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Jacob Joachim Jack Klugman was an American stage, film and television actor.....
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Gnter Behnisch was a German architect, born in Lockwitz, near Dresden. During the Second World War he became one of Germanys youngest submarine commanders. Subsequently Behnisch became one of the most prominent architects representing deconstructivism. His prominent projects included the Olympic Park in Munich and the new West German parliament in Bonn.....
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Gale Storm was an American actress and singer who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show.....
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Farokhroo Parsay, was an Iranian physician, educator and parliamentarian. She served as Minister of Education of Iran in the last preIslamic revolution government and was the first female cabinet minister of an Iranian government.....
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Darren McGavin was an American actor best known for his portrayal of the grumpy but loving father in the film A Christmas Story, and for the title role in the television horror series Kolchak The Night Stalker. He appeared as the title character in the 1950s television series Mickey Spillanes Mike Hammer. From 19591961, McGavin starred in the NBC Western series Riverboat, first with Burt Reynolds and then with Noah Beery, Jr., and in later years, he had a recurring role in the sitcom Murphy Bro....
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Charles Monroe Schulz , nicknamed Sparky, was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Peanuts . He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time, cited as a major influence by many later cartoonists, including Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson.....
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Charles Thomas Beaird was an industrialist, newspaper publisher, philanthropist, and civic leader from Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana. A selfidentified liberal Republican, Beaird was an early champion of civil rights legislation.....
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Hans Peter Waldmann was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross , an honour that recognised extreme bravery on the battlefield or outstanding military leadership. Waldmann received the award after he had shot down 85 enemy aircraft. In total, he was credited with 134 aerial victories accumulated in 527 combat missions.....
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Gene Myron Amdahl was an American computer architect and hightech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation. He formulated Amdahls law, which states a fundamental limitation of parallel computing.....
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Harold Lee Washington was an American lawyer and politician elected as the 51st Mayor of Chicago in February 1983. He was the first AfricanAmerican to serve as Mayor of Chicago, in office from April 29, 1983 until his death on November 25, 1987. Washington was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 1983 representing the Illinois first district, and also previously served in the Illinois State Senate and the Illinois House of Representatives from 1965 until 1976.....
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Harry Henry Choates was an American Cajun music fiddler known as Fiddle King of Cajun Swing.....
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James Edward Westcott is a photographer who worked for the United States government in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. As one of the few people permitted to have a camera in the Oak Ridge area during the Manhattan Project, he created the main visual record of the construction and operation of the Oak Ridge production facilities and of civilian life in the enclosed community of Oak Ridge.....
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China Zorrilla was an emblematic Uruguayan theater, film, and television actress, also director, producer and writer. An immensely popular star in the Rioplatense area is often regarded as a Grand Dame of the South American theater stage.....
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Harry Paletta was a Hauptsturmfhrer in the Waffen SS during World War II. He was awarded the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II.....
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Heikki Savolainen was a Finnish stage and screen actor renowned for the part of Urho Hietanen in Edvin Laines 1955 The Unknown Soldier . He also played several comedic roles in 50s Finnish movies, as well as performing in several radio plays.....
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George Stanley McGovern was an American historian, author, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.....
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