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1945–
Daniel Brown (born December 25, 1945) is a former city councilman and former acting mayor of the city of Knoxville, Tennessee, where he was the first African American to serve as mayor. Brown was born in Knoxville, where he graduated from Austin High…
1766–1858
Daniel Burrows (October 26, 1766 – January 23, 1858) was a United States representative from Connecticut. He was the uncle of Lorenzo Burrows who was a United States representative from New York. He was born at Fort Hill, Connecticut where he pursued…
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Daniel C. Martin was a state legislator in Florida. He represented Alachua County in the Florida State Senate in 1885 and 1887. He lived in the 13th District in Gainesville. A photo of him with other legislators is held in the Florida Archives. He was one…
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Ashton Dumar Norwill Simmonds (born April 5, 1995), known professionally as Daniel Caesar, is a Canadian singer and songwriter. After independently building a following through the release of two EPs, Praise Break (2014) and Pilgrim's Paradise (2015),…
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Daniel Jay Cameron (born November 22, 1985) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 51st attorney general of Kentucky from 2019 to 2024. A member of the Republican Party, Cameron was the first African American and the first Republican…
1993–
Daniel Clive Carr (born 29 May 1994) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Isthmian League club Sevenoaks Town. He made 6 appearances for the Trinidad and Tobago national team between 2019 and 2021.
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Daniel Coker (1780–1846), born Isaac Wright, was an African American of mixed race from Baltimore, Maryland. Born a slave, after he gained his freedom, he became a Methodist minister in 1802. He wrote one of the few pamphlets published in the South that…
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Daniel Ryan Cormier (; born March 20, 1979) is an American former professional mixed martial artist, freestyle wrestler, and current color commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As a former UFC Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight Champion,…
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Daniel Curtis Lee (born May 17, 1991) is an American actor, comedian and rapper, best known for portraying Simon "Cookie" Nelson-Cook on the Nickelodeon series Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide from 2004 to 2007.
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Daniel Dubois (born 6 September 1997) is a British professional boxer. He is a two-time heavyweight world boxing champion, having held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) title since May 2026, and previously the International Boxing Federation (IBF) title…
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Daniel Ezra (born 15 December 1991) is an English actor. On television, he is known for his roles in the Sky One series A Discovery of Witches (2018–2022) and the CW series All American (2018–2026). His films include The Running Man (2025).
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Daniel L. Fields (born January 23, 1991) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played one game in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers in 2015.
1983–
Daniel Asher Francis (9 February 1983) is an English actor. He began his career in theatre. On television, he is known for his roles in Steve McQueen's Small Axe: Education (2020), and the Netflix miniseries Stay Close (2021) and period drama Bridgerton…
1948
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Daniel François Malan addressing the public on election day, Pretoria (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).
1948
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Daniel François Malan addressing the public, Pretoria (South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).
1923–2003
Daniel Grafton Hill III (November 23, 1923 – June 26, 2003) was an American-Canadian sociologist, civil servant, human rights specialist, and Black Canadian historian. An American born in Missouri and raised in the western United States, Hill went to…
1948–
Daniel Earl Georges-Abeyie (born April 6, 1948) is an American criminologist and professor in the Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School Of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas.
2005–
Daniel Goriola (born 29 March 2005) is a British hurdler. He became British national champion in the 110m hurdles in 2024, and indoor champion over 60m hurdles in 2025 and 2026.
1970–
Daniel Greaves (born 1 December 1970) is a Canadian rock vocalist and songwriter. He is known as the founder and lead singer of the band The Watchmen, and for his a capella singing.
1856–1931
Williams founded one of the first Black-owned hospitals and, in 1893, repaired a patient’s pericardium in an operation now regarded as pioneering heart surgery.
1974–
Baraladei Daniel Igali (born February 3, 1974) is a Nigerian-Canadian wrestler. He won Canada's first ever Olympic gold medal in wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics and remains Canada's only male Olympic gold medalist in wrestling.
1966–
Daniel Isom was appointed St. Louis' 33rd Police Commissioner on October 6, 2008, and was St. Louis' third African-American police chief.
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Daniel Jackson Sanders (February 15, 1847 – March 6, 1907) was an American clergyman, academic administrator, and newspaper publisher. He served as president of Biddle University (now Johnson C. Smith University) in North Carolina for seventeen years,…
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Daniel Jacobs (born February 3, 1987) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2007 to 2024. He held the World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight title (Regular version) from 2014 to 2017, and the International Boxing Federation (IBF)…
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