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Only child born on Mayflower voyage 1620 1620 Tommy Hughes [7] Australian footballer 1886 Mary Jemison [8] American frontierswoman 1743 Augustus D. Juilliard [9] Founder of the Juilliard School: 1836 Ivan Kelic [10] Australian soccer player 1968 Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace: French navigator 1793 Francis Lathrop [11] American artist 1849 ...
Pages in category "People born at sea" The following 109 pages are in this category, out of 109 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Mel Collins (born 1947), saxophonist, known for his session work with acts such as King Crimson and Camel; Christine Collister (born 1961), contemporary folk singer; Beckii Cruel (born 1995), Japanese idol; Barry Gibb (born 1946), of the Bee Gees; Maurice Gibb (1949–2003), of the Bee Gees; Robin Gibb (1949–2012), of the Bee Gees
The word is derived from the Latin celebrity, from the adjective celeber ("famous," "celebrated"). Being a celebrity is often one of the highest degrees of notability, although the word notable is mistaken to be synonymous with the title celebrity, fame, prominence etc. As in Wikipedia, articles written about notable people doesn't necessarily ...
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
Katie Ledecky, five-time female World Swimmer of the Year Inge de Bruijn, the only Dutch female World Swimmer of the Year Natalie Coughlin, female world Swimmer of the Year in 2002 Grant Hackett, male World Swimmer of the Year in 2005 Leisel Jones, female World Swimmer of the Year in 2005 and 2006 Sun Yang is the 2013 male World Swimmer of the Year and a five-time male Pacific Rim Swimmer of ...
This is an incomplete list of some Breton people of note and of some notable individuals born in Brittany, alphabetically within categories. Brittany ( Breizh in Breton) is a Celtic nation of northwestern France and has contributed famous names to all walks of life.
Kira Hagi, actress [13] and daughter of famous footballer Gheorghe Hagi [14] Manuela Hărăbor, actress; Emil Hossu, actor; John Houseman, actor (born in Romania to a French-born Jewish father and an English mother, made his career in the United States as an English-language film and television actor) [15]