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Bill Cosby
American actor and comedian

Ted Bundy
Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered dozens of young women and girls between 1974 and 1978. His modus operandi typically consisted of convincing his target that he was in need of assistance or duping them into believing he was an authority figure. He would then lure his victim to his vehicle, at which point he would bludgeon them unconscious, then restrain them with handcuffs before driving them to a remote location to be sexually assaulted and killed.
Bob Saget
American stand-up comedian (1957–2022)
Robert K. Merton
American sociologist (1910–2003)

Kunal Nayyar
British actor
Adam McKay
American filmmaker (born 1968)

Tom Sizemore
American actor (1961–2023)

Paul F. Tompkins
American comedian and actor

Diplo
Thomas Wesley "Wes" Pentz Jr. (born November 10, 1978), known professionally as Diplo, is an American DJ and music producer. He gained recognition in 2008 with his single "Blow Your Head". He is a co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project Major Lazer; a member of the supergroup LSD, with Labrinth and Sia; a member of electronic duo Jack Ü, with producer and DJ Skrillex; and a member of Silk City, with Mark Ronson. He founded the record company Mad Decent in 2006 and the nonprofit organization Heaps Decent in 2007. His 2013 extended play (EP) Revolution debuted at num

Richard Brooks
American screenwriter, film director and producer (1912-1992)
Jesse Williams
American actor, director, producer, and activist
Mark Margolis
American actor (1939–2023)

Jill Scott
American singer, songwriter, model, poet and actress

Colman Domingo
Colman Jason Domingo is an American actor, playwright and director. Prominent on both screen and stage since the 2010s, Domingo has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards and two Tony Awards. Time magazine named him among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024.
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
American actress
Ben Bova
American writer (1932–2020)
Kim Rhodes
American actress (born 1969)
Quinta Brunson
American comedian, writer, producer and actress
Marlyn Meltzer
programmer for the ENIAC computer
Frances Spence
American physicist and computer scientist
John Louis Esposito
American professor of Middle Eastern studies (born 1940)
Dennis Christopher
American actor
Edith Windsor
American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM
Danny Woodburn
American actor
Robert Prosky
American actor (1930–2008)
Billy Paul
American singer-songwriter (1934-2016)
Norman Fell
American actor (1924–1998)
Debra Hill
American film producer (1950-2005)
Barry Sullivan
American actor (1912–1994)
Veronica Hamel
American actress (born 1943)
Craig Shoemaker
American stand-up comedian
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American sociologist and pastor (1935–2024)
Daryl Hall
American musician
Lawrence Venuti
American translator
Charles Hallahan
American actor (1943–1997)
John Oates
American musician and member of Hall & Oates
Tim Heidecker
American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (born 1976)

Vivian Wilson
Vivian Jenna Wilson is an American social media personality and model. She is the eldest daughter of Elon Musk and his first wife, Justine Musk (née Wilson). In 2020, Wilson came out as a transgender woman, began treatment for gender dysphoria, and became estranged from Elon Musk, changing her legal name two years later. In March 2025, she featured on the cover of Teen Vogue. Later that year she signed with the talent agency CAA, having returned to Los Angeles for modelling after dropping out from Temple University in Japan.
Gary Dauberman
American screenwriter
Ibram X. Kendi
American author and historian
Shirley M. Tilghman
Canadian Molecular Biologist, scholar and academic administrator
Lois Hamilton
American model, actress, artist, author, and aviator (1952–1999)
Glenn Thompson
U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
Zeeko Zaki
Egyptian-American actor
Ben Goertzel
author and researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence
Michiaki Takahashi
Japanese virologist (1928-2013)

Joseph Wolpe
American behavior therapist (1915–1997)
Mark Levin
American lawyer, radio and television personality
Morton Kaplan
American editor (1921-2017)
Alex G
multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter from Philadelphia
Thomas L. Thompson
biblical scholar and theologian
Randall Cobb
American boxer and actor
Walter Isard
American economist (1919–2010)
Kurt Volker
American diplomat
Steve Alten
American writer
Sonali Gulati
Indian film director
Jared Hasselhoff
American bassist
David Goodis
Novelist, screenwriter (1917–1967)
Israel Charny
Israeli historian

Lisa Lane
American chess player (1933–2024)