Famous Birthdays on October 25

Ciara Princess Wilson is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. She was discovered by record producer Jazze Pha in the early 2000s, and rose to prominence with her debut studio album, Goodies (2004). Its namesake lead single peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100, while the follow-ups, "1, 2 Step" and "Oh", both peaked at No. 2 on the chart. The album received quadruple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and received two nominations at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards. Ciara also guest appeared on the 2005 singles "Lose Control" by Missy Elliott and "Like You" by Bow Wow, both of which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Mia Wasikowska is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut on the Australian television drama All Saints in 2004, followed by her feature film debut in Suburban Mayhem (2006). She first became known to a wider audience following her critically acclaimed work on the HBO television series In Treatment (2008). She was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for the film That Evening Sun (2009).

Leslie Erin Grossman is an American actress. She is known for her role as Lauren on The WB sitcom What I Like About You, and for her frequent collaborations with Ryan Murphy, appearing as Mary Cherry on The WB's comedy-drama series Popular (1999–2001), and as various characters on the FX anthology series American Horror Story since 2017. Grossman also had a recurring role on the television series 10 Things I Hate About You, a reboot of the original cult classic movie of the same name.

Antony Starr is a New Zealand actor. He is best known for portraying John / Homelander in the satirical superhero series The Boys and its spin-offs (2019–2026), as well as the dual roles of Jethro and Van West in the series Outrageous Fortune (2005–2010) and Lucas Hood in the Cinemax series Banshee (2013–2016).

Pedro Jaime Martínez is a Dominican-American former professional baseball starting pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1992 to 2009 for five teams, most notably the Boston Red Sox from 1998 to 2004.

Adam Goldberg is an American actor. Known for his supporting roles in film and television, Goldberg has appeared in films such as Dazed and Confused, Saving Private Ryan, A Beautiful Mind and Zodiac. He has also played leading roles in independent films such as The Hebrew Hammer and 2 Days in Paris. His TV appearances include the shows Law & Order: Criminal Intent, My Name Is Earl, Friends, Joey, Entourage, The Jim Gaffigan Show, The Unusuals and his role as hitman Grady Numbers in the first season of Fargo. From 2021 until 2025 he starred opposite Queen Latifah on CBS' The Equalizer.

Adam Pascal is an American actor, known for his performance as Roger Davis in the original Broadway and West End productions of Jonathan Larson's musical Rent, the 2005 movie version of the musical, and the Broadway tour of Rent in 2009. He is also known for originating the role of Radames in Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida, for playing the Emcee in the 1998 revival of Cabaret, for playing Freddie Trumper in Chess at the New Amsterdam Theatre and Royal Albert Hall, and for playing Huey Calhoun in the Broadway company of Memphis. More recently, he played William Shakespeare in the Tony Award-winning musical Something Rotten!

Craig Phillip Robinson is an American actor, comedian, and musician. The accolades he has received include nominations for five Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Independent Spirit Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award.

Dominik Szoboszlai is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays and serves as vice-captain for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Hungary national team. A versatile player, Szoboszlai can be deployed as a central or attacking midfielder, wide midfielder, or right-back.

Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, published in 2000, was an immediate best-seller and won a number of awards. Smith became a tenured professor in the creative writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.

Mehcad Jason McKinley Brooks is an American actor and former fashion model. He is known for his roles as Matthew Applewhite in the second season of ABC's series Desperate Housewives (2005–2006), Jerome in The Game, "Eggs" Benedict Talley in the first and second seasons of HBO's series True Blood, his leading role as Terrance "TK" King in the USA series Necessary Roughness (2011–2013) and James Olsen in the CBS/The CW series Supergirl. From 2022 to 2025, he portrayed one of the lead roles, that of NYPD Detective Jalen Shaw, on the NBC police procedural drama Law & Order.

Juan José Soto Pacheco is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Washington Nationals, San Diego Padres, and New York Yankees. Soto is a six-time Silver Slugger Award winner and five-time All-Star.

Alan Daniel Maman, known professionally as the Alchemist, is an American record producer, DJ and rapper. Critically acclaimed for his sample-heavy production style, he is regarded as one of the most influential producers in modern hip-hop and underground rap. His frequent collaborators include Mobb Deep, Curren$y, Freddie Gibbs, Larry June and Boldy James.

Princess Elisabeth of Belgium, Duchess of Brabant, is the heir apparent to the Belgian throne. The eldest child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, she was elevated to the dukedom after her grandfather Albert II abdicated on 21 July 2013. Should she ascend to the throne as expected, she will be Belgium's first-ever queen regnant.

Persia White is an American actress and singer known for her role as Lynn Searcy on the UPN/CW sitcom Girlfriends and as Abby Bennett Wilson in The Vampire Diaries (2012–2017). White is also a singer, and released a solo album, Mecca, in 2009.

Lee Min-ho, better known by his stage name Lee Know (리노), is a South Korean singer and dancer. He is a member of South Korean boy band Stray Kids, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2017.

Jonathan Ormond Torrens is a Canadian actor and television personality best known for his co-hosting of Street Cents, his talk show Jonovision, and his role as "J-Roc" in the popular Canadian mockumentary Trailer Park Boys. In October 2009, Torrens began hosting TV with TV's Jonathan Torrens, a comedic newsmagazine program broadcast on the TVtropolis network. In January 2014, he teamed up with fellow Canadian Jeremy Taggart to create the Taggart and Torrens Podcast. They discuss everything from sports to politics and offer a unique perspective on current issues.

Rachel Matthews is an American actress. She is known for her role in the film Happy Death Day and its sequel, Happy Death Day 2U.

Nika Futterman is an American actress, voice actress, comedian and singer. She is known for her many roles in various animated series, including Mike in Mike, Lu & Og, Asajj Ventress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Stretch and Squeeze in Handy Manny, Cuckoo-Loca in Minnie's Bow-Toons, Miguel in Maya & Miguel, and Adam Lyon in My Gym Partner's a Monkey. She has voiced many characters for Nickelodeon, including Omnia in the Nickelodeon version of Winx Club, Chum Chum in Fanboy and Chum Chum, Olga Pataki in Hey Arnold!, Belle Pepper in Sanjay and Craig, and Luna Loud in The Loud House.

Lamont Bentley was an American actor and rapper best known for his role as Hakeem Campbell on the UPN sitcom Moesha. Bentley was also known for his role as Crazy K in the 1995 horror film Tales from the Hood and C-Money in the 2001 film The Wash featuring Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

Zachary Andrew Knighton is an American actor, best known for starring as Dave Rose on the ABC comedy series Happy Endings from 2011 to 2013 and as Orville "Rick" Wright in the rebooted version of Magnum P.I. from 2018 to 2024. Other notable roles on television include starring roles on ABC's science fiction series FlashForward and in the FOX sitcoms Life on a Stick and Weird Loners.

Joshua Baret Henderson is an American actor, model, and singer. Henderson is best known for his lead role as John Ross Ewing III in the TNT revival of Dallas (2012–2014). He played Austin McCann on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives (2006–2007), and appeared in films like Step Up. He became widely known after his appearance on The WB singing competition show Popstars 2, where he was one of the winners selected to be a member of the pop group Scene 23.

Isaiah Charles Austin is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach for the Florida Atlantic Owls men's team. He played two years of college basketball for Baylor University and was set to enter the NBA in 2014 until he was diagnosed with a mild form of Marfan syndrome. In 2016, he was cleared to continue playing basketball after a two-year stint away from the game. Between 2017 and 2021, he played professionally overseas.

Michael Weston is an American television and film actor. His best-known roles are the private detective Lucas Douglas in House, the deranged and sadistic kidnapper Jake in Six Feet Under, and Private Brian Dancer in Scrubs, as well as Harry Houdini in Houdini & Doyle.

Lloyd Edward Elwyn Robertson is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the band Barenaked Ladies. He, along with former member Steven Page, founded the group in 1988. Following Page's departure in 2009, Robertson, bassist Jim Creeggan, and drummer Tyler Stewart remain the only members from the band's first studio album still active in the group. Kevin Hearn, who joined later, is also part of the current lineup.

Chely Wright is an American country music artist, activist, author, and corporate executive. She initially rose to fame as a commercial country recording artist with several charting singles, including the number one hit, "Single White Female". She later became known for her role in LGBTQ activism after publicly coming out as a gay woman in 2010. She has sold over 1,500,000 copies and 10,000,000 digital impressions to date in the United States.

Robson Donato Conceição is a Brazilian professional boxer who has held the World Boxing Council (WBC) super featherweight title in 2024. As an amateur, he became the first Brazilian boxer to win an Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Olympics.

Natasha Khan, known professionally as Bat for Lashes, is an English singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. She has released six studio albums: Fur and Gold (2006), Two Suns (2009), The Haunted Man (2012), The Bride (2016), Lost Girls (2019), and The Dream of Delphi (2024). She has received three Mercury Prize nominations. Khan is also the vocalist for Sexwitch, a collaboration with the rock band Toy and producer Dan Carey.

Maxi Mounds is an American nude big-bust model, stripper and occasional pornographic actress originally from the Long Island, New York area. Mounds is known for her extremely large breast implants. Mounds' implants are polypropylene string breast implants, which irritate the breast tissue, causing the breasts to grow continuously as they fill with fluid. According to her official website, Mounds' breasts each weigh twenty-eight pounds. She is 6 feet 0 inches in height. Mounds has polypropylene string breast implants which are also used by fellow big-bust entertainers Chelsea Charms, and Minka, to achieve very large bust sizes.

Jock Landale is an Australian professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Saint Mary's Gaels. Landale also represents the Australian national team. He was part of the Australian team that won bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Neil Fallon is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Clutch. He is also the lead singer for The Company Band and Dunsmuir, and joined The Bakerton Group on guitar starting with their El Rojo album.

Chandler Evan Parsons is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Florida Gators and was drafted by the Houston Rockets with the 38th overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft. Between 2011 and 2020, Parsons played in the NBA for the Rockets, Dallas Mavericks, Memphis Grizzlies, and Atlanta Hawks before injuries caused by a drunk driver forced him into retirement. Post-retirement, he became a sports commentator, including currently as the co-host of FanDuel online show Run It Back.

