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Jack Abramoff Topic Male Feb 28, 1958
Jack Abramoff (born February 28, 1959) is a former lobbyist, and businessman who was a central figure in a series of high-profile political scandals. Abramoff pleaded guilty on January 3, 2006, to three criminal felony counts in a Washington, D.C., federal court related to the defrauding of American Indian tribes and corruption of public officials. The following day he pled guilty to two criminal felony counts in a separate federal court, in Miami, related to his fraudulent dealings with...
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Japanese prife
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Bob Ney Bob Ney Topic Male Jul 5, 1954
Robert William "Bob" Ney (born July 5 1954) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. A Republican, Ney represented Ohio's 18th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 until November 3, 2006, when he resigned. Ney's resignation followed his guilty plea to charges of conspiracy and making false statements in relation to the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal. Ney's best known Congressional work was on the election reform efforts founded in the wake...
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Politician
David Safavian David Safavian Topic Male Aug 4, 1967
David Hossein Safavian (born August 4, 1967) is a former chief of staff of the United States General Services Administration (GSA) and a figure in the Jack Abramoff lobbying and corruption scandal. In 2004, he was an employee of the Office of Management and Budget. He was arrested and charged with crimes in connection with the Abramoff corruption scandal. He was convicted and, on October 27, 2006, sentenced to 18 months in prison. An Iranian American from Detroit, Michigan, Safavian graduated...
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Politician
Kåre Kristiansen   Topic Male Mar 11, 1920
Kåre Gudbrand Kristiansen (March 11, 1920 – December 3, 2005) was a Norwegian politician active in the Christian People's Party. Noted as a conservative within his own party, he was known to take controversial positions at odds with the prevailing consensus. Kristiansen was born in Bergen, the son of a lay preacher. Both his parents were active in the Salvation Army. He started his professional life as a telegraph operator in the Norwegian railroad system, where he rose through the ranks. A...
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Adam Murimuth   Topic Male 1274
Adam Murimuth (circa 1274 - 1347) was an English ecclesiastic and chronicler. He was born in 1274 or 1275 and studied civil law at the University of Oxford. Between 1312 and 1318 he practised in the papal curia at Avignon. King Edward II of England and Archbishop Robert Winchelsey were among his clients, and his legal services secured for him canonries at Hereford and St Paul's, and the precentor of Exeter Cathedral. In 1331 he retired to country living (in Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire), and...
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Carlos Bernard Carlos Bernard as Tony Almeida Topic Male Oct 12, 1962
Carlos Bernard Papierski (born October 12, 1962 in Evanston, Illinois), is an American actor, best known for his role as Tony Almeida in 24. Bernard received a Master of Fine Arts degree from American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco after attending Illinois State University. He performed in A.C.T. stage productions: At the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, he performed in Scenes From an Execution, with Frank Langella. Bernard has made guest appearances on Walker, Texas Ranger, F/X: The...
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Film actor
TV Actor
Christopher Eccleston Topic Male Feb 16, 1964
Christopher Eccleston (, born 16 February 1964) is an English stage, television and film actor. He is well-known for his roles in such high-profile films as Shallow Grave and 28 Days Later, and in 2005 became the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who. Eccleston was born in Little Hulton, near Salford, then Lancashire now Greater Manchester, and raised in a working class family. He was head boy at Joseph Eastham's High School, Hilton Lane, Little Hulton. with a love of Granada and BBC1...
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Film actor
TV Actor
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Chenganoor Raman Pillai   Topic Male Jan 16, 1886
Guru Chenganoor Raman Pillai (January 16, 1886 – November 11, 1980) was an Indian entertainer. He was a Kathakali celebrity in Kerala and palace dancer to the Travancore Maharaja, in a career spanning almost 65 years. He was a master of Kathakali, specializing in the southern style, which gives prominence to abhinaya acting. His book on the southern style known as kaplingadan style is still considered the manual in kathakali training. Thakazhi Kesava Panikker, Mathur Kunju Pilla Panikker, and...
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Francisco Pizarro Nov. 15: Pizarro. Topic Male 1475
Francisco Pizarro González, 1st Marqués de los Atabillos (c. 1471 or 1476 – June 26, 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Inca Empire and founder of Lima, La Ciudad de los Reyes, capital of Peru. Pizarro was born in Trujillo, Extremadura, Spain. Sources differ in the birth year they assign to him: 1471, 1475–1478, or unknown. He was an illegitimate son of Captain Gonzalo Pizarro Rodríguez de Aguilar (senior) (1446-1522) who as colonel of infantry served in the Italian campaigns...
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William Hoare   Topic Male 1707
William Hoare RA (c. 1707 – 12 December, 1792) was an English painter, noted for his pastel. His father apprenticed him to Guiseppi Grisoni with whom Hoare travelled to Rome in 1728. On returning to England in 1738, Hoare settled in Bath, where he became a governor of the hospital. During the 1740's and 1750's he painted a great number of influential politicians and social leaders, including Prime Minister's Pitt and Walpole, and the composer, Handel. He was the first fashionable portraitist...
