Famous Birthdays on September 8

Bernard Sanders is an American politician and activist serving as the senior United States senator from Vermont, a seat he has held since 2007. He is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, but maintains a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020. Ideologically a democratic socialist, Sanders is regarded as one of the main leaders of the 21st-century American progressive movement.

Tim Bergling, known professionally as Avicii, was a Swedish DJ, remixer, and record producer. His music consisted primarily of pop-oriented house music, often blended with other genres such as folk, country, bluegrass, soul, and blues. He is considered one of the most popular and successful electronic dance music (EDM) artists of all time and is credited with "leading EDM into the mainstream".

David Arquette is an American actor, producer, and retired professional wrestler. He began his acting career with a main role as Keith "Two-Bit" Matthews on the Fox drama television series The Outsiders (1990), and he made his film debut with a supporting role in Where the Day Takes You (1992). Arquette continued acting in television during the early-to-mid 1990s, with main roles as Tod Hawks on the NBC sitcom Parenthood (1990–1991) and Hunter on the CBS sitcom Double Rush (1995), and had starring roles in the films Wild Bill (1995) and Johns (1996).

Richard I, known as Richard the Lionheart or Richard Cœur de Lion because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior, was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Gascony; Lord of Cyprus; Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes; and was overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period. He was the third of five sons of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and was therefore not expected to become king, but his two elder brothers predeceased their father.

Gaetano John "Gaten" Matarazzo III is an American actor. He began his career on the Broadway stage as Benjamin in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (2011–12), followed by Gavroche in Les Misérables (2014–15). Matarazzo gained international recognition for playing Dustin Henderson in the Netflix science-fiction-horror drama series Stranger Things (2016–2025). He also hosted the Netflix show Prank Encounters (2019–2021). In 2022, he co-starred in the coming-of-age comedy film Honor Society and voiced Boris the Dragon on the animated fantasy comedy film My Father's Dragon. In 2025, he starred in the animated film Animal Farm, in which he voiced the character Lucky. In 2026, he starred in and was the executive producer for the stoner comedy Pizza Movie.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas is an American actor and director. He is known for portraying Randy Taylor on Home Improvement (1991–1998) and Pinocchio in the film The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996), and voicing young Simba in the animated film The Lion King (1994).

Peter Sellers was an English actor and comedian. He first came to prominence with his performances on the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show. Sellers was featured on a number of hit comic songs and became internationally acclaimed for his film roles, most notably as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series.

Bruno Miguel Borges Fernandes is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club Manchester United, which he captains, and the Portugal national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best attacking midfielders in the world.

Cameron Jibril Thomaz, known professionally as Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and actor. Raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he signed with the local independent label Rostrum Records to release his debut studio album, Show and Prove (2006). His contract entered a short-lived joint venture with Warner Bros. Records the following year. His Eurodance-influenced 2008 single "Say Yeah" received urban radio airplay and entered both the Rhythmic Top 40 and Hot Rap Songs charts, becoming his first minor hit.

Tanea Brooks, better known by the ring name Rebel, is an American professional wrestler. As of 2019, she is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). She is also known for her work in Impact Wrestling.

Martin John Christopher Freeman is an English actor. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he has received various accolades, including two Emmy Awards, and a British Academy Television Award, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award.

Patsy Cline was an American singer. One of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century, she was known as one of the first country music artists to successfully cross over into pop music. Cline had several major hits during her eight-year recording career, including two number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Country and Western Sides chart.

Charles Julius Guiteau was an American office seeker who assassinated the 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, in 1881. A failed lawyer suffering from mental illness, Guiteau delusionally believed he had played a major role in Garfield's election victory, for which he should have been rewarded with a consulship. Guiteau felt frustrated and offended by the Garfield administration's rejections of his applications to serve in Vienna or Paris to such a degree that he shot Garfield in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 1881. Garfield died on September 19 from infections related to the wounds. Caught immediately after shooting Garfield, Guiteau was tried, convicted, and publicly executed by hanging on June 30, 1882.

Asha Bhosle was an Indian playback singer and actress who predominantly worked in Indian cinema. Known for her versatility, she was described in the media as one of the greatest and most influential singers in Hindi cinema. In a career spanning over eight decades, she recorded songs for films and albums in various Indian languages and won several accolades including two National Film Awards, four BFJA Awards, eighteen Maharashtra State Film Awards, nine Filmfare Awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award and a record seven Filmfare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer, in addition to two Grammy nominations. In 2000, she was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in the field of cinema. In 2008, she was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian honour of the country. The Guinness Book of World Records acknowledged her in 2011 as the most recorded artist in music history.

Aimee Elizabeth Mann is an American singer-songwriter. She is noted for her sardonic and literate lyrics about dark subjects, often describing underdog characters. She has released ten albums as a solo artist.

Brooke Lisa Burke is an American television and fitness personality, model, author, actress, and businesswoman. She is known for hosting the E! Network travel show Wild On! (1999–2002), CBS's Rock Star (2005–2006), and TV Land's She's Got the Look (2010). After winning the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars, Burke served as co-hostess of the show from seasons 10 to 17 (2010–2013). In 2017, Burke launched "Brooke Burke Body," a fitness app with workout videos featuring her. Since 2023, Brooke has served as the host of Penn & Teller: Fool Us, joining the series in its 10th season.

Nidal Malik Hasan is an American former United States Army major, physician, and mass murderer convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting on November 5, 2009. Hasan, an Army Medical Corps psychiatrist, admitted to the shootings at his court-martial in August 2013.

Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, referred to mononymously as Kennedy, is an American Republican political commentator, radio personality, author, and former MTV VJ. She is a commentator on Fox News Channel, a primary guest host of Fox's Outnumbered and The Five, host of the podcast Kennedy Saves The World on Fox News Radio and a columnist for The Daily Mail. Kennedy was the host of MTV's now-defunct daily late-night alternative-rock program Alternative Nation throughout much of the 1990s. She hosted Kennedy on the Fox Business Network from 2015 to 2023.

Leslie Herbert Wexner is an American billionaire businessman and political activist. He is the co-founder and chair emeritus of Bath & Body Works, Inc. He has been the principal in Abercrombie & Fitch, Victoria's Secret and La Senza, amongst several other retail corporations.

Benjamin Orr was an American musician. He was best known as the bassist, co-lead vocalist, and co-founder of the band the Cars. He sang lead vocals on several of their hits, including "Just What I Needed", "Let's Go", "Moving in Stereo", and "Drive". He also had the solo hit "Stay the Night".

Lewis Kieran Hall is an English professional footballer who plays as a left-back or midfielder for Premier League club Newcastle United and the England national team.

