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Sean Bergin was an avant-garde jazz saxophonist and flautist from South Africa.
Sean Bergin, South African-Dutch saxophonist and flute player (died 2012)
Fredrick Lawrence Grandy is an American actor who played Burl "Gopher" Smith on the TV series The Love Boat and who later became a member of the United States House of Representati…
Fred Grandy, American actor and politician
Ian Anderson Paice is an English musician who is the drummer and an original member of the rock band Deep Purple. He remains the only member of Deep Purple who has served in every …
Ian Paice, English drummer, songwriter, and producer
Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar is a British politician and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Since the 1970s, she has served as a director or chair of a variety of public …
Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar, Kenyan-English politician
John Ford is a British musician. He has toured and recorded with Velvet Opera, The Strawbs, Hudson/Ford and The Monks.
John Ford, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Mutula Kilonzo was a Kenyan politician and Senior Counsel, who served as Minister of Education after having previously served as Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan and justice and c…
Mutula Kilonzo, Kenyan lawyer and politician (died 2013)
Paul Barrere was an American musician most prominent as a member of the band Little Feat, which he joined in 1972 some three years after the band was created by Lowell George.
Paul Barrere, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)
Tarmo Koivisto is a Finnish comics artist and writer, cartoonist, and graphic artist.
Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish author and illustrator
René Alexandre Arnoux is a French former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1978 to 1989. Arnoux won seven Formula One Grands Prix across 12 seasons.
René Arnoux, French race car driver
Bert Gustav Tommy Körberg is a Swedish singer, actor and musician. English-speaking audiences know him best for his role as Anatoly/"The Russian" in the musical Chess. He played th…
Tommy Körberg, Swedish singer and actor
Jeremy Cedric Spencer is a British musician, best known for playing slide guitar and piano in the original line-up of the rock band Fleetwood Mac. A member since Fleetwood Mac's in…
Jeremy Spencer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Nathalie Marie Andrée Baye was a French film, television and stage actress. She began her career in 1970 and has appeared in more than 80 films. A ten-time César Award nominee, her…
Nathalie Baye, French actress (died 2026)
Jean-Pierre Blackburn, is a Canadian politician and diplomat. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Jonquière—Alma from 2006 to 2011; earlier, he was …
Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Canadian academic and politician, 26th Canadian Minister of Veterans Affairs
Douglas Bradford Park is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. A defenceman, Park played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers, Boston Bruins and…
Brad Park, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
Raffi Cavoukian, known professionally by the mononym Raffi, is an Armenian-Canadian singer-lyricist and author born in Egypt best known for his children's music. In 1992, The Washi…
Raffi, Egyptian-Canadian singer-songwriter
Ruby Nell Sales is an African-American social justice activist, scholar, and public theologian. She has been described as a "legendary civil rights activist" by the PBS program Rel…
Ruby Sales, American civil-rights activist
Noer Hassan Wirajuda is an Indonesian politician who was the foreign minister of Indonesia from 2001 to 2009. He served during the presidencies of Megawati Sukarnoputri and Susilo …
Hassan Wirajuda, Indonesian lawyer and politician, 15th Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Glenn Allan "Chico" Resch is a Canadian–American former professional ice hockey player and television sportscaster. He played as a goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL) fr…
Chico Resch, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
Ronnie Cutrone was an American Neo-pop painter and nightclub impresario. He began his career as Pop Artist Andy Warhol's assistant before becoming known for his own paintings of ca…
Ronnie Cutrone, American painter (died 2013)
Natalya Yevgenyevna Sedykh is a Russian retired figure skater, ballet dancer, and film actor.
Natalya Sedykh, Russian figure skater, ballet dancer, actor
John Cavadus Whitehead was an American singer and songwriter. He was best known as one of the key members of the Philadelphia International record label, and was one-half of the su…
John Whitehead, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2004)
Benjamin Burtt Jr. is an American sound designer, film director, film editor, screenwriter, and voice actor. As a sound designer, his credits include the Star Wars and Indiana Jone…
Ben Burtt, American director, screenwriter, and sound designer
Walter Egan is an American rock musician, best known for his 1978 gold status hit single "Magnet and Steel" from his second album release, Not Shy, produced by Egan, Lindsey Buckin…
Walter Egan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Elias Khoury was a Lebanese novelist and advocate of the Palestinian cause. His novels and literary criticism have been translated into several languages. In 2000, he won the Prize…
Elias Khoury, Lebanese intellectual, playwright and novelist (died 2024)