• Abu Abbas
  http://wn.com/Abu_Abbas
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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.
  http://wn.com/Adolf_Hitler
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  Agnieszka Holland
  Agnieszka Holland (born November 28, 1948) is a Polish film and TV director and screenwriter. Best recognized for her highly political contributions to Polish cinema, Holland is one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers.
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  Akira Mutō
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
  http://wn.com/Akira_Mutō
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  Al Gore
  Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election.
  http://wn.com/Al_Gore
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  Alec Guinness
  Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. His most prominent role in his later career was as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy.
  http://wn.com/Alec_Guinness
• Alexander du Toit
  Alexander Logie du Toit ( doo ; 14 March 1878 – 25 February 1948) was a geologist from South Africa, and an early supporter of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift.
  http://wn.com/Alexander_du_Toit
• Alfred Sant
  Alfred Sant (born February 28, 1948) is a Maltese politician. He is a Rhodes scholar and led the Labour Party from 1992 to 2008 and served as Prime Minister of Malta between 1996 and 1998 and as Leader of the Opposition from 1992 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2008.
  http://wn.com/Alfred_Sant
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  Alger Hiss
  Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American lawyer, civil servant, businessman, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and UN official. Hiss was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.
  http://wn.com/Alger_Hiss
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  Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors and baby dolls, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock.
  http://wn.com/Alice_Cooper
• Amadou Toumani Toure
  http://wn.com/Amadou_Toumani_Toure
• Amrit Kumar Bohara
  Amrit Kumar Bohara (), born April 27, 1948, is a leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN(UML)). He is a member of the Standing Committee of the party and was its acting General Secretary.
  http://wn.com/Amrit_Kumar_Bohara
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  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer of musical theatre. He started composing at the age of six, and published his first piece at the age of nine.
  http://wn.com/Andrew_Lloyd_Webber
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  Andrzej Sapkowski
  Andrzej Sapkowski, born 21 June 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy writer. Sapkowski studied economics, and before turning to writing, he had worked as a senior sales representative for a foreign trade company. His first short story, The Witcher (Wiedźmin), was published in Fantastyka, Poland's leading fantasy literary magazine, in 1986 and was enormously successful both with readers and critics. Sapkowski has created a cycle of tales based on the world of The Witcher, comprising three collections of short stories and five novels. This cycle and his many other works have made him one of the best-known fantasy authors in Poland in the 1990s.
  http://wn.com/Andrzej_Sapkowski
• Anna Maria Horsford
  Anna Maria Horsford (born March 6, 1947) is an American television and film actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Thelma Frye on the sitcom Amen, her role as Craig Jones' mother, Betty Jones, in the 1995 comedy, Friday and the 2002 comedy Friday After Next and as security guard Dee on The Wayans Bros.
  http://wn.com/Anna_Maria_Horsford
• Anna Stuart
  Anna Stuart (born November 1, 1948 in Bluefield, West Virginia) is an American actress. Stuart has been primarily featured in roles in daytime soap operas.
  http://wn.com/Anna_Stuart
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  Antonin Artaud
  Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896, in Marseille – March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine "little Anthony", and was among a list of names which Artaud used throughout his writing career.
  http://wn.com/Antonin_Artaud
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  Arshile Gorky
  Arshile Gorky (, born Vostanik Manoog Adoyan; ), (April 15, 1904? – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-born American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism.
  http://wn.com/Arshile_Gorky
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  Arturo Toscanini
  Arturo Toscanini (; March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th century and 20th century, he was renowned for his brilliant intensity, his restless perfectionism, his phenomenal ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory. As music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra he became a household name through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire. He is widely considered to have been one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century.
  http://wn.com/Arturo_Toscanini
• Baba Sawan Singh
  Baba Sawan Singh (1858–1948), also known as "The Great Master," was an Indian Saint. He was the second Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB) from the death of Baba Jaimal Singh in 1903 until his death on April 2, 1948. Sardar Bahadur Jagat Singh succeeded him as the third Radha Soami Satsang Beas, (RSSB) Satguru.
  http://wn.com/Baba_Sawan_Singh
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  Babe Ruth
  George Herman Ruth, Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948), best known as "Babe" Ruth and nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914–1935. Ruth originally broke into the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox as a starting pitcher, but after he was sold to the New York Yankees in 1919, he converted to a full-time right fielder and subsequently became one of the league's most prolific hitters. Ruth was a mainstay in the Yankees' lineup that won seven pennants and four World Series titles during his tenure with the team. After a short stint with the Boston Braves in 1935, Ruth retired. In 1936, Ruth became one of the first five players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
  http://wn.com/Babe_Ruth
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  Barbara Hendricks
  Barbara Hendricks (born 20 November 1948) is an American-born operatic soprano and concert singer. Hendricks has lived since 1977 in Europe and is a citizen of Sweden.
  http://wn.com/Barbara_Hendricks
• Barbara Hershey
  Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein; February 5, 1948), also known as Barbara Seagull, is an American actress. In a career spanning nearly 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema, in several genres including westerns and comedies. Although she began acting at age 17 in 1965, Hershey did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time the Chicago Tribune referred to her as "one of America's finest actresses."
  http://wn.com/Barbara_Hershey
• Barbara Mandrell
  Barbara Ann Mandrell (born December 25, 1948) is an American country music singer best-known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s. She is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
  http://wn.com/Barbara_Mandrell
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  Benjamin Harrison
  Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the 23rd President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there. During the American Civil War, he served as a Brigadier General in the XX Corps of the Army of the Cumberland. After the war he unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of Indiana, and was later appointed to the U.S. Senate from that state.
  http://wn.com/Benjamin_Harrison
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  Bernadette Peters
  Bernadette Peters (born Bernadette Lazzara on February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer and children's book author from New York City. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings. She is one of the most critically-acclaimed Broadway performers, having received nominations for seven Tony Awards, winning two, and eight Drama Desk Awards, winning three. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards.
  http://wn.com/Bernadette_Peters
• Bevil Rudd
  '''Bevil Gordon D'Urban Rudd''' (October 5, 1894 – February 2, 1948) was a South African athlete, the 1920 Olympic Champion in the 400 m.
  http://wn.com/Bevil_Rudd
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  Bill Cody (actor)
  Bill Cody, born William Joseph Cody Jr., (January 5, 1891 – January 24, 1948) was a Hollywood B-western actor of the 1920s, 1930s and into the 1940s, and father to Bill Cody, Jr..
  http://wn.com/Bill_Cody_(actor)
• Bill France Sr.
  http://wn.com/Bill_France_Sr
• Bill Ward (musician)
  William Thomas "Bill" Ward (born 5 May 1948, Aston, Birmingham, England), is an English musician, best known as the original drummer for the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath.
  http://wn.com/Bill_Ward_(musician)
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  Billy Crystal
  William Edward "Billy" Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the critical and box office successes When Harry Met Sally... and City Slickers. Additionally, he has hosted the Academy Awards eight times.
  http://wn.com/Billy_Crystal
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  Bob Barr
  Robert Laurence "Bob" Barr, Jr. (born November 5, 1948) is a former federal prosecutor
  http://wn.com/Bob_Barr
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  Bob Champion
  Robert "Bob" Champion MBE (born 4 June 1948) is an English jump jockey who won the 1981 Grand National on Aldaniti. Champion was diagnosed with testicular cancer in July 1979. He was treated with an orchidectomy and with the chemotherapeutic drugs bleomycin, vinblastine and cisplatin, and also had an exploratory operation to identify cancer in his lymph nodes. His victory on Aldaniti was viewed by many as a great triumph, following his previous adversity. Their victory earned them that year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year Team Award and was chosen as one of the 100 Greatest Sporting Moments by Channel 4 viewers in 2002.
  http://wn.com/Bob_Champion
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  Bob Rae
  Robert Keith "Bob" Rae, PC, OC, OOnt, QC, MP (born August 2, 1948) is a Canadian politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre and sits in the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal opposition's foreign affairs critic.
  http://wn.com/Bob_Rae
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  Bob Woolmer
  Robert Andrew Woolmer (14 May 1948 – 18 March 2007) was an international cricketer, professional cricket coach and also a professional commentator. He played in 19 Test matches and 6 One Day Internationals for England and later coached South Africa, Warwickshire and Pakistan.
  http://wn.com/Bob_Woolmer
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  Bobby Orr
  Robert Gordon Orr, OC (born March 20, 1948) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player. A defenceman, he is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest hockey players of all time. He played junior hockey with the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League, and spent most of his National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Boston Bruins before joining the Chicago Blackhawks for his final two seasons.
  http://wn.com/Bobby_Orr
• Bonnie Bedelia
  Bonnie Bedelia Culkin (born March 25, 1948) is an American actress who appeared in supporting roles in the action films Die Hard and Presumed Innocent.
  http://wn.com/Bonnie_Bedelia
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  Bryant Gumbel
  Bryant Charles Gumbel (born September 29, 1948) is an American television journalist and sportscaster. He is best known for his 15 years as co-host of NBC's The Today Show. He is the younger brother of sportscaster Greg Gumbel.
  http://wn.com/Bryant_Gumbel
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  Bud Cort
  Bud Cort (born March 29, 1948) is an American film and stage actor, writer, and director. He is best known for his portrayals of Harold in Hal Ashby's 1971 film Harold and Maude and the titular "hero" in Robert Altman's 1970 film Brewster McCloud. Both films have large cult followings today.
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  Buddhism
  Buddhism (Pali/Sanskrit: बौद्ध धर्म Buddha Dharma) is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha (Pāli/Sanskrit "the awakened one"). The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE. He is recognized by adherents as an awakened teacher who shared his insights to help sentient beings end suffering (or dukkha), achieve nirvana, and escape what is seen as a cycle of suffering and rebirth.
  http://wn.com/Buddhism
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  C. Aubrey Smith
  Sir Charles Aubrey Smith, CBE, known to movie-goers as C. Aubrey Smith, (21 July 186320 December 1948) was an English cricketer and actor. He was knighted in 1944 for services to the theatre.
  http://wn.com/C_Aubrey_Smith
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  Calvin Murphy
  Calvin Murphy (born May 9, 1948, in Norwalk, Connecticut) is a retired American professional basketball player who played as a guard for the NBA's Houston Rockets from 1970-1983. He is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame and a former member of the Rockets' broadcast team. He was also the host of ESPN Radio's The Calvin Murphy Show.
  http://wn.com/Calvin_Murphy
• Camile Baudoin
  Camile Baudoin (born June 27, 1948) is a guitar player from New Orleans, Louisiana and a founding member of swamp rock band, The Radiators.
  http://wn.com/Camile_Baudoin
• Carl Weathers
  Carl Weathers (born January 14, 1948) is an American actor, as well as former professional football player in the United States and Canada. He is best known for playing Apollo Creed in the Rocky series of films. He also played Dillon in the first Predator movie, Chubbs Peterson in Happy Gilmore and Little Nicky, and made guest appearances in the television series Arrested Development.
  http://wn.com/Carl_Weathers
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  Carole Landis
  Carole Landis (January 1, 1919 – July 5, 1948) was an American film and stage actress whose break-through role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Million B.C.. Landis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1765 Vine Street.
  http://wn.com/Carole_Landis
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  Cat Stevens
  Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948 in London, England), originally and commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British musician. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam.
  http://wn.com/Cat_Stevens
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  Cathay Pacific
  Cathay Pacific Airways (, ) is the flag carrier of Hong Kong, with its head office and main hub located at Hong Kong International Airport, although the airline's registered office is on the 33rd floor of One Pacific Place. The airline's operations include scheduled passenger and cargo services to 114 destinations in 36 countries worldwide, including codeshares and joint ventures, with a fleet of 126 wide-body aircraft, consisting of Airbus A330s and A340s, Boeing 747s and 777s. The airline also operates fifth freedom flights from Bangkok and Taipei, its major focus cities. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, Dragonair, operates to 29 destinations in the Asia-Pacific region from its Hong Kong base. In 2009, Cathay Pacific and Dragonair operated 56,000 flights, carrying nearly 25 million passengers and over 1.52 billion kg of cargo and mail.
  http://wn.com/Cathay_Pacific
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  Chaim Weizmann
  Chaim Azriel Weizmann, , (27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Zionist leader, President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann was also a chemist who developed the ABE-process, which produces acetone through bacterial fermentation. He founded the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
  http://wn.com/Chaim_Weizmann
• Chano Pozo
  Chano Pozo (January 7, 1915 – December 2, 1948) was a percussionist, singer, dancer and composer who played a major role in the founding of Latin jazz.
  http://wn.com/Chano_Pozo
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  Charles Dickens
  Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the most popular British novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.
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  Charles Evans Hughes
  Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was a lawyer and Republican politician from the State of New York. He served as the 36th Governor of New York (1907-1910), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1910-1916), United States Secretary of State (1921-1925), and Chief Justice of the United States (1930-1941). He was the Republican candidate in the 1916 U.S. Presidential election, losing to Woodrow Wilson.
  http://wn.com/Charles_Evans_Hughes
• Charles G. Taylor
  http://wn.com/Charles_G_Taylor
• Chester Thompson
  Chester Cortez Thompson (born December 11, 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American drummer and session musician.
  http://wn.com/Chester_Thompson
• Chris de Burgh
  Chris de Burgh (born Christopher John Davison, 15 October 1948, Venado Tuerto, Santa Fe Province, Argentina) is an Irish/British singer-songwriter. He is most famous for his 1986 love song "The Lady in Red".
  http://wn.com/Chris_de_Burgh
• Chris LeDoux
  Chris Lee LeDoux (October 2, 1948–March 9, 2005) was an American country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor and rodeo champion.
  http://wn.com/Chris_LeDoux
• Chris Rush
  Chris Rush (born February 11, 1948) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, radio personality and author. He is best known for his stand-up routines and albums along with being a writer and editor on the satirical publication National Lampoon Magazine.
  http://wn.com/Chris_Rush
• Chris Squire
  Christopher Russell Edward "Chris" Squire (born 4 March 1948), is an English musician, known as the bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the progressive rock group Yes. He is the only member of the group to appear on every album.
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  Christopher Guest
  Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born February 5, 1948), better known as Christopher Guest, is an American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor and comedian. He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in several improvisational "mockumentary" films that feature a repertory-like ensemble cast. In the United Kingdom, he holds a Baronial peerage, and has publicly expressed a desire to see the House of Lords reformed as a democratically-elected chamber. Despite initial activity in the Lords, his career there was cut short by the House of Lords Act 1999.
  http://wn.com/Christopher_Guest
• Ciarán Carson
  Ciarán Carson is an Irish poet and novelist who was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He lives in Belfast.
  http://wn.com/Ciarán_Carson
• Cynthia Clawson
  Cynthia Clawson (born October 11, 1948 in Austin, Texas) is an Grammy Award-winning American gospel singer. She has been called "The most awesome voice in gospel music" by Billboard Magazine, and has received five Dove Awards, 15 Dove Award nominations, and a Grammy for her work.
  http://wn.com/Cynthia_Clawson
• Cyril Jordan
  Cyril Jordan was born in San Francisco on 31 August 1948. He is a guitarist and founding member of San Francisco cult band The Flamin' Groovies. They are best remembered for their influential 1976 album Shake Some Action. Jordan founded the band in 1965, playing with them until they disbanded in 1992.
  http://wn.com/Cyril_Jordan
• D.D. Sheehan
  http://wn.com/DD_Sheehan
• Dallas Holm
  Dallas Holm (born November 5, 1948 in St. Paul Park, Minnesota) is a singer-songwriter of Christian music, whose musical ministry has spanned almost four decades. His influence has been greatest in contemporary Christian music. While he has had several hit singles in CCM, he is best known for the favorite inspirational song of the resurrection of Christ, "Rise Again."
  http://wn.com/Dallas_Holm
• Dan Gable
  Dan Gable (born October 25, 1948, in Waterloo, Iowa) is an American amateur wrestler. He is famous for having only lost one match in his entire Iowa State University collegiate career—his last, and winning gold at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany while not giving up a single point. He was the head coach at the University of Iowa where he won 15 NCAA team titles from 1976–1997, after which he turned over his head coaching duties to Jim Zalesky. In 2006, after the program took a downfall, Gable asked Tom Brands to become the head coach.
  http://wn.com/Dan_Gable
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  Danny Denzongpa
  Tshering Phintso Denzongpa, widely known by his acting name "Danny" Denzongpa (born 25 February 1948) is an Indian actor of Sikkimese ancestry working in Bollywood films.
  http://wn.com/Danny_Denzongpa
• Dave Cash (baseball)
  David Cash, Jr. (born June 11, 1948 in Utica, New York) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman who played in the National League for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1969-1973), Philadelphia Phillies (1974-1976), Montreal Expos (1977-1979) and San Diego Padres (1980).
  http://wn.com/Dave_Cash_(baseball)
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  Dave Cowens
  David William Cowens (born October 25, 1948, in Newport, Kentucky) is a retired American professional basketball player and NBA head coach. At 6'9", he played the center and occasionally the power forward position. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991. He was recently an assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons, and currently serves as a special assistant to Pistons President of Basketball Operations Joe Dumars.
  http://wn.com/Dave_Cowens
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  David Lean
  Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 190816 April 1991) was a British filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia,
  http://wn.com/David_Lean
• David O'List
  '''David O'List''' (born 13 December 1948, Chiswick, London) is a rock guitarist, vocalist and trumpeter.
  http://wn.com/David_O'List
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  David Ruprecht
  David Martin Ruprecht (born October 14, 1948) is an American actor/writer primarily known for his work as host of the Lifetime/PAX game show, Supermarket Sweep. He has hosted the live stage show version of The Price Is Right at casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Mississippi and Connecticut. He has also hosted Family Feud Live. He currently is one of the hosts of the Price is Right Live Stage Show at Bally's Las Vegas. He works alongside Todd Newton and they have both worked alongside announcer Randy West.
  http://wn.com/David_Ruprecht
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  Davíð Oddsson
  Davíð Oddsson (pronounced ) (born 17 January 1948) is an Icelandic politician and the longest-serving Prime Minister of Iceland, holding office from 1991 to 2004. He also served as Foreign Minister from 2004 to 2005. Previously, he was Mayor of Reykjavík from 1982 to 1991, and he chaired the board of governors of the Central Bank of Iceland from 2005 to 2009. The collapse of Iceland's banking system led to vocal demands for his resignation both by members of the Icelandic public and by Icelandic Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, which resulted in him being replaced as head of the Central Bank in 2009. In September 2009 he was hired as the editor of Morgunblaðið, one of Iceland's largest newspapers.
  http://wn.com/Davíð_Oddsson
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  Deborah Watling
  Deborah Watling (born 2 January 1948, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire) is a British actress best known for her role as Victoria Waterfield, a companion of the Second Doctor in the BBC television series Doctor Who. Beginning as a child actress, notably as the niece of Peter Brady in the 1958 series The Invisible Man, she later starred in Alice, Dennis Potter's version of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', for the BBC's The Wednesday Play strand in 1965, a small role in ''That'll Be the Day and as Norma Baker in the ITV series Danger UXB'' in 1979.
  http://wn.com/Deborah_Watling
• Dee Wallace
  http://wn.com/Dee_Wallace
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  Dennis Prager
  Dennis Prager (born August 2, 1948) is an American syndicated radio talk show host, syndicated columnist, author, and public speaker. He is noted for conservative political and social views emanating from Judeo-Christian, Jewish, and American values. He defines the latter as E Pluribus Unum, In God We Trust, and Liberty (which includes small government). He is a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He taught Jewish and Russian History at Brooklyn College, and was a Fellow at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, where he did his graduate work at the Russian Institute (now the Harriman Institute) and Middle East Institute from 1970-1972. He has lectured in 46 states and on six continents and traveled in 98 countries and the 50 U.S. states. He speaks French, Russian, and Hebrew, and has lectured in Russian in Russia and in Hebrew in Israel. An avid classical music lover, he periodically conducts orchestras in Southern California.
  http://wn.com/Dennis_Prager
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  Dennis Unkovic
  Dennis Unkovic (born March 28, 1948) is an international attorney, business advisor, and author. He is a partner with Pittsburgh-based Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP.
  http://wn.com/Dennis_Unkovic
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  Diane Ackerman
  Diane Ackerman (born October 7, 1948 in Waukegan, Illinois) is an American author, poet, and naturalist known best for her work A Natural History of the Senses. Her writing style, referring to her best-selling natural history books, can best be described as a blend of poetry, colloquial history, and easy-reading science. She has taught at various universities, including Columbia and Cornell, and her essays regularly appear in distinguished popular and literary journals.
  http://wn.com/Diane_Ackerman
• Dick Siegel
  Dick Siegel (raised in West Orange, New Jersey) is a guitarist from Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.. He won the Best New Folk Artist award at the 1991 Kerrville Folk Festival, and became a member of the Detroit Music Hall of Fame after winning multiple Detroit Music Awards. Siegel's music has featured on nationally syndicated shows such as NPR's All Things Considered and Mountain Stage.
  http://wn.com/Dick_Siegel
• Dominique Sanda
  Dominique Sanda (born 11 March 1948) is a French actress and former fashion model.
  http://wn.com/Dominique_Sanda
• Don Bradman
  http://wn.com/Don_Bradman
• Don Brewer
  Don Brewer (born September 3, 1948 in Flint, Michigan) is the drummer for American rock band Grand Funk Railroad.
  http://wn.com/Don_Brewer
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  Don Fernando
  Don Fernando (born April 12, 1948) is a director and actor of pornographic films. He has been in the pornography business since 1977 and has won the Best Supporting Actor award twice (1995 and in 2005) during the Festival de Cine Erotica-Barcelona Fernando has won the award for Best Actor at the 2006 EXPOSEX Madrid Awards Gala, and was inducted into the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame in 1997. He was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame during the 2004 AVN Awards, and in March 2005 received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Brussels during the Brussels International Festival of Eroticism.
  http://wn.com/Don_Fernando
• Donna Summer
  LaDonna Adrian Gaines (born December 31, 1948), known by her stage name, Donna Summer is an American singer who gained prominence and notoriety during the disco era of the seventies with the majority of her early work produced by the team of Giorgio Moroder and Pete Belotte.
  http://wn.com/Donna_Summer
• Eddie Jordan
  Edmund "Eddie" Jordan (born March 30, 1948) is the founder and former owner of Jordan Grand Prix, a Formula One constructor which operated from 1991 to 2005. He is currently a pundit for the F1 coverage on the BBC alongside David Coulthard.
  http://wn.com/Eddie_Jordan
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  Edith Roosevelt
  Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (August 6, 1861 – September 30, 1948) was the second wife of Theodore Roosevelt and served as First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1901 to 1909.
  http://wn.com/Edith_Roosevelt
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  Edna May
  Edna May Pettie (September 2, 1878 – January 1, 1948), known on stage as Edna May, was an American actress and singer. A popular postcard beauty, May was famous for her leading roles in Edwardian Musical Comedies.
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  Edvard Beneš
  Edvard Beneš () (28 May 1884 – 3 September 1948) was a leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the second President of Czechoslovakia. He was known to be a skilled diplomat.
  http://wn.com/Edvard_Beneš
• Edward J. Flanagan
  Father Edward Joseph Flanagan (July 13, 1886 in Ballymoe, County Roscommon, Ireland; † May 15, 1948 in Berlin) was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He was the founder of what is arguably the most famous orphanage—Boys Town. The campus is not just an orphanage, but now a center for troubled youth.
  http://wn.com/Edward_J_Flanagan
• Edward Rutherfurd
  Edward Rutherfurd is a pen name for Francis Edward Wintle (born 1948 in Salisbury, England) known primarily as a writer of epic historical novels. His debut novel Sarum set the pattern for his work with a ten-thousand year storyline.
  http://wn.com/Edward_Rutherfurd
• Edythe Chapman
  Edythe Chapman (October 8, 1863 - October 15, 1948), was an American stage and silent film actress from Rochester, New York. As early as 1898 she appeared in New York, New York in the Charity Ball. Edythe performed at the Shubert Theater in Brooklyn, New York in a production of The Light Eternal in 1907. The play was a romantic drama of early Rome which was supported by a cast of approximately 100 people.
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  Egon Erwin Kisch
  Egon Erwin Kisch (April 29, 1885, Prague – March 31, 1948, Prague) was a Czechoslovak writer and journalist, who wrote in German. He was noted for his development of literary reportage and his opposition to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.
  http://wn.com/Egon_Erwin_Kisch
• Elaine Paige
  Elaine Paige OBE (née Bickerstaff; born 5 March 1948) is an English singer and actress best known for her work in musical theatre. Raised in Barnet, North London, Paige attended the Aida Foster stage school and made her first professional appearance on stage in 1964, at the age of 16. Her appearance in the 1968 production of Hair marked her West End debut.
  http://wn.com/Elaine_Paige
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  Elisabeth Sladen
  Elisabeth Sladen (born 1 February 1948, Liverpool) is an English actress best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in the British television series Doctor Who and the current The Sarah Jane Adventures.
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  Elissa Landi
  Elissa Landi (December 6, 1904 – October 21, 1948) was an Italian born actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. Rumoured to be a descendant of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, she was noted for her aristocratic bearing.
  http://wn.com/Elissa_Landi
• Engin Arık
  Engin Arık (October 4, 1948 – November 30, 2007) was a renowned Turkish particle physicist. She was a professor and head of the Experimental High Energy Physics group at the Boğaziçi University.
