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Howard M. Leese is an American guitarist, record producer, and musical director who played with Heart as guitarist and keyboardist for 23 years. He continues to record and tour as …
Howard Leese, American guitarist and producer
Richard Earl Thomas is an American actor. He is best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama series The Waltons for which he won an Emmy Award…
Richard Thomas, American actor, director, and producer
Stellan John Skarsgård is a Swedish actor. He is known for his collaborations with director Lars von Trier, appearing in Breaking the Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogvi…
Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
Paul Yaw Boateng, Baron Boateng, is a British Labour Party politician, a former civil rights lawyer and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent South from 1987 to 2005, becoming th…
Paul Boateng, English lawyer and politician, British High Commissioner to South Africa
Richard Dan Edwards is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour and Champions Tour.
Danny Edwards, American golfer
Vance A. Larson was an abstract expressionist painter and portrait painter. A prolific artist, during his career Larson painted over 10,000 original works of art and won over 30 Be…
Vance A
Steve Walsh is an American musician, singer, and songwriter, best known for his work as a longtime member of the progressive rock band Kansas. He retired from the band in 2014. He …
Steve Walsh, American rock singer-songwriter and musician
Charlie Dominici was an American singer, best known as the second vocalist for the progressive metal band Dream Theater, having replaced Chris Collins and later being replaced by J…
Charlie Dominici, American singer and guitarist (died 2023)
Starhawk is an American feminist and writer. She is known as a theorist of feminist neopaganism and ecofeminism. In 2013, she was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as on…
Starhawk, American author and activist
John Murdoch Garrett was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender and television sports commentator. He played in the World Hockey Association from 1973 to 1979 and then in th…
John Garrett, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
Jane Ellen Amsterdam is a former American magazine and newspaper editor. After successive magazine editorships during the 1970s, she joined The Washington Post as section editor. S…
Jane Amsterdam, American magazine and newspaper editor (Manhattan, inc
John Alan Redwood, Baron Redwood is a British politician and academic who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wokingham in Berkshire from 1987 to 2024. A member of the Conservati…
John Redwood, English politician, Secretary of State for Wales
Roberto Carlos Durán Samaniego is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: Lightweight, welterweig…
Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer
Joseph Charles John Piscopo is an American actor, comedian, and conservative radio talk show host. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984, where he played a …
Joe Piscopo, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
Mohammed Jassem Al-Sager is a Kuwaiti journalist, businessman, and politician.
Mohammed Al-Sager, Kuwaiti journalist and politician
Miriam Flynn is an American voice and character actress. She is best known as Cousin Catherine in the National Lampoon's Vacation films and Grandma Longneck in The Land Before Time…
Miriam Flynn, American actress and comedian
Ian Richard Hargreaves CBE is professor emeritus at Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
Ian Hargreaves, English-Welsh journalist and academic
Stephen Donald Hopper is a Western Australian botanist. He graduated in biology, specialising in conservation biology and vascular plants. Hopper has written eight books, and has o…
Stephen Hopper, Australian botanist and academic
Gyula Sax was a Hungarian chess grandmaster and international arbiter.
Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (died 2014)
Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri was an Egyptian-born pan-Islamist militant and physician who served as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from June 2011 until his death in July 2…
Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (died 2022)
Francesco Moser, nicknamed "Lo sceriffo", is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer. He finished on the podium of the Giro d'Italia six times, including his win in the 1…
Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
Sheila Ann Manson McLean is International Bar Association Professor of Law and Ethics in Medicine and director of the Institute of Law and Ethics in Medicine at the School of Law o…
Sheila McLean, Scottish scholar and academic
Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet, born in 1951. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he…
Paul Muldoon, Irish poet and academic
Teressa Claire "Tress" MacNeille is an American voice actress. She is known for voicing Dot Warner on the animated television series Animaniacs and its revival, Babs Bunny on Tiny …
Tress MacNeille, American voice actress