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Post by casimira on Mar 26, 2020 13:14:39 GMT
Timo Werner- German professional football star
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 26, 2020 17:02:20 GMT
David Warner - Aussie opening batsman.
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Post by bjd on Mar 26, 2020 17:38:25 GMT
Werner Herzog German film director
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 27, 2020 0:53:07 GMT
Alan Jay Lerner -- American lyricist and librettist
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Post by casimira on Mar 27, 2020 13:07:10 GMT
Nero- last emperor of the Julian-Claudio Roman dynasty
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 27, 2020 13:43:29 GMT
Nerys Hughes - Welsh actress now aged 78. Hard to believe.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 27, 2020 16:16:58 GMT
Hugh Grant - former British romantic lead who has graduated to playing shady unpleasant characters in the movies
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 27, 2020 23:10:55 GMT
Hugo Boss -- German fashion designer and businessman, founder of the clothing company Hugo Boss AG. In the 1930s the company produced uniforms for the SA, the SS, the Hitler Youth, the postal service, rail employees and later the Wehrmacht. Boss was an active member of the Nazi Party as early as 1931 and remained loyal to the Nazi German ideology throughout the duration of the party's existence. He died of a tooth abscess in 1948.
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Post by mossie on Mar 28, 2020 8:09:27 GMT
Tito Gobbi - Italian opera singer. Well named, did he choose as his stage name??
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Post by whatagain on Mar 28, 2020 10:10:57 GMT
Dagobert. Last merovegian king if the Franks. Known for a very popular song for the children. (That was written to mock Louis XVI).
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Post by casimira on Mar 28, 2020 13:34:48 GMT
Ingmar Bergman- Swedish filmmaker, director, writer, producer
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 28, 2020 15:15:08 GMT
Bing Crosby - American actor and singer who often worked with Bob Hope
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Post by bjd on Mar 28, 2020 17:42:29 GMT
Ingrid Betancourt Colombian politician kidnapped by the Farc and held hostage for years
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2020 17:52:36 GMT
Guido Fanconi -- Swiss pediatrician regarded as one of the founders of modern pediatrics. He was also a biochemical researcher with several medical conditions named after him.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 28, 2020 17:59:03 GMT
Guglielmo Marconi. Pioneer of wireless communication.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2020 20:04:53 GMT
Elmore Leonard -- American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 28, 2020 20:10:50 GMT
Leonard Elmore - sportscaster, lawyer and former NBA player.
(13 letters)
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Post by whatagain on Mar 28, 2020 20:18:48 GMT
Leonardo da Vinci. Started a business that now owns half the highways and the parkings of France.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2020 20:20:17 GMT
A big hand for cactus man!
Leontyne Price -- American soprano considered one of the best opera singers of all time
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 28, 2020 20:51:10 GMT
Fabien Onteniente - French film director
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 28, 2020 21:20:41 GMT
Brian Eno - musician and former Roxy Music member.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2020 23:03:40 GMT
Rian Johnson -- American filmmaker.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 29, 2020 6:36:45 GMT
Brian Wilson - one of the Beach Boys, who suffered for many years with mental issues
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 29, 2020 7:43:51 GMT
Woodrow Wilson - - American politician, lawyer, and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 29, 2020 9:27:07 GMT
Jack Good - British TV producer particularly the music programmes of the early '60's such as Oh Boy.
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Post by bjd on Mar 29, 2020 11:12:03 GMT
Jade Goody British reality show star famous for dying young
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 29, 2020 12:45:08 GMT
Konrad Adenauer - first chancellor of postwar West Germany
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 29, 2020 13:02:39 GMT
(Coincidentally enough, there's a bridge named after him where I am that I walk across most days)
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 29, 2020 23:58:06 GMT
Joseph Conrad -- Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 30, 2020 3:04:25 GMT
Sepp Blatter - president of FIFA until he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar
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