Famous people born in the year 1941

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David Gross

David Gross


David Jonathan Gross is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. He is the former director and current holder of the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a faculty member in the UC Santa Barbara Physics Department and is currently af....
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Harry Muskee

Harry Muskee


Harry Cuby Muskee was the singer of the blues band Cuby Blizzards, which he cofounded with Eelco Gelling. Muskee was born in Assen, and died in Rolde aged 70.....
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David Johnston

David Johnston


David Lloyd Johnston CC CMM COM CD FRSC FRCPSC is a Canadian academic, author, and statesman who is the current Governor General of Canada, the 28th since Canadian Confederation.....
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George Clinton musician

George Clinton musician


George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer. He was the principal architect of PFunk, the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost innovators of funk music, along with James Brown and Sly Stone. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, alongside 15 other members of ParliamentFunkadelic.....
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David Puttnam

David Puttnam


David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, Kt, CBE, HonFRSA, HonFRPS, MRIA is a British film producer and educator. He sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, although he is not principally a politician.....
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David Ruffin

David Ruffin


Davis Eli David Ruffin was an American soul singer and musician most famous for his work as one of the lead singers of The Temptations during the groups Classic Five period as it was later known. He was the lead voice on such famous songs as My Girl and Aint Too Proud to Beg.....
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Christopher Hogwood

Christopher Hogwood


Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE was an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer, and musicologist. Founder of the early music ensemble the Academy of Ancient Music, he was an authority on historically informed performance and a leading figure in the early music revival of the late 20th century.....
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Heinz Anger

Heinz Anger


Heinz Anger is an Austrian painter of landscapes, portraits, still lifes and figurative compositions.....
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David Warner actor

David Warner actor


David Hattersley Warner is an English actor who is known for playing both romantic leads and sinister or villainous characters across a range of media, including stage, film, animation, television and video games.....
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George Pell

George Pell


George Pell AC is an Australian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the inaugural and current Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, since 2014. He previously served as the eighth Archbishop of Sydney , auxiliary bishop and archbishop of the Archdiocese of Melbourne. He was created a cardinal in 2003.....
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Helen Reddy

Helen Reddy


Helen Maxine Lamond Reddy is an Australian singer, actress, and activist. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed 15 singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six made the Top 10 and three reached No. 1, including her signature hit I Am Woman. She is often referred to as the Queen of 70s Pop.....
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George Tiller

George Tiller


George Richard Tiller, MD was an American physician from Wichita, Kansas. He gained national attention as the medical director of Womens Health Care Services, one of only three clinics nationwide to provide lateterm abortions at the time.....
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Chrysostomos II of Cyprus

Chrysostomos II of Cyprus


Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus is the incumbent Archbishop of Cyprus. He was born in Tala village, Paphos.....
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Chubby Checker

Chubby Checker


Chubby Checker is an American singersongwriter. He is widely known for popularizing the twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballards RampB hit The Twist. In September 2008 The Twist topped Billboards list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1958, an honor it maintained for an August 2013 update of the list. He also popularized the Limbo Rock and its trademark limbo dance, as well as various dance styles such as the fly.....
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Fethullah G len

Fethullah G len


Muhammed Fethullah Glen is a Turkish preacher, former imam, writer, and political figure. He is the founder of the Glen movement . He currently lives in selfimposed exile in the United States, residing in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.....
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Finn M W Caspersen

Finn M W Caspersen


Finn Michael Westby Caspersen, Sr. was an American financier and philanthropist. A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, he followed his father, Olaus Caspersen, a Norwegian immigrant to the United States, as chairman and chief executive of Beneficial Corporation, one of the largest consumer finance companies in the United States. After an 8.6160billion acquisition of Beneficial by Household International in 1998, Caspersen ran Knickerbocker Management, a private financial firm o....
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Emmett Till

Emmett Till


Emmett Louis Till was an AfricanAmerican teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.....
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Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie


Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and, with longtime colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system. Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1999. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007. He was the R in KampR C, and commonly known b....
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Derek Bell racing driver

Derek Bell racing driver


Derek Reginald Bell MBE is a British racing driver who was extremely successful in sportscar racing, winning the Le Mans 24 hours five times, the Daytona 24 three times and the World Sportscar Championship twice. He also raced in Formula One for the Ferrari, Wheatcroft, McLaren, Surtees and Tecno teams. He has been described by fellow racer HansJoachim Stuck as one of the most liked drivers of his generation.....
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Erhard Busek

Erhard Busek


Erhard Busek is a politician from the Christianconservative Peoples Party . Throughout his political career, he was widely regarded as one of the leaders of the partys liberal wing. At present he is Coordinator of the SouthEastern Cooperative Initiative and Chairman of the Institute for Danube Region and Central Europe among other things.....
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