Milena Leticia Roucka is a Canadian retired professional wrestler, valet and model. She was known for her time in WWE under the ring name Rosa Mendes. She managed former WWE Tag Team Champions Primo & Epico from 2011 to 2013. She was also a main cast member on the E! reality series Total Divas.

Romeo James Langford is an American professional basketball player who last played for BCM Gravelines-Dunkerque of the French LNB Élite. He played college basketball for the Indiana Hoosiers and was ranked as one of the highest prospects in the college class of 2019, as he finished as the fifth overall prospect in the 2018 247sports rankings. A shooting guard, he was drafted by the Boston Celtics 14th overall in the 2019 NBA draft.

Patrick Andrew McCaw is an American professional basketball player for the Raptors 905 of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the UNLV Runnin' Rebels and earned second-team all-conference honors in the Mountain West Conference (MWC) as a sophomore in 2016. McCaw was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round of the 2016 NBA draft. He won three NBA championships in his first three seasons: two with the Golden State Warriors and one with the Toronto Raptors, the first NBA player to do so while switching teams.

Jefferson Andrés Lerma Solís is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder or centre-back for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the Colombia national team.

Mariana Klaveno is an American actress best known for her television roles as Lorena Ball (Krasiki) in the HBO series True Blood, as the psychopath Abby in the Lifetime movie While the Children Sleep, and as movie actress Peri Westmore in the Lifetime comedy-drama Devious Maids. In 2014, she starred as Detective Janice Lawrence in the CBS crime drama series Stalker.

Peter Aerts is a Dutch retired kickboxer. Known for his devastating high kicks, which earned him the nickname "The Dutch Lumberjack", he is widely considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight kickboxers of all time.

Michael Damien Sweetney was an American professional basketball player who played four seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He later served as an assistant coach of the Yeshiva University men's basketball team and head coach of the girls varsity basketball team at New York's Ramaz School.

Midori Goto , who performs under the mononym Midori, is a Japanese-born American violinist. She made her debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 11 as a surprise guest soloist at the New Year's Eve Gala in 1982. In 1986 her performance at the Tanglewood Music Festival with Leonard Bernstein conducting his own composition made the front-page headlines in The New York Times. Midori became a celebrated child prodigy, and one of the world's preeminent violinists as an adult.

Birgit Prinz is a German former footballer, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion and three-time FIFA World Player of the Year. In addition to the German national team, Prinz played for 1. FFC Frankfurt in the Frauen-Bundesliga as well as the Carolina Courage in the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the first professional women's league in the United States. Prinz remains one of the game's most prolific strikers and is the second FIFA Women's World Cup all-time leading scorer with 14 goals. In 2011, she announced the end of her active career. She currently works as a sport psychologist for the men's and women's teams of Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

Oleg Anatolyevich Salenko is a Russian former footballer who played as a forward. He scored a record five goals in a group-stage match in the 1994 World Cup, helping him earn the Golden Boot as joint-top tournament goalscorer.

Princess Yōko of Mikasa is a member of the Imperial House of Japan, paternal second cousin of Emperor Naruhito and the second daughter of Prince Tomohito of Mikasa and Princess Tomohito of Mikasa (Nobuko). She is also the niece of Japan's 92nd prime minister Tarō Asō, great-niece of author and literary critic Ken'ichi Yoshida, and great-granddaughter of Japan's 45th prime minister Shigeru Yoshida.

Perry Linnard "PJ" Dozier Jr. is an American professional basketball player for Anadolu Efes of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the South Carolina Gamecocks.

Deon John Burton is a football coach and former professional footballer who played as a striker and who is the manager of EFL Championship club West Bromwich Albion's under-23 team. His numerous clubs in English football included Portsmouth, Derby County and Sheffield Wednesday. He represented Jamaica internationally, including at the 1998 World Cup, and was named Jamaican Sportsman of the Year in 1997.

Karl Olivecrona was a Swedish lawyer and legal philosopher. He studied law at Uppsala from 1915 to 1920 and was a pupil of Axel Hägerström, the spiritual father of Scandinavian legal realism. One of the internationally best-known Swedish legal theorists, Olivecrona was a professor of procedural law and legal philosophy at Lund University. His writings emphasise the psychological significance of legal ideas. His most striking work on legal theory, the first edition of his book Law as Fact, stressed the importance of a monopoly of force as the basis of law. The book's second edition, published in 1971, was changed considerably due to Germany's defeat in World War II. Olivecrona's view on politics during the war was in fact a pure Nazi ideology; he emphasized a need for overwhelming coercive power to guarantee order in international relations. He became convinced that Europe required an unchallengeable controlling force to ensure its peace and unity, and that Germany alone could provide this. His pamphlet England eller Tyskland, published in 1940, the darkest days of the war, argued that Britain had lost its claim to exert leadership in Europe and that the future required an acceptance of German hegemony.

Marion Ross is an American actress. Her best-known role is that of Marion Cunningham on the ABC television sitcom Happy Days, on which she starred from 1974 to 1984 and for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Before her success on Happy Days, Ross appeared in a variety of film roles, appearing in The Glenn Miller Story (1954), Sabrina (1954), Lust for Life (1956), Teacher's Pet (1958), Some Came Running (1958), Operation Petticoat (1959), and Honky (1971), as well as several minor television roles, one of which was on television's The Lone Ranger (1954), and The Outer Limits (1964). She was also twice nominated successively in 1992 and 1993 for the Primetime Emmy Award for her performance on the CBS television comedy-drama Brooklyn Bridge and later netted another Emmy nomination in 1999 for a two-episode appearance on the CBS drama Touched by an Angel. Ross also co-starred in a sequel to the film Terms of Endearment (1983) called The Evening Star (1996), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was also nominated and won a Lone Star Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Status Quo are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. Beginning with "Pictures of Matchstick Men" in 1968, they have had over 60 chart hits in the UK – more than any other band – with further hits including "Caroline", "Down Down", "Rain", "Rockin' All Over the World", "Whatever You Want" and "What You're Proposing". 22 of these reached the Top 10 in the UK singles chart, and 57 reached the Top 40. They have released over 100 singles and 33 studio albums. Since reaching number five on the UK albums chart in 1972 with Piledriver, Status Quo have placed 29 consecutive studio albums on the UK charts, including 20 Top 10 studio albums. In 2012, they were announced as the tenth best-selling group of all time on the UK singles chart with 7.2 million singles sales in their homeland alone. As of 2015, they were one of only 50 artists to have achieved more than 500 total weeks on the UK Albums Chart.

Helen Maxine Reddy was an Australian-American singer, actress, television host, and activist. Born in Melbourne to a show business family, Reddy started her career as an entertainer in vaudeville at age four. She sang on radio and television and won a talent contest on the television program Bandstand in 1966; her prize was a ticket to New York City and a record audition, which was unsuccessful. After a short and unsuccessful singing career in New York, she eventually moved to Chicago, and subsequently, Los Angeles, where she made her debut singles "One Way Ticket" and "I Believe in Music" in 1968 and 1970, respectively. The B-side of the latter single, "I Don't Know How to Love Him", reached number eight on the pop chart of the Canadian magazine RPM. She was signed to Capitol Records a year later.

Clarisse Bogdanna Agbegnenou is a French judoka. Competing in the −63 kg weight division she won the European title in 2013, the world title in 2014, an Olympic silver medal at the Rio 2016 Games, an Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Games, and the bronze medal at the 2024 Games in Paris, in her home country.

Johnny Mauro was an American racecar driver. He was born in Denver Colorado on October 25, 1910. Mauro and his family owned several car dealerships, leading him to being the only Ferrari importer in Denver for many years. He raced in Indy cars for Ferrari in the 1940s and 1950s, and was the mastermind behind the United States Truck Driving School (USTDS), a company still owned by his daughter Arlene and her husband Dick Lammers. When Mauro died in January 2003 in an auto accident, he owned a large collection of cars he had acquired, all of them restored, including a Ford Model A, an Alfa Romeo, a Fiat, a few Mercedes, a quarter midget race car, a Buick, and his prized possession, a red 1984 Ferrari GTO with only a few thousand original miles.

Zelmo "Big Z" Beaty was an American basketball player. He played eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and four in the rival American Basketball Association (ABA). In 2016, he was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. He was earlier selected to the ABA All-Time Team. Beaty excelled in both high school and college basketball before being selected as a first round draft pick by the St. Louis Hawks in the 1962 NBA draft, with the third overall pick. He was a member of the NBA's inaugural All-Rookie Team in 1963. He was a two-time NBA All-Star in seven years with the Hawks, and averaged double-doubles for six consecutive seasons after his rookie year. The Hawks went to the NBA playoffs every season he was on the team.

Take or Tache Ionescu was a Romanian centrist politician, journalist, lawyer and diplomat, who also enjoyed reputation as a short story author. Starting his political career as a radical member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), he joined the Conservative Party in 1891, and became noted as a social conservative expressing support for several progressive and nationalist tenets. Ionescu is generally viewed as embodying the rise of middle-class politics inside the early 20th century Kingdom of Romania, and, throughout the period, promoted a project of Balkan alliances while calling for measures to incorporate the Romanian-inhabited Austro-Hungarian regions of Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina. Representing his own faction inside the Conservative Party, he clashed with the group's leadership in 1907–1908, and consequently created and led his own Conservative-Democratic Party.

Hiroshi Aoyama is a Japanese retired Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, and current team principal of Honda Team Asia. Aoyama is best known for winning the 2009 250cc World Championship title. He is the older brother of former 250cc and World Superbike rider, Shuhei Aoyama.

Richard Parkes Bonington was an English Romantic landscape painter, who in his last years also painted many historical figure paintings. His family moved to France when he was 14 and he can also be considered as a French artist, and an intermediary bringing aspects of English style to France. Becoming, after his early death, one of the most influential British artists of his time, the facility of his style was inspired by the old masters, yet was entirely modern in its application. His landscapes were mostly of coastal scenes, with a low horizon and large sky, showing a brilliant handling of light and atmosphere. He also painted small historical cabinet paintings in a freely-handled version of the troubadour style.