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  Ernest Bevin
  Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881–14 April 1951) was a British Labour politician, best known for his time as Minister of Labour in the war-time coalition government, and as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour Government.
  http://wn.com/Ernest_Bevin
• F W de Klerk
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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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  Felicity Lott
  Dame Felicity Ann Emwhyla Lott, DBE, FRCM (b. 8 May 1947, Cheltenham) is an English soprano.
  http://wn.com/Felicity_Lott
• Flip Mark
  Flip Mark (born Philip Mark Goldberg in New York City on December 22, 1948) is an American former child actor, active primarily from 1959-1969.
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  Folke Bernadotte
  Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg; in Swedish: Greve af Wisborg (2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II, including 423 Danish Jews from Theresienstadt released on 14 April 1945. In 1945, he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected.
  http://wn.com/Folke_Bernadotte
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  Franz Lehár
  Franz Lehár (30 April 1870 24 October 1948) was a Hungarian-born composer who worked in Austria. He is mainly known for his operettas of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe).
  http://wn.com/Franz_Lehár
• Fred Grandy
  Fredrick Lawrence "Fred" Grandy (born June 29, 1948) is a former actor best known for his role as 'Gopher' on the sitcom The Love Boat and who later became a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Iowa. Grandy is currently the host of "The Grandy Group," a morning drive time radio talk show on 630 WMAL-AM in Washington, D.C..
  http://wn.com/Fred_Grandy
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  Fred Niblo
  Fred Niblo (January 6, 1874 – November 11, 1948) was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer.
  http://wn.com/Fred_Niblo
• Garnet Bailey
  Garnet Edward "Ace" Bailey (June 13, 1948 – September 11, 2001) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and scout who was a member of Stanley Cup and Memorial Cup winning teams. He died at age 53 when United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City during the September 11 attacks.
  http://wn.com/Garnet_Bailey
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  Garry Trudeau
  Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip.
  http://wn.com/Garry_Trudeau
• Gary Morris
  Gary Gwyn Morris (born December 7, 1948) is an American country music artist who charted a string of countrypolitan-styled hit songs throughout the 1980s.
  http://wn.com/Gary_Morris
• Geoffrey B. Orbell
  http://wn.com/Geoffrey_B_Orbell
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  George Gamow
  George Gamow (; August 19, 1968), born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Георгий Антонович Гамов), was a Russian-born theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, big bang nucleosynthesis, cosmic microwave background, nucleocosmogenesis and genetics.
  http://wn.com/George_Gamow
• George R.R. Martin
  http://wn.com/George_RR_Martin
• George Ryton
  George Ryton (born August 15, 1948 in Singapore) is a British engineer best known for his involvement in Formula One.
  http://wn.com/George_Ryton
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  George Wendt
  George Robert Wendt (October 17, 1948) is an American actor, best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the television show Cheers.
  http://wn.com/George_Wendt
• Georges Bernanos
  Georges Bernanos (20 February 1888 – 5 July 1948) was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. Of Roman Catholic and monarchist leanings, he was a violent adversary to bourgeois thought and to what he identified as defeatism leading to France's defeat in 1940.
  http://wn.com/Georges_Bernanos
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  Gerald Ford
  Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, when he became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he also became the only President of the United States who was elected neither President nor Vice-President.
  http://wn.com/Gerald_Ford
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  Gerard Kuiper
  Gerard Peter Kuiper (), born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper (; December 7, 1905, Tuitjenhorn (Harenkarspel), Netherlands – December 24, 1973, Mexico City) was a Dutch-American astronomer.
  http://wn.com/Gerard_Kuiper
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  Gerry Adams
  Gerard "Gerry" Adams, MLA, MP (; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican politician and abstentionist Westminster Member of Parliament for Belfast West. He is the president of Sinn Féin, one of the largest parties in Northern Ireland. From the late 1980s onwards, Adams has been an important figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, initially following contact by the then Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader John Hume and subsequently with the Irish and British governments and then other parties. In 2005, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) indicated that its armed campaign was over and that it is now exclusively committed to democratic politics. Under Adams, Sinn Féin changed its traditional policy of abstentionism towards Oireachtas Éireann, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, in 1986 and later took seats in the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly. However, Sinn Féin retains a policy of abstentionism towards the Westminster Parliament, but since 2002, receives allowances for staff and takes up offices in the House of Commons.
  http://wn.com/Gerry_Adams
• Gerry Robinson
  Sir Gerrard Jude "Gerry" Robinson (b. 23 October 1948, Dunfanaghy, County Donegal) is an Irish-born [http://gerry-robinson-news.newslib.com businessman]. He is the former (non-executive) Chairman of Allied Domecq and the ex-Chairman/Chief Executive of Granada.
  http://wn.com/Gerry_Robinson
• Glenn Frey
  :Not to be confused with Glen Frey, an American former college football coach at Rowan University.
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  Grace Jones
  Grace Jones (born May 19, 1948) is a Jamaican-American singer, model and actress.
  http://wn.com/Grace_Jones
• Great Kabuki
  Akihisa Yone Yoshi Mera (born September 8, 1948), better known as The Great Kabuki, is a Japanese professional wrestler. He was famous for being the first to blow "Asian mist" in his opponents' faces.
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• Gregg Toland
  Gregg Toland, A.S.C. (May 29, 1904 - September 26, 1948) was an American cinematographer noted for his innovative use of lighting and techniques such as deep focus, an example of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.
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  Gérard Depardieu
  Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (; born 27 December 1948) is a French actor and film-maker. He has won a number of honours including a nomination for an Academy Award for the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac and the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in Green Card. In addition to a number of American awards, Depardieu is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor.
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  Hans Köchler
  Hans Köchler (born October 18, 1948 in Schwaz, Tyrol, Austria) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and president of the International Progress Organization, a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the United Nations. In his general philosophical outlook he is influenced by Husserl and Heidegger, his legal thinking has been shaped by the approach of Kelsen. Köchler has made major contributions to phenomenology and philosophical anthropology and has developed a hermeneutics of trans-cultural understanding that has influenced the discourse on the dialogue of civilizations, particularly as regards the relations between Islam and the West. His research in political and legal philosophy—combined with his involvement with the UN—has resulted in a fundamental critique of the state-centered international system and in specific proposals for the democratization of the United Nations Organization and for a viable system of international criminal justice.
  http://wn.com/Hans_Köchler
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  Harry Brearley
  Harry Brearley (February 18, 1871 – August 12, 1948) is usually credited with the invention of "rustless steel" (later to be called "stainless steel") in the anglophone world, although Krupp filed a patent for its brand of Nirosta a few months before Brearley's breakthrough.
  http://wn.com/Harry_Brearley
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  Harry S. Truman
  Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953). As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice-president and the 34th Vice President of the United States, he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his historic fourth term.
  http://wn.com/Harry_S_Truman
• Harry Truman
  http://wn.com/Harry_Truman
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  Hartmut Michel
  Hartmut Michel is a German biochemist and Nobel Laureate.
  http://wn.com/Hartmut_Michel
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  Hasan Saka
  Hasan Saka (1885, Akçaabat – July 29, 1960) was a Turkish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister of Turkey.
  http://wn.com/Hasan_Saka
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  Heitarō Kimura
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
  http://wn.com/Heitarō_Kimura
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  Hendrik Casimir
  Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir (July 15, 1909 in The Hague, Netherlands – May 4, 2000 in Heeze) was a Dutch physicist best known for his research on the two-fluid model of superconductors (together with C. J. Gorter) in 1934 and the Casimir effect (together with D. Polder) in 1948.
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  Henning Mankell
  Henning Mankell (born 3 February 1948) is a renowned Swedish crime writer, occasional children's author and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most iconic creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.
  http://wn.com/Henning_Mankell
• Hideki Tojo
  http://wn.com/Hideki_Tojo
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  Holger Osieck
  Holger Osieck is a German football coach and current coach of the Australian national association football team. He most recently managed J.League club Urawa Red Diamonds. He served as an assistant coach of West Germany national football team when they won the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He also led Canada to the title of 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
  http://wn.com/Holger_Osieck
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  Howard Dean
  Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009.
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  Husain Salaahuddin
  Husain Salahuddin (Dhivehi: ހުސެއިން ސަލާހުއްދީން; April 14, 1881 - September 20, 1948), was an influential Maldivian writer, poet, essayist and scholar.
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  Ina Garten
  Ina Rosenberg Garten (first name ; born February 2, 1948) is an American author, host of the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa, and former White House nuclear policy analyst. Known for designing recipes with an emphasis on fresh ingredients and time-saving tips, she has been noted by Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, and Patricia Wells for her cooking and home entertaining.
  http://wn.com/Ina_Garten
• 
  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.
  http://wn.com/Italian_people
• Iwane Matsui
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and the commander of the expeditionary forces sent to China in World War II. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by hanging by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East for being responsible for the Nanking Massacre.
  http://wn.com/Iwane_Matsui
• J. Jayalalithaa
  Jayalalithaa Jayaram() or J. Jayalalitha (as commonly referred), (born 24 February 1948), is a former Chief Minister and current leader of the opposition of the Government of Tamil Nadu, India. She is the incumbent general secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), a Dravidian party in the state. She is popularly called Amma (English: Mother), Puratchi Thalaivi (English: Revolutionary Leader) by her followers. She was a popular film star in Tamil cinema and Telugu cinema before her entry into politics.
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  Jackie Martling
  John Coger "Jackie" Martling, Jr. (born February 14, 1948) is an American comedian, comedy writer and radio personality. He is best known for being a writer on The Howard Stern Show from 1983-2001.
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  Jackson Browne
  Jackson Browne (born Clyde Jackson Browne; October 9, 1948) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician who has sold in excess of 17 million albums in the United States alone.
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  Jacques Feyder
  Jacques Feyder (21 July 1885 – 24 May 1948) was a Belgian screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the USA, Britain and Germany. He was a leading director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema. He adopted French nationality in 1928.
  http://wn.com/Jacques_Feyder
• James Avery (actor)
  James L. Avery, Sr. (born November 27, 1948) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of the patriarch and attorney (later judge) Philip Banks in the TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, whom Will Smith's character affectionately called "Uncle Phil". This character was ranked #34 in TV Guide's "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time". He also provided the voice of Shredder in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television series, as well as War Machine in the animated series Spider-Man. He also played Michael Kelso's officer at the police academy late in the series run of the popular sitcom ''That '70s Show''.
  http://wn.com/James_Avery_(actor)
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  James Baskett
  James Baskett (February 16, 1904 – July 9, 1948) was an American actor known for his portrayal of Uncle Remus, singing the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" in the 1946 Disney feature film Song of the South, for which he was given an Honorary Academy Award, making him the first male performer of African descent to receive an Oscar.
  http://wn.com/James_Baskett
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  James Ellroy
  James Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime writer and essayist.
  http://wn.com/James_Ellroy
• James Kemsley
  James Lawrence Kemsley OAM (15 November 1948 – 3 December 2007) was an Australian cartoonist who drew Jimmy Bancks' original creation, Ginger Meggs.
  http://wn.com/James_Kemsley
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  James Taylor
  James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina. He owns a house in the Berkshire County town of Washington, Massachusetts. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.
  http://wn.com/James_Taylor
• Jan Hammer
  Jan Hammer () (born 17 April 1948, in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, today the Czech Republic) is a composer, pianist and keyboardist. He is probably best known for playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 70s, as well as his "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s US television program, Miami Vice.
