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| x Sherrod Brown |
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Nov 9, 1952 |
Sherrod Campbell Brown (born November 9, 1952) is the junior United States Senator from the state of Ohio, and a member of the Democratic Party. Before his election to the Senate in 2006, Brown served as a member of the House of Representatives from...
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| x Rick Levin |
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1947 |
Richard Charles Levin (born 1947) is a professor and American economist who has served as president of Yale University since 1993. He is currently the longest-tenured Ivy League president.
Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American...
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| x Henry H. Fowler |
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Sep 5, 1908 |
Henry Hammill Fowler (September 5, 1908–January 3, 2000) was an American lawyer and politician.
Born in Roanoke, Virginia, he graduated from Roanoke College in 1929 and received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1932.
Fowler joined the legal...
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| x Russell Davenport | 1899 |
Russell Wheeler Davenport (1899—April 19, 1954) was an American publisher and writer.
Davenport was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the son of Russell W. Davenport, Sr., a vice president of Bethlehem Steel, and Cornelia Whipple Farnum.
He served...
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| x Harvey Cox | May 19, 1929 |
Harvey Gallagher Cox, Jr. (born May 19, 1929 in Malvern, Pennsylvania) is one of the preeminent theologians in the United States and serves as Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School. Cox's research and teaching focus on...
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| x James L. Buckley |
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Mar 9, 1923 |
James Lane Buckley (born March 9, 1923 in New York City) is a former United States Senator from the state of New York as a member of the Conservative Party of New York. Buckley served from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1977. Formerly, he was vice...
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| x William Clay Ford, Sr. |
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Mar 14, 1925 |
William Clay Ford was elected to the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company on June 4, 1948. Mr. Ford served as vice chairman of the Board from April 10, 1980 until he retired April 1, 1989.
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| x Kathryn Hahn | Jul 23, 1974 |
Kathryn Hahn (born July 23, 1974) is an American actress known for her role on the television series Crossing Jordan.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Hahn attended Northwestern University, where she obtained a...
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| x Walter Taylor | 1913 |
For other persons called Walter Taylor see Walter Taylor (disambiguation)
Walter Willard Taylor Jr. (1913 – 1997) was an American anthropologist and archaeologist most famous for his work at Coahuila in Mexico and his "Conjunctive archaeology", a...
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| x Joan Van Ark |
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Jun 16, 1943 |
Joan Van Ark (born June 16, 1943) is an American actress, most notable for her role as Valene Ewing, which she originated on the CBS hit series Dallas and continued for thirteen seasons on its long-running spin-off, Knots Landing. Van Ark has also...
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| x Benjamin Spock |
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May 2, 1903 |
Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than...
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| x George Roy Hill |
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Dec 20, 1921 |
George Roy Hill (December 20, 1921 – December 27, 2002) was an American film director. He is most noted for directing such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, which both starred the acting duo Paul Newman and Robert Redford....
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| x Nate Lawrie | Oct 17, 1981 |
Nathan Earl Lawrie (born October 17, 1981) is an American football tight end for the California Redwoods of the United Football League. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the sixth round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football...
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| x Saunders Mac Lane |
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Aug 4, 1909 |
Saunders Mac Lane (4 August 1909, Taftville, Connecticut – 14 April 2005, San Francisco) was an American mathematician who cofounded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.
Mac Lane was christened "Leslie Saunders MacLane", but "Leslie" fell into...
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| x Chang-Rae Lee |
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Jul 29, 1965 |
Chang-Rae Lee (born July 29, 1965) is a first-generation Korean American novelist.
Lee was born in Korea in 1965. He emigrated to the United States with his family when he was 3 years old. Raised in Westchester, New York, Lee attended Phillips...
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| x Edward Harkness |
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Jan 22, 1874 |
Edward Stephen Harkness (January 22, 1874 – January 29, 1940) was an American philanthropist. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, one of four sons to Stephen V. Harkness, a harness-maker who invested with John D. Rockefeller.
Harkness inherited a...
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| x J. Twing Brooks | Feb 27, 1884 |
J. Twing Brooks (February 27, 1884 – February 7, 1956) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Joshua Twing Brooks was born in Edgeworth (now Sewickley), Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Sheffield...
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| x Timothy Perry Shriver | Aug 29, 1959 |
Timothy Perry Shriver (born August 29, 1959) is Chairman and CEO of Special Olympics.
Timothy Shriver was born to Sargent Shriver, a former United States Ambassador to France and the Democratic Party's vice-presidential candidate in 1972, and Eunice...
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| x Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. |
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May 16, 1931 |
Lowell Palmer Weicker, Jr. (born May 16, 1931) is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Connecticut, and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for President in 1980. Though a member of...
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| x Moses French Colby | Jul 2, 1795 |
Moses French Colby (July 2, 1795 – May 4, 1863) was a doctor and politician in Canada East.
He was born in Thornton, New Hampshire in 1795 but moved to Derby, Vermont with his family in 1798. He studied medicine with the local doctor there, then...