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William Beresford   Topic Male Apr 17, 1797
William Beresford (17 April 1797 – 6 October 1883) was a British Conservative politician. Beresford and Charles Newdegate served as the Conservative whips in the House of Commons after the party split over the Corn Laws. His relations with Benjamin Disraeli were strained, with Beresford often taking his cue from Lord Stanley in the Lords instead of the nominal leader in the commons. As Chief Whip he managed the 1852 general election, widely noted for its venality (even by the standards of the...
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Politician
Julia Álvarez   Topic Female 1951
Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York, her parents returned to their native Dominican Republic when she was three months of age and raised her there until she was ten. In 1960, the family fled back to the United States, after her father participated in the underground against the military dictator, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. Three months later the leaders of the underground railroad, the Mirabal sisters, were murdered. She based her second novel...
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Author
Craig Parnham   Topic Male Jul 13, 1973
Craig Parnham (born July 13, 1973 in Bridgnorth) is an English field hockey defender, who participated in two Summer Olympics for Great Britain: in 2000 and 2004. Parnham, nickname Spud, played club hockey for Stourport and Bridgnorth, and is currently with Cannock. Parnham sustained a near-fatal throat injury in 2002, when he was caught in the throat by a flying stick while playing for England in Malaysia. His larynx required rebuilding. He has previously had a double hernia. Parnham made his...
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon Topic Male Jul 17, 1888
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון, August 8, 1887 - February 17, 1970) was a Hebrew nobel prize laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon. Agnon was born in Galicia, later immigrated as a Zionist to Ottoman Palestine, and died in Jerusalem. His works deal with the conflict between the traditional Jew life and language and the modern...
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Award Winner
Roland Gift Roland Gift as Xavier St. Cloud in the Highlander series Topic Male Apr 28, 1961
Roland Lee Gift (born May 28, 1961, in Birmingham, England) is a British actor and musician. He is best known as the lead singer of the pop music band Fine Young Cannibals. Gift grew up in Hull, where his mother, Pauline, ran several second-hand clothes shops, and still runs one today. He was educated at Kelvin Hall School on Bricknell Avenue in Hull but did not receive favourable yearly reports. He has two sisters, Helga and Ragna. Around 1985 Gift was chosen by Andy Cox and David Steele to...
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Film actor
Musical Artist
Martin Adams Topic Male Jun 4, 1956
Martin Adams (born June 4, 1956) is an English international darts player. He won the 2007 World Championship - his 14th attempt at the title. His is also number four in the BDO world rankings. He plays county darts for Cambridgeshire. Martin lives in Cambridgeshire with his wife Sharon who is a swimming instructor. Adams worked for Lloyds Bank, and started his darts career in pub. He still plays pub darts, currently playing for Rigby's in Market Deeping, Lincolnshire. He turned professional...
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MarTay Jenkins   Topic Male Feb 28, 1975
MarTay Jenkins (born February 28, 1975 in Waterloo, Iowa) is a former American football wide receiver in the NFL. He spent his entire four year career with the Arizona Cardinals. He holds the record for NFL kick return yards for a season, he set this record in 2000 posting 2,186 Kr yards. He attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha. MarTay Jenkins attended North Des Moines High School in Iowa.
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Football player
Adam Bomb Adam Bomb Topic Male 1965
Adam Bomb (born Adam Brenner, 1962) is a guitar and singer who has worked with several bands. In 1979, when Adam Bomb was 17 years old, he and Geoff Tate started a coverband called Tyrant. Later he joined the band TKO, with whom he recorded the album, In Your Face. in 1982, at age 20, Adam auditioned for Kiss. He flew to Los Angeles andplayed three songs with them, but was not invited to join the band. Instead, he moved to Hollywood and shared an apartment with Jeffrey Isbelle, better known...
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Musical Artist
Charles Johnstone   Topic Male 1719
Charles Johnstone (1719?-1800), novelist. Prevented by deaf from practising at the Irish Bar, he went to India, where he was proprietor of a newspaper. He wrote one successful book, Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, a somewhat sombre satire, and some others now utterly forgotten. Johnstone, CharlesJohnstone, Charles
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Michael Bush   Topic Male Jun 16, 1984
Michael Bush (born June 16, 1984, in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American football running back for the Oakland Raiders. He attended the University of Louisville for college and the Louisville Male High School. Bush at Male high school is where he played quarterback as a senior after seeing action at defensive back, defensive end, linebacker, running back, safety, and wide receiver over his career. As a senior, he led the Bulldogs to the state championship game in Kentucky's highest class. In...
