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Benjamin Stewart Parsons was an American NASCAR driver, and later an announcer/analyst/pit reporter on SETN, TBS, ABC, ESPN, NBC, and TNT. He became famous as the 1973 NASCAR Winst…
Benny Parsons, American race car driver and sportscaster (died 2007)
Grahame Edward Corling is a former Australian cricketer who played in five Test matches in 1964. He took 12 wickets, including that of Geoffrey Boycott in his debut innings.
Grahame Corling, Australian cricketer
Ehud Manor was an Israeli lyricist, translator, poet and radio and TV personality. He is widely considered to have been Israel's most prolific lyricist of all time, having written …
Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter and translator (died 2005)
Jacques Perrin was a French actor and film producer. He was occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet.
Jacques Perrin, French actor, director, and producer (died 2022)
Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga, previously known as Ron Karenga, is an American activist, author and professor of Africana studies, best known as the creator of the pan-African and Afr…
Maulana Karenga, American philosopher, author, and activist, created Kwanzaa
Andreas Khol is an Austrian politician of the centre-right Austrian People's Party, President of the National Council from 2002 to 2006.
Andreas Khol, German-Austrian lawyer and politician
Robert Wallace Foster Jr., known professionally as Robert Forster, was an American actor. He made his screen debut as Private L.G. Williams in John Huston's Reflections in a Golden…
Robert Forster, American actor and producer (died 2019)
Livia Margarita Gouverneur Camero was a Venezuelan student who was killed during a protest in support of the Cuban Revolution and against the presence in Venezuela of allies of Ful…
Livia Gouverneur, Venezuelan activist (died 1961)
Desmond Dekker was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician. Together with his backing group the Aces, he had one of the earliest international reggae h…
Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer-songwriter (died 2006)
Dag Solstad was a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer and dramatist whose work has been translated into 20 languages.
Dag Solstad, Norwegian author and playwright (died 2025)
Hans Wiegel was a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businessman.
Hans Wiegel, Dutch journalist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2025)
George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baron Young of Cookham,, known as Sir George Young, 6th Baronet from 1960 to 2015, is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member…
Sir George Young, 6th Baronet, English banker and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
Daryle Pasquale Lamonica was an American professional football quarterback who played in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. Nickn…
Daryle Lamonica, American football player (died 2022)
Robert William Taylor MBE is an English former cricketer who played as wicket-keeper for Derbyshire between 1961 and 1984 and for England between 1971 and 1984. He made 57 Test, an…
Bob Taylor, English cricketer
Achim Warmbold is a German former rally driver. He won the West German Rally Championship in 1971 and 1980, and scored two outright victories during the inaugural World Rally Champ…
Achim Warmbold, German race car driver and manager
Franz Reuther, known professionally as Frank Farian, was a German record producer and singer who founded the 1970s disco-pop group Boney M., and the pop bands No Mercy and Milli Va…
Frank Farian, German songwriter and producer (died 2024)
Lonnie McIntosh, known as Lonnie Mack, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was an early influence in the development of blues rock music, Southern rock music, and r…
Lonnie Mack, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2016)
Martha Rose Reeves is an American R&B and pop singer. She is best known for being the lead singer of the Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas, which scored several major Hot …
Martha Reeves, American singer and politician
Florencia Vicenta de Casillas-Martinez Cardona, known by her stage name Vikki Carr, is an American vocalist. She has a singing career that spans more than six decades.
Vikki Carr, American singer and actress
Neelie Kroes is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and businessperson who served as European Commissioner from 22 November 2004 to 1 N…
Neelie Kroes, Dutch politician and diplomat, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society
Donald John Chuy was an American professional football player who played guard for seven seasons for the Los Angeles Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Don Chuy, American football player (died 2014)
Periklis Korovesis, also published as Pericles Korovessis, was a Greek author and journalist and a member of the Hellenic Parliament.
Periklis Korovesis, Greek author and journalist (died 2020)
Kurt Raab was a West German stage and film actor, as well as a screenwriter and playwright. Raab is best remembered for his work with German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder,…
Kurt Raab, German actor, screenwriter, and production designer (died 1988)
Dame Carole Jordan was a British physicist, astrophysicist, astronomer and academic. She was Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow at S…
Carole Jordan, British astrophysicist and the first female president of the Royal Astronomical Society