Thomas Kretschmann is a German actor who has appeared in many European and American films. Best known for portraying historical or fictional military officers, his notable roles include Lieutenant Hans von Witzland in Stalingrad (1993), Hauptmann Wilm Hosenfeld in The Pianist (2002), Hermann Fegelein in Downfall (2004), Captain Englehorn in King Kong (2005), Major Otto Remer in Valkyrie (2008), the voice of Professor Z in Cars 2 (2011), and the journalist Jürgen Hinzpeter in A Taxi Driver (2017). He also portrayed Baron Wolfgang von Strucker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war with his "Soldier's Declaration" of July 1917, which resulted in his being sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital. During this period, Sassoon met and formed a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume, fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the Sherston trilogy, which is made up of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1936). Sassoon is also known for his poetry collection The Old Huntsman (1917).

Emma Laird is an English actress. On television, she is known for her role in the Paramount+ series Mayor of Kingstown (2021–2024). Her films include A Haunting in Venice (2023), The Brutalist (2024) and Satisfaction (2025). She was named a 2025 Screen International Star of Tomorrow.

Gary Andrew Speed was a Welsh professional footballer and manager. As manager of Wales, he was often credited as being the catalyst for the change in fortunes of the national team and as setting the pathway to future successes.

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell.

Lachlan Keith Murdoch is a businessman and mass media heir. He is the son of the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. He is the executive chairman of Nova Entertainment, chairman of News Corp, executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation. In 2025, Murdoch's net worth was estimated at A$3.21 billion, as published in the Financial Review Rich List.

Isaac Sidney Caesar was an American comic actor and comedian. With a career spanning 60 years, he was best known for two pioneering 1950s live television series: Your Show of Shows (1950–1954), which was a 90-minute weekly show watched by 60 million people, and its successor, Caesar's Hour (1954–1957), both of which influenced later generations of comedians. Your Show of Shows and its cast received seven Emmy nominations between 1953 and 1954 and tallied two wins. He also acted in films; he played Coach Calhoun in Grease (1978) and its sequel Grease 2 (1982) and appeared in the films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Silent Movie (1976), History of the World, Part I (1981), Cannonball Run II (1984), and Vegas Vacation (1997).

Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana. Dvořák's style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them", and Dvořák has been described as "arguably the most versatile... composer of his time".

Kate Scott is an English sports broadcaster who works primarily for CBS Sports. She is noted for her coverage of association football, and has anchored CBS's coverage of the UEFA Champions League since August 2020. Throughout her career, she has worked internationally in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany, and the United States.

Za'Darius Smith is an American professional football defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the East Mississippi Lions and Kentucky Wildcats. He was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the fourth round of the 2015 NFL draft. He also played for the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions and Philadelphia Eagles.

James Norman Mattis is an American military officer who served as the 26th United States secretary of defense from 2017 to 2019. A retired Marine Corps four-star general, he commanded forces in the Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War.

Gerrit Alan Cole is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Houston Astros. Cole played for the baseball team at Orange Lutheran High School and was selected by the Yankees in the first round of the 2008 MLB draft. Cole opted not to sign and instead attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he played college baseball for the UCLA Bruins.

Joseph Charles Buttler is an English international cricketer and the former captain of the England cricket team. He plays for Lancashire in domestic cricket and has played in multiple T20 leagues. Widely regarded as England's greatest-ever white-ball cricketer, he is known for his innovative and aggressive batting style. He was part of the England team that won the 2019 ODI World Cup and led the team to victory at the 2022 T20 World Cup.

Heather Thomas is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Jody Banks on The Fall Guy TV series opposite Lee Majors. She retired from acting in 1998 to avoid stalkers, to focus on her family, and to pursue writing. Since her retirement from acting, she has had some minor film appearances and has participated in political activism. She returned to acting in 2013.

Gylfi Þór Sigurðsson is an Icelandic professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Besta deild karla club Víkingur Reykjavík and the Iceland national team.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was an American college professor and politician from Maine who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army. He became a highly respected and decorated Union officer, reaching the rank of brigadier general. He is best known for his gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg, leading a bayonet charge, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.

Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. was an American political activist who founded the LaRouche movement and its main organization, the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC). He was a prominent conspiracy theorist and perennial presidential candidate. He began in far-left politics in the 1940s and later supported the civil rights movement; however, in the 1970s, he moved to the far-right. His movement is sometimes described as, or likened to, a cult. Convicted of fraud, he served five years in prison from 1989 to 1994.

Keane are an English alternative rock band from Battle, East Sussex, formed in 1995. The band comprises Tom Chaplin, Tim Rice-Oxley, Richard Hughes and Jesse Quin. Their original line-up included guitarist Dominic Scott, who left in 2001.

Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. was an American politician and lawyer who represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 1939 until his death in 1953. A member of the Republican Party, he briefly served as Senate majority leader and was a leader of the conservative coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats who blocked expansion of the New Deal. Often referred to as "Mr. Republican", he co-sponsored the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947, which banned closed shops, created the framework of right-to-work states, and tightened other regulations on labor unions and practices.

Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika, widely known as Bhupen Hazarika, was an Indian singer, songwriter, writer, filmmaker and politician from Assam. He wrote songs mainly in the Assamese language, which are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood. His songs have been translated into many languages, most notably in Bengali and Hindi.

Lily Sullivan is an Australian actress. She played Coral in the 2012 film Mental and Miranda in the 2018 television series Picnic at Hanging Rock. She plays leading roles in two 2023 feature films, the Australian sci-fi thriller Monolith and the American horror film Evil Dead Rise.

Neko Richelle Case is an American singer-songwriter and member of the Canadian indie rock group the New Pornographers. Case's singing voice has been described by contemporaries and critics as a "flamethrower", her "powerhouse [voice] seems like it might level buildings," "a 120-mph fastball," and a "vocal tornado". Critics also note her idiosyncratic, "cryptic," "imagistic" lyrics, and credit her as a significant figure in the early 21st-century American revival of the tenor guitar. Case's body of work has spanned and drawn on a range of traditions including country, folk, art rock, indie rock, and pop and is frequently described as resisting classification.

Gojong, personal name Yi Jaehwang, later changed to Yi Hui, also known as the Gwangmu Emperor, was the penultimate Korean monarch. He ruled Korea for 43 years, from 1864 until his forced abdication in 1907, initially as the 26th king of Joseon, and then as the first emperor of the Korean Empire. His wife, Queen Min, played an active role in politics until her assassination carried out by the Japanese.

Sir Harry Donald Secombe was a Welsh actor, comedian, singer and television presenter. Secombe was a member of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show (1951–1960), playing many characters, most notably Neddie Seagoon. An accomplished tenor, he also appeared in musicals and films – notably as Mr Bumble in Oliver! (1968) – and, in his later years, was a presenter of television shows incorporating hymns and other devotional songs.

Zak James Butters is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Butters won the AFLCA champion player of the year award in 2023, and is a three-time All-Australian, three-time John Cahill Medallist and dual Robert Rose Award winner.

