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Henri Pauli Toivonen was a Finnish rally driver born in Jyväskylä, the home of Rally Finland. His father, Pauli, was the 1968 European Rally Champion for Porsche and his younger br…
Henri Toivonen, Finnish race car driver (died 1986)
Sarah Frances Beamish is a British composer and violist. Her works include chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral music. She has also worked in theatre, film and television, as well…
Sally Beamish, English viola player and composer
Peter Brett Cullen is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Dan Fixx in Falcon Crest (1986–1988), Sam Cain in The Young Riders (1989–1990), Governor Ray Sullivan in …
Brett Cullen, American actor
John Eddie Long is an American former professional basketball player.
John Long, American basketball player
Steve Whiteman is an American rock vocalist, best known for being the lead singer of Kix.
Steve Whiteman, American singer-songwriter
Mark Thomas Mangino is a former American college football coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Kansas from 2002 to 2009. In 2007, Mangino received sever…
Mark Mangino, American football player and coach
Glen Matlock is an English musician and the bass guitarist in the original line-up of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. He is credited as a songwriter on 10 of the 12 songs on th…
Glen Matlock, English singer-songwriter and bass player
Mark William Morris is an American dancer, choreographer and director.
Mark Morris, American dancer and choreographer
Edward Peter Murray is a Canadian former professional football player who was a kicker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions, Kansas City Chiefs, Tampa Bay Bu…
Eddie Murray, American football player
Charalampos "Babis" Xanthopoulos is a former Greek footballer.
Charalambos Xanthopoulos, Greek footballer
Steve Yarbrough is an American author and academic, who teaches at Emerson College.
Steve Yarbrough, American novelist and short story writer
Luis Guzmán is a Puerto Rican actor. His career spans over 40 years and includes a number of films and television series. He has appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson's films Boogie Nig…
Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
Frank Conniff Jr. is an American writer, actor, comedian and producer, who is best known for his portrayal of TV's Frank on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K). He is the son of j…
Frank Conniff, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
Mária Balážová is a contemporary Slovak artist. Her practise as an artist is usually associated with new geometry, post-geometry and postmodern.
Mária Balážová, Slovak painter and illustrator
Kent Åke Nilsson is a Swedish former professional ice hockey centre. He played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) for the Winnipeg Jets, and in the National Hockey League (NHL) …
Kent Nilsson, Swedish ice hockey player
Masashi Tashiro is a Japanese former television performer and a founding member of the band Rats & Star. Tashiro was a tenor singer with the band and, later, a TV entertainer in J…
Masashi Tashiro, Japanese singer, actor, and director
Tsai Ing-wen is a Taiwanese politician and legal scholar who served as the 7th president of the Republic of China from 2016 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (D…
Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwanese politician and the President of the Republic of China
Vincent Johnson is an American former professional basketball player and a key player as sixth man for the Detroit Pistons during the team's National Basketball Association (NBA) c…
Vinnie Johnson, American basketball player and sportscaster
Bernadette Wagenblast is an American transportation journalist, radio personality and voice-over artist. She is the founder and editor of the Transportation Communications Newslett…
Bernie Wagenblast, transportation journalist, founder of Transportation Communications Newsletter
Joseph Daniel Mario Tremblay is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League (NHL). As a player, he was a five-time Stanley Cup winner w…
Mario Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Jishu Dasgupta was an Indian Bengali television director and actor. After suffering from cancer for nine months, he died on 21 December 2012 in a hospital in Kolkata.
Jishu Dasgupta, Indian actor and director (died 2012)
Pat "Beag" McGeown was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike.
Pat McGeown, Irish republican activist (died 1996)
Stephen Woolley is an English filmmaker and actor. His career has spanned four decades, for which he was awarded the BAFTA award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in F…
Stephen Woolley, English director and producer
Steven Edward Duren, better known by his stage name Blackie Lawless, is an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for heavy me…
Blackie Lawless, American singer-songwriter and guitarist