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| x Naomi Wolf |
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Nov 12, 1962 |
Naomi Wolf (born November 12, 1962) is an American author and political consultant. With the publication of The Beauty Myth, she became a leading spokesperson of what was later described as the third-wave of the feminist movement. She remains an...
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| x Henry Martyn Dexter | Aug 13, 1821 |
Henry Martyn Dexter (August 13, 1821 – November 13, 1890), American clergyman and author, was born in Plympton, Massachusetts.
He graduated at Yale in 1840 and at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1844; was pastor of a Congregational church in...
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| x Daniel Henry Chamberlain |
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Jun 23, 1835 |
Daniel Henry Chamberlain (June 23, 1835 – April 13, 1907) was a planter, lawyer, author and the Republican Governor of South Carolina from 1874 until 1877.
Daniel H. Chamberlain was born in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, the ninth of ten children...
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| x Jack Dalrymple |
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Oct 16, 1948 |
John "Jack" Dalrymple (born October 16, 1948, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a North Dakota politician and businessman who is the current and 36th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota, and a one-time candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1992.
Jack...
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| x Marie Watt |
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1967 |
Marie Watt (born 1967) is a contemporary artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Part Seneca, Watt has created work centered on contemporary Native American themes. She holds a B.A. in art from Willamette University and a Master's Degree from...
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| x Theo Epstein |
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Dec 29, 1973 |
Theo Nathaniel Epstein (born December 29, 1973 in New York City) is the Executive Vice President/General Manager of the Boston Red Sox. On November 25, 2002, the Red Sox made him the youngest GM in the history of Major League Baseball by hiring him...
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| x Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard |
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May 5, 1809 |
Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard (May 5, 1809 – April 27, 1889) was an American scientist and educationalist.
Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, on May 5, 1809. His brother, John G. Barnard was a career...
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| x Jane Ira Bloom | 1955 |
Jane Ira Bloom (born Boston, Massachusetts, 1955) is an American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer.
She began as a pianist and drummer, later switching to the alto saxophone, and eventually settling on the soprano saxophone as her primary...
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| x John Lindsay |
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Nov 24, 1921 |
John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician,lawyer and broadcaster who was a U.S. Congressman, Mayor of New York City, candidate for U.S. President and regular guest host of Good Morning America substituting...
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| x Ernest Lawrence |
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Aug 8, 1901 |
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate, known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron beginning in 1929, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation in...
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| x John Rockefeller Prentice | Dec 17, 1902 |
John Rockefeller Prentice (December 17, 1902 – June 13, 1972) was born to Chicago lawyer Ezra Parmalee Prentice and Alta Rockefeller Prentice in New York. Prentice's maternal grandfather is the Standard Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937)....
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| x Anthony Higgins |
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Oct 1, 1840 |
Anthony C. Higgins (October 1, 1840 - June 26, 1912) was a lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a veteran of the Civil War and a member of the Republican Party, who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware....
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| x James C. Auchincloss | Jan 19, 1885 |
James Coats Auchincloss (January 19, 1885 in New York City – October 2, 1976 in Alexandria, Virginia) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of...
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| x Susan Choi | 1969 |
Susan Choi (born 1969) is an American novelist. Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana to a Korean father and the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants. When she was nine years old her parents divorced and she and her mother moved to Houston, Texas;...
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| x Lucy Burns |
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Jul 28, 1879 |
Lucy Burns (July 28, 1879 – December 22, 1966) was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a close friend of Alice Paul. Together, they formed the National Woman's Party.
Burns was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Irish Catholic...
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| x Marcus Giamatti | Oct 3, 1961 |
Marcus Giamatti (born October 3, 1961 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American actor.
He is the son of former Yale University president and Major League Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti and older brother of actor Paul Giamatti. He...
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| x Sereno Edwards Dwight | May 18, 1786 |
Sereno Edwards Dwight (May 18, 1786 – November 30, 1850) was an American author, educator, and Congregationalist minister.
Dwight was the fifth son of Yale College President Timothy Dwight IV, born in Greenfield Hill in Fairfield, Connecticut. He...
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| x Edwin Meese |
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Dec 2, 1931 |
Edwin "Ed" Meese III (born December 2, 1931 in Oakland, California) is an attorney, law professor, and author who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration (1967-1974), the Reagan Presidential Transition...
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| x David Leavitt | Jun 23, 1961 |
David Leavitt (born June 23, 1961) is an American novelist.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Leavitt is a graduate of Yale University and a professor at the University of Florida. He has also taught at Princeton.
He is the author of Family Dancing,...
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| x Raymond Davis Jr. |
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Oct 14, 1914 |
Raymond Davis, Jr. (October 14, 1914 – May 31, 2006) was an American chemist, physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate.
Davis was born in Washington, D.C., where his father was a photographer for the National Bureau of Standards. He spent...
