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Isabela Yolanda Moner, known professionally as Isabela Merced since 2019, is an American actress and singer. She played the lead role in the Nickelodeon television series 100 Thing…
Isabela Merced, American actress
Kaylee Rochelle McKeown is an Australian swimmer and multiple Olympic gold medalist. She is widely considered the greatest backstroker of all time, holding a record 10 individual b…
Kaylee McKeown, Australian swimmer
Kim Sin-jin is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a striker for K League 2 club Seoul E-Land FC on loan from FC Seoul. He made his debut professional appearance in…
Kim Sin-jin, South Korean footballer
Alex and Franky Venegas, known as Flyysoulja and Kodiyakredd respectively, and collectively as the Island Boys, are two American twin brothers who became popular on the video shari…
Island Boys, American social media personalities
Agustina Roth is an Argentine BMX rider.
Agustina Roth, Argentine BMX rider
Alejandro "Álex" Baena Rodríguez is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left midfielder or attacking midfielder for La Liga club Atlético Madrid and the Spain national…
Álex Baena, Spanish footballer
Lillian Daisy Phillips is an English pornographic film actress. In late 2024, she uploaded a video to OnlyFans in which she had sex with 101 men, which attracted widespread attenti…
Lily Phillips, British pornographic actress
Ryan Johnson is an American professional ice hockey defenseman for the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Buffalo Sabres of the Nat…
Ryan Johnson, American ice hockey player
Drake London is an American professional football wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the USC Trojans and wa…
Drake London, American football player
Miguel Gutiérrez Ortega is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back or left wing-back for Serie A club Napoli.
Miguel Gutiérrez, Spanish footballer
Robert Osterloh was an American actor. In a career spanning 20 years, he appeared in films such as The Dark Past (1948), The Wild One (1953), I Bury the Living (1958), and Young Di…
Robert Osterloh, American actor (born 1918)[better source needed]
Bryce Christopher Young is an American professional football quarterback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama…
Bryce Young, American football player
Michael Brunswick Ritchie was an American film director, producer, and writer of films with comical or satirical leanings, such as The Candidate (1972) and Smile (1975). He scored …
Michael Ritchie, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1938)
Alec William Alfred Stock was an English football player and manager. He briefly managed AS Roma, between long spells at Leyton Orient and Queens Park Rangers. At QPR, he won succe…
Alec Stock, English footballer and manager (born 1917)
Giuseppe Sinopoli was an Italian conductor and composer.
Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (born 1946)
Josef Peters was a racing driver from Düsseldorf, Germany. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, on August 3, 1952. He failed to finish, scoring no cham…
Josef Peters, German racing driver (born 1914)
John Theodore Wisniski, better known by his ring name Johnny Valentine, was an American professional wrestler with a career spanning almost three decades. He has been inducted into…
Johnny Valentine, American wrestler (born 1928)
Michele Alboreto was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1981 to 1994. Alboreto was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1985 with Fer…
Michele Alboreto, Italian racing driver (born 1956)
Arthur Bertram Cuthbert Walker Jr. was an American solar physicist and a pioneer of EUV/XUV optics. He developed normal incidence multilayer XUV telescopes to photograph the solar …
Arthur B
Bonny Lee Bakley was the second wife of actor Robert Blake, who was her tenth husband. Bakley was fatally shot while sitting in Blake's parked car near a restaurant in Studio City …
Bonnie Lee Bakley, American model, wife of Robert Blake (born 1956)
Morris Cole Graves was an American painter. He was one of the earliest Modern artists from the Pacific Northwest to achieve national and international acclaim. His style, referred …
Morris Graves, American painter and educator (born 1910)
Clifton K. Hillegass was the creator and publisher of CliffsNotes.
Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, created CliffsNotes (born 1918)
Jacques de Bourbon, Count of Busset was a French novelist, essayist and politician. He was elected to the Académie française on 4 June 1981. He was a senior member of the House of …
Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, French author and politician (born 1912)
Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter. He was best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a 1978 radio comedy series which he…
Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter (born 1952)