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Milton Teagle "Richard" Simmons was an American fitness instructor and television personality. He was a promoter of weight-loss programs, most prominently through his television sh…
Richard Simmons, American fitness trainer and actor (died 2024)
Catherine Breillat is a French filmmaker, novelist, and professor of cinema at the European Graduate School.
Catherine Breillat, French director and screenwriter
Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu was the King of the Zulu Nation from 1968 to his death in 2021.
Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, Zulu king (died 2021)
Lynn Annette Ripley, better known by the stage name Twinkle, was an English singer-songwriter. She had chart success in the 1960s with her songs "Terry" and "Golden Lights".
Twinkle, English singer-songwriter (died 2015)
Dimosthenis Kourtovik is a Greek writer, literary critic and anthropologist. He studied biology in Athens and West Germany and specialized later on physical anthropology. In 1986 h…
Dimosthenis Kourtovik, Greek anthropologist and critic
Thomas Delmer "Artimus" Pyle is an American musician who played drums with the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1974 to 1977 and from 1987 to 1991. He and his bandmates were …
Artimus Pyle, American rock drummer and songwriter
Lars Edvin "Lasse" Lagerbäck is a Swedish football manager and former player.
Lars Lagerbäck, Swedish footballer and manager
Kevin Alexander McKenzie was a South African first-class cricketer whose career with Transvaal lasted from his first season in 1966/67 to the final one in 1986/87.
Kevin McKenzie, South African cricketer
Anthony Irwin Kornheiser is an American television sports talk show host, podcaster, and former sportswriter and columnist. Kornheiser is best known for his endeavors in three form…
Tony Kornheiser, American television sports talk show host and former sportswriter
Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna, known professionally as Rubén Blades, is a Panamanian musician, singer, composer, actor, activist, and politician, performing musically most often in …
Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
Pinchas Zukerman is an Israeli-American violinist, violist and conductor.
Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist and conductor
Ronald Franklin Asheton was an American musician, best known as the guitarist, bassist, and co-songwriter for the rock band the Stooges. He formed the band along with Iggy Pop and …
Ron Asheton, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2009)
Luc Bondy was a Swiss theatre and film director.
Luc Bondy, Swiss director and producer (died 2015)
Carlos Edwin Colón González Sr. is a Puerto Rican wrestling promoter and retired professional wrestler, better known as Carlitos Colón or simply Carlos Colón. He is, along with Vic…
Carlos Colón Sr., Puerto Rican-American wrestler and promoter
Jeanne Córdova was an American writer and supporter of the lesbian and gay rights movement, founder of The Lesbian Tide, and a founder of the West Coast LGBT movement. A former Cat…
Jeanne Córdova, American journalist and activist (died 2016)
Hartmut Michel is a German biochemist, who received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-b…
Hartmut Michel, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Keith Richard Godchaux was an American pianist best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979. Following their departure from the Dead, he and his …
Keith Godchaux, American keyboard player and songwriter (died 1980)
Muse Watson Gravel, commonly known as Muse Watson, is an American actor. He is notable for his recurring roles of Mike Franks on NCIS and Charles Westmoreland / D.B. Cooper in Pris…
Muse Watson, American actor and producer
Sir Francis Billy Hilly was a Solomon Islands politician who was the Prime Minister of Solomon Islands from 18 June 1993 to 7 November 1994. He represented the Ranogga/Simbo Consti…
Francis Billy Hilly, Solomon Islands politician (died 2025)
Arthur Hindle is a Canadian actor and television director. He won the Gemini Award for Best Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for his portrayal of news director Mike Fenn…
Art Hindle, Canadian actor and director
Yusuf Islam, commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens or Yusuf/Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and musician. He has sold more than 100 million records and has more…
Cat Stevens, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Garretson Beekman Trudeau is an American cartoonist best known for creating the Doonesbury political satirical comic strip.
Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist
Robert Neil Hardwick is a British-born Finnish theatre and TV director and writer. He was raised in Teversal, near Nottingham. His father was a teacher, and Neil Hardwick has descr…
Neil Hardwick, British–Finnish theatre and television director
Susan Eloise Hinton is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels (YA) set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders (1967), which she wrote during high school. Hinton is…
S. E. Hinton, American author