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Elio Di Rupo is a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 2011 to 2014, heading the Di Rupo Government, and as minister-president of Wallonia for three …
Elio Di Rupo, Belgian chemist, academic, and politician, 68th Prime Minister of Belgium
Abel Ferrara is an American filmmaker, actor and musician. Closely associated with the independent film movement in the United States, he is known for his provocative and often-con…
Abel Ferrara, American director, producer, and screenwriter
Jeffrey Alan Rawle is a British actor. He is known for playing Billy in Billy Liar (1973–1974), and for portraying George Dent in the news-gathering sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey (19…
Jeff Rawle, English actor and screenwriter
Sir Richard Hugh Turton Gozney is a British career diplomat who served as governor and commander in chief of Bermuda from 2007 to 2012, and as the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle o…
Richard Gozney, English politician and diplomat, 30th Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, 139th Governor of Bermuda
Robin McLaurin Williams was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters he created spontaneously and portrayed in drama …
Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (died 2014)
Richard Bennett is an American guitarist and record producer. As a touring sideman, he performed with Neil Diamond for seventeen years and Mark Knopfler since 1994. As a session mu…
Richard Bennett, American guitarist and producer
James Victor Cain, Jr. was an American football tight end who played for the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Colorado …
J. V. Cain, American football player (died 1979)
Daniel is the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The elections took place on 12 September 2007. Daniel won with a majority of 95 votes out of 161 against Bartolomeu Anania.…
Patriarch Daniel of Romania
Theresa Magdalena "Tisa" Farrow was an American actress and model.
Tisa Farrow, American actress and model (died 2024)
Donald Earl "Slick" Watts was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Playing with the Seattle SuperSonics in 1976, he became the f…
Slick Watts, American basketball player (died 2025)
Lynda Jean Carter is an American actress, singer, and beauty pageant contestant, best known for her portrayal of Wonder Woman in the television series Wonder Woman (1975–1979). Bef…
Lynda Carter, American actress
Christopher Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Labour P…
Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, English politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
John Bruce Thompson is an American activist and disbarred attorney. As an attorney, Thompson focused his legal efforts against what he perceives as obscenity in modern culture. He …
Jack Thompson, American lawyer and activist
Verdine Adams White is an American musician, best known as a founding member and bassist for the band Earth, Wind & Fire. White was placed at No. 19 on Rolling Stone's list of "The…
Verdine White, American bass player and producer
Richard Lionel Martin was a Canadian professional ice hockey winger who played in the NHL with the Buffalo Sabres and Los Angeles Kings for 11 seasons between 1971 and 1982. He fea…
Rick Martin, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2011)
Roseanna Cunningham is a retired Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform from 2016 to 2021. She was…
Roseanna Cunningham, Scottish lawyer and politician, Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs
Robert Edward Diamond Jr. is an American banker and former chief executive officer of Barclays plc. In 2010, he became its president and deputy group chief executive; and in Januar…
Bob Diamond, American-English banker and businessman
Rolf Thung is a retired Dutch tennis player. With Louk Sanders, he won the doubles title of the 1978 British Hard Court Championships.
Rolf Thung, Dutch tennis player
Santiago Calatrava Valls is a Spanish-Swiss architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his rai…
Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect and engineer, designed the Athens Olympic Sports Complex
Paul Douglas Collins is an American basketball executive, former player, coach and television analyst in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played in the NBA from 1973 t…
Doug Collins, American basketball player and coach
Gregg Giuffria is an American rock musician and businessman. He was the keyboardist for album-oriented rock bands Angel, House of Lords, and Giuffria.
Gregg Giuffria, American rock musician and businessman
Raymond Kennedy was an English footballer who won every domestic honour in the game with Arsenal and Liverpool in the 1970s and early 1980s. Kennedy played as a forward for Arsenal…
Ray Kennedy, English footballer (died 2021)
Susan Jane Blackmore is a British writer, lecturer, sceptic, broadcaster, and a visiting professor at the University of Plymouth. Her fields of research include memetics, parapsych…
Susan Blackmore, English psychologist and theorist
Daniel Driessen is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman from 1973 to 1987, most notably as a member of the Cincinn…
Dan Driessen, American baseball player and coach