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| x Sara MacManus | Cystic fibrosis | ||
| x Paul O'Grady |
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Myocardial infarction |
Paul James Michael O'Grady MBE (born 14 June 1955) is an English comedian, television presenter, actor, writer and radio DJ. He is best known for presenting the daytime chat television series, The Paul O'Grady Show and, more recently, Paul O'Grady...
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| x Richard Sainsbury | Myocardial infarction | ||
| x Esme Harrington Clark | Premature birth | ||
| x Isabella Harrington Clark | Premature birth | ||
| x Anton Chekhov |
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Tuberculosis |
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов, pronounced [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕexəf]; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in...
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| x Mariano Rivera |
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Anterior cruciate ligament injury |
Mariano Rivera (born November 29, 1969) is a Panamanian right-handed baseball pitcher who has played 17 years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. Nicknamed "Mo", Rivera has served as a relief pitcher for most of his career, and...
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| x Steve Pemberton | Myocardial infarction |
Steve James Pemberton (born 1 September 1967) is an English actor, comedian, writer and performer, most famous as a member of The League of Gentlemen along with fellow performers Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and co-writer Jeremy Dyson.
Pemberton...
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| x Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach |
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Gout |
Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (born 14 October 1519 in Ansbach – died 31 October 1567 in Heidelberg) was a Princess of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and by marriage Electress Palatine.
Marie was the oldest child of the Margrave Casimir of Brandenburg...
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| x Andy Warhol |
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Hypochondriasis |
Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that...
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| x Minakata Kumagusu |
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Epilepsy |
Minakata Kumagusu (南方 熊楠, April 15, 1867 – December 29, 1941) was a Japanese author and naturalist.
Minakata was born in Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. In 1883, he moved to Tokyo, where he entered the preparatory school Kyōryū Gakkō. The...
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| x Mark Thatcher | Premature birth |
Sir Mark Thatcher, 2nd Baronet (born 15 August 1953) is the son of Sir Denis Thatcher and Lady Margaret Thatcher, the former Conservative British Prime Minister, and twin brother of Carol Thatcher. In addition to his prominence as the son of the...
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| x Carol Thatcher |
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Premature birth |
Carol Thatcher (born August 15, 1953) is an English journalist, author and media personality. She is the daughter of Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, a former British Prime Minister, and Sir Denis Thatcher, Bt.
Thatcher has published...
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| x Benjamin Travolta |
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Premature birth |
Benjamin Travolta is the son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston. He was born in Florida on November 23, 2010. In June 2011, 7-month-old Benjamin---being held by dad in photo---accompanied his family to Paris, France on vacation. Not surprisingly,...
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| x Yootha Joyce | Alcoholism |
Yootha Joyce (20 August 1927 – 24 August 1980) was an English actress, best known for playing Mildred Roper in Man About the House and George and Mildred.
Yootha Joyce Needham was born in Wandsworth, London, the only child of musical parents Hurst...
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| x Anne Robinson | Alcoholism |
Anne Josephine Robinson (born 26 September 1944) is an English television presenter and journalist, known for her assertive views and acerbic style of presenting. She was one of the presenters on the long-running British series Watchdog from 1993 to...
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| x Ricky Gervais |
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Arachnophobia |
Ricky Dene Gervais (English pronunciation: /dʒərˈveɪz/,; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter.
Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and...
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| x Siobhan Redmond | Asthma |
Siobhan Redmond(Irish pronunciation: [ˈʃɪwaːn̪ˠ] or [ʃəˈvˠaːn̪ˠ]; English pronunciation: /ʃəˈvɔːn/shə-VAWN) (born 27 August 1959) is a Scottish actress.
Originally from Tollcross, Glasgow, Redmond's first television appearances were in the early...
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| x John Lennon |
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Bulimia nervosa |
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed...
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| x Atticus Shaffer | Osteogenesis imperfecta |
Atticus Shaffer, born on June 19, 1998, is a film and TV actor.
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| x Debbie Shaffer | Osteogenesis imperfecta | ||
| x Daniel Bedingfield |
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
Daniel John Bedingfield (born 3 December 1979) is a New Zealand born British singer-songwriter. He is the brother of pop singers Natasha Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle.
In 1996, had success writing the theme tune for BBC One's DIY series Changing...
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| x Mia Mantegna | Premature birth | ||
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| x Paula Deen |
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Diabetes mellitus type 2 |
Paula Hiers Deen (born January 19, 1947) is an American cook, cooking show host, restaurateur, author, actress and Emmy Award-winning television personality. Deen resides in Savannah, Georgia, where she owns and operates The Lady & Sons restaurant...
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| x Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Arthritis |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (March 27, 1886, Aachen – August 17, 1969, Chicago) was a German-American architect. He is commonly referred to, and was addressed, as Mies, his surname. Along with Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, he is...
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| x Mark Kirk |
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Stroke |
Mark Steven Kirk (born September 15, 1959) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Republican Party. Previously, Kirk was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 10th...
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| x Killian Casey | Autism | ||
| x Glen Campbell | Alzheimer's disease |
Glen Travis Campbell (born April 22, 1936) is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen...
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| x Pat Summitt |
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Alzheimer's disease |
Patricia "Pat" Head Summitt (born on June 14, 1952 in Clarksville, Tennessee) is a former women's college basketball head coach. She now serves as the head coach emeritus of the Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team. She is the all-time winningest...
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| x Alex Polizzi | Miscarriage |
Alex Polizzi (born Alessandra Maria-Luigia O Polizzi Di Sorrentino; 28 August 1971) is a British hotelier, and the current presenter of the British TV series The Hotel Inspector on Channel 5, taking over from Ruth Watson. She also presents her own...
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| x Woody Guthrie |
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Huntington's disease |
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works....
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| x Daniel McCartney | Hyperthymesia |
Daniel McCartney (September 10, 1817 - November 15, 1887) was an American who may have had what is now known as hyperthymesia.
McCartney was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Daniel was legally blind and lived with his relatives throughout...
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| x Jim Carrey |
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
James Eugene "Jim" Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer. Carrey has received four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning two. Known for his highly energetic, slapstick performances, he has been...
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| x Emma Watson |
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress and model.
Watson rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series. Watson was cast as Hermione at the age of nine, having previously acted only in...
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| x Michael Phelps |
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
Michael Fred Phelps (born June 30, 1985) is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games...
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| x Solange Knowles |
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
Solange Piaget Knowles (born June 24, 1986), who performs under the mononym Solange, is an American singer-songwriter, actress, model, dancer, and DJ. Knowles was born and raised in Houston, Texas along with her older sister singer Beyoncé. Showing...
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| x Cameron Diaz |
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
Cameron Diaz is an American Award-Winning Actress and one of the highest paid actress in Hollywood. She is best known for her roles in: There's something about Mary, Being John Malkovich, and Charlie’s Angels.
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| x Courtney Love |
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison; July 9, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Love is the lead vocalist, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989, and is also an...
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| x Terry Bradshaw |
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
Terry Paxton Bradshaw (born September 2, 1948) is a former American football quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL). He is currently a TV analyst and co-host of Fox NFL Sunday. He played 14 seasons with...
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| x Jason Earles |
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
Jason Daniel Earles (born April 26, 1977) is an American actor and comedian, known for his role as Jackson Stewart on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana and his role as Sensei Rudy in his new Disney XD series Kickin' It.
Earles was born in San...
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| x Justin Timberlake |
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American singer, actor, and businessman. He achieved early fame when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse...
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| x Paris Hilton |
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American businessperson, potential future heiress, actress, producer, singer and socialite. She is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton (founder of Hilton Hotels).
Hilton became famous for her...