David William Cowens is an American former professional basketball player and NBA head coach. At 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m), he played the center position and occasionally played power forward. Cowens spent most of his playing career with the Boston Celtics. He was the 1971 NBA Rookie of the Year and the 1973 NBA Most Valuable Player. Cowens won NBA championships as a member of the Celtics in 1974 and 1976. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991. Throughout his career Cowens was known for being an undersized center, however he made up for his height with hustle and athleticism. Cowens has also held coaching positions in the NBA, CBA, and WNBA.

Gordon Tootoosis was a First Nations actor of Cree and Stoney descent. Tootoosis was a descendant of Yellow Mud Blanket, brother of the famous Cree leader Poundmaker. He was acclaimed for his commitment to preserving his culture and to telling his people's stories. He once said, "Leadership is about submission to duty, not elevation to power." He served as a founding member of the board of directors of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company. Tootoosis offered encouragement, support and training to aspiring Aboriginal actors. He served as a leading Cree activist both as a social worker and as a band chief. In Open Season and Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run, Tootoosis was the voice of Sheriff Gordy.

Phillip Edward Volk is an American musician. As the bassist of Paul Revere & the Raiders from 1965 to 1967, Volk appeared in over 750 television shows, 520 of which were episodes of the Dick Clark production, Where the Action Is, which aired daily from 1965 to 1967. The band themselves had 23 charted hits and 14 gold albums and Volk was a member of the band during the period of its greatest success. Volk's bass lines, as heard in songs such as "Hungry", "Just Like Me" and "Kicks", helped to revolutionize how the bass guitar was used in rock music. Volk was seen frequently in such fan magazines as 16 Magazine, popular during the 1960s.

Fabian Hambüchen is a retired German gymnast who was an Olympic champion on horizontal bar in Rio 2016, World champion in Stuttgart 2007 on the same apparatus, as well as six times European champion on various other occasions and on different apparatus, including high bar, his most successful discipline. Apart from that, Fabian also won gold medals at European Games and at 2015 Summer Universiade. He has a full set of Olympic medals, one in each color, as he is the 2016 Olympic champion, 2012 Olympic silver medalist and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist in the individual horizontal bar event. Since the end of his active career, he has appeared in various television productions and advertising partnerships.

Karl Paul Polanyi was an Austro-Hungarian economic historian, economic sociologist, and politician, best known for his book The Great Transformation, which questions the conceptual validity of self-regulating markets. In his writings, Polanyi advances the concept of the Double Movement, which refers to the dialectical process of marketization and push for social protection against that marketization. He argues that market-based societies in modern Europe were not inevitable but historically contingent. Polanyi is remembered best as the originator of substantivism, a cultural version of economics, which emphasizes the way economies are embedded in society and culture. This opinion is counter to mainstream economics but is popular in anthropology, economic history, economic sociology and political science.

Masako Nozawa is a Japanese actress. Beginning work as a child actress at the age of three, by the time she became an adult, voice acting had inadvertently become her main occupation. Throughout her career, Nozawa has been affiliated with Production Baobab, 81 Produce, the self-owned Office Nozawa and Aoni Production. She is best known worldwide as the voice of Son Goku in the Dragon Ball franchise, beginning with its first animated adaptation in 1986. She also voices most of the character's male relatives, namely Son Gohan, Son Goten, and Bardock. Nozawa's other roles include Kitarō in GeGeGe no Kitarō, Doraemon in the 1973 television series, and Tetsurō Hoshino in Galaxy Express 999.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. His career spanned more than 76 years, from his late teens to his death in 1973.

William Clito was a member of the House of Normandy who ruled the County of Flanders from 1127 until his death and unsuccessfully claimed the Duchy of Normandy. As the son of Robert Curthose, the eldest son of William the Conqueror, William Clito was seen as a candidate to succeed his uncle King Henry I of England. Henry viewed him as a rival, however, and William allied himself with King Louis VI of France. Louis installed him as the new count of Flanders upon the assassination of Charles the Good, but the Flemings soon revolted and William died in the struggle against another claimant to Flanders, Thierry of Alsace.

Robert Brown Thomson was an American professional baseball player, nicknamed "the Staten Island Scot". He was an outfielder and right-handed batter for the New York Giants, Milwaukee Braves (1954–57), Chicago Cubs (1958–59), Boston Red Sox (1960), and Baltimore Orioles (1960). His pennant-winning three-run home run for the Giants in 1951 is popularly known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", and is one of the most famous moments in baseball history. It overshadowed his other accomplishments, including eight 20-home-run seasons and three All-Star selections. "It was the best thing that ever happened to me", he said. "It may have been the best thing that ever happened to anybody."

Ray Robson is an American chess grandmaster. He achieved the grandmaster title in 2010, at the time the youngest American player to be awarded the title by FIDE.

Tícia Gara is a Hungarian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She was the Hungarian women's champion in 2006, 2007 and 2019. In the 2009 edition she and her sister Anita were tied for first place, with Anita receiving the title on tie-break. Gara has played for the Hungarian team in the Women's Chess Olympiad, the Women's European Team Chess Championship, the European Youth Girls Team Championship and the Women's Mitropa Cup. Her team won the gold medal in the 2015 Women's Mitropa Cup in Mayrhofen, Austria. She contributed to the victory scoring six wins from six games playing board two.

Arthur Schmidt was an officer in the German military from 1914 to 1943. He attained the rank of Generalleutnant during World War II, and is best known for his role as the Sixth Army's chief of staff in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942–43, during the final stages of which he became its de facto commander, playing a large role in executing Hitler's order that it stand firm despite being encircled by the Red Army. He was a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union for twelve years, and was released following West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer's visit to Moscow in 1955.

Wendel Lee Clark is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. His professional career lasted from 1985 until 2000, during which time he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Quebec Nordiques, New York Islanders, Tampa Bay Lightning, Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks. He was chosen first overall in the 1985 NHL entry draft by the Maple Leafs, the team he played with on three occasions, captaining the team from 1991 to 1994. Clark is a fan favourite in Toronto, continuing to represent the Maple Leafs at public events. He is considered one of the best power forwards in NHL history.

Chad Gaylord Smith is an American musician who is the drummer of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Smith has played with Red Hot Chili Peppers since 1988, appearing on ten of their studio albums as the band’s longest-serving drummer. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Smith is also the drummer of the hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot, formed in 2008, and of the all-instrumental outfit Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats, formed in 2007. He worked with the Chicks on Taking the Long Way, an album that won five Grammy Awards in 2007.

Billy Barty was an American actor and activist. In adult life, he stood 3 ft 9 in (1.14 m) tall because of cartilage–hair hypoplasia dwarfism and so, was often cast in films opposite taller performers for comic effect. He specialized in outspoken or wisecracking characters. During the 1950s, he became a television actor, appearing regularly in the Spike Jones ensemble. In the early 1970s, he appeared often in a variety of roles in children's TV programs produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. As an activist for people with dwarfism, he founded the Little People of America organization in 1957.

Theodor Pištěk was a Czech painter, costume designer, set designer, and racing driver. His costume designs and film sets are internationally acclaimed. He won an Oscar for his costumes for Amadeus, directed by Miloš Forman. For Forman's next film, Valmont, Pištěk won a César Award and was nominated for a second Oscar. In 2003, he received the Czech Lion Award for Unique Contribution to Czech Film, in 2013, he was awarded the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema, and in 2017, he received the Golden Slipper for Outstanding Contribution to Films for Children and Young People.

Asha Solette Philip is a retired English sprinter and former junior gymnast specialising in double mini-trampoline. She was the first British woman to achieve a global 100 metres title at any age-group, winning gold at the 2007 World Youth Championships aged 16. Following a serious knee injury in gymnastics in a championship in Quebec at 17, and a rehabilitation period of several years, she returned to athletics full-time in 2014, winning gold at the European Athletics Championships in the 4 × 100 metres relay for Great Britain, and bronze in the same event at the Commonwealth Games for England.

Réjean Houle is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. He played in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens from 1969 to 1973 and again from 1976 to 1983, and in the World Hockey Association with the Quebec Nordiques from 1973 to 1976. After his playing career he served as the general manager of the Canadiens from 1995 to 2000, and is notable for trading goaltender Patrick Roy early in his tenure. Selected first overall in the 1969 NHL Amateur Draft by Montreal, Houle won the Stanley Cup with the team five times during his career.

Kevin Michael Richardson is an American actor. Known for his distinctively deep voice, he has mostly voiced villainous characters in animation and video games. In film, Richardson voiced Goro in Mortal Kombat (1995) and Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge (2020), Captain Gantu in the Lilo & Stitch franchise, Mr. Gus from Uncle Grandpa, Deus Ex Machina in The Matrix Revolutions (2003), and Shnitzel in the pilot for Chowder. He has also voiced characters on Seth MacFarlane's shows Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, and American Dad!, as well as several characters on Matt Groening's shows The Simpsons and Futurama.

Roberto Menescal is a Brazilian composer, record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and pioneer of bossa nova. In many of his songs there are references to the sea, including his best-known composition "O Barquinho". He is also known for work with Carlos Lyra, Nara Leão, Wanda Sá, Ale Vanzella, and many others. Menescal has performed in Latin music genres such as bossa nova, samba and MPB. He was nominated for a Latin Grammy for his work with his son's bossa group Bossacucanova in 2002, and received the 2013 Latin Recording Academy Special Awards in Las Vegas in November 2013.

Jon Anderson is an English singer, songwriter, and musician who co-founded the progressive rock band Yes with bassist Chris Squire in 1968 and rose to prominence as their lead vocalist. The band pioneered progressive rock in the 1970s, particularly with their critically-acclaimed albums The Yes Album, Fragile and Close to the Edge (1972) which display Anderson's role in crafting the group's sound as one of the main songwriters and lyricists. Known for his high tenor vocal style, Anderson was a member of Yes across three tenures: from 1968 to 1980, 1983 to 1988, and 1990 to 2008.

Sara Helena Lumholdt is a Swedish pop singer and champion pole dancer. She was a member of the Swedish quartet A-Teens, and briefly pursued a solo recording career after the band dissolved.

John Pendleton Kennedy was an American novelist, lawyer and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from July 26, 1852, to March 4, 1853, during the administration of President Millard Fillmore, and as a U.S. representative from Maryland's 4th congressional district, during which he encouraged the United States government's study, adoption and implementation of the telegraph. A lawyer who became a lobbyist for and director of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Kennedy also served several terms in the Maryland General Assembly and became its speaker in 1847.

