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January 1
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Abdul Ahad Momand
Abdul Ahad Momand (, born January 1, 1959) is a former aviator and a cosmonaut who became the first Afghan into space when he spent nine days aboard the Mir space station in 1988. He became the fourth Muslim to reach space, after Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Muhammed Faris, and Musa Manarov (see List of Muslim astronauts).
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Abdülkadir Koçak
Abdulkadir Koçak (born January 1, 1981) is a Turkish national boxer competing in the light flyweight (48 kg) division. Koçak boxed for Beşiktaş J.K. before transferring to Tekelspor club in Istanbul.
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Adolph Deutsch
Adolph Deutsch (20 October 1897 - 1 January 1980) was a composer, conductor and arranger. He won Oscars for his background music for Oklahoma! (1955), and for conducting the music for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and Annie Get Your Gun (1950). The London, England-born Deutsch was also nominated for The Band Wagon (1953) and the 1951 film version of Show Boat , for which he conducted the orchestra. For Broadway and Hollywood, he conducted, composed and arranged music, but did not write songs, not even for the Broadway shows on which he worked. In addition to his music for westerns and his conducting of the scores for musicals, Deutsch also composed for films noir, including The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and Nobody Lives Forever (1946), and the Billy Wilder comedies The Apartment (1960), and Some Like It Hot (1959).
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Agner Krarup Erlang
Agner Krarup Erlang (January 1, 1878 – February 3, 1929) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory.
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Al Hunt
Albert R. Hunt (born January 1, 1942) is the executive Washington editor for Bloomberg News, a subsidiary of Bloomberg L.P. Hunt hosts the Sunday morning talk show Political Capital on Bloomberg Television, which airs on Friday night.
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Alassane Ouattara
Alassane Dramane Ouattara (born 1 January 1942) is an Ivorian politician who was Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire from November 1990 to December 1993. He is currently the President of the Rally of the Republicans (RDR), a party which has its support base in the north of the country, and is a candidate in the upcoming 2009 presidential election. Besides being a politician he is also a technocrat, trained as an economist and having worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO).
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Alberigo Evani
Alberigo Evani (born January 1, 1963 in Massa) is an Italian former football (soccer) player in midfielder role. Born in Massa, Tuscany, he played in Serie A 353 times with 16 goals.
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Albert II of Germany
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Albert Mol
Albert Mol (Amsterdam, January 1, 1917 – Laren, March 9, 2004) was a popular Dutch author, actor and TV personality, who appeared in movies and TV shows in a career that spanned nearly 60 years.
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Aleka Stratigou
Aleka Stratigou (, Athens 1926 - January 1, 1989) was a Greek actress. She played in theatre and several films with a characteristic voice and played mostly in servant roles. She was the wife of Andreas Barkoulis. She died on January 1, 1989 and is buried in Peristeri. She was the brother of Stefanos and sister of Stella and Rena.
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Alexis Korner
Alexis Korner (19 April 1928 — 1 January 1984) was a pioneering blues musician and broadcaster who has sometimes been referred to as "the Founding Father of British Blues". A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians.
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Alfred Ely Beach
Alfred Ely Beach (September 1, 1826 – January 1, 1896) was an American inventor, publisher and patent lawyer.
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Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz is known for the New York art galleries that he ran in the early part of the 20th century, where he introduced many avant-garde European artists to the U.S. He was married to painter Georgia O'Keeffe.
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Alfredo Binda
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Ali al-Rida
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Alok Kapali
Alok Kapali () (born January 1, 1984 in Sylhet) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He is an allrounder who bats in the middle to lower order and bowls leg spin with a run-up (walk up) similar to that of Shane Warne. He is the only Bangladeshi cricket player to take a Test hat-trick.
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Alpha Blondy
Alpha Blondy (born January 1, 1953) is an Ivorian reggae singer and international recording artist. Alpha Blondy was born Seydou Koné in Dimbokro, Ivory Coast. He sings mainly in his native language of Dioula, in French and English, and sometimes in Arabic or Hebrew. His lyrics convey serious political attitudes and a sense of humor. In particular, he coined the French term democrature (an English equivalent might be "democratatorship") to identify some African governments.
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Andrei Stoliarov
Andrei Stoliarov (born January 1, 1977 in Sochi) is a Russian professional tennis player and a former member of the Russia Davis Cup team.
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Andrew Valmon
Andrew Orlando Valmon (born January 1, 1965) is an American former 400 meters runner.
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Anthony Wayne
Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 – December 15, 1796) was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the sobriquet of Mad Anthony.
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Anton Melik
Anton Melik (January 1, 1890 – June 8, 1966) was a Slovene geographer.
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Ari Up
Ariane Forster(born January 1, 1962 Munich, Germany), better known by her stage name Ari Up, is a vocalist best known as a member of the English punk group, The Slits.
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Arleigh Burke
'''Admiral Arleigh Albert '31-knot' Burke''' (October 19, 1901 – January 1, 1996) was an admiral of the United States Navy who distinguished himself during World War II and the Korean War, and who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower administration.
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Arnold Drakenborch
Arnold Drakenborch (January 1, 1684 – January 16, 1748) was a Dutch classical scholar.
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Arthur C. Parker
Arthur Caswell Parker (April 5, 1881 – January 1, 1955) was an American archaeologist, historian, folklorist, museologist and noted authority on American Indian culture. Of Seneca and Scots-English descent, he was director of the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences from 1924 to 1945. He was an honorary trustee of the New York State Historical Association. In 1935 he was elected first president of the Society for American Archaeology.
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Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Hugh Clough (1 January 1819 – 13 November 1861) was an English poet, the brother of suffragist Anne Clough (who ended up as principal of Newnham College, Cambridge), and assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale.
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Arthur Rudolph
Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph (November 9, 1906 – January 1, 1996 Hamburg) was a German rocket engineer and member of the Nazi party who helped develop and produce the V-2 rocket. After World War II he was brought to the United States and worked for the U.S. Army and NASA where he managed the development of several important systems including the Pershing missile and the Saturn V Moon rocket. In 1984 he was investigated for possible war crimes, and he agreed to leave the United States and renounce his US citizenship.
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Artur Rodziński
Artur Rodziński (January 1, 1892 - November 27, 1958) was a Polish conductor of opera and symphonic music.
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Ashfaq Hussain
Ashfaq Hussain (January 1, 1951, Karachi, Pakistan - ), full name is Ashfaq Hussain Zaidi. He is a leading modern Urdu poet and an author of more than 10 books of poetry and literary criticism. He is considered by many as the foremost expert on the life and works of great Urdu poets Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Ahmad Faraz and also on Progressive Writers Movement.
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Ashok Saraf
Ashok Saraf () (born 4 June) is an Indian actor and Comedian. He has appeared in many Hindi and Marathi movies.
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Asrani (actor)
Govardhan Asrani (, born 1 January 1941 in Jaipur, India), popularly known simply as Asrani, is an actor in Indian films whose Bollywood career has spanned over 35 years.His wife 'Manju Bansal' is also an actress.
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Audrey Wurdemann
Audrey Wurdemann was an American poet, and the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry at the age of 24, for her collection Bright Ambush. She was the great-great-granddaughter of Percy Bysshe Shelley. She never attended grammar school and entered high school at the age of 11.
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Azali Assoumani
Azali Assoumani (, born January 1, 1959) was a president of the Comoros. He became leader of the country on 30 April 1999 after leading a coup to depose acting president Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, who he saw as pandering to the independence movement on Anjouan. He won multi-party elections in 2002, prior to which he was constitutionally required to temporarily step down in order to run as a candidate.
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B. Kliban
Bernard "Hap" Kliban (January 1, 1935 – August 12, 1990) was an influential cartoonist born in New York.
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Barron Miles
Barron Miles (born January 1, 1972 in Roselle, New Jersey) is a retired professional Canadian football player for the Canadian Football League. He is now a Defensive and Player Personnel Assistant for the BC Lions. Miles finished his career tied for second all-time in career interceptions with 66 and as the all-time leader in blocked kicks with 13.
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Barry Goldberg
Barry Goldberg (born January 1, 1941, Chicago, Illinois) is a blues and rock keyboardist, songwriter and record producer.
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Basil Dearden
Basil Dearden (born Basil Clive Dear; 1 January 1911 – 23 March 1971) was an English film director.
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Bechara El Khoury
Bechara El Khoury (1890-1 January 1964) (Arabic: بشارة الخوري) was the first post-independence President of Lebanon, holding office from 21 September 1943 to 18 September 1952, apart from an 11-day interruption (11–22 November) in 1943. He had previously served two brief terms as Prime Minister, from 5 May 1927 to 10 August 1928 and from 9 May to 11 October 1929.
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Becky Kellar-Duke
Becky Kellar (born January 1, 1975 in Hagersville, Ontario) is a retired women's ice hockey player.
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Bengt Sæternes
Bengt Sæternes (born January 1, 1975) is a football (soccer) player from Egersund, Norway. He plays in the striker position for Vålerenga. His former clubs are Egersund IK, IL Eiger, Viking FK, Odd Grenland, FK Bodø/Glimt, Club Brugge, SK Brann and OB.
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Betsy Ross
Betsy Ross (January 1, 1752 – January 30, 1836) was an American seamstress and upholsterer who has been widely, but perhaps erroneously, credited with making the first American flag.
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Bob Matsui
Robert Takeo Matsui (松井 武男, September 17, 1941 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician from the state of California. Matsui was a member of the Democratic Party and served 13 terms (although elected to 14) in the U.S. House of Representatives as the congressman for California's 5th congressional district.
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Bob Menendez
Robert "Bob" Menendez (born January 1, 1954) is the junior United States Senator from New Jersey and a member of the Democratic Party. In December 2005, he was appointed by Jon Corzine to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Corzine, who resigned upon being elected Governor of New Jersey, and was sworn into office in January 2006. Menendez was elected to his own full six-year term in the 2006 U.S. Senate election, defeating Republican Thomas Kean, Jr. He is the first person of Latino ethnicity to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate.
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Bobby Holik
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Boris Bazhanov
Boris Georgiyevich Bazhanov (), sometimes also spelled Bajanov, (1900–1983) was a secretary in the Politburo and the personal secretary of the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin from August 1923 through the end of 1925. Bazhanov held different positions at the Politburo from 1925 to 1928. In 1928, Bazhanov defected from the Soviet Union and became the only assistant at Stalin's secretariat to have ever turned against the Soviet regime. Stalin's subsequent attempts to hunt down and kill Bazhanov in France failed. From 1930 and on, Bazhanov wrote and published various memoirs and books about the secrets behind Stalin's actions. Bazhanov writings continued to be published and translated after his death in Paris in 1983.
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Borys Tarasyuk
Borys Ivanovych Tarasyuk (; born January 1, 1949) is a Ukrainian politician. He has twice served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. He is from Zhytomyr Oblast. Tarasyuk studied international relations and international law at National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, and graduated in 1975. Besides Ukrainian, he is fluent in English, French and Russian.
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Bruce Norris
Bruce Arthur Norris (February 19, 1924 – January 1, 1986) was owner of the Detroit Red Wings from 1955 to 1982, and was also chairman of the National Hockey League's Board of Governors. He was the son of James E. Norris and half-brother of James D. Norris. Members of the Norris family owned the Red Wings for almost fifty years before selling the franchise to Mike Ilitch in 1982. In his first year as sole owner of the team, the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup in 1955. Norris was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1969, joining his father and brother.
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Bruno Söderström
Bruno Söderström (October 28, 1881 – January 1, 1969) was a Swedish athlete who competed mainly in the Javelin throw free style and pole vault.
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Buck Ram
Buck Ram (November 21, 1907 Chicago, Illinois - January 1, 1991 Las Vegas, Nevada) was an American songwriter, and popular music producer and arranger.
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Buster Nupen
Buster Nupen (Eiulf Peter Nupen); 1 January 1902 in Johannesburg, South Africa – 29 January 1977 in Johannesburg, South Africa) was one of the most enigmatic cricketers on the inter-war period.
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C P Scott
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Calum Davenport
Calum Ray Paul Davenport (born 1 January 1983) is an English footballer, who is currently playing for Wootton Blue Cross after being released by West Ham United. He plays as a centre back.
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Calum MacKay
Calum "Baldy" MacKay (January 1, 1927 - August 21, 2001) was a former Canadian ice hockey player. Although born in Toronto, Calum MacKay grew up in Fort William/Port Arthur, Ontario during the 1930s and early 1940s.
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Carl B. Hamilton
Count Carl Peter Bastiat Hamilton (born 1 January 1946 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish economist and politician.
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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.
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Catherine McCormack
Catherine McCormack (born 1 January 1972) is an English actress, known for her stage acting as well as her screen performances in films such as Braveheart, Spy Game and Dangerous Beauty.
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Cesar Romero
Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. (February 15, 1907 – January 1, 1994) was a Cuban American film and television actor, who played The Joker in the 1960s television series Batman. In 1966, the show was transferred to movie theaters, and Romero became the first actor to portray the Joker in a motion picture.
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Charles Bickford
Charles Bickford (January 1, 1891 – November 9, 1967) was an American actor best known for his supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette (1943), ''The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and Johnny Belinda (1948). Other notable roles include Whirlpool (1948), A Star is Born (1954) and The Big Country'' (1958).
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Charles I of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was the second son of James VI of Scots and I of England. He was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles believed was divinely ordained. Many of his English subjects opposed his actions, in particular his interference in the English and Scottish Churches and the levying of taxes without parliamentary consent which grew to be seen as those of a tyrannical absolute monarch.
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Charlie Munger
Charles Thomas Munger (born January 1, 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an investment manager and philanthropist. He is Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation, the diversified investment corporation chaired by Warren Buffett; in that capacity, Buffett describes Munger as "my partner." Munger is also the chairman of Wesco Financial Corporation, based in Pasadena, California.
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Cheung Kin Fung
Cheung Kin-fung (; born January 1, 1984, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong football player, who currently plays for TSW Pegasus of Hong Kong First Division League.
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Chiune Sugihara
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Chris Anstey
Christopher John (Chris) Anstey (born 1 January 1975 in Melbourne) was one of Australia's premier basketball players. At 2.13m (7 feet) and over 115 kg (253 pounds), Anstey is usually a starter at center on the Australian national basketball team. His career includes stints in the NBA, Russia and Spain. Anstey was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round (18th pick overall) of the 1997 NBA Draft. He played for the Melbourne Tigers in the Australian NBL. He retired at the end of the 2009/2010 season.
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Christi Paul
Christi Paul (born January 1, 1969) is a reporter and weekday news anchor for HLN. She currently anchors afternoons and is a regular fill-in for Robin Meade on Morning Express. Christi also substituted on Prime News while Erica Hill was on maternity leave.
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Christian Paradis
Christian Paradis, PC, MP (born January 1, 1974 in Thetford Mines, Quebec) is an embattled Conservative Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons for Mégantic—L'Érable. He was first elected in the 2006 federal election and served as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources until January 4, 2007, when he was appointed Secretary of State for Agriculture and Agri-food Canada and the Rural Secretariat. On 25 June 2008, Paradis was appointed Minister of Public Works and Government Services, retaining his position as Secretary of State for Agriculture until October that same year. On October 30, 2008, in a cabinet shuffle following the election, he would retain the Public Works portfolio. In addition, he succeeded Lawrence Cannon as Quebec Lieutenant.[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081030.wcabinetquebec1031/BNStory/Front] On January 19, 2010 in a Cabinet shuffle. Prime Minister Harper appointed him Minister of Natural Resources.
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Claiborne Pell
Claiborne de Borda Pell (November 22, 1918 – January 1, 2009) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving six terms from 1961 to 1997, and was best known as the sponsor of the Pell Grant, which provides financial aid funding to U.S. college students. A Democrat, he was that state's longest serving senator.
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Clay Cole
Clay Cole is a former host and disk jockey, best known for his eponymous television dance program, The Clay Cole Show, which aired in New York City on WNTA and WPIX-TV from 1959 to 1968. The Clay Cole Show was unique among early television rock 'n' roll studio dance shows; it was witty and stylish with a sophisticated New York point-of-view. It was Clay's youth (21), his dancing ability and his fully integrated studio audience that set him apart.
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Colin Morgan
Colin Morgan (born 1 January 1986) is an actor from Armagh, Northern Ireland, best known for playing the title character in the BBC TV series Merlin. Colin went to Integrated College Dungannon in Dungannon. After gaining a National Diploma in Performing Arts (Acting) and studying at Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education in 2004, he went on to graduate from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2007.
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Colin Vaughan
Colin Vaughan (1931 – 1 January 2000) was a television journalist, urban activist and alderman serving the Canadian city of Toronto. He was best known as the political specialist for the Toronto television station Citytv from 1977 until his death. He died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 68.
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Commodus
Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus (31 August 161 – 31 December 192) was Roman Emperor from 180 to 192. He also ruled as co-emperor with his father Marcus Aurelius from 177 until his father's death in 180. His name changed throughout his reign; see Changes of name for earlier and later forms. His accession as emperor was the first time a son had succeeded his father since Titus succeeded Vespasian in 79. Commodus was the first emperor "born to the purple"; i.e., born during his father's reign.
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Country Joe McDonald
Country Joe McDonald (born Joseph Allen McDonald; January 1, 1942) was the lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe & the Fish.
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Cyril Shaps
Cyril Shaps (13 October 1923 – 1 January 2003) was an English actor.
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César Baldaccini
César Baldaccini (1 January 1921 in Marseille - 6 December 1998 in Paris), usually called César was a noted French sculptor.
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Dan Katchongva
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Daniel E Gawthrop
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Daniel Freeman
Daniel Freeman (April 26, 1826–December 30, 1908) was an American homesteader, physician and Civil War veteran. He was recognized as the first person to file a claim under the Homestead Act of 1862.
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Daniel Gorenstein
Daniel E. Gorenstein (January 1, 1923 – August 26, 1992) was an American mathematician. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1950 under Oscar Zariski, introducing in his dissertation Gorenstein rings. He worked on commutative algebra, and then was a major influence on the classification of finite simple groups.
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Danny Lloyd
Danny Lloyd (born January 1, 1973) is an American former child actor.
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Darrent Williams
Darrent Demarcus Williams (September 27, 1982 – January 1, 2007) was an American football player for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. Williams was also the owner and CEO of independent record label RYNO Entertainment in Fort Worth, Texas.
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David Dinkins
David Norman Dinkins (born July 10, 1927) is a former politician from New York City. He was the Mayor of New York City from 1990 through 1993, and is to date the only African American to hold that office.
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David Nalbandian
David Pablo Nalbandian (born January 1, 1982) is an Argentine professional tennis player, former World No. 3, currently ranked 37th in the world as of August 16, 2010. He was runner up in the 2002 Wimbledon Championships and winner of the Tennis Masters Cup in 2005.
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David Packard
David Packard (September 7, 1912 – March 26, 1996) was a co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–1964), CEO (1964–1968), and Chairman of the Board (1964–1968, 1972–1993). He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969–1971 during the Nixon administration. Packard was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988 and is noted for many technological innovations and philanthropic endeavors.
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Dawn Lake
Dawn Lake (20 January 19271 January 2006) was an Australian television comedian, singer, entertainer and actor, whose career spanned more than four decades. Bert Newton described her as "our greatest comedienne - Australia's Lucille Ball". She was particularly associated in show business with her husband Bobby Limb.
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Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta, LLD () (born 1 January 1950 in Amritsar, Punjab, India) is a Genie Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005), which was nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. She also co-founded Hamilton-Mehta Productions, with her husband, producer David Hamilton in 1996.
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Del Reeves
Franklin Delano Reeves (July 14, 1932–January 1, 2007), better known as Del Reeves, was an American country music singer, best known for his "girl-watching" novelty songs of the 1960s including "Girl on the Billboard" and "The Belles of Southern Bell". He is also known for his 1968 trucker's anthem, "Looking At The World Through A Windshield", which demonstrated he was capable more than just novelty songs. He became one of the most successful male country singers of the 1960s.
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Dennis Archer
Dennis Wayne Archer (born January 1, 1942) is an American lawyer and politician from Michigan. A Democrat, Archer served on the Michigan Supreme Court and as mayor of Detroit. He later served as president of the American Bar Association, becoming the first African-American president of an organization which, until 1943, had barred African-American laywers from membership.
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Derrick Thomas
Derrick Vincent Thomas (January 1, 1967February 8, 2000), nicknamed D.T., was an American football linebacker and defensive end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. He played his entire 11-year career for the Chiefs after being drafted 4th overall in the 1989 NFL Draft. Thomas, part of the class of 2009 entering the Pro Football Hall of Fame, was a premier football player throughout the 1990s and is considered one of the best pass rushers of all-time. In 1990 against the Seattle Seahawks, he set an NFL record with seven sacks in a single game. On February 8, 2000, Thomas died from a massive blood clot that developed in his paralyzed lower extremities and traveled to his lungs. His paralysis was the result of severe injuries sustained in a car accident weeks earlier.
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Devin Setoguchi
Devin Setoguchi (born January 1, 1987), also known as The Gooch, is a Canadian ice hockey right winger for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. Setoguchi is half Japanese. He was drafted by the Sharks in the first round, 8th overall, in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.
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Devlet Bahçeli
Devlet Bahçeli (born 1948) is a Turkish politician, maths professor and chairman of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).
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Dirk van Erp
Dirk van Erp (1860 - 1933) was an Dutch American artisan, coppersmith and metalsmith, best known for lamps made of copper with mica shades, and also for copper vases, bowls and candlesticks. He was a prominent participant in the Arts and Crafts Movement, and was active in Oakland and San Francisco, CA.
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Doak Walker
Ewell Doak Walker, Jr. (January 1, 1927 – September 27, 1998) was an American football player who is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was a teammate of Bobby Layne in high school and the NFL.
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Don Nehlen
Don Nehlen (born January 1, 1936 in Mansfield, Ohio) is a former American football player and coach. He was the head coach at Bowling Green State University (1968–1976) and at West Virginia University (1980–2000). Nehlen retired from coaching college football in 2001 with a career record of 202–128–8 and as the 17th winningest coach in college football history. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2005 and has served as a president of the American Football Coaches Association.
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Don Novello
Don Novello (born January 1, 1943) is an American writer, film director, producer, actor, singer, and comedian. Novello is best known for his work on NBC's Saturday Night Live, from 1977 until 1980, and then 1985 until 1986, often as the character "Father Guido Sarducci". Novello has appeared as "Sarducci" on many television shows since then, including Married... with Children, Blossom, ''It's Garry Shandling's Show, Unhappily Ever After, Square Pegs and The Colbert Report''.
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Duff Cooper
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich GCMG, DSO, PC (22 February, 1890 – 1 January, 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician, diplomat and author. He wrote six books, including an autobiography, Old Men Forget, and a biography of Talleyrand. He wrote one novel, Operation Heartbreak (1950), which has been republished by Persephone Books.
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E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect".
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E. P. Wigner
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Eden Riegel
Eden Sonja Jane Riegel (born January 1, 1981) is an American actress. Nominated previously on multiple occasions, she received a Daytime Emmy Award in 2005 for her portrayal of Bianca Montgomery on the daytime drama All My Children. In addition to her work on All My Children, Riegel has guest starred in several prime time shows, as well as film, and stars as character "Eden" in the web series Imaginary Bitches. She assumed the role of Heather Stevens on The Young and the Restless in April of 2010.
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Edmund Barton
Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC (18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920), Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
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Edward Lutyens
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Edward Weston
Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was a 20th century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography."
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Eiichiro Oda
is a Japanese manga artist, best known as the creator of the manga and anime One Piece.
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Elin Nordegren
Elin Maria Pernilla Nordegren (; born January 1, 1980) is a former Swedish model and the ex-wife of professional golfer Tiger Woods.
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Elkanah Settle
Elkanah Settle (January 1, 1648 – February 12, 1724) was an English poet and playwright.
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Emi Kobayashi
is a Japanese gravure idol. She is from Tokyo, and belongs to the show-business production Suns Entertainment. She belonged to Yellow Cab before 2004. She portrayed the hostess who became a nun named Saori in Lion-Maru G.
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Emperor Go-Sai
, also known as was the 111th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
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Ernest Hollings
Ernest Frederick "Fritz" Hollings (born January 1, 1922) served as a Democratic United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005, as well as the 106th Governor of South Carolina (1959–1963) and Lt. Governor (1955–1959). He served 38 years and 55 days in the Senate, which makes him the 8th-longest-serving Senator in history. He served alongside Republican Strom Thurmond for 36 of those years, making them the longest-serving Senate duo in history, and him the most senior junior senator ever.
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Ernest Tidyman
Ernest Tidyman (January 1, 1928 - July 14, 1984) was a Cleveland-born American author and screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. He also co-wrote the screenplay for the film version of Shaft with John D.F. Black in 1971.
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Ernie Koy
Ernest Anyz Koy (September 17, 1909 – January 1, 2007), nicknamed "Chief," was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for four National League teams from 1938 - 1942. He was born in Sealy, Texas and was of American Indian ancestry. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and played with the Longhorns. He was also a member of the Alpha Tau Omega, Gamma Eta chapter while on the 40 acres.
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Eugene J. Martin
Eugene James Martin (b. Washington, D.C., July 24, 1938 - d. Lafayette, Louisiana, January 1, 2005)
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Eva Birthistle
Eva Birthistle (born January 1, 1974 in Bray, Co. Wicklow) is an Irish actress, best known for her role in Ae Fond Kiss.... She has won the London Film Critics Circle British Actress of the Year award for 2004 (despite not being British), and has twice won the IFTA Best Actor in a Leading Role (Film) award.
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Ezra Weisz
Ezra E. Weisz (Born January 1, 1971 in Freehold Township, New Jersey) is a voice actor who is also known as Ethan Murray.
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F. William Free
F. William Free (August 28, 1928 – January 1, 2003), was an American advertising executive. He is best remembered for the controversial 1971 advertising slogan for National Airlines, "I'm Cheryl – Fly Me."
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Fadi El Khatib
Fadi El Khatib (), born January 1, 1979, is a Lebanese basketball player currently playing for Champville SC in the Lebanese Basketball League. He is also the current captain of the Lebanon national basketball team that participated in the 2002 FIBA World Championship in Indianapolis in the United States, in the 2006 FIBA World Championship which took place in Japan, and in the 2010 FIBA World Championship held i
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Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (Punjabi, lang-ur|; (January 1, 1904 - June 2, 1982) was the fifth President of Pakistan from August 14, 1973 until his resignation on September 16, 1978.
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Ferdinand de Lesseps
Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps, GCSI (19 November 1805 – 7 December 1894) was the French developer of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas in 1869, and substantially reduced sailing distances and times between the West and the East.
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Fergal O'Hanlon
'''Feargal O'Hanlon (Irish: Feargal Ó hAnnluain''' (b. 2 February 1936, Ballybay, County Monaghan, Ireland – d. 1 January 1957, Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland) was a member/volunteer in the Pearse Column of the Irish Republican Army.
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Fernando Tatis
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Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban politician. One of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Castro served as the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then as the President of the Council of State of Cuba and the President of Council of Ministers of Cuba until his resignation from the office in February 2008. He currently serves as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, a position he has held since 1965.
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Filippo Baldinucci
Filippo Baldinucci (1624 – January 1, 1697) was an Italian art historian and biographer.
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Fiona Phillips
Fiona Phillips (born 1 January 1961, Canterbury, Kent) is an English journalist, broadcaster and television presenter.
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Flemming Jørgensen
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Frances Bay
Frances Goffman Bay (born January 1, 1918) is a Canadian-born United States-based character actress known for playing a variety of quirky elderly women on film and television.
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Frances Yip
Frances Yip Lai-yee is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer. She is best known for performing many of the theme songs for television series produced by TVB in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Francesco Guardi
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (October 5, 1712 – January 1, 1793) was an Italian painter of veduta, a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting.
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Francis I of France
Francis I () (12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death.
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Frank Knox
William Franklin "Frank" Knox (January 1, 1874 – April 28, 1944) was an American newspaper editor and publisher. He was also the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1936, and Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt during most of World War II.
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Frank Langella
Frank A. Langella, Jr. (born January 1, 1938) is an American stage and film actor.
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Fred West
'''Frederick Walter Stephen 'Fred' West''' (29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995), was an English serial killer.
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Frederick Muhlenberg
Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg (; January 1, 1750 – June 4, 1801) was an American minister and politician who was the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. A delegate and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and a Lutheran pastor by profession, Muhlenberg was born in Trappe, Pennsylvania.
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Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American documentary filmmaker. He came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a lawyer. He has won numerous film awards, as well as Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships.
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Fulgencio Batista
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban President, dictator, and military leader closely aligned with and supported by the United States. He served as the leader of Cuba from 1933–1944, and 1952–1959, before being overthrown as a result of the Cuban Revolution.
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Fulgentius of Ruspe
Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe (Thelepte, 462 or 467 — 1 January 527 or 533) was bishop of the city of Ruspe, North Africa, in the 5th and 6th century who was canonized as a Christian saint. Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius was born into a noble family of Carthage, which had been cut off from the Roman Empire some thirty years earlier by the Vandals.
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Gaafar al-Nimeiry
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Galba
Servius Sulpicius Galba (24 December 3 BC – 15 January 69), commonly known as Galba, was Roman Emperor for seven months from 68 to 69. Galba was the governor of Hispania Tarraconensis, and made a bid for the throne during the rebellion of Julius Vindex. He was the first emperor of the Year of the Four Emperors.
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Garrett K. Gomez
Garrett Keith Gomez (born January 1, 1972 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American thoroughbred jockey.
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Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson may refer to:
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Gennadi Sarafanov
Gennadi Vasiliyevich Sarafanov (; (January 1, 1942 in Sinenkie – September 29, 2005) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 mission.
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Georgios Stanotas
Georgios Stanotas (, January 1, 1888-1965) was a Greek cavalry officer who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General.
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Gerhard Weinberg
Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg (born January 1, 1928) is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of World War II. Weinberg currently is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a member of the history faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1974. Previously he served on the faculties of the University of Michigan (1959-1974) and the University of Kentucky (1957-1959).
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Germania Superior
Germania Superior ("Upper Germania"), so called for the reason that it lay upstream of Germania Inferior, was a province of the Roman Empire. It comprised the area of western Switzerland, the French Jura and Alsace regions and south-western Germany. Important cities were Besançon (Besontio), Strasbourg (Argentoratum), Wiesbaden (Aquae Mattiacae) and Germania Superior's capital Mainz (Moguntiacum). It comprised the Middle Rhine, bordering on the Limes Germanicus, and on the Alpine province of Raetia to the south-east.
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Gia Long
Emperor Gia Long (Hán tự: ; 8 February 1762 – 3 February 1820), born Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (Hán tự: , often referred to simply as Nguyễn Ánh), was an emperor of Vietnam. Unifying what is now modern Vietnam in 1802, he founded the Nguyễn Dynasty, the last of the Vietnamese dynasties.
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Gilbert Brule
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Giovanni D'Anzi
'''Giovanni D'Anzi''' (1 January, 1906 – 15 April, 1974) was an Italian songwriter.
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Giuseppe Patanè
Giuseppe Patanè (1 January 193229 May 1989) was an Italian opera conductor.
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Giuseppe Piazzi
Giuseppe Piazzi (July 16, 1746 - July 22, 1826) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Theatine order, mathematician, and astronomer. He was born in Ponte in Valtellina, and died in Naples. He established an observatory at Palermo, now the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo – Giuseppe S. Vaiana.
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Grace Hopper
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Naval officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. She conceptualized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages. She is also credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches (motivated by an actual moth removed from the computer). Because of the breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace". The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Hopper (DDG-70) was named for her.
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Grandmaster Flash
Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958 in Bridgetown, Barbados) better known as Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing.
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Greg Carmichael
Greg Carmichael (born January 1, 1953), is a long standing member of contemporary jazz group Acoustic Alchemy. His primary instrument is the nylon string acoustic guitar.
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Gregory Blaxland
Gregory Blaxland (17 June 1778 – 1 January 1853) was a pioneer farmer and explorer in Australia.
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Gustav I of Sweden
Gustav I of Sweden, born Gustav Eriksson and later known as Gustav Vasa (12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560), was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death. He was the first monarch of the House of Vasa, an influential noble family which came to be the royal house of Sweden for much of the 16th and 17th centuries. Gustav I was elected regent in 1521 after leading a rebellion against Christian II of Denmark, the leader of the Kalmar Union who controlled most of Sweden at the time.
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Gustave Whitehead
Gustave Albin Whitehead, born Gustav Albin Weisskopf (January 1, 1874 – October 10, 1927) was a German immigrant to the US and an aviation pioneer who designed and built engines and very early aircraft in which he reportedly made powered flights more than two years before the Wright brothers. He did most of his aviation work from about 1897 to 1911, but gained only modest attention. In 1901 a few newspapers reported that he made several flights in Connecticut that year, and he claimed a much longer flight in 1902. Publicity soon faded when he did not repeat the reported feats. His name and work lapsed into obscurity until a 1935 magazine article and subsequent books spotlighted his reported flights and sparked a vigorous "first flight" debate among aviation buffs, enthusiasts, historians and pioneers—including Orville Wright—that has lasted ever since. Publications in the 1960s and 1970s, and the research associated with those publications, have increased knowledge of and interest in Whitehead.
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Haakon III of Norway
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Hagood Hardy
Hugh Hagood Hardy, CM (February 26, 1937 – January 1, 1997) was a Canadian composer, pianist, and vibraphonist. He is best known for the 1975 single, "The Homecoming", (US #41 pop, #6 easy listening) originally created as music to a 1972 TV commercial for Salada tea, and for his soundtrack to the Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea films.
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Hamilton Ricard
Hámilton Ricard Cuesta (born January 1, 1974 in Chocó) is a Colombian footballer who plays as a striker, and has played for Deportivo Cali, Middlesbrough, CSKA Sofia, Independiente, Emelec, Shonan Bellmare, Numancia, Danubio and Concepción over the course of his career.
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Hank Greenberg
Henry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg (January 1, 1911 – September 4, 1986), nicknamed '''"Hammerin' Hank,"''' was an American professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Hans-Joachim Stuck
Hans-Joachim Stuck (born 1 January 1951), nicknamed "Striezel", is a German racing driver who has competed in Formula One and many other categories. He is the son of the legendary Hans Stuck. As a young boy, his father taught him driving on the Nürburgring. In 1969 he started his first ever motor race at the Nordschleife. Speaking about that day he said, "Getting to the grid was extremely exciting. All of a sudden, my wishes to become a racer came true. I just wanted to start the race and give everybody hell!" Remarkably, the following year, at just 19 years of age, he won his first 24 hours race at the wheel of a BMW 2002TI. He won there again in 1998 and 2004, too, each time with a BMW touring car.
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Harold Corsini
Harold Corsini (August 28, 1919 – January 1, 2008) was an American photographer.
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Harriet Brooks
Harriet Brooks (1876 – 1933) was the first Canadian woman nuclear physicist. She is most famous for her research on nuclear transmutations and radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford, who guided her graduate work, regarded her as being next to Marie Curie in the calibre of her aptitude.
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Haruo Nakajima
(born January 1, 1929 in Yamagata, Japan) is a famous Japanese actor. He is best known for playing Godzilla and is considered by many to be the best suit actor. He even plays other kaiju (Japanese monsters) from Toho's films. He retired from suit acting in 1972 after the death of special effects director and close friend Eiji Tsuburaya. He is currently shooting a documentary with Team WereWolf. The documentary is titled "The Ghost of Godzilla: The Man Who Was Godzilla: On The Shoulders of Monsters: In the Shadow of the Monster: Unzipping the Mystery." (working title, pre-production)
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Hasan al-Askari
Hasan al-‘Askarī () (Eighth of Rabi' al-thani 232 AH – Eighth of Rabi' al-awwal 260 AH; approximately: 1 December 846 – 1 January 874) was the eleventh of the Twelve Imams. His given name was Hasan ibn ‘Alī ibn Muhammad.His title al-Askari derives from the Arabic word Asker which means military.He was given this title mainly because the country he lived in (Samarra) was a military camp. Hasan al-‘Askarī was 22, when his father was killed. The period of his Imāmate, following his father's death, was six years. Hasan Al-‘Askarī died at the age of 28 in the year, 260 Hijra and was buried in Samarra.Eliash, J. "Ḥasan al- ʿAskarī , Abū Muḥammad Ḥasan b. ʿAlī." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Edited by: P. Bearman , Th. Bianquis , C.E. Bosworth , E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs. Brill, 2010. Brill Online. Augustana. 13 April 2010
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Hasan Salihamidžić
Hasan Salihamidžić (Bosnian, in Cyrillic: Хасан Салихамиџић; born 1 January 1977) is a Bosniak football midfielder currently playing for Juventus F.C., in the Italian Serie A.
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He Kexin
He Kexin ( ; born January 1, 1992 in Beijing according to official records) is a Chinese gymnast. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing she won gold medals on the uneven bars (her specialty) and as a member of the Chinese Artistic Gymnastics team. In 2008, she won two World Cup titles on the uneven bars. On the bars she was one of the few gymnasts in the world to score over 17.00 under the 2006-2008 Code of Points. With an A-score of 7.7 in 2008, she had one of the highest difficulty scores in the world in the event, along with Yang Yilin, Nastia Liukin and Beth Tweddle. As with several of her teammates, questions were raised in the international press when earlier reports surfaced indicating she may not have been old enough to compete in the 2008 Olympics, but an official investigation found in her favor.
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Helen Wills Moody
Helen Newington Wills Roark (October 6, 1905 – January 1, 1998), also known as Helen Wills Moody, was an American tennis player. She has been described as "the first American born woman to achieve international celebrity as an athlete."
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Hendrik Goltzius
Hendrik Goltzius (January or February 1558 - January 1, 1617, Haarlem), was a Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter. He was the leading Dutch engraver of the early Baroque period, or Northern Mannerism, noted for his sophisticated technique and the "exuberance" of his compositions. According to A. Hyatt Mayor, Goltzius "was the last professional engraver who drew with the authority of a good painter and the last who invented many pictures for others to copy". In middle age he also began to produce paintings.
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Hephzibah Menuhin
Hephzibah Menuhin (20 May 19201 January 1981) was an American-Jewish pianist and human rights campaigner. She was sister to the violinist Lord Menuhin (Yehudi Menuhin) and to the pianist, painter, and poet Yaltah Menuhin. She was also a gifted linguist and writer, co-authoring several books and writing many papers with her second husband, Richard Hauser.
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Hobson's choice
A '''Hobson's choice''' is a free choice in which only one option is offered. As a person may refuse to take that option, the choice is therefore between taking the option or not; "take it or leave it". The phrase is said to originate from Thomas Hobson (1544–1631), a livery stable owner at Cambridge, England. To rotate the use of his horses he offered customers the choice of either taking the horse in the stall nearest the door or taking none at all.
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Hong Xiuquan
Hóng Xiùquán (; Hakka Chinese: Fùng Siu-chhiòn; 1 January 1814 – 1 June 1864), born Hong Renkun (洪仁坤), courtesy name Huoxiu (火秀), was a Hakka Chinese who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, establishing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom over varying portions of southern China, with himself as the "Heavenly King" and self-proclaimed brother of Jesus Christ.
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Hugh McLaughlin
This article is about the Irish publisher Hugh McLaughlin. For the 19th century US politician see Hugh McLaughlin (politician).
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Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli (1 January 1484 – 11 October 1531) was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland. Born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swiss mercenary system, he attended the University of Vienna and the University of Basel, a scholarly centre of humanism. He continued his studies while he served as a pastor in Glarus and later in Einsiedeln where he was influenced by the writings of Erasmus.
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Ismail al-Faruqi
'''Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi' (January 1, 1921 – May 27, 1986) was a Palestinian-American philosopher, widely recognised by his peers as an authority on Islam and comparative religion. He spent several years at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, then taught at several universities in North America, including McGill University in Montreal. He was Professor of Religion at Temple University, where he founded and chaired the Islamic Studies program. Dr. al-Faruqi was also the founder of the International Institute of Islamic Thought. He wrote over 100 articles for various scholarly journals and magazines in addition to 25 books, of the most notable being Christian Ethics: A Historical and Systematic Analysis of Its Dominant Ideas''. He also established the Islamic Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion and chaired it for ten years. He served as the vice-president of the Inter-Religious Peace Colloqium, The Muslim-Jewish-Christian Conference and as the president of the American Islamic College in Chicago.
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István Kühár
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Ivan Graziani
Ivan Graziani (October 6, 1945 – January 1, 1997) was an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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J. D. Salinger
Jerome David Salinger (, ; January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. His last original published work was in 1965; he gave his last interview in 1980.
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J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a large and efficient crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modern innovations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.
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Jack Wilshere
Jack Andrew G. Wilshere (born 1 January 1992) is an English footballer who plays for Arsenal as an Centre midfielder. He is a product of the Arsenal Academy who came to prominence in the 2008–09 season. Wilshere made his debut for the senior England national team in a friendly against Hungary at Wembley Stadium on 11 August 2010.
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Jackie Parker
John Dickerson "Jackie" Parker (died November 7, 2006) was an American football player who became an All-American in college football and an outstanding professional football player in the Canadian Football League at the running back, quarterback, defensive back, and kicker positions. He is primarily known for his play with the Edmonton Eskimos. Later in his career, he played for the Toronto Argonauts and the BC Lions, and coached the Eskimos and Lions after his playing career ended.
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James Frazer
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James Hormel
James Catherwood Hormel (born January 1, 1933 in Austin, Minnesota) is an American philanthropist and grandson of George A. Hormel, founder of Hormel Foods (producers of SPAM and other meat products).
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James K. Glassman
James K. Glassman (born January 1, 1947 in Washington, D.C.) is an American conservative editorialist, journalist, diplomat and author. He is currently the host of the television program "Ideas in Action," which airs on PBS member stations across the country. On December 11, 2007 Glassman was nominated by President George W. Bush to replace Karen Hughes as the Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy. In 2007, Glassman became Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, an independent federal agency that provides programming about America to non-American overseas audiences via the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa), Radio Free Asia, and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Radio and TV Marti). Earlier he founded The American, the magazine of ideas for business leaders, published by the American Enterprise Institute, and was its editor-in-chief and from 2005 to 2007. He is a frequent commentator on business and investing issues, and has published in newspapers around the world, including the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Atlantic Monthly, ''Reader's Digest, and The Times Literary Supplement (London) He was co-author of Dow 36,000'', published in 1999, which was overenthusiastic about the stock market.
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James Sinegal
James D. Sinegal is co-founder and CEO of Costco, an international low-price membership retail chain and the largest U.S. wholesale club, headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, U.S..
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Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Jean-Bédel Bokassa (; 22 February 1921 – 3 November 1996, also known as Bokassa I of Central Africa and Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa) was the military ruler of the Central African Republic from 1 January 1966 and the Emperor of the Central African Empire from 4 December 1976 until he was overthrown on 20 September 1979.
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Jean-Marc Gounon
Jean-Marc Gounon (born January 1, 1963 in Aubenas, Ardèche) is a racing driver from France. He raced in Formula One in and , participating in a total of 9 Grands Prix and scoring no championship points.
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Jean-Pierre Duprey
Jean-Pierre Duprey (1 January 1930, Rouen – 2 October 1959, Paris) was a French poet and sculptor, one of the modern examples of an accursed poet.
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Jeff Carter
Jeff Carter (born January 1, 1985) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He is an alternate captain for the Flyers during away games.
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Jerry Robinson
Jerry Robinson (born January 1, 1922 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American comic book artist best known for his work on DC Comics' Batman line of comics during the 1940s.
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Jimmy Hart
Jimmy Ray Hart (born January 1, 1944) is a professional wrestling manager, executive, composer, and musician best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling under his nickname The Mouth of the South. He has managed many professional wrestlers, including Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, Jim Neidhart, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Ted DiBiase, and The Honky Tonk Man. He is also a one-time AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
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Joe Cannon (soccer)
Joe Cannon (born January 1, 1975 in Sun Valley, Idaho) is an American soccer player who currently plays for San Jose Earthquakes in Major League Soccer.
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Joe Orton
John Kingsley ("Joe") Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967
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Joe Petagno
Joe Petagno (born January 1, 1948 - ) is an artist known principally for creating images used on heavy metal album covers, for bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Nazareth, Motörhead, Roy Harper, Marduk, Nightshade, and Illdisposed.
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Joey Stefano
Joey Stefano, the stage name of Nicholas Anthony Iacona, Jr. (January 1, 1968 - November 26, 1994) was an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay adult films.
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Johann Bernoulli
Johann Bernoulli (27 July 1667 – 1 January 1748; also known as Jean or John) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and educated Leonhard Euler in his youth.
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John Digweed
John Digweed (born as Thomas John Digweed on 1 January 1967 in Hastings, England) is an English DJ and record producer.
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John Fuller (poet)
John Fuller (born 1 January 1937) is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.
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John Garand
John Cantius Garand (January 1, 1888 – February 16, 1974) was a designer of firearms best known for creating the first successful semi-automatic rifle to be put into active military service, the M1 Garand.
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John George Children
John George Children (18 May 1777 – 1 January 1852 in Halstead/Kent) was a British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist.
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John Goff
John William Goff (January 1, 1848 - November 9, 1924) was an Irish-born lawyer and judge in the USA, noted for his support of Irish Fenian rebel movements.
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John IV Laskaris
John IV Doukas Laskaris (or Ducas Lascaris) (Greek: Ιωάννης Δ΄ Δούκας Λάσκαρις, Iōannēs IV Doukas Laskaris) (December 25, 1250 – c. 1305) was emperor of Nicaea from August 18, 1258 to December 25, 1261. This small empire was one of the Greek states formed from the remaining fragments of the Byzantine Empire, after the capture of Constantinople by Western European Christians during the Fourth Crusade in 1204.
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John Newton
John Henry Newton (July 24, 1725 – December 21, 1807) was an English Anglican clergyman and former slave-ship captain. He was the author of many hymns, including "Amazing Grace" and "Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken."
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John V of Portugal
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John Wilkins
John Wilkins (1 January 1614 – 19 November 1672) was an English clergyman, natural philosopher and author, as well as a founder of the Royal Society, and Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death.
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Jon Corzine
Jon Stevens Corzine (born January 1, 1947) is a financial executive and a former American politician, who served as the 54th Governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. A Democrat, Corzine served five years of a six-year U.S. Senate term representing New Jersey before being elected Governor in 2005. He was defeated for re-election in 2009 by Republican Chris Christie. In March 2010, Corzine was named chairman and CEO of MF Global Inc., a financial services firm specializing in futures brokerage.
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Jonas Armstrong
Jonas Armstrong (born 1 January 1981 in Dublin) is an Irish born British actor, raised in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire best known for his appearances on television in the United Kingdom, where he has played the title role in the BBC One drama series Robin Hood.
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Joseph Bonanno
Giuseppe “Joseph Charles” Bonanno, Sr. (January 18, 1905 – May 11, 2002) was a Sicilian-born American Mafioso who became the boss of the Bonanno crime family. He was nicknamed "Joe Bananas," a name he despised because it implied he was crazy.
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Joseph Koo
Joseph Koo Kar-Fai, MBE, SBS (born January 1, 1933 in Guangzhou, China) is one of the most respected composers in Hong Kong. He used the pen name Moran (莫然) for Mandarin songs. He is the younger brother of famous Chinese singer Koo Mei (顧媚).
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and head of state who served as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. After the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Stalin rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union, which he ruled as a dictator.
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Juan Carlos Plata
Juan Carlos Plata (born 1 January 1971) is a Guatemalan football striker. He is the highest-scoring player in the history of Guatemala's top division. As of January 2010, Plata has, except for Marc Lloyd-Williams, been the most prolific scorer among all active players in the world in top division leagues, and is among the top 60 goalscorers of all time in the world according to the International Federation of Football History & Statistics.
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Juanma Bajo Ulloa
Juan Manuel Bajo Ulloa (born January 1, 1967) is a Spanish Basque film director.
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Judy Stone
:For the American journalist and film critic, see Judy Stone (journalist).
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Jule Gregory Charney
Jule Gregory Charney (January 1, 1917 – June 16, 1981) was an American meteorologist who played an important role in developing weather prediction. He developed a set of equations (The Quasi-Geostrophic Vorticity Equation) for calculating the large-scale motions of planetary-scale waves. He gave the first convincing physical explanation for the development of mid-latitude cyclones known as the Baroclinic Instability theory. He is considered the father of modern dynamical meteorology.
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Julia Phillips
Julia Phillips (April 7, 1944 – January 1, 2002) was a film producer and author. She is remembered for being the first woman to win an Academy Award as a film's producer, and for a best selling tell-all memoir.
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Juliana Donald
Juliana Donald (b. January 1, 1964 in Washington, D.C.) is an American actress who starred in films and has made guest appearances on television shows. She is best known for playing the part of Jenny in the 1984 Jim Henson movie The Muppets Take Manhattan, which was her first feature film role.
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Julius Hegyi
Julius Hegyi (February 2, 1923 – January 1, 2007) was an American conductor and violinist.
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Kamatari Fujiwara
Kamatari Fujiwara (藤原釜足 Fujiwara Kamatari, January 15, 1905 - December 21, 1985) was a Japanese actor.
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Kim Philby
'''Harold Adrian Russell 'Kim' Philby''' (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a spy for and later defected to the Soviet Union. A communist, he served as an NKVD and KGB operative.
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Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for his founding the Global AIDS and Health Fund to support developing countries in their struggle to care for their people.
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Koichi Domoto
(born January 1, 1979) is a Japanese idol, singer, singer-songwriter, composer, lyricist, television personality, seiyū and actor. Along with Tsuyoshi Domoto (whom he has no blood-relation with), he is a member of KinKi Kids, which is a Japanese duo under the management of Johnny & Associates.
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Kōji Yakusho
is a Japanese actor.
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Larry Clark
Lawrence Donald "Larry" Clark (born January 19, 1943) is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids and his photography book Tulsa. His most common subject is youth who casually engage in illegal drug use, underage sex and violence, and who are part of a specific subculture, such as surfing, punk rock or skateboarding.
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Lazaros Agadakos
Lazaros Agadakos (in ) (born on January 1, 1980 Greece) is a Greek professional basketball player. He is a 2.08 m tall forward-center.
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Leon Davidson
Leon Davidson (October 18, 1922 – January 1, 2007) was a chemical engineer and scientist, one of the team that developed the atomic bomb.
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Leonard Fraser
Leonard John Fraser also known as "The Rockhampton Rapist" (27 June 1951 – 1 January 2007) was an Australian convicted serial killer.
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Leoš Friedl
Leoš Friedl (born January 1, 1977 in Jindřichův Hradec) is a Czech professional tennis player best known for his doubles play with František Čermák. He is coached by Lubomir Gerla. In his career, he has won 15 top-level doubles titles and $1,027,625 in prize money. Having turned professional in 1997, Friedl won the 2001 Wimbledon mixed doubles title with Daniela Hantuchová, where they beat Mike Bryan and Liezel Huber, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2.
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Lew Fields
Lew Fields (born 1 January 1867 - died 20 July 1941, Beverly Hills, California), born as Moses Schoenfeld, was an American actor, comedian, vaudeville star, theatre manager and producer.
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Li Fang (tennis)
Li Fang (born January 1, 1973, in Hunan) is a retired female professional tennis player from China. Li turned pro in 1990, and won 2 WTA Tour doubles titles in her career. She represented her country at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Li played 7 years on the China Fed Cup team. She retired in 2001.
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Lina Kačiušytė
Lina Kačiušytė (born January 1, 1963 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian swimmer who competed for the Soviet Union, winner of a gold medal in 200 m breaststroke with the Olympic record time of 2:29:54 at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
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Linda Henry
Linda Henry (born 1 January 1963) is an English actress, best known for her roles as Yvonne Atkins in the ITV television drama Bad Girls and Shirley Carter in the BBC's soap opera EastEnders.
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Lorenzo de' Medici
'''Lorenzo de' Medici (January 1, 1449 – April 9, 1492) was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent' (Lorenzo il Magnifico'') by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets. His life coincided with the high point of the early Italian Renaissance; his death marked the end of the Golden Age of Florence. The fragile peace he helped maintain between the various Italian states collapsed with his death. Lorenzo de' Medici is buried in the Medici Chapel in Florence.
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Louis XII of France
Louis XII (27 June 1462 – 1 January 1515), called "the Father of the People" (), was king of France and the sole monarch from the Valois-Orléans branch of the House of Valois. He reigned from 1498 to 1515 and pursued a very active foreign policy.
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Magnus Sahlgren
Magnus Sahlgren (born January 1, 1973) is a Swedish musician. He was the lead guitarist of the metal band Lake of Tears, whom his name is most associated with, until 2009. He also played with Dismember from 1998 to 2003 and with Tiamat during the recording of the acclaimed Wildhoney album in 1994. He helped the band achieve technical proficiency by helping with the songwriting and solos when he was a session artist. In 2004, he was accepted as a full time of Lake of Tears and since then his influences have been even more visible, notably on the album Moons and Mushrooms, on which he performs solos on every track. Outside of his career in music, he is a researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science.
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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.
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Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1767 – 22 May 1849) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and children's writer. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature.
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Marin Constantin
Marin Constantin (born February 27, 1925 in Urleta, Prahova County, Romania) is a Romanian awarded musician, conductor and composer.
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Mark Hurd
Mark Vincent Hurd (born January 1, 1957) is a co-president, director and board member of Oracle Corporation along with Safra A. Catz, and was the past chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Hewlett-Packard. At Hewlett-Packard, Hurd succeeded CFO Robert Wayman, who served as interim CEO from February 10, 2005 to March 28, 2005, after former CEO Carly Fiorina had stepped down. On September 22, 2006, Hurd succeeded Patricia C. Dunn as chairman after she resigned after the pretexting controversy. Hurd resigned his position at HP on August 6, 2010, after an internal investigation uncovered expense-account irregularities.
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Mark R. Hughes
Mark Reynolds Hughes (January 1, 1956 — May 21, 2000) was an American businessman who was founder, chairman and CEO of Herbalife International Ltd.
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Marlene Lawston
Marlene Lawston (born January 1, 1998) is an American child actress.
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Martin Frost
Jonas Martin Frost III (born January 1, 1942) is an American politician, who was the Democratic representative to the U.S. House of Representatives for Texas's 24th congressional district from 1979 to 2005. He was married to U.S. Army Major General (Retired) Kathryn Frost until her death in 2006.
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Martin W. Bates
Martin Waltham Bates (February 24, 1786 – January 1, 1869) was a lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, and then the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.S. Senator from Delaware.
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Maurice Béjart
Maurice Béjart (1 January 1927 – 22 November 2007) was a French and Swiss choreographer who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He was the son of the French philosopher Gaston Berger.
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Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Auguste Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a French actor, singer, and popular vaudeville entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", "Valentine", and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls". His trademark was a boater hat, which he always wore on stage with his tuxedo (dinner jacket).
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Max Azria
Max Azria (born January 1, 1949) is a French fashion designer of Tunisian descent who founded the contemporary women's clothing brand BCBGMAXAZRIA. Azria is also the designer, chairman and CEO of BCBGMAXAZRIAGROUP, a global fashion house that encompasses over 20 brands. He is based in Los Angeles.
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Max Julien
Max Julien (born January 1, 1945), is an American actor, best known for his role as Goldie in the 1973 blaxploitation film, The Mack. He also appeared in ''Def Jam's How to Be a Player and has guest starred on TV shows such as The Mod Squad and One on One''.
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Melissa DiMarco
Melissa DiMarco, BFA (born January 1, 1969) is a Canadian actress and television personality. Melissa hosts and is one of the producers and writers on the television program Out There with Melissa DiMarco, a fictional portrayal of an entertainment news host. She played the principal of Degrassi, Daphne Hatzilakos on the teen drama series but stopped after the ninth season.
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Michael Witt
Michael Witt (born 1 January 1984 in Toowoomba, Queensland) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the Crusaders in the Super League. He previously played in the National Rugby League competition and rugby union in the Air New Zealand Cup.
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Michele Lega
Michele Lega S.T.D. J.U.D. (1 January 1860 - 16 December 1935) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Discipline of Sacraments.
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Michèle Mercier
Michèle Mercier, (born January 1, 1939 as Jocelyne Yvonne Renée Mercier) is a French actress. In the course of her career she has worked with leading directors like François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray, Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Mario Bava, Peter Collinson and Ken Annakin. Her leading men have included Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Gabin, Charles Aznavour, Robert Hossein, Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis and Charlton Heston. Although she appeared in more than fifty films, it is for her role as "Angélique" that she is best known in France.
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Mike Mitchell (NBA)
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Mikhail Drozdovsky
Mikhail Gordeevich Drozdovsky () (October 7, 1881- January 1, 1919). Russian army officer and one of the military leaders of the anti-Bolshevik White movement during the Russian Civil War.
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Miki Higashino
is a Japanese video game composer best known for her works in the Suikoden series.
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Milt Jackson
Milton "Milt" Jackson (January 1, 1923 - October 9, 1999) was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms. He is especially remembered for his coolly swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with several hard bop and post-bop players.
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Mladen Petrić
Mladen Petrić (; born 1 January 1981) is a Croatian football forward who currently plays for Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga. He is also a member of the Croatian national team.
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Mohammed Ghaddar
Mohammed Mahmoud Ghaddar (Arabic: محمد غدار) (born on January 1, 1984) is a Lebanese international footballer. He currently plays for Egyptian Premier League club Al-Ahly. He plays as a striker, wearing the number 11 shirt with both Al-Ahly and Lebanon national football team.
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Morris Chestnut
Morris L. Chestnut (born January 1, 1969) is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as teenage father Ricky Baker in the 1991 film Boyz n the Hood, groom-to-be Lance Sullivan in the 1999 film The Best Man, as Tracy Reynolds, NBA star in the 2002 film Like Mike, and as the Visitor Ryan in the 2009 TV series V.
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Mátyás Godina
Mátyás Godina ( Prekmurian: Mátjaš Godina (ar. 1768 – January 1, 1835) Slovene Lutheran pastor, writer and teacher in Hungary.
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Nana Patekar
Nana Patekar () (born 1 January 1951 as Vishwanath Patekar) is an Indian actor and filmmaker.
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Nicolle Dickson
Nicolle Dickson (born 1 January 1969) is an Australian actress who played rebellious Bobby Simpson in soap opera Home and Away in the 1990s.
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Nina Bott
Nina Bott (born January 1, 1978 in Hamburg) is a German actress.
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Noor Inayat Khan
Assistant Section Officer Noor Inayat Khan / Nora Baker, () GC, MBE (1 January 1914, Moscow - 13 September 1944, Dachau concentration camp), usually known as Noor Inayat Khan was of Indian Muslim origin. She was a British Special Operations Executive agent in World War II and the first female radio operator to be sent into occupied France to aid the French Résistance.
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Norman Yemm
Norman Yemm (sometimes credited as Norm Yemm) (born 23 March 1933) is an Australian actor.
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Odo, Count of Paris
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Pablo Cuevas
Pablo Gabriel Cuevas (born January 1, 1986, in Concordia, Argentina) is a Uruguayan professional tennis player. Cuevas won the 2008 French Open Men's Doubles title with Luis Horna.
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Panagiotis Giannakis
Panagiotis Giannakis (, , alternate spellings include: Panayiotis Yiannakis, Panagiotis Yiannakis, and Panayiotis Yannakis) (born January 1, 1959 in Nikaia, Attica, Athens, Greece), nicknamed "The Dragon", is an important figure in European basketball, with a brilliant career as both player and coach under his belt. Until recently, he was coaching the pro Euroleague club Olympiacos and he has also formerly coached the Greek National Basketball Team. Under Giannakis' guidance, the Greek National team won the 2005 Eurobasket Championship and the silver medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan. Giannakis also coached an Athenian professional team, Maroussi, which he led to the forefront of Greek basketball.
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Park Sung-Hyun
Park Sung-Hyun (born January 1, 1983 in Gunsan, North Jeolla) is a world champion archer from South Korea. She holds the women's world record for a 70m 72-arrow round, set at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, and won a gold medal with her team in both the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. She has the women's world record in a FITA Round with 1405 points.
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Pat Heywood
Patricia Heywood (born 1 January 1927 in Gretna Green, Scotland) is a British character actress who has appeared in stage productions, movies, and television.
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Paul Bomani
Paul Bomani (January 1, 1925 – April 1, 2005) was a Tanzanian politician and ambassador to the United States and Mexico.
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Paul Lawrie
Paul Stewart Lawrie MBE (born 1 January 1969) is a Scottish professional golfer who is best known for winning The Open Championship in 1999.
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Paul Revere
Paul Revere (May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution.
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Paula Tsui
Paula Tsui Siu-fung is a famous Cantopop singer in Hong Kong. She has been affiliated with the TVB television station until the mid-1990s but has performed for Asia Television Ltd. on several occasions since 1995.
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Pavel Grachev
Pavel Sergeyevich Grachev () (b. January 1, 1948, Tula Oblast), sometimes transliterated as Grachov, is a retired Russian Army General and the former Defence Minister of the Russian Federation; in 1988 he was declared the Hero of the Soviet Union. At the post of Defence Minister (from 1992 to 1996), Grachev gained notoriety because of his military incompetence displayed during the war in Chechnya and the persistent allegations of involvement in enormous corruption scandals.
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Pedro de Valdivia
Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia (ca. 1500 – December 25, 1553) was a Spanish conquistador and the first royal governor of Chile. After serving with the Spanish army in Italy and Flanders, he was sent to South America in 1534, where he served under Francisco Pizarro in Peru. In 1540 he led an expedition of 150 Spaniards into Chile, where he defeated a large force of Indians and founded Santiago in 1541. He extended Spanish rule south to the Bío-Bío River in 1546, fought again in Peru (1546 – 48), and returned to Chile as governor in 1549. He began to conquer Chile south of the Bío-Bío and founded Concepción in 1550. He was captured and killed in a campaign against the Araucanian Indians.
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Pertinax
Publius Helvius Pertinax (1 August 126 – 28 March 193), commonly known as Pertinax, was Roman Emperor for three months from 192 to 193. He is known as the first emperor of the tumultuous Year of the Five Emperors. Upon his death he was succeeded by Didius Julianus, whose reign was similarly short-lived.
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Pervez Musharraf
General (ret) Pervez Musharraf (lang-ur|) (born 11 August 1943), NI(M), Tamgha-e-Basalat award, is a Pakistani politician and military figure who served as the tenth President of Pakistan (2001–2008) and the Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army (1998–2007).
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Peter Caffrey
Peter Caffrey (18 April 1949 – 1 January 2008) was an Irish actor best known for playing Padraig O'Kelly on Series 1-4 of Ballykissangel, but also well-regarded for his role as a transvestite in the film [http://imdb.com/title/tt0169083/ Night Train], and [http://imdb.com/title/tt0126344 I Went Down].
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Petros Markaris
Petros Markaris (Greek: Πέτρος Μάρκαρης, born 1 January 1937 in Istanbul) is a Greek writer well known for his series of detective novels starring the grumpy Athenian police investigator Costas Haritos.
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Pierre de Coubertin
Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (; 1 January 1863 – 2 September 1937) was a French pedagogue and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee, and considered father of the modern Olympic Games. Born into a French aristocratic family, he became an academic and studied a broad range of topics, most notably education and history.
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Pietro Nenni
Pietro Sandro Nenni (February 9, 1891, Faenza, Emilia-Romagna - January 1, 1980) was an Italian socialist politician, the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and lifetime Senator since 1970. He was a recipient of the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951. He was a central figure of the Italian left from the 1920s to the 1960s.
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Pope Alexander VI
Pope Alexander VI (1 January 1431 – 18 August 1503) (, ), born Roderic Llançol, later Roderic de Borja i Borja () was Pope from 1492 to 1503. He is one of the most controversial of the Renaissance popes, and his surname (Italianized as Borgia) became a byword for the debased standards of the Papacy of that era; the Borgia popes greatly weakened the moral authority of the Catholic Church.
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Pope Silvester II
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Porfirio Díaz
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (September 15, 1830 – July 2, 1915) was a Mexican War volunteer and French intervention hero, an accomplished general and the President of Mexico continuously from 1876 to 1911, with the exception of a brief term in 1876 when he left Juan N. Méndez as interim president, and a four-year term served by his political ally Manuel González from 1880 to 1884. Commonly considered by historians to have been a dictator, he is a controversial figure in Mexican history. The period of his leadership was marked by significant internal stability (known as the "paz porfiriana"), modernization, and economic growth. However, Díaz's conservative regime grew unpopular due to repression and political continuity, and he fell from power during the Mexican Revolution, after he had imprisoned his electoral rival and declared himself the winner of an eighth term in office. The years in which Díaz ruled Mexico are referred to as the Porfiriato.
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Prekmurians
Prekmurians ( Prekmurian Prekmürci, Prekmörci, Prekmörge) are an ethnic group in Central Europe. They consist of the Prekmurje Slovene and the Hungarian Slovenes (Porabski Slovenci). The Somogy Slovenes are extinct. This group of Slovenes speak the Prekmurian language and have a unique culture.
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Qi Baishi
Qi Baishi () (January 1, 1864 - September 16, 1957) was a Chinese painter.
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Queen Elizabeth II
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Ray Walston
Ray Walston (November 2, 1914 – January 1, 2001) was an American stage, television and film actor best known as the title character on the 1960s situation comedy My Favorite Martian. In addition, he was also known for his role as high school teacher Mr. Hand in the 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Judge Henry Bone on the drama series Picket Fences.
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Raymond Pellegrin
Raymond Pellegrin (1 January 1925 – 14 October 2007) was a French actor.
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Rayo de Jalisco, Jr.
Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. (Spanish for "Lightning from Jalisco, Jr.; born January 1, 1960) is the ring name of a Mexican Luchador Enmascarado (masked professional wrestler) whose real name has not been revealed, per Lucha Libre traditions. Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. is the son of Rayo de Jalisco a famous wrestler from the early days of Lucha Libre, he also has a son who wrestles under the name Rayman. Rayo, Jr. is a former two time CMLL World Heavyweight Champion and the current WWA World Heavyweight Champion, a title he has held since March 21, 2003. Rayo de Jalisco Jr,'s real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans.
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Ren Woods
Ren Woods (b. January 1, 1958, Portland, Oregon) is an American film and television actress/singer, best known for her role as Fanta in Roots, and also as the girl with flowers in her hair who sang "Aquarius" in the film version of Hair. Ren Woods began her singing career as a child and released two solo albums before returning her focus to acting in the 1980s. Her most recent role was in the 2008 film The Blue Hour.
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Reynaldo Dagsa
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Richard Verreau
Richard Verreau, OC, OQ (January 1, 1926 - July 7, 2005) was a French-Canadian operatic tenor, particularly associated to the French and Italian repertories.
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Rivelino
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Robert Jankel
Robert Jankel (January 1, 1938 – May 25, 2005) was arguably the world's most famous designer of limousines, armored cars and other specialty vehicles. He also founded the automotive company Panther Westwinds.
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Rocky Graziano
Rocky Graziano, born Thomas Rocco Barbella in New York City (1 January 1919 – May 22, 1990), was an outstanding Italian American boxer. Graziano was considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, often displaying the capacity to take his opponent out with a single punch. He was ranked 23rd on Ring Magazine's list of the greatest punchers of all time.
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Roland Levinsky
Professor Roland Levinsky (October 16, 1943 – January 1, 2007) was an academic researcher in biomedicine and a university senior manager. His last post, which he held at the time of his death, was as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom.
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Roman Emperor
The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman State during the imperial period (starting at about 27 BC). The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin titles such as imperator (from which English emperor ultimately derives), augustus, caesar and princeps were all associated with it. In practice, the emperor was supreme ruler of Rome and supreme commander of the Roman legions.
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Roman Totenberg
Roman Totenberg (born January 1, 1911) is a Polish-American violinist and educator.
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Ronald Perelman
Ronald Owen Perelman (born January 1, 1943) is an American investor who made his fortune buying beleaguered corporations and re-selling them later for enormous profits. He has invested in grocery, cigar, licorice, makeup, car, photography, television, camping, security, lottery, jewelry, banks, and comic book companies.
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Rosario Marchese
Rosario Marchese (born January 1, 1952) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the downtown Toronto riding of Trinity-Spadina for the New Democratic Party of Ontario.
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Roswell B. Mason
Roswell B. Mason (September 19, 1805January 1, 1892; buried in Rosehill Cemetery) served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1869-1871) for the Citizens Party.
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Salvatore Bonanno
Salvatore Vincent "Bill" Bonanno (November 5, 1932 – January 1, 2008) was the son of Cosa Nostra boss Joseph Bonanno. Although his father never intended for him to be the underboss of the Bonanno crime family, his appointment to high positions in the syndicate precipitated a "mob war" which led to the Bonanno family's exile to Arizona. Later in life, he became a writer and produced films for television about his family.
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Sam Backo
Sam Backo (born 1 January 1961) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s who represented Queensland and Australia. In the New South Wales Rugby League premiership he played for the Canberra Raiders and Brisbane Broncos, primarily as a prop forward. Backo was the first Australian forward to score tries in all three Tests of an Ashes series and since his retirement was named in an Indigenous Australian team of the century.
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Sam Palahnuk
Sam Palahnuk (born January 1, 1961) is an American computer game designer and founder of the game development company, Brother Wolf. He is best known as the original designer of groundbreaking computer games such as Star Trek - Strategic Operations Simulator, Wolf and ''Disney's The Animation Studio''.
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Sammie Henson
Samuel ("Sammie") Henson (born January 1, 1971 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a World Champion wrestler, winning a gold medal in freestyle for the USA at the 1998 FILA Wrestling World Championships, held in Tehran, Iran. He defeated Namig Abdullayev of Azerbaijan to take the gold. He was also a silver medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the freestyle 54 kg category, losing to Abdullayev in the finals of that event, held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. At the age of 35, he competed at the 2006 FILA Wrestling World Championships held in Guanzgoua, China, earning a bronze medal. He was named USA Wrestling's Man of the Year, in 1998.
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Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall (March 28, 1652 – January 1, 1730) was a Massachusetts judge, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, for which he later apologized, and his essay The Selling of Joseph (1700), which criticized slavery.
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Sanford Fleming
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Satyendra Nath Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose ( Shottendronath Boshu ), (1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974), FRS, was an Indian physicist specializing in mathematical physics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. He is honoured as the namesake of the boson. He was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan in 1954 by the Government of India.
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Scott Riggs
Russell Scott Riggs (born January 1, 1971 in Bahama, North Carolina ) is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #90 Chevrolet Impala for Keyed-Up Motorsports in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the #21 Zaxby's Chevrolet Impala for Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.
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Sergei Avdeyev
Sergei Avdeyev (Сергей Васильевич Авдеев, born 1 January 1956) is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut.
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Sergei Babayan
Sergei Babayan (born in Guimri, Armenia) is an Armenian-American concert pianist.
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Sergei Kourdakov
Sergei Nicholaevich Kourdakov (Russian: Сергей Николаевич Курдаков; March 1, 1951 – January 1, 1973) was a former KGB agent and naval officer who from his late teen years carried out more than 150 raids in underground Christian communities in regions of the Soviet Union in the 1960s. At the age of twenty, he defected to Canada while a naval officer on a Soviet trawler in the Pacific and converted to Evangelical Christianity. He is known for having written The Persecutor (also known as Forgive Me, Natasha), an autobiography that was written shortly before his death in 1973 and published posthumously. Since its publication, it has been the source of varied criticism.
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Seán South
Seán South (; 1928–1 January 1957) was a member of an IRA military column led by Sean Garland on a raid against a Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland on New Year's Day, 1957. . South died of wounds sustained during the raid along with another volunteer, Fergal O'Hanlon.
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Sheila McCarthy
Sheila McCarthy (born January 1, 1956) is a Canadian film, stage, television actress, and singer. She is one of the most honored actors in Canada, having won two Genie Awards (film), two Gemini Awards (television), and two Dora Awards (theatre) among multiple nominations. As of 2007, she can be seen on the Canadian television series Little Mosque on the Prairie. Sheila McCarthy showed off her singing skills in "Cow Belles".
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Shelby Steele
Shelby Steele (born January 1, 1946, Chicago) is an American author, columnist, documentary film maker, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, specialising in the study of race relations, multiculturalism and affirmative action.
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Shelda Bede
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Sigerson Clifford
Sigerson Clifford (1913 – 1985) was an Irish poet and playwright.
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Sigismund I the Old
Sigismund I of Poland (; ) (1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548), of the Jagiellon dynasty, reigned as King of Poland and also as the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until 1548. Earlier, Sigismund had been invested as Duke of Silesia.
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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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Snitz Edwards
Snitz Edwards (January 1, 1868 (some sources state 1862) – May 1, 1937) was a notable character actor of the early years of the silent film era into the 1930s.
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Soame Jenyns
Soame Jenyns (1 January 1704 – 18 December 1787) was an English writer.
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Spencer Tunick
Spencer Tunick (born January 1, 1967) is an American artist. He is best known for his installations that feature large numbers of nude people posed in artistic formations. These installations are often situated in urban locations throughout the world, although he has also has done some "Beyond The City" woodland and beach installations and still does individuals and small groups occasionally. Tunick is the subject of three HBO documentaries, Naked States, Naked World, and Positively Naked. His models are unpaid volunteers who receive a limited edition photo as compensation.
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Stanisław Mazur
Stanisław Mazur (born 1 January 1905, Lviv - 5 November 1981, Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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Stefano Pastrello
Stefano Pastrello (born 1 January 1984) is an Italian footballer who plays for Este at Serie D (as of 2009-10 season).
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Stepan Bandera
Stepan Andriyovych Bandera () (1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian politician and one of the leaders of Ukrainian national movement in (Galicia) Western Ukraine, who headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). The son of a clerical family, Bandera was an activist, a scout, and eventually the leader of the Ukrainian Nationalist movement.
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Stephanie Faracy
Stephanie Faracy (born January 1, 1952) is an American film and television actress.
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Stephen Bocskay
Stephen Bocskai or István Bocskai (or Bocskay, (1 January 1557 – 29 December 1606) was a Hungarian noble from Transylvania, between 1604-06 the leader of an anti-Habsburg uprising in Upper Hungary (more exactly in today's eastern Slovakia) - partly also in Moravia and Austria - and from 1605-06 the prince of Transylvania.
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Stephen I of Hungary
Saint Stephen I () () (Esztergom, 967/969/975 – 15 August 1038, Esztergom-Szentkirály or Székesfehérvár, Hungary), born Vajk, was Grand Prince of the Hungarians (997–1000) and the first King of Hungary (1000–1038).
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Steven Davis
Steven Davis (born 1 January 1985 in Ballymena, County Antrim) is a Northern Irish footballer who currently plays for Scottish Premier League side Rangers and the Northern Ireland national team.
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Sungmin
Sungmin (born January 1, 1986), real name Lee Sung-min, is a Korean pop singer and actor. He is one of the four lead vocalists of the super boy band Super Junior. He is a martial artist and one of the two members of the group to frequently perform Chinese martial arts in Super Junior's dance routines, the other being Han Geng.
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Tad Jones
Thaddeus Bunol Jones (19 September 1952 – 1 January 2007) was a music historian and researcher best known for discovering Louis Armstrong's correct birth date, August 4, 1901.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, also known (especially in the past) as Formosa (from , "Beautiful Island"), is an island situated in East Asia in the Western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. It comprises most (99%) of the territory of the Republic of China (ROC) since the 1950s. The term "Taiwan" is also a common name to refer to the entire country of the Republic of China.
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Tarik O'Regan
'''Tarik O'Regan''' () (born 1 January 1978, London) is a British composer, partly of Algerian extraction.
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Telemachus (martyr)
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The Times
The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785, when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.
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Thibaw Min
Thibaw Min (, ; 1 January 1859 – 19 December 1916) was the last king of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma (Myanmar). His reign ended when Burma was defeated by the forces of the British Empire in the Third Anglo-Burmese War, on 29 November 1885, prior to its official annexation on 1 January 1886.
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Thomas Hobson
Thomas Hobson (1544–1 January 1631 ), sometimes called "The Cambridge Carrier", is best known as the name behind the expression Hobson's choice.
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Tiago Splitter
Tiago Splitter Beims (born January 1, 1985, in Blumenau, Santa Catarina) is a Brazilian professional basketball player who also holds Spanish citizenship. Along with his native language Portuguese, he also speaks English and Spanish. Splitter is currently signed to the San Antonio Spurs.
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Tillie Olsen
Tillie Lerner Olsen (January 14, 1912–January 1, 2007) was an American writer associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists.
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Tim Menzel
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Tina Landon
Tina Landon (born January 1, 1966) is an award winning Mexican-American choreographer based in Los Angeles who has worked with Prince, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, Ricky Martin, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Anastacia, Mýa, Shakira, Pussycat Dolls, Tina Turner, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Pink, Jay-Z, Marc Anthony, Kristi Yamaguchi, Aerosmith and Ciara. While growing up in Lancaster, CA, Landon studied jazz, ballet, and tap. She began her dance career as a Laker Girl in the 1980s when Paula Abdul was the choreographer. In 1990, she toured as a dancer on Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 Tour and choreographed the janet. World Tour in 1993 and The Velvet Rope World Tour in 1998 for which she received an Emmy Nomination for Best Choreography. At the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards upon winning the Best Dance Video award, Ricky Martin called Landon onstage and passed on the award to her. This was deemed a major step forward for choreographers, who had never before been acknowledged in such a major way. At the 2000 ALMA Awards, one of her former dancers Jennifer Lopez presented Landon with a special Outstanding Achievement in Choreography award. Before accepting the unprecedented honor, Landon and a troupe of her dancers performed a medley of some of her best known work. In September 2009, Landon and several other choreographers danced with Janet at the MTV Video Music Awards to perform the duet "Scream" as a tribute to Michael Jackson. The all-star team performed Landon's original 'Scream' choreography, alongside a video image of Michael Jackson. Other choreographers who participated in the show included Dave Scott, Jeri Slaughter, Tyce Diorio, Laurie Ann Gibson, Cris Judd, Travis Payne, Brian Friedman, Wade Robson and Gil Duldulao. Landon teaches master classes at the Millennium Dance Complex in North Hollywood and at Triple Threat Dance convention in Canada. She has released three fitness DVDs: The Grind Workout II "Fitness With Flava", The Grind Workout III "Strength and Fitness", and Behind the Moves: Session 1.
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Townes Van Zandt
John Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997), best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Many of his songs including "If I Needed You", "To Live Is To Fly", and "No Place to Fall" are considered standards of their genre. AllMusic has called him "one of the greatest country and folk artists of his generation."
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Ty Hardin
Ty Hardin (born January 1, 1930) is a former American actor best known as the star of the 1950s ABC western television series Bronco.
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Vajiravudh
Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramentharamaha Vajiravudh Phra Mongkut Klao Chao Yu Hua (), or Phra Bat Somdet Phra Ramathibodi Si Sintharamaha Vajiravudh Phra Mongkut Klao Chao Yu Hua (), or Rama VI (1 January 1881 – 25 November 1925) was the sixth monarch of Siam under the House of Chakri, ruling from 1910 until his death. Vajiravudh is known for his efforts to create and promote Siamese nationalism. His reign was characterized by Siam's movement further towards democracy and minimal participation in World War I.
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Valentina Cortese
Valentina Cortese (born 1 January 1923 or 1925, Milan, Italy) is an Italian film actress.
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Verne Troyer
Verne J. Troyer (born January 1, 1969) is an American actor and stunt performer. Troyer is notable for his height of , the result of cartilage–hair hypoplasia dwarfism, making him one of the shortest men in the world. He is best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series of comedy films.
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Virgilio Savona
Antonio Virgilio Savona (born 1 January 1920 - died August 27, 2009 ) was one of the members of the Italian vocal group, the Quartetto Cetra.
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Vitellius
Aulus Vitellius (7/12/15/24 September 15 – 22 December 69), later Aulus Vitellius Germanicus, commonly known as Vitellius, was Roman Emperor for eight months, from 16 April to 22 December 69. Vitellius was acclaimed emperor following the quick succession of the previous emperors Galba and Otho, in a year of civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors. Vitellius was the first to add the honorific cognomen Germanicus to his name instead of Caesar upon his accession; the latter name had fallen into disrepute in many quarters because of the actions of Nero.
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Wadih El Safi
Wadih El Safi (Arabic,وديع الصافي) (born Wadih Francis in Niha, Lebanon, in 1921) is a Lebanese singer, songwriter, and actor. He is a Lebanese cultural icon, and is often called the "Voice of Lebanon". Wadih El Safi started his artistic journey at the early age of seventeen when he took part in a singing contest held by the Lebanese Radio and was first among fifty other competitors. He was named then the first singer of Lebanon
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Wilfred Campbell
William Wilfred Campbell ( June 1,1858 – 1 January 1918) was a Canadian poet.
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Wilhelm Canaris
Wilhelm Franz Canaris (1 January 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a German admiral, head of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944 and member of the German Resistance.
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William Wycherley
William Wycherley (c. 1640 – 31 December 1715) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.
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Willie Fennell
William "Willie" Fennell (1 January 1920 – 9 September 1992), also known as "Phooey" Fennell, was an Australian radio, television, stage and film actor and comedian.
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Xavier Cugat
Xavier Cugat () (1 January 1900 – 27 October 1990) was a Spanish American bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba. A trained violinist and arranger, he was a key personality in the spread of Latin music in United States popular music. He was also a cartoonist and a successful businessman. In New York, his was the resident orchestra at the Waldorf-Astoria before and after World War II.
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Yermakhan Ibraimov
Yermakhan Ibraimov (born January 1, 1972) is a Kazakh boxer who competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal. Four years earlier, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, he captured the bronze medal. He also won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Houston, Texas, and a silver one at the previous edition in Budapest.
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Yoshio Tabata
is a Japanese ryūkōka and enka singer, songwriter and electric guitarist. He is one of this country's superstars. His debut song was released in 1939. Although his music was amateurish, he became very popular. Along with enka-shi Haruo Oka's 1939 debut, his debut had a big impact on Japanese popular music because Japanese popular ryūkōka music of that time was mainly sung by classical music singers such as Ichiro Fujiyama and Noriko Awaya.
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Ziad Rahbani
Ziad Rahbani (also Ziyad al-Rahbany , born 1956) is a Lebanese composer, pianist, performer, playwright, and political commentator. His compositions are well-known throughout the Arab world. Many of his musicals satirize Lebanese politics both during and after the civil war, and are often strongly critical of the traditional political establishment.
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Adam Air Flight 574
Adam Air Flight 574 (KI-574) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Adam Air between the Indonesian cities of Surabaya (SUB) and Manado (MDC) that disappeared near Polewali in Sulawesi on 1 January 2007. The plane, a Boeing 737-4Q8, was ultimately determined to have crashed into the ocean, from which some smaller pieces of wreckage have been recovered. The flight recorders ("black boxes") were retrieved from the ocean on 28 August 2007, while salvage efforts for some larger pieces of wreckage continued. All 102 people on board died. This is the highest death toll of any aviation accident involving a Boeing 737-400.
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Air India Flight 855
Air India Flight 855 was a scheduled passenger flight that crashed during the evening of 1 January 1978 about off the coast of Bandra, Bombay (now Mumbai), India. All 213 lives on board were lost. The crash is believed to have been caused by the Captain becoming spatially disoriented after the failure of one of the flight instruments in the cockpit.
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Aruba
Aruba ( ) is a 33km-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, located 27km north of the coast of Venezuela. Together with Bonaire and Curaçao, it forms a group referred to as the ABC islands of the Leeward Antilles, the southern island chain of the Lesser Antilles.
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Australia
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Bangkok
Bangkok is the capital, largest urban area and primary city of Thailand. Known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (, pronounced ), or กรุงเทพฯ Krung Thep (, meaning "city of angels" for short, it was a small trading post at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River during the Ayutthaya Kingdom. It came to the forefront of Siam when it was given the status as the capital city in 1768 after the burning of Ayutthaya. However, the current Rattanakosin Kingdom did not begin until 1782 when the capital was moved across the river by Rama I after the death of King Taksin. The Rattanakosin capital is now more formally called "Phra Nakhon" (), pertaining to the ancient boundaries in the metropolis' core and the name Bangkok now incorporates the urban build-up since the 18th century which has its own public administration and governor.
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Bouvet Island
Bouvet Island () is an uninhabited Antarctic volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2,525 km south-southwest of South Africa. It is a dependent territory () of Norway and, lying north of 60°S latitude, is not subject to the Antarctic Treaty. The centre of the Island is an ice-filled crater of an inactive volcano, known as the Wilhelm II Plateau. According to some data there is a lake of molten lava within the caldera.
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Brazil
Brazil (; , ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (, ), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. By 1922 the British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one-quarter of the world's population at the time, and covered more than 13 million square miles (34 million km2), almost a quarter of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its political, linguistic and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, it was often said that "the sun never sets on the British Empire" because its span across the globe ensured that the sun was always shining on at least one of its numerous territories.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough with approximately 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area.
