Famous people born in the year 1938
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Beatrix of the Netherlands
HRH Princess Margriet Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven ....
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Ernie Barnes
Ernest Eugene Barnes, Jr. was an AfricanAmerican painter, well known for his unique style of elongation and movement. He was also a professional football player, actor and author.....
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Namkhai Norbu
Namkhai Norbu is a Dzogchen teacher who was born in Derge, eastern Tibet on 8 December 1938. When he was two years old, Namkhai Norbu was recognized as the mindstream emanation, a tulku, of the great Dzogchen teacher, Adzom Drugpa , at five he was also recognized as a mindstream emanation of an emanation of Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel . From an early age Namkhai Norbu undertook an accelerated course of study, attending monastic college, taking retreats, and studying with renowned teachers, includ....
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Nancy Holt
Nancy Holt was an American artist most known for her public sculpture, installation art and land art. Throughout her career, Holt also produced works in other media, including film, photography, and writing books and articles about art.....
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Oleg Gordievsky
Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, CMG , is a former colonel of the KGB and KGB Residentdesignate and bureau chief in London, who was a secret agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service from 1974 to 1985.....
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Oleksandr Omelchenko
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Omelchenko became the mayor of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, in 1999. He lost his reelection bid in March 2006. Omelchenko is also a former member of the Verkhovna Rada .....
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Alberto Fujimori
Albert Fujimori is a former Peruvian politician. He was President of Peru from 28 July 1990 to 22 November 2000. A controversial figure, Fujimori ended his presidency by fleeing Peru for Japan amid a major corruption scandal and human rights violations. Despite this, some commentators have credited his government with the creation of Fujimorism, defeating the Shining Path insurgency and restoring Perus macroeconomic stability. Even amid his prosecution in 2008 for crimes against humanity relati....
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Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. CC OOnt is a Canadian singersongwriter who achieved international success in folk, folkrock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folkpop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canadas greatest songwriter and internationally as a folkrock legend.....
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Kaoru Yosano
Kaoru Yosano is a Japanese politician. He was a member of Liberal Democratic Party , the Sunrise Party of Japan and former member of the House of Representatives, serving his ninth term in the Lower House representing Tokyos first electoral district until his defeat in the Japanese general election, 2009. Yosano was Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Shinz Abe from August 2007 to September 2007 and was State Minister in charge of Economic and Fiscal Policy in Taro Asos administration fr....
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Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven known as Larry Niven is an American science fiction writer. His bestknown work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The....
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Etta James
Etta James was an American singer who spanned a variety of music genres including blues, RampB, soul, rock and roll, jazz and gospel. Starting her career in 1954, she gained fame with hits such as The Wallflower, At Last, Tell Mama, Somethings Got a Hold on Me, and Id Rather Go Blind for which she wrote the lyrics. She faced a number of personal problems, including drug addiction, before making a musical resurgence in the late 1980s with the album Seven Year Itch.....
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Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood was an American film and television actress. She is known for her screen roles in Miracle on 34th Street, Splendor in the Grass, Rebel Without a Cause, The Searchers, and West Side Story. She first worked in films as a child, then became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old.....
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Donald Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University.....
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Evel Knievel
Robert Craig Evel Knievel was an American stunt performer and entertainer. Over his career, he attempted more than 75 ramptoramp motorcycle jumps, and, in 1974, a canyon jump across Snake River Canyon in the Skycycle X2, a steampowered rocket. During his career he suffered more than 433 bone fractures, earning an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the survivor of most bones broken in a lifetime. Knievel was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999. Knievel died of pulmonar....
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Klaus Rudolf Werhand
Klaus Rudolf Werhand was a German Blacksmith. He worked mainly as a Metalsmith and a Coppersmith, but also as an Art Metal Sculptor.....
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Neil Abercrombie
Neil Abercrombie is an American politician who served as the seventh Governor of Hawaii from 2010 to 2014. He is a member of the Democratic Party.....
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Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the corecipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world. He is the founder and the Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, as well as being the chairman of The Elders, a group founded by Nelson Mandela.....
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Bert de Vries
Berend Bert de Vries is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal . He served as a Member of the House of Representatives from November 21, 1978 until November 7, 1989. After the Dutch general election of 1982 the Christian Democratic Appeal lost 3 seats and incumbent Prime Minister Dries van Agt unexpectedly announced that he was stepping down. After a short cabinet formation a new cabinet was formed De Vries became the new Parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic A....
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Bert Newton
Albert Watson Bert Newton, AM, MBE , is an Australian entertainer and radio, theatre and television personalitypresenter, known for hosting television series such as In Melbourne Tonight, Good Morning Australia, and 20 to 1. Newton has hosted the Logie Awards on numerous occasions through his career, and is a four time recipient of the Gold Logie and a Hall of Fame inductee. He is known for his collaborations with Graham Kennedy and Don Lane. He started in radio broadcasting, before becoming a s....
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