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Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga CYC is a Spanish physicist and PSOE politician. After serving in the Spanish government as Foreign Affairs Minister under Felipe González (1992…
Javier Solana, Spanish physicist and politician, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones was the first black student to graduate from the University of Alabama, in 1965. She and James Hood were the first black students able to enroll at the …
Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (died 2005)
Margaret Court, also known as Margaret Smith Court, is an Australian former world number 1 tennis player. Her 24 women's singles major titles and total of 64 major titles are the m…
Margaret Court, Australian tennis player and minister
Gale Zoë Garnett is a Canadian singer best known in the United States for her self-penned, Grammy-winning folk hit "We'll Sing in the Sunshine". Garnett has since carved out a care…
Gale Garnett, New Zealand–born Canadian singer
Donald Eulon Kessinger is an American former professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1964 to 1979, most prominently as a me…
Don Kessinger, American baseball player and manager
George Bruno "Zoot" Money was an English vocalist, keyboardist and bandleader. A Hammond organ player, he was the leader of the Big Roll Band. Inspired by Jerry Lee Lewis and Ray C…
Zoot Money, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
Giacinto Facchetti was an Italian footballer who played as a left-back for Inter Milan from 1960 to 1978. He later served as Inter chairman from January 2004 until his death in 200…
Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (died 2006)
Cornelius Lance "Connie" Hawkins was an American professional basketball player. A New York City playground legend, "the Hawk" was to play basketball for the Iowa Hawkeyes but was …
Connie Hawkins, American basketball player (died 2017)
Adolf Ogi is a Swiss politician who most recently served as Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General on Sport for Development and Peace from 2001 to 2008. He previously served a…
Adolf Ogi, Swiss politician, 84th President of the Swiss Confederation
Peter Goodwill Hamilton was an American professional stock car racing driver. He competed in NASCAR for six years, where he won four times in his career, three times driving for Pe…
Pete Hamilton, American race car driver (died 2017)
Mitchell Jack "Mickey" Stanley is an American former professional baseball player.
Mickey Stanley, American baseball player
Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge is an Indian politician and lawyer from the Indian state of Karnataka serving as the President of the Indian National Congress since 2022 and Leader of t…
Mallikarjun Kharge, Indian politician, 98th President of the Indian National Congress
James Michael Hegan was an American professional baseball player, who later worked as a sports commentator. In Major League Baseball (MLB) he was a first baseman and outfielder, an…
Mike Hegan, American baseball player and commentator (died 2013)
Michael Edward Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, was a British-Australian farmer, who is most noted because of the 2004 documentary Britain's Real Monarch, which alleged he was…
Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, English-Australian politician (died 2012)
Peter Habeler is an Austrian mountaineer. He was born in Mayrhofen, Austria. He developed an interest in mountain climbing at age six.
Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer and skier
Leslie Howard Johns is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Les Johns, Australian rugby league player and coach
Sallyanne Atkinson AO is an Australian former politician who served as Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1985 to 1991 in Queensland, Australia. She is the only woman to have held the pos…
Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian journalist and politician, Lord Mayor of Brisbane
Madeline Bell is an American soul singer, who became famous as a performer in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s with pop group Blue Mink, having arrived from the United States in t…
Madeline Bell, American singer-songwriter
Richard E. "Dick" Dauch was an American businessman, and co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of American Axle and Manufacturing, now Dauch Corporation. Previously, Dauch…
Richard E. Dauch, American businessman, co-founded American Axle (died 2013)
Dimitris Liantinis was a Greek philosopher. He was associate professor at the Department of Pedagogy of the Faculty of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of the University of Athe…
Dimitris Liantinis, Greek philosopher and author (died 1998)
Heinz Burt was a German-born British rock and roll bassist and singer of the 1960s, who performed under the stage name Heinz. He was also known as a member of the instrumental grou…
Heinz, German-English singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2000)
David Miner, sometimes credited as David Minor, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter, perhaps best known as a member of The Great Society in the 1960s. He co-founded The…
David Miner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Chris Sarandon is an American actor. He is well known for playing Jerry Dandrige in Fright Night (1985), Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride (1987), Detective Mike Norris in C…
Chris Sarandon, American actor
Bruce William Woodley is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. He was a founding member of the successful folk-pop group the Seekers, and co-composer of the songs "I Am Aus…
Bruce Woodley, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist