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David Ismael Concepción Benitez is a Venezuelan former professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire career in Major League Baseball as a shortstop for the Cincinn…
Dave Concepción, Venezuelan baseball player and manager
Jacqueline Jones is an American social historian and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history. She held the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas from 2008 to 2017, is th…
Jacqueline Jones, American historian and academic
Aurelio Alejandro López Rios was a Mexican professional baseball player. After pitching for several years in the Mexican League, he spent eleven seasons with four teams in Major Le…
Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player and politician (died 1992)
Karol Sikora is a British physician specialising in oncology, who has been described as a leading authority on cancer. He was a founder and medical director of Rutherford Health,…
Karol Sikora, English physician and academic
Philip Jackson is an English actor. He appeared as Chief Inspector Japp in both the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot and in BBC Radio dramatisations of Poirot stories; as…
Philip Jackson, English actor
Nicholas Rodney Drake was an English musician. An accomplished acoustic guitarist, Drake signed to Island Records at the age of twenty while still a student at the University of Ca…
Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter (died 1974)
Sherry Turkle is an American sociologist. She is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. …
Sherry Turkle, American academic, psychologist, and sociologist
Phylicia Rashad is an American actress. She was most recently dean of the College of Fine Arts at Howard University before her three-year contract ended in May 2024. Known for her …
Phylicia Rashad, American actress
Cirilo B. Flores was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of San Diego in California from 2013 until his death in 2014. He previousl…
Cirilo Flores, American bishop (died 2014)
Alan Longmuir was a Scottish musician and a founding member of the pop group the Bay City Rollers. He played the bass guitar, whilst his younger brother Derek Longmuir was drummer.
Alan Longmuir, Scottish bass player and songwriter (died 2018)
Ludwig Derangadage Scotty was a Nauruan politician who twice served as President of Nauru and was Speaker of Parliament five times between 2000 and 2016. He served as president fro…
Ludwig Scotty, Nauruan politician, 10th President of Nauru (died 2026)
Jovan "Kule" Aćimović is a Serbian former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Jovan Aćimović, Serbian footballer and manager
Ian Russell McEwan is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him at number 35 on its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945", and The Daily T…
Ian McEwan, British novelist and screenwriter
Andrzej Sapkowski is a Polish fantasy writer. He is best known for his series of books The Witcher, which revolves around the eponymous monster hunter, or "witcher", Geralt of Rivi…
Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish author and translator
Philippe Sarde is a French film composer. Considered among the most versatile and talented French film composers of his generation, Sarde has scored over two hundred films, film sh…
Philippe Sarde, French composer and conductor
James Donald Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss and 9th Earl of March,, also known as Jamie Neidpath, is a British peer and landowner.
James Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss, Scottish businessman
Patrick Philippe Moraz is a Swiss musician, film composer and songwriter, best known for his tenures as keyboardist in the rock bands Yes and the Moody Blues.
Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player and songwriter
Kathleen Doyle Bates is an American actress. Her work spans over five decades, and her accolades include an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition…
Kathy Bates, American actress
Sergei Vladimirovich Bodrov is a Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer. In 2003 he was the president of the jury at the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.
Sergei Bodrov, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
Todd Harry Rundgren is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who has performed a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the bands Nazz …
Todd Rundgren, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Clarence Thomas is an American lawyer and jurist who has served since 1991 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Nominated by President George H. W. Bu…
Clarence Thomas, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
The Radiators, also known as The New Orleans Radiators, are an American rock band from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The band's musical style, which draws from blues, rock…
Camile Baudoin, American guitarist
Deborah Moggach is an English playwright, novelist and screenwriter. She has written nineteen novels, including The Ex-Wives (1993), Tulip Fever, These Foolish Things and Heartbrea…
Deborah Moggach, English author and screenwriter
Daniel Merton Wegner was an American social psychologist. He was a professor of psychology at Harvard University, Trinity University, and a fellow of both the American Association …
Daniel Wegner, Canadian-American psychologist and academic (died 2013)