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A. J. Quinnell
A. J. Quinnell was the pen name of the English thriller novelist Philip Nicholson. He is best known for his novel Man on Fire, which has been adapted to film twice, most recently in 2004 featuring Denzel Washington.
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Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami ( Abbās Kiyārostamī; born 22 June 1940) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy, Taste of Cherry, and The Wind Will Carry Us.
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Abdurrahman Wahid
Abdurrahman Wahid, born Abdurrahman Addakhil (7 September 1940 – 30 December 2009), colloquially known as , was an Indonesian Muslim religious and political leader who served as the President of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001. The long-time president of the Nahdlatul Ulama and the founder of the National Awakening Party (PKB), Wahid was the first elected president of Indonesia after the resignation of Suharto in 1998.
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Adam Faith
Terence (Terry) Nelhams-Wright, known as Adam Faith (23 June 1940, East Acton, London – 8 March 2003, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) was an English singer, actor and financial journalist. Teen idol turned to actor then financial advisor, Faith was one of the most charted acts of the 1960s. He became the first UK artist to lodge his initial seven hits in the Top 5. He was also one of the first UK acts to record original songs regularly.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945.
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African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie, DBE, CBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), was a British crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 80 detective novels—especially those featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple—and her successful West End theatre plays.
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Al Pacino
Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American film and stage actor and director. He is most famed for playing mobsters including Tony Montana in Scarface and Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, though he has also appeared several times on the other side of the law—as a police officer, detective, and a lawyer. His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 after receiving seven previous Oscar nominations.
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Alan Kay
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design, and for coining the phrase, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
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Alex Trebek
George Alexander "Alex" Trebek (; born July 22, 1940) is a game show host. Since 1984 he has been the host of the game show Jeopardy!, and prior to that, he hosted game shows such as Pitfall and High Rollers. He has appeared in numerous television series, usually as himself. A native of Canada, he became a naturalized United States citizen in 1998.
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Alfred Ploetz
Alfred Ploetz (August 22, 1860 – March 20, 1940) was a German physician, biologist, eugenicist known for coining the term racial hygiene (Rassenhygiene) and promoting the concept in Germany. Rassenhygiene is a form of eugenics.
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Alfred S. Alschuler
Alfred S. Alschuler (1876 – 11 June 1940)
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Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and member of highly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons.
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Angela Carter
Angela Carter (May 7, 1940 – February 16, 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, picaresque and science fiction works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth, in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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Anita Bryant
Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer, former beauty queen and gay rights opponent. She scored four Top 40 hits in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Paper Roses", which reached #5. She later became widely known for her strong views against homosexuality and for her prominent campaigning in 1977 to repeal a local ordinance in Dade County, Florida, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. In addition to the Florida campaign, she made public appearances in several other states in order to argue for the repeal of local anti-discrimination ordinances. As a result of her activism, she became a nationally known figure, sparking boycotts of products she advertised for. By the early 1980s she had receded from public view, and later returned to the music industry, but with little success. Bryant is a member of a conservative church congregation affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Arthur Harden
Sir Arthur Harden (12 October 1865 – 17 June 1940) was an English biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 with Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin for their investigations into the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes.
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Arthur Marder
Arthur Jacob Marder (born 8 March 1910 in Boston, Massachusetts - died 25 December 1980 of cancer in Santa Barbara, California) was a highly regarded American historian specializing in British naval history in the period 1880 - 1945.
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Astrud Gilberto
Astrud Gilberto (born March 29, 1940) is a Brazilian singer known for her samba and bossa nova music, including the Grammy Award-winning song "The Girl from Ipanema".
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Ballington Booth
Ballington Booth (July 28, 1857 – October 5, 1940) was an Officer in The Salvation Army and a co-founder of Volunteers of America.
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Ben Turpin
Ben Turpin (September 19, 1869–July 1, 1940) was a American cross-eyed comedian and actor, best remembered for his work in silent films.
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Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini KSMOM GCTE (29 July 1883, Predappio, Province of Forlì-Cesena - 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism.
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Bennie Maupin
Bennie Maupin (born 29 August 1940) is a Detroit Michigan jazz multireedist. He performs on various saxophones, flute and bass clarinet.
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Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers.
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Beverlee McKinsey
Beverlee McKinsey (August 9, 1935 – May 2, 2008) was an American actress.
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Bharati Mukherjee
Bharati Mukherjee (born July 27, 1940) is an award-winning Indian-born American writer. She is currently a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Bibi Besch
Bibiana "Bibi" Besch (February 1, 1940 – September 7, 1996) was an Austrian/American actress.
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Billy Name
Billy Linich, known as Billy Name and Billy Goat, (born 22 February 1940 in Poughkeepsie, New York), is an American photographer, artist, filmmaker, lighting designer, and the main archivist of the Warhol era from 1964 to 1970. His brief romance and subsequent close friendship with Andy Warhol fostered substantial collaboration on Warhol's most influential work, including his films, paintings and sculpture. Linich became Billy Name among the coterie known as the Warhol Superstars, and he is considered one of the most significant. He was responsible for "silverizing" Warhol's New York studio the Factory, where he lived until 1970. His images of Edie Sedgwick, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Nico, Ultra Violet, Bob Dylan, Mary Woronov and of Warhol himself, amongst others, are portraits of the height of the Pop art era.
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Bobby Hatfield
Robert Lee "Bobby" Hatfield (August 10, 1940 – November 5, 2003) was an American singer, best known as one half of the Righteous Brothers.
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Bobby Knight
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Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator and political leader. He was the dominant figure in the African American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915. He was representative of the last generation of black leaders born in slavery and spoke on behalf of blacks living in the South. Washington was able throughout the final 25 years of his life to maintain his standing as the major black leader because of the sponsorship by powerful whites, substantial support within the black community, his ability to raise educational funds from both groups and his accommodation to the social realities of the age of Jim Crow segregation.
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Brian De Palma
Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and writer. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and .
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Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (, born Lee Jun-fan (); – ) was a Chinese American and Hong Kong actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement. He is considered one of the most influential martial artists of the 20th century, and a cultural icon.
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Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny is an American fictional character who starred in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which became Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1944. In 2002, he was named by TV Guide as the greatest cartoon character of all time. Bugs starred in 163 shorts in the Golden Age of American animation, and made cameos in three others along with a few appearances in non-animated films.
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Cai Yuanpei
Cai Yuanpei () (January 11, 1868 – March 5, 1940) was a Chinese educator and the chancellor of Peking University. He was known for his critical evaluation of the Chinese culture that led to the influential May Fourth Movement. In his thinking, Cai was heavily influenced by Anarchism.
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Cale Yarborough
William Caleb "Cale" Yarborough (born March 27, 1939), is a farmer, businessman and former NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver and owner. He is one of only two drivers in NASCAR history to win three consecutive championships. He was the first NASCAR driver to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated .
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Candi Staton
Candi Staton (; born Canzetta Maria Staton, March 13, 1940, Hanceville, Alabama) is an American soul and gospel singer, best known for her 1970 remake of Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" and her 1976 disco hit "Young Hearts Run Free". In 2007, Staton was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame.
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Captain America
Captain America is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Over the years, an estimated 210 million copies of "Captain America" comic books have been sold in a total of 75 countries. For nearly all of the character's publication history Captain America was the alter ego of Steve Rogers, a sickly young man who was enhanced to the peak of human perfection by an experimental serum in order to aid the United States war effort. Captain America wears a costume that bears an American flag motif, and is armed with an indestructible shield that can be thrown as a weapon.
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Carol Heiss
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Carol II of Romania
Carol II (15 October/16 October 1893 – 4 April 1953) reigned as King of Romania from 8 June 1930 until 6 September 1940. Eldest son of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, and his wife, Queen Marie, a daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Queen Victoria. He was the first of the Romanian royal family who was baptized in the Orthodox rite.
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Carole Ann Ford
Carole Ann Ford (born 8 June 1940) is a British actress best known for her role as Susan Foreman in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. She also appeared in the 1962 film version of The Day of the Triffids.
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Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (, or ; 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969.
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Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) (nicknamed "Slim," "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle") was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.
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Charley Chase
Charley Chase (October 20, 1893 – June 20, 1940) was an American comedian, actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for his work in Hal Roach short film comedies. He was the older brother of comedian/director James Parrott.
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Chuck Mangione
Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione (; born November 29, 1940) is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good." Mangione has released more than thirty albums since 1960.cite web|url=http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql;=11:gifexqy5ld6e~T2|title=Chuck Mangione
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Chujiro Hayashi
, a disciple of Mikao Usui, played a major role in the transmission of Reiki out of Japan and for turning it into a less mystical practice.
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Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard, OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is an English singer, musician, performer, actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, who has sold over 260 million records worldwide in a career spanning 7 decades.
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César Tovar
César Leonardo Tovar (July 3, 1940 - July 14, 1994), nicknamed "Pepito" and "Mr. Versatility", was an infielder/outfielder and right-handed batter in Major League Baseball who played for the Minnesota Twins (1965-72), Philadelphia Phillies (1973), Texas Rangers (1974-1975), Oakland Athletics (1975-1976) and New York Yankees (1976).
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Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama (; ) is a Buddhist leader of religious officials of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word Далай "Dalai" meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word བླ་མ ་"Blama" (with a silent b) meaning "chief" or "high priest." "Lama" is a general term referring to Tibetan Buddhist teachers. In religious terms, the Dalai Lama is believed by his devotees to be the rebirth of a long line of tulkus who descend from the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara. Traditionally, he is thought of as the latest reincarnation of a series of spiritual leaders who have chosen to be reborn in order to enlighten others. The Dalai Lama is often thought to be the director of the Gelug School, but this position belongs officially to the Ganden Tripa, which is a temporary position appointed by the Dalai Lama who, in practice, exerts much influence.
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Daniel Frohman
Daniel Frohman (August 22, 1851 - December 26, 1940) was a Jewish American theatrical producer and manager, and an early film producer.
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David Jason
Sir David John White, OBE (stage name David Jason; born 2 February 1940) is an English television actor. He is best known for voicing Toad in The Wind in the Willows and his long running British television roles as the main characters of Derek "Del Boy" Trotter on the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses from 1981, and detective Jack Frost on the ITV crime drama A Touch of Frost from 1992. Other high profile television roles were as Granville in the sitcom Open All Hours, and Pop Larkin in the comedy drama The Darling Buds of May. His last original appearance as Del Boy was in 2003, while Jason retired his role as Frost in 2010.
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David Mann (painter)
David Mann ( – ) was a California graphic artist whose paintings celebrated culture, and choppers. Called "the biker world's artist-in-residence," his images are ubiquitous in biker clubhouses and garages, on motorcycle gas tanks, tattoos, and on t-shirts and other memorabilia associated with biker culture. Choppers have been built based on the bikes first imagined in a David Mann painting.
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Denis Law
Denis Law (born 24 February 1940) is a retired Scottish football player, who enjoyed a long and successful career as a striker from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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Dilip Sardesai
Dilip Narayan Sardesai (August 8, 1940, Margao, Goa - July 2, 2007, Mumbai) was a former Indian Test cricketer. He was the only Goan-born cricketer to play for India, and was often regarded as India's best batsman against spin bowling.
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Don Nelson
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Ed Ricketts
Edward Flanders Robb Ricketts (14 May 1897 – 11 May 1948) commonly known as Ed Ricketts, was an American marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher. He is best known for Between Pacific Tides (1939), a pioneering study of intertidal ecology, and for his influence on writer John Steinbeck, which resulted in their collaboration on the Sea of Cortez, later republished as The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951).
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Edward C. Prescott
Edward Christian Prescott (born December 26, 1940) is an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles". This research was primarily conducted while both Kydland and Prescott were affiliated with the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now Tepper School of Business) at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Elsa Peretti
Elsa Peretti (born May 1, 1940) is an Italian jewelry designer.
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Eric Gill
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He is a controversial figure, with his well-known religious views and subject matter being seen as at odds with his sexual and paraphiliac behaviour and erotic art.
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Ernst Chain
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Erwin Rommel
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel () (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944), popularly known as the Desert Fox (Wüstenfuchs, ), was a famous German Field Marshal of World War II.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night and his most famous, the celebrated classic, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.
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Fabrizio De André
Fabrizio De André (18 February 1940 - 11 January 1999) was an Italian singer-songwriter. In his works he often told stories of marginalized and rebellious people, prostitutes and knaves. In Italy he is considered a poet because of the quality of his lyrics.
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Farooq Leghari
Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari (Punjabi, lang-ur|) (born May 29, 1940) was the eighth President of Pakistan from November 14, 1993 until December 2, 1997. He was the first Balouch President of Pakistan.
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Ferdinand Foch
Ferdinand Foch (pronounced "Fosh") OM GCB (2 October 1851 – 20 March 1929) was a French soldier, military theorist, and writer credited with possessing "the most original and subtle mind in the French army" in the early 20th century. He served as general in the French army during World War I and was made Marshal of France in its final year: 1918. Shortly after the start of the Spring Offensive, Germany's final attempt to win the war, Foch was chosen as supreme commander of the Allied armies, a position that he held until 11 November 1918, when he accepted the German request for an armistice. In 1923 he was made Marshal of Poland.
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Fran Tarkenton
Francis Asbury "Fran" Tarkenton (born February 3, 1940) is a former professional football player, TV personality, and computer software executive.
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Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (; December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.
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Franz Rademacher
Franz Rademacher (20 February 1906, Neustrelitz - 17 March 1973) was an official in the Nazi government of the Third Reich during World War II, known for initiating action on the Madagascar Plan.
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Freddy Cannon
Frederick Anthony Picariello Jr. (born December 4, 1939), known as Freddy Cannon, is an American rock and roll singer, whose biggest international hits included "Tallahassee Lassie", "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans", and "Palisades Park".
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Galeazzo Ciano
Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo, and 1st Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari (March 18, 1903 – January 11, 1944) was an Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law.
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Galen Hall
Galen Samuel Hall (born August 14, 1940) is an American college and professional football coach and former player. Hall is a native of Pennsylvania, and an alumnus of Penn State University, where he played college football. Hall was previously the offensive coordinator at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Florida, and the head coach of the University of Florida, the Orlando Thunder, the Rhein Fire, and the XFL's Orlando Rage. He currently serves as the offensive coordinator at his alma mater, Penn State University.
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Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian (, ; born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese-born novelist, playwright, critic, and painter. An émigré to France since 1987, Gao was granted French citizenship in 1997. The recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature, he is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.
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Gary Gilmore
Gary Mark Gilmore (December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American criminal, and murderer, who gained international notoriety for demanding that his death sentence be fulfilled following two murders he committed in Utah. He became the first person executed in the United States after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a new series of death penalty statutes in the 1976 decision Gregg v. Georgia (these new statutes avoiding the problems that had led earlier death penalty statutes to be deemed unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia). Gilmore was executed by firing squad in 1977.
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Gene Alley
Leonard Eugene Alley (born July 10, 1940 in Richmond, Virginia) is a former Major League Baseball shortstop who played his entire career for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1963-73).
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Geoffrey Boycott
Geoffrey Boycott OBE (born 21 October 1940) is a former Yorkshire and England cricketer. In a prolific and sometimes controversial playing career from 1962 to 1986, Boycott established himself as one of England's most successful opening batsmen. Since retiring as a player, Boycott has found further success as a cricket commentator.
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George A. Romero
George Andrew Romero (born February 4, 1940) is an American-Canadian film director, screenwriter, and editor best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. He is nicknamed Grandfather of the Zombie.
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George Akerlof
George Arthur Akerlof (born June 17, 1940) is an American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics (shared with Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz).
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George Fitzmaurice
George Fitzmaurice (13 February 1885 — 13 June 1940) was a film director and producer. Fitzmaurice's career first started as a set designer on stage. Beginning in 1914 until his death in 1940, he directed over 80 films, including several successful movies such as The Son of the Sheik, Raffles, Mata Hari, and Suzy.
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George Metesky
George P. Metesky (November 2, 1903 – May 23, 1994), better known as the Mad Bomber, terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries and offices. Bombs were left in phone booths, storage lockers and restrooms in public buildings, including Grand Central Terminal, Pennsylvania Station, Radio City Music Hall, the New York Public Library, the Port Authority Bus Terminal and the RCA Building, as well as in the New York City Subway. Perhaps most notably, Metesky bombed movie theaters, where he cut into seat upholstery and slipped his explosive devices inside.
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Giorgio Moroder
Hansjörg "Giorgio" Moroder (on record sleeves often only Giorgio) (born 26 April 1940, Gröden, Italy) is an Italian record producer, songwriter and performer. His work with synthesizers during the 1970s and 1980s had a significant influence on new wave, house, techno and electronic music in general. Particularly well known for his work with Donna Summer during the era of disco (including "I Feel Love" and Love to Love You Baby), Moroder is the founder of the former Musicland Studios in Munich, which was used as a recording studio for artists including Electric Light Orchestra, Led Zeppelin, Queen and Elton John. He also founded his own record label, Oasis Records, which later became a subdivision of Casablanca Records.
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H. R. Giger
Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger (; born February 5, 1940) is a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer. He won an Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual Effects for his design work on the film Alien.
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Haing S. Ngor
Dr. Haing Somnang Ngor (March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian American physician, actor and author who is best known for winning the 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his debut performance in the movie The Killing Fields, in which he portrayed Cambodian journalist and refugee Dith Pran. His mother was Khmer and his father was of Chinese descent. Ngor and Harold Russell are the only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award in an acting category. As of 2010, Dr. Ngor remains the only Asian to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
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Helen Donath
Add to "Other Recordings" Schubert Cantata "Lazarus" with Wolfgang Sawallisch + Barvarian Radio Orchestra
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Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet", Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. In his jazz improvisation, he possesses a unique creative blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
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Hermann Göring
Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; ; 12 January 1893– 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. He was a veteran of the First World War as an ace fighter pilot, and a recipient of the coveted Pour le Mérite ("The Blue Max"). He was the last commander of Jagdgeschwader 1, the air squadron of Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron".
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Hermann Obrecht
Hermann Obrecht (March 26, 1882 - August 21, 1940) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1935-1940).
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Hitler
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Howard Florey
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Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky (May 25, 1889 – October 26, 1972), born Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (, ), was a Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. He designed and flew the world's first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft, the Russky Vityaz in 1913, and the first airliner, Ilya Muromets, in 1914.
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Ion Antonescu
Ion Victor Antonescu (June 15, 1882 – June 1, 1946) was a Romanian soldier, authoritarian politician and convicted war criminal. The Prime Minister and Conducător of Romania during most of World War II, he presided over two successive wartime dictatorships. A Romanian Army career officer who made his name during the 1907 peasants' revolt and the World War I Romanian Campaign, the antisemitic Antonescu sympathized with the far right and fascist National Christian and Iron Guard groups for much of the interwar period. He was a military attaché to France and later Chief of the General Staff, briefly serving as Defense Minister in the National Christian cabinet of Octavian Goga. During the late 1930s, his political stance brought him into conflict with King Carol II and led to his detainment. Antonescu nevertheless rose to political prominence during the political crisis of 1940, and established the National Legionary State, an uneasy partnership with the Iron Guard's leader Horia Sima. After entering Romania into an alliance with Nazi Germany and the Axis and ensuring Adolf Hitler's confidence, he eliminated the Guard during the Legionary Rebellion of 1941. In addition to leadership of the executive, he assumed the offices of Foreign Affairs and Defense Minister. Soon after Romania joined the Axis in Operation Barbarossa, recovering Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Antonescu also became Marshal of Romania.
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Italian people
The Italian people () are a people that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence (though the principle of Jus Sanguinis is used extensively and arguably more favorably in the Italian nationality law), and are distinguished from people of Italian descent and, historically, from ethnic Italians living in the unredeemed territories adjacent to the Italian peninsula.
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Ivan Della Mea
Ivan Della Mea (born Luigi Della Mea, 16 October 1940 – died 14 June 2009) was an Italian novelist, journalist, singer-songwriter and political activist.
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J. M. Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee () (born 9 February 1940) is an author and academic from South Africa. He is now an Australian citizen and lives in Adelaide, South Australia. A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee has won the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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J.J. Thomson
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Jack Nicklaus
Jack William Nicklaus (born January 21, 1940), also known as "The Golden Bear", is an American professional golfer. With the most victories in major championships (18), he was continuously ranked as the world's number one golfer on McCormack's World Golf Rankings from its inception in 1968 to 1977. Having won seven professional major titles between 1962 and 1967, he would likely have been considered number one in some of those years as well (a period when he, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player vied for that status in public acclaim as The Big Three). After 1978, while much younger players such as Tom Watson and Seve Ballesteros came to be ranked higher than him, Nicklaus continued to regularly challenge for and indeed win many major titles until 1986, making a full quarter-century in which he competed at the very highest level of his sport. Indeed, over the course of this 25-year period of 100 major championships as a professional, Nicklaus finished either first or second 36 times, in the top three 45 times, the top five 54 times, and the top 10 67 times. Nicklaus and the other 45 major championship winners during this period combined for a total of 119 major championship victories, 704 official PGA Tour wins, and over 825 additional individual professional victories (excludes Champions Tour events, etc.). While other marquee players such as Nick Faldo, Tom Kite, Nick Price, Payne Stewart, and Curtis Strange were winning numerous tournaments worldwide, they had yet to break through with major wins prior to 1987, but proved to be on the verge of doing so. These facts make this period arguably the most competitive in the history of professional golf and illustrate Nicklaus' ability and durability over time.
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James Brolin
James Brolin (; born July 18, 1940) is an American actor, producer and director, best known for his roles in soap operas, movies, sitcoms, and television. He is the father of actor Josh Brolin and husband of singer/actress Barbra Streisand.
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James Caan
James Caan (born March 26, 1940) is an American actor. He is best-known for his role of Santino 'Sonny' Corleone in 1972's The Godfather. He also starred as Paul Sheldon in Stephen King's Misery and as "Big Ed" Deline in the television series Las Vegas.
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James Cromwell
James Oliver Cromwell (born January 27, 1940) is an American film and television actor. Some of his more notable roles are in Babe (1995), for which he earned Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, L.A. Confidential (1997), The Green Mile (1999), and in the television series Six Feet Under (2003-2005). He has been nominated for an Oscar, three Emmy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards during his career.
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James Hall (actor)
:For other people named James Hall, see James Hall (disambiguation).
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James L. Brooks
James Lawrence Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing. After dropping out of New York University, he got a job as an usher at CBS, going on to write for the CBS News broadcasts. He moved to Los Angeles in 1965 to work on David L. Wolper's documentaries. After being laid off he met producer Allan Burns who secured him a job as a writer on the series My Mother the Car.
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Jan and Dean
Jan and Dean were a rock and roll duo, popular from the late 1950s through the mid 1960s, consisting of William Jan Berry (April 3, 1941 – March 26, 2004) and Dean Ormsby Torrence (born March 10, 1940). They became associated with the vocal "surf music" craze that was later popularised by The Beach Boys.
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Jan Kubelík
Jan Kubelík (5 July 18805 December 1940) was a Czech violinist and composer.
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Jan Pronk
Johannes "Jan" Pieter Pronk (born March 16, 1940) is a Dutch politician and diplomat. Currently, he is a Professor of Theory and Practice of International Development at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague.
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Janusz Kusocinski
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Jean-Luc Dehaene
Jean-Luc Dehaene (; born Jean Luc Joseph Marie Dehaene, 7 August 1940) is a Belgian politician.
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Jill St. John
Jill St. John (born August 19, 1940) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Tiffany Case, the lead Bond girl in Diamonds Are Forever.
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Jim Bakker
James Orsen "Jim" Bakker (born January 2, 1940, pronounced "Baker") is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, and a former host (with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.
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Jim Connors
Jim "JC" Connors (May 7, 1940 – February 24, 1987) was a popular radio personality (disc jockey) of the 1960s through 1980s in the United States.
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Jimmy Greaves
'''James Peter 'Jimmy' Greaves''' (born 20 February 1940 in East Ham, England) is an English former football player, England's third highest international goalscorer, the highest goalscorer in the history of English top flight football and more recently a television pundit - famous for his trademark catchphrase ''it's a funny old game''. He is considered to be one of the finest goalscorers of his generation.
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Jimmy Tarbuck
Jimmy Tarbuck OBE or Tarby is an English comedian. Growing up he was a schoolmate of John Lennon.
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Jo Ann Pflug
Jo Ann Pflug (born May 2, 1940; Atlanta, Georgia) is a former American motion picture and television actress, who retired in the 1990s.
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Joachim Schepke
Lieutenant-Commander Joachim Schepke (8 March 1912 – 17 March 1941) was a German U-boat commander during World War II.
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Joaquin Rodrigo
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Joe Gibbs
Joe Jackson Gibbs (November 25, 1940) is a former American football coach, NASCAR Championship team owner, and two time NHRA Pro Stock team owner. He was the 20th and 26th head coach in the history of the Washington Redskins. Well known for his long hours and work ethic, Gibbs constructed what Steve Sabol has called, "The most diverse dynasty in NFL history," building championship teams with many players who have had mediocre to average careers while playing for other NFL teams. During his first stint in the National Football League, he coached the Redskins for 12 seasons and led them to eight playoff appearances, four NFC Championship titles, and three Super Bowl titles.
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Joe South
Joe South (born Joseph Alfred Souter, 28 February 1940, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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John Gotti
John Joseph Gotti, Jr (October 27, 1940 - June 10, 2002) was the Boss of the New York City Gambino crime family after the murder of the previous boss Paul Castellano. John Gotti was the most powerful crime boss during his era. He became widely known for his outspoken personality and flamboyant style that eventually caused his downfall.
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John Hagee
John Charles Hagee (born April 12, 1940) is an American founder and senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, a non-denominational charismatic church with more than 19,000 active members. John Hagee is the chief executive officer (CEO) at his non-profit corporation, Global Evangelism Television (GETV).
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John Havlicek
John J. Havlicek (pronounced ; born April 8, 1940 in Martins Ferry, Ohio) is a retired American professional basketball player who competed for 16 seasons with the Boston Celtics, winning eight NBA titles, half of them coming in his first four seasons.
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John Henry Kirby
John Henry Kirby (1860-1940) was a businessman whose ventures made him arguably the largest lumber manufacturer in Texas and the Southern United States. In addition to serving two terms in the Texas Legislature, he would also establish the Kirby Petroleum Company. With his successful reputation, he would be known by his business peers as "The Prince of the Pines" and "The Father of Industrial Texas".
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John J. Pershing
John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing, GCB (Hon) (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948) was a general officer in the United States Army. Pershing is the only person to be promoted in his own lifetime to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army—General of the Armies (a retroactive Congressional edict passed in 1976 promoted George Washington to the same rank but with higher seniority). Pershing also holds the first United States officer service number (O-1). Pershing led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, and was regarded as a mentor by the generation of American generals who led the United States Army in Europe during World War II, including George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, and George S. Patton.
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John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles and, with Paul McCartney, formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
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John Monk Saunders
John Monk Saunders was an American novelist, screenwriter and movie director, born in Hinckley, Minnesota on 22 November 1897. He served in the Air Service during World War I as a flight instructor in Florida, but was never able to secure a posting to France, a disappointment that frustrated him for the remainder of his life.
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John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). He wrote a total of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Johnny Dodds
Johnny Dodds (April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940) was a New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong. Dodds was also the older brother of drummer Warren "Baby" Dodds. The pair worked together in the New Orleans Bootblacks in 1926.
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Johnson Mlambo
Johnson P. Mlambo (born February 22, 1940) is a South African politician from Johannesburg.
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Jorma Kaukonen
Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr. (born December 23, 1940, Washington, D.C.) is an American blues, folk and rock guitarist, and an inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky () (24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Soviet-Russian-American poet, essayist, and Nobel Laureate in Literature. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1991.
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Joseph L. Goldstein
Joseph L. Goldstein (born April 18, 1940) from Kingstree, South Carolina is a Nobel Prize winning biochemist and geneticist, and a pioneer in the study of cholesterol metabolism.
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and head of state who served as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. After the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Stalin rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union, which he ruled as a dictator.
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José Van Dam
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Juan Downey
Juan Downey (May 11, 1940 - June 9, 1993) was a pioneer video artist. Born in Santiago, Chile, he received a B.A. in architecture from the Catholic University of Chile. He also studied at S.W. Hayter's Atelier 17 in Paris and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He immigrated to New York in 1965 and died in New York City at the age of 53 survived by his wife, Marilys Lamadrid. He is best known for his video work that is an eclectic voyage into political discourse, the history of art, ideas, personal discovery and self-reflection. Downey rediscovered a form of moving discourse that combined a multicultural deconstructivist investigation of language with his own deep understanding of color, form, shape and process. In addition to his videotapes, Downey also produced an extensive body of work that included installations, drawings, and paintings.
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Judy Cornwell
Judy Valerie Cornwell (born 22 February 1940) is an English actress best known for her role as Daisy in the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.
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Julian Bond
Horace Julian Bond, known as Julian Bond, (born January 14, 1940) is an American social activist and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement, politician, professor and writer. While a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He was the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Bond was elected to both houses of the Georgia Legislature, where he served a total of 20 years. He was chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1998 to 2010.
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Kazimierz Tetmajer
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Kliment Voroshilov
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (, , Klyment Yefremovych Voroshylov), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov () ( – 2 December 1969) was a Soviet military commander and bureaucrat.
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Lainie Kazan
Lainie Kazan (born May 15, 1940) is an American actress and singer.
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Lavrenty Beria
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Lazar Kaganovich
Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich () ( – 25 July 1991) was a Soviet politician and administrator and a close associate of Joseph Stalin.
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Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky (Russian: , (Lev Davidovich Trotsky, also transliterated Lyev, Trotski, Trotskij, Trockij and Trotzky) – 21 August 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist.
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Linda Gray
Linda Ann Gray (born September 12, 1940) is an American actress, best known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing on the television prime-time soap opera Dallas.
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Lord Halifax
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Lord Irvine of Lairg
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Ludwig Schwarz
Ludwig Schwarz, S.D.B. (born 4 June 1940) is the Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Linz, Austria.
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Luisa Tetrazzini
Luisa Tetrazzini (June 29, 1871 – April 28, 1940) was an Italian coloratura soprano of great international fame.
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Luke Kelly
Luke Kelly (; 17 November 1940 - 30 January 1984) was an Irish singer and folk musician from Dublin, Ireland, notable as a founding member of the band The Dubliners.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Manfred Lubowitz
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Manuel Ávila Camacho
Manuel Ávila Camacho (24 April 1897 – 13 October 1955) served as the President of Mexico from 1940 to 1946.
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Marguerite Clark
Marguerite Clark (February 22, 1883 – September 25, 1940) was an American stage and silent film actress.
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Mariette Hartley
Mary Loretta "Mariette" Hartley (born June 21, 1940) is an American character actress.
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Mario Andretti
Mario Gabriele Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is a retired Italian-American world champion racing driver, one of the most successful Americans in the history of the sport. He is one of only two drivers to win races in Formula One, IndyCar, World Sportscar Championship and NASCAR (the other being Dan Gurney). He also won races in midget cars, sprint cars, and drag racing.
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Martin Kamen
Martin David Kamen (August 27, 1913, Toronto – August 31, 2002), a physicist inside the Manhattan project. Together with Sam Ruben, he co-discovered the isotope carbon-14 on February 27, 1940, at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley.
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Martin Sheen
Ramón Antonio Gerard Estévez (born August 3, 1940), better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an actor best-known for his performances as Kit Carruthers in Terrence Malick’s Badlands and Captain Willard in Francis Coppola’s Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now. He’s also known for playing Robert E. Lee in the film Gettysburg, President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing, and as the voice of The Illusive Man in the video game Mass Effect 2. He has worked with some of cinema's prominent directors, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Francis Ford Coppola, Richard Attenborough, Terrence Malick and Mike Nichols.
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Mary Jo Kopechne
Mary Jo Kopechne[[#References|[p]]] (July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969) was an American secretary and political campaign specialist who died in a car accident in Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts on July 18, 1969, while a passenger in a car being driven by U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
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Mary Vaux Walcott
Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (July 31, 1860 – August 22, 1940) was an American artist and naturalist known for her watercolor paintings of wildflowers.
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Maurice Gamelin
Maurice Gustave Gamelin (20 September 1872, Paris - 18 April 1958) was a French general. Gamelin is best remembered for his unsuccessful command of the French military in 1940 during the Battle of France and his steadfast defense of republican values.
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Maurice Jaubert
Maurice Jaubert (born Nice 3 January 1900 - wounded in combat at Azerailles near Baccarat, where he died 19 June 1940) was a French composer of incidental music for stage and film music, famous for his collaborations with the masters of poetic realism Jean Vigo, René Clair, Julien Duvivier and Marcel Carné. He also had a long collaboration with Jean Giraudoux.
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Maxime Weygand
Maxime Weygand (21 January 1867 - 28 January 1965; ) was a French military commander in World War I and World War II.
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Maxine Elliott
Maxine Elliott (February 5, 1868, Rockland, Maine - March 5, 1940, Cannes, France) was an American stage actress.
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Menno ter Braak
Menno ter Braak (26 January 1902, Eibergen, Gelderland – 14 May 1940) was a Dutch modernist author.
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Michiko Suganuma
Michiko Suganuma (菅沼 三千子 Michiko suganuma)(b.1940) is a leading Kamakura-bori artist from Japan. She is the only Japanese female to have presented her collection at exhibitions of National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Her works are held in the collection of the gallery.
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Mickey Lolich
Michael Stephen Lolich (born September 12, 1940 in Portland, Oregon) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher from 1962 until 1979, playing the majority of his career with the Detroit Tigers.
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Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (, , Kiev – March 10, 1940, Moscow) was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
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Mikhail Kalinin
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (; 18751946), known familiarly by Soviet citizens as "Kalinych," was a Bolshevik revolutionary and the nominal head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946. From 1926 he was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, where he was one of the inner circle of party leaders around Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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Musa Geshaev
Musa Bautdinovich Geshaev () (born August 20, 1940 in Grozny, Chechnya) is a Chechen poet, literary critic, songwriter, and historian who has written extensively on the culture of the Chechen and Ingush people.
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Nancy Pelosi
'''Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi''' (; born March 26, 1940) is the 60th and current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Before being elected Speaker in the 110th Congress, she was the House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2007, holding the post during the 108th and 109th Congresses.
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Nancy Sinatra
Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940) is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra, and remains known for her 1966 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and her cover of Cher's "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" (lyrics and music by Sonny Bono), which was used as the opening sequence theme in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.
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Nathanael West
Nathanael West (born Nathan von Wallenstein Weinstein, October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was a US author, screenwriter and satirist.
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Neil Goldschmidt
Neil Edward Goldschmidt (born June 16, 1940) is an American businessman and former Democratic politician from Oregon who held local, state, and federal offices over three decades.
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Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. When Adolf Hitler continued his aggression, Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, and Chamberlain led Britain through the first eight months of the Second World War.
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Nicolae Iorga
Nicolae Iorga (; his name may also be rendered as Nicolas Jorga in foreign works; January 17, 1871 – November 27, 1940) was a Romanian historian, university professor, literary critic, memorialist, playwright, poet, and politician. He served as a member of Parliament, as President of the post-World War I National Assembly, as minister, and (1931–32) as Prime Minister. He was co-founder (in 1910) of the Democratic Nationalist Party and was ultimately assassinated by fascist Iron Guard (legionnaire) commandos.
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Noel Jones
Noel Andrew Stephen Jones (December 22, 1940 – November 21, 1995) was an Indian-born British diplomat, British ambassador to Kazakhstan from 1993 to 1995. He was the first British ambassador to have come from an ethnic minority.
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Nuala O'Faolain
'''Nuala O'Faolain' (pronounced Nula O-Fway-lin) (1 March 1940 9 May 2008) was an Irish journalist, TV producer, book reviewer, teacher and author. She became internationally well-known for her two volumes of memoir, Are You Somebody? and Almost There; a novel, My Dream of You; and a history with commentary, The Story of Chicago May. The first three were all featured on the New York Times Best Seller list. Her posthumous novel Best Love, Rosie'' was published in 2009.
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Otto Kretschmer
Flotilla Admiral Otto Kretschmer (1 May 1912 – 5 August 1998) was a German U-boat commander of the Second World War, and was the most successful Ace of the Deep. From September 1939 until being captured in March 1941, he sank 47 ships for a total of 274,333 tons. For this he received the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, among other commendations. He earned the nickname "Silent Otto" both for his successful use of the "silent running" capability of the U-boats as well as for his reluctance to make radio broadcasts during patrols.
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Owen Spencer-Thomas
Owen Robert Spencer-Thomas MBE is perhaps best known as a television and radio news journalist over three decades, but he has also done a wide range of philanthropric work as volunteer charity fundraiser, pioneer and campaigner for people with autism and other disabilities. Fewer people know that he combined his career with that of ordained Anglican clergyman. He was born into a farming family on 3 March 1940 in Braughing, Hertfordshire, England. He is married to Maggie; they have three adult children, two sons and a daughter.
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Patrick Stewart
Sir Patrick Hewes Stewart, OBE (born 13 July 1940) is an English film, television and stage actor, and university Chancellor. He has had a distinguished career in theatre and television for around half a century. He is most widely known for his television and film roles, as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in and as Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men films.
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Paul Klee
Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a Swiss painter and a German painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory, and wrote extensively about it; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are considered so important for modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting had for Renaissance. He and his colleague , the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humour and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.
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Paul Prudhomme
Paul Prudhomme (born July 13, 1940) is an American celebrity chef whose specialty is Cajun cuisine. He is also the owner of one of the top restaurants in New Orleans, K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen.
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Paul Reynaud
:Reynaud redirects here; not to be confused with Raynaud.
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Pelé
Edison "Edson" Arantes do NascimentoOfficial forename and birth date, as written on his birth certificate, are "Edison" and "21 October 1940" :
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Penny Lernoux
Penny Lernoux (January 6, 1940 – October 9, 1989) was an American journalist and author.
