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Seán Patrick O'Malley is an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Boston from 2003 to 2024 and president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors f…
Seán Patrick O'Malley, American cardinal
Terrance Dee Funk was an American professional wrestler and actor. Funk is known for the length of his career, which spanned more than 50 years and included multiple short-lived re…
Terry Funk, American wrestler (died 2023)
Glenn Barrie Shorrock is an Australian singer and songwriter. He was a founding member of rock bands the Twilights, Axiom, Little River Band and post LRB spin-off trio Birtles Shor…
Glenn Shorrock, English-Australian singer-songwriter
Muhammad Nurul Haque Miah was a professor at Dhaka College and the head of its Department of Chemistry. He is renowned for writing high school and degree textbooks.
Nurul Haque Miah, Bangladeshi professor and writer (died 2021)
Andreu Mas-Colell is an economist, an expert in microeconomics and a prominent mathematical economist. He is the founder of the Barcelona School of Economics and a professor in the…
Andreu Mas-Colell, Spanish economist, academic, and politician
Raymond A. Moody Jr. is an American philosopher, psychiatrist, physician, and author, most widely known for his books about afterlife and near-death experiences (NDE), a term that …
Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist and author
Ronald Alan Swoboda is an American former professional baseball player and television sports color commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder from 1965 throug…
Ron Swoboda, American baseball player and sportscaster
Leni Christina Elisabeth Björklund is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. She served as Minister for Defence from 2002 to 2006.
Leni Björklund, Swedish politician, 28th Swedish Minister of Defence for Sweden
Gunhild Hoffmeister is a retired German middle-distance runner. She competed for East Germany at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won two silver and one bronze medal, becoming the on…
Gunhild Hoffmeister, German runner
Anthony Jacklin is an English golfer. He was the most successful British player of his generation, winning two major championships, the 1969 Open Championship and the 1970 U.S. Ope…
Tony Jacklin, English golfer and sportscaster
Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, Baroness Kinnock, was a British politician and teacher who served as Minister of State for Europe from June to October 2009 …
Glenys Kinnock, English educator and politician (died 2023)
Feleti Vakaʻuta Sevele, Lord Sevele of Vailahi is a Tongan politician who served as the prime minister of Tonga from 30 March 2006 to 22 December 2010.
Feleti Sevele, Tongan politician; Prime Minister of Tonga
Sir Ian Wilmut was an English embryologist and the chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He was the leader of the research group th…
Ian Wilmut, English-Scottish embryologist and academic (died 2023)
John Lee Johnson, frequently known by the stage names Jai Johanny Johanson and Jaimoe, is an American drummer and percussionist. He is best known as one of the founding members of …
Jaimoe, American drummer
Judith Margaret Brown is a British historian, academic and Anglican priest, who specialises in the study of modern South Asia.
Judith M. Brown, Indian-English historian and academic
Tabassum, was an Indian actress, talk show host and YouTuber, who started her career as child actor Baby Tabassum in 1947. She later had a television career as the host of first TV…
Tabassum, Indian actress and talk show host (died 2022)
Emanuel "Manny" Steward was an American boxer, trainer, and commentator for HBO Boxing. Known as "the godfather of Detroit boxing," Steward trained 41 world champion fighters throu…
Emanuel Steward, American boxer and trainer (died 2012)
Jeffrey Michael Tambor is an American actor. He is known for his television roles such as Jeffrey Brookes, the uptight neighbor of Stanley and Helen Roper in the television sitcom …
Jeffrey Tambor, American actor and singer
John Paul Cunniff was an American ice hockey coach and former professional player who appeared in 65 World Hockey Association regular season games between 1972 and 1976. After his …
John Cunniff, American ice hockey player and coach (died 2002)
Michael Grant is an English former professional motorcycle road racer and TT rider. A works-supported rider for Norton, Kawasaki, Honda and Suzuki, he is a seven-time winner of the…
Mick Grant, English motorcycle racer
Norman Hammond is a British archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar, noted for his publications and research on the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.
Norman Hammond, English archaeologist and academic
Byron Douglas Berline was an American fiddle player who played many American music styles, including old time, ragtime, bluegrass, Cajun, country, and rock.
Byron Berline, American world champion bluegrass fiddle player (died 2021)
Margaret Walsh Rossiter was an American historian of science who was based at Cornell University. Rossiter coined the term Matilda effect in 1993 to describe bias against acknowled…
Margaret W. Rossiter, American historian and author (died 2025)
Louis Clyde Hudson was an American National Basketball Association (NBA) player, who was an All-American at the University of Minnesota and a six-time NBA All-Star, scoring 17,940 …
Lou Hudson, American basketball player and coach (died 2014)