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IN MEMORIAM 2020-2023
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Don Larsen, American baseball player |
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Christopher Tolkien, English academic, editor of the posthumous publications of his father, J. R. R. Tolkien |
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Jimmy Heath, American jazz saxophonist |
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Louis Nirenberg, Canadian-born American mathematician |
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Harriet Frank, Jr., American screenwriter, Hud, Norma Rae |
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Nicholas Parsons, English actor and television presenter, Just a Minute |
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Anne Cox Chambers, American media heiress, philanthropist, and ambassador |
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Mary Higgins Clark, American writer, nicknamed "The Queen of Suspense" |
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Gene Reynolds, American actor and television writer, producer, and director, M*A*S*H |
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George Steiner, French-born American literary critic |
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Daniel arap Moi, Kenyan president (1979–2002) |
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Stanley Cohen, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist |
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Kirk Douglas, American actor, Lust for Life, Paths of Glory, Spartacus |
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Beverly Pepper, American sculptor |
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Roger Kahn, American writer, The Boys of Summer |
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Orson Bean, American actor, TV's Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and game show panelist |
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Marge Redmond, American actress, The Trouble with Angels, TV's The Flying Nun |
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A. E. Hotchner, American writer, Papa Hemingway, King of the Hill, and philanthropist |
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Donald Stratton, American World War II veteran, survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack on the USS Arizona |
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Henry Gray, American blues pianist and singer |
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Lisel Mueller, German-born American poet, The Need to Hold Still |
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Täo Porchon-Lynch, Indian-born American yoga instructor |
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Diana Serra Cary, American child actress, billed as "Baby Peggy Montgomery" |
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John Franzese, Italian-born American mobster |
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Katherine Johnson, American physicist and mathematician, portrayed in the film Hidden Figures |
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Lee Phillip Bell, American talk show host and soap opera creator, The Young and the Restless |
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Mario Bunge, Argentinian-born Canadian physicist and philosopher |
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Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian prime minister (1981–1982) and president (1981–2011) |
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Freeman Dyson, English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician |
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Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic priest and poet |
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James Lipton, American actor and television host, Inside the Actors Studio |
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Amo Houghton, American politician, New York representative (1987–2005) |
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Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian diplomat, United Nations Secretary-General (1982–1991) |
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Max von Sydow, Swedish actor, The Seventh Seal, The Exorcist, Pelle the Conqueror |
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Anton Coppola, American conductor and composer, Sacco and Vanzetti |
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Richard K. Guy, English mathematician |
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Suzy Delair, French actress and singer |
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Stuart Whitman, American actor, The Mark, TV's Cimarron Strip |
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Maggie Griffin, American reality-television personality, My Life on the D-List |
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Catherine Hamlin, Australian obstetrician and gynecologist, co-founded the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital |
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Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist, the Astérix series |
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Joseph Lowery, American civil rights activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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Jan Howard, American country singer, "Evil on Your Mind" |
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Philip W. Anderson, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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Manolis Glezos, Greek World War II resistance fighter and politician |
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Hau Pei-tsun, Chinese premier (1990–1993) |
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Bucky Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist |
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William Frankland, English allergist and immunologist |
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Honor Blackman, English actress, Goldfinger, TV's The Avengers |
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E. Margaret Burbidge, English-born American astrophysicist |
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Herb Stempel, American television personality, figure in the 1950’s quiz show scandal |
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Mort Drucker, American cartoonist, regular contributor to Mad magazine |
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Phyllis Lyon, American gay rights activist |
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Stirling Moss, English race car driver |
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Rubem Fonseca, Brazilian writer, Agosto |
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Lee Konitz, American jazz saxophonist and composer |
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Gene Deitch, American illustrator and animated film director, Tom Terrific |
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James M. Beggs, American government official, Administrator of NASA (1981–1985) |
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John Ericson, German-born American actor, Bad Day at Black Rock, TV's General Hospital |
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Jean Erdman, American dancer and choreographer |
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Don Shula, American football player and coach |
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Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor, TV's Seinfeld, The King of Queens |
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Michel Piccoli, French actor, Belle de Jour |
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Gabriel Bacquier, French opera singer |
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Jimmy Cobb, American jazz drummer |