James Charles Rodgers was an American singer, songwriter, and musician who rose to popularity in the late 1920s. Known as Jimmie Rodgers and widely regarded as the "Father of Country Music", he is best known for his distinctive yodeling. Rodgers was known as "The Singing Brakeman" and "America's Blue Yodeler". He has been cited as an inspiration by many artists, and he has been inducted into multiple halls of fame.

Troy Jayson Sanders is an American musician, best known as the bassist and one of the vocalists of heavy metal band Mastodon. He is also active in the supergroups Killer Be Killed and Gone Is Gone and is the current touring bassist for rock band Thin Lizzy.

Scott Levy, also known as Raven, is an American professional wrestler who historically competed for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). Besides ECW, he is best known for his appearances with other professional wrestling promotions such as World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) / World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and NWA Total Nonstop Action (TNA).

Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, also known as H. F. Verwoerd, was a Dutch-born South African politician, academic, and newspaper editor who served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966.

Ronald Charles McKernan, known as Pigpen, was an American musician. He was a founding member of the San Francisco band the Grateful Dead and played in the group from 1965 to 1972.

Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, personal name Li Longji, was an emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, reigning from 712 to 756. His reign of 44 years was the longest during the Tang dynasty. Through two palace coups, he seized the throne and inherited an empire still in its golden age. He was initially assisted by capable chancellors like Yao Chong, Song Jing and Zhang Yue who were already serving as government officials before Xuanzong ascended the throne. Under Emperor Xuanzong, the empire reached its turning point and went into sharp decline and near collapse, due to political missteps, such as over-trusting chancellors Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong and general An Lushan, with Tang's golden age ending in the An Lushan rebellion.

Lars Taylor-Tatsuji Nootbaar is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals. On the international level, he represents the Japan national baseball team.

Matthew William "Delly" Dellavedova is an Australian professional basketball player for the Sydney Kings of the National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for Saint Mary's College. In 2016, he won the NBA championship as a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers. As a member of the Australian national team, he won bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Anne Catherine Emmerich, CRV was a Catholic Augustinian canoness of the Congregation of Windesheim. During her lifetime, she was a mystic, Marian visionary and stigmatist.

Ellie Tea Kildunne is an English rugby player. She is a member of the Red Roses and Bristol Bears of Premiership Women's Rugby at the club level, while also playing sevens in the past. Kildunne was the recipient of the World Rugby Women's 15s Player of the Year at the 2024 World Rugby Awards. She was a 2025 World Cup winner, scoring the opening try in the final for England, and was voted runner-up for the 2025 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.

Toyotomi Hideyori was the son and designated successor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the general who united all of Japan toward the end of the Sengoku period. His mother, Yodo-dono, was the niece of Oda Nobunaga.

Adrian Joseph Cronauer was an American radio personality and United States Air Force Sergeant, whose experiences as an innovative disc jockey on American Forces Network during the Vietnam War inspired the 1987 film Good Morning, Vietnam starring Robin Williams as Cronauer.

Margaret Eve Hodge, Baroness Hodge of Barking, is a British politician and life peer, who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Barking from 1994 to 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she was previously Leader of Islington London Borough Council from 1982 to 1992. She has held a number of ministerial roles and served as chair of the Public Accounts Committee from 2010 to 2015.

Christopher Dylan Judd is a former professional Australian rules footballer and investment manager. He captained both the West Coast Eagles and Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.

Yolande de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac was the favourite of Marie Antoinette, whom she met when she was presented at the Palace of Versailles in 1775, the year after Marie Antoinette became the Queen of France. She was considered one of the great beauties of pre-Revolutionary society, but her extravagance and exclusivity earned her many enemies.

Swami Sivananda Saraswati, also called Swami Sivananda, was a yoga guru, a Hindu spiritual teacher, and a proponent of Vedanta. Sivananda was born in Pattamadai, in the Tirunelveli district of modern Tamil Nadu, and was named Kuppuswami. He studied medicine and served in British Malaya as a physician for several years before taking up monasticism.

Samuel Augustus Nunn Jr. is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia (1972–1997) as a member of the Democratic Party. While in the Senate, Nunn was involved in the Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, which aims to dismantle weapons of mass destruction, originally in the former Soviet Union. Nunn was also involved in the Goldwater–Nichols Act, which reformed the Department of Defense.

Maurice Edward Cheeks is an American professional basketball coach and former player who serves as an assistant coach for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has also served as head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, Philadelphia 76ers, and Detroit Pistons. Cheeks was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 2018. He was the first player with 2,000 steals solely in the NBA.

Morten Gamst Pedersen is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. During his spell for Blackburn Rovers in the Premier League he was known for his skill and long range goals.

Peter Michael Whittingham was an English professional footballer. His primary position was as a central midfielder, although he also sometimes operated as a wide midfielder on both the left and right.

Nguyễn Cao Kỳ was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965 to 1967. Then, until his retirement from politics in 1971, he served as vice president to bitter rival General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, in a nominally civilian administration.

Peter Andrew Furler is an Australian musician, songwriter, producer and record executive, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of the Christian rock band Newsboys from 1986 to 2009.

Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, known as le Grand Condé, was a French military commander. A tactician and strategist, he is regarded as one of France's greatest generals, particularly celebrated for his triumphs in the Thirty Years' War and his campaigns during the Franco-Dutch War.

Miles James "Deuce" McBride is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the West Virginia Mountaineers.

Markus Babbel is a German professional football coach and former player who most recently managed Western Sydney Wanderers FC. He played as a defender for clubs in Germany and England. Babbel won the UEFA Cup twice: in 1996 with Bayern Munich and in 2001 with Liverpool. He was also a member of the Germany squad that won UEFA Euro 96.

Ludovico Ariosto was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516-1532). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, describes the adventures of Charlemagne, Orlando, and the Franks as they battle against the Saracens with diversions into many sideplots. The poem is transformed into a satire of the chivalric tradition. Ariosto composed the poem in the ottava rima rhyme scheme and introduced narrative commentary throughout the work.

Alfred Jarry was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealist, and Futurist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and later the theatre of the absurd in the 1950s and 1960s. He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics.

Kelly Groucutt was an English musician best known as the bassist and secondary vocalist for the rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) between 1974 and 1982.

Michael Brant Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, executive director of The Skeptics Society, and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, a publication focused on investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The author of over a dozen books, Shermer is known for engaging in debates on pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific skepticism.

John Martin McDonnell is a British Labour Party politician who served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2015 to 2020. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hayes and Harlington since 1997.

Ali ibn Muhammad al-Hadi was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the tenth Imam in Twelver Shia, succeeding his father, Muhammad al-Jawad. Born in Medina in 828, Ali is known with the titles al-Hādī and al-Naqī. After the death of his father in 835, most followers of al-Jawad readily accepted the imamate of Ali, who was still a child at the time. Drawing parallels with the story of young Jesus in the Quran, Twelver sources attribute an exceptional innate knowledge to Ali which qualified him for the imamate despite his young age.