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| x Patrick Fugit |
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
Patrick Raymond Fugit (born October 27, 1982) is an American actor best known for his debut performance in the lead role of Cameron Crowe's film Almost Famous.
Making his acting debut in a school production while in the seventh grade (he played the...
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| x Phil Ochs | Dissociative identity disorder |
Philip David Ochs ( /ˈoʊks/; December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was an American protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful...
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| x Bobby Fischer |
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Asperger syndrome |
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess Grandmaster and the 11th World Chess Champion. He is widely considered one of the greatest chess players of all time. Fischer was also a best-selling chess author....
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| x Alexandra Feodorovna |
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Diphtheria |
Alix of Hesse and by Rhine later Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova (Russian: Императрица Александра Фёдоровна Романова Imperatritsa Aleksandra Fyodorovna Romanova) (6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918), was Empress consort of Russia as spouse of Nicholas II, the...
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| x Timothy Spall |
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Acute myeloid leukemia |
Timothy Leonard Spall, OBE (born 27 February 1957) is an English character actor and occasional presenter.
Spall, the third of four sons, was born in Battersea, South London. His mother, Sylvia R. (née Leonard), was a hairdresser, and his father,...
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| x Doreen Dowdall | Breast cancer | ||
| x Seargeoh Stallone | Autism |
Seargeoh Stallone is the son of American actor, Sylvester Stallone.
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| x James Adair | Hypochondriasis |
James Makittrick Adair M.D. (1728–1802), a native of Inverness, and youngest son of James Makittrick, held several occupations but is best remembered for his medical ethics and treatment of slaves and the poor. He was educated at the grammar school...
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| x Julien Cahn |
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Hypochondriasis |
Sir Julien Cahn, 1st Baronet (21 October 1882, Cardiff – 26 September 1944, Nottinghamshire) was an entrepreneur, philanthropist and supporter of cricket.
Cahn inherited a fortune from his father and apart from his various business interests which...
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| x Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov |
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Hypochondriasis |
Count Alexander Matveyevich Dmitriev-Mamonov (Russian: Александр Матвеевич Дмитриев-Мамонов, 30 September 1758 — 11 October 1803, buried in Donskoy Monastery) was a lover of Catherine II of Russia from 1786 to 1789.
A scion of the Rurikid family...
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| x Lily Elsie |
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Hypochondriasis |
Lily Elsie (8 April 1886 – 16 December 1962) was a popular English actress and singer during the Edwardian era, best known for her starring role in the hit London premiere of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow.
Beginning as a child star in the...
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| x Friedrich Hölderlin |
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Hypochondriasis |
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪsti.aːn ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhœldɐliːn]; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Hölderlin was...
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| x Arthur Crew Inman | Hypochondriasis |
Arthur Crew Inman (1895–1963) was a reclusive and unsuccessful American poet whose 17-million word diary, extending from 1919 to 1963, is one of the longest English language diaries on record.
Inman was born in 1895 in Atlanta to one of the city's...
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| x Oscar Levant |
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Hypochondriasis |
Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906 – August 14, 1972) was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was as famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, as for his music.
Born in...
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| x Kenneth Williams | Hypochondriasis |
Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was an English comic actor and comedian. He was one of the main ensemble in 26 of the Carry On films, and appeared in numerous British television shows, and radio comedies with Tony Hancock...
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| x Harald Schmidt |
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Hypochondriasis |
Harald Franz Schmidt (born August 18, 1957 in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria) is a German actor, writer, comedian and television entertainer best known as host of two popular German late-night shows.
As son of refugees who fled from South Moravia (now Czech...
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| x Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli |
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Hypochondriasis |
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (5 January 1920 – 12 June 1995) was an Italian classical pianist.
Born in Brescia, Italy, he began music lessons at the age of three, initially with the violin, but quickly switched to the piano. At ten he entered the...
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| x Blaise Pascal |
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Hypochondriasis |
Blaise Pascal (French pronunciation: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662), was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen....
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