Azizan bin Abdul Razak was a Malaysian politician who served as the 10th Menteri Besar of the state of Kedah from 2008 to 2013. A member of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), he was the first Chief Minister of Kedah from a party other than the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). He held the seat of Sungai Limau in the Kedah state assembly from 2004 until his death in 2013. He was also the state commissioner for PAS in Kedah and a member of the central committee of the national party.

Josef Beránek is a Czech former professional ice hockey player and coach. He was selected in the fourth round of the 1989 NHL entry draft, 78th overall, by the Edmonton Oilers. He has extensive professional playing experience, in the Czech Republic, the AHL, and the NHL. At the NHL level, he has played for the Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, Vancouver Canucks, and Pittsburgh Penguins. He ended his playing career with HC Slavia Praha in the Czech Republic. In 1998, Beránek was part of the Czech Republic's gold-medal winning Olympic ice hockey team.

Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot was a French chemist and Republican politician noted for the Thomsen–Berthelot principle of thermochemistry. He synthesized many organic compounds from inorganic substances, providing a large amount of counter-evidence to the theory of Jöns Jakob Berzelius that organic compounds required organisms in their synthesis. Berthelot was convinced that chemical synthesis would revolutionize the food industry by the year 2000, and that synthesized foods would replace farms and pastures. "Why not", he asked, "if it proved cheaper and better to make the same materials than to grow them?"

Beate Sirota Gordon was an Austrian and American performing arts presenter and women's rights advocate. Born in Vienna, Austria, she moved to the Empire of Japan in 1929 with her father, the pianist Leo Sirota. After graduating from the American School in Japan, she moved to Oakland, California, where she enrolled at Mills College. Being one of the few people not of Japanese descent who was fluent in Japanese, she obtained work at the Office of War Information in the Foreign Broadcast Information Service of the Federal Communications Commission.

Fernando Arêas Rifan is a bishop of the Catholic Church from Campos, Brazil. Since December 2002 he has been the Apostolic Administrator of the Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney, also known as the Priestly Union of Saint Jean-Marie Vianney. For some years before 2001 he was allied with Priestly Union when it defied the Holy See by routinely using unauthorized liturgical forms and associated with the Society of St. Pius X. He helped negotiate the reconciliation of the Priestly Union with the Holy See in 2001.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay was a British historian, poet and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848. He is best known for his The History of England, a seminal example of Whig history, which expressed Macaulay's belief in the inevitability of sociopolitical progress and has been widely commended for its prose style. Whig historians, including Macaulay, supported the position of the Roundheads in the English Civil War of 1642 to 1651.

Danny Mack Gable is an American former folkstyle and freestyle wrestler and coach. Considered to be one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, Gable is a two-time NCAA Division I national champion, a World Wrestling Championships gold medalist, and an Olympic gold medalist. Gable was only the third wrestler to be inducted into the United World Wrestling's Hall of Fame in the Legend category. In 2014, Gable was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020.

Mattia Cattaneo is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe. As an amateur, Cattaneo won the Girobio in 2011 for the U.C. Trevigiani–Dynamon–Bottoli team. Professional since 2013, he took his first pro win on stage 3 of the 2017 Tour La Provence. In 2019, he won the Giro dell'Appennino one-day race. A strong time trialist, he won the stage four time trial of the 2021 Tour de Luxembourg and the six time trial of the 2023 Tour de Pologne.

William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1807. Originally a Pittite Tory, he was a supporter of the Whigs for the duration of the Napoleonic Wars and held several cabinet positions, including ten years as foreign secretary. As prime minister, his most significant achievement was the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. However, his government failed to either make peace with France or to accomplish Catholic emancipation and it was dismissed in the same year.

Anthony George Franciosa, also billed as Tony Franciosa, was an American actor. He began his career on stage and made a breakthrough portraying the brother of the drug addict in the play A Hatful of Rain, which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He reprised his role in its subsequent film adaptation, for which he won the 1957 Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Nancy Jean Cartwright is an American actress. She has served as the long-time voice of Bart Simpson on The Simpsons, which won her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance and an Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in the Field of Animation. Cartwright also voices other characters for the show, including Maggie Simpson, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and Nelson Muntz. She is also the voice of Chuckie Finster in the Nickelodeon series Rugrats and its spin-off All Grown Up!, succeeding Christine Cavanaugh.

Daniele Mannini is an Italian footballer who plays as a winger. Appearing for clubs such as Pisa, Brescia, Napoli and Sampdoria over the course of a near two decade long professional career, he made over 150 appearances in Serie A, also playing for several seasons in Serie B and Serie C. Following his professional retirement in 2020 he moved to England, where he came out of retirement in July 2022 to play for Northern Counties East Football League Division One club Beverley Town.

Modesto "Larry" Dulay Itliong, also known as "Seven Fingers", was a Filipino-American union organizer. He organized West Coast agricultural workers starting in the 1930s, and rose to national prominence in 1965, when he, Philip Vera Cruz, Benjamin Gines and Pete Velasco walked off the farms of area table-grape growers, demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage, in what became known as the Delano grape strike. He has been described as "one of the fathers of the West Coast labor movement".

Charles Bernard Scaggs is an American former professional wrestler, better known by his ring name 2 Cold Scorpio. He gained fame for his performances in professional wrestling promotions such as World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Pro Wrestling Noah, and the World Wrestling Federation. Over the course of his career, Scorpio held championships including the ECW World Tag Team Championship, ECW World Television Championship, GHC Tag Team Championship, and WCW World Tag Team Championship.

Maria Antonina Czaplicka, also referred to as Marya Antonina Czaplicka and Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, was a Polish cultural anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of Siberian shamanism. Czaplicka's research survives in three major works: her studies in Aboriginal Siberia (1914); a travelogue published as My Siberian Year (1916); and a set of lectures published as The Turks of Central Asia (1918). Curzon Press republished all three volumes, plus a fourth volume of articles and letters, in 1999.

Michael Patrick Boatman is an American actor and writer. He is known for his roles as New York City mayoral aide Carter Heywood in the ABC sitcom Spin City, as U.S. Army Specialist Samuel Beckett in the ABC drama series China Beach, as 101st Airborne soldier Motown in the Vietnam War movie Hamburger Hill, and as sports agent Stanley Babson in the HBO sitcom Arli$$. He also starred in The Good Fight, the Paramount+ spin-off of The Good Wife.

Huang Xing or Huang Hsing was a Chinese revolutionary leader and politician, and the first commander-in-chief of the Republic of China. As one of the founders of the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Republic of China, his position was second only to Sun Yat-sen. Together they were known as Sun-Huang during the Xinhai Revolution. He was also known as the "Eight Fingered General" because of wounds sustained during war. His tomb is on Mount Yuelu, in Changsha, Hunan, China.

Michael Anthony "Rizzo" Eruzione is an Italian-American former ice hockey player. He was the captain of the 1980 Winter Olympics United States national team that defeated the Soviet Union in the famous "Miracle on Ice" game, in which he scored the game-winning goal. He is the author, with Neal E. Boudette, of the national bestseller, The Making of a Miracle: The Untold Story of the Captain of The Gold Medal-Winning 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, published by HarperCollins.

Leena Lander is a Finnish author. She grew up in Turku, in a boys' home that her father ran. In 1992, she won the Thanks for the Book Award for Tummien perhosten koti, which was made into a successful Finnish film in 2008. Her work is known for its concern with the treatment of children and tensions involving authority and conscience. She also won the Pro Finlandia medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland in 2000.

Charles Edward Coughlin, commonly known as Father Coughlin, was a Canadian-American Catholic priest based near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower. Dubbed "The Radio Priest " and considered a leading demagogue, he was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience. During the 1930s, when the U.S. population was about 120 million, an estimated 30 million listeners tuned in to his weekly broadcasts.

Robert David "Bob" Webster is a retired American diver who won the 10 m platform event at every competition he entered between 1960 and 1964, including the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and 1963 Pan American Games. He later became a diving coach at the University of Minnesota, Princeton University, and the University of Alabama. He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1970 and the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1989.

Karl Emil Franzos was a popular Austrian novelist of the late 19th century. His works, both reportage and fiction, concentrate on the multi-ethnic corner of Galicia, Podolia and Bukovina, now largely in western Ukraine, where the Habsburg and Russian empires met. This area became so closely associated with his name that one critic called it "Franzos country". A number of his books were translated into English, and Gladstone is said to have been among his admirers.

Eddie Lang was an American musician who is credited as the father of jazz guitar. During the 1920s, he gave the guitar a prominence it previously lacked as a solo instrument, as part of a band or orchestra, and as accompaniment for vocalists. He recorded duets with guitarists Lonnie Johnson and Carl Kress and jazz violinist Joe Venuti, and played rhythm guitar in the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and was the favoured accompanist of Bing Crosby.

Christopher Ward Norman is an English soft rock singer. Norman was the original lead singer of the English rock band Smokie (1964–1986), which found success in Europe in the 1970s. "Stumblin' In", a 1978 duet with Suzi Quatro, became a big hit in the United States and Europe. The single "Midnight Lady" also became an international hit. In the 1990-2000s, he toured the countries of Eastern Europe; he is most popular in the Baltic countries.

Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt was a German astronomer and geophysicist. He was the director of the National Observatory of Athens in Greece from 1858 to 1884. Julius Schmidt was tireless in his work, it was suggested by William Henry Pickering that he perhaps devoted more of his life than any other man to the study of the Moon. During his lifetime, he made some of the most complete lunar maps of the 19th century.

James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose was a Scottish nobleman, poet, soldier and later viceroy and captain general of Scotland. Montrose initially joined the Covenanters in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, but subsequently supported King Charles I as the English Civil War developed. From 1644 to 1646, and again in 1650, he fought in the civil war in Scotland on behalf of the King. He is referred to as the Great Montrose.

John Thomas Flynn was an American journalist best known for his opposition to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and to American entry into World War II. In September 1940, Flynn helped establish the America First Committee (AFC), which he abandoned when Pearl Harbor was attacked a year later, switching to support of the war effort. In his intense opposition to Roosevelt, Flynn later went on to advance the Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory.

