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Vladimir Voronin is a Moldovan politician. He was the third President of Moldova from 2001 until 2009 and has been the leader of the Party of Communists of Moldova (PCRM) since 199…
Vladimir Voronin, Moldovan economist and politician, 3rd President of Moldova
Aldrich Hazen Ames was an American counterintelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency who was convicted of espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Russia in 1994.
Aldrich Ames, American CIA officer and criminal (died 2026)
James Dobbin was a British politician and microbiologist who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Heywood and Middleton from 1997 until his death in 2014.
Jim Dobbin, Scottish microbiologist and politician (died 2014)
Eric Clifford Drysdale is a South African former tennis player. After a career as a highly ranked professional player in the 1960s and early 1970s, he became a tennis commentator.
Cliff Drysdale, South African tennis player and sportscaster
Imants Kalniņš is a Latvian composer, musician and politician. Having studied classical and choral music, he has written seven symphonies, several operas, oratorios, cantatas, choi…
Imants Kalniņš, Latvian composer
Elizabeth Howland was an American actress known for her work on stage and television. She was best known for playing waitress Vera Gorman in the sitcom Alice.
Beth Howland, American actress and singer (died 2015)
Douglas Keith Scott was an English mountaineer and climbing author, noted for being on the team that made the first ascent of the south-west face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1…
Doug Scott, English mountaineer and author (died 2020)
Robert David Simon was an American television correspondent for CBS News. He covered crises, war, and unrest in 67 countries during his career. Simon reported the withdrawal of Ame…
Bob Simon, American journalist (died 2015)
Dame Margaret June Clark, FAAN FLSW was a British nurse and academic who was Professor Emeritus of Community Nursing, at Swansea University in Wales.
June Clark, Welsh nurse and educator
Louis Joseph Ignarro is an American pharmacologist. For demonstrating the signaling properties of nitric oxide, he was co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicin…
Louis Ignarro, American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
William Dawbney Nordhaus is an American economist. He was a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, best known for his work in economic modeling and climate change, and…
William Nordhaus, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Wilmer Dean Chance was an American professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, he played in 11 Major League Baseball seasons for the Los Angeles / California Angels, Minn…
Dean Chance, American baseball player and manager (died 2015)
Toyo Ito is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent …
Toyo Ito, Japanese architect, designed the Torre Realia BCN and Hotel Porta Fira
Alexander Valentinovich Zakharov is a Soviet and Russian chief scientist and astronomer serving at the Russian Space Research Institute (IKI).
Alexander V
Walter Stacy Keach Jr. is an American actor, active in theatre, film and television since the 1960s. Keach first distinguished himself in Off-Broadway productions and is a prominen…
Stacy Keach, American actor
Irène Schweizer was a Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist.
Irène Schweizer, Swiss jazz pianist (died 2024)
Charles Robert Watts was an English musician who was the drummer of the Rolling Stones from 1963 until his death in 2021.
Charlie Watts, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 2021)
Kenneth Graham Ross is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist best known for writing the 1978 stage play Breaker Morant, that was based on the life of Australian sold…
Kenneth G
Martha Argerich is an Argentine classical concert pianist. She is widely considered to be one of the greatest living pianists.
Martha Argerich, Argentinian pianist
Erasmo Carlos was a Brazilian singer and songwriter, most closely associated with his friend and longtime collaborator Roberto Carlos. Together, they created many chart hits includ…
Erasmo Carlos, Brazilian singer-songwriter (died 2022)
Louis Vincent Anthony Nanne is a Canadian-born American former National Hockey League defenceman and general manager. He played in the National Hockey League with the Minnesota Nor…
Lou Nanne, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
Spalding Rockwell Gray was an American actor and writer. He is best known for driving autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as…
Spalding Gray, American writer, actor, and monologist (died 2004)
Gudrun Sjödén is a Swedish fashion designer.
Gudrun Sjödén, Swedish designer
Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Shakerley was a British party planner, writer and socialite from the Anson family. She was a first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II and sister of …
Lady Elizabeth Shakerley, British party planner, writer and socialite (died 2020)