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Birutė Marija Filomena Galdikas or Biruté Mary Galdikas was a Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist and author. She was a professor at Simon Fraser Un…
Biruté Galdikas, Canadian primatologist and conservationist (died 2026)
Graham Keith Gouldman is an English musician. He is best known as the co-lead singer and bassist of the art rock band 10cc. He has been the band's only constant member since its fo…
Graham Gouldman, English guitarist and songwriter
David Thomas Mason was an English singer-songwriter and guitarist who came to prominence in 1967 as a founding member of the rock band Traffic. He wrote and sang lead vocals on two…
Dave Mason, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2026)
Daniel Libeskind is a Polish and American architect, artist, professor, and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principa…
Daniel Libeskind, American architect, designed the Imperial War Museum North and Jewish Museum
Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith was a British film and television actor and author. For his leading role as Ronald Merrick in the television drama series The Jewel in the Crown, he won …
Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor and author (died 2017)
Marvin Arthur Wolfman is an American comic book and novelization writer. He worked on Marvel Comics's The Tomb of Dracula (1972–1979), for which he and artist Gene Colan created th…
Marv Wolfman, American author
Thadeus Nguyễn Văn Lý is a Vietnamese Roman Catholic priest and dissident involved in many pro-democracy movements, for which he was imprisoned for a total of almost 15 years. For …
Thadeus Nguyễn Văn Lý, Vietnamese priest and activist
Udo Lindenberg is a German singer, composer, and painter.
Udo Lindenberg, German singer-songwriter and drummer
Frank Hsieh Chang-ting is a Taiwanese politician, diplomat, and former defense attorney who has served as the chairman of the Taiwan–Japan Relations Association since 2026. He was …
Frank Hsieh, Taiwanese lawyer and politician, 40th Premier of the Republic of China
Reginald Martinez Jackson is an American former professional baseball right fielder who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics, Ba…
Reggie Jackson, American baseball player and sportscaster
Gerd Langguth was a professor of political science at the University of Bonn and the author of biographies of Angela Merkel, Horst Köhler and of Rudi Dutschke
Gerd Langguth, German political scientist and author (died 2013)
John Law, is a sociologist and science and technology studies scholar, currently on the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. He has remained one of the leading propon…
John Law, English sociologist and academic
Robert Fripp is an English musician, composer, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist, founder and only constant member of the progressive rock band King Crimson.…
Robert Fripp, English guitarist, songwriter and producer
Claude Lelièvre is a Belgian government official. He is the Commissioner for Children Rights of the French community of Belgium, an office similar to the children's ombudsman agenc…
Claude Lelièvre, Belgian activist
Michele Placido is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He began his career on stage, and first gained mainstream attention through a series of roles in films directed by t…
Michele Placido, Italian actor and director
André René Roussimoff, better known by his ring name André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. Dubbed "the Eighth Wonder of the World", Roussimoff was known fo…
André the Giant, French-American wrestler and actor (died 1993)
Cher is an American singer and actress. Dubbed the "Goddess of Pop", she is known for her androgynous, contralto voice, bold fashion, elaborate stagecraft and multifaceted career. …
Cher, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Allan McKeown was a British television, film, and stage producer.
Allan McKeown, English-American screenwriter and producer (died 2013)
Wayne William Roycroft, is an Australian equestrian and coach who won two bronze medals at three Olympics. He was the national eventing coach from 1988 to 2010; Australia won four …
Wayne Roycroft, Australian equestrian rider and coach
Michael Boris Green is a British physicist and a pioneer of string theory. He is a professor of theoretical physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University …
Michael Green, English physicist and academic
Bobby Ray Murcer was an American professional baseball outfielder who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1965 and 1983. He played the majority of his career f…
Bobby Murcer, American baseball player, coach, manager, and sportscaster (died 2008)
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)
Howard Kendall was an English footballer and manager.
Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (died 2015)
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