Famous people born in the year 1956

Barbara Ann Perry , a U.S. Supreme Court and presidency expert, as well as a biographer of the Kennedys, is a Senior Fellow at the University of Virginias Miller Center and is the former Carter Glass Professor of Government and founding director of the Center for Civic Renewal at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. In 199495 she was the Judicial Fellow at the U.S. Supreme Court, where she received the Tom C. Clark Award as the outstanding fellow that year. Her duties included researching and drafti....
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Deval Laurdine Patrick is an American politician and civil rights lawyer who served as the 71st governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Patrick served as the United States assistant attorney general for the civil rights division under President Bill Clinton. He was first elected in 2006, succeeding Mitt Romney who chose not to run, and reelected in 2010. He is the first and currently, the only AfricanAmerican to have served as governor of Massachusetts.....
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Erick van Egeraat is a Dutch architect and author. He heads the architectural practice based in Rotterdam with offices in Moscow, Budapest and Prague. He is best known for his projects of ING Group Headquarters in Budapest, Drents Museum in Assen, The Rock tower in Amsterdam, Incineration line in Roskilde, Main building and Auditorium in Leipzig University and the Corporate University of Sberbank in Moscow. He is the winner of RIBA Award 2007, Best Building Award 2011amp2012 and European Proper....
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Dallas Page , better known by his ring name Diamond Dallas Page, is an American semiretired professional wrestler, fitness instructor, motivational speaker and actor. In the course of his wrestling career, which spanned two decades, Falkinburg has wrestled for mainstream wrestling promotions World Championship Wrestling , the World Wrestling Federation , and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling .....
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David Barry Hilton is a South African stand up comedian. Referred to by his middle name, Barry , actor and television personality. After 6 years of initially working as an electrician he tried his hand at comedy and turned professional in 1983 at the age of 26. Inspired by comedians Richard Pryor and Billy Connolly, Hiltons personal style can best be described as a combination of observational, satirical and physical comedy.....
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Baruch Kopel Goldstein was an Americanborn Israeli physician and religious extremist. He is known for being the mass murderer who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in the city of Hebron, killing 29 Palestinian Muslim worshippers and wounding another 125. He was beaten to death by survivors of the massacre.....
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Pl Csky is a Slovak politician, member of Hungarian minority in Slovakia and the countrys former Deputy Prime Minister for European affairs, human rights and minorities. Csky has been an activist for the Hungarian minority in Slovakia since 1977 . His political activity started in 1989, and he has been a member of parliament since 1990. The Party of the Hungarian Coalition was elected as a member of the coalition in 1998, and Csky became a member of several advisory bodies and ministerial counci....
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Ian Kevin Curtis was an English musician and singersongwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the postpunk band Joy Division. Joy Division released their debut album, Unknown Pleasures, in 1979 and recorded their followup, Closer, in 1980.....
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Kji Hashimoto , known professionally as Kji Yakusho , is a Japanese actor.....
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Franois Schuiten is a Belgian comic book artist. He is best known for drawing the series Les Cits Obscures.....
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Katherine Alice Applegate is an American young adult and childrens fiction writer, best known as the author of the Animorphs, Remnants, Everworld, and other book series. She won the 2013 Newbery Medal for her 2012 childrens novel The One and Only Ivan. Applegates most popular books are science fiction, fantasy, and adventure novels. She won the Best New Childrens Book Series Award in 1997 in Publishers Weekly. Her book Home of the Brave has won two awards. She has recently written an early chap....
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Alan Davis is an English writer and artist of comic books, known for his work on titles such as Captain Britain, The Uncanny XMen, ClanDestine, Excalibur, JLA The Nail and JLA Another Nail.....
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Magorzata Zajczkowska, aka Margaret Sophie Stein , is a Polish actress and writer. Beginning in 1979, she acted on stage in the Teatr Narodowy. In 1981, Zajczkowska moved to the United States and, adopting the stage name Margaret Sophie Stein, continued her acting career in television and film. In 1999, Zajczkowska returned to Poland and continued acting there in films and television. She has also lectured at the Warsaw Film School.....
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Glen Matlock is an English musician best known for being the bass guitarist in the original lineup of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. He is credited as a coauthor on 10 of the 12 songs on Never Mind the Bollocks, Heres the Sex Pistols, although he had left the band by the time the record was released. He also continues to make his own records and tour with various bands, including the Sex Pistols.....
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Goli Ameri is an American diplomat and businesswoman. She is the President and CEO of the Center for Global Engagement, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering engagement between U.S. society and the rest of the world with a view to promoting shared values and common interests and increasing mutual understanding and respect. She is the former Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Values and Diplomacy for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. She is als....
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Jacques Gnreux May 9, 1956 in SaintBrieuc, CtesdArmor is a French economist and politician. He is a reader of economics at the Institut dtudes Politiques de Paris.....
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Luc Zeebroek , better known as Kamagurka, is a Belgian cartoonist, playwright, comic strip artist, painter, comedian, comedic singer and television producer, known for the absurd nature of his work. He created various comic strip characters, but Bert is the most well known. He also writes the scenarios for Herr Seeles comic strip, Cowboy Henk.....
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Lance Olsen is an American metamodern writer known for his experimental, lyrical, fragmentary, crossgenre narratives that question the limits of historical knowledge.....
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Oleksandr Vyacheslavovych Slobodian is a Ukrainian millionaire businessman and politician. He is the original CEO and current honorary president of the Kievbased Obolon CJSC, Europes largest brewing company, and the president of the Ukrainian Premier League football club Obolon Kyiv .....
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Mae Carol Jemison is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first AfricanAmerican woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. After her medical education and a brief general practice, Jemison served in the Peace Corps from 1985 to 1987, when she was selected by NASA to join the astronaut corps. She resigned from NASA in 1993 to form a company researching the application of technology to daily life. She has appeare....
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