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Tansu Çiller is a Turkish academic, economist, and politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996. She is Turkey's only female prime minister. As the …
Tansu Çiller, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey
George Best was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a right winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United. A skillful dribbler, he is considered …
George Best, Northern Irish footballer and manager (died 2005)
Andrei Marga is a Romanian philosopher, political scientist, and politician. Rector – for the second time – of the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, he was a member of the Ch…
Andrei Marga, Romanian philosopher, political scientist, politician
Lyudmila Vasilyevna Zhuravleva is a Soviet, Russian, and Ukrainian astronomer, who worked at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyi, where she discovered 213 minor plane…
Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Russian-Ukrainian astronomer
Manuel Jesualdo Ferreira is a Portuguese football manager.
Jesualdo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer and manager
Irena Szewińska was a Polish sprinter who was one of the world's foremost track athletes for nearly two decades, in multiple events. She won a total of seven Olympic medals includi…
Irena Szewińska, Russian-Polish sprinter (died 2018)
Bill Adam is a Canadian racing driver born in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Bill Adam, Scottish-Canadian racing driver
David Allen Hargrave, known as The Dream Weaver, was a prolific and sometimes controversial American game designer and writer of fantasy and science fiction role-playing games (RPG…
David A
Neshka Stefanova Robeva is a Bulgarian former rhythmic gymnast and coach.
Neshka Robeva, Bulgarian gymnast and coach
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, also known by his abbreviated nickname NHØP, was a Danish jazz double bassist.
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish bassist and composer (died 2005)
John Glen Williams was an English motorcycle short-circuit road racer who also entered selected Grands Prix on the near-continent. He mostly raced as a "privateer" having a persona…
John Williams, English motorcycle racer (died 1978)
Bruce John Alexander is a British actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Superintendent Norman Mullett in the ITV television series A Touch of Frost, in which he plays the su…
Bruce Alexander, English actor
Alfred Henry "Skip" Jutze is an American former professional baseball player. He played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily as a catcher.
Skip Jutze, American baseball player
Dame Janet Paraskeva is a British government official.
Janet Paraskeva, Welsh politician
K. Satchidanandan is an Indian poet and critic, writing in Malayalam and English. A pioneer of modern poetry in Malayalam, a bilingual literary critic, playwright, editor, columnis…
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Michael Ronson was an English musician, songwriter, arranger, and producer. He achieved critical and commercial success working with David Bowie as the guitarist of the Spiders fro…
Mick Ronson, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (died 1993)
Sir William Hartley Hume Shawcross is a British journalist, writer, and broadcaster. He is the incumbent Commissioner for Public Appointments. From 2012 to 2018 he chaired the Char…
William Shawcross, English journalist and author
Fernando Buesa Blanco was a Spanish politician in the Basque Christian Democracy and in the Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left (PSE-EE) branch of the social …
Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (died 2000)
Allan Chapman was a British historian of science.
Allan Chapman, English historian and author
Dragan Džajić is a Serbian football administrator and former player who is the current president of the Football Association of Serbia from 14 March 2023.
Dragan Džajić, Serbian and Yugoslav footballer
Millard Robert E. Theodore Baehr is an American media critic and chairman of the Christian Film and Television Commission, a division of Good News Communications, Inc. He is publis…
Ted Baehr, American publisher and critic
Stephen Anthony Bucknor, OJ is a Jamaican former international cricket umpire.
Steve Bucknor, Jamaican cricketer and umpire
Krista Kilvet was an Estonian radio journalist, politician and diplomat.
Krista Kilvet, Estonian journalist, politician, and diplomat (died 2009)
Debbie Moore OBE is an English retired model and businesswoman who founded the Pineapple Dance Studios and its associated clothing brand. She was the first woman to float a company…
Debbie Moore, English model and businesswoman