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Shelley Duvall (July 7, 1949 – July 11, 2024) was an American actress known for her interpretations of unique and often bizarre characters. She has won several awards, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a Peabody Award, and was nominated for a BAFTA Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Born in Texas, Duvall began his acting career after being discovered by director Robert Altman. Impressed by his positive and optimistic demeanor, Atman cast her in the black comedy film "Strangers in the Air" (1970). Although he was hesitant to become an actor, she continued to work with Altman in "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" (1971) and "Thieves Like Us" (1974). Her breakthrough performance was in Altman's cult film Nashville (1975), and she received critical acclaim for Altman's drama Three Women (1977), winning the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival and being nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress. That same year, she also had a supporting role (as a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine) in Woody Allen's satirical romantic comedy Annie Hall (1977), and hosted Saturday Night Live. In the 1980s, Duvall became known for starring roles, including Olivia Orr in Altman's live-action Popeye, and as the paranoid wife Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's horror film The Shining (both 1980). She also appeared in Terry Gilliam's fantasy film The Time Bandits (1981), the short comedy-horror film Frankenweenie (1984), and the comedy Roxanne (1987). In the latter half of the 1980s, she branched into producing television programs for children and teenagers, notably creating and hosting Once Upon a Time (1982-1987), Tall Tales and Legends (1985-1987) (the show earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1988), and Nightmare Classics (1989). Duvall acted intermittently throughout the 1990s, notably in supporting roles in Steven Soderbergh's thriller The Price of Shadows (1995) and the Jane Camping film adaptation Nicole Kidman (1996). His last performance was in "The Rain" (200

Xie Liuyi (August 12, 1898 - August 8, 1945), named Guangshen, also known as Liuyi, pen names Hongtu and Lu Yu, was a Chinese writer and translator from Guiyang, Guizhou. He is considered one of the founders of journalism education in modern China.

Xie Jun (October 30, 1970 -), born in Baoding, Hebei, native of Liaoyuan, Jilin, is a Chinese chess player.

Xie Na (May 6, 1981 -) was born in Zhongjiang County, Mianyang District, Sichuan Province (renamed Deyang City after 1983). She graduated from the Film and Television School of Sichuan Normal University and is a program host, actor and singer in mainland China. He is well-known to the audience for hosting the Hunan Satellite TV variety show "Happy Camp". On April 7, 2018, Weibo fans exceeded 100 million, becoming the first artist in history to have Weibo fans exceed 100 million.

Xie Mengwei (March 4, 1989 -), a native of Xiong County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, China, is a third-level actor. In 2003, he starred in the TV series "Little Soldier Zhang Ga" and played the protagonist Zhang Ga and became well-known to the public.

Sheldon Gary Adelson (English: Sheldon Gary Adelson, August 1, 1933 - January 11, 2021), American billionaire businessman. Lithuanian Jew.

Sergey Brin, an American Jewish computer scientist and entrepreneur from the Soviet Union. Brin worked with Larry Page to build Google, the world's largest Internet company known for its search engine and online advertising technology. He ranked 14th on Forbes' 2019 list of billionaires, with assets of $49.8 billion. In the 2019 list of the 400 richest people in the United States, he ranked 7th with assets of US$53.5 billion. Ranked 9th on the Forbes 400 richest Americans list released in September 2020, with assets of US$65.7 billion.

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was a Russian-born composer, conductor and pianist who immigrated to the United States after the October Revolution.

Sergey Mikhaylovich Eisenstein (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, Romanized: Sergey Mikhaylovich Eyzenshteyn; January 22, 1898 – February 11, 1948) was a Soviet director, film theorist, and Jew. He is one of the founders of montage theory in film and the Soviet montage school. His film "Battleship Potemkin" is a representative work of this theory. In addition to "Battleship Potemkin" in 1925, his famous works include "Strike" in 1924, "October: Ten Days That Shook the World" in 1927, "Viva Mexico" in 1932, and the epic films "Alexander Nevsky" and "Ivan the Terrible". His theoretical works include "Montage", "Montage 1938", "Vertical Montage", "Vaudeville Montage", "The Fourth Dimension in Film", and "Beyond the Lens".

Xie Jin (November 21, 1923 - October 18, 2008), male, was born in Shangyu, Zhejiang, and was a Chinese film director.

Xie Yuyuan (April 19, 1924 - March 27, 2021), male, native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, born in Beijing, is a Chinese medicinal chemist, researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and former director of the institute.

Xie Tiantian (October 9, 1982 -) is a Chinese dubbing actor and dubbing director.

