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James Brunzell, best known under the ring name "Jumping" Jim Brunzell, is an American retired professional wrestler known for his successful tag teams, Brunzell performed for vario…
Jim Brunzell, American wrestler
Philippe Petit is a French highwire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized highwire walks between the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971 and of Sydney Harbour Bri…
Philippe Petit, French tightrope walker
Willy Rey was a Dutch-Canadian model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1971 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.
Willy Rey, Dutch-Canadian model (died 1973)
Robert Louis Backlund is an American retired amateur and professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances in the World Wide Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Federati…
Bob Backlund, American wrestler
Morten Per Olsen is a Danish former football manager and former player. He was the head coach of the Denmark national team for 15 years from 2000 until 2015, guiding Denmark to the…
Morten Olsen, Danish footballer
Robert Earle Clarke is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played his entire 15-year National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Philadelphia Flyers and is curren…
Bobby Clarke, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
Phyllis Smith is an American actress and casting director. She is best known for playing Phyllis Vance in the television series The Office and her voice role as Sadness in Pixar's …
Phyllis Smith, American actress
Scott Randolph Asheton was an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock band the Stooges.
Scott Asheton, American drummer (died 2014)
Paul Lucian Pasqualoni is an American football coach who recently served as the linebackers coach for the Memphis Showboats of the United Football League (UFL). He most recently wa…
Paul Pasqualoni, American football player and coach
William "Sputnik" Spooner is an American musician, guitarist, singer and songwriter, and the founder of The Tubes, a theatrical rock band. His songwriting is known for its use of h…
Bill Spooner, American guitarist and songwriter
Norman Bertram Coleman Jr. is an American politician, attorney, and lobbyist. From 2003 to 2009, he served as a United States senator for Minnesota. From 1994 to 2002, he was mayor…
Norm Coleman, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Mayor of St. Paul
Sue Draheim was an American fiddler, boasting a more than forty year musical career in the US and the UK. Growing up in North Oakland, Draheim began her first private violin lesson…
Sue Draheim, American fiddler and composer (died 2013)
Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, known professionally as Julian Fellowes, is an English actor, novelist, writer, producer, film director, and C…
Julian Fellowes, English actor, director, screenwriter, and politician
John Thomas "Sib" Hashian was an American drummer, best known as an original member of the rock band Boston.
Sib Hashian, American rock drummer (died 2017)
Nigel Griggs is an English musician, best known as bass guitarist in the band Split Enz. He is the brother of Paul Griggs from the 1970s vocal group Guys 'n' Dolls.
Nigel Griggs, English bass player, songwriter, and producer
Michael James Nazir-Ali is a Pakistani-born British Catholic priest and former Anglican bishop. He served as the 106th Bishop of Rochester from 1994 to 2009 and, before that, as Bi…
Michael Nazir-Ali, Pakistani-English bishop
Nikolas Asimos was a Greek composer, singer and performance artist. His real surname was Asimopoulos (Ασημόπουλος). Asimos was a very special case of a counter-culture artist, most…
Nikolas Asimos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1988)
Philip Parris Lynott was an Irish musician who was the co-founder, lead vocalist, bassist, and primary songwriter of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy. He was noted for his distinctive…
Phil Lynott, Irish singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 1986)
Loretta Devine is an American actress. She is known for numerous roles across stage and screen. Her most high profile roles include Lorrell Robinson in the original Broadway produc…
Loretta Devine, American actress and singer
Daniel Sivan is an Israeli Emeritus professor in the Department of Hebrew Language at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Daniel Sivan, Israeli scholar and academic
Joop A. Donkervoort is a Dutch businessman and founder of Donkervoort car manufacturer of Netherlands.
Joop Donkervoort, Dutch businessman
Diana Nyad is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. Nyad gained national attention in 1975 when she swam around Manhattan in record time.
Diana Nyad, American swimmer and author
Vasiliki Papathanasiou, known professionally as Vicky Leandros, is a Greek singer based in Germany. She is the daughter of singer, musician and composer Leandros Papathanasiou. In …
Vicky Leandros, Greek singer and politician
Shelley Lee Long is an American actress, singer, and comedian. For her role as Diane Chambers on the sitcom Cheers, Long received five Emmy nominations, winning in 1983 for Outstan…
Shelley Long, American actress