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Donald Drake Hogestyn was an American actor best known for his long-running role as John Black on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Drake Hogestyn, American actor (died 2024)
Janis Faye Kearney is an American author, lecturer, and publisher. She served as a personal diarist to President Bill Clinton from 1995 to 2001.
Janis F. Kearney, American author, lecturer and publisher
Matt Abts is an American drummer, best known as one of the founding members of the rock band Gov't Mule.
Matt Abts, American drummer
Deborah Allen is an American country music singer and songwriter. Since 1976, she has released 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. She record…
Deborah Allen, American country music singer-songwriter, author, and actress
Peter Frank Falcone is an American former professional baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, and Atlanta Braves.
Pete Falcone, American baseball player
Viljar Loor was among the most accomplished Estonian volleyball players. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Loor won the gold medal with the Soviet Union men's national volleyb…
Viljar Loor, Estonian volleyball player (died 2011)
Miguel Angel López was a soccer defender who played one season in the North American Soccer League. Born in El Salvador, he played for the U.S. national team.
Miguel Lopez, Salvadorian-American soccer player
Vanessa Bell Armstrong is an American R&B and gospel singer who released her debut album Peace Be Still in 1983. She is a 7-time Grammy Award nominee, Stellar Award winner, and she…
Vanessa Bell Armstrong, American singer
Tommy G. Boswell is an American former professional basketball player.
Tom Boswell, American basketball player
Gil Moore is a Canadian musician. Born in Toronto, Moore is the drummer and co-vocalist of the power trio Triumph. Before Moore was in Triumph he was in a band called Sherman & Pea…
Gil Moore, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
Andreas Vollenweider is a Swiss harpist. He is generally categorised as a new-age musician and uses a modified electroacoustic harp of his own design. He has worked with Bobby McFe…
Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss harp player
Grete Waitz, née Andersen was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. In 1979, at the New York City Marathon, she became the first woman in history to run the m…
Grete Waitz, Norwegian runner and coach (died 2011)
Klaus Wowereit is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and was the Governing Mayor of Berlin from 21 October 2001 to 11 December 2014. In 2001 state elections h…
Klaus Wowereit, German civil servant and politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin
Sir Philip Roy Hampton is a British businessman. He was the first chairman of UK Financial Investments Limited in 2008 and chairman of government-owned The Royal Bank of Scotland G…
Philip Hampton, English-Scottish accountant and businessman
Roy James Laidlaw is a former Scotland international rugby union player.
Roy Laidlaw, Scottish rugby player
Rein Rannap is an Estonian composer and pianist.
Rein Rannap, Estonian pianist and composer
Linda Pauline Griffiths was a Canadian actress and playwright best known for writing and starring in the one woman play Maggie and Pierre, in which she portrayed both Pierre Trudea…
Linda Griffiths, Canadian actress and playwright (died 2014)
Margus Lepa is an Estonian radio journalist and former actor.
Margus Lepa, Estonian journalist and actor
Hector Samuel Juan "Tico" Torres is an American musician, best known as the drummer and one of the founding members of the rock band Bon Jovi. In 2018, he was inducted into the Roc…
Tico Torres, American drummer
Robert Saxton is a British composer.
Robert Saxton, English composer and educator
Sally Burgess FRCM is a South African-born British operatic lyric mezzo-soprano, opera director, and educator. She has been a Fellow and Professor of Vocal Studies at the Royal Co…
Sally Burgess, South African-English soprano and educator
Hank Pfister is a former tennis player from the United States, who won two singles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest individual ranking on…
Hank Pfister, American tennis player
Anthony Marc Shalhoub is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for a variety of roles ranging from comedic to dramatic on stage and screen. He has received several accolades…
Tony Shalhoub, American actor and producer
Fiona Rae is a Hong Kong-born British artist. She is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who rose to prominence in the 1990s. Throughout her career she has been known for a por…
Fiona Rae, Scottish painter