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  Jan Smuts
  Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts OM CH ED KC FRS PC (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948. He served in the First World War and as a British field marshal in the Second World War.
  http://wn.com/Jan_Smuts
• Jatindramohan Bagchi
  Jatindramohan Bagchi (27 November 1878 in Nadia, West Bengal - 1 February 1948) was a Bengali poet.
  http://wn.com/Jatindramohan_Bagchi
• Jayne Ann Krentz
  Jayne Ann Krentz, née Jayne Castle is an American writer of romance novels. Krentz is the author of a string of New York Times bestsellers under seven different pseudonyms. Now, she only uses three names. As Jayne Ann Krentz (her married name) she writes contemporary romantic-suspense. She uses Amanda Quick for her novels of historical romantic-suspense. Jayne Castle (her birth name) is reserved these days for her stories of futuristic/paranormal romantic-suspense.
  http://wn.com/Jayne_Ann_Krentz
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  Jean Michel Jarre
  Jean-Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is regarded as a pioneer in the electronic, synthpop, ambient and New Age genres, as well as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music which feature lights, laser displays and fireworks.
  http://wn.com/Jean_Michel_Jarre
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  Jean Reno
  Jean Reno (; born July 30, 1948) is a French-Spanish actor. Working in both French and English, he has appeared not only in numerous successful Hollywood productions such as The Pink Panther, Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code, , and Ronin, but also in European productions such as the French films Les Visiteurs (1993) and Léon (1994) along with the 2005 Italian film The Tiger and the Snow.
  http://wn.com/Jean_Reno
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  Jeff Kennett
  Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC (born 2 March 1948), a former Australian politician, was the Premier of Victoria between 1992 and 1999. He is currently the President of Hawthorn Football Club. He was the founding Chairman, and now a Director, of beyondblue, a national depression initiative.
  http://wn.com/Jeff_Kennett
• Jennifer O'Neill
  '''Jennifer O'Neill''' (born February 20, 1948) is an American actress and author.
  http://wn.com/Jennifer_O'Neill
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  Jeremy Irons
  Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor. After receiving classic training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969, and had since appeared in many London theatre productions including ''The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, and Richard II''. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and received a Tony Award for Best Actor.
  http://wn.com/Jeremy_Irons
• Jesper Christensen
  Jesper Christensen (born 16 May 1948) is a Danish actor. A veteran of European cinema, he has more recently made the transition to English language projects, including The Interpreter and Revelations. He has also appeared as the mysterious villain Mr. White in the James Bond film Casino Royale and its sequel, Quantum of Solace.
  http://wn.com/Jesper_Christensen
• Jew
  http://wn.com/Jew
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  Jim Carroll
  James Dennis "Jim" Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995 film of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.
  http://wn.com/Jim_Carroll
• Jim Houghton
  James "Jim" Houghton (b. in Los Angeles, California on November 7, 1948) is an American actor and writer.
  http://wn.com/Jim_Houghton
• Jinnah
  http://wn.com/Jinnah
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  JoBeth Williams
  JoBeth Williams (born December 6, 1948) is an American television and film actress and director, and current President of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.
  http://wn.com/JoBeth_Williams
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  Joe Dallesandro
  '''Joseph Angelo D'Allesandro (born December 31, 1948), better known as Joe Dallesandro''', is an American actor, and Warhol superstar. Although he never became a mainstream film star, Dallesandro is generally considered to be the most famous male sex symbol of American underground films of the 20th century, as well as a sex symbol of gay subculture.
  http://wn.com/Joe_Dallesandro
• Joe Howard
  Joe Howard (born January 24, 1948) is an American actor known for his role as George Frankly on Square One TV's Mathnet. He is the father of actor Jeremy Howard.
  http://wn.com/Joe_Howard
• John A. Costello
  :For other persons named John Costello, see John Costello
  http://wn.com/John_A_Costello
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  John Ashton (actor)
  John David Ashton (born February 22, 1948) is an American actor born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and graduate of the University of Southern California School of Theatre.
  http://wn.com/John_Ashton_(actor)
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  John Carpenter
  John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, composer, and occasional actor. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, his name is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction.
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• John Cushnahan
  John Walls Cushnahan (born 23 July 1948) is a former politician in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland who served as leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and then as a Member of the European Parliament for Fine Gael.
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  John de Lancie
  John de Lancie (born March 20, 1948) is an American actor. He is best known for his recurring role as Q on the various Star Trek series, and as Frank Simmons in Stargate SG-1.
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  John F. Kennedy
  John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
  http://wn.com/John_F_Kennedy
• John Ford (musician)
  John Ford (born 1 July 1948, Fulham, London, England) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He relocated to the United States in mid 1980s and now resides on the North Shore of Long Island, New York.
  http://wn.com/John_Ford_(musician)
• John Ford Coley
  John Ford Coley (born October 13, 1948) is a singer, classically trained pianist, guitarist, actor, and author most well known for his partnership in the musical duo England Dan & John Ford Coley.
  http://wn.com/John_Ford_Coley
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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 Magnier
  John Magnier (born 10 February 1948) is Ireland's leading thoroughbred stud owner and has extensive business interests outside of the horse breeding industry.
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• John Martyn
  http://wn.com/John_Martyn
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  John Noble
  John Noble (born 20 August 1948) is an Australian film and television actor, and theater director of more than 80 plays. He was born in Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia.
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  John R. Bolton
  John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American lawyer and diplomat who has served in several Republican presidential administrations. He served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from August 2005 until December 2006 on a recess appointment. He resigned in December 2006 when his recess appointment would have ended
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  John Ritter
  actor
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• Johnny Nicholas
  Johnny Nicholas (born 1948) is an American blues musician. He is most noted for being a member of the Grammy Award winning group, Asleep at the Wheel.
  http://wn.com/Johnny_Nicholas
• Jonathan Dollimore
  Jonathan Dollimore (born 1948) is a British sociologist and social theorist in the fields of Renaissance literature (especially drama), gender studies, queer theory (queer studies), art, censorship, history of ideas, death studies, decadence, and cultural theory. He received his BA from Keele University and his PhD from the University of London.
  http://wn.com/Jonathan_Dollimore
• Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
  http://wn.com/Jorge_Eliécer_Gaitán
• Joseph Marcell
  Joseph Marcell (born 18 August 1948) is a Caribbean-born British actor, best known for his work as Geoffrey the English butler on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
  http://wn.com/Joseph_Marcell
• José Figueres Ferrer
  José María Hipólito Figueres Ferrer (25 September 1906 – 8 June 1990), served as President of Costa Rica on three occasions:
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  José José
  José José (born José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz on February 17, 1948) is a Mexican singer.
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  Julia Tsenova
  Julia Tsenova (also spelled Julia Tzenova, Julia Cenova, or Julia Zenova, ) ( – ), born in Sofia, Bulgaria, was an award-winning Bulgarian composer, pianist and musical pedagogue. She died of cancer at the age of 61.
  http://wn.com/Julia_Tsenova
• Kate Jackson
  Kate Jackson (born October 29, 1948) is an American actress, director, and producer. She is a four-time Emmy Award nominee, twice in the Best Actress category, once in the Best Supporting Actress category and once for a guest appearance in the TV series, "Ally McBeal" (first season episode). She has also been nominated for several Golden Globe Awards, and has won the title of Favorite Television Actress in England, and Favorite Television Star in Germany several times for her work in the television series, Scarecrow and Mrs. King.
  http://wn.com/Kate_Jackson
• Katharine Holabird
  Katharine Holabird (born January 23, 1948 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American writer, best known as the author of the Angelina Ballerina series
  http://wn.com/Katharine_Holabird
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  Kathy Bates
  Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and director.
  http://wn.com/Kathy_Bates
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  Keke Rosberg
  Keijo Erik Rosberg () (born December 6, 1948 in Solna, Stockholm County, Sweden), nicknamed "Keke", is a Finnish former racing driver and winner of the 1982 Formula One World Championship. He was the first Finnish driver to compete regularly in the series. Rosberg grew up in Oulu and Iisalmi, Finland. He is the father of current Mercedes GP driver Nico Rosberg.
  http://wn.com/Keke_Rosberg
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  Kenji Doihara
  was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II, and was instrumental in the planning of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Doihara was nicknamed 'Lawrence of Manchuria', a reference to the West's Lawrence of Arabia.
  http://wn.com/Kenji_Doihara
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  Kenny Loggins
  Kenneth Clark "Kenny" Loggins (born January 7, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter known best for "soft rock" and "adult contemporary" music beginning during the 1970s. Originally a part of the duo Loggins and Messina, he became a solo artist and has written songs for other artists.
  http://wn.com/Kenny_Loggins
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  Kim Beazley
  Kim Christian Beazley, AC (born 14 December 1948) is an Australian politician, diplomat and academic. He is currently the Australian Ambassador to the United States.
  http://wn.com/Kim_Beazley
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  Kim Il-sung
  Kim Il-sung (Korean: 김일성, Hanja: 金日成; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a Korean communist, and later Juche, politician who led North Korea from its founding in 1948 until his death. He held the posts of Prime Minister from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to his death. He was also the General Secretary of the Workers Party of Korea.
  http://wn.com/Kim_Il-sung
• Kim Sung-Il
  Kim Sung-Il () is the current Chief of Staff of Republic of Korea Air Force. He was born on August 24, 1948, and had attended the Air Force Academy and National Defence University of Korea. He served as commander of the 11th wing and the Aerospace Project Group, and later became the Director of Korea Defense Intelligence Agency. He became Chief of Staff of ROKAF on October 2005.
  http://wn.com/Kim_Sung-Il
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  King Baggot
  :This article is about the actor and director. For an article about his grandson, see: King Baggot (cinematographer).
  http://wn.com/King_Baggot
• Kwan-Ichi Asakawa
  http://wn.com/Kwan-Ichi_Asakawa
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  Laurence Olivier
  Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered British actors of the 20th century. He married Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright.
  http://wn.com/Laurence_Olivier
• Laurence Yep
  Laurence Michael Yep (; born June 14, 1948) is a prolific, award-winning Chinese American modern author.
  http://wn.com/Laurence_Yep
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  Lea Laven
  Lea Laven (born 19 June 1948, Haukipudas as Lea Luukinen) is a Finnish pop singer. Her best known songs include "Tumma nainen" (Finnish version of Cher's hit song "Dark Lady"), "Ei oo ei tuu", and "Nyt kun oot mennyt".
  http://wn.com/Lea_Laven
• Leo Mazzone
  Leo Mazzone (born October 16, 1948 in Keyser, West Virginia) is a former pitcher in minor league baseball and coach in Major League Baseball. He began working with the Atlanta Braves' organization in 1979.
  http://wn.com/Leo_Mazzone
• Leo Sayer
  Leo Sayer (born Gerard Hugh Sayer 1948) Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex is a British singer-songwriter, musician and entertainer whose singing career has spanned four decades. Sayer became a naturalised Australian citizen in 2009. Sayer was a top singles and album act on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1970s. His first seven hit singles in the UK all reached the Top 10 – a feat first registered by his one-time manager, Adam Faith. A consistently successful artist, from his first hit with "The Show Must Go On" in 1973 to the present day, Sayer has never been missing from the charts for longer than five successive years.
  http://wn.com/Leo_Sayer
• Leron Lee
  Leron Lee (born March 4, 1948 in Bakersfield, California) is a former left fielder in Major League Baseball who played 8 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians and San Diego Padres. Lee, the oldest of six children, graduated from Grant High School in Sacramento with 36 football scholarship offers from major 4-year universities. Instead, he began his major league career at 18 as the number one draft pick of the St. Louis Cardinals. He then played for the Cardinals for three seasons, the Padres for three seasons, and the Indians and Dodgers for 1.5 seasons.
  http://wn.com/Leron_Lee
• Lester Bangs
  Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs (December 13, 1948 – April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist, author and musician. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, and has been called one of the "most influential" voices in rock criticism.
  http://wn.com/Lester_Bangs
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  Levy Mwanawasa
  Levy Patrick Mwanawasa (September 3, 1948 – August 19, 2008) was the third President of Zambia. He ruled the country from January 2002 until his death in August 2008. He is credited for having initiated a campaign to rid the country of corruption. Prior to his election, Mwanawasa served as vice president from 1991 to 1994 whilst as an elected Member of Parliament for Chifubu Constituency.
  http://wn.com/Levy_Mwanawasa
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  Lewis Black
  Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is an American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, and actor. He is known for his comedy style, which often includes simulating a mental breakdown, or an increasingly angry rant, ridiculing history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena. He hosted Comedy Central's The Root of All Evil and makes regular appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart delivering his “Back in Black” commentary segment. When not on the road performing, he resides in Manhattan. He also maintains a residence in Chapel Hill, N.C. He is currently the spokesman for Aruba Tourism, appearing in television ads that aired in late 2009 and 2010. He was voted 51st of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all time by Comedy Central in 2004.
  http://wn.com/Lewis_Black
• Lilian Velez
  Lilian Velez (March 3, 1924 — June 26, 1948) was a Filipino film actress and singer. Her 1948 murder by a fellow actor scandalized post-war Philippines.
  http://wn.com/Lilian_Velez
• Lillian Board
  MedalCountry| and
  http://wn.com/Lillian_Board
• Lindy Chamberlain
  http://wn.com/Lindy_Chamberlain
• Lionel Rose
  Lionel Edward Rose, MBE (born 21 June 1948) is an Australian bantamweight boxer, now retired, who became the first Aboriginal in boxing history to win a world title.
  http://wn.com/Lionel_Rose
• Lockwood Smith
  Alexander Lockwood Smith (born 13 November 1948) is a New Zealand politician, the 28th and current Speaker of the House of Representatives. Smith is a member of the New Zealand National Party, who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1984. He represented first the Kaipara electorate and then Rodney, and has held a number of Cabinet positions, including Minister of Education, Minister of Agriculture, Minister for International Trade, and Associate Minister of Finance. On 4 July 2009, he married long-term girlfriend Alexandra Lang in the Legislative Council Chamber of Parliament.
  http://wn.com/Lockwood_Smith
• Ludwig Scotty
  Ludwig Derangadage Scotty (born June 20, 1948, in Anabar) is a two-time former President of the Republic of Nauru. He served as President from May 29, 2003 to August 8, 2003, then from June 22, 2004 to his ousting in a vote of no confidence on December 19, 2007.
  http://wn.com/Ludwig_Scotty
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  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven ( (US) or (UK); ; baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is considered to have been the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.
  http://wn.com/Ludwig_van_Beethoven
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  Luigi Einaudi
  Luigi Einaudi, Cavaliere di Gran Croce decorato di Gran Cordone OMRI (March 24, 1874 – October 30, 1961) was an Italian politician and economist. He served as the second President of the Italian Republic between 1948 and 1955.
