WStephen James Backshall is a BAFTA-winning British explorer, naturalist, presenter and writer. He is best known for BBC TV's Deadly 60.
WRaissa Samojlovna Calza was a Ukrainian dancer who became a prominent classical archaeologist of Roman portraiture. When she was young, she fled to Italy and France following the Russian revolution. After studying archaeology at the École du Louvre, she returned to Italy and began working at the Ostia Antica excavation site, where she met her third husband Guido Calza. She published many books on the archaeological sites in Ostia and was recognized for her efforts with a gold Italian Medal of Merit for Culture and Art on 2 June 1967. She died in 1979 and was buried at the Church of Sant'Ercolano near Ostia Antica.
WMurad Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide, embodied in his quote, "Dying is not a crime". Kevorkian said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He was convicted of murder in 1999 and was often portrayed in the media with the name of "Dr. Death". There was support for his cause, and he helped set the platform for reform.
WNina Kossman is a bilingual Russian-American poet, memoirist, playwright, translator of Russian poetry, editor, and artist.
WPadma Parvati Lakshmi Vaidynathan, , is an Indian American author, activist, model, and television host.
WPorfirije is the current and 46th patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church. He was the metropolitan bishop of Zagreb and Ljubljana, from 2014 to 2021. Before that, he was titular bishop of Jegra between 1999 and 2014. He is also a university professor and author of theological works.
WGuillaume Postel was a French linguist, astronomer, Christian Kabbalist, diplomat, polyglot, professor, religious universalist, and writer.
WAlbert Sánchez Piñol is a Spanish anthropologist, non-fiction writer and novelist writing in Catalan and Spanish.
WJohan Gabriel Sparwenfeld (Latin: Ioannes Gabriel Sparvenfeldius; was a 17th-century Swedish diplomat, linguist, polyglot and diarist.