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| x Edward Whittemore | May 26, 1933 |
Edward Whittemore (May 26, 1933 – August 3, 1995) was an American novelist, the author of five novels written between 1974 and 1987.
The youngest of five children, Whittemore was born in May 26, 1933 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA, but little...
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| x Paul Newman |
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Jan 26, 1925 |
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 — September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin...
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| x Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. |
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Jun 4, 1868 |
Thomas Francis Bayard, Jr. (June 4, 1868 – July 12, 1942) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served two terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware.
Bayard was...
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| x Bronson Pinchot |
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May 20, 1959 |
Bronson Alcott Pinchot (born May 20, 1959) is an American actor.
Pinchot was born in New York City, New York, the son of Rosina (née Asta), a typist, and Henry Poncharavsky, a bookbinder. His father, who was born in New York and raised in Paris, was...
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| x Mel Watt |
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Aug 26, 1945 |
Melvin Luther (Mel) Watt (born August 26, 1945), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the North Carolina's 12th congressional district.
Born in Steele Creek, North...
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| x Judith Butler |
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Feb 24, 1956 |
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the Maxine Elliott professor in the...
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| x Austin Pendleton |
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Mar 27, 1940 |
Austin Pendleton (born 27 March 1940) is an American film, television, and stage actor, a playwright, and a theatre director and instructor.
Born in Warren, Ohio, Pendleton is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Scroll and Key...
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| x Eero Saarinen |
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Aug 20, 1910 |
Eero Saarinen (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈeːro ˈsaːrinen]) (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish American architect and product designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple,...
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| x Joseph Fuqua | May 3, 1962 |
Joseph Bernard Fuqua (born May 3, 1962 in Washington, D.C.) is an American actor. Joseph's parents were Brig. Gen. Stephen Ogden Fuqua Jr. (1911-1999) and Mary Ann Sherman Verspoor (1926-1967). Joseph's father remarried in 1969 to Frances Huston...
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| x Charles Alberton Janeway | 1909 |
Dr. Charles Alderson Janeway (born 1909 in New York City; died 1981 in Weston, Massachusetts) was an eminent American pediatrician, medical professor, and clinical researcher.
Janeway was physician in chief from 1946 to 1976 at Children's Hospital...
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| x Daniel J. Boorstin |
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Oct 1, 1914 |
Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987.
Boorstin was born in 1914 in Atlanta,...
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| x William McChesney Martin, Jr. |
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Dec 17, 1906 |
William McChesney Martin, Jr. (December 17, 1906, St. Louis, Missouri – July 28, 1998, Washington, D.C.) was the ninth and longest-serving Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, serving from April 2, 1951 to January 31, 1970 under five...
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| x William Kent | Mar 29, 1864 |
William Kent (March 29, 1864–March 13, 1928) was an American who served as a United States Congressman representing the State of California. He spearheaded the movement to create the Muir Woods National Monument by donating land to the Federal...
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| x Constanza Romero | 1958 |
Constanza Romero (born 1958) is an American artist and theater designer who lives in Seattle, Washington.
Romero's parents divorced in 1969, when she was 11. Her mother found a teaching job in Fresno, California, and moved there with Romero and her...
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| x Mel Powell | Feb 12, 1923 |
Mel Powell (born Melvin Epstein, February 12, 1923 in the Bronx, New York City – April 24, 1998 in Sherman Oaks, California) was a jazz pianist and composer of classical music.
Powell was born to Russian Jewish parents and began playing piano as a...
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| x E. H. Moore |
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Jan 26, 1862 |
Eliakim Hastings Moore (January 26, 1862, Marietta, Ohio – December 30, 1932, Chicago, Illinois) was an American mathematician.
Moore, the son of a Methodist minister, discovered mathematics through a summer job at the Cincinnati Observatory while...
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| x John B. Johnson |
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Oct 2, 1887 |
John Bertrand "Bert" Johnson (October 2, 1887–November 27, 1970) (né Johan Erik Bertrand) was a Swedish-born American electrical engineer and physicist. He first explained in detail a fundamental source of random interference with information...
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| x Dick Ebersol | Jul 28, 1947 |
Duncan "Dick" Ebersol (born July 28, 1947 in Torrington, Connecticut) is an American radio and TV executive. He was protégé of ABC Sports czar Roone Arledge and was a key NBC executive in the launching of Saturday Night Live in 1975 and which he...
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| x Michael Medved |
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Oct 3, 1948 |
Michael Medved (born October 3, 1948) is a American radio program host and is a conservative political commentator, film critic, and author. His Seattle-based nationally-syndicated talk show, The Michael Medved Show, airs throughout the United...
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| x Jim Jeffords |
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May 11, 1934 |
James Merrill "Jim" Jeffords (born May 11, 1934) is a former U.S. Senator from Vermont. He served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party to become an independent.
Jeffords was born in Rutland, Vermont, the son of Marion Hausman and Olin...
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