Alphonso Taft was an American jurist, diplomat, and politician who served as United States attorney general and secretary of war under President Ulysses S. Grant.
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1968 · United States
Samuel Rockwell is an American actor.
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1913–1967 · United Kingdom
Vivian Mary Olivier, known professionally as Vivien Leigh and styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress.
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Actor
1961 · United Kingdom
Katherine Matilda "Tilda" Swinton is a Scottish actress.
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Actor
1959 · Canada
Bryan Guy Adams is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and photographer. He is estimated to have sold between 75 million and more than 100 million records and singles worldwide, placing him among the best-selling music artists.
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1964 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Famke Beumer Janssen is a Dutch actress and former model acting in Hollywood. She played Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye (1995), Jean Grey / Phoenix in the X-Men film series (2000–2014), and Lenore Mills in the Taken film trilogy (2008–2014).
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1943–2017 · United States
Samuel Shepard Rogers III was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author and musician whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays and several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs.
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