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Janet Vivian Hooks was an American actress and comedian. She was best known for her tenure on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, where she was a repertory player fro…
Jan Hooks, American actress and comedian (died 2014)
Theo de Rooij is a retired Dutch former bicycle racer and former manager of the Rabobank cycling team - a position from which he resigned after the 2007 Tour de France. De Rooij wa…
Theo de Rooij, Dutch cyclist and manager
Dietmar Keck is an Austrian politician and member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he has represented Greater Linz since December 2002.
Dietmar Keck, Austrian politician
Willie Clay Upshaw is an American former Major League Baseball player who played first base for the Toronto Blue Jays and Cleveland Indians (1988), both of the American League.
Willie Upshaw, American baseball player and manager
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor. Often described as one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema, he is best known for intense method acting portrayed…
Daniel Day-Lewis, British actor
Afioga Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa is a Samoan politician and High Chief (matai) who served as the seventh Prime Minister of Samoa from 2021 to 2025. She has led the Samoa Uniting Party (…
Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa, Samoan politician, 7th Prime Minister of Samoa
Michael Anthony Wright, known professionally as Wonder Mike, is an American hip hop recording artist and member of the Sugarhill Gang. The group was part of the hip hop movement in…
Wonder Mike, American rapper and songwriter
Warrick Maxwell Darling, known as Rick Darling, is a former Australian Test cricketer.
Rick Darling, Australian cricketer
Count Uberto Pasolini Dall'Onda is an Italian film producer, director, and former investment banker known for producing the 1997 film The Full Monty and directing and producing the…
Uberto Pasolini, Italian banker, director, and producer
Joseph D. Morelle is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 25th congressional district since 2018. A Democrat, he was formerly a member of the Ne…
Joseph Morelle, American politician
Rodney Cory Langway is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played for the Montreal Canadiens and Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League (NHL) and B…
Rod Langway, Taiwanese-American ice hockey player and coach
Katharine Kreiner-Phillips is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Canada.
Kathy Kreiner, Canadian skier
Richard E. Grant is a Swazi-English actor and presenter. He made his film debut as Withnail in the comedy Withnail and I (1987). Grant received critical acclaim for his role as Jac…
Richard E
William Laird Cowher is an American former professional football linebacker and coach who served as the head coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL)…
Bill Cowher, American football player, coach, and analyst
Michael Nesbitt, MLA is a Northern Irish politician and former broadcaster. He has been Minister of Health since 28 May 2024. Nesbitt became Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UU…
Mike Nesbitt, Northern Irish journalist and politician
John Simon Ritchie, better known by his stage name Sid Vicious, was an English musician, best known as the second bassist for the punk rock band Sex Pistols. After his death in 197…
Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player (died 1979)
Louis Rodman Whitaker Jr., nicknamed "Sweet Lou", is an American former professional baseball second baseman. Whitaker spent his entire career with the Detroit Tigers. From 1977 to…
Lou Whitaker, American baseball player
Meg Gardiner is an American thriller writer and author of fifteen published books. Her best-known books are the Evan Delaney novels, first published in 2002. In June 2008, she publ…
Meg Gardiner, American-English author and academic
Juan José Ibarretxe Markuartu is a former president of the Basque Autonomous Community in Spain. Also a leading member of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) during the period, he h…
Juan José Ibarretxe, Spanish politician
Pascual Gross Pérez was a Dominican professional baseball player who pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, Montreal Expos, and New York…
Pascual Pérez, Dominican baseball player (died 2012)
Manuel "Mar" Araneta Roxas II is a Filipino former politician who served as a senator of the Philippines from 2004 to 2010. He is the grandson and namesake of former Philippine Pre…
Mar Roxas, Filipino economist and politician, 24th Secretary of the Interior and Local Government
Kevin Ross Adkisson is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Kevin Von Erich. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under a "Legends" deal a…
Kevin Von Erich, American football player and wrestler
Michael Cretu is a Romanian-German musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He gained worldwide fame as the founder and musician behind the musical project Enig…
Michael Cretu, Romanian-German keyboard player and producer
Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore, is a British social anthropologist and leading global thinker on prosperity. She is Founder and Director of the UCL Institute for Global Prosperi…
Henrietta Moore, English anthropologist and academic