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John Warren Gladwin is a retired Anglican bishop. From 2004 to 2009, he was the Bishop of Chelmsford in the Church of England. He stands in the open evangelical tradition.
John Gladwin, English bishop
Carole Stone, CBE is a British author and freelance radio and television broadcaster. Stone spent 27 years at the BBC beginning as a newsroom secretary and eventually becoming the …
Carole Stone, English journalist and author
Dame Parveen June Kumar is a British- Indian doctor who is a Professor of Medicine and Education at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. She worked in the NHS for…
Parveen Kumar, Pakistani-English physician and academic
Michael John Ahern was an Australian National Party politician who was Premier of Queensland from December 1987 to September 1989. After a long career in the government of Sir Joh …
Mike Ahern, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Queensland (died 2023)
Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Dubbed the Gentle Genius, he is considered one of the most influential musicians of soul and …
Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1999)
William Neil Rowe, is a former politician, lawyer, broadcaster, and writer in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Bill Rowe, Canadian lawyer and politician
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was princess consort of Hohenlohe-Langenburg from her husband Ernst II's accession as prince in 1913 until her death in 1942. The fourth…
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born 1878)
Louis French Reichardt is a noted American neuroscientist and mountaineer, the first American to summit both Everest and K2. He was also director of the Simons Foundation Autism Re…
Louis Reichardt, American mountaineer
Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein's explanation of this phen…
Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1870)
Aleksander Mitt was an Estonian speed skater who competed at the 1928 and 1936 Winter Olympics.
Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (born 1903)
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She was a prominent soci…
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American heiress, sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (b
Jüri Jaakson was an Estonian lawyer and statesman.
Jüri Jaakson, Estonian businessman and politician, 6th State Elder of Estonia (born 1870)
Lucy Maud Montgomery, published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of G…
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (born 1874)
Thorvald August Marinus Stauning was the first social democratic prime minister of Denmark. He served as prime minister from 1924 to 1926 and again from 1929 until his death in 194…
Thorvald Stauning, Danish politician, 24th Prime Minister of Denmark (born 1873)
Qemal Stafa was an Albanian politician and one of the founding members of the Albanian Communist Party, and the leader of its youth section.
Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (born 1920)
Paul Felix Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.
Felix Weingartner, Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1863)
Nikolai Reek VR I/2, VR II/2, VR II/3 was the Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence.
Nikolai Reek, Estonian general and politician, 11th Estonian Minister of War (born 1890)
Józef Cebula was a Polish priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI).
Józef Cebula, Polish priest and saint (born 1902)
Hector Guimard was a French architect and designer prominent for his Art Nouveau style designs including Paris Métro entrances. He achieved early fame with his design for the Caste…
Hector Guimard, French Architect (born 1867)
Panagiotis Toundas was a Greek composer of the early 20th century.
Panagiotis Toundas, Greek composer and conductor (born 1886)
Emanuel Feuermann was an internationally celebrated cellist in the first half of the 20th century.
Emanuel Feuermann, Ukrainian-American cellist and educator (born 1902)
Muhammed Hamdi Yazır also known as Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır and Elmalılı was a Turkish Maturidi theologian, logician, Qur'an translator, Qur'anic exegesis scholar, Islamic legal academ…
Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (born 1878)
John Barrymore was an American actor on stage, screen, and radio. A member of the Drew and Barrymore theatrical families, he initially tried to avoid the stage and briefly attempte…
John Barrymore, American actor (born 1882)