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Bruce Jay Friedman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, Stir Crazy, Splash |
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William Sessions, American government official, FBI Director (1987–1993) |
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Jean Raspail, French writer, The Camp of the Saints |
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Jean Kennedy Smith, American diplomat and philanthropist |
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Vera Lynn, English singer, "We'll Meet Again", nicknamed "The Forces' Sweetheart" |
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Joe Sinnott, American comic book artist |
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Milton Glaser, American graphic designer and illustrator, created the "I ❤ NY" logo |
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Johnny Mandel, American composer, arranger, and songwriter, "The Shadow of Your Smile" |
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Carl Reiner, American comedian, TV's Your Show of Shows, actor, and motion picture director, The Jerk |
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Hugh Downs, American broadcaster and television host, Today, 20/20 |
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Georg Ratzinger, German Catholic priest, musician, and conductor |
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Earl Cameron, Bermudian-born English actor, The Interpreter |
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Ennio Morricone, Italian composer and film scorer, The Mission |
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Frank Popper, Austro-Hungarian-born French art historian |
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Zizi Jeanmaire, French ballerina, cabaret singer, and actress |
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J. I. Packer, English-born Canadian theologian, author of Knowing God |
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Charles Evers, American civil rights activist and politician |
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Olivia de Havilland, American Oscar-winning actress, Gone with the Wind, The Heiress |
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Bent Fabric, Danish pianist and composer, "Alley Cat" |
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Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese president (1988–2000) |
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Leon Fleisher, American pianist and conductor |
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Eric Bentley, English-born American critic, playwright, and cabaret performer |
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Brent Scowcroft, American government official, National Security Advisor (1975–1977, 1989–1993) |
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Bernard Bailyn, American historian, author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution |
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Tony Charmoli, American choreographer and television director |
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Franca Valeri, Italian actress, The Sign of Venus |
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Sumner Redstone, American media mogul, chairman and CEO of Viacom |
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Slade Gorton, American politician, Washington senator (1981–1987, 1989–2001) |
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Borys Paton, Ukrainian scientist |
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Allan Rich, American actor, Serpico, Amistad |
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Arnold Spielberg, American electrical engineer, designed the GE-225 mainframe computer |
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Ronald Rosser, American Korean War Medal of Honor recipient |
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Irving Kanarek, American defense attorney, represented Charles Manson and the "Onion Field" killer |
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Annie Cordy, Belgian singer and actress |
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Bill Gates, Sr., American philanthropist |
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Luboš Perek, Czech astronomer |
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John Turner, English-born Canadian prime minister (1984) |
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Arthur Ashkin, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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Jackie Stallone, American astrologer and wrestling promoter |
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Juliette Gréco, French singer and actress, Orpheus |
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Yuri Orlov, Russian-born American physicist and human rights activist |
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Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti emir (2006–2020) |
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Murray Schisgal, American playwright, Luv, and screenwriter, Tootsie |
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Mark Andrews, American politician, North Dakota representative (1963–1981) and senator (1981–1987) |
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Mike Foster, American politician, Louisiana governor (1996–2004) |
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Tommy Rall, American dancer and actor, Kiss Me Kate, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
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Tom Kennedy, American game show host, You Don't Say!, Name That Tune |
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Whitey Ford, American baseball player |
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Charles Moore, American Olympic gold medal-winning track and field athlete |
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Roberta McCain, American political figure, mother of 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain |
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Rhonda Fleming, American actress, Spellbound, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
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Alan S. Boyd, American government official, Secretary of Transportation (1967–1969) |
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James Randi, Canadian-born American magician, billed as "The Amazing Randi" |
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Marge Champion, American dancer, choreographer, and actress |
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Frank Horvat, Italian-born French photographer |
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Jan Myrdal, Swedish writer, Confessions of a Disloyal European, and political activist |
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Sean Connery, Scottish Oscar-winning actor, the James Bond film series, The Untouchables |
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Betty Dodson, American sex educator, author of Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving |
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Geoffrey Palmer, English actor, A Fish Called Wanda, TV's As Time Goes By |
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Cándido Camero, Cuban-born jazz percussionist |
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Norm Crosby, American comedian |
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Howie Meeker, Canadian hockey player, sports announcer, and politician |
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Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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Roger Jepsen, American politician, Iowa senator (1979–1985) |
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Jan Morris, English-born Welsh travel writer |
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David Dinkins, American politician, New York City mayor (1990–1993) |