Shailene Woodley (English: Shailene Woodley, November 15, 1991 -), American actress. Her most notable roles include Amy Jergens in the ABC Family series Whisperers (2008-2013), and in 2011 she co-starred with George Cooney in the critically acclaimed film Succession, for which she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. In June 2012, she won a breakthrough performance at the MTV Movie Awards. Her performance in the movie "Love in Summer" won her the Drama Special Jury Acting Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Woodley played the heroine Tracey Pryor in the film adaptation of Veronica Roth's novel "Divergent", and will play the heroine Heather in the film adaptation of John Green's novel "The Good Luck".

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (English: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, December 27, 1986 -) is a Jamaican sprinter and is known as one of the greatest sprinters of all time. She was the sprint queen who created numerous great achievements from the 2000s to the 2020s. She is also the female athlete in the world who has broken the 10.70-second barrier most times. She was the women's 100-meter champion at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics, the 100-meter world championship champion in 2009, 2013, 2015, 2019, and 2022, the 4×100-meter relay champion in 2009, 2013, 2015, and 2019, and the 200-meter champion at the 2013 World Athletics Championships. In addition, she has also won many medals in other competitions and set numerous competition records.

Patrick Tse Yin (English: Patrick Tse Yin, August 13, 1936 - July 16, 2026), formerly known as Tse Jiayu, is a Hong Kong actor. Because he was the fourth among eight brothers and sisters in the family, he was nicknamed "Fourth Brother". For this reason, TVB screenwriter Wang Jing tailor-made the role of "Luo Sihai" for him in the TV series "The King of Kings" in 1980, which deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and made the title "Fourth Brother" a household name. Also known as "Laosi" and "Xie Laosi", the older generation calls it by its nickname "A Shen" (because the two characters "Xian" and "Kidney" are similar in shape). In 2022, he won the Best Actor Award at the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards for his performance in "Beyond Dusk", becoming the oldest Best Actor at the time of the award. His children include entertainers Nicholas Tse and Tingting Xie.

Nicholas Tse Ting-fung (English: Nicholas Tse Ting-fung, August 29, 1980 -) is a Hong Kong male singer, actor and businessman. He has served as a mentor for two seasons of "The Voice of China". He debuted at the age of 16 in 1996. The following year, he became the youngest winner of the top four electronic media songs in Hong Kong with "Bad Habits". In 2002, he won the World Music Award for the world's highest-selling Chinese singer. In 1999, he won the Academy Award for Best New Actor for "The Young and the Dangerous". In 2008, he starred in the personal transformation film "The Witness". In 2009, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "October Siege". In 2011, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for "The Informant". He was the first Hong Kong actor to win a Grand Slam of Academy Awards. In addition to his acting career, Nicholas Tse founded the film and television post-production company Po Chaoting in 2003, and later got involved in the real estate and catering industries.

Seamus Heaney (English: Seamus Heaney, April 13, 1939 - August 30, 2013), Irish poet, playwright and translator. In 1995, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his poems that "have a lyrical beauty and ethical depth that sublimate the wonders of everyday life and the living past." In the early 1960s, after graduating from Queen's University Belfast, he became a lecturer there and began publishing poetry. In his later years he lived in Sandymount, Dublin. Died on August 30, 2013. Heaney was a professor at Harvard University from 1981 to 1997 and poet-in-residence from 1988 to 2006. He was also professor of poetry at Oxford University from 1989 to 1994 and received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1996. He has also received other awards such as the Jeffrey Faber Memorial Award (1968), the E.M. Foster Award (1975), etc. His literary works are preserved in the National Library of Ireland.