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Pete Duel
Pete Duel (February 24, 1940 – December 31, 1971) was an American actor, best known for his role in the television series Alias Smith and Jones.
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Peter Benchley
Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 12, 2006) was an American author, best known for his novel Jaws and its subsequent film adaptation, the latter co-written by Benchley (with Carl Gottlieb) and directed by Steven Spielberg. Several more of his works were also adapted for cinema, including The Deep and The Island.
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Peter C. Doherty
Peter Charles Doherty, AC (born 15 October 1940) is an Australian Veterinary Surgeon and researcher in the field of medicine. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1995, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Rolf M. Zinkernagel in 1996, and was named Australian of the Year in 1997. In the Australia Day Honours of 1997, he was named a Companion of the Order of Australia for his work with Zinkernagel. Zinkernagel was named an honorary Companion. He is also a National Trust Living Treasure.
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Peter Pohl
Peter Pohl, born (5 December 1940 in Hamburg, Germany) is a Swedish author and former director and screenwriter of short films.
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Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders (born October 13, 1940) is a Grammy Award winning American jazz saxophonist. Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-60s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound." Albert Ayler famously said "Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost."
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Phil Lesh
Phillip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940 in Berkeley, California) is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career.
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Philippe Pétain
Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain (; 24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain (Maréchal Pétain), was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France ''(Chef de l'État Français)'', from 1940 to 1944. Pétain, who was 84 years old in 1940, ranks as France's oldest head of state.
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Pina Bausch
Philippine "Pina" Bausch (27 July 1940 – 30 June 2009) was a German modern dance choreographer and a leading influence in the development of the Tanztheater style of dance.
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Ralph Bates
Ralph Bates (12 February 1940 – 27 March 1991) was an English film and television actor, known for his role in the British sitcom Dear John (1986-87) and the two series of Poldark in the 1970s.
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Ram Loevy
Ram Loevy (Hebrew: רם לוי, born 1940 in Tel Aviv in the British Mandate of Palestine) is an award-winning Israeli television director and screenwriter since the medium first began broadcasting in the country in 1968. In a career spanning forty years, he has written and directed some of the most prominent and subversive television movies and documentaries, challenging the status quo on such issues as class conflict, torture, the prison system, and the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Despite his reputation as a gadfly, facing off against the Israeli establishment, Loevy was awarded the Israel Prize in Communication, Radio and Television in 1993 for his lifework.
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Ramón Mercader
Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río Hernández (February 7, 1913 — October 18, 1978) was a Spanish Communist who became famous as the murderer of Russian Communist ideologist Leon Trotsky in 1940, in Mexico. Declassified archives have shown that he was a Soviet agent.
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Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch (born September 5, 1940) is an American actress, author and sex symbol.
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Ray Davis (musician)
Raymond "Ray" Davis (March 29, 1940, in Sumter, South Carolina – July 5, 2005, New Brunswick, New Jersey) was the original bass singer and one of the founding members of The Parliaments, Parliament, and Funkadelic. His regular nickname while he was with those groups was "Sting Ray Davis." Aside from George Clinton, he was the only original member of the Parliaments not to leave the Parliament/Funkadelic conglomerate in 1977. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.
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Raymond Pearl
Raymond Pearl (3 June 1879– 17 November 1940) was an American biologist, regarded as one of the founders of biogerontology. He spent most of his career at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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Raúl Juliá
Raúl Rafael Juliá y Arcelay (March 9, 1940 – October 24, 1994) was a Puerto Rican actor. Born in San Juan, he gained interest in acting while still in school. Upon completing his studies, Juliá decided to pursue a career in acting. After performing in the local scene for some time, he was convinced by entertainment personality Orson Bean to move and work in New York City. Juliá, who had been bilingual since his childhood, soon gained interest in Broadway and "Off Broadway" plays. He performed in mobile projects, including the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre.
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Reynato Puno
Reynato Puno y Serrano (born May 17, 1940) was the 22nd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Appointed on December 8, 2006 by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, he was the 22nd person to serve as Chief Justice. Puno had initially been appointed to the Supreme Court as an Associate Justice on June 28, 1993.
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Richard Marcinko
Richard "Dick" Marcinko (born November 21, 1940), is a former United States Navy SEAL and author. He was the first Commanding Officer of SEAL Team Six and Red Cell. After leaving the Navy he became an author, radio talk show host, military consultant, and motivational speaker.
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Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful, vulgar and profane language, as well as racial epithets. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style. He is widely regarded as one of the most important stand-up comedians: Jerry Seinfeld called Pryor "The Picasso of our profession"; Bob Newhart has called Pryor "the seminal comedian of the last 50 years."
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Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr belonged to another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became the Beatles' drummer in 1962, taking over from Pete Best. In addition to his contribution as drummer, Starr featured as lead singer on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and the Beatles version of "Act Naturally") and as songwriter with the songs "Don't Pass Me By", "What Goes On" and "Octopus's Garden".
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Robert Labine
Robert "Bob" Labine (born on December 23, 1940 in Gatineau, Quebec) was a Quebec politician in Gatineau, Quebec. He was best known for being mayor of the former city of Gatineau between 1988 and 1994 and again between 1999 and 2001.
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Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry. His published work also includes critically acclaimed translations, including a collection of poems by Czesław Miłosz and Dante Alighieri. He teaches at Boston University and is the poetry editor at Slate. [http://english.duke.edu/resources/archive.php]
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Roberto Cavalli
Roberto Cavalli (born 15 November 1940) is an Italian fashion designer from Florence.
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Ron Santo
Ronald Edward Santo (born February 25, 1940 in Seattle, Washington) is a former professional baseball player. He played the majority of his Major League Baseball career as the regular third baseman for the Chicago Cubs before playing his final year with the Chicago White Sox. Santo was a productive player despite suffering from diabetes, a condition which he carefully concealed for 80% of his career; it eventually necessitated the amputation of both of his legs.
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Roy Walker
Robert "Roy" Walker (born 31 July 1940) is a television personality and comedian from Northern Ireland, who worked for many years as both a television presenter and comedy actor. He is best known as the original host of the game show, Catchphrase between 1986 and 2002, and one of the stars of The Comedians.
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Rubén Hinojosa
Rubén E. Hinojosa (born August 20, 1940), American politician, has been the Democratic representative for the Texas 15th congressional district ([http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/tx15_109.gif map]) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1996.
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Rudi Dutschke
Rudi Dutschke born Alfred Willi Rudi Dutschke (March 7, 1940 – December 24, 1979) was the most prominent spokesperson of the German student movement of the 1960s. He advocated 'a long march through the institutions' of power to create radical change from within government and society by becoming an integral part of the machinery. This was an idea he took up from Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt school of Cultural Marxism. In the 1970s he followed through on this idea by joining the nascent Green movement.
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Rudolf Veiel
Rudolf Veiel (10 December 1883, Stuttgart – 19 March 1956, Stuttgart) was a German General of the Panzertruppe during World War II.
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Sadaharu Oh
Sadaharu Oh (Kanji: 王貞治, Hepburn: Ō Sadaharu) (born May 20, 1940), is a retired Japanese baseball player and manager. He batted and threw left-handed and primarily played first base. Oh, who was born in Sumida, Tokyo the son of a Chinese father and a Japanese mother, had originally signed with the powerhouse Yomiuri Giants in 1959 as a pitcher, but was soon converted to first base. Under the tutelage of coach Hiroshi Arakawa, Oh developed his distinctive "flamingo" leg kick. His batting average jumped from .161 in his rookie season to .270 in 1960, and his home runs more than doubled. His performance dipped slightly in both statistical categories in 1961, but Oh truly blossomed in 1962. He was a five-time batting champion and led all Japanese players in home runs fifteen times and won the Central League most valuable player award nine times. In 1977, Sadaharu Oh became the first recipient of the People's Honor award.
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Sam Ruben
Samuel Ruben (born Charles Rubenstein, November 5, 1913 – September 28, 1943), the son of Herschel and Frieda Penn Rubenstein – the name was officially shortened to Ruben in 1930. Young Sam developed a friendship with neighbor Jack Dempsey and became involved with a local boys' boxing club and later, when the family moved across the Bay to Berkeley, he was a successful basketball player at Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California). After achieving his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, he continued his studies there and was awarded a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in May 1938. He was immediately appointed Instructor in the Chemistry Department, and became an Assistant Professor in 1941.
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Samuel M. Vauclain
Samuel Matthews Vauclain (May 18, 1856 – February 4, 1940) was an American engineer, inventor of the Vauclain compound locomotive, and president the Baldwin Locomotive Works. He was awarded the John Scott Medal of The Franklin Institute in 1891.
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Seamus Deane
Seamus Deane (born 1940 in Derry, Northern Ireland) is an Irish poet, critic and novelist.
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Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (; 20 November 1858–16 March 1940) was a Swedish author. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and most widely known for her children's book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils).
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Semyon Timoshenko
Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (, Semën Konstantinovič Timošenko; , Semen Konstiantynovych Tymoshenko) ( – March 31, 1970) was a Soviet military commander and senior professional officer of the Red Army at the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
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Sharad Pawar
Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar (Marathi: शरदचंद्र गोविंदराव पवार) (born December 12, 1940), popularly known as Sharad Pawar or 'Saheb' is an Indian politician, considered to be the richest politician in India, from the state of Maharashtra. He is the president of the Nationalist Congress Party which he founded in 1999, after separating from the Indian National Congress. He has previously held the posts of Minister of Defence and Chief Minister of Maharashtra and currently serves as Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India.
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Skip Hinnant
Skip Hinnant (born September 12, 1940) is an American actor and comedian.
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Smedley Butler
Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), nicknamed "The Fighting Quaker" and "Old Gimlet Eye", was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, in Central America during the Banana Wars, the Caribbean and during World War I, he served in France. By the end of his career he had received 16 medals, five of which were for heroism. He is one of 19 people to twice receive the Medal of Honor, one of three to be awarded both the Marine Corps Brevet Medal and the Medal of Honor, and the only person to be awarded the Brevet Medal and two Medals of Honor, all for separate actions.
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Smokey Robinson
William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B; and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy. Robinson's consistent commercial success and creative contributions to the label have earned him the title "King of Motown."
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Spiridon Louis
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Stan Mikita
Stan Mikita (born May 20, 1940) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player, generally regarded as the best centre of the 1960s. In 1961 he won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Black Hawks, with whom he played his entire career.
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Stanley Hauerwas
Stanley Hauerwas (born July 24, 1940) is a Christian theologian and ethicist. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame and is currently the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School with a joint appointment at the Duke University School of Law.
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Tammy Faye
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Taylor Gun-Jin Wang
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Ted Koppel
Edward James "Ted" Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is an English-born American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005. After leaving Nightline, Koppel worked as managing editor for the Discovery Channel before resigning in 2008. Koppel is currently a senior news analyst for National Public Radio and contributing analyst to BBC World News America.
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The Times of London
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The Vichy 80
The Vichy 80 were a group of elected French parliamentarians who, on 10 July 1940, voted against the constitutional change that dissolved the Third Republic and established an authoritarian regime known as Vichy France.
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Tim Brooke-Taylor
Tim Brooke-Taylor (born 17 July 1940) is an English comic actor known in Britain, Australia and New Zealand as a member of The Goodies and in the comedy radio shows ''I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, and I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again''.
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Tinsley Lindley
Tinsley Lindley (27 October 1865 in Nottingham – 31 March 1940 in Nottingham) was an English footballer. He was considered one of the 19th century's great centre forwards. His passes and shots at goal were very precise, he was very clever and an excellent team player. An elegant and technically superb player.
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Tom Farmer
Sir Thomas Farmer, CVO, CBE, KCSG, FRSE, DL (born 10 July 1940, Leith, Edinburgh) is a Scottish entrepreneur.
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Tom Jones (singer)
Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE (born 7 June 1940), known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. Jones is particularly noted for his powerful voice.
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Toni Tennille
Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille (born May 8, 1940, Montgomery, Alabama) is one-half of the 1970s Grammy Award winning duo Captain & Tennille. Tennille has also done musical work independently of her husband Daryl Dragon. Tennille has a contralto vocal range.
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Valerie Harper
Valerie Harper (born August 22, 1939) is an American actress, known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on the 1970s television show The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and for her starring roles on the sitcoms Rhoda (a spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show) and Valerie.
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Vsevolod Meyerhold
Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (; born ) (2 February 1940) was a great Russian and Soviet theatre director, actor and theatrical producer whose provocative experiments dealing with physical being and symbolism in an unconventional theatre setting made him one of the seminal forces in modern theatre.
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Vyacheslav Artyomov
Vyacheslav Petrovich Artyomov also Artemov (, born: June 29, 1940) is a Russian and Soviet composer.
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Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov ( – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician and diplomat, a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from the Presidium (Politburo) of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev. He was a major perpetrator of the Great Terror and the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 (also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) as well as post-war negotiations, and a signatory of the Politburo resolution authorizing the Katyn wood massacre. He remained unapologetic and had few regrets of the actions of the Party under Stalin, a view that remained until his death. The Molotov cocktail was derisively named after him by the Finnish military during the Winter War.
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Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
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Walter Chrysler
Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940) was an American machinist, railroad mechanic and manager, automotive industry executive, and founder of the Chrysler Corporation.
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Walter Connolly
Walter Connolly (April 8, 1887–May 28, 1940) was an American character actor who appeared in almost fifty films between 1914 and 1939.
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Wangari Maathai
Wangari Muta Maathai (born April 1, 1940 in Ihithe village, Tetu division, Nyeri District of Kenya) is a Kenyan environmental and political activist. She was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya. In the 1970s, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 2004 she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.” Maathai was an elected member of Parliament and served as Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources in the government of President Mwai Kibaki between January 2003 and November 2005.
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Wendell Willkie
Wendell Lewis Willkie (; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was a corporate lawyer in the United States and was the dark horse Republican Party nominee for the 1940 presidential election, where he crusaded against the policies of the New Deal, which he thought were inefficient and anti-business, but waffled on the issue of intervention or isolation in the world war that Nazi Germany was winning. His opponent Franklin D. Roosevelt won a third term, with 55% of the popular vote and 85% of the electoral vote. Roosevelt found Willkie to be a compatible liberal and brought him aboard as a special ambassador-at-large. Willkie criss-crossed the globe, bringing home a vision of "One World" freed from imperialism and colonialism. His liberalism lost him supporters in the GOP and he dropped out of the 1944 race, then died of a heart attack.
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Wilbert Awdry
Wilbert Vere Awdry, OBE, (15 June 1911 – 21 March 1997), was an English clergyman, railway enthusiast and children's author, better known as the Reverend W. Awdry and creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, who starred in Awdry's acclaimed Railway Series.
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Wilhelm Keitel
Wilhelm Bodewin Gustav Keitel (22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946) was a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall). As head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Supreme Command of the Armed Forces) and de facto war minister, he was one of Germany's most senior military leaders during World War II. At the Allied court at Nuremberg he was tried, sentenced to death and hanged as a major war criminal.
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Willie Stargell
Wilver Dornell "Willie" Stargell (March 6, 1940 – April 9, 2001), nicknamed "Pops" in the later years of his career, was a professional baseball player who played his entire Major League career (1962-1982) with the Pittsburgh Pirates as an outfielder and first baseman. Over his 21-year career with the Pirates, he batted .282, with 2,232 hits, 423 doubles, 475 home runs and 1540 runs batted in, helping his team capture six National League East division titles, two National League pennants and two World Series (1971, 1979).
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Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American athlete. Rudolph was considered the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and competed in two Olympic Games, in 1956 and in 1960.
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Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War (WWII). He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as prime minister twice (1940–1945 and 1951–1955). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, writer, and an artist. To date, he is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the first person to be recognised as an honorary citizen of the United States.
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Wong Jim
James Wong Jim (, 21 February 1940 – 24 November 2004, also known as "Uncle Jim") was a Cantopop lyricist and writer based primarily in Hong Kong. He was also a well known in Asia as a columnist, actor, film director, screenwriter and talk show hosts. He took part in creative directing positions within the entertainment industry in Hong Kong. Wong was also an alumnus of La Salle College.
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Édouard Daladier
Édouard Daladier (; 18 June 1884 – 10 October 1970) was a French Radical politician and the Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War.
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Óscar Arias
Óscar Rafael de Jesús Arias Sánchez (born 13 September 1940) is a Costa Rican politician who was President of Costa Rica from 2006 to 2010. He previously served as President from 1986 to 1990 and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars then raging in several other Central American countries.
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Algeria
Algeria (Arabic: , al-Jazā’ir, Berber: Dzayer, French: Algérie), officially the '''People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria'''), is a country in North Africa. In terms of land area, it is the largest country on the Mediterranean Sea, the second largest on the African continent after Sudan, and the eleventh-largest country in the world.
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Altmark Incident
The Altmark Incident (Norwegian: Altmark-affæren) was a naval skirmish of World War II between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany, which happened on 16 February 1940. It took place in what were, at that time, neutral Norwegian waters. To date, it is the last major boarding action fought by the Royal Navy.
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Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest, and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, although some oceanographers call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or simply the Arctic Sea, classifying it as one of the mediterranean seas of the Atlantic Ocean. Alternatively, the Arctic Ocean can be seen as the northernmost lobe of the all-encompassing World Ocean.
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Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Australia
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Barcelona
Barcelona (Catalan , Spanish ) is the capital and the most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, after Madrid, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Barcelona extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 4,200,000 on an area of , it is the sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, Ruhr area, Madrid and Milan. About 5 million people live in the Barcelona metropolitan area. It is also Europe's largest metropolis on the Mediterranean coast. The main part of a union of adjacent cities and municipalities named Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB) with a population of 3,186,461 in an area of 636 km² (density 5.010 hab/km²). It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs and is bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge ().
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Battle of Taranto
The naval Battle of Taranto took place on the night of 11–12 November 1940 during World War II. The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft naval attack, ship-to-ship in history, flying a small number of torpedo bombers from an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea to attack the Italian Navy's battle fleet at anchor at the harbor of Taranto, utilizing aerial torpedoes, in spite of the shallowness of the harbor. The devastation wreaked by the British carrier-launched aircraft on the large Italian warships was the beginning of the rise of the power of naval aviation, over the big guns of battleships.
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Belgium
Belgium (, ), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, as well as those of several other major international organizations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of , and it has a population of about 10.8 million people.
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Bering Strait
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Bermuda
Bermuda (; officially, the Bermudas or Somers Islands) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida. Its capital city is Hamilton but the largest municipality is the town of Saint George's.
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Brenner Pass
Brenner Pass (; ) is a mountain pass through the Alps along the border between Italy and Austria, and is one of the principal passes of the Alps. It is the lowest of the Alpine passes, and one of the few in the area. For that reason possession of the pass has long been coveted.
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Brussels
Brussels (, pronounced ; , pronounced ), officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region (, Dutch: ), is the de facto capital city of the European Union (EU) and the largest urban area in Belgium. It comprises 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels proper, which is the constitutional capital of Belgium, the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.