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Flor Silvestre, Mexican singer and actress |
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Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, French president (1974–1981) |
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Alison Lurie, American writer, Foreign Affairs |
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Chuck Yeager, American Air Force officer and test pilot, first person to exceed the speed of sound |
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Jack Steinberger, German-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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William Winter, American politician, Mississippi governor (1980–1984) |
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James Gunn, American science fiction writer and editor |
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Ivry Gitlis, Israeli violinist |
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George Blake, Dutch-born English spy, worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union |
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Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist and composer |
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Pierre Cardin, Italian-born French fashion designer |
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Eugene Wright, American jazz bassist, member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet |
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Robert Hossein, French actor, motion picture director, and screenwriter, Night Is Not for Sleep |
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Brian Urquhart, English diplomat, United Nations Under-Secretary-General (1971–1985) |
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Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player and manager |
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William Thornton, American astronaut |
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Peter Mark Richman, American actor, TV's Three's Company |
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Junior Mance, American jazz pianist |
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Sammy Nestico, American composer and arranger |
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Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter, The Front, Semi-Tough |
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Hal Holbrook, American actor, Mark Twain Tonight, Into the Wild |
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George Armstrong, Canadian hockey player |
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Sonny Fox, American children's television show host, Wonderama |
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Cloris Leachman, American Oscar-winning actress, The Last Picture Show, Young Frankenstein |
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Cicely Tyson, American actress, Sounder, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman |
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Wayne Terwilliger, American baseball player, coach, and manager |
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Tony Trabert, American tennis player |
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Christopher Plummer, Canadian Oscar-winning actor, The Sound of Music, Beginners |
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George Shultz, American government official, Secretary of State (1982–1989) |
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Robert J. Lagomarsino, American politician, California representative (1975–1993) |
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J. Hillis Miller, American literary critic |
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Isadore Singer, American mathematician, co-developed the Atiyah-Singer index theorem |
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Lynn Stalmaster, American casting director |
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Carlos Saúl Menem, Argentinian president (1989–1999) |
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Bernard Lown, Lithuanian-born American cardiologist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient |
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, A Coney Island of the Mind |
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Philippe Jaccottet, Swiss poet and translator |
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Toko Shinoda, Japanese painter and printmaker |
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Chris Barber, English jazz trombonist and bandleader |
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Norton Juster, American children's writer, The Phantom Tollbooth |
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Roger Mudd, American journalist and television correspondent |
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John Polkinghorne, English physicist and Anglican priest |
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Murray Walker, English motorsport commentator, known as the voice of Formula 1 |
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Bill Brock, American politician, Tennessee representative (1963–1971) and senator (1971–1977) |
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Bobby Brown, American baseball player and executive, American League president (1984–1994) |
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Beverly Cleary, American children's writer, the Henry Huggins and Ramona Quimby series |
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G. Gordon Liddy, American FBI agent, figure in the Watergate scandal |
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Isamu Akasaki, Japanese Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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Gloria Henry, American actress, TV's Dennis the Menace |
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Jean Dupuy, French-born artist |
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Marshall Sahlins, American anthropologist |
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Charles H. Coolidge, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient |
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Hans Küng, Swiss theologian |
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John Naisbitt, American futurist, author of Megatrends |
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Ramsey Clark, American human rights lawyer and government official, Attorney General (1967–1969) |
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Greek-born English royal, consort of Queen Elizabeth II |
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Walter Mondale, American vice president (1977–1981) and 1984 Democratic presidential nominee |
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Tempest Storm, American burlesque performer |
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Marc Ferro, French historian, author of The Use and Abuse of History |
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Wahiduddin Khan, Indian Islamic scholar and peace activist |
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Christa Ludwig, German opera singer |
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Michael Collins, American astronaut, command module pilot for the Apollo 11 moon mission |
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Helen Murray Free, American chemist, co-developed the dip-and-read diabetes test |
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José Manuel Caballero Bonald, Spanish poet and novelist |
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Norman Lloyd, American producer, director, and actor, Saboteur, TV's St. Elsewhere |
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Lester Wolff, American politician, New York representative (1965–1981) |
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Eric Carle, American children's writer and illustrator, The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
