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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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Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth, the psychiatrist who built optogenetics, shared the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. How the method was built and what it paid.
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Steve Gleason
Steve Gleason blocked a punt at the Superdome's 2006 reopening, was diagnosed with ALS in 2011, and built Team Gleason. Why the Saints honored him in 2026.
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Edwina Currie
Edwina Currie sat for South Derbyshire from 1983 to 1997, resigned as a health minister over salmonella in eggs, and wrote the diaries that named John Major.
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Jean-Jacques Beineix
Jean-Jacques Beineix, born in Paris on 8 October 1946, left medical school for film, made Diva and Betty Blue, founded Cargo Films, and died at 75 in 2022.
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Robert Wuhl
Robert Wuhl wrote Billy Crystal's Oscar jokes, played Alexander Knox in Batman, and spent seven HBO seasons as Arliss Michaels, the sports agent of Arli$$.
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Todd Snider
Todd Snider, the Portland-born writer of Alright Guy and East Nashville Skyline, died at 59 in November 2025. His road from Texas couches to Aimless Records.
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Vinod Khanna
Vinod Khanna, the Hindi film star born on 6 October 1946, left films for Rajneesh's commune in 1982, returned with Insaaf in 1987 and won Gurdaspur four times.
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