Catherine of Bologna was an Italian Poor Clare, writer, teacher, mystic, artist, and saint. The patron saint of artists and against temptations, she was venerated for nearly three centuries in her native Bologna before being formally canonized in 1712 by Pope Clement XI. Her feast day is 9 March.

Kimberly Ane Peirce is an American filmmaker, best known for her debut feature film, Boys Don't Cry (1999). Peirce's second feature, Stop-Loss, was released by Paramount Pictures in 2008. Her third film Carrie was released on October 18, 2013. In addition to directing and writing, she is a governor of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and a National Board member of the Directors Guild of America.

Tèmítọ́pẹ́ Títílọlá "Temi" Fágbénlé is an American-born Nigerian-British professional basketball player who has, most recently, featured for the Toronto Tempo of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and Chinese League side Henan. She has represented the Great Britain women's team since 2012, making her competitive debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Wendell Hampton Ford was an American politician from Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 53rd governor of Kentucky from 1971 to 1974, and as a member of the United States Senate from 1974 to 1999. He was the first person to be successively elected lieutenant governor of Kentucky, governor, and United States Senate member in Kentucky history. He was the Senate Democratic whip from 1991 to 1999, and was considered the leader of the state's Democratic Party from his election as governor in 1971 until he retired from the Senate in 1999. At the time of his retirement he was the longest-serving senator in Kentucky's history, a mark which was then surpassed by Mitch McConnell, in 2009. Ford is the last Democrat to have served as a U.S. Senate member from the state of Kentucky.

Archie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He worked on a number of comic strips in addition to comic books, and is known for his Warren and Marvel Comics work. For Warren he was chief writer and editor of landmark horror anthology titles Creepy and Eerie between 1964 and 1967. At Marvel, he served as the company's editor-in-chief from 1976 to the end of 1977. In the 1980s, he edited the publisher's anthology magazine Epic Illustrated and its Epic Comics imprint. He is also known for his work on Star Wars in both comic books and newspaper strips. He is regularly cited as the "best-loved comic book editor, ever."

Kathryn Moira Beaton is a Canadian comics artist who created the comic strip Hark! A Vagrant, which ran from 2007 to 2018. Her other works include the children's books The Princess and the Pony (2015) and King Baby (2016), and the memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (2022). Publishers Weekly named Ducks one of their top ten books of the year. In 2022, The Princess and the Pony was adapted into the Apple TV+ series Pinecone & Pony, on which Beaton worked as an executive producer.

Michael Frayn, FRSL is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy.

Marco Johann Sturm is a German professional ice hockey coach and former player who is the head coach for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL). As a forward, he played in the National Hockey League and Deutsche Eishockey Liga from 1995 to 2013.

David Oman McKay was an American religious leader and educator who served as the ninth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1951 until his death in 1970. Ordained an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1906, McKay was an active general authority for nearly 64 years, longer than anyone else in LDS Church history.

Rigoberto Jovany Sanchez is an American professional football punter and kickoff specialist for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors and was signed by the Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2017.

Elsabeth Ann Black is a Canadian artistic gymnast. She is a four-time Olympian, having represented her country at the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 Olympic games. She is the 2017 World all-around silver medallist, making her the first Canadian gymnast to win a world all-around medal, and she led the Canadian women's gymnastics team to a bronze medal in the 2022 World Championships team final, the first world team medal won by a Canadian gymnastics team. She won a silver medal on the balance beam at the 2022 World Championships. She is a two-time Commonwealth Games all-around champion, a two-time Pan American Games all-around champion, and a six-time Canadian national all-around champion. At the 2020 Olympic Games, Black placed fourth in the balance beam final, the highest placement in the Olympics for a female Canadian gymnast.

Marin Mersenne, OM was a French polymath whose works touched a wide variety of fields. He is perhaps best known today among mathematicians for Mersenne prime numbers, those written in the form Mn = 2n − 1 for some integer n. He also developed Mersenne's laws, which describe the harmonics of a vibrating string, and his seminal work on music theory, Harmonie universelle, for which he is referred to as the "father of acoustics".

Amanda Inez Knight Allen was an American Mormon missionary and politician. In 1898, she became one of the first two single women to be missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Georg Michaelis was the imperial chancellor of the German Empire for a few months in 1917 during the First World War. He was the first commoner to hold the post, though the Supreme Army Command under Paul von Hindenburg had de facto control over the country.

Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field.

Ansgar, also known as Anskar, Saint Ansgar, Saint Anschar or Oscar, was Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen in the northern part of the Kingdom of the East Franks. Ansgar became known as the "Apostle of the North" because of his travels and the See of Hamburg received the missionary mandate to bring Christianity to Northern Europe.

Vitaly Aleksandrovich Petrov is a Russian racing driver, who currently competes in the 2025 Middle East Trophy for SMP Racing, He previously competed in Formula One from 2010 to 2012.

Alexander Israel Helphand, better known as Alexander Parvus, was a Russian-born Marxist theorist, journalist, and activist who became a prominent figure in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

Jacobus Petrus "Os" du Randt is a South African former rugby union player. A loosehead prop, he retired as the most-capped forward in the history of the South Africa national team, and won two Rugby World Cups, in 1995 and 2007. He ended his career as one of the last remaining international players from the amateur era of the sport and the last active member of the 1995 World Cup-winning squad. His final match was the 2007 Rugby World Cup final, which the Springboks won, with Du Randt playing the entire 80 minutes. He is one of 43 players who have won the Rugby World Cup on multiple occasions.

Anastasia Phillips is a Canadian actress. She appeared in films Don't Talk to Irene (2017), Ghostland (2018) and Tammy's Always Dying (2019), and the TV series Bomb Girls and Reign. In 2021, she began starring in the CBC drama series, Moonshine.

Stefan Nils Edwin Johansson is a Swedish former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One between 1980 and 1991. In endurance racing, Johansson won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1997 with Joest.

Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral was an Occitan writer and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his significant work as a Provençal philologist". Mistral was a founding member of the Félibrige and member of the Académie de Marseille.

Claude Denson Pepper was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 to 1951, and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 until his death in 1989. He was considered a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly.

Sal Valentino is an American rock musician, singer and songwriter, best known as lead singer of The Beau Brummels, subsequently becoming a songwriter as well. The band released a pair of top 20 U.S. hit singles in 1965, "Laugh, Laugh" and "Just a Little". He later fronted another band, Stoneground, which produced three albums in the early 1970s. After reuniting on numerous occasions with the Beau Brummels, Valentino began a solo career, releasing his latest album, Every Now and Then, in 2008.