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Bucharest
Bucharest ( ) is the capital city, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmboviţa River.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria ( , Balgariya, ), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (, Republika Balgariya, ), is a country in Southern Europe. Bulgaria borders five other countries: Romania to the north (mostly along the Danube), Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south. The Black Sea defines the extent of the country to the east.
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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Canada
Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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Chad
Chad (, Tshād), officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west. Due to its distance from the sea and its largely desert climate, the country is sometimes referred to as the "Dead Heart of Africa".
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Chicago
Chicago ( or ) is the largest city in the state of Illinois. With over 2.8 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous city in the country. Its metropolitan area, commonly named "Chicagoland," is the 26th most populous in the world, home to an estimated 9.7 million people spread across the U.S. states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County.
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Colorado
Colorado (pronounced or, chiefly by outsiders, ) is a U.S. state that encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is part of the Western United States, the Mountain States, and the Southwestern United States.
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Coventry
Coventry ( or ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although Leicester and Nottingham have larger urban areas. The population of Coventry has risen to 309,800 as of 2008.
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Denmark
Denmark (; , , archaic: ), officially the Kingdom of Denmark (Danish: ) together with Greenland and the Faroe Islands, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea. The country consists of a large peninsula, Jutland (Jylland) and many islands, most notably Zealand (Sjælland), Funen (Fyn), Vendsyssel-Thy (commonly considered a part of Jutland), Lolland, Falster and Bornholm, as well as hundreds of minor islands often referred to as the Danish Archipelago. Denmark has long controlled the approach to the Baltic Sea; before the digging of the Kiel Canal, water passage to the Baltic Sea was possible only through the three channels known as the "Danish straits".
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Dunkirk evacuation
The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo by the British, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and the early hours of 3 June 1940, when British, French and Belgian troops were cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk in the Second World War. The evacuation was ordered on 26 May. In a speech to the House of Commons, Winston Churchill called the events in France "a colossal military disaster", saying that "the whole root and core and brain of the British Army" had been stranded at Dunkirk and seemed about to perish or be captured. In his ("We shall fight on the beaches") speech, he hailed their rescue as a "miracle of deliverance".
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Egypt
Egypt (; , Miṣr, ; Egyptian Arabic: مصر, Maṣr, ; Coptic: , ; Greek: Αίγυπτος, Aiguptos; Egyptian:
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
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England
England () is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
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English Channel
The English Channel (, the "sleeve") is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest, to only in the Strait of Dover. It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe, covering an area of some .
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Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands (, ) are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Great Britain and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland.
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Finland
Finland (pronounced ), officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden on the west, Norway on the north and Russia on the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.
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France
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Gatineau, Quebec
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Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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Greece
Greece (; , Elláda, ; , Hellás, ), also known as Hellas and officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellīnikī́ Dīmokratía, ), is a country in southeastern Europe. Situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula, Greece has land borders with Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the tenth longest coastline in the world at in length, featuring a vast number of islands (approximately 1400, of which 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the Ionian Islands among others. Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mount Olympus is the highest at .
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Guernsey
The Bailiwick of Guernsey ( ; , ) is a British Crown Dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.
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Hamburg
Hamburg (; , local pronunciation Low German/Low Saxon: Hamborg ) is the second-largest city in Germany and the eighth-largest city in the European Union. The city is home to over 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (including parts of the neighboring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein) has more than 4.3 million inhabitants. The port of Hamburg is the third-largest port in Europe (third to Port of Antwerp and Rotterdam), and the eighth largest in the world.
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Helsinki
Helsinki (; , ) is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, in the region of Uusimaa/Nyland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is (), making it the most populous municipality in Finland by a wide margin. Helsinki is located some east of Stockholm, Sweden, west of St. Petersburg, Russia and north of Tallinn, Estonia. Helsinki has close connections with these three cities.
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Hungary
Hungary ( ), officially the Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság ), is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Its capital is Budapest. Hungary is a member of the European Union, NATO, the OECD, the Visegrád Group, and is a Schengen state. The official language is Hungarian, the most widely spoken non-Indo-European language in Europe, being part of the Finno-Ugric family.
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India
India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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Iqbal Park
Iqbal Park (a.k.a 'Manto Park') is large area of green space, located at the heart of Lahore city in Pakistan. The park accommodates Minar-e-Pakistan (Lighthouse of Pakistan), a 60 meters (198.5 feet) tall distinctive monument in the shape of a minaret that has been built in commemoration of the Lahore Resolution passed at the three-day general session (22–24 March 1940) of All India Muslim League, calling for greater Muslim autonomy in British India. The resolution became synonymous to the demand for a separate Muslim state of Pakistan.
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Ireland
Ireland (,; , ; Ulster Scots: Airlann) is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the northwest of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland is Great Britain, separated from it by the Irish Sea. The island is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers just under five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remainder and is located in the northeast of the island. The population of Ireland is approximately 6.2 million people. Just under 4.5 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just under 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
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Italy
Italy (; ), officially the Italian Republic (), is a country located in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia — the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea — and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, whilst Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.4 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.
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Japan
Japan (日本 Nihon or Nippon), officially the State of Japan ( or Nihon-koku), is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin" (because it lies to the east of nearby countries), which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
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Jøssingfjord
Jøssingfjord is a fjord located within the municipality of Sokndal in south-western Norway.
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Karelian Isthmus
The Karelian Isthmus (; ; ) is the approximately 45–110 km wide stretch of land that connects Russia to Finland, situated between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia, to the north of the River Neva (between 61°21’N, 59°46’N and 27°42’E, 31°08’E). Its natural northwestern boundary is either the Salpausselkä ridge in Finland or the relatively narrow area between the Bay of Vyborg and Lake Ladoga. If the Karelian Isthmus is defined as the entire territory of present-day Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast to the north of the Neva, the isthmus' area covers about 15,000 km2.
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Katyn massacre
The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre (, 'Katyń crime'; ), was a mass murder of Polish nationals carried out by the Soviet secret police NKVD in April–May 1940. It was based on Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps, dated 5 March 1940. This official document was then approved and signed by the Soviet Politburo, including Joseph Stalin. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000, the most commonly cited number being 21,768. The victims were murdered in the Katyn Forest in Russia, the Kalinin and Kharkov prisons and elsewhere. About 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, the rest being Polish doctors, professors, lawmakers, police officers, and other public servants arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, landowners, saboteurs, factory owners, lawyers, officials and priests." Since Poland's conscription system required every unexempted university graduate to become a reserve officer, the NKVD was able to round up much of the Polish intelligentsia, and the Russian, Ukrainian, Protestant, Muslim Tatar, Jewish, Georgian, and Belarusian intelligentsia of Polish citizenship.
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Korea
Korea ( Hanguk or Joseon – South and North Korea, respectively (cf. etymology)) is a territory of East Asia that was formerly unified under one state, but now divided into two separate states and a region in northeastern Asia. Located on the Korean Peninsula, it is bordered by China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the east by the Korea Strait and the Sea of Japan (East Sea).
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Lahore
Lahore ({{lang-pa|, {{lang-ur|, ) is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi. The city lies along the Ravi River and is situated approximately from Wagah (the only road border crossing between India and Pakistan). Historically the main city of the undivided Punjab, Lahore has been a center of Muslim heritage since the Data Durbar is located here. It is often called the Garden of Mughals because of its rich Mughal heritage. It successively served as provincial/regional capital of the empires of the Shahi kingdoms in the 11th century, the Ghaznavids in the 12th century, the Ghurid State in the 12th and 13th century, the Mughal Empire in the 16th century, the Sikh Empire in the early 19th century, and it was the capital of the Punjab region under the British Raj in the mid 19th and early 20th century. Mughal structures such as the Badshahi Mosque, the Lahore Fort, Shalimar Gardens, and the mausolea of Jehangir and Nur Jehan are popular tourist attractions for the city. Lahore is also home to many British colonial structures built in the Mughal-Gothic style, such as the Lahore High Court, the General Post Office (GPO), the Lahore Museum, and many older universities including the University of the Punjab. Lahore is often referred to as the cultural heart of Pakistan, as it is the center of Pakistani arts, films and intelligentsia.
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Lascaux
Lascaux is the setting of a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings. The original caves are located near the village of Montignac, in the Dordogne département. They contain some of the best-known Upper Paleolithic art. These paintings are estimated to be 17,300 years old. They primarily consist of primitive images of large animals, most of which are known from fossil evidence to have lived in the area at the time. In 1979, Lascaux was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list along with other prehistoric sites in the Vézère valley.
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Latvia
Latvia (; ), officially the Republic of Latvia () is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia (343 km), to the south by Lithuania (588 km), to the east by the Russian Federation (276 km), and to the southeast by Belarus (141 km). Across the Baltic Sea to the west lies Sweden. The territory of Latvia covers and it has a temperate seasonal climate.
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Lithuania
Lithuania (, U.S. usually ; ), officially the Republic of Lithuania () is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the southwest.
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Liverpool
Liverpool () is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880. Liverpool is the fourth largest city in the United Kingdom (third largest in England) and has a population of 435,500, and lies at the centre of the wider Liverpool Urban Area, which has a population of 816,216.
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London
London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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Louisiana
Louisiana ( or ; , ; Louisiana Creole: Léta de la Lwizyàn) is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties. The largest parish by population is Jefferson Parish, and the largest by land area is Cameron Parish.
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Mers-el-Kebir
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Mexico
Mexico, (pronounced ; ), officially known as the United Mexican States (), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2 million square kilometres (over 760,000 sq mi), Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14th largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of 111 million, it is the 11th most populous country and the most populous Hispanophone country on Earth. Mexico is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a Federal District, the capital city.
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Moscow
Moscow ( or ; ; see also ) is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the world, a global city. Moscow is the most populous city on the continent of Europe and the seventh largest city proper in the world, a megacity. The population of Moscow (as of 1 January 2010) is 10,563,038.
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Natchez, Mississippi
Natchez is the county seat of, and the largest and only incorporated city within, Adams County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 18,464. One of Mississippi's oldest European-American cities, it was founded by French colonists in 1716, antedating the capital of Jackson by more than a century. Located along the Mississippi River, Natchez is the southern terminus of the Natchez Trace Parkway. The city is famous in American history for its role in the development of the Old Southwest, particularly with respect to its location on the Mississippi River.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, is the common name for the country of Germany while governed by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) from 1933 to 1945. Third Reich () denotes the Nazi state as a historical successor to the medieval Holy Roman Empire (962–1806) and to the modern German Empire (1871–1918). Nazi Germany had two official names, the Deutsches Reich (German Reich), from 1933 to 1943, when it became Großdeutsches Reich (Greater German Reich).
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New Mexico
New Mexico() is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also part of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth- most sparsely inhabited U.S. state.
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NKVD
The '''People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs' ( Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del''), abbreviated NKVD ( ) was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Stalin.
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
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Norway
Norway (; Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.8 million. It is one of the most sparsely populated countries in Europe. The majority of the country shares a border to the east with Sweden; its northernmost region is bordered by Finland to the south and Russia to the east; and Denmark lies south of its southern tip across the Skagerrak Strait. The capital city of Norway is Oslo. Norway's extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea, is home to its famous fjords.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma () is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,687,050 residents in 2009 and a land area of 68,667 square miles (177,847 km²), Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state. The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words okla and humma, meaning "red people", and is known informally by its nickname, The Sooner State. Formed by the combination of Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory on November 16, 1907, Oklahoma was the 46th state to enter the union. Its residents are known as Oklahomans, and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City.
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Operation Ariel
'Operation Ariel' was the name given to the World War II evacuation of Allied forces from western France, following the military collapse of these troops in the Battle of France against Nazi Germany.
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Oran
Oran (Arabic: وهران) is a major city on the northwestern Mediterranean coast of Algeria, and the second largest city of the country.
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Osaka
is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshū, the designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the heart of Greater Osaka Area. Located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay,
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.
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Pasadena, California
Pasadena () is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena City College (PCC), NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Art Center College of Design, the Pasadena Playhouse, California School of Culinary Arts Pasadena, the Norton Simon Museum of Art and the Pacific Asia Museum. As of 2009, the estimated population of Pasadena is 143,667, making it the 168th largest city in the United States. Pasadena is the seventh largest city in Los Angeles County, and the first to be incorporated in Los Angeles CountyIt is one of the main cultural centers of the San Gabriel Valley and is the setting of many TV shows including Brothers & Sisters and The Big Bang Theory.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia () is the largest city in Pennsylvania, sixth-most-populous city in the United States and the fifty-first most populous city in the world.
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Poland
Poland (), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, being its most populous Slavic member.
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Rhythm Club fire
The Rhythm Club fire aka The Natchez Dance Hall Holocaust was a conflagration resulting in the death or serious injury of hundreds of people who became trapped inside a one-story steel-clad wooden building in Natchez, Mississippi, United States on the night of April 23, 1940.
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Romania
Romania ( ; dated: Rumania; ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.
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Rotterdam
Rotterdam (; Dutch ) is a city and municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland, situated in the west of the Netherlands. The municipality is the second largest in the country, with a population of 603,425 as of March 2010.
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Sheffield
Sheffield () is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the city has grown from its largely industrial roots to encompass a wider economic base. The population of the City of Sheffield is () and it is one of the eight largest regional English cities that make up the English Core Cities Group.
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Sidi Barrani
Sidi Barrani () is a village in Egypt, near the Mediterranean Sea, about
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The Submarines - 1940 (With lyrics)
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- Duration: 3:08
- Published: 28 Jul 2009
- Uploaded: 28 Feb 2012
- Author: OrangeJoint
The Submarines song from the album Honeysuckle weeks. Lyrics to 1940 : Somethings wrong when you regret Things that haven't happened yet But it's a glorious day when morning comes Without the feeling of alarm So rise, and shine Nows the time to be alive To stay awake with me a while, and smile You couldn't sleep for the awful fright That kept you up in bed last But curious shape shift in the dark, They vanish with the sunrise spark So rise, and shine Nows the time to be alive To stay awake with me a while, and smile So rise, and shine Nows the time to be alive To stay awake with me a while So rise, and shine Nows the time to be alive To stay awake with me a while, and smile Somethings wrong. . . .
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AmpLive - The Submarines 1940 Remix
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1940's Fashion Film - Tutorial - How to Apply Makeup
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- Duration: 2:46
- Published: 24 Jun 2009
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- Author: glamourdaze
vintagemakeupguide.com and vintagemakeupguide.com Or Buy the exquisite Besame Cosmetics range here: vintagemakeupguide.com Part two of the classic Vintage 1940's Makeup Tutorial Film courtesy of the Prelinger Archive. Enjoy !
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Coney Island of the 1940's
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- Duration: 9:22
- Published: 07 Nov 2006
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Coney Island, "the place where merriment is king!" Take a trip back in time 50 years before the Mermaid Parade. See masses of old school New Yorkers beat the heat by hitting the beach. See Side Shows! Carnies! Freaks! Thrill rides! Includes the original Coney Island Hot Dog, the Bathing Girl Review, and people getting sick on rides. Not to mention the Tiger Rag, if 1940's Coney Island existed today an insurance agent would have a field day. Still, 1940's Coney Island kicks the ass of most modern amusement parks any day. (This film is forever dedicated to artist and Coney Island mermaid Mary Karam. She is greatly loved and will be sorely missed. - Sept 19, 2009.) See more at: www.weirdovideo.com
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Veronica Lake 1940s hair and make-up tutorial
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1940's Music
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- Duration: 2:07
- Published: 07 Jun 2010
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A quick video I made for my American Studies project. EDIT: Apparently this version of 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy' is by Bette Midler, not the Andrews Sisters (thanks aristiedis!) Sorry for the misinformation =)
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The Submarines - "1940"
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- Duration: 3:03
- Published: 12 Sep 2008
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pastemagazine.com The Submarines perform "1940" live at Paste Studios.
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Best Songs of the Century (1940-1969)
This is part 2 of a 4-part series. Full Playlist- 1900-Swipesy Cakewalk (Scott Joplin) 1901-Stars and Stripes Forever (John Phillip Sousa) 1902-The Entertainer (Scott Joplin) 1903-Weeping Willow (Scott Joplin) 1904-The Yankee Doodle Boy (George M. Cohan) 1905-Leola (Scott Joplin) 1906-The Ragtime Dance (Scott Joplin) 1907-Gladiolus Rag (Scott Joplin) 1908-Pineapple Rag (Scott Joplin) 1909-Sunburt Rag (James Scott) 1910-Hilarity Rag (James Scott) 1911-Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin) 1912-It's a Long Way to Tipperary (Jack Judge & Harry H. Williams) 1913-Memphis Blues (WC Handy) 1914-Twelfth Street Rag (Euday L. Bowman) 1915-Original Jelly Roll Blues (Jelly Roll Morton) 1916-Carol of the Bells (Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych) 1917-Gesu Bambino (Pietro Yon) 1918-Carolina Shout (James Price Johnson) 1919-Bluin The Blues (Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band) 1920-Crazy Blues (Mamie Smith) 1921-Kitten on the Keys (Zez Confrey) 1922-Titina (Leo Daniderff) 1923-The Charleston (James Price Johnson) 1924-Rhaspsody In Blue (George Gershwin) 1925-Snowy Morning Blues (James Price Johnson) 1926-King Porter Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton) 1927-Back Water Blues (Bessie Smith) 1928-Basin Street Blues (Louis Armstrong) 1929-Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (Clarence "Pine Top" Smith) 1930-Puttin on the Ritz (Harry Richman) 1931-Minnie The Moocher (Cab Calloway) 1932-Elegy (Art Tatum) 1933-A Handful of Keys (Fats Waller) 1934-Fantasia on Greensleeves (Ralph Vaughan Williams) 1935-Honky Tonk Train <b>...</b>
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse "Gallopin' Gertie"
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- Duration: 5:57
- Published: 09 Dec 2006
- Uploaded: 29 Feb 2012
- Author: GonzoNugent
Watch the amazing "Gallopin' Gertie" November 7, 1940 film clip. 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge Slender, elegant and graceful, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge stretched like a steel ribbon across Puget Sound in 1940. The third longest suspension span in the world opened on July 1st. Only four months later, the great span's short life ended in disaster. "Galloping Gertie," collapsed in a windstorm on November 7,1940. The bridge became famous as "the most dramatic failure in bridge engineering history." Now, it's also "one of the world's largest man-made reefs." The sunken remains of Galloping Gertie were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 to protect her from salvagers. A dramatic tale of failure and success The story of the failure of the 1940 Narrows Bridge and the success of the Current Narrows Bridge is a great American saga. When Galloping Gertie splashed into Puget Sound, it created ripple effects across the nation and around the world. The event changed forever how engineers design suspension bridges. Gertie's failure led to the safer suspension spans we use today.
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Journalism (1940)
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- Duration: 10:39
- Published: 08 Nov 2011
- Uploaded: 29 Feb 2012
- Author: brainpickings
Background and context: www.brainpickings.org Public domain footage courtesy of the Internet Archive: www.archive.org
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Progressive Education in the 1940s
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- Duration: 7:17
- Published: 01 Aug 2007
- Uploaded: 27 Feb 2012
- Author: danieljbmitchell
This video presents a positive view of progressive education although it begins with a parent complaining that children are not learning the fundamentals. Various educators are seen including famed John Dewey. One skeptic asserts that ideas similar to progressive education caused a collapse of the ancient Greek civilization. Current debates about educational techniques in many respects seem similar to what was occurring in the 1940s.
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WAGON TRAIN (1940)
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- Duration: 59:12
- Published: 19 Feb 2011
- Uploaded: 28 Feb 2012
- Author: JohnWayneTV
Released- October 4, 1940 Starring- Tim Holt, Ray Whitley and Emmett Lynn Pecos businessman Matt Gardner is buying up freighters, or wagon trains of food supplies, at cheap prices through intimidation, and charging high prices by deliberately causing phony food shortages at his trading posts. The only one refusing to sell his supplies is Zack Sibley, who is dead set on maintaining his freighter business as well as tracking down his father's murderer, his ex-business partner. Gardner plans on eliminating any competition Sibley presents by sending his thugs to kill him and raid his wagon train.
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The Trip, 1940's chevrolet car commercial vivid Technicolour
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- Duration: 0:50
- Published: 06 Oct 2007
- Uploaded: 02 Feb 2012
- Author: steviebboy69
www.myxboxhacks.com In this 1939 short, a suburban California family gets all dressed up to drive their new 1940 Chevrolet to see grandma and grandpa, who still live on the family farm. Dad's in a suit and tie, and Mom has on a dressy dress and chic hat. Are they dressed up to go see the grandparents or are they dressed up to ride in their new Chevrolet? They pack their expensive looking luggage in the trunk This family has money to spend. When we think of the 1930's and families on the road, we're more likely to think of the old Model T in "The Grapes of Wrath" than of this affluent nuclear family. Is this image pure fantasy, or was America truly coming out of the Depression in 1939? The announcer mentions the car's"utmost economy" but that's not the real message of the ad. The Chevrolet symbolizes comfort (the kids asleep in the back seat), glamour, conspicuous consumption and personal mobility. The farm is another affluent place from what we see of it. Grandma and Grandpa sure don't resemble WPA photographs of dustbowl farmers, although who knows? Americans wanted to put the poverty and deprivation of the 30s behind them and this ad with its conspicuous display of wealth reflects that longing. i will upload videos soon to my upcoming site www.alchemygaming.com
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Beauty - 1940's to 1970's
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- Duration: 15:06
- Published: 19 Apr 2011
- Uploaded: 01 Mar 2012
- Author: lisaeldridgedotcom
Watch this video on my site www.lisae.me.uk for product links, tips and more info. The second instalment of my chat with Madeleine Marsh looking at her vintage collection and the history behind it. Once again this could have been an hour long...so much to say so many amazing vintage products! I'll save the 80's to present day for another time....maybe another vintage week in the future. Hope you have fun hearing all about the history of our favourite thing! All images from the book in this video are shown with permission.
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Duel from Mark of Zorro (1940) (plot spoilers)
Diego de la Vega vs Capitan Mondego, played by Tyrone Powers and Basil Rathbone respectively. Obviously this is a major plot point, so if you're concerned about spoilers, don't watch this, or don't watch all of it, at least :p Considered to be one of the greatest duels in movie history, and in my opinion, rightly so :) Taken from the special edition, and has been recolourised. I might upload the original black and white version for the sake of comparison but only if people request it. I also made a slow motion version for those more interested in the choreography of it, again that will be uploaded if requested. The filesize of this video is around 9.4MB
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Incredible Sonovox - Kay Kyser - 1940 film "You'll Find Out"
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- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 30 Jul 2007
- Uploaded: 26 Feb 2012
- Author: MisterScott99
Amazing device that gives voice to musical instruments. The Sonovox consists of one or two louspeakers placed on the throat that play the source sound. The performer whispers the words while the speakers stand in for the voice box. Used for the talking train in Disney's Dumbo, uncountable radio promos, a tube-in-the-mouth version "Talk Box" was used by Frampton to make his guitar sing, and all-electronic "Vocoder" versions are still used in current pop music.
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The Submarines - 1940 (Amplive Remix)
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The 1940's Bride
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- Duration: 5:20
- Published: 15 Sep 2010
- Uploaded: 27 Feb 2012
- Author: glamourdaze
glamourdaze.blogspot.com and vintagemakeupguide.com Lingerie fit for a Bride.This charming film, narrated by Miss Ratherly Stern was originally a promo for Newform wedding lingerie, made from rayon silk - the synthetic fabric rage of the 1940's, and is a unique example of the vintage wedding trousseau on film. The traditional trousseau, included bridal accessories,lingerie, toiletries, jewelry, and makeup. Up until the 1940's even bed linens and bath towels were bought as part of her wedding regalia for her new home. Footage courtesy Prelinger Archive
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Katyń 1940 (Ostatni List)
sł.muz. Lech Makowiecki zespół Zayazd Katyn1940(The last letter) -english translation. I'm jotting a few words for You today, Although, I know, You won't receive them again, I'm writing from here to You for the last time, Goodbye My Love- my time has come. I still dream the same dreams at nights, You are the pretty, young lady then, Son must have grown up- hug him from me, Now it's even harder to leave, Now it's even harder to leave. In the moments like this-you really want to live, Everything is meaningless, only to be alive, But the good God gave no choice, Today I'm standing at the end of my road. They ordered us to get off the car- it's here, This birchen forest is my tomb, I'll just sigh for the last time, I'll just think for the last time- I love You...
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Dutch army 1939-1940 Nederlandse Leger en de herdenking van Rotterdam met die Wehrmacht
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- Duration: 9:33
- Published: 18 May 2009
- Uploaded: 16 Feb 2012
- Author: itseasyforyou
Beelden van het Polygoon journaal - Nederland waakt 1939 - HM de Koningin inspecteert het veldleger 1940 - Herdenkingsplechtigheid gevallenen Rotterdam 1940 (ook met de Wehrmacht) - Nederlandse krijgsgevangenen keren terug 1940 This video is in the Dutch language I'll probably add some English and Dutch information too in the video. Will add some small things right now. This video is made to share the Dutch WW2 history, well I guess that I don't need to type an novel here since we're showing the Dutch forces and not the NSB. Although the Wehrmacht the German army was also at the memorial of the fallen in the defence of Rotterdam. The Germans bombed that city since they were scared of the Dutch;). THEUSE OF ANY COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IS USED UNDER THE GUIDELINES OF "FAIR USE" IN TITLE 17 § 107 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE. SUCH MATERIAL REMAINS THE COPYRIGHT OF THE ORIGINAL HOLDER AND IS USED HERE FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION, COMPARISON, AND CRITICISM ONLY. NO INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT IS INTENDED.
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Raffles with David Niven (1940)
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- Duration: 10:59
- Published: 16 Nov 2008
- Uploaded: 09 Feb 2012
- Author: jayshanerin
Raffles The Amateur Cracksman with David Niven 1940
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Fantasia 1940 - The Rite of Spring - Part 1: Genesis
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- Duration: 7:31
- Published: 22 Sep 2007
- Uploaded: 28 Feb 2012
- Author: MorteIncarnata
The Rite of Spring from Disney's Fantasia. Stravinsky's omonimous score was supposed to be about primitive human rituals, but Disney's animators took a completely different inspiration from it and decided to tell the history of Earth up to the extinction of the dinosaurs. The combination of music and animation is perfect. This first part shows the evolution of Earth before the appearance of life. Please comment and rate. Thanks. Update: No creationism vs evolutionism discussions here. You can say what you think in the "IMVHO" form. In any case, this page is about Fantasia, Disney, Animation, Art and how awesome dinosaurs are.
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The milestone 1940 census soon will go public
04 Mar 2012
Tampa Bay Online
In less than a month, the 1940 United States census will be open to the public. Federal law requires that census information be kept private for 72 years. That milestone will be reached for the 1940 census on April 2. Censuses are taken every 10 years and are among the most frequently used records...(size: 4.6Kb)
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Story by Tristan Cabello, courtesy the Windy City Times: In the early 1920s, African American LGBTs were integrated to Bronzeville's mainstream culture and accommodated by its inhabitants, religious figures and political leaders, much unlike their white counterparts who had already created their own...(size: 3.1Kb)
The Examiner
Are you anxious to see the 1940 US Census images available on April 2, 2012? Do you have Springfield relatives and ancestors that you can hardly wait to locate on the census? As a Springfield family history and genealogy researcher, have you volunteered to index some parts of the 1940 US Census?...(size: 6.7Kb)
The Examiner
The Huntsville-Madison County Public Library continues its classic screwball comedy series on Monday, February 27, 2012, with a free showing of the 1940 film, “His Girl Friday.” The event begins at 6 p.m. at the main branch of the library near downtown Huntsville. Directed by Howard...(size: 6.0Kb)
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The 1940 US Census digital images arrive in just 40 days, on April 2, 2012, but the work to get the census indexed and fully useful to all Springfield family history and genealogy researchers will continue for many months. Will you join your friends and colleagues across the world in helping to...(size: 6.7Kb)
The Examiner
We Springfield family history and genealogy researchers are one step closer to being able to access the 1940 U.S. Census images when they become available on April 2, 2012. Today Archives.com and the National Archives revealed the website that will host the 1940 Census beginning April 2, 2012:...(size: 6.1Kb)
LA Weekly
Photo of Ansel Adams by J. Malcolm Greany, ca 1950Ansel Adams is best known for his iconic and bucolic large-format shots of Yosemite National Park, but in 1940, he also covered LA's aviation industry for Fortune magazine. The California native and photo vanguard snapped more than 200 images of Los...(size: 2.8Kb)
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FROM THE ARCHIVES:�Religious art, and art generally, was criticised by a curate in D�n Laoghaire, Fr Myles Ronan, prompting this editorial a day later. - JOE JOYCE� Father Myles Ronan's unsparing comments on our national backwardness in matters artistic should shatter the complacency of those who...(size: 3.2Kb)
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Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
January 4 – WWII: (Axis powers): Luftwaffe General Hermann Göring assumes control of most war industries in Germany.
January 6 – WWII: Winter War: General Semyon Timoshenko takes command of all Russian forces.
January 8 – WWII: Winter War – Battle of Suomussalmi: The Russian 44th Assault Division is destroyed by Finnish forces.
January 8 – WWII: Food rationing begins in Great Britain.
January 10 – WWII: Mechelen Incident: A German plane carrying secret plans for the invasion of western Europe makes a forced landing in Belgium, leading to mobilization of defense forces in the Low Countries.
January 26 – Brisbane, Australia swelters through its hottest day ever, 43.2 degrees Celsius (109.76 Fahrenheit).
January 27 – WWII: A peace resolution introduced in the Parliament of South Africa is defeated 81–59.
January 29 – Three gasoline-powered trains carrying factory workers crash and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi station, Yumesaki Line (Nishinari Line), Osaka, Japan, killing at least 181 people and injuring at least 92.
February 1 – WWII: Winter War – Russian forces launch a major assault on Finnish troops occupying the Karelian Isthmus.
February 2 – Vsevolod Meyerhold is executed in the Soviet Union on charges of treason and espionage. He is cleared of all charges 15 years later in the first waves of de-Stalinization
February 7 – RKO release Walt Disney's second full-length animated film, ''Pinocchio''.
February 10 – Tom and Jerry make their debut in ''Puss Gets the Boot''. However it is not until 1941 that their current names are adopted.
February 16 – WWII: Altmark Incident: The British destroyer ''Cossack'' pursues the German tanker ''Altmark'' into Jøssingfjord in southwestern Norway.
February 22 – In Tibet, province of Ando, 4-year-old Tenzin Gyatso is proclaimed the ''tulku'' (rebirth) of the thirteenth Dalai Lama.
February 27 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
February 29 – The scheduled end of Frederic's indenture in the 1879 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta ''The Pirates of Penzance.'' ''The Times'' noted the occasion in a front-page article.
March – ''Truth or Consequences'' debuts on ''NBC'' Radio.
March 2 – Cartoon character Elmer Fudd makes his debut in the animated short ''Elmer's Candid Camera''.
March 3 – In Sweden, a time bomb destroys the office of ''Norrskenflamman'' (a Swedish communist newspaper), killing 5.
March 5 – Katyn massacre: Members of the Soviet Politburo (Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Mikhail Kalinin, Kliment Voroshilov and Lavrenty Beria) sign an order, prepared by Beria, for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs.
March 11 – Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck and six others leave Monterey, California for The Sea of Cortez on a collecting expedition.
March 12 – The Soviet Union and Finland sign a peace treaty in Moscow ending the Winter War; Finns, along with the world at large, are shocked by the harsh terms.
March 18 – WWII: Axis powers: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
March 21 – Édouard Daladier resigns as prime minister of France; Paul Reynaud succeeds him.
March 23 – The ''Pakistan Resolution'' is rallied around by the All-India Muslim League; Muslims from every corner of India meet up around Iqbal Park, Lahore (now in modern-day Pakistan).
March 31 – WWII: Commerce raiding ''hilfskreuzer Atlantis'', leaves the Wadden Sea for what will become the longest warship cruise of the war. (622 days without in-port replenishment or repair)
April 5 – Neville Chamberlain, in what proves to be a tragic misjudgment, declares in a major public speech that Hitler has "missed the bus".
April 7 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
April 9 – WWII: Germany invades Denmark and Norway in Operation ''Weserübung.'' The British campaign in Norway is simultaneously commenced.
April 12 – The Faroe Islands are occupied by British troops, following the taking over of Denmark by Nazi Germany. This action is taken to avert a possible German occupation of the islands, which would have had very grave consequences for the course of the Battle of the Atlantic
April 12 – Opening day at Jamaica Racetrack features the use of pari-mutuel betting equipment, a departure from bookmaking heretofore used exclusively throughout New York state. Other NY tracks follow suit later in 1940.
April 21 – ''Take It or Leave It'' makes it debut on CBS Radio, with Bob Hawk as host.
April 23 – A fire at the Rhythm Night Club in Natchez, Mississippi kills 198.
May 10 – WWII:
* Battle of France begins – German forces invade Low Countries.
* Iceland is invaded by the United Kingdom.
* With the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
May 13 – Winston Churchill, in his first address as Prime Minister, tells the House of Commons, "I have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
May 13 – WWII: German armies open a wide breach in the Maginot Line at Sedan, France.
May 14 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and her government flee to London; Rotterdam is subjected to savage terror bombing by the Luftwaffe; 980 are killed, and 20,000 buildings destroyed.
May 14 – Recruitment begins in Britain for a home defence force: the Local Defence Volunteers, later known as the Home Guard.
May 15 – The very first McDonald's restaurant opens in San Bernardino, California.
May 15 – WWII: The Dutch army surrenders.
May 16 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressing a joint session of Congress, asks for an extraordinary credit of approximately $900 million to finance construction of at least 50,000 airplanes per year.
May 17 – Brussels falls to German forces; the Belgian government flees to Ostend.
May 18 – Marshal Philippe Pétain is named vice-premier of France.
May 19 – General Maxime Weygand replaces Maurice Gamelin as commander-in-chief of all French forces.
May 20 – WWII: German forces (2nd Panzer division), under General Rudolf Veiel, reach Noyelles on the English Channel.
May 20 – Holocaust: The Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the German concentration camps, opens in occupied Poland near the town of Oświęcim. Between May 1940 and January 1945, around 1.1 million people were killed there.
May 22 – WWII: The British Parliament passes the Emergency Powers Act, giving the government full control over all persons and property.
May 26
* WWII: The Dunkirk evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force starts
* Igor Sikorsky first free flight of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300
May 28 – WWII: King Leopold III of Belgium orders the Belgian forces to cease fighting. Leaders of the Belgian government on French territory declare Leopold deposed.
May 28 – Winston Churchill warns the House of Commons to "prepare itself for hard and heavy tidings."
May 29 – The Vought XF4U-1, prototype of the F4U Corsair U.S. fighter later used in WWII, makes its first flight.
June 3
* The Holocaust: Franz Rademacher proposes the Madagascar Plan.
* Weather Bureau transferred to the Department of Commerce.
* WWII: Paris is bombed by the Luftwaffe for the first time.
June 4
* WWII: The Dunkirk evacuation ends – British forces complete evacuating 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France.
* WWII: Winston Churchill tells the British House of Commons, "We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight on the beaches... on the landing grounds... in the fields and the streets.... We shall never surrender."
June 9 – WWII: The British Commandos are created.
June 10
* WWII: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
* WWII: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech during the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
* WWII: Canada declares war on Italy.
* WWII: Norway surrenders to German forces.
* WWII: The French government flees to Tours.
June 12 – WWII: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at St. Valery-en-Caux.
June 13 – WWII: Paris is declared an open city.
June 14
* WWII: The French government flees to Bordeaux and Paris falls under German occupation.
* WWII: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law, which aims to increase the United States Navy's tonnage by 11%.
* WWII: A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
June 15 – WWII: Verdun falls to German forces.
June 16 – The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held for the first time in Sturgis, South Dakota.
June 17
* Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France and immediately asks Germany for peace terms.
* The Soviet Army enters the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
* WWII: Operation Ariel begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
WWII: A Luftwaffe Junkers 88 bomber sinks the British ship ''RMS Lancastria'', which was evacuating troops from near Saint-Nazaire, France, killing some 5,800 men. (Wartime censorship prevents the story from becoming public.)
June 18
* WWII: Winston Churchill says to the House of Commons: "The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin."
* WWII: General Charles de Gaulle broadcasts from London, calling on all French people to continue the fight against Nazi Germany: "France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war".
June 21 – WWII: Vichy France and Germany sign an armistice at Compiegne, in the same wagon-lit railroad car used by Marshal Ferdinand Foch to accept the surrender of Germany in 1918.
June 23 – WWII: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
June 24
* U.S. politics: The Republican Party begins its national convention in Philadelphia and nominates Wendell Willkie as its candidate for president.
* WWII: Vichy France signs armistice terms with Italy.
June 28 – General Charles de Gaulle is officially recognized by Britain as the "Leader of all Free Frenchmen, wherever they may be."
June 30
* Civil Aeronautics Administration under Department of Commerce.
* The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is placed under the Federal Security Agency.
* Fish and Wildlife Service, within the Department of the Interior.
* WWII: German forces land in Guernsey, marking the start of the 5-year Occupation of the Channel Islands.
July 3 – WWII: British naval units sink or seize ships of the French fleet anchored in the Algerian ports of Oran and Mers-el-Kebir. The following day, Vichy France breaks off diplomatic relations with Britain.
July 10
* WWII: The Battle of Britain begins
* WWII: Vichy France begins with a constitutional law which only 80 members of the parliament vote against.
July 14 – WWII: Winston Churchill, in a worldwide broadcast, proclaims the intention of Great Britain to fight alone against Germany whatever the outcome: "We shall seek no terms. We shall tolerate no parley. We may show mercy. We shall ask none."
July 15 – U.S. politics: The Democratic Party begins its national convention in Chicago, and nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term as president.
July 19 – WWII: Adolf Hitler makes a peace appeal to Britain in an address to the Reichstag. Lord Halifax, the British foreign minister, flatly rejects peace terms in a broadcast reply on July 22.
