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Jamie Darryl O'Hara is an English former football player and manager. He currently works as a radio co-host for Talksport's The Sports Bar with Jason Cundy.
Jamie O'Hara, English footballer
Choi Yoon-young is a South Korean actress. She has notable roles in Seoyoung, My Daughter, Passionate Love, My Dear Cat and Designated Survivor: 60 Days among other works.
Choi Yoon-young, South Korean actress
Sean Robert Doolittle is an American former professional baseball pitcher and current coach for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Oa…
Sean Doolittle, American baseball player
Vincent Michael Mazzaro is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Kansas City Royals, …
Vin Mazzaro, American baseball player
Ricardo "Caíto" Risatti III is an Argentine racing driver. He was the 2006 Spanish Formula Three champion and now competes in the Argentine touring car series, TC 2000.
Ricardo Risatti, Argentinian race car driver
Matthew David Shoemaker is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, and Minnesota T…
Matt Shoemaker American baseball player
José Andrés Guardado Hernández is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
Meskerem Legesse was an Ethiopian distance runner. She participated in the 1,500 meters at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Legesse turned professional and participated in a num…
Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (died 2013)
Daniel James Platzman is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and composer. He is best known as the former drummer for the pop rock band Imagine Dragons.
Daniel Platzman, American musician
Dominic Wayne Waters is an American professional basketball player, who lastly played for Ironi Nahariya of the Israeli Premier League. Standing at 1.85 m, he plays at the point gu…
Dominic Waters, American basketball player
Inika McPherson is an American track and field athlete specializing in the high jump. She was the 2013 US Indoor champion.
Inika McPherson, American track and field athlete
Olivier Jonathan Giroud is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Lille.
Olivier Giroud, French footballer
Martin James Guptill is a New Zealand cricketer who played for New Zealand as an opening batsman in all formats of the game. Guptill is the first cricketer from New Zealand and the…
Martin Guptill, New Zealand cricketer
Benjamin Walter David Lovett is a British musician and producer, best known for being a member of the British folk rock band Mumford & Sons.
Ben Lovett, Welsh musician and songwriter
Cristián Eduardo Zapata Valencia is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. A quick and physically powerful defender, known for his hard marking of …
Cristián Zapata, Colombian footballer
Marcel Dassault was a French engineer and industrialist who spent his career in aircraft manufacturing. He was also involved in politics, serving intermittently over more than thre…
Marcel Dassault, French businessman, founded Dassault Aviation (born 1892)
Syed Sibt-e-Hasan was an eminent scholar, journalist and political activist of Pakistan. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of Socialism and Marxism in Pakistan, as well as the …
Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (born 1916)
Marjorie Lee Eaton was an American painter, photographer and character actress.
Marjorie Eaton, American painter and actress (born 1901)
Muhammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Ahmad Helmy, known as Salah Jaheen was a leading Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist.
Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet, playwright, and composer (born 1930)
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. One of the most influential scholars of religion of the…
Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian and author (born 1907)
Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music, who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. In addition to composing the songs for the 1939 …
Harold Arlen, American composer (born 1905)
James Charles Laker was an English professional cricketer. A right-arm off break bowler, Laker is generally regarded as one of the greatest spin bowlers in cricket history.
Jim Laker, English international cricketer and sportscaster; holder of world record for most wickets taken in a match (b
Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austrian-American film and theatre director, film producer and actor. He directed more than 35 feature films in a five-decade career after leaving the …
Otto Preminger, Ukrainian-American actor, director, and producer (born 1905)
Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, was an American socialite and the wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor. Their intention to marry and her status as a divorcée caused a constitutional …
Wallis Simpson, American socialite, Duchess of Windsor (born 1896)