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Mary Styles Harris is an American biologist and geneticist, president of Harris & Associates in Atlanta, Georgia, and owner of BioTechnical Communications, which produced the telev…
Mary Styles Harris, American biologist and geneticist
Vera Ellen Wang is an American fashion designer. Wang initially pursued a career in figure skating before transitioning to fashion. She got her start working for Vogue and Ralph La…
Vera Wang, American fashion designer
Adrian Israel Gurvitz is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. His prolific songwriting ability has gained him hits with Eddie Money's No. 1 Billboard Mainst…
Adrian Gurvitz, English singer-songwriter and producer
Don Edward Baylor, nicknamed "Groove," was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. During his 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), Baylor was a power hit…
Don Baylor, American baseball player and coach (died 2017)
Daniel Lee Dierdorf is an American sportscaster and former professional football player. He played 13 seasons (1971–1983) as an offensive tackle for the St. Louis Cardinals of the …
Dan Dierdorf, American football player and sportscaster
Joan Clos i Matheu, GCIH is a Spanish politician who was mayor of Barcelona, Spain from September 1997 to September 2006. He took over from Pasqual Maragall in 1997. In 1999 he was…
Joan Clos, Spanish anesthesiologist and politician, 116th Mayor of Barcelona
Ann Margaret Veneman is an American attorney who served as the fifth executive director of UNICEF from 2005 to 2010. She previously served as the 27th United States secretary of ag…
Ann Veneman, American lawyer and politician, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture
Uwe Kliemann is a German former professional footballer who played as a central defender. and coach. As a player, he spent 11 seasons in the Bundesliga with Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Ei…
Uwe Kliemann, German footballer, coach, and manager
Andrew David Scott is a Welsh musician and songwriter. He is best known for being the lead guitarist and a backing vocalist in the glam rock band Sweet. Following bassist Steve Pri…
Andy Scott, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Bùi Thanh Liêm was a Vietnamese cosmonaut.
Bùi Thanh Liêm, Vietnamese cosmonaut (died 1981)
Alan Ralph Osmond was an American singer and musician. He was a member of the family musical group The Osmonds. Prior to that, Alan and his brothers performed as the Osmond Brother…
Alan Osmond, American singer and producer (died 2026)
Néjia Ben Mabrouk is a Tunisian screenwriter and director, known for her work on the award-winning film Sama and on the documentary The Gulf War... What Next?.
Néjia Ben Mabrouk, Tunisian-Belgian director and screenwriter
John Peter Farnham is an Australian singer. Farnham was a teen pop idol from 1967 until the mid-1970s, billed as Johnny Farnham. He has since forged a career as an adult contempora…
John Farnham, English-Australian singer-songwriter
H. David Hogan was an American composer and musical director of CIGAP, a choir composed of openly gay men.
David Hogan, American composer and educator (died 1996)
Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu is an Indian politician who served as the vice president of India from 2017 to 2022. He has also served as the minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alle…
Venkaiah Naidu, Indian lawyer and politician
Gregory Dane Brown is an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Iowa.
Greg Brown, American musician
Robert Paquette is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter.
Robert Paquette, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Susan Penhaligon is a British actress and writer known for her role in the drama series Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1976), and for playing Helen Barker in the sitcom A Fine Romance (19…
Susan Penhaligon, English actress
John Verity is an English guitarist and singer. He is best known as a member of Argent, a band formed by Zombies keyboardist Rod Argent. He joined the band alongside John Grimaldi,…
John Verity, English guitarist
Johnnie James Wilder Jr. was an American musician, co-founder and vocalist of the R&B/funk group Heatwave. The group were popular during the late 1970s with hits such as "Boogie Ni…
Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (died 2006)
Bo Xilai is a Chinese former politician who was convicted on bribery and embezzlement charges. He came to prominence through his tenures as Mayor of Dalian and then Governor of Lia…
Bo Xilai, Chinese politician, Chinese Minister of Commerce
Ludwig Georg Strauss was a German nuclear medicine physician and professor of radiology at the University of Heidelberg.
Ludwig G. Strauss, German physician and academic (died 2013)
Jill Frances Murphy was a British author and illustrator of children's books. First published by Allison & Busby in 1974, she was best known for the Worst Witch novels and Large Fa…
Jill Murphy, British children's author (died 2021)
Manuel "Noli" Leuterio de Castro Jr. is a Filipino broadcaster, journalist, and former politician who served as the 12th vice president of the Philippines from 2004 until 2010 unde…
Noli de Castro, Filipino journalist and politician, 14th Vice President of the Philippines