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Player
Football player
Inge Hammarström   Topic Male Jan 20, 1948
Inge Hammarström (born January 20, 1948 in Sundsvall, Sweden) is a retired Swedish professional Hockey Left Winger who played 7 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs and St. Louis Blues. Inge played his first hockey games at the top national league level in 1963 for Timrå IK, at the age of 15. The 1968-69 season he left for Brynäs IF where he would win the Swedish Championship 4 times (1970, 1971, 1972 and later in 1980). In 1973, Hammarström became the first...
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Hockey Player
Per Eklund eklund 2006 Topic Male 1947
Per Eklund, born on June 26 1946 at Skönnerud (Koppom) in Sweden, is a Rally and Rallycross driver who lives at Arvika. His nick-name is "Pekka". In rallying he never made it to the very top but he has been very successful in his later rallycross career. Saab works drive: Eklund was a Saab works driver from 1970 to 1979. In 1982, however, the year after Saab discontinued its official rallying involvement, He achieved the brand's last top position in a World Championship event, finishing fourth...
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Richard Noble   Topic Male Mar 6, 1946
Richard Noble, OBE (born March 6, 1946, in Edinburgh, Scotland) was a holder of the land speed record between 1983 and 1997, and was the project director of ThrustSSC, the vehicle which currently holds the land speed record, set at Black Rock Desert, Nevada in 1997. His record breaking car, Thrust2, travelled at 633.468 mph (1019 km/h). Thrust SSC the supersonic car driven by Andy Green broke the record at 763.035 mph (1221 km/h) or Mach 1.02. He was awarded the Segrave Trophy. In 1984 Noble...
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Sadie Irvine   Topic Female 1887
Sarah Agnes Estelle (Sadie) Irvine (1887 - 1970) was an American artist and educator. Her work is associated with the Newcomb College pottery school, where she was trained and taught until her retirement in 1952.
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Justine Frangouli-Argyris   Topic Female 1959
Justine Frangouli-Argyris (b. 1959) is a Greek author and journalist. She was born on the Greek island of Lefkada, where she completed her primary and secondary education. A graduate of the University of Athens Law School's Political Science department, Frangouli-Argyris has been a contributor to daily newspapers, radio, television and magazines in Greece since 1983. She is a member of the Union of Journalists for Athens Daily Newspapers (ESIEA) and has periodically worked for major radio...
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Author
Hōjō Ujikuni   Topic Male 1541
(1541-1597) was a samurai of the Sengoku period, and the third son of Hōjō Ujiyasu. Ujikuni was a high ranking commander in the invasion of Kozuke. He was also the castellan (castle lord) in command of Hachigata Castle in Musashi province, which came under siege twice, in 1568 and in 1590. After losing his castle to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Ujikuni aided in the defense of the Hōjō's central home castle, Odawara. The Siege of Odawara would be the Hōjō's final stand and marks the end of their power...
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Kent Baer   Topic Male May 2, 1951
Kent Baer (born May 2 1951) was a football assistant coach and defensive coordinator at the University of Notre Dame under Tyrone Willingham. When Willingham was fired as coach on November 30, 2004, Baer was named interim head coach until Charlie Weis was hired in early 2005. When Willingham accepted an offer from the University of Washington to be the new head coach, he brought Baer along to serve as defensive coordinator, as he had at Notre Dame. At the conclusion of the 2007 season, after a...
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Football coach
Football player
Samuel Lister, 1st Baron Masham The statue of Lister in Bradford's Lister Park depicts him standing with a two-foot rule clasped across his chest Topic Male Jan 1, 1815
Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham, (born January 1 1815 in Calverley Old Hall, Yorkshire - died February 2 1906 in Swinton Park, Yorkshire) was an English inventor and industrialist. Born in Calverley Old Hall, near Bradford. His father, Ellis Cunliffe (1774 - 1853) was the first member of parliament elected for Bradford after the Reform Act of 1832. Samuel Lister played a key role in the development of Bradford's wool industry during the nineteenth century industrial revolution. The...
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Eddie Guardado   Topic Male Oct 2, 1970
Edward Adrian "Eddie" Guardado (born October 2, 1970 in Stockton, California) is a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Texas Rangers. Previously, Guardado played with the Minnesota Twins (–), Seattle Mariners (–) and Cincinnati Reds (–). He bats right-handed and throws left-handed. He is commonly referred to as “Everyday Eddie,” a testament to his durable arm. In a 15-season career, Guardado has posted a 41-55 record with a 4.31 ERA and 183 saves in 784 appearances. In 2002, he...
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Baseball Player
Pro Athlete
Red Hickey   Topic Male Feb 14, 1917
Howard Wayne "Red" Hickey (February 14 1917 — March 30 2006) was an American football player and coach who played for two teams and served as head coach for the San Francisco 49ers, where he was most famous for creating the shotgun formation in 1960. A native of Hickeytown, Arkansas (near Clarksville), he attended the University of Arkansas, competing as a member of the football and basketball teams, where he won All-Conference accolades in both sports. In 1941, he was a forward on the...
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Football coach