Alan Tam, MH (English: Alan Tam Wing-lun, August 23, 1950 -), is a Hong Kong male singer, songwriter, actor, and the son of football player Tan Jiangbai. He was awarded the 18th Golden Horse Award for Best Actor for the 1981 Taiwanese film "If I Am Real". His active period spans from the 1970s to the present, and he is one of the dual lead singers of the Winger Band. From 1981 to 1987, Alan Tam won 23 Golden Song Awards. From 1984 to 1987, he won the Golden Song "Most Popular Male Singer" award for four consecutive years. In 1984, he set a record of winning 10 of the 40 songs in the "Top Ten Songs" season. In 1985, he won the Most Popular Male Singer, Golden Melody Award and Best-Selling Record Award. He was the only singer to win these three awards in the same year. After winning the "Ten Years Golden Melody Award" in the 10th Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs in 1988 and winning the "IFPI Award" for four consecutive years, he announced his withdrawal from receiving the award. In 1989, he was selected as the first Chinese male singer to participate in Japan's NHK Red and White Song Competition, and was selected as Shanghai Radio's "Top Ten Contemporary Chinese Singers" with the highest number of votes, becoming the idol of many singers. In 1996, he won the Golden Needle Award, the highest honor in the Hong Kong music industry. In 2000, he was selected as the second place in the "Top Ten Chinese Music Stars of the 20th Century" and the seventh place in the "Top 100 Most Influential Chinese Pop Stars of the 20th Century" by Malaysia's "Nanyang Siang Pau". Won the highest-selling album award for the fifth time, "Love Trap" sales exceeded 8 platinum and 400,000 copies, with a total of more than one million copies. In 2003, he collaborated with Hacken Lee on "Zuo Lin You Li" and performed 100 concert tours together. In the same year, he was awarded the second place among the highest-paid Hong Kong artists. He has composed more than 100 songs and lyrics. In 2007, he won the CASH Music Achievement Award and served as the president of the 8th Hong Kong Performing Artists Association. He was also awarded the Hong Kong Government Medal of Honor. In 2010, he was selected into the "Chinese Golden Melody Award" for the 30 years of Chinese music "30 people, 30 songs, 30 discs". In 2014, he won the IFPI Hong Kong Popular Music Culture Singer Award.

Tan Zhengbi (1901-1991), whose courtesy name is Zhonggui and whose pen names include Tan Wen, Huo Ren, Zhao Bi, Pei Bing, and Bichang, etc., was born in Jiading, Jiangsu Province (now part of Shanghai). He is a Chinese writer and classical literature researcher. His major works include "History of the Evolution of Chinese Literature", "History of the Development of Chinese Novels", "Hua Scripts and Ancient Dramas", "Short Biographies of Six Masters of Yuan Opera", "Three Characters and Two Pai Materials" (updated version of this title "A Study on the Origin and Origin of Three Characters and Two Pai"), "An Examination of Ancient and Rare Novels", "Tanci Narratives", "Pingtan Comprehensive Examination", etc. He is also the editor-in-chief of "Outline of the History of Chinese Literature" and "New History of Chinese Literature".

Tan Dun (August 18, 1957 -), born in Changsha, Hunan, originally from Xiangtan, Hunan, is a contemporary classical music composer and conductor, winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Music, and UNESCO Global Goodwill Ambassador. His famous works include the film soundtracks "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hero", the 2008 Beijing Olympics award ceremony music, the theme song of the 2020 United Nations Conference on Biological Diversity "Harmony in the Spring", etc. Tan Dun's works have a variety of audio-visual elements, often drawing on traditional Chinese music styles, and using unconventional instruments to explore experimental music.

Gu Wei, graduated from Shanghai Theater Academy, is an actor from mainland China. He is a special actor who plays Chen Yi and is a first-class actor at Wuhan Theater Theatre.

Tanigaki Seichi (March 7, 1945 -), Japanese politician. He served as Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party (47th generation), President of the Liberal Democratic Party (24th generation), and member of the House of Representatives of Japan (elected 11 times). He also served as Director of the Science and Technology Agency (58th term), Chairman of the Financial Revitalization Commission (3rd and 4th term), Chairman of the National Public Security Commission (69th term), Minister in charge of the Industrial Revitalization Agency, Minister of Finance (3rd, 4th, and 5th term), Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party Political Coordination, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (9th term), and Minister of Justice (93rd term). In October 2005, he was elected as the president of the Tanigaki faction. Later, he merged with the Koga faction, another branch of the Hongchi Kai, and became the spokesperson of the faction. In 2012, it once again broke away from Hongchi Association and established Tanigaki Group (Youneighbor Association). Tanigaki Tanigaki is a native of Fukuchiyama City, Kyoto Prefecture, and is a second-generation hereditary member of parliament. His father Tanigaki Tanigaki once served as Minister of Education. He specializes in economic and fiscal policy.

Gu Haohao (September 1973-), female, Han nationality, from Wenzhou, Zhejiang, a person in the literary and art circles of the People's Republic of China. In 1986, he was admitted to Shanghai Opera School from Wenzhou, Zhejiang. Currently, he is the party secretary and president of Shanghai Opera Art Center, director of Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe, and chairman of Shanghai Dramatists Association. Full-time vice chairman of Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Ku Feng (English: Ku Feng, July 3, 1929 - March 27, 2025), formerly known as Chen Siwen, was a Hong Kong film and television actor who debuted in 1958 and officially retired in 2013. He twice won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor.