Famous people born in the year 1925

Ernest Andr Gellner was a BritishCzech philosopher and social anthropologist described by The Daily Telegraph, when he died, as one of the worlds most vigorous intellectuals, and by The Independent as a oneman crusade for critical rationalism.....
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Nahum Moiseyevich Korzhavin is a Russian poet of Jewish descent, a dissident and emigrant living in Boston. He recently moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to be near family.....
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Bejaratana Rajasuda was the only child of the King Vajiravudh of Thailand. She was a first cousin of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and third cousin of King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.....
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Nam Suk Lee born in the city of Yeo Joo, is credited with cofounding the traditional Korean martial art of Chang Moo Kwan in the mid1940s, and then promoting and expanding it globally. Chang Moo Kwan was one of the five original Kwans which became Tae Kwon Do in the mid 1950s. In his later life Nam Suk Lee was to make the seaside community of San Pedro, California his home, where he reestablished his traditional roots in Chang Moo Kwan. He was 75 and still actively teaching Chang Moo Kwan throu....
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Ieng Sary was a cofounder and senior member of the Khmer Rouge. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea led by Pol Pot and served in the 197579 government of Democratic Kampuchea as foreign minister and deputy prime minister. He was known as Brother Number Three as he was third in command after Pol Pot and Nuon Chea. His wife, Ieng Thirith , served in the Khmer Rouge government as social affairs minister. Ieng Sary was arrested in 2007 and was charged with c....
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Jacques Lucien Jean Delors is a French economist and politician, previously the eighth President of the European Commission and the first person to serve three terms in that office . He is the father of Martine Aubry, the former first secretary of the Socialist Party of France.....
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Franciszek Duszeko was a Polish sculptor, professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdask and its Rector in the years 198187. He was a former prisoner of Nazi concentration camps in World War II.....
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Amncio dAlpoim Miranda Guedes, , known as Pancho Guedes, was a Portuguese architect, sculptor and painter. An archetype Eclectic Modernist born in Lisbon, Portugal, he spent much of his life in Portuguese Mozambique from when he was 7 years old. In East Africa he produced the designs for hundreds of buildings, many of them in the city of Loureno Marques .....
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Jacques Vergs was a lawyer who earned fame continually from the 1950s, first as an anticolonialist communist figure and then for defending a long string of wellknown clients, from an anticolonialist Algerian militant, Djamila Bouhired in 19571962 to former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan in 2008. His clients included both leftwing and rightwing terrorists, war criminals, and militants, including Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie , and international terroris....
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Ihor Yukhnovskyi is a Ukrainian physicist, politician, and statesman, a member of the Presidium of Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine.....
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Tun Dato Seri Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad is a Malaysian politician who was the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia. He held the post for 22 years from 1981 to 2003, making him Malaysias longestserving Prime Minister. His political career spanned almost 40 years.....
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Francis Sherman Frank Currey is a former United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States militarys highest decorationthe Medal of Honorfor his actions in World War II.....
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Oliver Smithies is a Britishborn American geneticist and Nobel laureate, credited with the introduction of starch as a medium for gel electrophoresis in 1955, and the simultaneous discovery, with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, of the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more reliable method of altering animal genomes than previously used, and the technique behind gene targeting and knockout mice.....
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Gore Vidal was an American writer and a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.....
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Howard Henry Baker Jr. was an American politician and diplomat who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee and Senate Majority Leader. Baker later served as White House Chief of Staff for President Ronald Reagan, and a United States Ambassador to Japan. He worked as a lobbyist and adviser at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell amp Berkowitz.....
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Albert Jacquard was a French geneticist, popularizer of science, essayist and humanist.....
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Franklin Runyon Sousley was a United States Marine who was killed in action on Iwo Jima during World War II. He is one of the six flagraisers in the famous photograph of United States Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima in World War II.....
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Laura Ashley was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman. She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding the business into clothing design and manufacture in the 1960s. The Laura Ashley style is characterised by Romantic English designs often with a 19thcentury rural feel and the use of natural fabrics.....
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Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov was a wellknown Soviet and Russian film and theatre actor and director.....
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Hubert Hammerer is a retired Austrian sports shooter. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics in five rifle events and won a gold medal in 300 m 3 positions in 1960. He was the Olympic flag bearer for Austria at the 1964 Games.....
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