Ferdinand IV was made and crowned King of Bohemia in 1646, King of Hungary and Croatia in 1647, and King of the Romans on 31 May 1653. He also served as Duke of Cieszyn.

Elena Semikina is a Moldovan Canadian actress, model, producer and beauty pageant titleholder. Semikina was crowned Miss Universe Canada 2010 in Toronto, Ontario, on June 14, 2010. She represented Canada at the Miss Universe 2010 beauty pageant held in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. on August 23, 2010. Semikina conceived and executive-produced the feature documentary film Our Man in Tehran about the Iran Hostage Crisis. It premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival a year after Ben Affleck's feature film, Argo, a scripted drama about the same events, premiered at the same festival.

Nino Niederreiter is a Swiss professional ice hockey player who is a winger for the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected fifth overall by the New York Islanders in the 2010 NHL entry draft, making him the highest-drafted Swiss hockey player in NHL history at the time. Niederreiter made his NHL debut with the Islanders early in the 2010–11 season before being returned to his junior club, the Portland Winterhawks of the Western Hockey League (WHL). Prior to coming to North America, Niederreiter had played in the junior system of the Swiss team HC Davos and appeared in three playoff games for the senior club in 2010.

Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople, also Dimitrios I or Demetrius I, born Demetrios Papadopoulos, was the 269th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 16 July 1972, until his death in October 1991, serving as the primus inter pares and spiritual leader of 300 million Eastern Orthodox Christians.

Bernardino of Siena, OFM, was an Italian Catholic priest and Franciscan missionary preacher in the Republic of Siena. He was a systematizer of scholastic economics.

David Michael Carr was an American columnist, author, and newspaper editor. He wrote a column, Media Equation and covered culture for The New York Times.

Magdalena "Magda" Lilly Eriksson is a Swedish professional footballer who plays for Frauen-Bundesliga side Bayern Munich. Primarily a centre-back, she can also play as a left-back. She represented Sweden at international level, and earned 123 caps between 2014 and 2025.

Christoph von Dohnányi was a German conductor. He was music director and later artistic director at the Oper Frankfurt until 1977, establishing innovative opera. He was music director of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1984 to 2002, leading the orchestra in recordings with various labels and on international tours to Europe and Asia. He was principal conductor of London's Philharmonia Orchestra from 1997 to 2008, touring Europe including a series of opera performances at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. He was chief conductor of the NDR Symphony Orchestra from 2004 to 2010.

Bradley Cain is an American author, personal trainer and professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Lodi. Cain is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) between 1997 and 2000, where he was a member of Raven's Flock stable and the tag team The West Hollywood Blondes.

Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig, most often referred to as N. F. S. Grundtvig, was a Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and politician. He was one of the most influential people in Danish history, as his philosophy gave rise to a new form of nationalism in the last half of the 19th century. It was steeped in the national literature and supported by deep spirituality.

José María Pino Suárez was a Mexican lawyer, statesman, politician, and journalist who served as the 7th and last Vice President of Mexico from 1911 until his assassination during the Ten Tragic Days coup in 1913. A close ally of President Francisco I. Madero and a prominent figure of the Mexican Revolution, he is considered a national hero for championing democratic reforms and advocating social justice. Between 1910 and 1913, he also served as President of the Senate, Secretary of Education, Governor of Yucatán, and Secretary of Justice in Madero's provisional government. He was the great-grandson of Pedro Sáinz de Baranda y Borreyro, the naval commander who founded the Mexican Navy and expelled the last Spanish forces from national territory during the Mexican War of Independence.

Timothy Ernest Gullikson was a tennis player and coach who was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin and grew up in Onalaska, Wisconsin in the United States.

Tanikaze Kajinosuke was a Japanese sumo wrestler from the Edo period. Officially recognized as the fourth yokozuna, he was however effectively the first, as he was the first to be awarded the title during his lifetime. He achieved great fame and, though championships from this period are unofficial, he achieved the equivalent of 21 tournament championships. He was also the coach of Raiden Tameemon.

Dustin O'Halloran is an American composer and pianist. Aside from releasing music as a recording artist, O'Halloran is a film and TV composer, as well as one half of ambient act A Winged Victory for the Sullen.

Michael J. Brown, also known as "Wild" Mick Brown, is an American retired drummer who played in the rock bands Dokken, Lynch Mob, The End Machine, and Xciter, as well as in Ted Nugent's band.

Yassine Benzia is a professional footballer. He currently represents the Algeria national team. He mainly plays as an attacking or a central midfielder but can also play as a winger or striker.

Charles Martel of the Capetian dynasty was the eldest son of king Charles II of Naples and Mary of Hungary, the daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary.

Eduard Friedrich Mörike was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk songs, while others were used by composers Hugo Wolf and Ignaz Lachner in their symphonic works.

Eric Hutchinson is an American singer-songwriter best known for his songs "Rock & Roll", "OK, It's Alright with Me", "Not There Yet", "Watching You Watch Him", and "Tell the World". Hutchinson was named an AOL "About to Pop" artist, Yahoo! Who's Next Artist, MSN "One to Watch" Artist and a "VH1 You Oughta Know" Artist. Hutchinson also wrote and performed the theme song for ESPN's Fantasy Focus podcast.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel was a German scholar, critic, Orientalist, Indologist, translator and poet. With his brother Friedrich Schlegel, he was a leading influence within Jena Romanticism. His translations of Shakespeare turned the English dramatist's works into German classics.

Ann Beattie is an American novelist and short story writer. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form.

Sir Denys Louis Lasdun, was an English architect. Hailed as "the greatest English architect of the early heroic modern period", his most known work is the Royal National Theatre, on London's South Bank of the Thames, which is a Grade II* listed building and one of the most notable examples of Brutalist design in the United Kingdom.

Wong Kan Seng is a Singaporean former politician who served as the fifth Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, from 2005 to 2011. Currently, he is the chairman of both UOB Bank and CapitaLand Group.

Quentin LaMar Cook is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Currently, he is the fifth most senior apostle in the church. Prior to his calling as an Apostle, he worked as a lawyer and business executive.

Rogatien Rosaire Vachon is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played 16 seasons for the Montreal Canadiens, Los Angeles Kings, Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League from 1967 to 1982.

William Charles Wentworth, usually known as Bill Wentworth and sometimes referred to as William Charles Wentworth IV, was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party for most of his career and held ministerial office in the governments of John Gorton and William McMahon, serving as Minister for Social Services (1968–1972) and Minister in charge of Aboriginal Affairs (1968–1971). Wentworth served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1977, representing the New South Wales seat of Mackellar. He frequently crossed the floor and served his final months in parliament as an independent.

