Famous people born in the year 1944

Patricia Louise HoltEdwards better known under the stage name Patti LaBelle, is an American singer, author, actress, and entrepreneur. LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and front woman of the vocal group, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. Following the groups name change to Labelle in the early 1970s, she released the iconic disco song Lady Marmalade and the group later became the first AfricanAmerican vocal group to land the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. After the g....
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Oswald Gracias is an Indian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was appointed Archbishop of Bombay by Pope Benedict XVI on 14 October 2006 and was raised to the cardinalate in 2007. In 2008, he became VicePresident of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India and in 2010, he was elected President. He is also the President of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences. On 13 April 2013, he was appointed to the eightmember Council of Cardinals, informally the Council of Cardinal Advisers....
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Konrad Zdarsa is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of Grlitz from 2007 till 2010, when he became bishop of Augsburg.....
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Alexander Gurevich, is an Israeli painter and graphic artist.....
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Lee Muller Thomas was head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. from 1985 to 1989 under President Ronald Reagan. He succeeded William Ruckelshaus. He is a Republican.....
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Paulus Paul Hoekstra is a Dutchborn, Belgian retired sprint canoeist who was active from the mid1960s to the mid1970s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K2 1000 m event at Tokyo in 1964. Hoekstra also won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver and a bronze .....
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Lefteris Valakas was a Greek sculptor. He was born in the village of Pyrgos on Tinos island in Greece. Valakas after concluding his basic education in Pyrgos, enrolled in the School of Fine Arts of Pyrgos. After graduating, he continued his studies in the respective school of Athens, Athens School of Fine Arts, for two years. After receiving scholarship by the Evangelistria Institution of Tinos, he concluded the studies in sculpture in the cole Nationale Suprieure des BeauxArts in Paris.....
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Alexander Alexanderovitch Sliussarev was a Russian photographer and translator from Italian.....
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Doyle Lawson is an American bluegrass and gospel musician. He is best known as an accomplished mandolin player, vocalist, producer, and leader of the 6man group Doyle Lawson amp Quicksilver. Lawson was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2012.....
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William Emanuel Billy Cobham is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, who permanently relocated to Switzerland during the late 1970s.....
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Guity Novin is an IranianCanadian figurative painter, and graphic designer residing in Canada. She classifies her work as Transpressionism, a movement she has introduced. Her works are in private and public collections worldwide. ....
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Leila Khaled and an airline hijacker who was later released in a prisoner exchange for civilian hostages kidnapped by her fellow PFLP members. The PFLP is described as a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, and the European Union.....
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Alexander Van der Bellen , known informally as Sascha, is an Austrian politician and economist, and the Presidentelect of Austria.....
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Nikola II PetroviNjego, Crown Prince of Montenegro is the Head of the House of PetroviNjego which once reigned over Montenegro. He is Hereditary Grand Master of the Dynastic Orders of PetroviNjego, St. Peter of Cetinje and Prince Danilo I of Montenegro.....
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Nicholas DiMarzio is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the seventh Bishop of Brooklyn, having previously served as Bishop of Camden from 1999 to 2003.....
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Leni Christina Elisabeth Bjrklund is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. She served as Minister for Defence from 2002 to 2006.....
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Walter Bill Clark is a former New York Police Department first grade detective and an awardwinning television writer and producer.....
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Nicholas Christian Nicky Hopkins was an English pianist and organist.....
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Marco Goldschmied is an architect best known as cofounder and managing director of Richard Rogers Partnership. He now runs the Marco Goldschmied Foundation and was previously a president of the Royal Institute of British Architects.....
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Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement . In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for first degree murder in the shooting of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.....
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