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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Nicknamed "the Boss", Springsteen has released 21 studio albums spanning six decades; most featu…
Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Kostas Tournas is one of the pioneers of modern Greek rock. He is a singer and composer of many hits in the '70s including Ti Na Mas Kanei I Nychta.
Kostas Tournas, Greek singer-songwriter
Baleka Mbete is a South African politician who served as the 5th deputy president of South Africa from September 2008 to May 2009. She was also the Speaker of the National Assembly…
Baleka Mbete, South African politician, Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa
Lars Anders Arborelius is a senior-ranking Swedish Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Stockholm since 1998. Pope Francis made him a cardinal, the first ever from Scandina…
Anders Arborelius, Swedish cardinal
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and author. His films are distinguished by melodrama, irreverent humour, bold colour, glossy décor, quotations fr…
Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter
Jeff Borowiak is a former professional tennis player from the United States, who won five singles and three doubles titles during his professional career, reaching a career-high AT…
Jeff Borowiak, American tennis player
Steve Mackay was an American tenor saxophonist best known for his membership in the Stooges. His performances are showcased on three songs on the band's second album, Fun House (19…
Steve Mackay, American saxophonist and composer (died 2015)
Anson Williams is an American actor. He is best known for his role as gullible, well-intentioned singer Warren "Potsie" Weber on the television series Happy Days (1974–1984), a rol…
Anson Williams, American actor, singer, and director
Clodoaldo Tavares de Santana, better known as Clodoaldo, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Clodoaldo, Brazilian footballer and manager
Jane Smiley is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).
Jane Smiley, American novelist
Wendy June Saddington, also known as Gandharvika Dasi, was an Australian blues, soul and jazz singer, and was in the bands Chain, Copperwine and the Wendy Saddington Band. She wrot…
Wendy Saddington, Australian singer and journalist (died 2013)
Minette Caroline Mary Walters is an English writer.
Minette Walters, English journalist and author
Graham Frederick Richardson was an Australian Labor Party politician who was a senator for New South Wales from 1983 to 1994 and served as a cabinet minister in both the Hawke and …
Graham Richardson, Australian politician (died 2025)
Michael Jack Schmidt is an American former professional baseball third baseman who spent his entire 18-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Philadelphia Phillies from 1…
Mike Schmidt, American baseball player
Jahn Teigen was a Norwegian singer, musician and comedian. He represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest three times, in 1978, 1982 and 1983, From October 2006 until his dea…
Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)
Jim Henshaw is a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film and television producer.
Jim Henshaw, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
Vernee Christell Watson is an American actress, author, and acting coach. Watson-Johnson is known for her recurring roles as Vernajean Williams on Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979),…
Vernee Watson-Johnson, American actress
George Dalaras is a Greek singer and musician. He is one of the most prominent figures of Greek music. In October 2006, he was selected as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee …
George Dalaras, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist
Douglas Frantz is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning former investigative journalist and author, and served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-ope…
Douglas Frantz, American investigative journalist and author
Michel Ange-Charles Tognini is a French test pilot, engineer, brigadier general in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut who served from 1 January 2005 to 1 Nov…
Michel Tognini, French pilot, engineer, military officer and astronaut
Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits was an American Neo-Druid who wrote a number of books on the subject of Neopaganism and magic. Bonewits was a public speaker, liturgist, singer and so…
Isaac Bonewits, American singer-songwriter, liturgist, and author (died 2010)
Sheila Gilmore is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh East from 2010 to 2015. Gilmore stood for the seat following the decision o…
Sheila Gilmore, Scottish lawyer and politician
André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known as the founder of the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.
André Rieu, Dutch violinist, composer, and conductor
Richard Lester Meyers, better known by his stage name Richard Hell, is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist and writer.
Richard Hell, American singer-songwriter and bass player