July 21 – The Estonian SSR, Latvian SSR and Lithuanian SSR are proclaimed in Moscow.
July 27 – Bugs Bunny makes his debut in the Oscar-nominated cartoon short, ''A Wild Hare''.
August 3 – The Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR (August 5) and Estonian SSR (August 6) are incorporated into the Soviet Union.
August 4 – Gen. John J. Pershing, in a nationwide radio broadcast, urges all-out aid to Britain in order to defend the Americas, while Charles Lindbergh speaks to an isolationist rally at Soldier Field in Chicago.
August 8 – WWII: Wilhelm Keitel signs the "Aufbau Ost" directive, which eventually leads to the invasion of the Soviet Union.
August 20
* WWII: Winston Churchill pays tribute in the House of Commons to the Royal Air Force: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
* Leon Trotsky is attacked with an ice axe in his Mexico home by NKVD agent Ramón Mercader.
August 21 – Leon Trotsky dies of injuries sustained.
August 24 – Howard Florey and a team including Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, publish their laboratory results showing the ''in vivo'' bactericidal action of penicillin. They have also purified the drug.
August 26 – WWII: Chad is the first French colony to proclaim its support for the Allies.
August 30 – Second Vienna Award: Germany and Italy compel Romania to cede half of Transylvania to Hungary.
September – The U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division (previously a National Guard Division in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma), is activated and ordered into federal service for 1 year, to engage in a training program in Ft. Sill and Louisiana, prior to serving in WWII.
September 2 – WWII: An agreement between America and Great Britain is announced to the effect that 50 U.S. destroyers needed for escort work will be transferred to Great Britain. In return, America gains 99-year leases on British bases in the North Atlantic, West Indies and Bermuda.
September 5 – WWII: Commerce raiding ''hilfskreuzer Komet'' enters the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait after crossing the Arctic Ocean from the North Sea with the help of Soviet icebreakers ''Lenin'', ''Stalin'', and ''Kaganovich''.
September 7
* Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
* WWII: The Blitz – Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London (the first of 57 consecutive nights of strategic bombing).
September 12
* In Lascaux, France, 17,000-year-old cave paintings are discovered by a group of young Frenchmen hiking through Southern France. The paintings depict animals and date to the Stone Age.
* The Hercules Munitions Plant in Succasunna-Kenvil, New Jersey explodes, killing 55 people.
September 16 – WWII: The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 is signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt, creating the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
September 17–September 18 – WWII: is torpedoed by in the Atlantic with the loss of 248 of the 406 on board, including child evacuees bound for Canada. This results in cancellation of the British Children's Overseas Reception Board's plan to relocate children overseas.
September 26 – WWII: The United States imposes a total embargo on all scrap metal shipments to Japan.
September 27 – WWII: Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
October 16 – The draft registration of approximately 16 million men begins in the United States.
October 18–October 19 – WWII: Thirty-two ships are sunk from Convoy SC 7 and Convoy HX 79 by the most effective "wolfpack" of the war including U-boat aces Kretschmer, Prien and Schepke
October 28 – WWII: Italian troops invade Greece, meeting strong resistance from Greek troops and civilians. This action signals the beginning of the Balkans Campaign.
October 29 – The Selective Service System lottery is held in Washington, D.C..
November 5 – United States presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States' first and only third-term president.
November 6 – Agatha Christie's mystery novel ''And Then There Were None'' is published in book form in the United States.
November 7 – In Tacoma, Washington, the -long center span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (known as Galloping Gertie) collapses.
November 9 – Joaquin Rodrigo's ''Concierto de Aranjuez'' premieres in Barcelona, Spain.
November 10 – An earthquake in Bucharest, Romania kills 1,000.
November 11
* WWII: The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian battleship fleet anchored at Taranto naval base.
WWII: The captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
* Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the Midwestern United States.
November 13 – Walt Disney's ''Fantasia'' is released. It is the first box office failure for Disney, though it eventually recoups its cost years later, and becomes one of the most highly regarded of Disney's films.
November 14 – WWII: The city of Coventry, England is destroyed by 500 German Luftwaffe bombers (150,000 fire bombs, 503 tons of high explosives, and 130 parachute mines level 60,000 of the city's 75,000 buildings; 568 people are killed).
November 16
* WWII: In response to Germany levelling Coventry 2 days before, the Royal Air Force begins to bomb Hamburg (by war's end, 50,000 Hamburg residents will have died from Allied attacks).
* An unexploded pipe bomb is found in the Consolidated Edison office building (only years later is the culprit, George Metesky, apprehended).
* The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers is founded.
November 18 – WWII: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.
November 20 – WWII: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.
November 27
* In Romania, coup leader General Ion Antonescu's Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled king Carol II of Romania's aides. Among the dead is former minister and acclaimed historian Nicolae Iorga.
* WWII: The Royal Navy and Regia Marina fight the Battle of Cape Spartivento.
December – Timely Comics' Captain America Comics #1 (cover dated March 1941), first appearance of Captain America and Bucky, hits newsstands.
December 1 – Manuel Ávila Camacho takes office as President of Mexico.
December 8 – The Chicago Bears, in what will become the most one-sided victory in National Football League history, defeat the Washington Redskins 73–0 in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.
December 9 – WWII: Operation Compass – British forces in North Africa begin their first major offensive with an attack on Italian forces at Sidi Barrani, Egypt.
December 12 and December 15 – WWII: "Sheffield Blitz" – The City of Sheffield is badly damaged by German air-raids.
December 14 – Plutonium is first isolated chemically in the laboratory.
December 16 – WWII: Operation Abigail Rachel – RAF bombing of Mannheim.
December 17 – President Roosevelt, at his regular press conference, first sets forth the outline of his plan to send aid to Great Britain that will become known as Lend-Lease.
December 23 – WWII: Winston Churchill, in a broadcast address to the people of Italy, blames Benito Mussolini for leading his nation to war against the British, contrary to Italy's historic friendship with them: "One man has arrayed the trustees and inheritors of ancient Rome upon the side of the ferocious pagan barbarians."
December 24 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian spiritual non-violence leader writes his second letter to Adolf Hitler addressing him "My friend", requesting him to stop the war Germany had begun.
December 29
* Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a fireside chat to the nation, declares that the United States must become "the great arsenal of democracy."
* WWII: "Second Great Fire of London" – Luftwaffe carries out a massive incendiary bombing raid, starting 1,500 fires. Many famous buildings, including the Guildhall and Trinity House, are either damaged or destroyed.
December 30 – California's first modern freeway, the future State Route 110, opens to traffic in Pasadena, California, as the Arroyo Seco Parkway (now the Pasadena Freeway).
In Korea, ''The Hunmin Jeong-eum Haerye'' (1446) is discovered, explaining the basis of Hangul.
Olympic Games, assigned to Tokyo, Japan, and later to Helsinki, Finland, are suspended due to WWII.
US historian Arthur Marder publishes ''The Anatomy of British Sea Power: a history of British naval policy in the pre-Dreadnought era, 1880-1905''.
January 2 – Jim Bakker, American televangelist and former husband of Tammy Faye
January 4
* Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
January 6 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (d. 1989)
January 9 – Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Costa Rican politician, lawyer, economist, and businessman
January 14 – Julian Bond, American civil rights activist
January 19 – Mike Reid, English actor (d. 2007)
January 20 – Carol Heiss, American figure skater
January 21 – Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
January 22 – John Hurt, English actor
January 27 – James Cromwell, American actor
January 28 – Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman
January 29 – Katharine Ross, American actress
January 31 – Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (d. 1998)
February 1 – Bibi Besch, Austrian-born American actress (d. 1996)
February 2 – David Jason, English actor
February 3 – Fran Tarkenton, American football player
February 4 – George A. Romero, American film writer and director
February 5 – H. R. Giger, Swiss artist
February 6
* Tom Brokaw, American television news reporter
* Jimmy Tarbuck, English comedian
February 8
* Ted Koppel, American journalist
* Joe South, American singer and songwriter
February 9
* J. M. Coetzee, South African writer, Nobel Prize laureate
* Brian Bennett, British drummer and songwriter (The Shadows)
February 12
* Ralph Bates, English actor (d. 1991)
* Richard Lynch, American actor
February 17 – Gene Pitney, American singer (d. 2006)
February 18 – Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1999)
February 19 – Smokey Robinson, American musician
February 20 – Jimmy Greaves, English footballer
February 21
* Akihiko Kumashiro, Japanese politician
* James Wong, Hong Kong composer (d. 2004)
February 22
* Judy Cornwell, British actress
* Johnson Mlambo, South African politician
* Billy Name, American photographer and Warhol archivist
February 23 – Peter Fonda, American actor
February 24
* Pete Duel, American actor (d. 1971)
* Denis Law, Scottish football player
February 25 – Ron Santo, American baseball player (d. 2010)
February 28 – Mario Andretti, American race car driver
March 3
* Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist
* Owen Spencer-Thomas, English broadcaster, journalist and clergyman
March 6 – Willie Stargell, African-American baseball player (d. 2001)
March 7 – Rudi Dutschke, German radical student leader (d. 1979)
March 8 – Susan Clark, Canadian actress (''Webster'')
March 9 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1994)
March 10
* Dean Torrence, American singer (Jan and Dean)
* Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
March 12 – Al Jarreau, American singer
March 13 – Candi Staton, American singer
March 15 – Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)
March 16
* Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian writer and film director
* Jan Pronk, Dutch politician and diplomat
March 17 – Mark White, Governor of Texas
March 21 – Solomon Burke, American singer and songwriter (d. 2010)
March 22 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (d. 1996)
March 25 – Anita Bryant, American entertainer
March 26
* James Caan, American actor
* Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
March 27 – Cale Yarborough, American race car driver
March 29 – Ray Davis, American musician (P-Funk) (d. 2005)
March 30 – Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian-born singer
April 1 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
April 2 – Penelope Keith, English actress
April 8 – John Havlicek, American basketball player
April 12
* Herbie Hancock, American musician
* John Hagee, American televangelist
April 13 – Max Mosley, British motorsport boss
April 16 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
April 18 – Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
April 25 – Al Pacino, American actor
April 26 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian film composer
May 1 – Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer
May 2 – Jo Ann Pflug, American former actress and motivational speaker
May 5 – Lance Henriksen, American actor and potter
May 7 – Jim Connors, American radio personality (d. 1987)
May 8
* Peter Benchley, American author (d. 2006)
* Angela Carter, English author and editor (d. 1992)
* Ricky Nelson, American singer (d. 1985)
* Toni Tennille, American singer
May 9
* James L. Brooks, American film producer and writer
* Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist and author (d. 2008)
May 11 – Juan Downey, Chilean-born video artist (d. 1993)
May 14 – 'H'. Jones, British soldier (VC recipient) (d. 1982)
May 15
* Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer
* Don Nelson, American basketball player and coach
May 17
* Alan Kay, American computer scientist
* Reynato Puno, Filipino Supreme Court Chief Justice
May 18 – Lenny Lipton, American inventor
May 20
* Stan Mikita, Slovakian-born Canadian hockey player
* Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player
May 22 – Bernard Shaw, American journalist and television news reporter
May 24 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
May 29 – Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan (d. 2010)
June 1 – Rene Auberjonois, American actor
June 2 – King Constantine II of Greece
June 4 – Ludwig Schwarz, Austrian bishop
June 6 – Richard Paul, American actor (d. 1998)
June 7 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer
June 8
* Carole Ann Ford, British actress
* Nancy Sinatra, American singer
June 16
* Neil Goldschmidt, Governor of Oregon
* Taylor Gun-Jin Wang, Chinese-American astronaut
June 17
* George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Alan Murray, Australian professional golfer
June 20 – John Mahoney, English-born actor
June 21 – Mariette Hartley, American actress
June 22
* Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer
* Esther Rantzen, British broadcaster
June 23
* Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003)
* Lord Irvine of Lairg, Lord Chancellor of England
* Wilma Rudolph, American athlete (d. 1994)
June 25 – A. J. Quinnell, English writer (d. 2005)
June 27 – Anil Karanjai, Indian painter of the Hungry generation movement.
June 28 – Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, Nobel Prize laureate
June 29 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
July 3 – César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
July 6 – Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan
July 7 – Ringo Starr, British drummer (The Beatles)
July 10
* Gene Alley, American baseball player
* Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur
* Helen Donath, American soprano
July 13
* Patrick Stewart, English actor
* Paul Prudhomme, American celebrity chef and cookbook author
July 17
* Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian
* Verne Lundquist, American sportscaster
July 18
* Joe Torre, American baseball player and manager
* James Brolin, American actor and director
July 22
* George Clinton, American musician
* Alex Trebek, Canadian game show host
July 24 – Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
July 26 – Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Ted Kennedy (d. 1969)
July 27
* Pina Bausch, German choreographer (d. 2009)
* Bharati Mukherjee, Indian-born novelist
July 31 – Roy Walker, Northern Irish comedian
August 1 – Ram Loevy, Israeli screenwriter and director
August 3 – Martin Sheen, American actor
August 7 – Jean-Luc Dehaene, Prime Minister of Belgium
August 8 – Dilip Sardesai, former Indian cricketer (d. 2007)
August 9 – Beverlee McKinsey, American actress
August 10 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (d. 2003)
August 14 – Galen Hall, American football coach
August 19 – Jill St. John, American actress
August 20
* Musa Geshaev, Chechen poet and historian
* Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
August 22 – Valerie Harper, American actress
August 25 – José Van Dam, Belgian bass-baritone
August 28 – Tom Baker, American actor (d. 1982)
August 29
* Johnny Paris, American musician (Johnny and the Hurricanes) (d. 2006)
* Bennie Maupin, American musician
August 31 – Jack Thompson, Australian actor
September 5 – Raquel Welch, American actress
September 7 – Abdurrahman Wahid, former President of Indonesia (d. 2009)
September 10 – David Mann, American artist (d. 2004)
September 11 – Brian De Palma, American film director
September 12
* Skip Hinnant, American actor
* Mickey Lolich, American baseball player
* Linda Gray, American actress (''Dallas'')
September 13 – Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
September 14 – Larry Brown, American basketball coach
September 20 – Taro Aso, Prime Minister of Japan
September 23 – Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Iranian traditional singer
September 24 – Michiko Suganuma, Urushi Japanese lacquer artist
October 9 – John Lennon, British musician and singer (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
October 13 – Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist
October 14 – Cliff Richard, English singer
October 15 – Peter C. Doherty, Australian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 16 – Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
October 19 – Michael Gambon, Irish actor
October 20 – Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States
October 21
* Manfred Mann (Manfred Lubowitz), South African rock musician
* Geoffrey Boycott, English cricketer
October 23 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer
October 25 – Bobby Knight, American basketball coach
October 27 – John Gotti, American gangster (d. 2002)
November 1 – Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India
November 12 – Glenn Stetson, Canadian singer
November 15
* Sam Waterston, American actor
* Roberto Cavalli, Italian designer
November 17 – Luke Kelly, Irish ballad singer (The Dubliners)
November 18 – Qaboos bin Said al Said, sultan Oman
November 21 – Richard Marcinko, U.S. Navy SEAL team member and author
November 25 – Joe Gibbs, American football coach
November 27 – Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial artist and actor (d. 1973)
November 29 – Chuck Mangione, American flugelhorn player
December 1 – Richard Pryor, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
December 4
* Freddy Cannon, American singer
* Gary Gilmore, American murderer (d. 1977)
December 5 – Peter Pohl, Swedish writer
December 12
* Sharad Pawar, Indian politician
* Dionne Warwick, American singer
December 20 – Pat Chapman, English author
December 21 – Frank Zappa, American musician, composer, and satirist (d. 1993)
December 22 – Noel Jones, British ambassador to Kazakhstan (d. 1995)
December 23
* Jorma Kaukonen, American musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)
* Robert Labine, former mayor of Gatineau, Quebec
December 26 – Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
Seamus Deane, Irish poet and novelist
Christopher Awdry, English children's writer & son of Wilbert Awdry
January – Fusajiro Yamauchi, Japanese business executive (b. 1859)
January 4 – Flora Finch, English-born actress and comedian (b. 1869)
January 18 – Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish poet and writer (b. 1865)
January 27 – Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (b. 1894)
February 1 – Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of ''Buck Rogers'' (b. 1888)
February 2 – Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian Theatre Practitioner (b. 1874)
February 4 – Samuel M. Vauclain, American engineer (b. 1856)
February 11 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)
February 26 – Michael Hainisch, 2nd President of Austria (b. 1858)
February 29 – Edward Frederic Benson, English writer
March 1 – Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian writer (b. 1878)
March 5
* Maxine Elliott, American actress (b. 1868)
* Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
March 10 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
March 11 – John Monk Saunders, American writer (b. 1897)
March 16 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
March 20 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)
March 26 – Spiridon Louis, Greek runner (b. 1873)
March 27
* Madeleine Astor, American survivor of Titanic (b. 1893)
* Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
March 31 – Tinsley Lindley, English footballer (b. 1865)
April 1 – John A. Hobson, English economist (b. 1858).
April 26 – Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
April 28 – Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian opera singer (b. 1871)
May 11 – Chujiro Hayashi, Japanese Reiki Master (b. 1880)
May 14 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
May 15 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (b. 1902)
May 19 – Diego Mazquiarán, Spanish matador (b. 1895)
May 20 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
May 25 – Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (b. 1873)
May 26 – Wilhelm of Prussia, Prussian prince (b. 1906)
May 28
* Walter Connolly, American actor (b. 1887)
* Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (b. 1868)
May 29 – Mary Anderson, American stage actress (b. 1859).
June 7 – James Hall, American actor (b. 1900)
June 10 – Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born publisher, entrepreneur, and black nationalist (b. 1887)
June 11 – Alfred S. Alschuler, American architect (b. 1876)
June 13 – George Fitzmaurice, American director (b. 1885)
June 14 – Henry W. Antheil, Jr., American diplomat (b. 1912)
June 17 – Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
June 19 – Maurice Jaubert, French composer (b. 1900)
June 20 – Charley Chase, American comedian (b. 1893)
June 21
* Smedley Butler, U.S. general (b. 1881)
* Janusz Kusocinski, Polish athlete (b. 1907)
June 29 – Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
July 1 – Ben Turpin, American actor (b. 1869)
July 15 – Robert Pershing Wadlow, tallest man ever (infection) (b. 1918)
August 5 – Frederick Albert Cook, American explorer (b. 1865)
August 8 – Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1892)
August 18 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (b. 1875)
August 21
* Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
* Hermann Obrecht, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1882)
August 22 – Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist (b. 1860)
August 30 – J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
September 4 – George William de Carteret, author from Jersey island (b. 1869)
September 5 – Charles de Broqueville, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1860)
September 25 – Marguerite Clark, American actress (b. 1883)
September 27 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
October 5
* Ballington Booth, American co-founder of Volunteers of America (b. 1857)
* Lincoln Loy McCandless, Hawaiian politician and cattle rancher (b. 1859)
October 9 – Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865)
October 10 – Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
October 12 – Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880)
November 9
* Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
* John Henry Kirby, Texas legislator and American businessman (b. 1860)
November 17
* Eric Gill, British sculptor and writer (b. 1882)
* Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
December 5 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (b. 1880)
December 15 or December 16 – Billy Hamilton, American baseball player (b. 1866)
December 19 – Kyösti Kallio, President of Finland (b. 1873)
December 21 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1896)
December 22 – Nathanael West, American writer (b. 1903)
December 25 – Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898)
December 26 – Daniel Frohman, American theater producer (b. 1851)
Physics – not awarded
Chemistry – not awarded
Physiology or Medicine – not awarded
Literature – not awarded
Peace – not awarded
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| name | Veronica Lake |
|---|---|
| birth date | November 14, 1922 |
| birth place | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| death date | July 07, 1973 |
| death place | Burlington, Vermont, U.S. |
| birth name | Constance Frances Marie Ockelman |
| other names | Constance Keane, Connie Keane |
| spouse | John S. Detlie (1940–1943; 2 children)André De Toth (1944–1952; 2 children)Joseph A. McCarthy (1955–1959)Robert Carleton-Munro (1972–1973) (her death) |
| occupation | Actress |
| years active | 1939–1970 }} |
Veronica Lake (November 14, 1922 – July 7, 1973) was an American film actress and pin-up model. She received both popular and critical acclaim, most notably for her role in ''Sullivan's Travels'' and her femme fatale roles in film noir with Alan Ladd during the 1940s, and was well-known for her peek-a-boo hairstyle. She had a string of broken marriages and, after her career declined, long struggles with mental illness and alcoholism.
