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David Michael Wojnarowicz was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village…
David Wojnarowicz, American painter and photographer (died 1992)
Keith Adonis Franke was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Adorable" Adrian Adonis. He was best known for his appearances with the American Wrestlin…
Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (died 1988)
Hrant Dink was a Turkish-Armenian journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of Agos. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, Dink was a prominent member …
Hrant Dink, Turkish journalist (died 2007)
Barry Shabaka Henley is an American character actor. Henley has appeared as a regular in a number of television series, has numerous film credits, and is a fixture in films by dire…
Barry Shabaka Henley, American actor
Sanjoy Bandopadhyay is a Bengali Hindustani classical sitar player. He is primarily a disciple of Radhika Mohan Maitra and Bimalendu Mukherjee. His performance is a unique synthesi…
Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Indian sitar player and composer
William McKeen is an American author and educator. He is professor and former chairman of the Department of Journalism at Boston University.
William McKeen, American author and academic
Colin John Newman is an English musician, record producer and record label owner. He is best known as the primary vocalist and songwriter for the post-punk band Wire.
Colin Newman, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
Frank Kevin "Tchallah" Reed was an American singer-songwriter. Reed was best known as the first replacement lead singer for the American vocal group The Chi-Lites. He replaced orig…
Frank Reed, American singer-songwriter (died 2014)
Roger Douglas Woolley is a former Australian cricketer who played in two Test matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) between 1983 and 1984. He was a middle-order batsman, a…
Roger Woolley, Australian cricketer
Joël-François Durand is a French composer.
Joël-François Durand, French pianist and composer
Barney William Irwin is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Wild" Bill Irwin. Irwin is also known for his appearances with the World Wrestlin…
Bill Irwin, American wrestler
Takao Doi is a Japanese astronaut, engineer and veteran of two NASA Space Shuttle missions.
Takao Doi, Japanese engineer and astronaut
Murtaza Bhutto was a Pakistani politician and leftist activist who led Al-Zulfiqar, a left-wing militant organization, against Zia-ul-Haq's military regime. He was a member of the …
Murtaza Bhutto, Pakistani politician (died 1996)
Dennis Wayne Johnson, nicknamed "DJ", was an American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns, and Boston C…
Dennis Johnson, American basketball player and coach (died 2007)
Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the com…
Steven Pinker, Canadian-American psychologist, linguist, and author
Thomas Hawley Tuberville is an American politician and retired college football coach and sports broadcaster who is the senior United States senator from Alabama, a seat he has hel…
Tommy Tuberville, American football player, coach, and Senator
Adam Phillips is a British psychoanalytic psychotherapist and essayist.
Adam Phillips, Welsh psychotherapist and author
Eleni Vitali is a Greek Romani popular singer and composer, active from the early 1970s.
Eleni Vitali, Greek singer-songwriter
Anne Caroline Ballingall McIntosh, Baroness McIntosh of Pickering is a British politician who has been a life peer since 2015.
Anne McIntosh, Scottish lawyer and politician
Henry Samueli is an American businessman and engineer. He is a co-founder of Broadcom Corporation, owner of the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL), and a prominent p…
Henry Samueli, American businessman, co-founded Broadcom Corporation
Shinzo Abe was a Japanese statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 t…
Shinzo Abe, Japanese lawyer and politician, 90th Prime Minister of Japan (died 2022)
Julia Grant was the first transgender person to have her transition chronicled on a mainstream UK television documentary in A Change of Sex.
Julia Grant, British transgender activist (died 2019)
Thomas S. Ray is an ecologist who created and developed the Tierra project, a computer simulation of artificial life.
Thomas S. Ray, American ecologist and academic
Philip John Taylor, better known as "Philthy Animal", was an English drummer. He was a member of the rock band Motörhead from 1975 to 1984 and 1987 to 1992, recording eleven studio…
Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, English rock drummer (died 2015)