Famous people born in the year 1925
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J T McIntosh
J. T. McIntosh was a pseudonym used by Scottish writer and journalist James Murdoch MacGregor. ....
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Jack Lemmon
John Uhler Jack Lemmon III was an American actor and musician. Lemmon was an eight time Academy Award nominee, with two wins. He starred in over 60 films, such as Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts , Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger , The OutofTowners, The China Syndrome, Missing , Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.....
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B lent Ecevit
Mustafa Blent Ecevit was a Turkish politician, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist, who served as the Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002. He served as prime minister of Turkey in 1974, 1977, 197879, and 19992002. He was the leader of the Republican Peoples Party between 1972 and 1980, and in 1989 he became the leader of the Democratic Left Party .....
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B B King
Riley B. B.B. King was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that influenced many later electric blues guitarists.....
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F lix Luna
Flix Luna was a prominent Argentine writer, lyricist and historian.....
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G William Miller
George William Miller served as the 65th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Carter from August 6, 1979 to January 20, 1981. He previously served as the 11th Chairman of the Federal Reserve, where he began service on March 8, 1978.....
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G William Whitehurst
George William Whitehurst is a professor and retired politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from the state of Virginia. He began his career as a professor at the Norfolk campus of the College of William and Mary, which became Old Dominion College in 1962. After serving as Dean of Students from 19631968, Whitehurst left academia for a nineteenyear stay in Congress. Upon retiring from politics, he returned to what was by then Old Dominion University, where he currentl....
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Hal Holbrook
Harold Rowe Hal Holbrook, Jr. is an American film and stage actor. Holbrook first received critical acclaim for a oneman stage show he developed while in college in 1954, performing as Mark Twain.....
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Danny Roy Moore
Danny Roy Moore is a civil engineer and land surveyor in Arcadia, Louisiana, who served as a conservative Democrat in the Louisiana State Senate from 1964 until 1968. He represented a north Louisiana district, then unnumbered, encompassing Claiborne and Bienville parishes.....
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Edgar Ray Killen
Edgar Ray Preacher Killen is a former Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of three civil rights activistsJames Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwernerin 1964. He was found guilty in state court of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the fortyfirst anniversary of the crime, and sentenced to 60 years in prison. He appealed the verdict, but the sentence was upheld on January 12, 2007, by the Mississippi Supreme Court.....
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Farley Granger
Farley Earle Granger, Jr. was an American actor, best known for his two collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock Rope in 1948 and Strangers on a Train in 1951.....
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Gamani Corea
Deshamanya Gamani Corea was a Sri Lankan economist, civil servant and diplomat. He was also the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and UnderSecretaryGeneral of the United Nations from 1974 to 1984, Ceylons Ambassador to the EEC, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs of Ceylon and the Senior Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon.....
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Carmine Infantino
Carmine Michael Infantino was an American comic book artist and editor who was a major force in the Silver Age of Comic Books. Alongside Len Wein, he created Christopher Chance, the second iteration of Human Target. He was inducted into comics Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2000.....
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Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books. His characteristic penandink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings.....
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David Bache
David Ernest Bache was a British car designer. For much of his career he worked with Rover.....
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Chen Wen Yu
Chen WenYu , was a Taiwanese botanist, horticulturist and an inventor in agriculture science. He bred new strains and varieties of plants, including fruits, flowers, and vegetables over his 70yearlong career. At the time of his death, one fourth of the watermelon seeds in the world were supplied by Chen. He developed over 280 varieties of new watermelon species including seedless watermelons, yellow skinned watermelons with red meat , and baby watermelons. He became known as the Watermelon King....
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David Elazar
David Dado Elazar was the ninth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces , serving in that capacity from 1972 to 1974. He was forced to resign in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War.....
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David Evans RAAF officer
Air Marshal David Evans, AC, DSO, AFC is a retired senior commander of the Royal Australian Air Force , and a writer and consultant on defence matters. He served as Chief of the Air Staff from 1982 until 1985. Since leaving the RAAF he has published two military treatises, A Fatal Rivalry Australias Defence at Risk and War A Matter of Principles, as well as an autobiography.....
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