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Vladimír Mečiar is a Slovak former politician who served as the prime minister of Slovakia from June 1990 to May 1991, June 1992 to March 1994, and again from December 1994 to Octo…
Vladimír Mečiar, Slovak politician, 1st Prime Minister of Slovakia
Theodore "Teddy" Pilette is a former racing driver from Belgium. He participated in four Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, the first on 12 May 1974 with Bernie Ecclestone…
Teddy Pilette, Belgian race car driver
Édith Butler is an Acadian-Canadian singer-songwriter and folklorist from New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula.
Édith Butler, Canadian singer-songwriter
Bobbie Gentry is an American retired singer-songwriter. She was one of the first female artists in the United States to compose and produce her own material.
Bobbie Gentry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
John Pleshette is an American actor and screenwriter, best known for his role as Richard Avery on the television drama Knots Landing, and for portraying Lee Harvey Oswald in the TV…
John Pleshette, American actor, director, and screenwriter
Richard Dennis Ralston was an American professional tennis player whose active career spanned the 1960s and 1970s.
Dennis Ralston, American tennis player (died 2020)
Tonia Marketaki was a Greek film director and screenwriter. She was born in Pireas and spent many of her childhood years in the Zografou district of Athens. Her maternal origins ar…
Tonia Marketaki, Greek director and screenwriter (died 1994)
Douglas Wesley Ashdown is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter from Adelaide. He had a top 40 hit on the Australian singles chart with "Winter in America" or "Leave Love Enou…
Doug Ashdown, Australian singer-songwriter
Genaro Anthony Sirico Jr. was an American actor. Often cast as a mobster, he is known for portraying Paulie Gualtieri in The Sopranos.
Tony Sirico, American actor (died 2022)
John William Sattler was an Australian professional rugby league footballer played as a prop in the 1960s and 1970s. He captained South Sydney to four premiership victories from 19…
John Sattler, Australian rugby league player (died 2023)
Pollyanna Pickering was an English wildlife artist and environmentalist.
Pollyanna Pickering, English environmentalist and painter (died 2018)
Jerome John Garcia was an American musician who was the lead guitarist and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence during the …
Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1995)
Giancarlo Giannini is an Italian actor. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in Love and Anarchy (1973) and received an Academy Award nomination…
Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of th…
Isabel Allende, Chilean-American novelist, essayist, essayist
Leo Beenhakker was a Dutch football player and coach. Nicknamed "Don Leo" for his role in Spanish football, he had an extensive and successful career both at club and international…
Leo Beenhakker, Dutch football manager (died 2025)
Juan Climaco Formell Cortina was a Cuban bassist, composer, and arranger, best known as the director of Los Van Van. He was a creator of popular danceable music and credited with b…
Juan Formell, Cuban singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2014)
Nell Irvin Painter is an American historian notable for her works on United States Southern history of the nineteenth century. She is retired from Princeton University as the Edwar…
Nell Irvin Painter, American author and historian
Donald Sinclair Davis was an American actor best known for playing General George Hammond in the television series Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007), and earlier for playing Major Garland …
Don S. Davis, American actor (died 2008)
Cleon Joseph Jones is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball as a left fielder. Jones played most of his career for the New York Me…
Cleon Jones, American baseball player
Joe Boyd is an American record producer and writer. He formerly owned Hannibal Records. Boyd has worked with Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, Nick Dr…
Joe Boyd, American record producer, founded Hannibal Records
David Russell Lange was a New Zealand politician who served as the 32nd prime minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. A member of the New Zealand Labour Party, Lange was also th…
David Lange, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 2005)
Byard Lancaster was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and flutist.
Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist and flute player (died 2012)
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companio…
Garrison Keillor, American humorist, novelist, short story writer, and radio host
Carlos Roque Monzón, nicknamed Escopeta (Shotgun), was an Argentine professional boxer who held the undisputed world middleweight championship for seven years, and successfully def…
Carlos Monzón, Argentinian boxer and actor (died 1995)