Jason Joseph Mattera is an American writer, conservative activist, radio host, and Emmy-nominated journalist. Originally from New York City, Mattera started in conservative political activism as a student at Roger Williams University. In 2010, Mattera released his first New York Times bestseller, Obama Zombies. Mattera's second book, Hollywood Hypocrites, was published in 2012, and his third book, Crapitalism, was published in 2014, all by Simon & Schuster. Mattera was editor of Human Events magazine from 2010–12, and from 2010–13 hosted a weekend talk show on the New York City radio station 77 WABC.

Marion Brown was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, writer, visual artist, and ethnomusicologist. He was a member of the avant-garde jazz scene in New York City during the 1960s, playing alongside musicians such as John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, and John Tchicai. He performed on Coltrane's landmark 1965 album Ascension. AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow described him as "one of the brightest and most lyrical voices of the 1960s avant-garde."

John Greeley Jenkins was an American-Australian politician. He was Premier of South Australia from 1901 to 1905. He had previously served as Minister for Education and the Northern Territory and Commissioner for Public Works under Thomas Playford II, Commissioner of Public Works under Charles Kingston and Chief Secretary under Frederick Holder. He was subsequently Agent-General for South Australia from 1905 to 1908. He also played a major role in an agreement between the States about the River Murray, and in continuing attempts to develop the Northern Territory.

Esther Sans Takeuchi is a materials scientist and chemical engineer, working on energy storage systems and power sources for biomedical devices. She is also a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and a chief scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She holds more than 150 U.S. patents. “The battery was invented once and reinvented over 100 times. I don’t own the patent. The company does. It was called Greatbatch. Now it’s called Integer Corp. When you join a company, you sign over your patent rights to the company.”

Tim Gajser is a Slovenian professional motocross racer. He has competed in the FIM Motocross World Championships since 2012. Gajser is a four-time MXGP & a MX2 World Champion. Gajser ranks fifth on the all-time list of FIM Motocross World Championship Grand Prix wins.

Silas Seth Weeks was an American composer who played mandolin, violin, banjo and guitar. Although he played many instruments he concentrated professionally on the mandolin. He is considered to be the first African American to play mandolin during its golden period and was considered instrumental in bringing the mandolin to the prominent national standing that it had in the early 1900s. He was the first American known to write a mandolin concerto and led a mandolin and guitar orchestra in Tacoma, Washington.

Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg was a noted French writer, ethnographer, historian, archaeologist, and Catholic priest. He became a specialist in Mesoamerican studies, travelling extensively in the region. His writings, publications, and recovery of historical documents contributed much to knowledge of the region's languages, writing, history and culture, particularly those of the Maya and Aztec civilizations. However, his speculations concerning relationships between the ancient Maya and the lost continent of Atlantis inspired Ignatius L. Donnelly and encouraged the pseudo-science of Mayanism.

Eric Salzman was an American composer, scholar, author, impresario, music critic, and record producer. He is best known for his contributions to 'New Music Theater,' a concept he advanced through both his compositions and writings. He established it as an independent art form, distinct from grand opera and popular musicals, both aesthetically and economically. He co-founded the American Music Theater Festival and was, at the time of his death in 2017, Composer-in-Residence at the Center for Contemporary Opera.

Jack Prelutsky is an American writer of children's poetry who has published over 50 poetry collections. He served as the first U.S. Children's Poet Laureate from 2006 to 2008 when the Poetry Foundation established the award.

Marcel Van Minh Phuc Long Nguyen is a retired German artistic gymnast and three-time Olympian, having represented Germany at the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympic Games. He is the 2012 Olympic silver medalist in the all-around and on parallel bars as well as the 2011 and 2012 European Champion on the latter. He has been a soldier in the Bundeswehr since July 2007, beginning when he was training in the Bundeswehr Sports Development Group in Munich.

Jay McKee is a Canadian coach of the Hamilton Hammers of the American Hockey League and former professional ice hockey defenceman. He spent the majority of his career with the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL), and has also played for the St. Louis Blues and Pittsburgh Penguins. Throughout his career, he has been noted among the NHL's best shot-blockers. McKee was born in Kingston, Ontario, but grew up in Loyalist, Ontario.

David William Kearney, known as Guitar Shorty, was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was known for his explosive guitar style and wild stage antics. Credited with influencing both Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy, Guitar Shorty recorded and toured from the 1950s until the 2020s. In 2017, Billboard magazine said, "his galvanizing guitar work defines modern, top-of-the-line blues-rock. His vocals remain as forceful as ever. Righteous shuffles...blistering, sinuous guitar solos."

Eerik-Niiles Kross is an Estonian politician, diplomat, former chief of intelligence and entrepreneur. He is a member of parliament (Riigikogu). During the 1980s, Kross was a prominent figure in the anti-Soviet non-violent resistance movement in Soviet occupied Estonia. After re-independence, in 1991, he joined Estonia's Foreign Ministry. He served as the head of intelligence from 1995 to 2000; and as national security advisor to former President Lennart Meri in 2000 and 2001.

Darlene Joyce Zschech is an Australian Pentecostal Christian worship leader and singer who primarily writes praise and worship songs. Described as a pioneer of the modern worship movement, she is the former worship pastor of Hillsong Church. Zschech is currently a contributing songwriter with CompassionArt, a charity founded by Christian songwriter Martin Smith. Along with her husband, Zschech is the lead pastor of Hope Unlimited Church in New South Wales.

David Botstein was an American biologist. He was the director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University from 2003 to 2013 and was the Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics. From 2013 to 2023, he was the founding Chief Science Officer of Calico, a biotechnology company with a focus on the biology of aging to devise interventions to enable people to lead longer and healthier lives.

Maria Lassnig was an Austrian artist known for her painted self-portraits and her theory of "body awareness". In 1980, she became a professor for Painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she taught until her death. She was the first female artist to win the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1988 and was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 2005.

Timothy Alan Smith was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring names Rex King and Timothy Well. He wrestled in several promotions, including All Japan Pro Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Much of his career was spent wrestling as a tag team with Steve Doll throughout his career. While in WWF, they were known as Well Dunn.

Mary of the Divine Heart, born Maria Droste zu Vischering, was a German religious sister of the Catholic Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd. The former noblewoman is best known for having influenced Pope Leo XIII to consecrate the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pope Leo XIII called the solemn consecration "the greatest act of my pontificate".

Gilbert Allen Meche is an American former right-handed Major League Baseball starting pitcher. He pitched for the Seattle Mariners for six seasons between 1999 and 2006. He also made three straight Opening Day starts with the Kansas City Royals and was an All-Star with them in 2007. Shoulder and back problems caused him to retire in 2011 at just 32 years old.

Gabrial McNair is a musician and composer, most famous for his work in No Doubt since 1993 as a trombonist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist. He recorded and toured with Green Day during the Nimrod and Warning tours, playing trombone and tenor saxophone. In 2003, he was one of the co-founders of the California-based rock band Oslo where he plays the guitar.