Early life and career
Lake was born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman in Brooklyn, New York. Her father, Harry E. Ockelman, of Danish-Irish descent, worked for an oil company aboard a ship. Her father died in an industrial explosion in Philadelphia in 1932 when she was ten. Her mother, née Constance Charlotta Trimble (1902–1992), (listed as "Veronica F." on the 1920 census), married family friend Anthony Keane, a newspaper staff artist, a year later, and Lake began using his last name.Lake was sent to Villa Maria, an all-girls Catholic boarding school in Montreal, Canada, from which she was expelled. The Keane family later moved to Miami, Florida. Lake attended Miami Senior High School in Miami, where she was known for her beauty. She had a troubled childhood and was, according to her mother, diagnosed as schizophrenic.
In 1938 Lake moved with her mother and stepfather to Beverly Hills, where her mother enrolled her in the Bliss-Hayden School of Acting. Her first appearance on screen was for RKO, playing a small role among several coeds in the 1939 film, ''Sorority House''. Similar roles followed, including ''All Women Have Secrets'' and ''Dancing Co-Ed''. During the making of ''Sorority House'' director John Farrow first noticed how her hair always covered her right eye, creating an air of mystery about her and enhancing her natural beauty. She was then introduced, while still a teenager, to the Paramount producer Arthur Hornblow, Jr. He changed her name to Veronica Lake because the surname suited her blue eyes.
Her contract was subsequently dropped by RKO. She married art director John S. Detlie, 14 years her senior, in 1940. A small role in the comedy, ''Forty Little Mothers'', brought unexpected attention. In 1941 she was signed to a long-term contract with Paramount Pictures. On August 21, 1941, she gave birth to her first child, Elaine Detlie.
1940s icon
Her breakthrough film was ''I Wanted Wings'' in 1941, a major hit in which Lake played the second female lead and was said to have stolen scene after scene from the rest of the cast. This success was followed by ''Hold Back the Dawn'' later that year. She had starring roles in more popular movies, including ''Sullivan's Travels'', ''This Gun for Hire'', ''I Married a Witch'', ''The Glass Key'', and ''So Proudly We Hail!''. Looking back at her career years later, Lake remarked, "I never did cheesecake; I just used my hair."For a short time during the early 1940s Lake was considered one of the most reliable box office draws in Hollywood. She became known for onscreen pairings with actor Alan Ladd. At first, the couple was teamed together merely out of physical necessity: Ladd was just 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m) tall and the only actress then on the Paramount lot short enough to pair with him was Lake, who stood just 4 feet 11½ inches (1.51 m). They made four films together.
A stray lock of her shoulder-length blonde hair during a publicity photo shoot led to her iconic "peekaboo" hairstyle, which was widely imitated. During World War II, she changed her trademark image to encourage women working in war industry factories to adopt more practical, safer hairstyles.
Although popular with the public, Lake had a complex personality and acquired a reputation for being difficult to work with. Eddie Bracken, her co-star in ''Star Spangled Rhythm'' was quoted as saying, "She was known as 'The Bitch' and she deserved the title." In that movie, Lake took part in a song lampooning her hair style, "A Sweater, A Sarong and a Peekaboo Bang", performed with Paulette Goddard and Dorothy Lamour. Joel McCrea, her co-star in ''Sullivan's Travels'', reputedly turned down the co-starring role in ''I Married a Witch'', saying, "Life's too short for two films with Veronica Lake."
Lake's career stumbled with her unsympathetic role as Nazi spy Dora Bruckman in 1944's ''The Hour Before the Dawn''. During filming, she tripped on a lighting cable while pregnant and began hemorrhaging. She recovered, but her second child, William, was born prematurely on July 8, 1943, dying a week later from uremic poisoning. By the end of 1943 her first marriage ended in divorce. Meanwhile, scathing reviews of ''The Hour Before Dawn'' included criticism of her unconvincing German accent.
Nonetheless, Lake was earning $4,500 per week under her contract with Paramount. She had begun drinking more heavily during this period and people began refusing to work with her. Paramount cast Lake in a string of mostly forgotten films. A notable exception was ''The Blue Dahlia'' (1946), in which she again co-starred with Ladd. During filming, screenplay writer Raymond Chandler referred to her as "Moronica Lake". Paramount decided not to renew her contract in 1948.
She married film director Andre De Toth in 1944 and had a son, Andre Anthony Michael De Toth, known as Michael De Toth (October 25, 1945 – February 24, 1991), and a daughter, Diana De Toth (born October 16, 1948). Lake was sued by her mother for support payments in 1948.
Lake earned her pilot's license in 1946 and was able to fly solo between Los Angeles and New York.
Later years
After a single film for 20th Century Fox, ''Slattery's Hurricane'' (1949), her career collapsed. By the end of 1951 she had appeared in one last film (''Stronghold'', which she later described as "a dog"), filed for bankruptcy, and divorced de Toth. The IRS seized the remainder of her assets for unpaid taxes. Lake turned to television and stage work and in 1955 married songwriter Joseph A. McCarthy.After breaking her ankle in 1959, Lake was unable to continue working as an actress. She and McCarthy divorced, after which she drifted between cheap hotels in Brooklyn and New York City and was arrested several times for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. A ''New York Post'' reporter found her working as a barmaid at the all-women's Martha Washington Hotel in Manhattan. At first, Veronica claimed that she was a guest at the hotel and covering for a friend. Soon afterward, she admitted that she was employed at the bar. The reporter's widely distributed story led to some television and stage appearances, most notably in the off-Broadway revival of the musical "Best Foot Forward." (Her contract overlapped with the departing Liza Minnelli and the two briefly co-starred together.) In 1966, she had a brief stint as a TV hostess in Baltimore, Maryland, along with a largely ignored film role in ''Footsteps in the Snow''.
Her physical and mental health declined steadily. By the late 1960s Lake was in Hollywood, Florida, apparently immobilized by paranoia (which included claims she was being stalked by the FBI).
She spent a brief period in England, where she appeared in the plays ''Madame Chairman'' and ''A Streetcar Named Desire''.
When ''Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake'' (Bantam, 1972) was published, she promoted the book with a memorable interview on ''The Dick Cavett Show'', as well as an episode of "To Tell the Truth," on which the panel had to guess which of three disguised women was the "real" Veronica Lake. Two of the panelists, Bill Cullen and Peggy Cass, quickly disqualified themselves because they knew her. With the proceeds, she co-produced and starred in her last film, ''Flesh Feast'' (1970), a very low budget horror movie with a Nazi-myth storyline. She then moved to the UK, where she had a short-lived marriage with an "English sea captain", Robert Carleton-Munro, before returning to the U.S. in 1973, having filed for divorce.
Lake was immediately hospitalized. Although she had made a cheerful and positive impression on the nurses who cared for her, she was apparently estranged from her three surviving children, particularly her daughters. Elaine Detlie became known as Ani Sangge Lhamo after becoming a member of the Subud faith in New Zealand. Diana became a secretary for the US Embassy in Rome in the 1970s. Michael De Toth stayed with his mother on and off through the 1960s and 1970s. He married Edwina Mae Niecke. When Lake died he claimed her body.
Death
Lake died on July 7, 1973 of hepatitis and acute renal failure (complications of her alcoholism) in Burlington, Vermont, where her death was certified by Dr. Wareen Beeken at the Fletcher Allen Hospital and where she was seen by many staff members during her nearly two week stay. A rumor persists that she died in Montreal and was smuggled across the border to Vermont.Her ashes were scattered off the coast of the Virgin Islands as she had requested. A memorial service was held in Manhattan, but only her son and handful of strangers attended. In 2004 some of Lake's ashes were reportedly found in a New York antique store. Her son Michael died on February 24, 1991, aged 45, in Olympia, Washington.
Lake has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6918 Hollywood Boulevard for her contributions to the motion picture industry. She remains a legendary star today and her autographs and other memorabilia continue to draw high prices on eBay and other popular outlets.
Quotes
"I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie." "You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision."
References in popular culture
Film and television credits
| + Film | |||
| ! Year | ! Title | Role | Notes |
| 1939 | ''Sorority House'' | Coed | Uncredited, alternative title: ''That Girl from College'' |
| 1939 | '''' | The Attorney's New Bride | Credited as Connie Keane |
| 1939 | ''Dancing Co-Ed'' | One of Couple on Motorcycle | Uncredited, alternative title: ''Every Other Inch a Lady'' |
| 1939 | ''All Women Have Secrets'' | Jane | Credited as Constance Keane |
| 1940 | ''Young As You Feel'' | Bit part | Credited as Constance Keane |
| 1940 | ''Forty Little Mothers'' | Granville girl | Uncredited |
| 1941 | ''I Wanted Wings'' | Sally Vaughn | First major film role |
| 1941 | ''Hold Back the Dawn'' | Movie Actress | Uncredited |
| 1941 | ''Sullivan's Travels'' | The Girl | First leading role |
| 1942 | ''This Gun for Hire'' | Ellen Graham | First of four films with Alan Ladd |
| 1942 | '''' | Janet Henry | Second of four films with Alan Ladd |
| 1942 | ''I Married a Witch'' | Jennifer | |
| 1942 | ''Star Spangled Rhythm'' | Herself | |
| 1943 | ''So Proudly We Hail!'' | Lt. Olivia D'Arcy | |
| 1944 | '''' | Dora Bruckmann | |
| 1945 | ''Bring on the Girls'' | Teddy Collins | |
| 1945 | ''Out of This World'' | Dorothy Dodge | |
| 1945 | ''Duffy's Tavern'' | Herself | |
| 1945 | ''Hold That Blonde'' | Sally Martin | |
| 1946 | ''Miss Susie Slagle's'' | Nan Rogers | |
| 1946 | '''' | Joyce Harwood | Third of four films with Alan Ladd |
| 1947 | Connie Dickason | ||
| 1947 | ''Variety Girl'' | Herself | |
| 1948 | Susan Cleaver | Fourth and final film with Alan Ladd | |
| 1948 | '''' | Letty Stanton | |
| 1948 | Candy Cameron | ||
| 1949 | ''Slattery's Hurricane'' | Dolores Greaves | |
| 1951 | ''Stronghold'' | Mary Stevens | |
| 1966 | ''Footsteps in the Snow'' | ||
| 1970 | Dr. Elaine Frederick | Alternative title: ''Time is Terror'' |
| + Television series | |||
| ! Year | ! Title | Role | Notes |
| 1950 | ''Your Show of Shows'' | 1 episode | |
| 1950 | 1 episode | ||
| 1950–1953 | ''Lux Video Theatre'' | Various | 3 episodes |
| 1951 | ''Somerset Maugham TV Theatre'' | Valerie | 1 episode |
| 1952 | ''Celanese Theatre'' | 1 episode | |
| 1952 | ''Tales of Tomorrow'' | Paula | 1 episode |
| 1952 | ''Goodyear Television Playhouse'' | Judy "Leni: Howard | 1 episode |
| 1953 | ''Danger'' | 1 episode | |
| 1954 | ''Broadway Television Theatre'' | 1 episode |
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| Name | Kay Kyser |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth date | June 18, 1905 |
| Death date | July 23, 1985 |
| Origin | Rocky Mount, North Carolina |
| Genre | Big band, swing |
| Occupation | Vocalist, bandleader |
| Years active | 1926–1950 }} |
James Kern (“Kay”) Kyser (June 18, 1905 – July 23, 1985) was a popular bandleader and radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s.
Early years
He was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of pharmacists Paul Bynum Kyser and Emily Royster (Howell) Kyser. Editor Vermont C. Royster was his cousin. Kyser graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He was also senior class president. Because of his popularity and enthusiasm as a cheerleader, he was invited by Hal Kemp to take over as bandleader when Kemp ventured north to further his career. He began taking clarinet lessons but was better as an entertaining announcer than a musician. He adopted the initial of his middle name as part of his stage name, for its alliterative effect.
''Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge''
Following graduation, Kyser and his band, which included Sully Mason on saxophone and arranger George Duning, toured Midwest restaurants and night clubs and gradually built a following. They were particularly popular at Chicago's Blackhawk restaurant, where Kyser came up with an act combining a quiz with music which became ''Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge''. The act was broadcast on the Mutual Radio in 1938 and then moved to NBC Radio from 1939 to 1949. The show rose in the ratings and spawned many imitators. Kyser led the band as “The Ol’ Perfessor,” spouting catchphrases: “That’s right—you’re wrong”, “Evenin’ folks, how y’all?” and “C'mon, chillun! Le's dance!”
Big band era
Although Kyser and his orchestra gained fame through the ''Kollege of Musical Knowledge'', they were an excellent band in their own right. They had 11 number one records, including some of the most popular songs of the late 1930s and early 1940s.Unlike most other big bands of the era, which centered around only the bandleader, individual members of Kyser’s band became stars in their own right and would often receive the spotlight. Some of the more popular members included vocalist Harry Babbitt, cornetist Merwin Bogue (aka Ish Kabibble), trombonist Bruce King, saxophonist Jack Martin (who sang lead vocal on the number one hit, "Strip Polka"), Ginny Simms (who had her own successful acting and singing career after leaving Kyser’s band), Sully Mason, Mike Douglas (years before he became a popular TV talk show host) and Georgia Carroll. Carroll, a blond fashion model and actress whose best-known role was Betsy Ross in ''Yankee Doodle Dandy'', was dubbed “Gorgeous Georgia Carroll” when she joined the group in 1943. Within a year, she and Kyser married.
Kyser was also known for singing song titles, a device copied by Sammy Kaye and Blue Barron. When the song began, one of the band's lead singers (usually Babbitt) sang the title phrase, and then the first verse or two of the song was performed instrumentally before the lyrics resumed. Several of his recordings spawned catch phrases, such as “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition.” His group also had a major hit with the novelty tune, “Three Little Fishes.”
His song "Jingle Jangle Jingle" was used in the E3 trailer for the game Fallout: New Vegas because of its 50s-era style.
“Kay left a strong recording legacy in American popular music, including his ''Kollege of Musical Knowledge'',” said Babbitt. “I’m very fortunate and proud to have been an integral part of that band and that legacy." Some of the band members, including Babbitt and Kabibble, noted that Kyser was difficult to know personally. "Kay was a businessman," explained Babbitt. "We all liked him and liked what he stood for. He was first class. It’s sad to say, but there are an awful lot of people who don’t remember Kay Kyser.”
On February 26, 1941, Kay Kyser was the first bandleader to perform in front of military personnel.
During the Swing Era, Kyser, Hal Kemp and Tal Henry often performed in or near New York City, making possible a reunion of North Carolina musicians. Later, after retirement, Kyser and Henry got together to share music world memories.
Movies
During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Kyser’s band appeared in several motion pictures, usually as themselves, beginning with the successful ''That’s Right You’re Wrong'' (1939) and ''You'll Find Out'' (1940). Some of the films built a plot around the band. ''Around the World'' (1943) fictionalized the band's international tours of military camps. In ''Carolina Blues'' (1944), Kyser has to replace his lead singer (Carroll) who has run off to get married. Caught in a jam, he reluctantly hires the daughter of a powerful defense plant owner, played by Ann Miller. Two of the band’s best-known performance appearances were in 1943 when they appeared in the wartime films ''Stage Door Canteen'' and ''Thousands Cheer'', both of which were produced to boost the morale of troops and their families.Kyser also appeared as a light comedian; he acted with (and was billed above) John Barrymore in John Barrymore's final film ''Playmates'' (1941). Kyser is the dupe in a scam where Barrymore pretends to teach him how to act in Shakespearean drama. Kyser’s personal performing style was enthusiastic and comical. Unlike most bandleaders of the time, Kyser danced and sang with his band, as illustrated during the group’s performance of “I Dug a Ditch” in ''Thousands Cheer'' and other film appearances.
After the war, Kyser’s band continued to record hit records, including two featuring Jane Russell as vocalist. ''It’s All Up to You'' features vocals by Frank Sinatra and Dinah Shore, although Kyser's participation in this recording is disputed, record label showing Axel Stordahl as conductor. Kyser had intended to retire following the end of the war, but performance and recording contracts kept him in show business for another half decade. During this time, Kyser made a cameo appearance in a ''Batman'' comic book.
Television
In 1949 and 1950, ''Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge'' aired on NBC-TV. In addition to Kyser, the TV show featured Ish Kabibble and vocalists Mike Douglas, Sue Bennett and Liza Palmer, plus The Honeydreamers vocal group and the dance team of Diane Sinclair and Ken Spaulding. Ben Grauer was the announcer during the first season. Always the businessman, Kyser reunited his band especially for this series and just as quickly disbanded it when the show ended.After a four-year hiatus, the ''Kollege of Musical Knowledge'' was revived by Tennessee Ernie Ford, prior to the launching of his own NBC program, ''The Ford Show'' from 1956-1961.
Later life
Kyser converted to the Church of Christ, Scientist sometime between 1944 and 1946, despite the fact his mother had been the first female pharmacist in his home county. Nevertheless, he had become interested in Christian Science when conventional medicine did not relieve his problems with arthritis. It was this arthritis which is often cited as one of the reasons Kyser retired from performing in 1950. In the early 1960s, several members of the Kay Kyser team (including Kabibble and Simms but not Kyser) reunited to record an album of new versions of Kyser’s greatest hits.In the 1970s, Kay ran the film and television department of the Christian Science Church in Boston. He became an important lecturer for the faith and was also a Christian Science Practitioner. This service to the denomination led to his being given the honorary title of “President of the Worldwide Church of CS” in 1983. He insisted though that it was honorary, joking “I haven’t been elected Pope or anything...”
Kyser and Georgia Carroll remained married until his death. They had three children. He died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is custodian of a large archive of documents and material about Kyser which was donated by his widow; this archive became available to the public April 8, 2008.
