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Itsunori Onodera is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. He served as the Minister of Defense from 2012 to 2014 and again from 2017 to 2018.

Miquel Iceta Llorens is a Spanish politician and member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), currently serving as minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service of the Spanish government and as first secretary of the PSC since 2014. He's one of the first openly gay politicians from Spain. He has been a member of the 6th to 12th terms of the Parliament of Catalonia. He also was member of the 6th Congress of Deputies, representing Barcelona.

Koichi Sato is a Japanese actor. He is the son of veteran Japanese actor Rentarō Mikuni.

Fernando Valenzuela Anguamea is a Mexican former professional baseball pitcher. Valenzuela played 17 Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons, from 1980 to 1991 and 1993 to 1997. While he played for six MLB teams, he is best remembered for his time with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Valenzuela batted and threw left-handed. His career highlights include a win-loss record of 173–153, with an earned run average (ERA) of 3.54. Valenzuela was notable for his unorthodox windup and for being one of a small number of pitchers who threw a screwball regularly. Never a particularly hard thrower, the Dodgers felt he needed another pitch; he was taught the screwball in 1979 by teammate Bobby Castillo.

Sumio Mabuchi is a Japanese politician and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet.

Ruth Wendy Langsford is a Singaporean-born English television presenter. She has presented various television shows, including This Morning (1999–present) in which she is currently the longest serving presenter, Gift Wrapped (2014), How the Other Half Lives (2015–present), and Ruth Langsford’s Fashion Edit (2017–present). Since 1999, Langsford has been a regular panellist on the ITV talk show Loose Women. In 2017, she took part in the fifteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing, in which she finished in ninth place.

Susan Jane Aitchison is an English television actress best known for her role as Susie on Jam & Jerusalem. She is the daughter of June Whitfield.

Abdullah Abdullah is an Afghan politician who leads the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR), which is expected to lead the intra-Afghan peace talks with the Taliban. He served as Chief Executive Officer of the Unity Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from September 2014 until March 2020. From October 2001 to April 2005, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Prior to that he was a senior member of the Northern Alliance working as an adviser to Ahmad Shah Massoud. He also worked as a medical doctor during the late 1990s.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was the Prime Minister of Spain being elected for two terms, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. On 2 April 2011 he announced he would not stand for re-election in the 2011 general election and left office on 21 December 2011.

Joe Simpson is an English mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker. While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was thought lost after falling into a crevasse, but he survived and managed to crawl back to his base camp. He described the ordeal in his best-selling 1988 book Touching the Void, which was adapted into a 2003 documentary film of the same name.