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Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect |
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Anna Halprin, American dancer and choreographer |
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John Warner, American government official, Secretary of the Navy (1972–1974), and politician, Virginia senator (1979–2009) |
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Rusty Warren, American comedienne and singer, "Bounce Your Boobies" |
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Poul Schlüter, Danish prime minister (1982–1993) |
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Gavin MacLeod, American actor, TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Love Boat |
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Raymond Donovan, American government official, Secretary of Labor (1981–1985) |
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Friederike Mayröcker, Austrian poet |
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John Patterson, American politician, Alabama governor (1959–1963) |
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Gottfried Böhm, German architect |
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John Gabriel, American actor, TV's Ryan's Hope |
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Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian president (1964–1991) |
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Joanne Linville, American actress, A Star Is Born, TV's Star Trek |
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Mike Gravel, American politician, Alaska senator (1969–1981) |
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Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez, American Chicana activist and feminist |
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Elliot Lawrence, American jazz pianist, composer, conductor, and bandleader |
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Richard Donner, American motion picture director, Superman, Lethal Weapon |
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Djivan Gasparyan, Armenian duduk player |
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Dilip Kumar, Indian actor and politician |
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Esther Béjarano, German Holocaust survivor, member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz |
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Renée Simonot, French actress and dubbing artist |
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Edwin Edwards, American politician, Louisiana representative (1965–1972) and governor (1972–1980, 1984–1988, 1992–1996) |
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Patricia Wilde, Canadian-born American ballerina and ballet instructor |
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Jackie Mason, American comedian and actor, Caddyshack II, TV's The Simpsons |
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Henri Vernes, Belgian action and science-fiction writer, the Bob Morane series |
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Albert Bandura, Canadian-born American psychologist, originated social cognitive theory |
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Marcia Nasatir, American motion picture producer and film studio executive |
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Jane Withers, American actress, Bright Eyes, Giant |
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Bobby Bowden, American football coach |
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Pat Hitchcock, English-born American actress, Strangers on a Train, Psycho |
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Carolyn Shoemaker, American astronomer |
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Edmond Fischer, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist |
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Ed Asner, American actor, Up, TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant |
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Michael Constantine, American actor, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, TV's Room 222 |
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Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer, Mauthausen Trilogy, and political activist |
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Adlai Stevenson III, American politician, Illinois senator (1970–1981) |
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Don Maddox, American country musician |
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Antony Hewish, English Nobel Prize-winning radio astronomer |
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George Wein, American jazz impresario, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival |
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Jane Powell, American singer, dancer, and actress, Royal Wedding, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
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Alfonso Sastre, Spanish playwright, Death Squad |
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Kjell Askildsen, Norwegian writer, A Sudden Liberating Thought |
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Sue Thompson, American singer, "Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)", "Norman" |
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Frances "Sissy" Farenthold, American activist and politician |
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Carlisle Floyd, American opera composer, Susannah |
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Budge Patty, American tennis player |
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Eddie Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager |
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Luis de Pablo, Spanish composer |
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Ruthie Tompson, American animator |
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Dale Kildee, American politician, Michigan representative (1977–2013) |
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Betty Lynn, American actress, Cheaper by the Dozen, TV's The Andy Griffith Show |
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Val Bisoglio, American actor, Saturday Night Fever, TV’s Quincy, M.E. |
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Leslie Bricusse, English composer and lyricist, "Talk to the Animals", "Candy Man" |
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Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor |
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Mort Sahl, Canadian-born American comedian and social satirist |
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Linwood Holton, American politician, Virginia governor (1970–1974) |
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Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist, developed cognitive behavior therapy |
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Neal Smith, American politician, Iowa representative (1959–1995) |
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Kirsi Kunnas, Finnish poet and children's writer |
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Etel Adnan, Lebanese-born American novelist, Sitt Marie Rose, poet, and painter |
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Clarissa Eden, English countess, spouse of Prime Minister Anthony Eden |
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Robert Bly, American poet, Iron John: A Book About Men |
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Chun Doo-hwan, South Korean president (1980–1988) |
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Noah Gordon, American writer, The Physician, The Last Jew |
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Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist, West Side Story, A Little Night Music |
