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Chris Farlowe is an English singer. He is best known for his hit single "Out of Time" written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, which rose to No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in 1966…
Chris Farlowe, English rock, blues, and soul singer
Pharoah Sanders was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound", Sanders…
Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist and bandleader (died 2022)
Pierre "Perrie" Mans was a South African professional snooker player. He first won the South African Professional Championship in 1965 and lifted the title 20 times. Mans won the B…
Perrie Mans, South African snooker player (died 2023)
Sir Cliff Richard is a British singer and actor. He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the United Kingdom and as of 2026, is the third-top-selling artist in UK singles…
Cliff Richard, Indian-English singer-songwriter and actor
Jesse Carlyle Snead was an American professional golfer who won tournaments on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour. Snead was the nephew of hall of famer Sam Snead.
J. C. Snead, American golfer
Thomas Bishop is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1970s and 1980s. He played for Blackpool Borough, Barr…
Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player and coach
Peter Charles Doherty is an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate.
Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
Leonard Barrie Corbin is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Maurice Minnifield on the television series Northern Exposure (1990–1995), which earned him tw…
Barry Corbin, American actor and producer
David Albert DeBusschere was an American professional basketball player and coach, and professional baseball player. He played for the Chicago White Sox of MLB in 1962 and 1963 and…
Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach (died 2003)
Ivan Della Mea was an Italian novelist, journalist, singer-songwriter and political activist.
Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (died 2009)
Stephen Kovacevich is an American classical pianist and conductor. He is particularly celebrated for his recordings of works by Beethoven, Bartók, and Schubert, and is known for te…
Stephen Kovacevich, American pianist and conductor
James Michael Smith was an English footballer and manager. As a player, he made 249 appearances in the Fourth Division of the Football League, representing Aldershot, Halifax Town,…
Jim Smith, English footballer and manager (died 2019)
Peter James Stringfellow was an English businessman who owned several nightclubs.
Peter Stringfellow, English businessman (died 2018)
Talitha Dina Getty was a Dutch actress, socialite, and model who was regarded as a style icon of the late 1960s. She lived much of her adult life in Britain and, in her final years…
Talitha Getty, actress and model of Dutch extraction (died 1971)
Cynthia Weil was an American lyricist who wrote many songs together with her husband Barry Mann. Weil and Mann were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, and in 2011,…
Cynthia Weil, American songwriter (died 2023)
Lawrence Figueiredo, better known as Larry Chance, was an American musician and the lead singer of the 1960s doo-wop group Larry Chance and the Earls, originally known as The Earls…
Larry Chance, American singer-songwriter (died 2023)
Sir Michael John Gambon was an Irish-English actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his si…
Michael Gambon, Irish-British actor (died 2023)
Rosny Smarth was a Haitian politician. He was Prime Minister of Haiti briefly, from 27 February 1996 to 9 June 1997. Smarth resigned before a successor was found, leaving the post …
Rosny Smarth, Haitian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Haiti (died 2025)
Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa is a Cameroonian film director, playwright and writer. He produced Cameroon's first full-length feature film, Muna Moto, in 1975. Dikongué Pipa's films de…
Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa, Cameroonian filmmaker
Kathy Kirby was an English singer, best known for her cover version of Doris Day's "Secret Love" and for representing the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1965, where …
Kathy Kirby, English singer (died 2011)
Sir Geoffrey Boycott is an English cricket commentator and former cricketer, who played professionally for Yorkshire and England. In a prolific and sometimes controversial playing …
Geoffrey Boycott, English cricketer and sportscaster
Frances FitzGerald is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), an account of the Vietn…
Frances FitzGerald, American journalist and author
Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. He was the first United States Poet Laureate to serve three terms. Recognized worldwide, Pinsky's work…
Robert Pinsky, American poet and critic
Rhoda Gemignani is an American actress, best known for her recurring role as Mrs. Carmela Rossini in the American television sitcom Who's the Boss?.
Rhoda Gemignani, American actress