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Antonia Christina Basilotta, better known by her stage name Toni Basil, is an American singer, choreographer, dancer, actress, and director. Her 1982 single, "Mickey", topped the c…
Toni Basil, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
Barry Thomas Cable MBE is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. Considered one of the greatest rovers in the sport's history, he played 379 premiership games in the Weste…
Barry Cable, Australian footballer and coach
Jerome Leonard Bruckheimer is an American film and television producer. He has been active in the genres of action, drama, comedy, fantasy, horror and science fiction. After workin…
Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
Paul Matthew Hoffert, LLD, CM is a recording artist, performer, media music composer, author, academic, and corporate executive. He studied mathematics and physics at the Universit…
Paul Hoffert, American keyboard player, composer, and academic
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva is a Spanish singer and songwriter. Iglesias is recognized as the most commercially successful Spanish singer in the world and one of the top record…
Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter
Martin Edward Schottenheimer was an American professional football linebacker and coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for 21 seasons. He was the …
Marty Schottenheimer, American football player and coach (died 2021)
Robert Michael Gates is an American intelligence analyst who served as the 22nd United States secretary of defense from 2006 to 2011 and as the 15th director of central intelligenc…
Robert Gates, American lieutenant, academic, and politician, 22nd United States Secretary of Defense
John Tilden Locke was an American keyboardist and a member of the rock group Spirit. In the early 1980s, he was a member of the band Nazareth.
John Locke, American keyboard player (died 2006)
Aram Saroyan is an American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright, who is especially known for his minimalist poetry, famous examples of which include the one-word p…
Aram Saroyan, American poet and novelist
Robert Walden is an American television and motion picture actor. He is best known for his role as Joe Rossi on Lou Grant, which earned him three nominations for Primetime Emmy Awa…
Robert Walden, American actor, director, and screenwriter
Timothy Theodore Schenken is a former racing driver from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He participated in 36 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 16 August…
Tim Schenken, Australian racing driver
Prince Amedeo of Savoy-Aosta, 5th Duke of Aosta was a claimant to the headship of the House of Savoy, the family which ruled Italy from 1861 to 1946. Until 7 July 2006, Amedeo was …
Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (died 2021)
Ian Michael Chappell is an Australian commentator and former cricketer. Known as "Chappelli", he is considered as one of the greatest captains the game has seen. He captained Austr…
Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
Randolph Charles Bachman is a Canadian guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a founding member of the bands the Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. He was the writer and si…
Randy Bachman, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Warren N. Lieberfarb is Chairman of Warren N. Lieberfarb & Associates, LLC (WNLA), a boutique consulting and investment firm based in Los Angeles focused on digital media technolog…
Warren Lieberfarb, American businessman
George William Swift Trow Jr. was an American essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic. He worked for The New Yorker for almost 30 years, and wrote numerous essays and seve…
George W. S. Trow, American novelist, playwright, and critic (died 2006)
Nick St. Nicholas is a German-born Canadian musician who was the bassist of the rock band Steppenwolf in the late 1960s.
Nick St. Nicholas, German-Canadian bass player
Juan Flores was a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and director of Latino Studies at New York University. He was considered a leading pioneer, scholar, and expert in Latin…
Juan Flores, American academic and professor (died 2014)
Lech Wałęsa is a Polish statesman, dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa bec…
Lech Wałęsa, Polish electrician and politician, 2nd President of Poland, Nobel Prize laureate
Johann Deisenhofer is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the first cryst…
Johann Deisenhofer, German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Marilyn McCoo is an American singer, actress, and television presenter, who is best known for being the lead female vocalist in the group the 5th Dimension as well as hosting the 1…
Marilyn McCoo, American singer
Philip John Moore is an English composer and organist.
Philip Moore, English organist and composer
Ian Raymond Ogilvy is an English actor, playwright and novelist.
Ian Ogilvy, English-American actor, playwright, and author
Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed Black and White in Color (1976), Quest for Fire (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Bear …
Jean-Jacques Annaud, French director, producer, and screenwriter