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Jonathan Michael Richman is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970, he founded the Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Since the mid-1970s, Richman has wo…
Jonathan Richman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Janet Martin Soskice is a Canadian-born English Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. Soskice completed her Bachelor of Arts at Cornell University and her Master of Arts at Sh…
Janet Soskice, Canadian philosopher and theologian
Jeffrey Ross Hyman, known professionally as Joey Ramone, was an American singer, songwriter, and the lead vocalist and founding member of the punk rock band Ramones, with Johnny Ra…
Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter (died 2001)
Richard Van Slater better known by his ring name "Dirty" Dick Slater, was an American professional wrestler who wrestled in the 1970s, 1980s, and mid-1990s for various promotions i…
Dick Slater, American wrestler (died 2018)
Thomas Dale Akers is a former American astronaut in NASA's Space Shuttle program.
Thomas Akers, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut
Christie Marie Blatchford was a Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster. She published four non-fiction books.
Christie Blatchford, Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (died 2020)
Michael Dean Crapo is an American lawyer and politician serving as the United States senator from Idaho, a seat he has held since 1999. A member of the Republican Party, Crapo serv…
Mike Crapo, American lawyer and politician
Alan Stuart Franken is an American politician, comedian, screenwriter, and actor who served from 2009 until his resignation in 2018 as a United States senator from Minnesota. A mem…
Al Franken, American actor, screenwriter, and politician
Adrian Hardiman was an Irish judge who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 2000 to 2016.
Adrian Hardiman, Irish lawyer and judge (died 2016)
Kenneth Alessio Bianchi is an American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist. He is known for the Hillside Strangler murders which he committed with his cousin Angelo Buono Jr. in L…
Kenneth Bianchi, American serial killer and rapist
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, and politician. He was the 12th World Chess Champion from 1975 to 1985, …
Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
Antonis Samaras is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2012 to 2015. A member of the New Democracy party, he was its president from 2009 until 2015. He a…
Antonis Samaras, Greek economist and politician, 185th Prime Minister of Greece
Michael Robert Gale is an American screenwriter, comic book writer, film producer and director. He is best known for co-writing the science fiction comedy film Back to the Future w…
Bob Gale, American director, producer, and screenwriter
José Ramón Calderón Ramos is a Spanish lawyer who is the former President of Real Madrid. He got his Law Degree in the University of Navarra, Spain in 1974 and he worked in London,…
Ramón Calderón, Spanish lawyer and businessman
Laurentius Petrus Dignus "Lou" van den Dries is a Dutch mathematician working in model theory. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champa…
Lou van den Dries, Dutch mathematician
Muhammed Ahmed Faris was a Syrian military aviator and astronaut. He was the first Syrian and the second Arab in space.
Muhammed Faris, Syrian military aviator and cosmonaut (died 2024)
Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in …
Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut, founded Sally Ride Science (died 2012)
John Anthony Conteh, is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1971 to 1980. He held the WBC light-heavyweight title from 1974 to 1977, and regionally the European, …
John Conteh, English boxer
Zdravko Čolić is a Bosnian and Serbian pop singer who is widely considered one of the greatest vocalists and cultural icons of the former Yugoslavia. He has been compared to Paul M…
Zdravko Čolić, Bosnian Serb singer-songwriter
Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez is a Paraguayan politician and laicized Catholic bishop who was President of Paraguay from 2008 to 2012. Previously, he was a Roman Catholic priest and…
Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan bishop and politician, President of Paraguay
Stephen Harold Tobolowsky is an American character actor and writer. He is known for film roles such as insurance agent Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day and amnesiac Sammy Jankis in Me…
Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor, singer, and director
Karl-Hans Riehm is a former West German hammer thrower.
Karl-Hans Riehm, German hammer thrower
Gilbert Baker was an American artist, designer, activist, and vexillographer, best known as the creator of the rainbow flag.
Gilbert Baker, American artist, gay rights activist, and designer of the rainbow flag (died 2017)
Arnold Johannes Hyacinthus Mühren is a Dutch football manager and former midfielder. His older brother Gerrie, also a midfielder, won three European Cup titles with Ajax in the ear…
Arnold Mühren, Dutch footballer and manager