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Justo Gallego Martínez, Spanish visionary, created the Mejorada del Campo cathedral |
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Arlene Dahl, American actress, Three Little Words, Journey to the Center of the Earth |
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Alvin Lucier, American composer of experimental music and sound installations |
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Miroslav Zikmund, Czech travel writer |
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Bob Dole, American politician, Kansas senator (1969–1996), and 1996 Republican presidential nominee |
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Jacques Tits, Belgium-born French mathematician |
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Kåre Willoch, Norwegian prime minister (1981–1986) |
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Barry Harris, American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger |
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Lina Wertmüller, Italian motion picture director and screenwriter, Swept Away, Seven Beauties |
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Cara Williams, American actress, The Defiant Ones, TV's Pete and Gladys |
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Sally Ann Howes, English/American singer and actress, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
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Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet, "Butcher's Dozen", and translator, "The Táin" |
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Grace Mirabella, American magazine editor, Vogue, and founder, Mirabella |
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Wayne Thiebaud, American painter and printmaker |
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Karolos Papoulias, Greek president (2005–2015) |
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Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop, anti-apartheid activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient |
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E. O. Wilson, American naturalist, pioneer of evolutionary biology |
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Sabine Weiss, Swiss-born French photographer |
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Betty White, American actress, TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls |
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Joan Copeland, American actress, TV's Search for Tomorrow, One Life to Live |
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Sidney Poitier, American Oscar-winning actor, Lilies of the Field, In the Heat of the Night |
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Marilyn Bergman, American songwriter, "The Windmills of Your Mind", collaborator with spouse Alan Bergman |
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Everett Lee, American conductor and violinist |
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Nino Cerruti, Italian fashion designer |
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Charles McGee, American WWII fighter pilot, member of the Tuskegee Airmen |
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Hardy Kruger, German actor, Sundays and Cybèle, The Flight of the Phoenix |
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Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese monk and peace activist |
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René de Obaldia, French poet, novelist, and playwright |
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Carleton Carpenter, American actor, Three Little Words, Summer Stock |
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Monica Vitti, Italian actress, L'Avventura, Modesty Blaise |
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Ashley Bryan, American children's writer and illustrator, Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum |
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George Crumb, American composer, Echoes of Time and the River, Black Angels |
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Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer, nicknamed "The Nightingale of India" |
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Carmen Herrera, Cuban-born American painter |
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Gail Halvorsen, American Air Force pilot, nicknamed the Berlin Airlift "Candy Bomber" |
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Joni James, American singer, "Why Don't You Believe Me?" |
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Shirley Hughes, English children's writer and illustrator, Dogger, the Alfie series |
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Conrad Janis, American actor, TV's Mork & Mindy, and jazz trombonist |
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Thomas Hayward, American admiral, Chief of Naval Operations (1978–1982) |
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Yuriko Kikuchi, American dancer and choreographer |
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Jimmy Lydon, American actor, the Henry Aldrich film series, and television producer, 77 Sunset Strip |
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Bobbie Nelson, American pianist and singer |
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Lauro Cavazos, American government official, Secretary of Education (1988–1990) |
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Eugene Parker, American astrophysicist |
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Scoey Mitchell, American actor, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, and game show panelist |
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Richard Howard, American poet, Untitled Subjects, literary critic, and translator |
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C. W. McCall, American country singer and songwriter, "Convoy" |
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Estelle Harris, American actress, the Toy Story film series, TV's Seinfeld |
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June Brown, English actress, TV's EastEnders |
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Lygia Fagundes Telles, Brazilian writer, The Girl in the Photograph |
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Nehemiah Persoff, Palestinian-born American actor, Some Like It Hot, Yentl |
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Jack Higgins, English writer, The Eagle Has Landed, A Prayer for the Dying |
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Ann Hutchinson Guest, American dance researcher and notator |
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Michel Bouquet, French actor, Toto the Hero, Renoir |
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Liz Sheridan, American actress, TV's ALF, Seinfeld |
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James Olson, American actor, Rachel, Rachel, The Andromeda Strain |
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Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest validated person at the time of her death |
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Robert Morse, American actor, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, TV's Mad Men |
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Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan president (2002–2013) |
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Ron Galella, American paparazzo |
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Norman Mineta, American politician, California representative (1975–1993), and Secretary of Transportation (2001–2006) |
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Ben Roy Mottelson, American/Danish Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist |
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Roger Angell, American sportswriter and editor, The New Yorker |
