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Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", "500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's …
Chick Corea, American pianist and composer (died 2021)
Roy Harper is an English folk rock singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist. He has released 22 studio albums across a career that stretches back to 1966. As a musician, Harper is kn…
Roy Harper, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
Reginald Maurice Ball, known professionally as Reg Presley, was an English singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer with the 1960s rock and roll band the Troggs, whose hits in…
Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (died 2013)
Lucille Elsa Roybal-Allard is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1993 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she first entered Cong…
Lucille Roybal-Allard, American politician
Marcel Ernest Lachemann is an American professional baseball executive and a former player, manager and pitching coach in Major League Baseball (MLB). As a player, he was a relief …
Marcel Lachemann, American baseball player, coach and manager
Serge Lemoyne was a Canadian artist from Quebec. He worked as a performance artist as well as creating paintings, assemblages and prints. Lemoyne explored themes such as the enviro…
Serge Lemoyne, Canadian painter (died 1998)
Marvin “Marv” Tarplin was an American musician, best known as the guitarist for the Miracles from the 1950s through the early 1970s. He was one of the group's original members and …
Marv Tarplin, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2011)
Neal Adams was an American comic book artist. He was the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates, and was a creators-rights advocate who helped secure a pensi…
Neal Adams, American illustrator (died 2022)
Harry Edward Nilsson III, sometimes credited as Nilsson, was an American singer and songwriter known for his versatile tenor range, pioneering use of vocal overdubbing, exploration…
Harry Nilsson, American singer-songwriter (died 1994)
Lamont Herbert Dozier was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer from Detroit. He co-wrote and produced 14 Billboard #1 hits in the US and 4 #4 in the UK.
Lamont Dozier, American songwriter and producer (died 2022)
Thomas Alfred Horton, was an English professional golfer. He finished in the top ten of the Open Championship four times, won a number of important tournaments both before and afte…
Tommy Horton, English golfer (died 2017)
Mumtaz Hamid Rao was a senior Pakistani electronic media journalist and analyst.
Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist (died 2011)
Nicholas Charles Handy was a British theoretical chemist. He retired as Professor of quantum chemistry at the University of Cambridge in September 2004.
Nicholas C
Roger Léon Maurice Lemerre-Desprez is a French former professional football manager and former player. During his managerial career, he was in charge of the French, Tunisian and Mo…
Roger Lemerre, French footballer and manager
Paul Mayersberg is an English writer and director and was the film critic for Movie magazine in the early 1960s and author of 1968 film book Hollywood, The Haunted House. He wrote …
Paul Mayersberg, English director and screenwriter
Delia Ann Smith is an English cook and television presenter, known for teaching basic cookery skills in a direct style. One of the best-known celebrity chefs in British popular cul…
Delia Smith, English chef and author
Václav Klaus is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. From July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia …
Václav Klaus, Czech economist and politician, 2nd President of the Czech Republic
Sir Stephen Arthur Frears is a British director and producer of film and television, often depicting real-life stories as well as projects that explore social class through sharply…
Stephen Frears, English actor, director, and producer
Ulf Dietrich Merbold is a German physicist and astronaut who flew to space three times, becoming the first West German citizen in space and the first non-American to fly on a NASA …
Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut
Albert Alekseyevich Shesternyov was a football player for CSKA Moscow and the Soviet Union. He is generally regarded as the best football defender in Soviet football history.
Albert Shesternyov, Soviet footballer, captain of the Soviet Union national team and CSKA Moscow (died 1994)
Aloysius Paul D'Souza is the former Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore. He was consecrated on 8 November 1996, succeeding his predecessor Basil Salvadore D'Souza.
Aloysius Paul D'Souza, Indian Catholic bishop
Joseph Flaherty was an American actor, writer, and comedian. In television, Flaherty starred on the Canadian sketch comedy SCTV from 1976 to 1984 and as Harold Weir on Freaks and G…
Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2024)
Lyman Ward is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in Creature (1984), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), and Milk and Honey (1988).
Lyman Ward, Canadian actor
Edward Rudolph Bradley Jr. was an American broadcast journalist and news anchor who is best known for reporting with 60 Minutes and CBS News.
Ed Bradley, American journalist (died 2006)