Famous people born in the year 1929

Jrgen Ehlers was a German physicist who contributed to the understanding of Albert Einsteins theory of general relativity. From graduate and postgraduate work in Pascual Jordans relativity research group at Hamburg University, he held various posts as a lecturer and, later, as a professor before joining the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich as a director. In 1995, he became the founding director of the newly created Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, German....
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Jack Foust Matlock, Jr. is an American former ambassador, career Foreign Service Officer, a teacher, a historian, and a linguist. He was a specialist in Soviet affairs during some of the most tumultuous years of the Cold War, and served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991.....
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John T. Jack Melick is an American bandleader, pianist, and arranger.....
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Edward Osborne Wilson is an American biologist, researcher , theorist , naturalist and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he is considered to be the worlds leading expert.....
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Gnter Schabowski was an official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany , the ruling party during most of the existence of the German Democratic Republic. Schabowski gained worldwide fame in November 1989 when he improvised a slightly mistaken answer to a press conference question, raising popular expectations much more rapidly than the government planned so that massive crowds gathered the same night at the Berlin Wall, forcing its opening after 28 years soon after, the entire inner German bo....
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Halyna Olexandrivna Zubchenko was a Ukrainian painter, muralist, social activist and member of the Club of Creative Youth. She joined the Union of Artists of Ukraine in 1965.....
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Edgar Miles Bronfman was a CanadianAmerican businessman and philanthropist. He worked for his family drinks firm, Seagrams, eventually becoming president, treasurer and chief executive. As President of the World Jewish Congress, Bronfman is especially remembered for initiating diplomacy with the Soviet Union. This resulted in the legitimising of the Hebrew language in Russia, and major steps towards allowing Soviet Jews to practice their own religion and emigrate to Israel.....
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Harbhajan Singh , also known as Yogi Bhajan and Siri Singh Sahib to his followers, was a yogi, spiritual teacher, and entrepreneur, who introduced Kundalini Yoga to the United States. He was the spiritual director of the 3HO Foundation, with over 300 centers in 35 countries.....
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Roberto Gmez Bolaos , more commonly known by his pseudonym Chespirito, or Little Shakespeare was a Mexican screenwriter, actor, comedian, film director, television director, playwright, songwriter, and author. He is widely regarded as the most important Latin and Spanishlanguage humorist of all time.....
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Chesney Henry Chet Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and vocalist.....
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Edward Ed Asner is an American film, television, and stage actor, voice actor, and a former president of the Screen Actors Guild. He is primarily known for his role as Lou Grant during the 1970s and early 1980s, on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spinoff series Lou Grant, making him one of the few television actors to portray the same leading character in both a comedy and a drama. He is also known for portraying Santa Claus in the comedy film Elf and its remake Elf Buddys Musical Chris....
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King Hassan II lasan an, Darija elasan ettni 9 July 1929 23 July 1999 was King of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999. He was the eldest son of Mohammed V, Sultan, then King of Morocco , and his second wife, Lalla Abla bint Tahar .....
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David McReynolds is an American democratic socialist and pacifist activist who described himself as a peace movement bureaucrat during his 40year career with Liberation magazine and the War Resisters League. He lives in New York City.....
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Hector Albert Cafferata, Jr., USMCR was a United States Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War. In November 1950, Private First Class Cafferata singlehandedly held off a regimentalstrength enemy and saved wounded Marines by hurling away a live grenade that had landed in their midst, at the cost of serious personal injury.....
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Heiner Mller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as the theatres greatest living poet since Samuel Beckett, Mller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht. His enigmatic, fragmentary pieces are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postdramatic theatre.....
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Elizabeth Allen was an American theatre, television and film actress and singer whose fortyyear career lasted from the mid1950s through the mid1990s and included scores of TV episodes as well as six theatrical features, two of which were directed by John Ford.....
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George Richard Moscone was an ItalianAmerican attorney and Democratic politician. He was the 37th mayor of San Francisco, California from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978. Moscone served in the California State Senate from 1967 until becoming Mayor. In the Senate, he served as Majority Leader.....
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Christo Coetzee was a South African assemblage and NeoBaroque artist closely associated with the avantgarde art movements of Europe and Japan during the 1950s and 1960s. Under the influence of art theorist Michel Tapi, art dealer Rodolphe Stadler and art collector and photographer Anthony Denney, as well as the Gutai group of Japan, he developed his oeuvre alongside those of artists strongly influenced by Tapis Un Art Autre , such as Georges Mathieu, Alfred Wols, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, H....
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Arlette Pinheiro Esteves Torres ONM better known by her stage name Fernanda Montenegro, is a Brazilian stage, television and film actress, mostly recognized for her leading role in Central Station, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first and only Brazilian actress to ever be nominated in the category. Also for this work, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Drama and won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Interna....
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Patriarch Filaret is the head of the noncanonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate , and a former Metropolitan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church .....
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