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Brunei
Brunei ( in English), officially the State of Brunei Darussalam or the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace (, Jawi: بروني دارالسلام), is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia. Apart from its coastline with the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, and in fact it is separated into two parts by Limbang, which is part of Sarawak. It is the only sovereign state completely on the island of Borneo, with the remainder of the island belonging to Malaysia and Indonesia.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria ( , Balgariya, ), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (, Republika Balgariya, ), is a country in Southern Europe. Bulgaria borders five other countries: Romania to the north (mostly along the Danube), Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south. The Black Sea defines the extent of the country to the east.
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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Cameroon
The Republic of Cameroon () is a country of central and western Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the Bight of Bonny, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. The country is called "Africa in miniature" for its geological and cultural diversity. Natural features include beaches, deserts, mountains, rainforests, and savannas. The highest point is Mount Cameroon in the southwest, and the largest cities are Douala, Yaoundé, and Garoua. Cameroon is home to over 200 different linguistic groups. The country is well known for its native styles of music, particularly makossa and bikutsi, and for its successful national football team. English and French are the official languages.
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Chiapas
Chiapas () is the southernmost state of Mexico, located towards the southeast of the country. Chiapas is bordered by the states of Tabasco to the north, Veracruz to the northwest, and Oaxaca to the west. To the east Chiapas borders Guatemala, and to the south the Pacific Ocean,
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Cuba
The Republic of Cuba (; , ) is an island country in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos.
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Curaçao
Curaçao (; , Papiamentu: Kòrsou) is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. The Country of Curaçao (Dutch: Land Curaçao, Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), which includes the main island plus the small, uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao ("Little Curaçao"), is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its capital is Willemstad.
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Cyprus
Cyprus (; , Kýpros, ; ), – officially the Republic of Cyprus (, Kypriakī́ Dīmokratía, ; ) – is a Eurasian island country in the Eastern Mediterranean, south of Turkey and west of Syria and Lebanon. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of its most popular tourist destinations. An advanced, high-income economy with a very high Human Development Index, the Republic of Cyprus was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement until it joined the European Union on 1 May 2004.
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Czech Republic
The Czech Republic ( ; , , short form Česko ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west and northwest, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east. The Czech Republic has been a member of NATO since 1999 and of the European Union since 2004. The Czech Republic is also a member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). As an OSCE participating State, the Czech Republic’s international commitments are subject to monitoring under the mandate of the U.S. Helsinki Commission. From 1 January 2009 to 30 June 2009, the Czech Republic held the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
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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.
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Denmark
Denmark (; , , archaic: ), officially the Kingdom of Denmark (Danish: ) together with Greenland and the Faroe Islands, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea. The country consists of a large peninsula, Jutland (Jylland) and many islands, most notably Zealand (Sjælland), Funen (Fyn), Vendsyssel-Thy (commonly considered a part of Jutland), Lolland, Falster and Bornholm, as well as hundreds of minor islands often referred to as the Danish Archipelago. Denmark has long controlled the approach to the Baltic Sea; before the digging of the Kiel Canal, water passage to the Baltic Sea was possible only through the three channels known as the "Danish straits".
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Dutch Republic
The Dutch Republic — officially known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden), the Republic of the United Netherlands, or the Republic of the Seven United Provinces (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Provinciën) — was a republic in Europe existing from 1581 to 1795, preceding the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands. Alternative names include United Provinces, Foederatae Belgii Provinciae (Federated Belgic Provinces), and Belgica Foederata (Belgic Federation).
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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.
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Eritrea
Eritrea ( or ; Ge'ez: , Arabic: إرتريا Iritrīyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the North East of Africa. The capital is Asmara. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. The east and northeast of the country have an extensive coastline on the Red Sea, directly across from Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands are part of Eritrea. Its size is just under with an estimated population of 5 million.
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Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (; ) are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located approximately from the coast of mainland South America. The archipelago, consisting of East Falkland, West Falkland and 776 lesser islands, is a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom. The capital, Stanley, is on East Falkland.
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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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Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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Ghana
The Republic of Ghana is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. The word Ghana means "Warrior King" and is derived from the ancient
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Great Britain
Great Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island. With a population of about 60.0 million people in mid-2009, it is the third most populated island on Earth. Great Britain is surrounded by over 1,000 smaller islands and islets. The island of Ireland lies to its west. Politically, Great Britain may also refer to the island itself together with a number of surrounding islands which comprise the territory of England, Scotland and Wales.
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Greece
Greece (; , Elláda, ; , Hellás, ), also known as Hellas and officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellīnikī́ Dīmokratía, ), is a country in southeastern Europe. Situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula, Greece has land borders with Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the tenth longest coastline in the world at in length, featuring a vast number of islands (approximately 1400, of which 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the Ionian Islands among others. Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mount Olympus is the highest at .
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Haiti
Haiti (; French , ; Haitian Creole: Ayiti, ), officially the Republic of Haiti ( ;
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Hasan al-Askari
Hasan al-‘Askarī () (Eighth of Rabi' al-thani 232 AH – Eighth of Rabi' al-awwal 260 AH; approximately: 1 December 846 – 1 January 874) was the eleventh of the Twelve Imams. His given name was Hasan ibn ‘Alī ibn Muhammad.His title al-Askari derives from the Arabic word Asker which means military.He was given this title mainly because the country he lived in (Samarra) was a military camp. Hasan al-‘Askarī was 22, when his father was killed. The period of his Imāmate, following his father's death, was six years. Hasan Al-‘Askarī died at the age of 28 in the year, 260 Hijra and was buried in Samarra.Eliash, J. "Ḥasan al- ʿAskarī , Abū Muḥammad Ḥasan b. ʿAlī." Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Edited by: P. Bearman , Th. Bianquis , C.E. Bosworth , E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs. Brill, 2010. Brill Online. Augustana. 13 April 2010
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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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Huế
( in chữ Nôm) is the capital city of Thừa Thiên - Huế province, Vietnam. Between 1802 and 1945, it was the imperial capital of the Nguyễn Dynasty. It is well known for its monuments and architecture. Its population stands at about 340,000 people.
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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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Iran
Iran ( ), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Central Eurasia and Western Asia. The name Iran has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was also known to the western world as Persia. Both Persia and Iran are used interchangeably in cultural contexts; however, Iran is the name used officially in political contexts.
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Italy
Italy (; ), officially the Italian Republic (), is a country located in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia — the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea — and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, whilst Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.4 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.
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Japan
Japan (日本 Nihon or Nippon), officially the State of Japan ( or Nihon-koku), is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin" (because it lies to the east of nearby countries), which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
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Kabul
Kabul ( Kābol ; Kābul ; archaic Caubul), is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, located in the Kabul Province. According to the 2008 official estimates, the population of Kabul metropolitan area is 2.8 million people.
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Kashmir
Kashmir (Kashmiri: कॅशीर, کٔشِیر; Dogri: कश्मीर; Ladakhi: ཀཤམིར; Balti: کشمیر; Gojri: کشمیر; Poonchi/Chibhali: کشمیر; Shina: کشمیر; Uyghur: كەشمىر) is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range.
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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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Malawi
The Republic of Malawi (; Chichewa ) is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size is over with an estimated population of more than 13,900,000. Its capital is Lilongwe, the second largest city is Blantyre and the third large city is Mzuzu. The name Malawi comes from the Maravi, an old name of the Nyanja people that inhabit the area.
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Malmedy massacre
The Malmedy massacre was a war crime in which 84 American prisoners of war were murdered by their German captors during World War II. The massacre was committed on December 17, 1944, by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper (part of the 1st SS Panzer Division), a German combat unit, during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Malta
Malta , officially the Republic of Malta (), is a southern European country and consists of an archipelago situated centrally in the Mediterranean, 93 km south of Sicily and 288 km east of Tunisia, with the Strait of Gibraltar 1,826 km to the west and Alexandria 1,510 km to the east.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York. It consists of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island, Wards Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island, and U Thant Island; as well as Marble Hill, a small section on the mainland adjacent to the Bronx. The original city of New York began at the southern end of Manhattan, and expanded in 1898 to include surrounding counties. It is the smallest, yet most urbanized of the five boroughs.
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Mexico
Mexico, (pronounced ; ), officially known as the United Mexican States (), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2 million square kilometres (over 760,000 sq mi), Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14th largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of 111 million, it is the 11th most populous country and the most populous Hispanophone country on Earth. Mexico is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a Federal District, the capital city.
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Mexico City
Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México) is the capital and largest city in Mexico as well as the largest city in the Americas and the world's third largest metropolitan area by population, after Seoul and Tokyo. Mexico City is also the Federal District (Distrito Federal), the seat of the federal government. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole. Mexico City is the most important political, cultural, and financial center in the country.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (; , ', ), previously known as Bombay' (), is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the second most populous city in the world, with a population of approximately 14 million. The official language of Mumbai is Marathi. But many other languages are also widely used, particularly the Mumbaiian Hindi''. Along with the neighbouring urban areas, including the cities of Navi Mumbai and Thane, it is one of the most populous urban regions in the world. Mumbai lies on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. As of 2009, Mumbai was named an Alpha world city. Mumbai is also the richest city in India, and has the highest GDP of any city in South or Central Asia.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, is the common name for the country of Germany while governed by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) from 1933 to 1945. Third Reich () denotes the Nazi state as a historical successor to the medieval Holy Roman Empire (962–1806) and to the modern German Empire (1871–1918). Nazi Germany had two official names, the Deutsches Reich (German Reich), from 1933 to 1943, when it became Großdeutsches Reich (Greater German Reich).
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Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha.
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Netherlands
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New South Wales
New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW), Australia's most populous state, is located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria, south of Queensland, east of South Australia and encompasses the whole of the Australian Capital Territory. The colony of New South Wales was founded in 1788 and originally comprised much of the Australian mainland, as well as Van Diemen's Land, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island in addition to the area currently referred to as the state of New South Wales, which was formed during Federation in 1901.
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New Zealand
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Nigeria
Nigeria (), officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. In terms of religion Nigeria is roughly split half and half between Muslims and Christians with a very small minority who practice traditional religion.
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Northern Territory
The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions. It shares borders with Western Australia to the west (129th meridian east), South Australia to the south (26th parallel south), and Queensland to the east (138th meridian east).
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Norway
Norway (; Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.8 million. It is one of the most sparsely populated countries in Europe. The majority of the country shares a border to the east with Sweden; its northernmost region is bordered by Finland to the south and Russia to the east; and Denmark lies south of its southern tip across the Skagerrak Strait. The capital city of Norway is Oslo. Norway's extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea, is home to its famous fjords.
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Pakistan
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Palau
Palau , officially the Republic of Palau (), is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles (800 km) east of the Philippines and 2,000 miles (3,200 km) south of Tokyo. Having emerged from United Nations trusteeship (administered by the United States) in 1994, it is one of the world's youngest and smallest sovereign states. In English, the name is sometimes spelled Belau in accordance with the native pronunciation. It was formerly also spelled Pelew.
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Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is a ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. Built from 1904 to 1914, annual traffic has risen from about 1,000 ships in the canal's early days to 14,702 vessels in 2008, measuring a total 309.6 million Panama Canal/Universal Measurement System (PC/UMS) tons.
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Pasadena, California
Pasadena () is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena City College (PCC), NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Art Center College of Design, the Pasadena Playhouse, California School of Culinary Arts Pasadena, the Norton Simon Museum of Art and the Pacific Asia Museum. As of 2009, the estimated population of Pasadena is 143,667, making it the 168th largest city in the United States. Pasadena is the seventh largest city in Los Angeles County, and the first to be incorporated in Los Angeles CountyIt is one of the main cultural centers of the San Gabriel Valley and is the setting of many TV shows including Brothers & Sisters and The Big Bang Theory.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh () is the second-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it anchors the 22nd largest urban area in the United States. The estimated population of the city in 2009 was 311,647, while the seven-county metropolitan area was estimated at 2,354,957. Downtown Pittsburgh retains substantial economic influence, ranking at 25th in the nation for jobs within the urban core and 6th in job density. The characteristic shape of Pittsburgh's central business district is a triangular tract carved by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, where the Ohio River forms. The city features 151 high-rise buildings, 446 bridges, two inclined railways, and a pre-revolutionary fortification. Pittsburgh is known colloquially as "The City of Bridges" and "The Steel City" for its many bridges and former steel manufacturing base.
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Portugal
Portugal (, ), officially the Portuguese Republic (; ), is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are also part of Portugal.
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Queens
Queens is the largest in area, the second largest in population, and the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States.
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Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia that occupies the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. The state is Australia's second largest by area, following Western Australia, and the country's third most populous after New South Wales and Victoria.
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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.
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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.
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Romania
Romania ( ; dated: Rumania; ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.
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Rose Bowl Game
The Rose Bowl Game is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 (New Year's Day) at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. When New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, the game is then played on the following Monday. The Rose Bowl is nicknamed "The Granddaddy of Them All" because it is the oldest bowl game. It was first played in 1902, and continuously since 1916. Since 1945, it has been the highest attended college football bowl game. It is a part of the Tournament of Roses "America's New Year Celebration".
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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.
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Samoa
Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa and German Samoa, is a country governing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in Polynesia, Savai'i. The capital city Apia and Faleolo International Airport are situated on the island of Upolu.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest. In addition to the mainland, Scotland includes over 790 islands including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides.
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Slovakia
The Slovak Republic (short form: Slovakia ; Slovak:, long form ) is a state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is a landlocked country bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south. The largest city is the capital, Bratislava, and the second largest is Košice. Slovakia is a member state of the European Union, NATO, United Nations, OECD and WTO among others. The official language is Slovak, a member of the Slavic language family.
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South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.
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Spain
Spain ( ; , ), officially the Kingdom of Spain (), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
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Spanish Guinea
Spanish Guinea was an African colony of Spain that became the independent nation of Equatorial Guinea.
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Staten Island () is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay. With a population of 491,730, Staten Island is the least populated of the five boroughs but is the third largest in area at .
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Sudan
Sudan (), officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest country in Africa and the Arab world, and tenth largest in the world by area. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east,Kenya and Uganda to the southeast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west and Libya to the northwest. The world's longest river, the Nile, divides the country between east and west sides.
