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Denys Laurence Hobson was a South African first-class cricketer. Hobson played as a right-handed batsman and legbreak bowler for Eastern Province and Western Province. His career l…
Denys Hobson, South African cricketer
D. Rolland "Buck" Jennings is an American politician serving as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
D. Rolland Jennings, American politician
Martin Dale Chambers is an English musician, best known as a founding member and drummer of the rock band the Pretenders. In addition to playing the drums with the group, Chambers …
Martin Chambers, English drummer and singer
Judith Lee Ivey is an American actress and theatre director. She has twice won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Steaming (1981) and Hurlyburly (1984). She als…
Judith Ivey, American actress
Marita Elisabet Ulvskog is a Swedish politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2019. She is a member of the Social Democrats, part of the Progressi…
Marita Ulvskog, Swedish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden
Paul Breitner is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder and left-back. Considered one of the best full-backs and midfielders of all time, and one of the…
Paul Breitner, German footballer
Michael John Douglas, known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominat…
Michael Keaton, American actor and producer
James Oldaker was an American rock music, blues rock and country music drummer and percussionist.
Jamie Oldaker, American drummer and percussionist (died 2020)
Melih Kibar was a Turkish composer.
Melih Kibar, Turkish composer (died 2005)
Christine Ellen Hynde is an American-British singer, songwriter, and musician. She is a founding member of the rock band the Pretenders and is the band's lead vocalist, guitarist, …
Chrissie Hynde, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Maurício Alberto Kaisermann, better known by his stage name Morris Albert, is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. He became known in more than 50 countries for his 1974 hit "Feeling…
Morris Albert, Brazilian singer-songwriter
Mark Ware Isham is an American musician and composer. A trumpeter and keyboardist, Isham works in a variety of genres, including jazz and electronic. He is also a prolific and accl…
Mark Isham, American trumpet player and composer
Mark Randall McCumber is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and Champions Tour.
Mark McCumber, American golfer
Timothy Ernest Gullikson was a tennis player and coach who was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin and grew up in Onalaska, Wisconsin in the United States.
Tim Gullikson, American tennis player and coach (died 1996)
Tom Gullikson is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player born in La Crosse, Wisconsin and raised in Onalaska, Wisconsin in the United States.
Tom Gullikson, American tennis player and coach
Muhammad Kutty Panaparambil Ismail, known professionally as Mammootty, is an Indian actor and film producer who works predominantly in Malayalam-language films. With a career spann…
Mammootty, Indian actor and producer
John Martin McDonnell is a British Labour Party politician who served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2015 to 2020. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hayes a…
John McDonnell, English politician
Dezső Ránki is a Hungarian virtuoso concert pianist with a broad repertoire and a significant discography of solo, duo and concerto works.
Dezső Ránki, Hungarian pianist
Alexander John Gosse Downer is an Australian former politician and diplomat who served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and was a member of parliament (MP) fo…
Alexander Downer, Australian economist and politician, 34th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Australia
Thomas Steven Wopat is an American actor and singer. He first achieved fame as Lucas K. "Luke" Duke on the long-running television action/comedy series The Dukes of Hazzard. Since …
Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
Sarah Anne Coakley is an English Anglican priest, systematic theologian, and philosopher of religion with interdisciplinary interests. She became an honorary professor at the Logos…
Sarah Coakley, English philosopher, theologian, and academic
Stephen Paul Keirn is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances in multiple National Wrestling Alliance territories as Steve Keirn as one-half…
Steve Keirn, American wrestler
William Charles Rogers is an American professional golfer who is best known as the winner of the 1981 Open Championship.
Bill Rogers, American golfer
Richard David Gill is a British-Dutch mathematician and professor emeritus at Leiden University. He has held academic positions in the Netherlands. As a probability theorist and st…
Richard D. Gill, English-Dutch mathematician and academic