  http://wn.com/Luigi_Einaudi
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  Luiz Felipe Scolari
  Luiz Felipe Scolari, ComIH (born 9 November 1948 in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul), also known as Felipão ("Big Phil") in Brazil and sometimes in Portugal, is a World Cup-winning Brazilian football manager. He currently manager of SE Palmeiras. He served as manager of Portuguese national team from July 12th, 2003 to June 30th, 2008. As Portugal's manager he led them to the Euro 2004 final which they lost 1-0 to Greece as well as leading them to 4th place in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Scolari led Portugal in Euro 2008, but resigned after Portugal lost 3-2 to Germany in the 2nd Round. He was succeeded by Carlos Queiroz on July 5th, 2008.
  http://wn.com/Luiz_Felipe_Scolari
• Lynette Fromme
  Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (born October 22, 1948) is an American member of the Manson Family. She was sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. After serving 34 years in custody, she was released from prison on August 14, 2009.
  http://wn.com/Lynette_Fromme
• Lynne Thigpen
  Cherlynne Theresa “Lynne” Thigpen (December 22, 1948 – March 12, 2003) was an American stage and television actress. In her lengthy and varied career, Thigpen is perhaps best remembered for roles on the children's program Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? and the soap opera All My Children. She is the memorable judge in the 2003 movie "Anger Management".
  http://wn.com/Lynne_Thigpen
• Mahatma Gandhi
  http://wn.com/Mahatma_Gandhi
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  Manuel Roxas
  Manuel Acuña Roxas (January 1, 1892 – April 15, 1948) was the first president of the independent Third Republic of the Philippines and 5th president overall. He served as president from the granting of independence in 1946 until his abrupt death in 1948. His term as Philippine president is also the shortest; 1 year 10 months and 18 days.
  http://wn.com/Manuel_Roxas
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  Marc Singer
  Marc Singer (born January 29, 1948) is a Canadian-born American actor known for his roles in science fiction films and television.
  http://wn.com/Marc_Singer
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  Marcello Lippi
  Marcello Lippi, "The Tuscan Tactician" Commendatore OMRI, (born 12 April 1948 in Viareggio, Province of Lucca) is a former Italian World Cup-winning football manager and former player. Born in Viareggio, in northern Tuscany, he served as Italian national team head coach from 16 July 2004 to 12 July 2006 and led Italy to win the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He was re-appointed as Italian head coach in the summer of 2008 after the disappointing performance in UEFA Euro 2008 under manager Roberto Donadoni. He was succeeded by Cesare Prandelli on June 27th, 2010.
  http://wn.com/Marcello_Lippi
• Margaret Trudeau
  Margaret Joan Sinclair Trudeau Kemper (born September 10, 1948) is the former wife of the late Pierre Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada.
  http://wn.com/Margaret_Trudeau
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  Margot Kidder
  Margaret Ruth "Margot" Kidder (born October 17, 1948) is a Canadian-American actress, best known for playing Lois Lane in the Superman movies starring Christopher Reeve.
  http://wn.com/Margot_Kidder
• Mark Farner
  Mark Fredrick Farner (born September 29, 1948 in Flint, Michigan) is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter, best known as the lead singer and lead guitarist for Grand Funk Railroad, and later as a Contemporary Christian Musician.
  http://wn.com/Mark_Farner
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  Mary Nolan
  Mary Nolan (December 18, 1905-October 31, 1948) was an American actress.
  http://wn.com/Mary_Nolan
• May Moss
  Alice "May" Moss, CBE (27 April 1869 - 18 July 1948) was an Australian welfare worker and women's rights activist.
  http://wn.com/May_Moss
• Meg Bennett
  Meg Bennett is an American television soap opera writer and occasional actress. She is married to General Hospital Head Writer Robert Guza, Jr.
  http://wn.com/Meg_Bennett
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  Mercedes Ruehl
  Mercedes J. Ruehl (born February 28, 1948) is an American theater, television and film actor.
  http://wn.com/Mercedes_Ruehl
• Michael Berkeley
  Michael Berkeley (born 29 May 1948) is a British composer and broadcaster on music.
  http://wn.com/Michael_Berkeley
• Michael Kamen
  Michael Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an American composer (especially of film scores), orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician.
  http://wn.com/Michael_Kamen
• Michael Karoli
  Michael Karoli (29 April 1948 – 17 November 2001, Essen) was a German guitarist, violinist and composer. He was a founding member of the influential krautrock band Can.
  http://wn.com/Michael_Karoli
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  Michel Suleiman
  Michel Suleiman (, born 21 November 1948) is the current President of Lebanon. Before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces. After LAF commander Émile Lahoud took office as president in November of 1998, Suleiman succeeded him, taking his place in December. Suleiman was later elected President and was sworn into office on May 25, 2008.
  http://wn.com/Michel_Suleiman
• Mike Figgis
  Michael "Mike" Figgis (born 28 February 1948) is an English film director, writer, and composer.
  http://wn.com/Mike_Figgis
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  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (, ) (born January 28, 1948) is a Soviet-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance. After freelancing with many companies, he joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer to learn George Balanchine's style of movement. He then moved to New York to dance with the American Ballet Theatre, where he later became artistic director.
  http://wn.com/Mikhail_Baryshnikov
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  Mischa Maisky
  Mischa Maisky (; born January 10, 1948 in Riga, Latvian SSR) is a Latvian cellist.
  http://wn.com/Mischa_Maisky
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  Mitoji Yabunaka
  (born January 23, 1948) is the current Japanese Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs in charge of administration. Prior to his current position, Yabunaka served as Ministry of Foreign Affair's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Director-General. He has been a diplomat for nearly forty years.
  http://wn.com/Mitoji_Yabunaka
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  Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  Officeholder
  http://wn.com/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah
• Muneo Suzuki
  Muneo Suzuki (鈴木 宗男 Suzuki Muneo, born 31 January 1948) is a Japanese politician from Ashoro, Hokkaidō. He is typically referred to as "Muneo", because his last name, "Suzuki", is one of the most common names in Japan.
  http://wn.com/Muneo_Suzuki
• Muse Watson
  Muse Watson (born July 20, 1948) is an American actor.
  http://wn.com/Muse_Watson
• Mutt Lange
  http://wn.com/Mutt_Lange
• Nadezhda Tkachenko
  Nadezhda Vladimirovna Tkachenko () (born September 19, 1948 in Kremenchuk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a former pentathlete. She won an Olympic gold medal for the USSR in 1980. A three-time Olympian Tkachenko trained at VSS Avanhard in Donetsk Oblast.
  http://wn.com/Nadezhda_Tkachenko
• Nam Hae-il
  Admiral Nam Hae-il (born April 13, 1948), was the 25th Chief of Naval Operations of the Republic of Korea Navy. He attended the Republic of Korea Naval Academy in 1972 and Naval War college in 1978.
  http://wn.com/Nam_Hae-il
• Nanking
  http://wn.com/Nanking
• Nate Archibald
  Nathaniel "Tiny" Archibald (born September 2, 1948, New York City) is a retired American professional basketball player. He spent 14 years playing in the NBA, most notably with the Kansas City Kings and Boston Celtics.
  http://wn.com/Nate_Archibald
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  Nathuram Godse
  Nathuram Vinayak Godse () (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949), a Hindu Bramhin from the city of Pune, India was the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. Along with his brother Gopal Godse and six other co-conspirators, he executed a plot to murder MK Gandhi.
  http://wn.com/Nathuram_Godse
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  Nick Drake
  Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Best known for the sombre pieces composed on his primary instrument, the guitar, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone. Although he failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime, Drake's work has gradually achieved wider notice and recognition; he now ranks among the most influential English singer-songwriters of the last 50 years.
  http://wn.com/Nick_Drake
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  Nigel De Brulier
  Nigel De Brulier (b. in Bristol, England – d. in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an English film actor, who launched his career in the theatre stage in his native country and transferred to movies after moving to USA. His first film role was a poet in The Pursuit of the Phantom in 1914. In 1915 he acted in the film Ghosts based on a play by Henrik Ibsen.
  http://wn.com/Nigel_De_Brulier
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  Nikolai Berdyaev
  Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev () ( – March 24, 1948) was a Russian religious and political philosopher.
  http://wn.com/Nikolai_Berdyaev
• Noel Edmonds
  Noel Ernest Edmonds, DL (born 22 December 1948) is a British broadcaster and executive, who made his name as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He has presented many light entertainment television programmes, including Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, Top of the Pops, The Late, Late Breakfast Show and ''Noel's House Party. He currently presents the Channel 4 gameshow Deal or No Deal'', the Sunday edition of Sky One's Are You Smarter Than A Ten Year Old? and the new topical Sky 1 show, ''Noel's HQ''.
  http://wn.com/Noel_Edmonds
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  Olivia Newton-John
  Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE (born 26 September 1948) is an English-born, Australian-raised singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles (including two platinum) and 14 of her albums (including two platinum and four double platinum) have been certified gold by the RIAA. Her music has been successful in multiple formats including pop, country and adult contemporary. She co-starred with John Travolta in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Grease which became one of the most successful films and movie soundtracks in Hollywood history.
  http://wn.com/Olivia_Newton-John
• Orville Wright
  http://wn.com/Orville_Wright
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  Osamu Dazai
  '''; (June 19, 1909 – June 13, 1948) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. He is noted for his ironic and gloomy wit, his obsession with suicide, and his brilliant fantasy.
  http://wn.com/Osamu_Dazai
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  Ozzy Osbourne
  John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer-songwriter whose career has spanned over 40 years.
  http://wn.com/Ozzy_Osbourne
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  Palmiro Togliatti
  Palmiro Togliatti (26 March 1893 - 21 August 1964) was an Italian politician and leader of the Italian Communist Party from 1927 until his death.
  http://wn.com/Palmiro_Togliatti
• Patrick Moraz
  Patrick Philippe Moraz (born June 24, 1948 in Villars-Ste-Croix, Morges, Switzerland) is a progressive rock keyboard player. He is best known as the keyboardist for the progressive rock band Yes, from 1974 to 1976, and the Moody Blues from 1978 to 1991. He was classically trained at the Conservatory of Lausanne, but played jazz primarily before entering progressive rock and has been highly acclaimed for his virtuosity.
  http://wn.com/Patrick_Moraz
• Patrick Simmons
  Patrick Simmons (born October 19, 1948) is an American musician best known as a guitarist and vocalist for the rock band The Doobie Brothers. He was born in Aberdeen, Washington. He has been the band's only consistent member throughout their tenure.
  http://wn.com/Patrick_Simmons
• Paul Hermann Müller
  Paul Hermann Müller also known as Pauly Mueller (January 12, 1899 – October 12, 1965) was a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate. In 1948 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the control of vector diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.
  http://wn.com/Paul_Hermann_Müller
• Paul Magee
  Paul "Dingus" Magee (born 30 January 1948 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a former volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who escaped during his 1981 trial for killing a member of the Special Air Service (SAS) in 1980. After serving a prison sentence in the Republic of Ireland, Magee fled to England where he was imprisoned after killing a policeman in 1992. He was repatriated to the Republic of Ireland as part of the Northern Ireland peace process before being released from prison in 1999, and subsequently avoided extradition back to Northern Ireland to serve his sentence for killing the member of the SAS.
  http://wn.com/Paul_Magee
• Paul Michiels
  Paul Michiels (born 15 June 1948) is a Belgian singer and songwriter who became popular for his work with the Belgian music group Soulsister. He has earned the nickname Polle Pap, a name he inherited from a childhood job as a milkman in his hometown of Heist-op-den-Berg, where he was born.
  http://wn.com/Paul_Michiels
• Peggy Fleming
  MedalCountry|
  http://wn.com/Peggy_Fleming
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  Persis Khambatta
  Persis Khambatta (2 October 1948, Mumbai  – 18 August 1998, Mumbai) was an Indian model, actress, and author. She was best known for her role as Lieutenant Ilia in the 1979 feature film .
  http://wn.com/Persis_Khambatta
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  Phil Hartman
  Philip Edward "Phil" Hartman (September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998) was a Canadian-born American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphic artist. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family immigrated to the United States when he was ten. After graduating from California State University, Northridge with a degree in graphic arts, he designed album covers for bands like Poco and America. Feeling the need for a more creative outlet, Hartman joined the comedy group The Groundlings in 1975 and there helped comedian Paul Reubens develop his character Pee-wee Herman. Hartman co-wrote the screenplay for the film ''Pee-wee's Big Adventure'' and made recurring appearances on Reubens' show ''Pee-wee's Playhouse''.
  http://wn.com/Phil_Hartman
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  Pim Fortuyn
  Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (; February 19, 1948 – May 6, 2002) was a Dutch politician, civil servant, sociologist, author and professor who formed his own party, Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF).