Kornelia Ender is a former East German swimmer who at the 1976 Summer Olympics became the first female swimmer to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games, all in world record times. It was later proven that the East German team doctors had systematically administered steroids to their athletes. As she had exhibited symptoms of steroid use in 1976, strong suspicion was cast on the validity of Ender's accomplishments.

Ekaterina Yevgenyevna Shumilova is a Russian biathlete. She competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nové Město na Moravě, where she placed fourth in the relay with the Russian team. She competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi in sprint, pursuit, and relay. She initially won a silver medal in the relay; however, the team was disqualified when a teammate tested positive for doping, and the medal was stripped.

Demond "Tweety" Carter is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach for the Baylor Bears. He played college basketball for Baylor from 2006 to 2010. Carter played professionally in the NBA Development League, Latvia, Israel, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Lithuania, Poland, Greece and Portugal. He returned to Baylor in 2022 as director of player development and was promoted to assistant coach in 2024.

Barbara Cook was an American actress and singer who first came to prominence in the 1950s as the lead in the original Broadway musicals Plain and Fancy (1955), Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1957) among others, winning a Tony Award for the last. She continued performing mostly in theatre until the mid-1970s, when she began a second career as a cabaret and concert singer. She also made numerous recordings.

SmileyWorld Limited, trading as The Smiley Company, is a brand licensing company based in London, United Kingdom. It claims to hold the rights to the smiley face in over 100 countries. The company licenses products including textiles, puzzles, party goods, stationery, automobile accessories, and toys for licensed brand partners and retailers. Its main licensing markets are fashion and beauty in recent years, having collaborated with numerous fashion houses and brands.

Elías Ricardo Figueroa Brander is a Chilean former footballer who played for several clubs during his career, notably his hometown club Santiago Wanderers, Brazilian club Internacional and Uruguayan club Peñarol. He also represented Chile 47 times, appearing in three FIFA World Cups, in 1966, 1974, and 1982. He is widely regarded as the greatest Chilean football player of all time and as one of the greatest defenders in football history.

Perry Arthur Satullo is an American retired professional wrestler known by his ring name, Perry Saturn. After his debut in 1990, Saturn wrestled for promotions including Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). He is a former ECW World Tag Team Champion, WCW World Tag Team Champion, WCW World Television Champion, WWF European Champion and WWF Hardcore Champion.

Âşık Veysel was a Turkish Alevi ashik, bağlama virtuoso, and folk poet. He was born and died in the village of Sivrialan, Sivas Province, in the Ottoman Empire. Blind since the age of 7, Veysel's songs were typically melancholic, and dealt with a range of themes revolving around morality, love, faith, life and death, patriotism, nature, and his own perception of the world as a blind man.

Carl Forssell was a Swedish fencer. Competing in the team épée he won a bronze medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics, a silver at the 1952 Summer Olympics, as well as four silver and two bronze medals at the world championships of 1938–1951. Individually he won a silver at the 1950 World Championships and finished eighth at the 1952 Olympics. He was a medical doctor by profession.

Stephen Brian Hodge is an English retired footballer who played as a midfielder. He enjoyed a high-profile club and international career in the 1980s and 1990s. One high point of his career was playing in the 1986 World Cup; another was winning two League Cups with Nottingham Forest. He was also part of Leeds United's 1992 title-winning team though his starting appearances at Leeds were limited.

Ya'qub ibn al-Layth Saffar was a coppersmith and the founder of the Saffarid dynasty of Sistan, with its capital at Zarang. Under his military leadership, he conquered much of the eastern portions of Greater Iran consisting of modern-day Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan as well as portions of western Pakistan and a small part of Iraq. He was succeeded by his brother, Amr ibn al-Layth.

Nicole Seibert, known professionally as Nicole, is a German singer, songwriter, musician and producer. In 1982, she became the first German representative to win the Eurovision Song Contest. She has released more than 25 studio albums and 80 singles, some of which she performed and recorded in, among other languages, English, Dutch, and French. She wrote the music and lyrics for some of her recordings.

Taiyō Matsumoto is a Japanese manga artist. Active as a professional manga artist since the 1980s, he is known for his experimental style and genre-blending works such as Tekkonkinkreet, Ping Pong, and No. 5. Influenced by Katsuhiro Otomo and French bande dessinée, his art combines psychological depth with rough, expressive lines. Matsumoto has won multiple awards, including the Eisner Award and Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Louis II, also known as Louis of Male, a member of the House of Dampierre, was the count of Flanders, Nevers, and Rethel from 1346 to 1384, and also of Artois and Burgundy from 1382 until his death. He was the son and successor of Count Louis I of Flanders and Countess Margaret I of Burgundy, a daughter of King Philip V of France.

Carlos María de Alvear was an Argentine soldier, statesman and diplomat who served as the second Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata from 9 January to 15 April 1815. He played a leading role in the capitulation of royalist-held Montevideo in June 1814 and later commanded the republican army in the Cisplatine War, winning the Battle of Ituzaingó.

William Alfred Higinbotham was an American physicist. A member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement. He also has a place in the history of video games for his 1958 creation of Tennis for Two, the first interactive analog computer game and one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display.

Jorge Luis Batlle Ibáñez was a Uruguayan politician and lawyer, who served as the 38th president of Uruguay from 2000 to 2005. A member of the Colorado Party, he previously served as National Representative from 1959 to 1967, and as Senator of the Republic from 1985 to 1990 and from 1990 to 1999. Batlle is, to date, the last president from the Colorado Party.

Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. was an American naval officer, and pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau. He is also known for discovering Mount Sidley, the largest dormant volcano in Antarctica.

Glenn Raymond Tipton is an English guitarist. Often noted for his complex playing style and classically influenced solos, he is best known as one of the lead guitarists for the heavy metal band Judas Priest. Tipton is the band's longest-serving member that is still active and, alongside bassist Ian Hill, the only member of the band to appear on every studio album.

Iván Alejandro García Navarro is a Mexican diver. He is nicknamed "Pollo" ("Chicken"). He competes in diving and represented Mexico at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He won a silver medal in the 10m Synchronized Platform with his partner Germán Sánchez with a high score of 468.90. In the individual 10m Platform, García came the 7th with a score of 521.65.

Beate Uhse-Rotermund was a German pilot, entrepreneur and sex shop pioneer. She was one of a number of female stunt pilots in Germany in the 1930s. During World War II she ferried planes for the German Luftwaffe and after World War II she started a sex shop. The company she started, Beate Uhse AG, is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Robbie McIntosh is an English guitarist. McIntosh is best known as a session guitarist and member of the Pretenders from 1982 until 1987. In 1988 he began doing session guitar work for Paul McCartney, joining his band full-time until early 1994. He continues to play sessions and has performed both with his own band and as a sideman with John Mayer.

Giuliano de' Medici was the second son of Piero de' Medici and Lucrezia Tornabuoni. As co-ruler of the Florentine Republic, with his brother Lorenzo the Magnificent, he complemented his brother's image as the "patron of the arts" with his own image as the handsome, sporting "golden boy". He was killed in a plot known as the Pazzi conspiracy in 1478.

Évariste Galois was a French mathematician and political activist. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem that had been open for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra.

Kaz Phonesak Patafta is an Australian sports administrator and former professional footballer. He has been the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Brisbane Roar FC since July 2023. Prior to this, he worked as a lawyer specialising in corporate law. He also founded his own legal firm, McDonald Patafta & Associates Lawyers, with offices in Singapore, Laos and Belgium.

Renée of France, was Duchess of Ferrara from 31 October 1534 until 3 October 1559 by marriage to Ercole II d'Este, a grandson of Pope Alexander VI. She was the younger daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne, Duchess of Brittany. In later life, she became an important supporter of the Protestant Reformation and ally of John Calvin.

Géraud Christophe Michel Duroc, Duke of Frioul, was a French general and diplomat who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was noted for his friendship with Napoleon Bonaparte, who appointed him as the first Grand marshal of the palace, the head of the Emperor's military household. He is sometimes referred to as ‘Napoleon's shadow’.

Samuel Heinrich Schwabe was a German amateur astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. He observed sunspots and made drawings of them from 1825 to 1867 and suggested in 1838 that there may be a ten-year cycle of sunspot activity. He also took an interest in botany and was a founding member of a natural history society in Dessau.

Anne Alvaro is a French actress whose work spans from the early 1970s through to 2012. She is probably best known for her role as Eleonore in the 1983 biopic Danton. She won one César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Taste of Others in 2001 and another for The Clink of Ice in 2011.

Zana Briski is a British photographer and filmmaker, best known for Born into Brothels, the 2004 Oscar winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, which she directed. She founded Kids with Cameras, a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities throughout the world. Her interest in photography began at age 10.

Levi Lincoln Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Worcester, Massachusetts. He was the 13th governor of Massachusetts (1825–1834) and represented the state in the U.S. Congress (1834–1841). Lincoln's nine-year tenure as governor is the longest consecutive service in state history; only Michael Dukakis, John Hancock and Caleb Strong served more years, but they were not consecutive.

Vendramino Bariviera was an Italian racing cyclist who competed in the individual road race at the 1960 Summer Olympics. After the Olympics he turned professional and won several stages of the Giro d'Italia in 1963, 1964 and 1966. He rode the 1964 Tour de France and retired in 1967. His younger brother Renzo was an Olympic basketball player.

Elisabeth Farnese was Queen of Spain by marriage to King Philip V. She was the de facto ruler of Spain from 1714 until 1746, since she managed the affairs of state with the approval of her spouse. She is particularly known for her great influence over Spain's foreign policy. From 1759 to 1760, she governed as regent.

Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, commonly known as Baron vom Stein, was a Prussian statesman who introduced the Prussian reforms, which paved the way for the unification of Germany. He promoted the abolition of serfdom, with indemnification to territorial lords; subjection of the nobles to manorial imposts; and the establishment of a modern municipal system.

Jeanne Jugan, LSP, in religion Mary of the Cross, was a French Catholic religious sister who became known for the dedication of her life to the neediest of the elderly poor. Her service resulted in the establishment of the Little Sisters of the Poor, who care for the elderly throughout the world. She was canonized in 2009.

Johann Baptist Strauss II, also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger, the Son, or simply Johann Strauss, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas, as well as a violinist. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, marches and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet.