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| Name | David Niven |
|---|---|
| Birth name | James David Graham Niven |
| Birth date | March 01, 1910 |
| Birth place | London, UK |
| Death date | July 29, 1983 |
| Death place | Château-d'Oex, Switzerland |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1932–83 |
| Spouse | Primula Rollo (1940–1946) (her death)Hjordis Paulina Tersmeden (1948–1983) (his death) }} |
Early life
David Niven was born in London, England. He was the son of William Edward Graham Niven (1878–1915) and Henriette Julia Degacher. He was named David for his birth on Saint David's Day. Niven often claimed that he was born in Kirriemuir, in the county of Angus in 1909, but his birth certificate showed this was not true.Henriette was of French and British ancestry. She was born in Wales, the daughter of army officer William Degacher (1841–1879) by his marriage to Julia Caroline Smith, the daughter of Lieutenant General James Webber Smith. Niven's grandfather William Degacher was killed in action at the Battle of Isandlwana (1879), during the Zulu War. Born William Hitchcock, he and his brother Henry had followed the lead of their father, Walter Henry Hitchcock, in assuming their mother's maiden name of Degacher in 1874.
William Niven, David Niven's father, was of Scottish descent; his paternal grandfather, David Graham Niven, (1811–1884) was from St. Martins, a village in Perthshire. William served in the Berkshire Yeomanry in the First World War and was killed during the Gallipoli Campaign on 21 August 1915. He was buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Turkey in the Special Memorial Section in Plot F. 10.
David's mother Henrietta then married Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt. Graham Lord, in ''NIV: The Authorized Biography of David Niven'', suggested that Comyn-Platt and Mrs. Niven had been having an affair for some time before her husband's death, and that Sir Thomas may well have been David Niven's biological father, a supposition which has some support from her children. A reviewer of Lord's book stated that Lord's photographic evidence showing a strong physical resemblance between Niven and Comyn-Platt "would appear to confirm these theories, though photographs can often be misleading."
David Niven had three older siblings: Margaret Joyce ("Joyce"; born in Geneva, Switzerland 5 January 1900 – 18 November 1981) Henry Degacher ("Max"; born in Buckland, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) 29 June 1902 – March 1953) Grizel Rosemary Graham (born in Belgravia, Middlesex (now Greater London) 28 November 1906 – 28 January 2007).
The family's country home at Buckland, Carswell Manor, was sold shortly after David's birth.
Education and army service
English public schools at the time of Niven's boyhood were marked for their heavy-handed discipline. Niven himself suffered many instances of corporal punishment owing to his inclination for pranks, which finally led to his expulsion from Heatherdown at the age of 10 and a half. This ended his chances for Eton, a significant blow to his family. He was sent to reform school, where the brutality reached even greater proportions, Niven later recounted. After failing to pass the naval entrance exam due to his difficulty with maths, Niven attended Stowe, a newly created public school led by headmaster J.F. Roxburgh. Roxburgh was unlike any headmaster Niven had experienced. Thoughtful and kind, he addressed the boys by their first name, allowed them bicycles and encouraged and nurtured their personal interests. Niven later wrote, "How he did this, I shall never know, but he made every single boy at that school feel that what he said and what he did were of real importance to the headmaster". He then attended the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, and graduated in 1930 with a commission as a second lieutenant in the regular Army. He did well at Sandhurst, which gave him the "officer and gentleman" bearing that was to be his trademark.Niven requested assignment to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders or the Black Watch; then jokingly wrote on the form, as his third choice, "anything but the Highland Light Infantry" (because the HLI wore tartan trews rather than kilts). He was assigned to the HLI, and his comment was known in the regiment. Thus Niven did not enjoy his time in the Army. He served with the HLI for two years in Malta, and then for a few months in Dover. In Malta, he became friends with Roy Urquhart, future commander of the British 1st Airborne Division.
Niven grew tired of the peacetime Army. Though promoted to lieutenant on January 1, 1933, he saw no opportunity for further advancement. His ultimate decision to resign came after a lengthy lecture on machine guns, which was interfering with his plans for dinner with a particularly attractive young lady. At the end of the lecture, the speaker (a major general) asked if there were any questions. Showing the typical rebelliousness of his early years, Niven asked, "Could you tell me the time, sir? I have to catch a train."
After being placed under close arrest for this act of insubordination, Niven finished a bottle of whisky with the officer who was guarding him—Rhoddy Rose (later Colonel R. L. C. Rose, DSO, MC). With his connivance, Niven was allowed to escape from a first-floor window. He then headed for America. While crossing the Atlantic, Niven resigned his commission by telegram on September 6, 1933. Niven relocated to New York, where he began an unsuccessful career in whisky sales and horse rodeo promotion in Atlantic City. After subsequent detours to Bermuda and Cuba, he finally arrived in Hollywood in the summer of 1934.
Early film career
When Niven presented himself at the doors of Central Casting, he found out that he had to have a work permit, to allow him to reside and work in the U.S.This meant that Niven had to leave U.S. soil, and he left for Mexico, where he worked as a "gun-man", cleaning and polishing the rifles of visiting American hunters. He received his Resident Alien Visa from the American Consulate when his birth certificate arrived from England. He then returned to the U.S. and was accepted by Central Casting as "Anglo-Saxon Type No. 2008".
His first work as an extra was as a Mexican in a Western. This inauspicious start notwithstanding, he then found himself an agent: Bill Hawks. He had several bit parts in 1933, 1934, and 1935, including a non-speaking part in MGM's ''Mutiny on the Bounty'', which brought him to wider attention within the film industry.
Niven thus came to the attention of independent film producer Samuel Goldwyn, who signed him to a contract and established his career. Niven appeared in 19 movies in the next four years. He had supporting roles in several major films: ''Rose-Marie'' (1936), ''Dodsworth'' (1936), ''The Charge of the Light Brigade'' (1936), ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' (1937); and leading roles in ''The Dawn Patrol'' (1938), ''Three Blind Mice'' (1938), and ''Wuthering Heights'' (1939), playing opposite such famous stars as Errol Flynn, Loretta Young, and Laurence Olivier. In 1939 he co-starred with Ginger Rogers in the RKO comedy ''Bachelor Mother'', and starred as the eponymous gentleman safe-cracker in ''Raffles''.
Niven joined what became known as the Hollywood Raj, a group of British actors in Hollywood. Other members of the group included Rex Harrison, Errol Flynn, Boris Karloff, Stan Laurel, Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman and Leslie Howard and C. Aubrey Smith. According to his autobiography, he and Errol Flynn shared a house, which they dubbed "Cirrhosis-by-the-Sea" although in fact the co-habitee was Robert Newton, a less well-known actor and thus perhaps less suitable for inclusion in Niven's dinner table anecdotes.
World War II service
After the United Kingdom declared war in 1939, Niven returned to Britain and rejoined the Army. He was alone among British stars in Hollywood in doing so; the British Embassy advised most British actors to stay, many were over the age for military service and did not have Niven's military education and experience. Niven was re-commissioned as a lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade on 25 February 1940, and was assigned to a motor training battalion. But he wanted something more exciting, and transferred into the Commandos. He was assigned to a training base at Inverailort House in the Western Highlands. Niven later claimed credit for bringing future Major General Sir Robert Laycock to the Commandos.David Niven commanded 'A' Squadron GHQ Liaison Regiment, better known as Phantom.
Niven also worked with the Army Film Unit. He acted in two films during the war, ''The First of the Few'' (1942) and ''The Way Ahead'' (1944). Both films were made to win support for the British war effort, especially in the U.S. His Film Unit work included a small part in the deception operation that used minor actor M. E. Clifton James to impersonate Field Marshal Montgomery.
During his work with the Film Unit, Peter Ustinov, though one of the script-writers, had to pose as Niven's batman. (Ustinov also acted in ''The Way Ahead''.) Niven in his autobiography explained that there was no military way that he, as a lieutenant-colonel, and Ustinov, who was only a private, could associate, save as an officer and his servant, hence their strange "act". Ustinov later appeared with Niven in ''Death on the Nile'' (1978).
Niven took part in the Invasion of Normandy, arriving several days after D-Day. He served in the "Phantom Signals Unit", which located and reported enemy positions, and kept rear commanders up to date on changing battle lines. Niven was posted at one time to Chilham in Kent.
Niven remained close-mouthed about the war, despite public interest in celebrities in combat and a reputation for storytelling. He said once: "I will, however, tell you just one thing about the war, my first story and my last. I was asked by some American friends to search out the grave of their son near Bastogne. I found it where they told me I would, but it was among 27,000 others, and I told myself that here, Niven, were 27,000 reasons why you should keep your mouth shut after the war." Niven also had special scorn for the newspaper columnists covering the war who typed out self-glorifying and excessively florid prose about their meagre wartime experiences. Niven stated, "Anyone who says a bullet sings past, hums past, flies, pings, or whines past, has never heard one—they go ''crack''!"
He gave a few details of his war experience in his autobiography, ''The Moon's a Balloon'': his private conversations with Winston Churchill, the bombing of London, and what it was like entering Germany with the occupation forces. Niven first met Churchill at a dinner party in February 1940. Churchill singled him out from the crowd and stated, "Young man, you did a fine thing to give up your film career to fight for your country. Mark you, had you not done so − it would have been despicable."
A few stories have surfaced. About to lead his men into action, Niven eased their nervousness by telling them, "Look, you chaps only have to do this once. But I'll have to do it all over again in Hollywood with Errol Flynn!" Asked by suspicious American sentries during the Battle of the Bulge who had won the World Series in 1943, he answered "Haven't the foggiest idea . . . But I did co-star with Ginger Rogers in ''Bachelor Mother''!"
Niven ended the war as a lieutenant-colonel. On his return to Hollywood after the war, he received the Legion of Merit, an American military order. Presented by Eisenhower himself, it honoured Niven's work in setting up the BBC Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme, a radio news and entertainment station for the Allied forces.
Post-war acting career
In spite of a six-year absence from the screen, Niven came second in the 1945 Popularity Poll of British film stars.He resumed his career in 1946, now only in starring roles. ''A Matter of Life and Death'' (1946), ''The Bishop's Wife'' (1947), and ''Enchantment'' (1948) are all highly regarded. In 1950 he starred in ''The Elusive Pimpernel'', which was made in Britain and was to be distributed by Samuel Goldwyn. Goldwyn pulled out, and the film did not appear in the U.S. for three years.
Niven had a long and complex relationship with Goldwyn, who gave him his first start. But the dispute over ''The Elusive Pimpernel'' and Niven's demands for more money led to a long estrangement in the 1950s.
During this period Niven was largely barred from the Hollywood studios. In 1951 to 1956, he made 11 movies, of which two were MGM productions, and the rest were low-budget British or independent productions. However, Niven won a Golden Globe Award for his work in ''The Moon Is Blue'' (1953), produced and directed by Otto Preminger.
In 1955 renowned British photographer Cornel Lucas photographed David Niven while filming at the Rank Film Studio in Denham. These images can be seen at The Cornel Lucas Collection. A limited edition of British postage stamps was produced using one of Cornel Lucas' images taken during this portrait sitting.
Niven also worked in television. Niven appeared several times on various short-drama shows, and was one of the "four stars" of the dramatic anthology series ''Four Star Playhouse'', appearing in 33 episodes. The show was produced by Four Star Television, which was co-owned by Niven, Robert Montgomery, and Charles Boyer. The show ended in 1955, but Four Star TV became a highly successful TV production company.
Niven's film career took off in 1956, when he starred as Phileas Fogg in Michael Todd's immensely successful production of ''Around the World in 80 Days''.
He appeared in 13 more TV episodes. Niven won the 1958 Academy Award for Best Actor for ''Separate Tables''; he was also a co-host of the 30th, 31st and 46th Academy Awards ceremonies.
After Niven won the Academy Award, Goldwyn called with an invitation to his home. In Goldwyn's drawing room, Niven noticed a picture of himself in uniform that he had sent to Goldwyn from England during World War II. In happier times with Goldwyn, he had observed this same picture sitting on Goldwyn's piano. Now years later, the picture was still in exactly the same spot. As he was looking at the picture, Goldwyn's wife Frances said "Sam never took it down."
With an Academy Award to his credit, Niven's career continued to improve. In 1959, he became the host of his own TV drama series, ''The David Niven Show'', which ran for 13 episodes that summer.
Over the rest of his career, Niven appeared in over thirty additional movies. These included ''The Guns of Navarone'' (1961), and ''The Pink Panther'' (1963), ''Murder by Death'' (1976), ''Death on the Nile'' (1978), and ''The Sea Wolves'' (1980), but also a lot of less memorable films.
In 1964, he was cast (along with Boyer) in the Four Star series ''The Rogues''. Niven played Alexander 'Alec' Fleming, one of a family of retired con artists who now fleece villains in the interests of justice. This was his only recurring role on television. ''The Rogues'' ran for only one season, but won a Golden Globe award.
In 1967, he appeared as one of seven incarnations of 007 in the James Bond spoof ''Casino Royale''. In fact, Niven had been Bond creator Ian Fleming's first choice to play Bond in ''Dr. No''. ''Casino Royale'' co-producer Charles K. Feldman said later that Fleming had written the book with Niven in mind, and therefore had sent a copy to Niven.
Niven was the only James Bond actor mentioned by name in the text of Fleming's novels. In ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'', Bond visits an exclusive ski resort in Switzerland where he is told that David Niven is a frequent visitor and in ''You Only Live Twice'', David Niven is referred to as the only real gentleman in Hollywood. In the Ian Fleming novel ''You Only Live Twice'', Kissy Suzuki has a cormorant whom she has named David after Niven.
While Niven was co-hosting the 46th Annual Oscars ceremony, a naked man appeared behind him, "streaking" across the stage. Niven responded "Isn't it fascinating to think, that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life, is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?"
In 1974, he hosted ''David Niven's World'' for London Weekend Television. This was a series of profiles of contemporary adventurers such as hang gliders, motorcyclists, and mountain climbers. It ran for 21 episodes.
In 1975, he narrated ''The Remarkable Rocket'', a short animation based on a story by Oscar Wilde.
In 1979, he appeared in ''Escape to Athena'', which was produced by his son David Jr.
Also in 1979, Niven starred in the television miniseries ''A Man Called INTREPID'', based on the supposed memoir of Sir William Stephenson, a Canadian master spy for British intelligence. (In fact the book was mostly invented by co-author William Stevenson (no relation), Sir William then being very old.)
In July 1982, Blake Edwards brought Niven back for cameo appearances in two final "Pink Panther" movies (''Trail of the Pink Panther'' and ''Curse of the Pink Panther''), reprising his role as Sir Charles Litton. By this time, Niven was having serious health problems. When the raw footage was reviewed, his voice was inaudible, and his lines had to be dubbed by Rich Little. Niven was not told of this—he learned it from a newspaper report. This was his last film appearance.
Writing
Niven wrote four books. The first, ''Round the Rugged Rocks'', was a novel which appeared in 1951 and was forgotten almost at once. In 1971, he published his autobiography, ''The Moon's a Balloon'', which was well-received, selling over five million copies. He followed this with ''Bring On the Empty Horses'' in 1975, a collection of highly entertaining reminiscences from Hollywood's "Golden Age" in the 1940s. It now appears that Niven recounted many incidents from a first person perspective which actually happened to other people, and which he borrowed and embroidered. In 1981, Niven published a second and much more successful novel, ''Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly'', which was set during and after World War II, and drew on his experiences during the war and in Hollywood. He was working on a third novel when his health failed in 1983.
Marriages
After a whirlwind two-week romance in 1940, Niven married Primula Susan Rollo (18 February 1918, London – 21 May 1946, Beverly Hills, California), the aristocratic daughter of a British lawyer. The couple had two sons, David Jr. and Jamie. Primula, whom he called Primmie, died at age 28, only six weeks after moving to the U.S., of a fractured skull and brain lacerations from an accidental fall in the home of Tyrone Power. While playing sardines, she walked through a door believing it led to a closet. Instead, it led to a stone staircase to the basement.Niven recalled this as the darkest period of his life, years afterwards thanking his friends for their patience and forbearance during this time. He later claimed to have been so grief-stricken that he thought for a while that he had gone mad. Following a suicide attempt involving a handgun that failed to go off, he eventually rallied and returned to film making.
In 1948, Niven met Hjördis Paulina Tersmeden (née Genberg, 1919–1997), a divorced Swedish fashion model. The moment of his meeting her was recounted by Niven:
I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life—tall, slim, auburn hair, uptilted nose, lovely mouth and the most enormous grey eyes I had ever seen. It really happened the way it does when written by the worst lady novelists...I goggled. I had difficulty swallowing and had champagne in my knees.
They married six weeks later. Unfortunately, Niven's second marriage was as tumultuous as his first marriage was content.
In an unsuccessful effort to bring harmony to the marriage, they adopted two girls, Kristina and Fiona. Kristina later told biographer Graham Lord that she was convinced that she was Niven's secret child by another fashion model, Mona Gunnarson.
All four of Niven's children, as well as many of his friends, told Lord that Hjördis, unable to achieve an acting career, had affairs with other men and became an alcoholic.
In October 1951, while pheasant shooting with friends in New England, Hjördis was shot in the face, neck and chest by two of Niven's companions. Local doctors wished to operate immediately to remove the bird shot. However, another doctor advised Niven to allow the swelling of the face to go down. In this way his wife avoided disfigurement.
While convalescing in the Blackstone Hotel in New York, Niven and Hjördis were next door neighbours with Audrey Hepburn, who made her debut on Broadway that season. In 1960, while filming ''Please Don't Eat the Daisies'' with Doris Day, Niven and Hjördis separated for a few weeks, though they later reconciled.
Hjördis recovered from her alcoholism after Niven's death in 1983, but returned to it before her own death of a stroke in 1997. She was 78. Niven's friend Billie More noted: "This is not kind, but when Hjördis died I can't think of a single soul who was sorry". Kristina and Fiona told Graham Lord that Hjördis added insult to injury by forbidding them to bury her alongside her husband in the place left for her in his double grave in Switzerland.
Lord wrote that "the biggest wreath, worthy of a Mafia Godfather's funeral, was delivered from the porters at London's Heathrow Airport, along with a card that read: 'To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls. He made a porter feel like a king.'"
Niven died on the same day as Raymond Massey, his co-star in ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' and ''A Matter of Life and Death''.
A thanksgiving service was held at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on 27 October 1983. The congregation of 1200 included Prince Michael of Kent, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, Sir John Mills, Sir Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, Sir David Frost, Joanna Lumley, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Sir Laurence Olivier.
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Quotations
By Niven:"It really is amazing. Can you imagine being wonderfully overpaid for dressing up and playing games? It's like being Peter Pan."
"I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller — my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that's going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen's lavatory."
When asked why he seemed so incredibly cheerful all the time: "Well, old bean, life is really so bloody awful that I feel it’s my absolute duty to be chirpy and try and make everybody else happy too."
Deadpanning after a streaker ran across stage during an Academy Award telecast: "Well, ladies and gentlemen, that was almost bound to happen. But isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?"
About Niven:
"David's life was Wodehouse with tears." John Mortimer speaking at Niven's memorial service, quoted by Niven biographer Graham Lord.
Filmography
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