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Robert A. Heinlein
American science fiction author

Avery Brundage
IOC president

Maurice Sendak
American illustrator and writer of children's books

Dirk Bogarde
British actor

Dennis Waterman
English actor and singer

George Peppard
American actor

Helmut Jahn
German architect

Bill Spivey
basketball player

George Deukmejian
American politician

N. R. Madhava Menon
Indian legal scholar

Byron Mallott
American politician

Dana Plato
American actress

Curtis Fuller
American jazz musician

Pierre Samuel du Pont IV
American politician

Mordechai Anielewicz
Leader of the Jewish Combat Organization

Ritva Valkama
Finnish actress

S.A.E. Nababan
Indonesian Lutheran prelate

S.A.E. Nababan
Indonesian Lutheran prelate

Ronald Inglehart
American political scientist

Elmer Rice
American writer

Jeanne Cooper
American actress

Barbara Payton
American actress

Nicholas Katzenbach
American lawyer

William Schallert
actor from the United States

André Arthur
Canadian politician

Erich Pommer
German film producer

Theodoros Katsanevas
Greek academic and politician

Cécile Rol-Tanguy
French Resistance fighter

Bob Blake
American gridiron football player

John Fante
1909–1983; American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent

Lara Saint Paul
Italian singer

Sprent Dabwido
president of Nauru

Andre Harrell
American rapper and music executive

Robert Gillmor
English ornithologist and artist

Tomás Carlovich
Argentine footballer

Jim Finks
American and Canadian football player and coach, sports executive

Slick Coffman
American baseball player

Nigel F. Palmer
British Germanist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford

Dom DiMaggio
American baseball player

Nick Busick
American professional wrestler and powerlifter

Iepe Rubingh
Dutch chess boxer

Wendell Nedderman
American engineering academic

Fay Spain
American film and television actress

M. E. Clifton James
Australian actor

Harry Dornbrand
American aerospace engineer

Luis Miguel Dominguín
Spanish bullfighter

X Brands
American actor

David Montgomery
American baseball executive