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Ángel de Andrés López was a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than 60 films and television shows between 1977 and 2015. He died at his home in Miraflores de la Sierra from natural…
Ángel de Andrés López, Spanish actor (died 2016)
Carlos Alberto García Moreno, better known by his stage name Charly García, is an Argentine singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and record producer, considered one o…
Charly García, Argentine singer-songwriter and keyboard player
Fatmir Sejdiu is a Kosovan politician. He was the leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and was President of Kosovo.
Fatmir Sejdiu, Kosovan academic and politician, 2nd President of Kosovo
David Wills is an American country music singer-songwriter. Wills released three studio albums and charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart betwe…
David Wills, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
George Tsontakis is an American composer and conductor.
George Tsontakis, American composer and conductor
Richard Lloyd is an American guitarist and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the rock band Television.
Richard Lloyd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
William Earl "Bootsy" Collins is an American bass guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Rising to prominence with James Brown in the early 1970s before joining the Parliament-Funkadel…
Bootsy Collins, American singer-songwriter and bass player
Tommy Mars is an American keyboard player known for his work with Frank Zappa.
Tommy Mars, American keyboard player
Julian Schnabel is an American painter and filmmaker. In the 1980s, he received international attention for his "plate paintings"—with broken ceramic plates set onto large-scale pa…
Julian Schnabel, American painter, director, and screenwriter
Kenneth Keith Downing Jr. is an English guitarist and a former member of the heavy metal band Judas Priest and current member of KK's Priest.
K. K. Downing, English guitarist and songwriter
Professor Sir Carlos Silvestre Frenk is a Mexican-British cosmologist. whose research has focused on galaxy formation, dark matter and the large-scale structure of the Universe. He…
Carlos Frenk, Mexican-English physicist, cosmologist, and academic
Nancy Jacobs is a former Maryland State Senator representing District 34.
Nancy Jacobs, American politician
Jayne Kennedy Overton is an American television personality, actress, model, corporate spokeswoman, producer, writer, public speaker, philanthropist, and sports broadcaster.
Jayne Kennedy, American model, actress, and sportscaster
Peter Jonathan Hitchens is an English author, broadcaster, journalist, and commentator. He writes for The Mail on Sunday and was a foreign correspondent reporting from both Moscow …
Peter Hitchens, English journalist and author
Joe Richard Lansdale is an American writer and martial arts instructor. A prose writer in a variety of genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense, he…
Joe R. Lansdale, American martial artist and author
Dirk Arthur Kempthorne was an American politician from the state of Idaho. A Republican, he served as a United States senator from Idaho from 1993 to 1999 and as the 30th governor …
Dirk Kempthorne, American businessman and politician, 49th United States Secretary of the Interior (died 2026)
Timothy Richard "Tiff" Needell is a British racing driver and television presenter. He is a presenter of Lovecars, and formerly served as co-presenter of Top Gear and Fifth Gear.
Tiff Needell, English race car driver and television host
Tony Lee Bettenhausen Jr. was an American Champ Car team owner and driver who died in a 2000 plane crash. He was the son of former 14-time Indianapolis 500 competitor Tony Bettenha…
Tony Bettenhausen Jr., American race car driver and businessman (died 2000)
Trilok Gurtu is an Indian percussionist and composer whose work blends the music of India with jazz fusion and world music.
Trilok Gurtu, Indian drummer and songwriter
Harry Robinson Hamlin is an American actor, author, and entrepreneur. He is widely known for his roles as Perseus in the 1981 fantasy film Clash of the Titans, a role he reprised i…
Harry Hamlin, American actor
Poncho Sánchez is an American conguero, Latin jazz band leader, and salsa singer. In 2000, he and his ensemble won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for their work on the …
Poncho Sanchez, American singer and conga player
António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona a Portuguese army officer and politician who served as president of Portugal from 1926 until his death in 1951. Before his presidency, he served as…
Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (born 1869)
Ivanoe Bonomi was an Italian politician and journalist who served as Prime Minister of Italy from 1921 to 1922 and again from 1944 to 1945.
Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1873)
Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus Lasius af…
Horace Donisthorpe, English myrmecologist and coleopterist (born 1870)