztsova was a Soviet and Russian mezzo-soprano. She was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990.
Elena Obraztsova, Russian soprano and actress (died 2015)
Edward C. Lumley was a Canadian corporate executive and politician.
Ed Lumley, Canadian businessman and politician, 8th Canadian Minister of Communications (died 2025)
James Philip Vincent Kelly was an Irish footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a full back.
Phil Kelly, Irish-English footballer and manager (died 2012)
Ahmet Taner Kışlalı was a Turkish professor, politician, and commentator. He served in the Parliament of Turkey in 1977 and was minister of culture in 1978 and 1979. He was killed …
Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish political scientist, journalist and educator (died 1999)
Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer and civil rights activist. She rose to fame as a member of her family's band the Staple Singers, of which she is the…
Mavis Staples, American singer
Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams is an Australian humanist, social commentator, former broadcaster, public intellectual, and farmer. He hosted Late Night Live, an Australian Broadcastin…
Phillip Adams, Australian journalist and producer
Bill Cooper, nicknamed "Cannonball", is an American former professional football player who was a fullback and linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football Leagu…
Bill Cooper, American football player
Vice Admiral Lambert Jackson Woodburne was Chief of the South African Navy from 1 July 1990 to 31 August 1992. He is one of only two people to have been awarded the Van Riebeeck De…
Lambert Jackson Woodburne, South African admiral (died 2013)
Karel Gott was a Czech singer, considered the most successful male singer in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. He was voted the country's best male singer in the annual Český …
Karel Gott, Czech singer-songwriter and actor (died 2019)
George Edgar Slusser was an American scholar, professor and writer. Slusser was a well-known science fiction critic. A professor emeritus of comparative literature at University of…
George Edgar Slusser, American scholar and author (died 2014)
Aníbal António Cavaco Silva is a Portuguese economist and politician who served as the president of Portugal from 2006 to 2016, and as prime minister of Portugal, from 1985 to 1995…
Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese economist and politician, 19th President of the Portuguese Republic
William Bell is an American soul singer and songwriter. As a performer, he is best known for his debut single, 1961's "You Don't Miss Your Water"; 1968's top 10 hit in the UK "Priv…
William Bell, American singer-songwriter
Lido Vieri is an Italian former football player and manager who played as a goalkeeper. He won the 1968 European Championship and was a runner-up at the 1970 FIFA World Cup with th…
Lido Vieri, Italian football manager and football player
Ruth Sando Fahnbulleh Perry was a Liberian politician. She served as the interim Chairman of the Council of State of Liberia from 3 September 1996 until 2 August 1997, following th…
Ruth Perry, Liberian politician (died 2017)
Gangolli Ramashet Nagaraj, popularly known as Shringar Nagaraj, was an Indian actor, cameraman, and producer in Kannada cinema. He is best known for the 1987 silent film Pushpaka V…
Shringar Nagaraj, Indian actor and producer (died 2013)
Corin William Redgrave was an English actor. He was also a left-wing activist, co-founding the Marxist Party with his sister Vanessa Redgrave.
Corin Redgrave, English actor and activist (died 2010)
Maria Rachele "Mariele" Ventre was an Italian musician and singer born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, the founder and director of the Italian children's choir Piccolo Coro dell'Antoni…
Mariele Ventre, Italian singer and conductor (died 1995)
Andrée Champagne was a Canadian actress, pianist and politician.
Andrée Champagne, Canadian actress and politician (died 2020)
Spencer Davis was a Welsh musician. He founded the Spencer Davis Group, a band that had several hits in the 1960s including "Keep On Running", "Somebody Help Me", "Gimme Some Lovin…
Spencer Davis, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)
Brian Albert Gordon Auger is an English jazz rock and rock keyboardist who specialises in the Hammond organ.
Brian Auger, English rock and jazz keyboard player
Dion Francis DiMucci, better known mononymously as Dion, is an American singer and songwriter. His music incorporates elements of doo-wop, pop, rock, R&B, folk and blues. Initially…
Dion DiMucci, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Gerald Hundley Moore is an American former college football coach and player. He served as the head football coach at North Texas State University—now the University of North Texas…
Jerry Moore, American football player and coach
Judy Chicago is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the r…
Judy Chicago, American feminist artist