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Nanayakkarapathirage Martin Perera, better known as Dr. N. M. Perera, was one of the leaders of the Sri Lankan Trotskyist Lanka Sama Samaja Party . He was the first Trotskyist to become a cabinet minister.....
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P. Kunhiraman Nair , also known as Mahakavi P, was a renowned Malayalam poet whose works romanticised the natural beauty of his home state of Kerala in southern India and juxtaposed it with the hard realities of his life and times.....
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Weldon Leo Jack Teagarden , known as Big T and The Swingin Gate, was an American jazz trombonist, bandleader, composer, and vocalist, regarded as the Father of Jazz Trombone.....
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Franchot Tone was an American stage, film, and television actor, star of many successful films and television series throughout his career, such as Bonanza, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. He is perhaps best known for his role as Midshipman Roger Byam in Mutiny on the Bounty , starring alongside Clark Gable and Charles Laughton.....
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Pahor Labib was Director of the Coptic Museum, Cairo, Egypt, from 1951 to 1965 and one of the world leaders in Egyptology and Coptology.....
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Erskine Hamilton Childers served as the fourth President of Ireland from 1973 until his death in 1974. He was a Teachta Dla from 1938 until 1973. Childers served as Minister for Posts and Telegraphs , Minister for Lands , Minister for Transport and Power , and Minister for Health . He was appointed Tnaiste in 1969.....
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Homer Virgil Van Meter was an American criminal and bank robber active in the early 20th century, most notably as a criminal associate of John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.....
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Oliver Shewell Franks, Baron Franks OM GCMG KCB CBE PC DL was an English civil servant and philosopher who has been described as one of the founders of the postwar world.....
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Albert Dekker was an American character actor and politician best known for his roles in Dr. Cyclops, The Killers, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Wild Bunch. He is sometimes credited as Albert Van Dekker or Albert van Dekker.....
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Dolores del Ro , was a Mexican and American film, television and stage actress. She was a Hollywood star in the 1920s and 1930s, and one of the most important female figures of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s.....
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Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley , Countess de Hohenfelsen was a member of the Romanov family. A daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, she was a first cousin of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II. After the Russian revolution she emigrated first to France and later to the United States. She became a fashion model, socialite, vendeuse, and briefly pursued a career as a film actress.....
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Eugne Joseph Bozza was a French contemporary composer and violinist. He remains one of the most prolific composers of chamber music for wind instruments. Bozzas large ensemble work includes five symphonies, operas, ballets, large choral work, wind band music, concertos, and much work for large brass or woodwind ensembles. His larger works are rarely performed outside his native France.....
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Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American business tycoon, entrepreneur, investor, aviator, aerospace engineer, inventor, filmmaker and philanthropist. During his life, he was known as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world. As a maverick film tycoon, Hughes gained prominence in Hollywood from the late 1920s, making bigbudget and often controversial films like The Racket , Hells Angels , Scarface , and The Outlaw .....
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Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer March16019, 1905160 September1601, 1981 was a German architect who was, for most of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany. Speer was Adolf Hitlers chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As the Nazi who said sorry, he accepted moral responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for complicity in crimes of the Nazi regime, while insisting he was ignorant of the Holocaust.....
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Eugen Snger was an Austrian aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology.....
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Aldo Fabrizi was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and comedian, probably best known for the role of the heroic priest in Roberto Rossellinis Rome, Open City and as partner of Tot in a number of successful comedies.....
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Onsimo Redondo Ortega was a Spanish Falangist Fascist politician. He founded the Castilian Groups of Hispanic Action , a political group that merged with Ramiro Ledesmas Juntas de Ofensiva NacionalSindicalista and Jos Antonio Primo de Riveras Falange Espaola.....
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Bernardo Mattarella was an Italian politician for the Christian Democrat party . He has been Minister of Italy several times. He was the father of Piersanti Mattarella and Sergio Mattarella, who both became politicians as well Sergio is the President of the Italian Republic since 3 February 2015 and Piersanti was President of the Regional Government of Sicily, before being assassinated in 1980 by Cosa Nostra.....
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Eva Miriam Hart MBE was a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912.....
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