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Joseph Campbell Butler is an American drummer, singer and actor. He is best known as a member of folk-rock band The Lovin' Spoonful, where he was drummer and later lead vocalist; t…
Joe Butler, American singer, autoharp player, and drummer
Robert Takeo Matsui was an American politician from the state of California. Matsui was a member of the Democratic Party and served in the U.S. House of Representatives as the cong…
Bob Matsui, American lawyer and politician (died 2005)
Richard Norman Perle is an American political advisor who served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs under President Ronald Reagan. He began his poli…
Richard Perle, American political scientist and politician
Umberto Bossi was an Italian politician and leader of Lega Nord, a party seeking autonomy for Northern Italy or Padania.
Umberto Bossi, Italian politician (died 2026)
Jeremy Robert "Jim" Fox OBE was a British modern pentathlete and Olympic champion.
Jim Fox, English pentathlete (died 2023)
Mariangela Caterina Melato, sometimes billed as Maria Angela Melato, was an Italian actress. She is most remembered for her roles in films of director Lina Wertmüller, including Th…
Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (died 2013)
Dale Chihuly is an American glass artist. He is well known in the field of blown glass, "moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture".
Dale Chihuly, American sculptor and educator
Samuel Thomas McMillan is a Northern Irish ex-footballer who played as a left winger or centre forward for various Football League clubs in the 1960s and early 1970s, including Man…
Sammy McMillan, Irish footballer
Freddie Joe "Jack" Brisco was an American amateur wrestler and professional wrestler. As an amateur for Oklahoma State, Brisco was two-time All-American and won the NCAA Division I…
Jack Brisco, American wrestler and manager (died 2010)
Robert James Woolsey Jr. was an American lawyer who served in various senior government positions. He headed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as Director of Central Intelligen…
R. James Woolsey, Jr., American scholar and diplomat, 16th Director of Central Intelligence
Jeremiah Alvesta Wright Jr. is an American Mainline Protestant minister who is pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, a congregation he led for 36 years, du…
Jeremiah Wright, American pastor and theologian
George Lester Jackson was an American author, prisoner, and revolutionary. While serving an indeterminate sentence for stealing $71 at gunpoint from a gas station in 1960, Jackson …
George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (died 1971)
Simon Laurent Nolet is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), most notably for the Philadelphia Flyers, with w…
Simon Nolet, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Norma Ann Winstone MBE is an English jazz singer and lyricist. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is best known for her contributions to improvised vocal music. Musicia…
Norma Winstone, English singer-songwriter
John Mackey was an American professional football player who was a tight end for the Baltimore Colts and the San Diego Chargers. He was born in Roosevelt, New York, and attended Sy…
John Mackey, American football player (died 2011)
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician, cookbook author, and activist. She was the keyboardist and harmony vocalist in the band Wings, which she had fo…
Linda McCartney, American singer, photographer, and activist (died 1998)
Vivien Helen Stern, Baroness Stern is a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
Vivien Stern, Baroness Stern, English academic and politician
Salvatore Accardo is an Italian violinist and conductor, who is known for his performances of the works of Niccolò Paganini.
Salvatore Accardo, Italian violinist and conductor
Mary Rose Penso Beswick is a Jamaican-born British actress and model perhaps best known for her roles in two James Bond films, From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965), …
Martine Beswick, Jamaican-English model and actress
David Frizzell is an American country music singer. He is the younger brother of country musician Lefty Frizzell. His career started in the late 1950s, but he had his greatest succ…
David Frizzell, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
Peter Philip Bonetti was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Chelsea, the St. Louis Stars, Dundee United and England. He was known for his safe handli…
Peter Bonetti, English footballer and coach (died 2020)
Serge Ménard is a politician from Quebec, Canada. He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1993 to 2003, and a member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011. Outside politi…
Serge Ménard, Canadian lawyer and politician
William Donald Nix was an American musician, songwriter, and producer. Nix, who was best known for his song "Going Down," was described by AllMusic as "one of the more obscure figu…
Don Nix, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer
David Kellogg Lewis was an American philosopher. Lewis taught briefly at UCLA and then at Princeton University from 1970 until his death. He is closely associated with Australia, w…
David Lewis, American philosopher and academic (died 2001)