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Brian David Kendrick is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in WWE. He is also known for his time in Ring of Honor (ROH), Total Nonstop Action Wrestl…
Brian Kendrick, American wrestler
John Philip Rheinecker was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers.
John Rheinecker, American baseball player (died 2017)
Michael Bishai is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. Bishai was never drafted but played in the National Hockey League with the Edmonton Oilers.
Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
Clinton Aaron Bowyer is an American semi-retired professional stock car racing driver and commentator for NASCAR on Fox.
Clint Bowyer, American race car driver
Francis Lessard is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey forward who most recently played for the Trois-Rivières Blizzard in the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey (LNAH). While …
Francis Lessard, Canadian ice hockey player
Jean-François Gillet is a Belgian professional football coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He works as a goalkeeping coach at Standard Liège. At international leve…
Jean-François Gillet, Belgian footballer
Santana Terrell Moss is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 14 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for…
Santana Moss, American football player
Markus Alexej Persson, known by the pseudonym Notch, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is the creator of Minecraft, the best-selling video game in history. He fou…
Markus Persson, Swedish game designer, founded Mojang
Morena Silva de Vaz Setta Baccarin is an American actress. Known for her lead role as Mickey Fox in the CBS television series Sheriff Country since 2025, Baccarin has played multip…
Morena Baccarin, Brazilian-American actress
Christian Sean Malcolm is a retired track and field athlete from Wales, who specialised in the 200 metres. In 2020 he was appointed Head Coach of the British Athletics Olympic Prog…
Christian Malcolm, Welsh sprinter
Pierre Marcel Poilievre is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the Conservative Party and leader of the Official Opposition since 2022. First elected in 2004, he …
Pierre Poilievre, Canadian politician, Leader of the Opposition
Naohiro Takahara is a Japanese football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is currently the president of Japan Football League club Okinawa SV.
Naohiro Takahara, Japanese footballer
Muhsin Ertuğrul, also known as Ertuğrul Muhsin Bey, was a Turkish actor and director.
Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (born 1892)
Butterfly Giselle Grace Boucher is an Australian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer born in Adelaide. From the age of 15 years she played bass guitar in h…
Butterfly Boucher, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Daniel Joseph Vickerman was a professional rugby union player. The 204 cm, 119 kg lock played 63 Tests with the Wallabies, the national team of his adopted country of Australia. Af…
Daniel Vickerman, South African-Australian rugby player (died 2017)
Bernhard August "Hardie" Gramatky, Jr. was an American painter, writer, animator, and illustrator. In a 2006 article in Watercolor Magazine, Andrew Wyeth named him as one of Americ…
Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (born 1907)
Giulio Natta was an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate. Natta's work at Politecnico di Milano led to the improvement of earlier work by Karl Ziegler and to the developmen…
Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
Cyrus Stephen Eaton Sr. was a Canadian-American investment banker, businessman and philanthropist, with a career that spanned 70 years.
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Eddie Jefferson was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or so…
Eddie Jefferson, American singer and lyricist (born 1918)
Lester Raymond Flatt was an American singer, bluegrass guitarist, and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in the duo Flatt and Scruggs.
Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1914)
Jean Rhys was a British Creole novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her …
Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist (born 1890)
Somasundaram Selvanayagam was a Ceylon Tamil geographer, academic and head of the Department of Geography at the University of Jaffna.
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Sir Ernest Bullock was an English organist, composer, and teacher. He was organist of Exeter Cathedral from 1917 to 1928 and of Westminster Abbey from 1928 to 1941. In the latter p…
Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (born 1890)
Itzhak "Ben" Bentov was a Czechoslovakia-born Israeli-American scientist, inventor, mystic and author. His many inventions, including the steerable cardiac catheter, helped pioneer…
Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (born 1923)