Eino Alfred Tainio was a Finnish printer, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) and the Finnish People's Democratic League (SKDL), he represented Lapland Province between April 1945 and March 1970. Prior to being elected, he was imprisoned for twelve years for political reasons.

Nicholas John Hundley is an American former professional baseball catcher and current front office executive. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies, San Francisco Giants, and Oakland Athletics. He was drafted in 2005 by the Padres in the second round, and made his major-league debut in 2008.

Sarah Stup is an American writer and advocate. She writes about community inclusion, education, and her experience in the world as an autistic woman. Her work includes the children's book Do-Si-Do with Autism, a set of gift books, the poetry and essay collection Are Your Eyes Listening? Collected Works, and the novel Paul and His Beast.

Amanda Agnes Sofia Zahui Bazoukou, known professionally as Amanda Zahui B., is a Swedish basketball player for BK Žabiny Brno of the Czech Women's Basketball League. After playing basketball both in Sweden and collegiately with the Minnesota Golden Gophers, Zahui was drafted by the Tulsa Shock with the second overall pick in the 2015 WNBA draft.

Kimberley Woods is a British slalom canoeist who has competed in C1, K1 and KX1 at the international level since 2011. A six time world and eight time European champion, she won the bronze medal in both the K1 event and the first ever women's kayak-cross (KX1) event in Paris at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Daniel Mark Wolpert is a British medical doctor, neuroscientist and engineer, who has made important contributions in computational biology. He was Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 2005, and also became the Royal Society Noreen Murray Research Professorship in Neurobiology from 2013. He is now Professor of Neurobiology at Columbia University.

Carl Stenborg was a Swedish opera singer, composer and theatre director. He belonged to the pioneer generation of the Royal Swedish Opera and was regarded as one of the leading opera singers of the Gustavian era. He was a hovsångare and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

Joachim Nielsen, better known as Jokke, was a Norwegian rock musician and poet. He was the frontman of Norwegian rock band Jokke & Valentinerne, the brother of cartoonist Christopher Nielsen, and son of the artist John David Nielsen. He is considered to be one of the greatest songwriters in Norway.

Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain, was a Quebec lawyer, judge and politician. She was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, the first woman appointed a Cabinet minister in Quebec, the first woman appointed acting premier, and the first woman judge to serve in the Quebec Provincial Court.

Ian Graham Davidson is a Scottish politician who served as chair of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee from 2010 to 2015. A member of the Scottish Labour Party and Co-operative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow South West, formerly Glasgow Pollok, from 1992 to 2015.

Alan Techer is an endurance world champion solo motorcycle racer from France, competing in the EWC championship with Tati Team Beringer Racing. Techer has competed in the French 125 cc Championship, the Spanish 125GP Championship, the FIM CEV Moto2 European Championship and the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup.

Michal Kempný is a Czech professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for Brynäs IF of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Kempný formerly played in the National Hockey League (NHL) and won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Washington Capitals in 2018.

Colonel Robert Samuel McLaughlin, was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He started the McLaughlin Motor Car Company in 1907, one of the first major automobile manufacturers in Canada, which evolved into General Motors of Canada. McLaughlin lived to the age of 100.

Harry Livingston Hillman Jr. was one of the longest serving Dartmouth Track and Field Coaches from 1910–45, and an American track and field athlete who won three gold medals at the 1904 Summer Olympics and a silver at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Tutilo Burger OSB is a German Benedictine. He took as his monastic name Tutilo, after the saint, monk and composer Tuotilo. Since 2011 he has been the eleventh archabbot of Beuron Archabbey, whilst his elder brother Stephan Burger is Archbishop of Freiburg.

Toni Maree Street is a New Zealand television presenter and sports commentator. She is best known for co-hosting the New Zealand current affairs programme Seven Sharp alongside Mike Hosking, as well as presenting morning shows and sports reporting for One News.

Howard Dietz was an American publicist, lyricist, and librettist, best remembered for his songwriting collaboration with Arthur Schwartz. According to historian Stanley Green, Dietz and Schwartz were "most closely identified with the revue form of musical theatre."

Michael Johns is an American conservative commentator, policy analyst, writer, a former speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush. He is a leader and spokesman in the Tea Party movement. He was also a health care executive.

Ozias Humphry was an English painter who specialised in portrait painting, including portrait miniatures. Humphry was elected to the Royal Academy in 1791, and in 1792 he was appointed Portrait Painter in Crayons to the King.

Matheus Tobias Leist is a Brazilian racing driver who last raced for JDC-Miller MotorSports in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. He has previously competed in the IndyCar Series, the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship, and Indy Lights.

Lewis Roberts-Thomson is a former Australian Rules Football player, who played for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League. He has been colloquially known to fans and commentators as either "LRT" or the "Hyphenator".

Benedetta Scuderi is an Italian politician of Green Europe who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. She has served as co-spokesperson of the Federation of Young European Greens from 2022 to 2024.

Mimi Parent was a Canadian surrealist artist. For many years she lived and worked in Paris, France. Her art is known for its symbolism, and the metaphorical use of existing objects, including human hair.

Daiya Maekawa is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for J1 League club Vissel Kobe and the Japan national team. His father is the former Japan national team goalkeeper Kazuya Maekawa.

Halldór Ásgrímsson was an Icelandic politician, who served as prime minister of Iceland from 15 September 2004 to 15 June 2006 and was the leader of the Progressive Party from 1994 to 2006.

Oleksandr Bohdanovych Korpan was a Ukrainian military pilot (captain) of the Ukrainian Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a participant in the Russo-Ukrainian war. He is Hero of Ukraine (2022).

Willem Frederik Johannes Pijper was a Dutch composer, music critic and music teacher. Pijper is considered to be among the most important Dutch composers of the first half of the 20th century.

Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko was a Soviet politician, and a member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was one of the most loyal politicians to Leonid Brezhnev.

Jeffrey Koo Sr. was a Taiwanese billionaire banker and the third-generation of the Koo Family who served as honorary chairman and governor of CTBC Financial Holding, and co-founded the Koos Group.

Jahvillani, born Dujon Mario Edwards, is a Jamaican and dancehall artist from Great Pond, St. Ann, a parish in Jamaica. He has two sisters and was raised by a single parent.

Eugénie "Ninon" Vallin was a French lyric soprano who achieved considerable popularity in opera, operetta and classical song recitals during an international career that lasted for more than four decades.

Nicolas de Grigny was a French organist and composer. He died at the age of 31, leaving behind a single collection of organ music and an ouverture for harpsichord.

Vinko Puljić is a Bosnian Croat prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a cardinal since 1994. He was the archbishop of Vrhbosna from 1991 to 2022.

İbrahim Refik Saydam was a Turkish physician, politician and the fourth Prime Minister of Turkey, serving from 25 January 1939 until his death on 8 July 1942.