  http://wn.com/Pim_Fortuyn
• Pinchas Zukerman
  Pinchas Zukerman (, born July 16, 1948) is a world-renowned violinist, violist, and conductor. He is often considered to be one of the greatest violinists of the 20th and 21st centuries, and his ongoing 45 year career has seen him perform with the world's best-renowned orchestras and record over 100 works. Zukerman has held the position of Principal Conductor and Music Director of Ottawa's National Arts Centre Orchestra since April 1998, and the position of Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since 2009.
  http://wn.com/Pinchas_Zukerman
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  Raffi (musician)
  Raffi Cavoukian, CM, OBC (born July 8, 1948), better known by his stage name Raffi, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, author, essayist and lecturer. He has developed his career as a "global troubadour", to become a music producer, author, entrepreneur, systems thinker, and the founder of Centre for Child Honouring, a vision for global restoration.
  http://wn.com/Raffi_(musician)
• Ralph Alpher
  http://wn.com/Ralph_Alpher
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  Ram Baran Yadav
  Dr. Ram Baran Yadav () (born 4 February 1948) is the current President of Nepal. He was elected in July 2008 and is the country's first President. He previously served as Minister of Health and as General Secretary of the Nepali Congress party.
  http://wn.com/Ram_Baran_Yadav
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  Ramones
  The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1974, often cited as the first punk rock group. Despite achieving only limited commercial success, the band was a major influence on the punk rock movement both in the United States and the United Kingdom.
  http://wn.com/Ramones
• Raymond Kurzweil
  http://wn.com/Raymond_Kurzweil
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  Rhea Perlman
  Rhea Jo Perlman (born March 31, 1948) is an American actress, best known for her role as Carla Tortelli on the sitcom Cheers.
  http://wn.com/Rhea_Perlman
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  Richard C. Tolman
  Richard Chace Tolman (March 4, 1881, West Newton, Massachusetts – September 5, 1948, Pasadena) was an American mathematical physicist and physical chemist who was an authority on statistical mechanics. He also made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity. He was a professor of physical chemistry and mathematical physics at the California Institute of Technology.
  http://wn.com/Richard_C_Tolman
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  Richard Masur
  Richard D. Masur (born November 20, 1948) is an American actor who has appeared in over 80 movies during his career. He is best known for his role as the Princeton interviewer in the 1983 film Risky Business. From 1995-1999, he served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Masur sits on the Corporate Board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund.
  http://wn.com/Richard_Masur
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  Richard Pacheco
  Richard Pacheco (born Howard Marc Gordon, May 5, 1948) is a former American pornographic film & video actor, writer, and director
  http://wn.com/Richard_Pacheco
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  Richard Simmons
  Milton Teagle Simmons (born July 12, 1948), known professionally as Richard Simmons, is an American fitness personality who promotes weight-loss programs, most famously through his Sweatin' to the Oldies line of aerobics videos and DVDs and is known for his eccentric, outgoing personality. Simmons began his career opening a gym (Slimmons in Beverly Hills, CA) catering to the overweight, and he became widely known through exposure on television and through the popularity of his consumer products. He became a striking cultural icon, often parodied, and a frequent guest of late night television talk shows such as The Late Show With David Letterman. Today, Simmons continues his life-long mission of promoting health and has broadened his activities to include political activism, notably in support of a bill mandating non-competitive physical education in public schools as a part of the "No Child Left Behind" act.
  http://wn.com/Richard_Simmons
• Richard Sinclair
  Richard S. Sinclair (born 6 June 1948 in Canterbury, England) is a progressive rock bassist, guitarist and vocalist who has been a member of several bands of the Canterbury scene.
  http://wn.com/Richard_Sinclair
• Rick Cua
  Rick Cua (born December 3, 1948 in Syracuse, New York) is an American Dove Award and Grammy Award-winning Christian rock singer, songwriter, bassist, author, and ordained minister. He is a former member of the Southern rock band, Outlaws, whom he joined in 1980, but left in 1983 to pursue a full-time career in Christian contemporary music, the year after, wherein he gained popularity throughout most the 1980s as a leather-jacket-wearing rocker with an arena rock sound featuring big, shout-along choruses; but upon signing to Reunion in 1988, his works began to take on a softer, more radio-friendly tone that included "sentimental ballads and pop-rock anthems in the style of Michael Bolton." Cua left Reunion in 1992, creating his own label, UCA Records, on which he recorded three studio albums in the 1990s but received little radio play. He has been married to Diana since 1970. They have two children, a son-in-law, and a grandson.
  http://wn.com/Rick_Cua
• Rick James
  Rick James (February 1, 1948August 6, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. James was a popular R&B; and funk singer in the late 1970s and 1980s, scoring four #1 hits on the U.S. R&B; charts. Among his well known songs are "Super Freak" and "You and I". In addition to his music James gained notoriety for his wild lifestyle, which led to widely publicized legal problems.
  http://wn.com/Rick_James
• Robert Ginty
  Robert Ginty (November 14, 1948 – September 21, 2009) was an American movie actor, producer, scenarist, and director of movies and TV series episodes.
  http://wn.com/Robert_Ginty
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  Robert Jordan
  Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007), under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. He also wrote under the names '''Reagan O'Neal and Jackson O'Reilly'''.
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  Robert Plant
  Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948), is an English rock singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career. In 2007, Plant released Raising Sand, an album produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
  http://wn.com/Robert_Plant
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  Robert Schuman
  Robert Schuman (; 29 June 1886 4 September 1963) was a noted Luxembourgish-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat (M.R.P.) and an independent political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister, he was instrumental in building post-war European and trans-Atlantic institutions and is regarded as one of the founders of the European Union, the Council of Europe and NATO.
  http://wn.com/Robert_Schuman
• Roedy Green
  Roedy Green (born Munroe Frederic Compton Green on February 4, 1948) is a Canadian programmer, independent computer consultant, and activist. He is well-known on the Internet for his Java & Internet Glossary, and his popular essay How to Write Unmaintainable Code.
  http://wn.com/Roedy_Green
• Ron Blair
  Ron Blair (born Ronald Edward Blair, September 16, 1948, in San Diego, California) is the original bassist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. He was the band's bassist from 1976 to 1981. In 2002, he returned to the group after a 21-year hiatus, replacing his own replacement, the late Howie Epstein.
  http://wn.com/Ron_Blair
• Ronnie Van Zant
  Ronald Wayne "Ronnie" Van Zant (January 15, 1948 – October 20, 1977) was the lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He was the older brother of the founder and vocalist of 38 Special, Donnie Van Zant, and of current Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant.
  http://wn.com/Ronnie_Van_Zant
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  Rory Gallagher
  Rory Gallagher born William Rory Gallagher (2 March 1948  – 14 June 1995) ( ) was an Irish blues-rock multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and bandleader. Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland, and raised in Cork, Gallagher recorded solo albums throughout 1970s and 1980s, after forming the band Taste during the late 1960s. A talented guitarist known for his charismatic performances and dedication to his craft, Gallagher's albums have sold in excess of 30 million copies worldwide. Gallagher received a liver transplant in 1995, but died of complications later that year in London, England aged 47.
  http://wn.com/Rory_Gallagher
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  Ross Lockridge, Jr.
  Ross Franklin Lockridge, Jr., (April 25, 1914 – March 6, 1948) was an American novelist of the mid-20th century. He is noted for Raintree County (1948), an expansive attempt at creating the "Great American Novel".
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  Rupert D'Oyly Carte
  '''Rupert D'Oyly Carte''' (3 November 1876 – 12 September 1948) was an English hotelier, theatre owner and impresario, best known as proprietor of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and Savoy Hotel from 1913 to 1948.
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  Rómulo Betancourt
  Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello (22 February 1908 – 28 September 1981), known as "The Father of Venezuelan Democracy", was President of Venezuela from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964, as well as leader of Accion Democratica, Venezuela's dominant political party in the 20th century. He survived an assassination attempt ordered by Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic. Betancourt, one of Venezuela's most important political figures, led a tumultuous and highly controversial career in Latin American politics. Periods of exile brought Betancourt in contact with various Latin American countries as well as the United States, securing his legacy as one of the few real international leaders to emerge from twentieth-century Latin America. Scholars credit Betancourt as the Founding Father of modern democratic Venezuela.
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  Sadamichi Hirasawa
  was a Japanese tempera painter. He was convicted of mass poisoning and sentenced to death, though he is suspected to have been falsely charged and no justice minister signed his death warrant.
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  Sally Struthers
  Sally Ann Struthers (born July 28, 1948) is an American actress and spokeswoman, known for her roles in sitcoms and television, particularly that of Gloria Bunker Stivic, the daughter of Archie and Edith Bunker (played by Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton respectively) on All in the Family, for which she won two Emmy awards. She is also known for playing Babette on Gilmore Girls.
  http://wn.com/Sally_Struthers
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  Samuel Hui
  Samuel Hui Koon-kit (born 6 September 1948 in Hong Kong), usually known as Sam Hui, is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer, lyricist and film actor. He is credited with popularizing Cantopop both with the infusion of Western-style music and using popular, street Cantonese jargon in his lyrics writing. Hui is considered by some to be the first major superstar of Cantopop.
  http://wn.com/Samuel_Hui
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  Samuel L. Jackson
  Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American film and television actor and film producer. After Jackson became involved with the Civil Rights Movement, he moved on to acting in theater at Morehouse College, and then films. He had several small roles, before meeting his mentor, Morgan Freeman, and the director Spike Lee. In 1991, after gaining critical acclaim for his role in Jungle Fever, he appeared in films such as Goodfellas, Patriot Games, Amos & Andrew, True Romance and Jurassic Park. In 1994 he was cast as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction, and his performance received several award nominations and critical acclaim.
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  Scorpions (band)
  Scorpions is a heavy metal/hard rock band from Hannover, Germany, known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and their singles "No One Like You", "Send Me an Angel", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change". The band was ranked #46 on VH1's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock program. "Rock You Like a Hurricane" is also #18 on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs. On January 24, 2010, after 45 years of performing, the band announced that they will be retiring after touring in support of their new album Sting in the Tail. Scorpions have sold between 100 and 150 million albums worldwide.
  http://wn.com/Scorpions_(band)
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  Seishirō Itagaki
  was a General in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II and a War Minister.
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  Sergei Eisenstein
  Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (; January 23, 1898 – February 11, 1948) was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage." He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1924), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and (1927), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958). His work profoundly influenced early filmmakers owing to his innovative use of and writings about montage.
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  Sgt. Slaughter
  Robert Remus (born August 27, 1948) is an American former WWE personality, and semi-retired professional wrestler better known by the ring name Sgt. Slaughter. From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, Slaughter had success in the National Wrestling Alliance, American Wrestling Association, and World Wrestling Federation.
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  Shakin' Stevens
  '''Shakin' Stevens, also known as "Shaky" (born Michael Barratt''', 4 March 1948) is a platinum selling Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter. His recording and performing career began in the late 1960s, although it was not until 1980 that he saw commercial success in his native land. In the UK alone, Stevens has charted no fewer than 33 top 40 hit singles in the sales charts.
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  Shanghai
  Shanghai (; Shanghainese: Zånhae ; ) is the most populous city in China and the most populous city proper in the world. A global city, Shanghai exerts influence over global commerce, finance, culture, art, fashion, research and entertainment. The city is located at the middle portion of the Chinese coast, and sits at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
  http://wn.com/Shanghai
• Slovenes
  Slovenes (Slovene Slovenci, dual Slovenca, singular Slovenec, feminine Slovenke, dual Slovenki, singular Slovenka) are a South Slavic people primarily associated with Slovenia and the Slovene language.
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• Squire Parsons
  Squire Enos Parsons, Jr. (born April 4, 1948), is a Southern Gospel singer and songwriter. He was born in Newton, West Virginia, to Squire and Maysel Parsons, and was introduced to music by his father, who was a choir director and deacon at Newton Baptist Church. Squire's father taught him to sing using shaped notes.
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  Stephen Stohn
  John Stephen Stohn (born May 8, 1948, Denver, Colorado) is a Canadian-based, American-born entertainment lawyer and television producer. He is the president of Epitome Pictures Inc., and is executive producer of the teen drama series and Instant Star (starring Alexz Johnson), and most recently the television movie Degrassi Goes Hollywood.
  http://wn.com/Stephen_Stohn
• Steve Goodman
  Steve Goodman (July 25, 1948 – September 20, 1984) was an American folk music singer-songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. The writer of "City of New Orleans", made popular by Arlo Guthrie, Goodman won two Grammy Awards.
