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Paul Douglas Collins is an American basketball executive, former player, coach and television analyst in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played in the NBA from 1973 t…
Doug Collins, American basketball player and coach
Dean Pitchford is an American songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, and novelist. His work has earned him an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three a…
Dean Pitchford, American actor, director, screenwriter, and composer
Alan John Kourie is a former South African first class cricketer, who played for Transvaal, from 1970–71 to 1988–89. Educated at Jeppe Boys High, he played for Transvaal in the N…
Alan Kourie, South African cricketer
Gerald David Judah FRSS is a British artist and designer who has created settings for theatre, film, television, museums and public spaces.
Gerry Judah, Indian-English painter and sculptor
Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley is an Australian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and wa…
Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Australian tennis player
Timothy Gregg Bachman was a Canadian guitarist and vocalist best known for his work with rock bands Brave Belt and Bachman–Turner Overdrive (BTO). Bachman was one of the four found…
Tim Bachman, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)
Thomas Richard Bolin was an American rock and jazz-rock fusion guitarist and songwriter who played with Zephyr, the James Gang and Deep Purple, in addition to maintaining a career …
Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1976)
Peter Mackanin, Jr., is an American former professional baseball utility player, coach, scout, and manager, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Montrea…
Pete Mackanin, American baseball player, coach, and manager
Stephen Simpson Hillage is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s. B…
Steve Hillage, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Clarence Burgess Owens is an American politician and former professional football player. Since 2021, he has served as the U.S. representative for Utah's 4th congressional district…
Burgess Owens, American football player and politician
Joe Lynn Turner is an American singer best known for his work with Rainbow, Deep Purple, and Yngwie Malmsteen.
Joe Lynn Turner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Per Erik Gunnar Westerberg is a Swedish politician who was Speaker of the Riksdag from 2006 to 2014. He was a Member of the Riksdag from 1979 to 2014, its most senior member from 2…
Per Westerberg, Swedish businessman and politician, Speaker of the Parliament of Sweden
Andrew Maurice Gold was an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who influenced much of the Los Angeles-dominated pop/soft rock sound in the 1970s…
Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2011)
Marcel Elphège Dionne is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings and…
Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
Jay Waverly North Jr. was an American actor and later a corrections officer after retiring from acting. His career as a child actor began in the late 1950s, and he went on to appea…
Jay North, American actor (died 2025)
Peter Neville Goodfellow is a British geneticist best known for his work on sex determination and the SRY gene that encodes testis determining factor. He was Arthur Balfour Profess…
Peter Goodfellow, English geneticist and academic
Cheryl Lau Sang, known professionally as Samantha Sang, is an Australian singer. She had an earlier career as a teenage singer under the stage name Cheryl Gray, before adopting the…
Samantha Sang, Australian pop singer
Catherine Mary Hicks is an American retired actress. She played the character Annie Camden on the long-running television series 7th Heaven. Other roles included Dr. Faith Coleridg…
Catherine Hicks, American actress
Daryl Paul Somers is an Australian television personality and musician, and a triple Gold Logie award winner. He rose to national fame as the host and executive producer of the lon…
Daryl Somers, Australian television host and singer
Martin Brest is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. After his feature debut, Going in Style (1979), he directed the action comedies Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and …
Martin Brest, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Phillip Henry Carlson was an Australian cricketer who played in two Test matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. He was an all-rounder who played for Queensland bet…
Phil Carlson, Australian cricketer (died 2022)
Randy Shilts was an American journalist and author. After studying journalism at the University of Oregon, Shilts began working as a reporter for both The Advocate and the San Fran…
Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (died 1994)
Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal is a Dutch former football player and manager. At club level, he served as manager of Ajax, Barcelona, AZ, Bayern Munich and Manchester Unite…
Louis van Gaal, Dutch footballer and manager
Alexander James Naughtie is a British radio presenter and journalist, known for presenting on BBC Radio 4. From 1994 to 2015, he was one of the main presenters of the Today program…
James Naughtie, Scottish journalist and radio host