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Dervla Murphy, Irish travel writer, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle |
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George Shapiro, American talent agent and television producer, Seinfeld |
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Boris Pahor, Italian Slovenian-language poet and novelist, Nekropolis |
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George Lamming, Barbadian novelist, In the Castle of My Skin, and poet |
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Philip Baker Hall, American actor, Boogie Nights, Argo |
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Hugh McElhenny, American football player |
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Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor, A Man and a Woman, Z, Amour |
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James Rado, American actor, playwright, and lyricist, Hair |
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Margaret Keane, American painter |
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Raffaele La Capria, Italian novelist, The Mortal Wound, and screenwriter, Christ Stopped at Eboli |
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Joe Turkel, American actor, The Shining, Blade Runner |
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Hershel W. Williams, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient |
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Peter Brook, English stage and motion picture director, Marat/Sade |
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Luis Echeverría Álvarez, Mexican president (1970–1976) |
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Larry Storch, American comedian and actor, TV's F Troop |
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L. Q. Jones, American actor, The Wild Bunch, The Ballad of Cable Hogue |
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Francisco Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian president (1975–1980) |
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Eugenio Scalfari, Italian politician and journalist, co-founder and editor of La Repubblica |
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Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born American sculptor |
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Diana Kennedy, English-born Mexican culinary writer |
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James Lovelock, English atmospheric chemist, originated the Gaia theory |
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Bernard Cribbins, English actor, The Mouse on the Moon, The Railway Children |
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Pat Carroll, American actress, The Little Mermaid, TV's Make Room for Daddy |
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Fidel Ramos, Filipino president (1992–1998) |
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Robert Simanek, American Korean War Medal of Honor recipient |
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Vin Scully, American sportscaster |
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Clu Gulager, American actor, The Killers, TV's The Virginian |
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Frederick Buechner, American theologian and writer, The Book of Bebb, Godric |
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Virginia Patton, American actress, It's a Wonderful Life |
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian politician, President of the Soviet Union (1990–1991), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient |
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Don Lind, American astronaut |
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Frank Drake, American astronomer and astrophysicist |
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Tina Ramirez, Venezuelan-born American dancer and choreographer, founder of Ballet Hispanico |
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Marsha Hunt, American actress, Pride and Prejudice, and political and social activist |
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Elizabeth II, British monarch, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1952–2022) |
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Mark Miller, American actor, A Walk in the Clouds, TV's Please Don't Eat the Daisies |
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William Klein, American-born French photographer and filmmaker |
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Alain Tanner, Swiss motion picture director, Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 |
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Jean-Luc Godard, French/Swiss motion picture director, Breathless, Hail Mary |
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Irene Papas, Greek actress, Z, The Trojan Women |
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Henry Silva, American actor, Ocean's Eleven, The Manchurian Candidate |
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Maarten Schmidt, Dutch-born American astronomer |
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Nick Holonyak, American engineer, created the first visible light-emitting diode (LED) |
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Robert Brown, American actor, TV’s Here Come the Brides |
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Héctor López, Panamanian-born baseball player, coach, and manager |
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Loretta Lynn, American country singer and songwriter, Coal Miner's Daughter |
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Art Laboe, American disc jockey |
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Angela Lansbury, English-born American actress, Gaslight, Broadway's Mame, TV's Murder, She Wrote |
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James McDivitt, American astronaut |
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Lodewijk van den Berg, Dutch-born American chemical engineer and astronaut |
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Charles Duncan, Jr., American government official, Secretary of Energy (1979–1981) |
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Charley Trippi, American football player |
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Pierre Soulages, French painter |
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Gerald Stern, American poet, Leaving Another Kingdom |
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Vince Dooley, American football coach and athletic director |
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George Booth, American cartoonist, regular contributor to The New Yorker |
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Doris Grumbach, American writer, Chamber Music |
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Leslie Phillips, English actor, Venus, the Harry Potter film series |
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Robert Clary, French-born American actor, TV's Hogan's Heroes |
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Fred Brooks, American computer scientist |
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Ned Rorem, American composer, Air Music, and diarist |
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Mickey Kuhn, American actor, Gone with the Wind, Red River |
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German essayist and poet |
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Louise Tobin, American singer, "There'll Be Some Changes Made" |
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Hiroshi H. Miyamura, American Korean War Medal of Honor recipient |
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Jiang Zemin, Chinese president (1993–2003) |
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Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach |
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Bob McGrath, American singer and actor, TV's Sesame Street |