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  Steve Winwood
  Steve Winwood (born 12 May 1948 in Birmingham) is an English international recording artist whose career spans more than 40 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music (blue-eyed soul), R&B;, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz. Winwood is a multi-instrumentalist who plays the electric organ, synthesizers, bass, drums, guitar, mandolin, violin and other stringed instruments. His trademark style is singing in a tenor voice and playing the Hammond organ. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and Go. Winwood has won numerous Grammy Awards in the United States of America.
  http://wn.com/Steve_Winwood
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  Steven Chu
  Steven Chu (born February 28, 1948) is an American physicist and currently the 12th United States Secretary of Energy. Chu is known for his research at Bell Labs in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Daniel Phillips. At the time of his appointment as Energy Secretary, he was a professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley and the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his research was concerned primarily with the study of biological systems at the single molecule level. Previously, he had been a professor of physics at Stanford University. He is a vocal advocate for more research into alternative energy and nuclear power, arguing that a shift away from fossil fuels is essential to combating climate change. For example, he has conceived of a global "glucose economy", a form of a low-carbon economy, in which glucose from tropical plants is shipped around like oil is today.
  http://wn.com/Steven_Chu
• Steven Tyler
  Steven Victor Tallarico (born March 26, 1948), better known as Steven Tyler, is an American singer, songwriter, and judge who is the frontman and lead singer for the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the harmonica, and occasional piano and percussion. He is well-known for his stage acrobatics. During his high-energy performances, he usually dresses in bright, colorful outfits with his trademark scarves hanging from his microphone stand.
  http://wn.com/Steven_Tyler
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  Stevie Nicks
  Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 120 million albums. She has been noted for her ethereal visual style and symbolic lyrics.
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  Strom Thurmond
  James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served as the 103rd Governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator. He also ran for the Presidency of the United States in 1948 as the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrat) candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes. Thurmond later represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to April 1956 and November 1956 to January 2003, at first as a Democrat and after 1964 as a Republican, switching parties as the conservative base shifted.
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• Susan Eloise Hinton
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  Susan Glaspell
  Susan Keating Glaspell (1 July 1876 – 27 July 1948) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, director, and bestselling novelist. She was a founding member of the Provincetown Players, one of the most important collaboratives in the development of modern drama in the United States. She also served in the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project.
  http://wn.com/Susan_Glaspell
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  Sven-Göran Eriksson
  Sven-Göran Eriksson (; born 5 February 1948), in Sweden commonly referred to just by his nickname Svennis, is a Swedish football manager. On 3 October 2010 he was unveiled as the new manager of Football League Championship side Leicester City on a two-year contract.
  http://wn.com/Sven-Göran_Eriksson
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  Sylvanus Morley
  :This article is mainly about the archaeologist. For the professor of Spanish see the section The other Sylvanus G. Morley.
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  T-Bone Burnett
  Joseph Henry Burnett (born January 14, 1948), widely known as T-Bone Burnett, is an American musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record producer.
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  T. S. Eliot
  Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was an American-born English poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. The poem that made his name, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock—started in 1910 and published in Chicago in 1915—is regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement, and was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1945). He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
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• Tanya Falan Welk
  Tanya Falan Welk (born May 4, 1948) is an American singer who appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1968 to 1977.
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  Tarmo Koivisto
  Tarmo Koivisto (born July 3, 1948 in Orivesi) is a Finnish comics artist and writer, cartoonist, and graphic artist. He is best known for his ongoing comic strip Mämmilä. Koivisto is also known by his artist name Tape.
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• Ted Lange
  Theodore William "Ted" Lange (born January 5, 1948) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter best known for his role as the bartender, Isaac Washington, in the 1970s TV series The Love Boat.
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  Ted Nugent
  Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent (born December 13, 1948) is a guitarist and vocalist from Detroit, Michigan. He originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career. He is also noted for his conservative political views and his ardent defense of hunting, conservation, and gun ownership rights.
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• Ted Poe
  Lloyd "Ted" Poe (born September 10, 1948) is a Republican politician currently representing Texas's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. The district includes most of northern Houston, as well as most of the Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan area.
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  Telma Hopkins
  Telma Louise Hopkins (born October 28, 1948) is an American singer and television actress. A member of the 1970s pop group Tony Orlando and Dawn, she later starred in several television sitcoms, including Bosom Buddies, Gimme a Break!, Family Matters, Getting By, and Half & Half. Currently, she appears on a recurring basis as Marilyn Persons on the TBS sitcom Are We There Yet?
  http://wn.com/Telma_Hopkins
• Teresa Graves
  Teresa Graves (January 10, 1948 – October 10, 2002) was an American actress and singer. As the star of Get Christie Love!, Graves is credited as being the first African American woman to star in her own hour long drama television series.
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  Terry Bradshaw
  Terry Paxton Bradshaw (born September 2, 1948) is a former American football quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL). He played 14 seasons. He is a football analyst and co-host of Fox NFL Sunday. In a six-year span, he won four Super Bowl titles with Pittsburgh (1974, 1975, 1978 and 1979), becoming the first quarterback to do so, and led the Steelers to eight AFC Central championships. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1989, his first year of eligibility.
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  Terry Pratchett
  Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (born 28 April 1948), more commonly known as Terry Pratchett, is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best-known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel (The Colour of Magic) was published in 1983, he has written two books a year on average.
  http://wn.com/Terry_Pratchett
• Tesshō Genda
  is a seiyū, or voice actor who was born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan on May 20, 1948. He is employed by the talent management firm 81 Produce. When he debuted, he used his real name, . Because he had experience with ballet, he was known by the nickname "Pirouette Genda."
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  Theo Jörgensmann
  Theodor Franz Jörgensmann (born 1948 in Bottrop, Germany) is a jazz and free-improvising Basset clarinet player and composer. He has been a professional musician since 1975.
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  Thomas E. Dewey
  Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was the 47th Governor of New York (1943–1954). In 1944 and 1948, he was the Republican candidate for President, but lost both times. He led the liberal faction of the Republican Party, in which he fought conservative Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft. Dewey advocated for the professional and business community of the Northeastern United States, which would later be called the "Eastern Establishment." This organization accepted the majority of New Deal social-welfare reforms enacted during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It consisted of internationalists who were in favor of the United Nations and the "Cold War" fought against communism and the Soviet Union. In addition, he played a large part in the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower as President in 1952. Dewey's successor as leader of the liberal Republicans was Nelson Rockefeller, who became governor of New York in 1959. The New York State Thruway is named in Dewey's honor.
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  Toby Harrah
  Colbert Dale (Toby) Harrah (b. October 26, 1948 in Sissonville, West Virginia) is a former professional baseball player who played with the Texas Rangers both before and after their 1971 franchise shift before later being traded to the Cleveland Indians and the New York Yankees. In 1993, he briefly managed the Rangers.
  http://wn.com/Toby_Harrah
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  Todd Rundgren
  Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. Hailed in the early stage of his career as a new pop-wunderkind, supported by the certified gold solo double LP Something/Anything? in 1972, Rundgren's career has produced a diverse range of recordings as solo artist, and during the seventies and eighties with the band Utopia. He has also been extremely active as a producer and engineer on the recorded work of other musicians.
  http://wn.com/Todd_Rundgren
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  Tom Grieve
  Thomas Alan Grieve (Born March 4, 1948 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) was a Major League Baseball player from 1970-1979 for the Washington Senators, Texas Rangers, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals. Nicknamed "TAG", which are his initials, Grieve's best season was 1976 with the Rangers when he hit .255 and belted 20 home runs and had 81 runs batted in.
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  Tommy Ryan
  :For other persons of a similar name, see Thomas Ryan.
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  Tony Iommi
  Francis Anthony "Tony" Iommi (born 19 February 1948, in Aston, Birmingham, England) is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as the founding member of pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and the sole constant band member through multiple personnel changes.
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• Tony Levin
  Tony Levin (born June 6, 1946, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American rock musician, specializing in bass guitar, Chapman Stick and upright bass (although he also sings and plays tuba and synthesizer).
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  Unity Mitford
  Unity Valkyrie Mitford (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was a member of the aristocratic Mitford family, that traces its origins in Northumberland back to the eleventh century Norman settlement of England. Unity's Mitford's sister Diana was married to Oswald Mosley, leader of British Union of Fascists. In Britain and Germany, Unity was a prominent and public supporter of fascism and from 1936, a part of Hitler's inner circle of friends and confidants for five years. Following declaration of World War II, Mitford attempted suicide, although subsequently doubt of the attempt was cast in the media, following the declassification of MI5 government documentation.
  http://wn.com/Unity_Mitford
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  Viola Allen
  Viola Emily Allen (October 27, 1867 — May 9, 1948) was an American stage actress. She appeared in three silent films.
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• Vladimir Matorin
  Vladimir Anatolyevich Matorin (; May 2, 1948) is a famous Russian opera singer. He is considered one of the greatest contemporary bass singer in Russia.
  http://wn.com/Vladimir_Matorin
• Vladimir Yakunin
  Vladimir Ivanovich Yakunin (; born June 30, 1948 in Melenki, Vladimir Oblast) is a Russian official, president of state-run Russian Railways company. Vladimir Yakunin is a close ally of the former Russian president Vladimir Putin and is considered to be one of the members of his inner circle.
  http://wn.com/Vladimir_Yakunin
• Wagner
  http://wn.com/Wagner
• Wally Foreman
  Walter "Wally" John Foreman (5 January 1948 - 2 November 2006) OAM was a sports administrator and commentator for ABC Radio program "Grandstand" based in Perth, Western Australia.
  http://wn.com/Wally_Foreman
• Walter Smith
  Walter Smith may refer to:
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  Warren William
  Warren William (December 2, 1894 – September 24, 1948) was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, born the son of Freeman E. and Frances Krech, as Warren William Krech in Aitkin, Minnesota. He had a certain physical resemblance to John Barrymore. He attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After moving from Broadway to Hollywood in 1931, he reached his peak as a leading man in early 1930s pre-Production Code films. He was a contract player at the Warner Bros. studio and was known for portraying amoral businessmen, lawyers, and other heartless types, including the Sam Spade character (renamed "Ted Shane") in the second filming of The Maltese Falcon, called Satan Met a Lady (1936) with Bette Davis.
  http://wn.com/Warren_William
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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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  Willi Resetarits
  Wilhelm Resetarits (born 21 December 1948 in Stinatz, Austria), better known as Willi Resetarits and Dr. Kurt Ostbahn, is an Austrian singer, comedian and human rights activist.
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  William C. Lee
  Major General William Carey "Bill" Lee (March 12, 1895 – June 25, 1948) was an American U.S. Army soldier and general. Lee is often referred to as the "Father of the U.S. Airborne".
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• William France, Sr.
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  William Gibson
  William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the Web.
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  William Shockley
  William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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  Wolf Blitzer
  Wolf Isaac Blitzer (born March 22, 1948) is an American journalist who has been a CNN reporter since 1990. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast The Situation Room and was the host of the Sunday talk show Late Edition until it was discontinued on January 11, 2009. Blitzer previously hosted Wolf Blitzer Reports, which was replaced by The Situation Room.
  http://wn.com/Wolf_Blitzer
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  Woody Guthrie
  Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. His best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land", which is regularly sung in American schools. Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. Such songwriters as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton have acknowledged their debt to Guthrie as an influence.
  http://wn.com/Woody_Guthrie
• Wubbo de Boer
  Wubbo de Boer (born May 27, 1948, Amsterdam ) is a Dutch civil servant. He is the current President of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), the European Union body in charge of trademarks and designs and based in Alicante, Spain. He was appointed as president of OHIM in October 2000, and then renewed for the period from October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2010.
  http://wn.com/Wubbo_de_Boer
• Yutaka Enatsu
  is a former Japanese pitcher regarded as one of best Japanese pitchers of all-time. In , he recorded 401 strikeouts, which is still the world record. He recorded 9 consecutive strikeouts in one of the All-Star games, and 15 consecutive strikeouts in three of the All-Star games between and 1971. His consecutive strikeouts were broken up by Katsuya Nomura. The two records are still unbroken. In , he attempted to play in Major League Baseball, but generated little interest because at 36 years old, he was near the end of his career.
  http://wn.com/Yutaka_Enatsu
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  Zelda Fitzgerald
  Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948), born Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama, was an American novelist and the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. She was an icon of the 1920s—dubbed by her husband "the first American Flapper". After the success of his first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), the Fitzgeralds became celebrities. The newspapers of New York saw them as embodiments of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties: young, seemingly wealthy, beautiful, and energetic.
  http://wn.com/Zelda_Fitzgerald
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  Éamon de Valera
  Éamon de Valera () (born George De Valero; 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was one of the dominant political figures in 20th century Ireland. His political career spanned over half a century, from 1917 to 1973; he served multiple terms as head of government and head of state, and is credited with a leading role in the authorship of the present-day Constitution of Ireland.
  http://wn.com/Éamon_de_Valera

• Aran Valley
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  Australia
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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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  Belgrade
  Belgrade (Serbian: Београд, Beograd - ) is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. With a population of 1,630,000 (official estimate 2007), Belgrade is the fourth largest city in Southeastern Europe, after Istanbul, Athens and Bucharest. Its name in Serbian translates to White city.
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  Blackburn
  Blackburn () is a large industrial town in Lancashire, England. It lies to the north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of the city of Preston, north-northwest of the city of Manchester. and is north of the border with Greater Manchester. Blackburn is bounded to the south by Darwen, with which it forms the unitary authority area of Blackburn with Darwen, Blackburn being the administrative centre. At the time of the UK Government's 2001 census, Blackburn had a population of 105,085, whilst the wider borough of Blackburn with Darwen had a population of 137,470.