Chester James Carville Jr. is an American political consultant, author, and television pundit who has strategized for Democratic candidates for public office in the United States and for international politicians in at least 23 countries abroad. A prominent media figure, he has frequently appeared on cable news programs and talk shows as a commentator on U.S. politics.

Alex Webster is an American musician who is the bassist and a co-founder of the death metal band Cannibal Corpse. He is one of two original remaining members, alongside drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz. He is also the bassist of Blotted Science and the supergroup Conquering Dystopia. Before Cannibal Corpse was formed, he was a member of Beyond Death.

Wilma Jeanne Cooper was an American actress, best known for her role as Katherine Chancellor on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless (1973–2013). At the time of her death, she had played Katherine for nearly 40 years, and her name appears on the list of longest-serving soap opera actors in the United States.

Martti Mansikka was a Finnish gymnast. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won a team bronze medal. His best individual result was tenth place on floor. His team placed fourth at the 1958 World Championships. Domestically, Mansikka won the Finnish titles on floor, pommel horse and vault in 1957.

David Schad Ward is an American screenwriter and film director. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for his screenplays for the films The Sting (1973) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993), winning for the former. He was also nominated for a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Writers Guild of America Awards.

Francisco Pedro Manuel Sá is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a defender mainly for Independiente and Boca Juniors. Sá holds the record for the most Copa Libertadores titles, he won six; 4 consecutive titles with Club Atlético Independiente between 1972 and 1975, and a further 2 with Boca Juniors in 1977 and 1978.

Daniel Paul Issel is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats, earning All-American twice en route to a school-record 25.7 points per game for his career. The American Basketball Association Rookie of the Year in 1971, he was a six-time ABA All-Star and a one-time NBA All-Star.

Vincent Zhou is an American figure skater. He is a 2022 Olympic gold medalist in the team event, a two-time World bronze medalist, the 2019 Four Continents bronze medalist, the 2021 Skate America champion, and a three-time U.S. national silver medalist. He is also the 2017 World Junior champion and the 2013 U.S. junior national champion.

Robin Eubanks is an American jazz and jazz fusion slide trombonist, the brother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks and trumpeter Duane Eubanks. Younger brother Shane Eubanks, twin to Duane Eubanks, is a DJ. His uncles are jazz pianist Ray Bryant and bassist Tommy Bryant. His mother, Vera Eubanks, was famed pianist Kenny Barron's first piano teacher.

Stephen Leather is a British thriller author whose works are published by Hodder & Stoughton. He has written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock, and the BBC's Murder in Mind series. He is one of the top selling Amazon Kindle authors, the second bestselling UK author worldwide on Kindle in 2011.

Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg was a ruler of Nassau-Weilburg. He was created Prince of Nassau and reigned jointly with his cousin, Prince Frederick Augustus of Nassau-Usingen, who became Duke of Nassau. Frederick William died in January 1816, only two months before his cousin. Both men were succeeded by Frederick William's son, William.

Antonio Ciseri was a Swiss-Italian painter of religious subjects. Ciseri's paintings are Raphaelesque in their compositional outlines and their polished surfaces, but are nearly photographic in effect. Among his pupils were the painters Oreste Costa, Giuseppe Guzzardi, Alcide Segoni, Andrea Landini, Raffaello Sorbi, Niccolò Cannicci, Emanuele Trionfi, Juan Manuel Blanes and Girolamo Nerli.

Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann was a German serial rapist and serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover, the Vampire of Hanover and the Wolf Man, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemberment of at least twenty-four young men and boys in the city of Hanover between 1918 and 1924.

Jerzy Władysław Pawłowski was a Polish fencer and double agent. He is regarded among the most successful Polish fencers in history having won 5 Olympic medals as well as seven gold medals at the World Fencing Championships. He was awarded the Polish Sports Personality of the Year title twice, in 1957 and 1968.

Lee Byung-kyu is a South Korean retired baseball player who played 17 seasons for the LG Twins of the KBO League, as well as three seasons with the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball. He also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics. He played as an outfielder.

Niklaus Barbie was a German officer of the Schutzstaffel and Sicherheitsdienst and a convicted war criminal. He worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners—primarily Jews and members of the French Resistance—as the head of the Gestapo in Lyon.

Vitold Pavlovych Fokin was a Ukrainian politician who served as the first Prime Minister of Ukraine from the country's declaration of independence on 24 August 1991 until 8 October 1992. He had earlier served as the prime minister of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 23 October 1990 to 24 August 1991.

Russell Anderson is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He played in the Scottish Premier League for Aberdeen, the Premier League for Sunderland, and the Football League for Plymouth Argyle, Burnley and Derby County. Anderson won 11 caps for Scotland at full international level between 2002 and 2008.

Daniel L. Burke was an American reserve catcher and outfielder in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Rochester Broncos and the Syracuse Stars in 1890, and with the Boston Beaneaters in 1892. Listed at 5' 10", 190 lb., Burke batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Abington, Massachusetts.

Sir Martin John Gilbert was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was the author of 88 books, including works on Winston Churchill, the 20th century, and Jewish history including the Holocaust. He was a member of the Chilcot Inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq War.

Milena Rašić is a Serbian former professional volleyball player. She played for the Serbia women's national volleyball team. She won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She won a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She is 1.93 m tall.

Zeno Anthony Robinson is an American voice actor. His most notable roles include Cyborg/Victor Stone in Young Justice, Hawks in My Hero Academia, Goh in Pokémon Journeys: The Series, Sethos in Genshin Impact, Remy Remington in Big City Greens, Hunter/Golden Guard in The Owl House, and as Jabber Wonger in Gachiakuta.

Georges Bizet was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.

Erwin Heinrich René Lahousen, Edler von Vivremont was a German military office who was a high-ranking Abwehr official during the Second World War, as well as a member of the German Resistance and a key player in attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 13 March 1943 and 20 July 1944.

John Allyn McAlpin Berryman was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry. His 77 Dream Songs (1964) won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Eirik Glambek Bøe is a Norwegian musician, writer and vocalist, best known for being part of the indie folk duo Kings of Convenience with Erlend Øye. He has a degree in psychology from the University of Bergen. Although his native language is Norwegian, many of his writings are in English.

Glynis Barber is a South African-British actress. She is known for her portrayals of Sgt. Harriet Makepeace in the British police drama Dempsey and Makepeace, Glenda Mitchell in EastEnders, DCI Grace Barraclough in Emmerdale, Norma Crow in Hollyoaks, Fiona Brake in Night and Day, and Soolin in Blake's 7.

Roger Aníbal Espinoza Ramírez is a Honduran former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or defender. Espinoza currently serves as a youth coach for Major League Soccer club Sporting Kansas City. A former Honduras international, Espinoza represented his country at two World Cups and the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Baron Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan was a Finland-Swedish poet and author. He published his first book of poems, Som en dunkel värme, in 1946, and received his PhD in 1960. Carpelan, who wrote in Swedish, composed numerous books of verse, as well as several novels and short stories.

David Hala is a Tonga international rugby league footballer who last played for the Redcliffe Dolphins in the Queensland Cup. He previously played for the Brisbane Broncos and the Gold Coast Titans in the NRL. He made his NRL debut in round 21 of the 2009 NRL season.

Ivan Morton Niven was a Canadian-American mathematician best remembered for his work on Waring's problem in number theory. He worked for many years as a professor at the University of Oregon, and was president of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). He wrote several books on mathematics.

Peter Naur was a Danish computer science pioneer and 2005 Turing Award winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages. He also contributed to creating the language ALGOL 60.

Sigleif Johansen is a former Norwegian biathlete. He won a silver medal in the 20 km individual at the World Championships in 1977 in Lillehammer, and a bronze medal in Ruhpolding in 1979. He received a silver medal in the 4 × 7.5 km relay in 1978.

Gale Anne Hurd is an American film and television producer, the founder of Valhalla Entertainment, and a former recording secretary for the Producers Guild of America. Her notable works include The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Armageddon (1998), Mankiller (2017) and The Walking Dead (2010–2022).

Levi Eshkol, born Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik, was the prime minister of Israel from 1963 until his death from a heart attack in 1969. A founder of the Israeli Labor Party, he served in numerous senior roles, including Minister of Defense (1963–1967) and Minister of Finance (1952–1963).

Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky was a Soviet bureaucrat who was First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1965 to 1973. From 1960 to 1976 he was a full member of the Presidium / Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

Christopher McQuarrie is an American filmmaker. He received the BAFTA Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the neo-noir mystery film The Usual Suspects (1995). He made his directorial debut with the crime thriller film The Way of the Gun (2000).

Leo Grattan Carroll was an English actor. In a career of more than 40 years, he appeared in six Hitchcock films including Spellbound, Strangers on a Train and North by Northwest and in three television series, Topper, Going My Way, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Lionel André Michel Charbonnier is a French football manager and former professional player who played as a goalkeeper. After retiring, he became a football manager and managed Aceh United of the Liga Primer Indonesia in the season before they folded along with their independent league.

Kristian Ronald Sarkies is an Australian soccer player who plays as an attacking midfielder for Sandringham SC in the Victorian Metropolitan League 1. His previous spells include at A-League clubs Melbourne Victory, Adelaide United and Melbourne Heart. More recently he has played in the NPL.

Maria Jane Jewsbury was an English writer, poet and reviewer. In 1821, while bringing up brothers and sisters, she wrote for the Manchester Gazette. Her Phantasmagoria of poetry and prose (1825), The Three Histories (1830) and Letters to the Young (1837) were highly popular.

Johann Caspar Schmidt, known by the pen name Max Stirner, was a German philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism, individualist anarchism, and egoism.

Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia was a Russian field marshal, the fourth son and seventh child of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia. He was the first owner of the New Michael Palace on the Palace Quay in Saint Petersburg.

Manuel "Lito" Mercado Lapid is a Filipino actor, director and politician serving as a Senator since 2019, and previously from 2004 to 2016. He started his political career in Pampanga, serving as vice governor from 1992 to 1995, and governor from 1995 to 2004.

Steve Gainer, ASC ASK is an Emmy Award winning American cinematographer, director, and producer. He is a member and museum curator of the American Society of Cinematographers, a member of the Directors Guild of America, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, known professionally as her stage character Minnie Pearl, was an American comedian and country singer who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (1940–1991) and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991.

