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Jacques Jean Marie, Count Rogge was a Belgian sports administrator, former athlete, and physician, who served as the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) f…
Jacques Rogge, Belgian businessman (died 2021)
Věra Čáslavská was a Czechoslovak artistic gymnast and Czech sports official. She won a total of 22 international titles between 1959 and 1968 including seven Olympic gold medals, …
Věra Čáslavská, Czech gymnast and coach (died 2016)
Clement Leroy "Butch" Otter is an American businessman and politician who served as the 32nd governor of Idaho from 2007 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected i…
Butch Otter, American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Idaho
Jean Ann Corston, Baroness Corston,, is a British politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol East from 1992 to 2005, during which time she served …
Jean Corston, Baroness Corston, English lawyer and politician
Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been …
Ariel Dorfman, Argentinian author, playwright, and academic
Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont, Baron Lamont of Lerwick, is a British politician and former Conservative MP for Kingston-upon-Thames. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1…
Norman Lamont, Scottish banker and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
William John Terence Neill was a Northern Irish football player and manager. A centre-back, he captained and later managed Arsenal, guiding the club to a European final in 1980 and…
Terry Neill, Irish footballer and manager (died 2022)
Tammy Wynette was an American country music singer and songwriter, considered among the genre's most influential and successful artists. Along with Loretta Lynn, Wynette helped bri…
Tammy Wynette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1998)
John David Ashcroft is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and former politician who served as the 79th United States attorney general under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. A…
John Ashcroft, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General
David Richmond Gergen was an American political commentator and longtime presidential adviser who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, an…
David Gergen, American political consultant (died 2025)
James A. Calhoun is an American former college basketball coach. He is best known for his tenure as head coach of the University of Connecticut (UConn) men's basketball team. His t…
Jim Calhoun, American basketball player and coach
Ian Robins Dury was an English singer, songwriter and actor best remembered as the frontman of Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Described by The Guardian as "one of few true originals …
Ian Dury, English singer-songwriter (died 2000)
Byron Leslie Dorgan is an American author, businessman and former politician who served as a United States representative (1981–1992) and United States senator (1992–2011) from Nor…
Byron Dorgan, American lawyer and politician
Robert Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green was a British businessman, politician and author who was an advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green, English businessman and politician (died 2014)
Atanasio "Tony" Pérez Rigal nicknamed Big Dog is a Cuban-American former professional baseball player, coach and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a first basema…
Tony Pérez, Cuban-American baseball player and manager
Lois Johnson Scoggins was an American country music singer. She was from Maynardville, Tennessee. She recorded for different labels between 1969 and 1978, charted twenty singles on…
Lois Johnson, American singer-songwriter (died 2014)
Douglas Ackley Lowe AM was the 35th Premier of Tasmania, from 1 December 1977 to 11 November 1981. His time as Premier coincided with controversy over a proposal to build a dam on …
Doug Lowe, Australian politician, 35th Premier of Tasmania
Muhammad Jusuf Kalla, commonly referred to by his initials JK, is an Indonesian politician and businessman who served as the 10th and 12th Vice President of Indonesia from 2004 to …
Jusuf Kalla, Indonesian businessman and politician, 10th Vice President of Indonesia
Charles Edmund Lazar Horman was an American journalist and documentary filmmaker. He was executed in Chile in the days following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état led by General Augusto…
Charles Horman, American journalist and documentary filmmaker (died 1973)
Kay Toinette Oslin was an American country music singer-songwriter. She had several years of major commercial success in the late 1980s after signing a record deal at age 45. Oslin…
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Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr., better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments a…
Taj Mahal, American blues singer-songwriter and musician
Norbert Peter Stiles was an English professional footballer. He played for England for five years, winning 28 caps and scoring one goal. He played every minute of England's victori…
Nobby Stiles, English footballer, coach, and manager (died 2020)
Sir David Herbert Penry-Davey was a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
David Penry-Davey, English lawyer and judge (died 2015)
Gary Arlen Kildall was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur. During the 1970s, Kildall created the operating system CP/M among other operating systems and …
Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research Inc