William Blaine "Bill" Richardson III was governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. Bill Richardson was born in California but raised mostly in Mexico City. He received his bachelor's (1970) and…
Name at birth: Catherine Fabienne DorléacGorgeous and aloof, Catherine Deneuve has been an icon of the French cinema since the 1960s. Born into a family of actors, she made her film debut as a…
Talk show host and investigative reporter Geraldo Rivera has been a steady presence on television since the early 1970s, sometimes breaking and sometimes making the news. He started out in 1970 at…
Donald Sutherland was a major counterculture star in the early 1970s, winning critical raves as snarky Army surgeon Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H (1970) and as a small-town detective bonding with a New…
William Stanley Merwin is the 17th Poet Laureate of the United States and winner of the Pulitzer prize for poetry, for The Carrier of Ladders (1970) and The Shadow of Sirius (2009). A graduate of…
Name at birth: Dorothy Jeanne ThompsonDorothy Ashby wrote and played jazz with a harp, beginning in the 1950s in Detroit. By the 1970s, she had a solid career in the studio with jazz and pop artists…
(Encyclopedia) Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster Fuller), 1895–1983, American architect and engineer, b. Milton, Mass. Fuller devoted his life to the invention of revolutionary…
Alan J. Pakula was a movie producer and director whose career peaked in the 1970s with the films Klute (1971, starring Jane Fonda), The Parallax View (1974, starring Warren Beatty) and All the…
Name at birth: Reginald Kenneth DwightA prolific songwriter and a flamboyant performer, Elton John had 30 different hits on the top 40 charts between 1970 and 1982. His super-theatrical stage…