Matthias Jabs is a German musician, best known as the lead/rhythm guitarist of the hard rock band Scorpions. He has played on all but the first five Scorpions studio albums, starting with Lovedrive (1979). He owns a music store, MJ Guitars, in Munich.

Johan de Kock is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He earned 13 caps for the Netherlands national team, in which he scored one goal. He was a member of the Dutch team at UEFA Euro 1996 in England.

Nicolas Besch is a professional French ice hockey defenceman of Polish descent who currently plays for Boxers de Bordeaux of the Ligue Magnus. Outside of France, he has also played professional hockey in the Swedish Allsvenskan, the Finnish Mestis, and the Polish PHL.

Emma Gramatica was an Italian stage and film actress. She appeared in 29 films between 1919 and 1962. She was born in Borgo San Donnino, today Fidenza, province of Parma and died in Ostia. Her sisters Irma and Anna were also actresses.

Eddie Gaven is an American former soccer player who played 11 seasons in Major League Soccer, primarily with the Columbus Crew. In July 2012, Gaven became the youngest player to play in 250 MLS matches at 25 years and 257 days old.

James Maybrick was a British cotton merchant. After his death, his wife, Florence Maybrick, was convicted of murdering him by poisoning in a sensational trial. The "Aigburth Poisoning" case was widely reported in the press on both sides of the Atlantic.

Margarete Ulrike Augusta Marie Karoline Elsa Reger was a German writer, the wife of the pianist and composer Max Reger, whose memory she kept alive by founding an archive, the Max-Reger-Institute, and a foundation, all dedicated to him and his work.

Achille Silvestrini was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served in the Vatican diplomatic corps, either in Rome or abroad, from 1953 to 1990, and later as Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches from 1991 to 2000.

René Brodmann was a Swiss football defender who played for Switzerland in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Grasshopper Club Zürich, FC Zürich, and FC St. Gallen. He died during a car crash in August 2000, aged 66.

Anton Yervandi Kochinyan was a Soviet Armenian politician. He served as Chairman of the Armenian Council of Ministers from 1952 to 1966, and as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1966 until his retirement in 1974.

Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya was a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. She was the wife of cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and mother to their two daughters, Olga and Elena Rostropovich.

Robert Montgomery Knight was an American men's college basketball coach. Nicknamed "the General", he won 902 NCAA Division I men's basketball games, a record at the time of his retirement, and sixth all-time record at the time of his death.

Krzysztof Marek Piesiewicz was a Polish lawyer, politician and film screenwriter. From 1991 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2011 he was a member of Polish Senate. Piesiewicz was the head of the Social Movement (RS) or Social Movement Party.

José Rafael "Piculín" Ortiz Rijos was a Puerto Rican professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA), various European teams, and in Puerto Rico's Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). Ortiz played college basketball for the Oregon State Beavers.

Sergey Sergeyevich Ridzik is a Russian freestyle skier. Competing for Independent Olympic Athletes from Russia at the 2018 Winter Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the ski cross. He replicated this success at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

James Burnett, Lord Monboddo was a Scottish judge, scholar of linguistic evolution, philosopher and deist. He is most famous today as a founder of modern comparative historical linguistics. In 1767, he became a judge in the Court of Session.

William Edwards Stevenson was an American track and field athlete, lawyer and diplomat, who won the gold medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1924 Summer Olympics, and later served as the president of Oberlin College.

Jacques Paul Migne was a French Catholic priest who published inexpensive and widely distributed editions of theological works, encyclopedias, and the texts of the Church Fathers, with the goal of providing a universal library for the Catholic priesthood.

Theodora Agnes Peck was an American author and poet from Vermont. She published several historical novels when she was in her twenties and thirties, and her poems were published in magazines, newspapers, and literary journals throughout her life.

Jan Leopold Alois "Koza" Palouš was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Winter Olympics. He was born in Budweis, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austria-Hungary and died in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Floyd Bennett was a United States Naval Aviator who, along with then USN Commander Richard E. Byrd, made the first flight to the North Pole in May 1926. However, their claim to have reached the pole is disputed.

Nell Shipman was a Canadian actress, writer, and director who was active in silent film in the 1910s and 1920s. She used "the girl from God's country" as her sobriquet after starring in God's Country and the Woman.

José Requena Nozal is a self-taught artist-painter who uses different techniques. His works are scattered both Spain, Europe and the United States. He has held various exhibitions open both to the public and also to specialised art critics.

Christine Joy Amphlett was an Australian singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the frontwoman of the rock band Divinyls. She was notable for her brash, overtly sexual persona and subversive humour in lyrics, performances and media interviews.

Henry Norris Russell ForMemRS HFRSE FRAS was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910). In 1923, working with Frederick Saunders, he developed Russell–Saunders coupling, which is also known as LS coupling.

Abel Gance was a French film director, producer, writer, and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927).

Henry Steele Commager was an American historian. As one of the most active and prolific liberal intellectuals of his time, with 40 books and 700 essays and reviews, he helped define modern liberalism in the United States.

Dave Simmonds was a British professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He competed in the Grand Prix world championships from 1963 to 1972. Simmonds is notable for winning the 1969 125 cc FIM road racing world championship.

Sten Michael Grytebust is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. After his contract with Aalesunds FK expired at the end of 2025, he has not signed with a new club and is currently clubless.

André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien, P.S.S. was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Dean of the Roman Rota in the Roman Curia from 1944 to 1958, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958.

Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov was the head of NKGB from February to July 1941, and again from April 1943 to March 1946. He was a leading member of what was later derisively described as the "Beria gang".

Cemal Reşit Rey was a Turkish composer, pianist, script writer and conductor. He was well known for a string of successful and popular Turkish-language operettas for which his brother Ekrem Reşit Rey (1900–1959) wrote the librettos.

Nikos Georgiou Nikolaidis was a Greek film director, screenwriter, film producer, writer, theatre director, assistant director, record producer, television director, and commercial director. He is usually considered a representative of European avant-garde and experimental art film.

Ren Zhengfei is a Chinese entrepreneur and engineer who is the founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies, which is located in Shenzhen, China, and is one of the world's largest manufacturers of telecommunications equipment and smartphones.

Devin Green is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Hampton Pirates, finishing in 2005. After his tenure at Hampton University, he joined the Los Angeles Lakers for the 2005–2006 season.

Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, also known as Funmilayo Aníkúlápó-Kuti, was a Nigerian educator, political organizer, and women's rights advocate who intellectually engaged with anti-imperialist, Pan-Africanist, and feminist ideologies. Ransome-Kuti also identified herself as an African Socialist.

Lynda Benglis is an American sculptor and visual artist known especially for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. She maintains residences in New York City, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Kastellorizo, Greece, and Ahmedabad, India.

Roger Davies is an English retired football forward who played professionally in England, Belgium and the United States. He was capped by England at under-23 level. He also provided radio commentary for Derby County games.

Annie Suzanne Girardot was a French actress. She often played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often lonely women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that endeared her to women undergoing similar daily struggles.

Hong Sang-soo is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. His films often deal in love affairs and everyday dilemmas in contemporary South Korea. His work has been widely-acclaimed and received numerous international accolades.

Ekaterina Serebrianskaya[a] is a Ukrainian former individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 1996 Olympics gold medalist, the 1995 World All-around champion, the 1996 European All-around champion, and three time Grand Prix Final All-around champion.

Richard Jouve is a French cross-country skier who has competed since 2015. He won the 2021–22 Sprint World Cup as the first Frenchman to win a discipline globe at the FIS Cross-Country World Cup.

François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig was a French military commander of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, and one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon.

Toktogul Satylganov was a Kyrgyz akyn. The Kyrgyz town of Toktogul in the Jalal-Abad Region is named in his honour. Toktogul was born in Kushchusu, a village now submerged in the Toktogul Reservoir.

Jasem Yaqoub Sultan Al-Besara is a Kuwaiti former professional footballer who played as a forward. He represented the Kuwait national team at both the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1982 FIFA World Cup.

Todd Thomas, better known by the stage name Speech, is an American rapper. He is a member of the progressive hip hop group Arrested Development and has released a number of solo albums.

Lewis Shay McGugan is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. A player with excellent natural stamina, technical skills and mental attributes, he represented England at under-17 and under-19 levels.

Marie Louise Victoire de Donnissan de La Rochejaquelein née marquise de Lescure, was a French memoirist. She is known for her memoirs, depicting her misfortunes and her part in the Vendée wars.

Kōtarō Tanaka was a Japanese jurist, professor of law and politician who served as the last Minister of Education of the Empire of Japan and the second postwar Chief Justice of Japan.

Rosa Vicenta Montserrat Coscolín Figueras known professionally as Gloria Lasso was a Spanish-born canción melódica singer, long based in France. In the 1950s, she was one of the major competitors to Dalida.

Baron Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein was a Swedish diplomat and courtier, best known as Sweden's ambassador to France during the French Revolution, and as the husband of Madame de Staël.

Michael I was the last king of Romania, reigning from 20 July 1927 to 8 June 1930 and again from 6 September 1940 until his forced abdication on 30 December 1947.

Mark Arnold Krinsky, better known as Ed Powers, is an American pornographic film director, producer, actor, and radio host. He is the owner of the porn production company Ed Powers Productions.

John Gunnar Levén is a Swedish bassist in the rock band Europe. Levén and vocalist Joey Tempest are the only band members who have performed on all of Europe's studio albums.

Rodolfo A. Falcón Cabrera is a 3-time Olympic swimmer from Cuba, and has been called the country's best swimmer ever. Since 2006, he has been the country's National Commissioner for swimming.

Karolina Šprem Baghdatis is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. She won eleven titles, all at the ITF level. Her highest ranking is world No. 17, achieved in October 2004.

Mariya Feodorovna, born Duchess Sophie Dorothee of Württemberg, became Empress of Russia as the second wife of Emperor Paul I. She founded the Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria.

Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren was a German historian who was professor of philosophy and history at the University of Göttingen. He was a member of the Göttingen school of history.

Petrus "Piet" Michaelis van der Horst was a Dutch racing cyclist who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal as part of the Dutch pursuit team.