Rie Kaneto is a Japanese competitive swimmer who specializes in breaststroke events. She won the gold medal in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez was a Filipino novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. Conferred as the National Artist of the Philippines for Literature in 1997.

Derrick Paul Brown is an American former professional basketball player. Standing at 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m), he played at the power forward position.

Sancho II, nicknamed Sancho the Cowled or Sancho the Capuched, alternatively, Sancho the Pious, was King of Portugal from 1223 to 1248.

Alfonso (Alphonsus) Salmerón, SJ was a Spanish biblical scholar, a Catholic priest, and one of the first Jesuits.

Johann Friedrich Gronovius was a German classical scholar, librarian and critic.

François Francœur was a French composer and violinist from the late Baroque era and the Classical era.

Mustafa IV was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1807 to 1808.

Clelia Maria Giuseppa (Giuseppina) Strepponi was a nineteenth-century Italian operatic soprano of great renown and the second wife of composer Giuseppe Verdi.

Karl Bernhard Woldemar Ferdinand von Ditmar was a Baltic German geologist and explorer, who travelled in and contributed to the scientific understanding of Kamchatka.

Jaime Nunó Roca was a Spanish composer from Catalonia who composed the music for the Mexican national anthem.

Clarence Chatham Cook was a 19th-century American author and art critic.

Wilhelm Raabe was a German novelist. His early works were published under the pseudonym of Jakob Corvinus.

Sir Catchick Paul Chater was a prominent British businessman of Armenian descent in colonial Hong Kong, whose family roots were in Calcutta, India.

William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short fiction and drama. He is best known for his story "The Monkey's Paw".

Théodore Eugène Pilette was a Belgian racing driver and businessman. He started racing in 1903.

Józef Noji was a Polish long-distance runner who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault was a French actor, director and mime artist who worked on both screen and stage.

Jan Boleslav Sedivka, Czech-born, was one of Australia's foremost violinists and teachers.

Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969.

Giovanni Luigi "Gianni" Brera was an Italian sports journalist and novelist.

Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov was a Soviet and Russian poet who wrote in Avar. Among his poems was Zhuravli, which became a well-known Soviet song.

Marie Grace Metalious was an American author known for her novel Peyton Place, one of the best selling works in publishing history.

Maigonis Valdmanis was a Soviet and Latvian basketball player and coach. He was born in Riga.

Bernard Donoughue, Baron Donoughue is a British politician, academic, businessman and author. He is a member of the Labour Party.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.

Barbara Frum, OC was an American-born Canadian radio and television journalist, acclaimed for her interviews for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Edna Adan Ismail is a nurse midwife, activist, and was the first female Foreign Minister of Somaliland from 2003 to 2006.

Jerzy Robert Nowak is a Polish historian, and former columnist in right-wing Catholic media outlets including Nasz Dziennik, Telewizja Trwam, Radio Maryja.

Adelaide C. Eckardt is an American politician who was a member of the Maryland Senate, representing District 37.

Jean-Pierre "Jempi" Monseré was a Belgian road racing cyclist who died while champion of the world.

Ralph Zachary Richard is an American singer-songwriter and poet. His music is a combination of Cajun and Zydeco musical styles.

Dezső Ránki is a Hungarian virtuoso concert pianist with a broad repertoire and a significant discography of solo, duo and concerto works.

Graham Neil Kenneth Mourie is a New Zealand former rugby union player and coach.

Pascal Greggory is a French actor.

Johan Georg Harmenberg Åkerman is a Swedish former Olympic gold medalist and a World champion épée fencer.

Aguri Suzuki is a Japanese former racing driver and motorsport executive who competed in Formula One from 1988 to 1995.

David "Shuffle" Steele is a British musician who was a member of the Beat and Fine Young Cannibals.

Raymond Wilson is a Scottish singer and guitarist, vocalist in the post-grunge band Stiltskin and in Genesis from 1996 to approximately 1999.

Christopher George Robin Powell is an English football manager and former player who is currently assistant manager at EFL League One club Luton Town.

Lars Roar Bohinen is a Norwegian football manager and former professional footballer. His last job was as the manager of Jerv.

Joseph Jean Pierre Sévigny is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Matteo Strukul is an Italian writer and journalist.

Braulio Mauricio Luna Guzmán is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Rick Michaels is an American retired professional wrestler.

Tanaz Eshaghian is an Iranian-born American documentary filmmaker. She resides in New York City.

Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva is a Kazakhstani-born Russian former tennis player. She turned professional in January 1992, at the age of 16.

Jervis Éarlson Drummond Johnson is a Costa Rican former footballer who played as a right-back.

Sjeng Schalken is a coach and a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands.

Daphné Collignon is a French comic book author. She also illustrates children's books.

Lucilla Agosti is an Italian radio and television presenter and actress.

Alecia Beth Moore-Hart, known professionally as Pink, is an American singer and songwriter. She is known for her acrobatic stage presence.

Selim Benachour is a French born Tunisian football coach and former professional player who played as an attacking midfielder.

Diego Orlando Benaglio is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Tiago Treichel Moraes da Silva known as Tiago Treichel or just Tiago is a Brazilian footballer

Carlos Arturo Bacca Ahumada is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Categoría Primera A club Deportivo Cali.

João Filipe Iria Santos Moutinho is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Primeira Liga club Braga.

Alexandre Bilodeau is a Canadian retired freestyle skier from Rosemère, Quebec, who currently resides in Montreal.

Agustina Lepore is a retired Argentine tennis player.

Tokelo Anthony Rantie is a former South African professional soccer player who played as a striker for the South Africa national team.

Elena di Liddo is an Italian swimmer. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 100 m butterfly.

Dennis Slamar is a German footballer who plays as a defender for Chemnitzer FC.

George Christopher Honeyman is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Blackpool.

Jillian Chantel Alleyne is an American professional basketball player for the Tarsus Belediyesi Basketball of the Turkish Super League.

Sebastian Stasiak is a Polish modern pentathlete. He competed in the men's event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Stuart John Moore is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Wycombe Wanderers.

Timotheos Pavlou is a Cypriot footballer who plays as a right-back for Ethnikos Achna FC.

Valeriy Ihorovych Boldenkov is a Moldovan-born Ukrainian footballer who plays as a centre-back for Feniks-Mariupol.

Ye Chugui is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Chinese Super League side Yunnan Yukun.

Celya AB is a French stand-up comedian, writer and actress based in England. She won the Best Newcomer Chortle Award in 2022.

Theresa Ann Fallesen, known professionally as Tessa, is a Danish rapper.

Vivianne Härri is a retired Swiss alpine skier.

Bah Bill Abuzar Mamadou is a Singaporean professional footballer who plays as a defender for Singapore Premier League club Balesier Khalsa.

Nicolas Cantu, also known by his internet pseudonyms Junky Janker and TheCAN2Network, is a Mexican-born American actor and former YouTuber and animator.