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Alison Steadman is an English actress. She received the 1977 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for Abigail's Party, the 1991 National Society of Film Critics Award fo…
Alison Steadman, English actress
Anthony Bourne Howard is a former West Indies international cricketer who played in one Test match in 1972, taking two wickets for 140 in a drawn match against New Zealand.
Tony Howard, Barbadian cricketer and manager
Robert Beamon is an American former track and field athlete, best known for his world record in the long jump at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968. By jumping 8.90 m, he broke the e…
Bob Beamon, American long jumper
Francine Dee Blau is an American economist and professor of economics as well as Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. In 2010, Blau was the first woman to receive …
Francine D. Blau, American economist and academic
Demetris Christofias was a Cypriot politician, who served as President of Cyprus from 2008 to 2013. He was previously President of the House of Representatives from 2001 to 2008 an…
Demetris Christofias, Cypriot businessman and politician, 6th President of Cyprus (died 2019)
Warren Jabali was an American basketball player. He played professionally in the American Basketball Association (ABA) from 1968 to 1975.
Warren Jabali, American basketball player (died 2012)
Giorgio Orsoni is an Italian lawyer, politician and a former mayor of Venice.
Giorgio Orsoni, Italian lawyer and politician, 17th Mayor of Venice
Anne-Marie is a Danish princess who was Queen of Greece as the consort of King Constantine II from their marriage on 18 September 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy on …
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
Margaret Ann Lipton was an American model, actress, and singer. She made appearances in many of the most popular television shows of the 1960s before she landed her defining role a…
Peggy Lipton, American model and actress (died 2019)
Margaret Ann Coffey is a British former politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockport from 1992 to 2019. A former member of the Labour Party, she defected to form Chan…
Ann Coffey, Scottish social worker and politician
Jerome Robert Corsi is an American conspiracy theorist and author. His two New York Times best-selling books, Unfit for Command (2004) and The Obama Nation (2008), attacked Democra…
Jerome Corsi, American conspiracy theorist and author
Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb is a British musician. Along with his younger fraternal twin brothers, Robin and Maurice, he rose to global fame as a founder of the Bee Gees, one of t…
Barry Gibb, Manx-English singer-songwriter and producer
Shalom Hanoch is an Israeli rock singer, lyricist and composer.
Shalom Hanoch, Israeli rock singer, lyricist and composer
Roh Moo-hyun was a South Korean politician and lawyer who served as the ninth president of South Korea from 2003 to 2008.
Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean soldier and politician, 9th President of South Korea (died 2009)
Luis Ávalos was an American character actor. A Cuban-American, he made numerous film and television appearances, most notably in the 1971–1977 children's television show The Electr…
Luis Ávalos, Cuban-American actor (died 2014)
Thomas Richard Coughlin is an American former football coach and executive of the National Football League (NFL). He was the head coach for the New York Giants from 2004 to 2015. H…
Tom Coughlin, American football player and coach
Mary Teresa Goudie, Baroness Goudie is a British politician and life peer, currently sitting for the Labour Party. In 1998, she was made a life peer as Baroness Goudie, of Roundwoo…
Mary Goudie, Baroness Goudie, English humanitarian and politician
Martin Joseph Grebb was an American keyboardist, guitarist, and saxophonist. A member of The Buckinghams in the late 1960s, Grebb was also a record producer and an arranger, who wo…
Marty Grebb, American keyboardist, guitarist, saxophonist, and music producer/arranger (died 2020)
William Everett Preston was an American keyboardist, singer, and songwriter whose work encompassed R&B, rock, soul, funk, and gospel. Preston was a top session keyboardist in the 1…
Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (died 2006)
Walter Simonson is an American comic book writer and artist, best known for a run on Marvel Comics' Thor from 1983 to 1987, during which he created the character Beta Ray Bill. He …
Walt Simonson, American author and illustrator
Daniel James White was an American politician who assassinated George Moscone, the 37th mayor of San Francisco, and Harvey Milk, a fellow member of the San Francisco Board of Super…
Dan White, American assassin and politician (died 1985)
Gary Duncan was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was guitarist with The Brogues, then most notably with Quicksilver Messenger Service, where the complex interplay b…
Gary Duncan, American guitarist (died 2019)
David Liebman is an American saxophonist, flautist, bandleader, composer, and jazz educator. Best known for his work on soprano saxophone, he toured and recorded with Miles Davis d…
Dave Liebman, American saxophonist, flute player, and composer
Bryan Michael Mauricette is a Canadian former cricketer: a right-handed wicketkeeper-batsman who played a handful of first-class matches for the Windward Islands between 1966–67 an…
Bryan Mauricette, Saint Lucian-Canadian cricketer