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Sweden
Sweden (pronounced , ), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: ), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and water borders with Denmark, Germany, and Poland to the south, and Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia to the east. Sweden is also connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.
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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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Sydney
Sydney () is the largest and most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. With an approximate population of 4.5 million in the Sydney metropolitan area the city is the largest in Oceania. Inhabitants of Sydney are called Sydneysiders, comprising a cosmopolitan and international population of people from numerous places around the world.
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Sydney, Australia
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Taiwan
Taiwan, also known (especially in the past) as Formosa (from , "Beautiful Island"), is an island situated in East Asia in the Western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. It comprises most (99%) of the territory of the Republic of China (ROC) since the 1950s. The term "Taiwan" is also a common name to refer to the entire country of the Republic of China.
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Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania (; phonetical: tan-zann-ei-a; or sometimes tan-zanneia; ) is a country in central East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.
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Thailand
Thailand ( or ; Ratcha Anachak Thai, ), formerly Siam (, ), is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Burma. Its maritime boundaries include Vietnam in the Gulf of Thailand to the southeast and Indonesia and India in the Andaman Sea to the southwest.
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Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. The extended Times Square area, also called the Theatre District, consists of the blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from east to west, and West 40th and West 53rd Streets from south to north, making up the western part of the commercial area of Midtown Manhattan.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north, South Australia to the west, and Tasmania to the south, across Bass Strait. Victoria is the most densely populated state, and has a highly centralised population, with almost 75% of Victorians living in Melbourne, the state capital and largest city. Approximately 30,000 Indigenous Australians are estimated to have lived in the area, before European settlement in Victoria began in the 1830s. The discovery of gold in 1851 at Ballarat and Warrandyte transformed it into a leading industrial and commercial centre.
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Vietnam
Vietnam ( ; , ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (, ), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China (PRC) to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea, referred to as East Sea (), to the east. With a population of over 86 million, Vietnam is the 13th most populous country in the world.
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Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. Australia's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.2 million inhabitants (10% of the national total), 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state.
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Yaoundé
Yaoundé () is the capital of Cameroon and second largest city in the country after Douala. It lies in the centre of the nation at an elevation of about 750 metres (2,500 ft) above sea level.
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Zambia
The Republic of Zambia () is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west. The capital city is Lusaka, located in the south-central part of the country. The population is concentrated mainly around the Lusaka in the south and the Copperbelt to the northwest.
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UFO Decends Over Taipei, Taiwan Fireworks, Jan 1, 2012. UFO Sighting News.
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January 1, 2012
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- Duration: 15:33
- Published: 03 Jan 2012
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- Author: stmarthaslexington
Sermon of January 1, 2012 NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, the sermons from last weekend cannot be uploaded.
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January 1,2012 hear the noise around my places cos TRADITION!
January 1 2012 Tradition of men is noise pollution! Psalms 115:16 heaven God place not for men.Matthew 24:36 only God knows end of wicked human.
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WWE Smackdown 1/27/12 27th January 2012 - Part 1/3 (HQ)
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- Duration: 13:53
- Published: 27 Jan 2012
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Malaga Vs Barcelona 1-4 All Goals & Highlights (January 22nd, 2012)
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- Duration: 3:08
- Published: 22 Jan 2012
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- Author: madridfan1001
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► The Mailbox - January 20th, 2012
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- Duration: 18:05
- Published: 20 Jan 2012
- Uploaded: 31 Jan 2012
- Author: TotalHalibut
Gameplay from - Dark Messiah of Might and Magic mailbox@cynicalbrit.com
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► The Mailbox - January 24th, 2012
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- Duration: 17:46
- Published: 24 Jan 2012
- Uploaded: 31 Jan 2012
- Author: TotalHalibut
Gameplay from - Dark Messiah of Might and Magic mailbox@cynicalbrit.com
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Drink Along with Dan and John - Mass Effect 2 Session 1 (Jan. 2012 #4)
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- Duration: 62:23
- Published: 17 Jan 2012
- Uploaded: 29 Jan 2012
- Author: NextGenWalkthroughs
Part 1 of our Drink Along for Mass Effect 2 wikigameguides.com John T https Dan B twitter.com
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Friday Night SmackDown- January 6, 2012
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- Duration: 88:10
- Published: 07 Jan 2012
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- Author: WWEFanNation
World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan vs. Big Show
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► The Mailbox - January 19th, 2012
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- Duration: 15:15
- Published: 19 Jan 2012
- Uploaded: 31 Jan 2012
- Author: TotalHalibut
Gameplay from - Shogun : Total War II mailbox@cynicalbrit.com
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Devon Ke Dev... Mahadev - 11th January 2012
Mahadev sings a melodious raga to control the damage done by Narad Muni to the group of the singers. Sati is surprisingly mesmerized listening to this melodious raga. As if hypnotised by Shiva's song, Sati walks towards his direction. Attracted completely to the rhythm of Mahadev's raga, Sati dances to the song. Seeing Sati standing before himself, Lord Shiva leaves. Sati is in shock, unable to understand her state of mind. Narad Muni is elated seeing his cacophony work well.
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Take Me Out Thailand 1-5 ออย เจ้าของธุรกิจ | 28 Jan 2012
Take Me Out Thailand : 28 มกราคม 2555 : 28 ม.ค.55 : ออย - วิชัย รีชัยวิจิตรกุล เทค มี เอ้าท์ ไทยแลนด์ : 28Jan12 : ถูกชะตา ท้าหัวใจ : เจ้าของธุรกิจ TakeMeOut : 28Jan2012 เทคมีเอ้าท์ : 28Jan2012 - 28 มกราคม 2555 - 28 มค 55 TakeMeOut : 28Jan12 - 28Jan 12- 28 มค 12 : 28/1/12 - 28/1/55 12 2012 - 28-01-55 - 28-01-12 - 280155 - 280112 ขอขอบคุณ ไทยทีวีสี ช่อง 3 ch3 รายการ เทค มี เอาท์ โดย น้าเน็ก, กาละแมร์ และทีมงาน ยูทูป คลิปวีดีโอ Youtube clip VDO video
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Kuch Toh Log Kahenge - Episode 79 - 19th January 2012
Based in the beautiful locales of Lucknow and on the backdrop of a hospital setting, KTLK is a different love story between two very different people with a substanital age gap.The show highlights the nuances of a complicated relationship when people with a huge age difference fall in love.Kuch Toh Log Kahenge' is a heartwarming love story between people from two different generations:a young, spirited Dr. Nidhi Verma [age 24] and a brooding and handsome Dr. Ashutosh [age 38]. The duo share a connection from the past which they are blissfully unaware of.Will Nidhi be able to break in through the fort that Ashutosh has built around himself? What happens when both their pasts come to haunt them and pitch them against each other?
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► The Mailbox - January 6, 2012
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- Duration: 18:58
- Published: 07 Jan 2012
- Uploaded: 01 Feb 2012
- Author: TotalHalibut
Gameplay from - Shadow Era (turns out you can change resolution if you download the client, magic!) mailbox@cynicalbrit.com
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► The Mailbox - January 9th, 2012
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- Duration: 19:38
- Published: 10 Jan 2012
- Uploaded: 31 Jan 2012
- Author: TotalHalibut
Gameplay from - Skydrift mailbox@cynicalbrit.com
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Saas Bina Sasuraal - Episode 264 - 24th January 2012
Taanya is a beautiful, intelligent and multi-faceted computer science student in Mumbai. As she is about to pass out of college, her parents begin to talk about her marriage. That's when she tells them that she likes a boy called Tej and wants to marry him. Tej also loves her but is reluctant to accept the proposal because of a problem in his family. While he does not want to cheat her by keeping the truth from her, he is scared of losing her if he tells her about his family's problem. His friends try to convince him that every family has some problem so he need not even mention it to Taanya. Finally, when Tej and Taanya's families meet, there seems to be no problem and the proposal is mutually agreed upon. A grand wedding takes place and Taanya arrives in her sasuraal. The moment of shock come when all the rituals and ceremonies are over and the guests are all gone. Taanya realizes that Tej's household is full of men, just men. All the chachis, mamis, buas etc who attended the wedding had all gone and she was the only woman in the house. Taanya does not know how to handle this. Though in college days she was never uncomfortable among boys and she grew up with a brother, this was another feeling altogether. A life always surrounded by only men -- all strangers to begin with -- looks unimaginable. She stays put anyways but within twenty four hours she realizes that these men are like pebbles on a beach -- all different from each other and rubbing each other sour. She <b>...</b>
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รายการ เจาะข่าวเด่น วันที่ 25 มกราคม 2555 สรยุทธ พบกับ พระเกษม ที่เคยท้าทายสรยุทธไว้ในยูทูบ คลิป"พระเกษม" ท้าทาย "สรยุทธ" www.youtube.com
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Annoying Orange - 1 BILLION KILLS!
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Every Annoying Orange Kill Scene to date...in one video! THANK YOU TO ALL THE FANS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!! STATS: Characters Killed: Too many to count KNIFE scenes: Over 51 Characters Exploded: 13 Characters Killed by Falling Objects: 20 Characters Eaten by animals: 9 Times Liam has been killed: 4 Characters Killed by Godzilla: 1 MERCH: AO TOYS! bit.ly T-SHIRTS: jcp.is iPHONE iPOD GAME: bit.ly iPAD GAME: bit.ly ANDROID GAME: bit.ly FOLLOW ME: TWITTER: twitter.com FACEBOOK: facebook.com FACEBOOK APP: apps.facebook.com WATCH ALL MY VIRAL VIDEO SPOOFS: www.youtube.com WEBSITE: annoyingorange.com CREATED BY DANEBOE: youtube.com DANEBOE GAMING CHANNEL: youtube.com DANEBOE 2ND CHANNEL: youtube.com
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Battle lines looking familiar
30 Jan 2012
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In the final push before Florida's primary, Newt Gingrich is portraying Republicans' decision as one between conservative activists and the Republican government....
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Polls open at 7
31 Jan 2012
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After a frantic 10 days of campaigning, Florida's primary day is here. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for the state's 2012 Republican presidential primary. Only registered Republicans can vote....
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Florida warms to Romney
30 Jan 2012
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After getting routed in South Carolina, Mitt Romney is looking to the Sunshine State for a boost. And it looks like state Republicans might deliver. What looked like a neck-and-neck race a week ago has shifted in Romney's favor....
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It's Romney in a blowout
01 Feb 2012
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The former Massachusetts governor's victory was called just seconds after polls closed in the Panhandle. Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Monday, January 30, 2012 Sunday, January 29, 2012 Saturday, January 28, 2012 Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Monday, January 30, 2012 Sunday, January 29, 2012 Friday, January...
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If the GOP fight drags on...
26 Jan 2012
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Polls show a dead heat between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in Florida in a battle for the 1,144 delegates required for the nomination. A drawn out fight could lead to an unlikely but entirely plausible nightmare for the GOP - with Florida again at the center of a bitter vote counting dispute....
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Super PACs changing the race
27 Jan 2012
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By now, you've probably seen the political ad several times. "Think you know Mitt?" a narrator asks. "Think again." It's the latest salvo from a "super PAC," the groups dramatically reshaping campaigns and providing an outsized role for the wealthy, corporations and unions to influence the outcome....
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Romney doesn't hold back
24 Jan 2012
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Romney tries on fighter's persona
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If you had one question...
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The preceding day is December 31 of the previous year.
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1522 The Republic of Venice
1544 Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
1556 Spain, Portugal
1559 Prussia, Sweden
1564 France
1576 Southern Netherlands
1579 Lorraine
1583 United Provinces of the Netherlands (northern)
1600 Scotland
1700 Russia
1721 Tuscany
1752 Great Britain (excluding Scotland) and its colonies
153 BC – Roman consuls begin their year in office.
45 BC – The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time.
69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Aulus Vitellius Germanicus as emperor.
193 – The Senate chooses Pertinax against his will to succeed Commodus as Roman Emperor.
1001 – Grand Prince Stephen I of Hungary is named the first King of Hungary by Pope Silvester II.
1259 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris.
1438 – Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary.
1515 – King Francis I of France succeeds to the French throne.
1527 – Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as king of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin.
1600 – Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of March 25.
1651 – Charles II is crowned King of Scotland.
1700 – Russia begins using the Anno Domini era and no longer uses the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire.
1707 – John V is crowned King of Portugal.
1739 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
1772 – The first traveler's cheques, which can be used in 90 European cities, go on sale in London.
1773 – The hymn that became known as "Amazing Grace", then titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17" is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, England.
1781 – 1,500 soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey as part of the Pennsylvania (Continentals; Regiment) Mutiny of 1781.
1788 – First edition of ''The Times'' of London, previously ''The Daily Universal Register'', is published.
1800 – The Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
1801 – The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1801 – The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
1803 – Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tây Sơn Dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Huế, Vietnam.
1804 – French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black republic and second independent country on the North America after the U.S.
1806 – The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
1808 – The importation of slaves into the United States is banned.
1810 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB officially becomes Governor of New South Wales
1812 – The Bishop of Durham, Shute Barrington, orders troops from Durham Castle to break up a miners strike in Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham
1822 – The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly of Epidaurus.
1833 – The United Kingdom claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
1845 – The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn is completed.
1847 – The world's first "Mercy" Hospital is founded in Pittsburgh by the Sisters of Mercy, the name will go on to grace over 30 major hospitals throughout the world.
1860 – First Polish stamp is issued.
1861 – Porfirio Díaz conquers Mexico City.
1863 – American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
1863 – The first claim under the Homestead Act is made by Daniel Freeman for a farm in Nebraska.
1873 – Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar.
1877 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
1880 – Ferdinand de Lesseps begins French construction of the Panama Canal.
1885 – Twenty-five nations adopt Sanford Fleming's proposal for Standard Time (and also, time zones)
1890 – Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
1890 – The Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, is first held.
1892 – Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States.
1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal, England, is officially opened to traffic.
1898 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
1899 – Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
1901 – Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
1901 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
1902 – The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena.
1906 – British India officially adopts the Indian Standard Time.
1908 – For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York City's Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight.
1909 – Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher.
1910 – Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear Admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members), since Horatio Nelson.
1911 – Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
1912 – The Republic of China is established.
1916 – German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.
1920 – The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.
1923 – Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.
1927 – Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian).
1928 – Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
1929 – The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
1932 – The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.
1934 – Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison.
1934 – