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Jacoby Rashi'd Jones was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL). Selected in the third round o…
Jacoby Jones, American football player (born 1984)
Joseph Washington "Jellybean" Bryant was an American professional basketball player and coach. He played for the Philadelphia 76ers, San Diego Clippers, and Houston Rockets of the …
Joe Bryant, American basketball player (born 1954)
Norman Jason Hewitt was a New Zealand rugby union player who played as a hooker. He won nine caps for the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks. Hewitt participated in, and won…
Norm Hewitt, New Zealand rugby union player (born 1968)
David William Morrow was an Australian sports radio and television broadcaster/commentator, best known for his association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and 2GB, and…
David Morrow, Australian radio host and sportscaster (born 1953)
Professor Mary Gibby was a British botanist, pteridologist and cytologist. She was an expert on ferns, becoming president of the British Pteridological Society and long-time editor…
Mary Gibby, British botanist and professor (born 1949)
Patrick Livingston Murphy Williams was an American sports executive, who served as senior vice president of the Orlando Magic. Williams began his career as a minor league baseball …
Pat Williams, American basketball player (born 1940)
Louis Carl Dobbs was an American conservative political commentator, author, and television host who presented Moneyline from 1980 to 2009 and 2011 to 2021. From 2021 until his dea…
Lou Dobbs, American political commentator and television host (born 1945)
Cheng Pei-pei was a Hong Kong-American actress who was considered cinema's first female action hero. Popularly known as "Queen of Swords" and "Queen of Martial Arts Films", Cheng s…
Cheng Pei-pei, Chinese actress (born 1946)
Bernice Johnson Reagon was an American song leader, composer, professor of American history, curator at the Smithsonian, and social activist. In the early 1960s, she was a founding…
Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer, songwriter and scholar (born 1942)
Abner Haynes was an American professional football player who was a halfback and return specialist in the American Football League (AFL). He played college football for the North T…
Abner Haynes, American football player (born 1937)
George Robert Newhart was an American comedian and actor. Newhart was known for his deadpan and stammering delivery style. Beginning his career as a stand-up comedian, he transitio…
Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor (born 1929)
Toumani Diabaté was a Malian kora player. In addition to performing the traditional music of Mali, he was involved in cross-cultural collaborations with flamenco, blues, jazz, and …
Toumani Diabaté, Malian musician (born 1965)
Iryna Dmytrivna Farion was a Ukrainian linguist and nationalist politician who served as a deputy in the Verkhovna Rada from 2012 to 2014. She served as a political member of Svobo…
Iryna Farion, Ukrainian linguist and politician (born 1964)
Richard Kevan Gosper, AO was an Australian athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He was a Vice President of the International Olympic Committee, and combined chairman and …
Kevan Gosper, Australian athlete and administrator (born 1933)
Raymond Reardon was a Welsh professional snooker player who dominated the sport in the 1970s, winning the World Snooker Championship six times and claiming more than a dozen other …
Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player and police officer (born 1932)
James Campbell Scott was an American political scientist and anthropologist specializing in comparative politics. He was a comparative scholar of agrarian and non-state societies.
James C. Scott, American political scientist and anthropologist (born 1936)
Esta TerBlanche was a South African actress, best known for her roles on television soap operas in both South Africa and the United States.
Esta TerBlanche, South African actress (born 1973)
Sheila Jackson Lee was an American lawyer and politician who was the U.S. representative for Texas's 18th congressional district, from 1995 until her death in 2024. The district in…
Sheila Jackson Lee, American lawyer and politician (born 1950)
Nguyễn Phú Trọng was a Vietnamese politician and political theorist who served as general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 2011 until his death. As the head of the …
Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Vietnamese politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (born 1944)
Jerry Miller was an American songwriter, guitarist and vocalist. He performed as a solo artist and as a member of the Jerry Miller Band. He was also a founding member of the 1960s …
Jerry Miller, American songwriter, guitarist and vocalist (born 1943)
Jill Schary Robinson was an American novelist, essayist, and teacher. Based in Los Angeles, her memoirs contended with the themes of addiction, recovery, and growing up during the …
Jill Schary Robinson, American novelist (born 1936)
Mark Kevin Carnevale was an American professional golfer and commentator for Sirius XM PGA Tour Radio. He won once on the PGA Tour, also being awarded Rookie of the Year in 1992.
Mark Carnevale, American golfer and radio commentator (born 1960)
Abdul Kareem "Duke" Fakir was an American singer. He co-founded the Motown quartet the Four Tops and performed in an ensemble under that name from 1953 until shortly before his dea…
Duke Fakir, American singer (born 1935)
John Brumwell Mayall was an English blues and rock musician, songwriter and producer. In the 1960s, he formed John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band that has counted among its mem…
John Mayall, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1933)