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Joseph Kittinger, American Air Force colonel, first person to conduct stratospheric space diving |
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Mike Hodges, English motion picture director, Get Carter |
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Philip Pearlstein, American painter |
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Arata Isozaki, Japanese architect |
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Tony Vaccaro, American photographer |
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Barbara Walters, American journalist, The Today Show, and television interviewer |
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Benedict XVI, German pope (2005–2013) |
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Lise Nørgaard, Danish journalist, novelist, and screenwriter |
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Walter Cunningham, American astronaut |
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Fay Weldon, English writer, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil |
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Michael Snow, Canadian painter, sculptor, and filmmaker, Wavelength |
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Naomi Replansky, American poet, The Dangerous World |
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Bernard Kalb, American journalist and commentator |
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K. Alex Müller, Swiss Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
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Carole Cook, American actress, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Sixteen Candles |
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Lloyd Morrisett, American psychologist, co-founder of the Children's Television Workshop |
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Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress, Beat the Devil, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell |
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Lucile Randon
(aka Sister André), French supercentenarian, world's oldest validated person at time of death |
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Balkrishna Doshi, Indian architect |
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Lubomír Štrougal, Czechoslovakian prime minister (1970–1988) |
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Burt Bacharach, American songwriter, "Alfie", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", and pianist |
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Carlos Saura, Spanish motion picture director, Carmen, Tango |
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Paul Berg, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist |
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David Oreck, American businessman, founded the Oreck vacuum cleaner company |
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Michel Deville, French motion picture director and screenwriter, Death in a French Garden |
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James Abourezk, American politician, South Dakota representative (1971–1973), and senator (1973–1979) |
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Walter Mirisch, American motion picture producer, Hawaii, In the Heat of the Night |
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Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, The Rowdyman, Away from Her |
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Betty Boothroyd, English politician, first female speaker of the House of Commons (1992–2000) |
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Pat McCormick, American Olympic gold medal-winning diver |
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Bert I. Gordon, American motion picture director and screenwriter, Village of the Giants, Empire of the Ants |
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Bud Grant, American basketball player, football player, and football coach |
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John Jakes, American writer, the North and South Civil War trilogy |
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Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor, Macario |
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Jorge Edwards, Chilean writer, Persona non grata, literary critic, and diplomat |
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Virginia Zeani, Romanian-born American opera singer |
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Gordon Moore, American businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation |
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Mark Russell, American political satirist |
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Bill Butler, American cinematographer, Jaws, Grease |
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Benjamin Ferencz, Romanian-born American lawyer, prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals |
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Al Jaffee, American cartoonist, regular contributor to Mad magazine |
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Mary Quant, English fashion designer |
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Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader |
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Charles Stanley, American televangelist |
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Ken Potts, American World War II veteran, survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack on the USS Arizona |
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Harry Belafonte, American singer, "The Banana Boat Song", actor, Carmen Jones, and activist |
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Dick Groat, American basketball and baseball player |
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Newton Minow, American government official, FCC Chairman, called television a "vast wasteland" |
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Menahem Pressler, German-born Israeli/American pianist, co-founded the Beaux Arts Trio |
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Don January, American golfer |
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Kenneth Anger, American experimental filmmaker, Scorpio Rising, and writer, Hollywood Babylon |
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Ed Ames, American pop singer and actor, TV's Daniel Boone |
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Bill Lee, American jazz musician and composer |
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George Maharis, American actor, TV's Route 66 |
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Amitai Etzioni, German-born Israeli/American sociologist |
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Roger Craig, American baseball player, coach, and manager |
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Pat Cooper, American comedian and actor, Analyze This |
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Françoise Gilot, French/American painter and memoirist, Life with Picasso |
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Noreen Nash, American actress, The Southerner, Giant |
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Pat Robertson, American evangelist and television host, The 700 Club |
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Alain Touraine, French sociologist |
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John Romita, Sr., American comic book artist, co-creator of Wolverine and The Punisher |
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Daniel Ellsberg, American military analyst and researcher, leaked the Pentagon Papers |
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Max Morath, American ragtime pianist |
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Harry Markowitz, American Nobel Prize-winning economist |
