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Albert Lawrence Einstein, known professionally as Albert Brooks, is an American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Suppor…
Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
Gilles Duceppe is a Canadian retired politician, proponent of the Quebec sovereignty movement and former leader of the federal political party, Bloc Québécois. He was a Member of P…
Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
Gardner Raymond Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of As…
Gardner Dozois, American journalist and author (died 2018)
Syed Zaheer Abbas Kirmani PP,, popularly known as Zaheer Abbas, is a Pakistani former cricketer. He is among the few professional cricketers who used to wear spectacles in the cric…
Zaheer Abbas, Pakistani cricketer and manager
Kazuyoshi Miura was a Japanese businessman who was accused of being involved in the killing of his wife, Kazumi Miura. The prolonged legal battle, lasting decades, ended with his …
Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (died 2008)
Giora Spiegel is an Israeli former footballer and coach. As a footballer, he holds the record for the longest Israeli international career, spanning 14 years and 357 days.
Giora Spiegel, Israeli footballer and coach
Betty Thomas is an American director and actress. She is known for her role as Sergeant Lucy Bates on the television series Hill Street Blues, a role for which she was nominated fo…
Betty Thomas, American actress, director, and producer
General Sir Peter John Cosgrove is an Australian retired senior Army officer who served as the 26th governor-general of Australia, in office from 2014 to 2019.
Peter Cosgrove, Australian general and politician, 26th Governor General of Australia
Sally Anne Struthers is an American actress and activist. She is known for her portrayal of Gloria Stivic, the daughter of Archie and Edith Bunker on the sitcom All in the Family (…
Sally Struthers, American actress
Dick Harmon was a PGA golf professional and instructor.
Dick Harmon, American golfer and coach (died 2006)
William Atherton is an American actor. He had starring roles in The Sugarland Express (1974), The Day of the Locust (1975), The Hindenburg (1975) and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)…
William Atherton, American actor and producer
Jonathan Max Mann was an American physician who was an administrator for the World Health Organization, and spearheaded early AIDS research in the 1980s.
Jonathan Mann, American physician and author (died 1998)
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist and Director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division and Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Born in Paris, Barr…
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, film producer, politician, and former professional bodybuilder who served as the 38th governor of Califo…
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California
Mack Calvin is an American former basketball player.
Mack Calvin, American basketball player
Herman's Hermits are an English pop rock group formed in 1963 in Manchester and fronted by singer Peter Noone. Known for their jaunty beat sound and Noone's often tongue-in-cheek v…
Karl Green, English bass player and songwriter
Richard Thomas Griffiths was an English actor. He was known for his portrayals of Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films (2001–2011), Uncle Monty in Withnail and I (1987), and He…
Richard Griffiths, English actor (died 2013)
Mumtaz Askari Madhvani, known mononymously as Mumtaz is an Indian actress who worked in Hindi films. Initially starting out as a child actor and later appearing in B-grade films, s…
Mumtaz, Indian actress
Hubert Yves Pierre Védrine is a French retired senior civil servant and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2002. A member of the Socialist Party (PS)…
Hubert Védrine, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ian Archibald Beck is an English children's illustrator and author. In addition to his numerous children's books, he is also known for his cover illustration on Elton John's Goodby…
Ian Beck, English children's illustrator and author
Lorna Gaye Goodison is a Jamaican poet, essayist and memoirist, a West Indian writer, whose career spans four decades. She is now professor emerita, English Language and Literatur…
Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet and author
Chantal Montellier, born on August 1, 1947, in Bouthéon near Saint-Étienne in the Loire Department, is a French comics creator and artist, editorial cartoonist, novelist, and paint…
Chantal Montellier, French comics creator and artist
Ruth Bakke is a Norwegian organist and composer. She was born in Bergen, Norway, and studied at the Bergen Music Conservatory and the University of Oslo. She continued her studies …
Ruth Bakke, Norwegian organist and composer
Lawrence Wright is an American writer and journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of…
Lawrence Wright, American journalist, author, and screenwriter