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Annie Golden
Annie Golden, singer of The Shirts, on CBGB, her role in Hair, Squeaky Fromme in Assassins, Norma on Orange Is the New Black and decades of stage work.
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Inna
Inna, born Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu, on her Black Sea coast roots, the 2009 Billboard No. 1 for Hot, Global Records, and her Spanish-language album YO.
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Shane Gillis
Shane Gillis, the Pennsylvania comic fired by SNL in 2019, on his Philadelphia start, Netflix's Tires, a stadium record and his three turns hosting the show.
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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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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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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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Dakota Johnson
Dakota Johnson grew up in an acting family, broke out in Fifty Shades, co-founded TeaTime Pictures, and turned 37 the week Verity opened at No. 1.
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Daryl Hall
Daryl Hall sang six Hot 100 number ones with John Oates, started Live from Daryl's House in 2007, fought Oates in court, and reaches 80 after a transplant.
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John Prine
John Prine went from Army mechanic and Maywood mailman to a 1971 debut, founded Oh Boy Records in 1981, and is honored in Chicago on his 80th birthday.
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Bella Ramsey
Bella Ramsey was cast in Game of Thrones at 11, earned two Emmy nominations as Ellie in The Last of Us, and is the youngest player on The Celebrity Traitors.
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John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp went from Johnny Cougar to the Rock Hall writing about small-town Indiana. At 75 he has a 50-year songbook and a stage musical, Small Town.
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Martin Kemp
Martin Kemp played bass in Spandau Ballet, starred in The Krays and EastEnders, and turns 65 with a new thriller, Doctor Plague, and his Back to the 80s shows.
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Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant grew up in Swaziland, broke through in Withnail and I, earned an Oscar nomination at 61, and is now a Traitor on BBC's Celebrity Traitors.
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Chad Lowe
Chad Lowe won a 1993 Emmy for Life Goes On, directed Beautiful Ohio, and now directs and produces 9-1-1: Nashville. His roles, marriages and family, sourced.
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Rona Barrett
Rona Barrett took Hollywood gossip from fan magazines to KABC, Good Morning America and NBC, then quit the business to build senior housing in Santa Ynez.
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Cindy Herron
Cindy Herron went from Miss Black California to En Vogue's lead on Hold On. The group's charts, RIAA records, Grammy nominations, films, and tours to 2026.
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