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Sheldon Harnick, American lyricist, Broadway's Fiorello!, Fiddler on the Roof |
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John Goodenough, American Nobel Prize-winning solid-state physicist |
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Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress, Vengeance, King of Kings, and singer |
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Sue Johanson, Canadian sex educator and television personality, Talk Sex with Sue Johanson |
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Lowell Weicker, American politician, Connecticut representative (1969–1971), senator (1971–1989), and governor (1991–1995) |
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Evelyn Witkin, American geneticist |
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Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian-born French writer, The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
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Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher, author of On Bullshit |
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Tony Bennett, American pop singer, "Rags to Riches", "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" |
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Inga Swenson, American actress, The Miracle Worker, TV's Benson |
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Bo Goldman, American screenwriter, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Melvin and Howard |
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Johnny Lujack, American football player |
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Martin Walser, German writer, A Gushing Fountain |
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Tom Jones, American lyricist and librettist, The Fantasticks |
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Howard S. Becker, American sociologist, author of Outsiders |
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James L. Buckley, American politician, New York senator (1971–1977) |
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Al Quie, American politician, Minnesota representative (1958–1979) and governor (1979–1983) |
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C. R. Rao, Indian-born American mathematician and statistician |
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Bob Barker, American game show host, Truth or Consequences, The Price Is Right |
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Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian business magnate |
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Richard Davis, American jazz bassist |
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Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African politician and Zulu tribal leader |
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Lauch Faircloth, American politician, North Carolina senator (1993–1999) |
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Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor |
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Dick Clark, American politician, Iowa senator (1973–1979) |
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Giorgio Napolitano, Italian president (2006–2015) |
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David McCallum, Scottish-born American actor, TV’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E., NCIS |
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Dianne Feinstein, American politician, California senator (1992–2023) |
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M. S. Swaminathan, Indian agricultural scientist, known as the father of India's Green Revolution |
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Eve Bunting, Northern Irish-born American children's writer, Smoky Night |
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Beverly Willis, American architect |
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Ted Schwinden, American politician, Montana governor (1981–1989) |
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Phyllis Coates, American actress, TV's Adventures of Superman |
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Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist, author of Origins: Cosmos, Earth, and Mankind |
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Piper Laurie, American actress, The Hustler, Carrie |
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Betsy Rawls, American golfer |
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Hans Albert, German philosopher |
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Wanda Półtawska, Polish Nazi concentration camp survivor and memoirist |
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Robert Irwin, American installation artist |
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Anne Heywood, English actress, The Fox |
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Oleg Protopopov, Russian-born Swiss Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater |
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Robert Butler, American motion picture and television director, Batman, Hill Street Blues |
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David Ferry, American poet, Bewilderment, and translator |
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Frank Borman, American astronaut |
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Don Walsh, American oceanographer |
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Joss Ackland, English actor, White Mischief, The Mighty Ducks |
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Rosalynn Carter, American First Lady (1977–1981) and mental health advocate |
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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French historian, author of The Peasants of Languedoc |
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Charles Peters, American journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of The Washington Monthly |
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Elliot Silverstein, American motion picture director, Cat Ballou, A Man Called Horse |
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Frances Sternhagen, American actress, Starting Over, TV's Cheers |
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Julius W. Becton, Jr., American government official, Director of FEMA (1985–1989) |
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Charlie Munger, American businessman and investor, financial partner of Warren Buffet |
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Elliott Erwitt, French-born American photographer |
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Henry Kissinger, German-born American statesman, Secretary of State (1973–1977), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient |
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Mildred Miller, American opera singer |
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Sandra Day O'Connor, American Supreme Court justice (1981–2006) |
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Norman Lear, American motion picture and television producer, All in the Family, Good Times |
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Marisa Pavan, Italian-born actress, The Rose Tattoo |
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Norma Barzman, American screenwriter, Never Say Goodbye, Finishing School |
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Arno J. Mayer, Luxembourgian-born American historian, author of Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? |
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Robert Solow, American Nobel Prize-winning economist |
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Jacques Delors, French statesman, European Commission president (1985–1995) |
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Shecky Greene, American comedian and actor, Splash |
