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Dan McCafferty
Dan McCafferty, the Dunfermline singer who fronted Nazareth from 1968: The Shadettes, Razamanaz, Love Hurts, Hair of the Dog, his COPD retirement and death in 2022.
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Justin Hayward
Justin Hayward, the Moody Blues singer from Swindon, on joining the band in 1966, writing Nights in White Satin, Forever Autumn, his solo work and his 2026 tour.
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Ray Brown
Ray Brown, the Pittsburgh-born jazz bassist: Dizzy Gillespie's band, Ella Fitzgerald, the Oscar Peterson Trio, Los Angeles studio years and his own trios.
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Richard Carpenter
Richard Carpenter arranged and produced the Carpenters' records. His Yale and Long Beach years, A&M, three No. 1 hits, Karen's death and the royalty suit.
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Jalon Daniels
Jalon Daniels spent six seasons at Kansas, went undrafted in 2026 and won his second NFL start for Tampa Bay at Dallas. His path and his rookie contract.
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Navi Pillay
Navi Pillay, the Durban lawyer who sat on the Rwanda tribunal and ran the UN human rights office, won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. How she got there.
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Anne Carson
Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. How Sappho, a teacher in Port Hope and a life in classics shaped her work.
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Bai Ling
Bai Ling, the actress from Chengdu, sang for soldiers in Tibet as a teenager, then built a Hollywood career with The Crow, Red Corner and Dumplings.
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Brian Kennedy
Belfast singer Brian Kennedy: the Falls Road, six years with Van Morrison, George Best's funeral, Eurovision 2006, and surviving cancer and heart surgery.
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Eric Benét
Eric Benét, the R&B singer behind Spend My Life With You, on his Milwaukee roots, Warner Bros. years, marriages, acting roles and his 2025 album The Co-Star.
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Alex Cora
Alex Cora managed the Red Sox to the 2018 title, sat out 2020 over the Astros sign-stealing case, was fired in April 2026 and told the Phillies he is skipping 2027.
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Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever co-invented AlexNet, co-founded OpenAI, voted to remove Sam Altman in 2023, then left to build Safe Superintelligence, a lab with no product.
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