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  Bogotá
  Bogotá, Distrito Capital (), until 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital city of Colombia, as well as the most populous city in the country, with an estimated 7,304,384 inhabitants as of 2009. Bogotá and its metropolitan area, which includes municipalities such as Chía, Cota, Soacha, Cajicá and La Calera, had an estimated population of 8,566,926 in 2009. In terms of land area, Bogotá is the largest city in Colombia, one of the biggest of Latin America, figures in the 30th largest cities of the world, and it is the third-highest capital city in the world after (La Paz and Quito) at 2640 metres above sea level. With its many universities and libraries, Bogotá has become known as "The Athens of South America". Bogotá owns the biggest moorland of the world, which is located in the Sumapaz Locality.
  http://wn.com/Bogotá
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  Brandeis University
  Brandeis University () is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles (14 km) west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2010, it was ranked by the U.S. News and World Report as the number 34 national university in the United States. Forbes listed Brandeis University as number 57 among all national universities and liberal arts colleges combined in 2010.
  http://wn.com/Brandeis_University
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  Burma
  Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar, is the second largest country by geographical area in Southeast Asia. The country is bordered by People's Republic of China on the north-east, Laos on the east, Thailand on the south-east, Bangladesh on the west, India on the north-west and the Bay of Bengal to the south-west with the Andaman Sea defining its southern periphery. One-third of Burma's total perimeter, 1,930 kilometers (1,199 mi), forms an uninterrupted coastline.
  http://wn.com/Burma
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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.
  http://wn.com/California
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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.
  http://wn.com/Canada
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  Colombia
  Colombia (), officially the Republic of Colombia (, ), is a constitutional republic in northwestern South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the northwest by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Colombia also shares maritime borders with Venezuela, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. With a population of over 45 million people, Colombia has the 29th largest population in the world and the second largest in South America, after Brazil. Colombia has the fourth largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico, the United States, and Spain.
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  Costa Rica
  :For the plant genus Costarica, see its synonym Sicyos.
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  Czechoslovakia
  Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Slovak: Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992. From 1939 to 1945 the state did not have de facto existence, due to its forced division and partial incorporation into Nazi Germany, but the Czechoslovak government-in-exile nevertheless continued to exist during this period. In 1945 the eastern part of Carpathian Ruthenia was taken over by the Soviet Union. On 1 January 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
  http://wn.com/Czechoslovakia
• Dawaymeh
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  Deir Yassin massacre
  The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when around 120 fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, a Palestinian-Arab village of roughly 600 people. The invasion occurred as Jewish militia sought to relieve the blockade of Jerusalem during the civil war that preceded the end of British rule in Palestine.
  http://wn.com/Deir_Yassin_massacre
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  Delhi
  Delhi, known locally as Dilli (, , {{Lang-ur| '), and by the official name National Capital Territory of Delhi''' (NCT), is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest metropolis by population in India. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with more than 12.25 million inhabitants in the territory and with nearly 22.2 million residents in the National Capital Region urban area (which also includes Noida, Gurgaon, Greater Noida, Faridabad and Ghaziabad). The name Delhi is often also used to include some urban areas near the NCT, as well as to refer to New Delhi, the capital of India, which lies within the metropolis. The NCT is a federally administered union territory.
  http://wn.com/Delhi
• Donora Smog of 1948
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  Egypt
  Egypt (; , Miṣr, ; Egyptian Arabic: مصر, Maṣr, ; Coptic: , ; Greek: Αίγυπτος, Aiguptos; Egyptian:
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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.
  http://wn.com/England
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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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  Fresh Kills Landfill
  The Fresh Kills Landfill is located in the New York City borough of Staten Island in the United States. At more than 2,200 acres (890 hectares),, it was formerly the largest landfill in the world, and was also New York City's principal landfill in the second half of the 20th century. The name "Fresh Kills" refers to its location along the banks of the Fresh Kills estuary in western Staten Island.
  http://wn.com/Fresh_Kills_Landfill
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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.
  http://wn.com/Germany
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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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  Indonesia
  Indonesia ( or ), officially the Republic of Indonesia (), is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia comprises 17,508 islands. With a population of around 238 million people, it is the world's fourth most populous country, and has the world's largest population of Muslims. Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indonesia is a founding member of ASEAN and a member of the G-20 major economies.
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  Iraq
  Iraq ( or , Arabic: ), officially the Republic of Iraq (Arabic:
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  Israel
  Israel (, ''Yisrā'el; , Isrā'īl), officially the State of Israel (Hebrew: , Medīnat Yisrā'el; , Dawlat Isrā'īl''), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and Gaza on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel is the world's only predominantly Jewish state, and is defined as A Jewish and Democratic State by the Israeli government.
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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".
  http://wn.com/Japan
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  Jeju Uprising
  The Jeju Uprising (Korean: 제주 4·3 민중항쟁, Hanja: 濟州 4·3 民衆抗爭) refers to the rebellion on Jeju island, South Korea, beginning on April 3, 1948. Between 14,000 and 60,000 individuals were killed in fighting or execution between various factions on the island. The suppression of rebellion by the South Korean army has been called “brutal”, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of many villages on the island, and sparking rebellions on the Korean mainland. The rebellion, which included the mutiny of several hundred members of the South Korean 11th Constabulary Regiment, lasted until May 1949, although small isolated pockets of fighting continued into 1953. Many residents of Jeju escaped from the massacre to Japan, and some of them made their Jeju town in Osaka.
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  Kazakhstan
  Kazakhstan (also spelled Kazakstan, , Qazaqstan, قازاقستان, pronounced ; ), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country located in Central Asia and partially in East Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of 2,727,300 km² is greater than Western Europe. It is neighbored clockwise from the north by Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and also borders on a significant part of the Caspian Sea. The capital was moved in 1997 from Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, to Astana.
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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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  Luxembourg
  Luxembourg ( ), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (, , ), is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. Luxembourg has a population of over half a million people in an area of approximately 2,586 square kilometres (999 sq mi).
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  Lympne
  Lympne () is a village situated on the former sea cliffs above the Romney Marsh in Kent. It lies approximately 11 km (7 miles) west of Folkestone, 2 miles west of Hythe and 17 km (11 miles) east of Ashford.
  http://wn.com/Lympne
• Malaysia
  Malaysia (pronounced or ) is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia. It consists of thirteen states and three federal territories and has a total landmass of . The country is separated by the South China Sea into two regions, Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo (also known as West and East Malaysia respectively). Malaysia shares land borders with Thailand, Indonesia, and Brunei and has maritime boundaries with Singapore, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government. The population as of 2009 stood at over 28 million.
  http://wn.com/Malaysia
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  Naantali
  Naantali (; ) is a city in south-western Finland, known as one of the most important tourist centres of the country. The municipality has a population of {{formatnum:
  http://wn.com/Naantali
• Nanking
  http://wn.com/Nanking
• NATO
  The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO ( ; ), also called the "(North) Atlantic Alliance", is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party.
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  Negev
  The Negev (also Negeb; , Tiberian vocalization: , ) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The Arabs, including the native Bedouin population of the region refer to the desert as al-Naqab (). The origin of the word Negev is from the Hebrew root denoting 'dry'. In the Bible the word Negev is also used for the direction 'south'.
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  Netherlands
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  New York
  New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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  New Zealand
  {{Infobox Country
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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.
  http://wn.com/Nobel_Peace_Prize
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  North Korea
  North Korea, officially the '''Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK'''; Chosongul: 조선민주주의인민공화국), is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea. The Amnok River and the Tumen River form the border between North Korea and the People's Republic of China. A section of the Tumen River in the extreme northeast is the border with Russia.
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  Pakistan
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  Pyrenees
  The Pyrenees (also spelled Pyrenées, ; or '; , ; ; ; ; or ') are a range of mountains in southwest Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain. They separate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe, and extend for about from the Bay of Biscay (Cap Higuer) to the Mediterranean Sea (Cap de Creus).
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  Republic of China
  The Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan, is a state in East Asia located off the east coast of mainland China. Subject to an ongoing dispute with the People's Republic of China (PRC) that has left it with limited formal diplomatic relations, the government of the Republic of China currently governs the islands of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor islands. Neighbouring states include the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
  http://wn.com/Republic_of_China
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  Republic of Ireland
  Ireland (, , , ), described as the Republic of Ireland (), is a state in northwest Europe with a population of almost 4.5 million people. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional republic occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned into two jurisdictions in 1921. It is bordered to the northeast by Northern Ireland, which is a part of the United Kingdom, and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Irish Sea to the east, St George's Channel to the southeast, and the Celtic Sea to the south.
  http://wn.com/Republic_of_Ireland
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  Russia
  Russia (; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a state in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the United States by the Bering Strait. At , Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia is also the ninth most populous nation with 142 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 9 time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
  http://wn.com/Russia
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  Shanghai
  Shanghai (; Shanghainese: Zånhae ; ) is the most populous city in China and the most populous city proper in the world. A global city, Shanghai exerts influence over global commerce, finance, culture, art, fashion, research and entertainment. The city is located at the middle portion of the Chinese coast, and sits at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
  http://wn.com/Shanghai
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  South Korea
  South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK, , ) and sometimes referred to simply as Korea, is a state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, and North Korea to the north. Its capital is Seoul. South Korea lies in a temperate climate region with a predominantly mountainous terrain. Its territory covers a total area of 99,392 square kilometers and has a population of .
  http://wn.com/South_Korea
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  Soviet Union
  The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, , abbreviated СССР, SSSR), informally known as the Soviet Union () or Soviet Russia, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed on the territory of most of the former Russian Empire in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.
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  Sri Lanka
  The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (commonly known as Sri Lanka (, , or ); ; , ) is a country and a sovereign state off souther coast of the Indian subcontinent. A island nation in South Asia, it was till 1972 known as Ceylon (, , or ). Sri Lanka is surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
  http://wn.com/Sri_Lanka
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  Switzerland
  Switzerland (, , , ), officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE), is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe where it is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
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  Syria
  Syria ( ; ' or '), officially the Syrian Arab Republic (), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.
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  The Hague
  The Hague (with capital T; Dutch: ', officially also ') is the third largest city in the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 485,818 (as of May 31, 2009) (population of agglomeration: 1,011,459) and an area of approximately 100 km². It is located in the west of the country, in the province of South Holland, of which it is also the provincial capital. The Hague is, like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and Almere, part of the Randstad metropolitan area, with 6,659,300 inhabitants.
  http://wn.com/The_Hague
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  The Oval
  The Brit Oval, still commonly referred to by its original name of The Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth. In the past it was also sometimes called the Kennington Oval. In past years it was officially named as the 'Fosters Oval', 'AMP Oval', and, presently, as the 'Brit Insurance Oval' (or 'Brit Oval') due to commercial sponsorship deals.
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  Tilbury
  Tilbury is a town in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England. As a settlement it is of relatively recent existence, although it has important historical connections, being the location of a 16th century fort and an ancient cross-river ferry. It is also the location of a modern deep-water port.
  http://wn.com/Tilbury
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  Tokyo
  , officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. It is located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands. Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former and the .Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family.
  http://wn.com/Tokyo
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  Toronto
  Toronto (, colloquially or ) is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America. Toronto is at the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and is part of a densely populated region in Southern Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe, which is home to over 8.1 million residents—approximately 25% of Canada's population. The census metropolitan area (CMA) had a population of 5,113,149, and the Greater Toronto Area had a population of 5,555,912 in the 2006 Census.
  http://wn.com/Toronto
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  Turkey
  Turkey (), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Eastern Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
  http://wn.com/Turkey
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  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
  http://wn.com/United_Kingdom
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  United States
  The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
  http://wn.com/United_States
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  Venezuela
  Venezuela (; ), officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south. Its roughly northern coastline includes numerous islands in the Caribbean Sea, and in the north east borders the northern Atlantic Ocean. Caribbean islands such as Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Curaçao, Aruba and the Leeward Antilles lie near the Venezuelan coast. Venezuela's territory covers around with an estimated population of 26,414,816. Venezuela is considered a country with extremely high biodiversity, with habitats ranging from the Andes mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rainforest in the south, via extensive llanos plains and Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.
  http://wn.com/Venezuela
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  Yemen
  Yemen (Arabic: اليَمَن al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen (Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية al-Jumhuuriyya al-Yamaniyya) is a country located on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia. It has an estimated population of more than 23 million people and is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden to the south, and Oman to the east.
  http://wn.com/Yemen

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Fallen Idol, The (1948)

"Fallen Idol, The (1948)" Actors

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• Mich
• Bobby Henrey
• Jack Hawkins
• Denis O'dea
• Sonia Dresdel
• Walter Fitzgerald
• Karel Stepanek
• Joan Young
• Torin Thatcher

"Fallen Idol, The (1948)" Director

• Carol Reed

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