Megan Olwen Devenish Taylor was a British figure skater competitive in the 1930s. She won the World Championships in 1938 and 1939. Her father was Phil Taylor, a speed skater.

Joseph Michel was a Christian-Democrat Belgian politician, member of the PSC, who was President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (1980–81) and who twice served as Minister of the Interior.

Fırat Aydınus is a former Turkish international football referee. He studied and practiced geophysical engineering. In January 2012, he was promoted from UEFA Category 1 to the Elite Development category.

Mickaël Zidro Tavares is a former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Born in France, he made eleven appearances for the Senegal national team from 2009 to 2011.

James Edward Heath, nicknamed Little Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader. He was the brother of bassist Percy Heath and drummer Albert Heath.

Philip Henry Wicksteed was an English scholar and Unitarian theologian known for his contributions to classics, medieval studies and economics. He was also a Georgist and literary critic.

Tyrus Wong was a Chinese-born American artist. He was a painter, animator, calligrapher, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer and kite maker, as well as a set designer and storyboard artist.

Earl Cyril Palmer was an American drummer. Considered one of the inventors of rock and roll, he is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Anton Tarielyevich Sikharulidze is a Georgian-Russian former pair skater. With Elena Berezhnaya, he is the 1998 and 1999 World champion, 1998 Olympic silver medalist and 2002 Olympic champion.

Nils Elias Kristofer von Dardel, sometimes known as Nils de Dardel, was a 20th-century Swedish Post-Impressionist painter and grandson of the famous Swedish painter Fritz von Dardel.

Carlos Sherman was a Uruguay-born Belarusian–Spanish translator, writer, human rights activist and honorary vice-president of the Belarusian PEN Center. He translated from Spanish into Belarusian and Russian.

Samir Farid Geagea is a Lebanese politician and former militia commander who has been the leader of the Lebanese Forces political party and former militia since 1986.

Tracy Kristine Nelson is an American actress. From a long line of entertainers, she is the daughter of musician Ricky Nelson and actress and painter Kristin Nelson.

Brett Kirk is a former Australian rules football player who was the captain of the Sydney Swans. He currently serves as an assistant coach with the Swans.

Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki was a Polish general, serving with the Imperial Russian and then Polish armies. He was also the military commander of the Greater Poland Uprising.

David James Furnish is a Canadian CEO, artist manager, filmmaker and former advertising executive. He is the husband of British singer, songwriter, and pianist Elton John.

Wilburn Davis "Bill" Amis IV is a former American professional basketball player who last played for Crelan Okapi Aalstar of the Euromillions Basketball League in Belgium.

Louis Frederick I of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was the ruling prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Count of Hohenstein, Lord of Rudolstadt, Blankenburg and Sondershausen from 1710 until his death.

Robert Stirling was a Scottish clergyman and engineer. He invented the Stirling engine and was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame in 2014.

Carlo Emery was an Italian entomologist. He is remembered for Emery's rule, which states that insect social parasites are often closely related to their hosts.

William Howard is a French professional basketball player for Covirán Granada of the Liga ACB. Howard started his basketball career in his home country, France.

Captain Pedro Velarde y Santiyán was a Spanish Army officer best known for his participation in the Dos de Mayo Uprising against the French occupation of Madrid. Dying during the uprising, he became a hero and martyr in Spain during and after the Peninsular War.

A cricket match was played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, which took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes between teams representing Great Britain and France.

François d'Escoubleau de Sourdis was a French Catholic prelate, the archbishop of Bordeaux and founder of the Irish College in Bordeaux in 1603.

Jan Stanisław Sapieha was a Polish–Lithuanian noble, starost of Słonim, Court Marshal of Lithuania from 1617, Great Lithuanian Marshal from 1621.

Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton was a British peer and politician.

Friedrich Karl August was Prince of Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont from 1763 to 1812.

Richard Howell was the third governor of New Jersey from 1793 to 1801.

Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss and French political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion.

Friedrich Graf von Berchtold, Freiherr von Ungarschitz was a German-speaking Bohemian physician and botanist of Austrian descent.

Julius von Mohl was a German Orientalist.

Maria Doolaeghe was a Flemish writer.

Prince Louis of Orléans, Duke of Nemours was the second son of King Louis-Philippe I of France and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily.

Ernesto Camillo Sivori was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer.

Christian August Friedrich Garcke was a German botanist who was a native of Bräunrode, Saxony-Anhalt.

Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak was a Russian writer, well known for his novels and short stories about life in the Ural Mountains.

Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger was a Croatian geologist, paleontologist and archaeologist.

Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov was a Russian Romantic composer.

John Francis Dodge was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company.

Georg Alfred Schumann was a German composer and director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin.

Norbert Klein was Bishop of Brno from 1916 to 1926 and 59th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1923 to 1933.

Oskar Kallas was an Estonian diplomat, linguist and folklorist. He was the husband of the Finnish writer Aino Kallas.

Bohumír Šmeral was a Czech politician, leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party, and one of the founders of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

Antonio Junius "Tony" Jackson was an American pianist, singer, and composer.

Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky was a Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and politician who served as the Responsible Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Sam M. Lewis was an American singer and lyricist.

Alexander McCulloch was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Karl Eduard Maria Elmendorff was a German opera conductor.

Claude Cahun was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer.

Johan Wilhelm (Jukka) Rangell was the Prime Minister of Finland from 1941 to 1943.

Luigi Pavese was an Italian actor and voice actor.

Karl Anton or Karel Anton was a Bohemian-born German film director, screenwriter, and film producer.

Roy Clifton Fox was an American-born British dance bandleader who was popular in Britain during the British dance band era of the 1930s.

Carlo Gnocchi was an Italian priest, educator and writer. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

Herman Densmore "Denny" Shute was an American professional golfer who won three major championships in the 1930s.

Robert Lowe McPhail was a Scottish footballer who played as an inside-left for Airdrieonians, Rangers and the Scotland national team.

Karl Humenberger was an Austrian association football player and manager, the brother of fellow player Ferdinand Humenberger.

Gotthard Handrick was a German Olympic athlete and German fighter pilot during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

Polly Ann Young was an American actress.

Ken Domon was a celebrated Japanese photographer known for his work as a photojournalist and as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary.

Whitner Nutting Bissell was an American character actor.

Raoul Rémy was a French professional road bicycle racer.

Oralia Dominguez was a Mexican operatic mezzo-soprano and contralto, who performed at many of the world's leading opera houses.

Lauretta Masiero was an Italian actress and singer.

Paulo Mendes da Rocha was a Brazilian architect.

Peter Rühmkorf was a German writer who significantly influenced German post-war literature.

Harold Brodkey, born Aaron Roy Weintraub, was an American short story writer and novelist.

Károly Honfi was a Hungarian chess player who held the chess title of International Master. Honfi was posthumously awarded the title of Honorary Grandmaster.

Russell Louis Schweickart is an American aeronautical engineer and former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, business executive, and government executive.

David Lawson Weill is an American former athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw.

Gloria Pearl Katz was an American screenwriter and film producer, best known for her association with film director George Lucas.

Orso Maria Guerrini is an Italian film, television and stage actor and voice actor.

Kati Kovács is a Ferenc Liszt and Kossuth Award-winning Hungarian pop and rock singer, performer, lyricist and actress.

Brian Kerwin is an American actor who has starred in feature films, Broadway shows, and television series and movies.

Walter Hyatt was an American singer and songwriter. His group, Uncle Walt's Band, was involved in the alternative music scene in Austin, Texas.

John Daniel Matuszak, nicknamed "Tooz", was an American professional football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) who later became an actor.

Richard Lloyd is an American guitarist and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the rock band Television.

Tove Nilsen is a Norwegian novelist, children's writer and literary critic.

Dame Wendy Hall is a British computer scientist. She is Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.

Pieter "Piet" Wildschut is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a defender. He obtained 11 international caps for the Netherlands national team.

Dominique Herr is a Swiss former football defensive midfielder who played throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Karl Malin is an Austrian politician and engineer serving as mayor of Balzers, Liechtenstein since 2023.

Mathieu Amalric is a French actor and filmmaker. He has won several César Awards and the Lumière Awards.

Doris Fitschen was a German footballer who played as a midfielder.

Samantha Anne Bee is a Canadian-American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actress, and television host.

Slavko Cicak is a Swedish chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2001.

Daniel Scheinhardt is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Athena Chu is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Zixia Fairy in A Chinese Odyssey (1995).

Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist, and activist.

Rosie Ledet, also known as Rosie Bellard, is an American Creole Zydeco accordion player and singer.

Yoo Yong-sung is a retired badminton player from South Korea. He is two time Olympic silver medalist.

Agustín Julio Castro is a Colombian Association football former player, who played as a goalkeeper.

Ahmad Al-Dokhi Al-Dossary is a former Saudi Arabian footballer who last played as a defender for Al-Nassr.

An Yong-Hak is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in Japan, he represented North Korea internationally.

Robert Adam Madden is a Scottish former football referee.

Robert Mambo George Randu Mumba is a Kenyan former footballer. He is a former player of Swedish club GIF Sundsvall.

Shaun Cameron Wright-Phillips is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger.

Camilla Louise Skaarberg Jensen is a Danish curler. She currently plays on a team skipped by sister Angelina Jensen.

Victoria Francés is a Spanish illustrator.

Stanislav Oleksandrovych Bogush is a Ukrainian retired professional football goalkeeper.

Iván Andrés Ramis Barrios is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central defender.

Daniele Padelli is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Udinese.

Óscar Esteban Granados Maroto is a Costa Rican former footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder.

Darron Thomas Daniel Gibson is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for the Republic of Ireland national team.

Sara Chafak is a Finnish beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Finland 2012 and represented Finland in Miss Universe 2012.

Marco Davide Faraoni is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a right-back.

Isabella Shinikova is a Bulgarian tennis player.

Davide Formolo is an Italian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team. Formolo turned professional in 2014.

Gor Minasyan is an Armenian-Bahraini weightlifter, and two-time Olympic medalist competing in the super-heavyweight category.

Federico Chiesa is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Liverpool and the Italy national team.

Clara Soccini, known professionally by the mononym Clara, is an Italian singer-songwriter, actress and model.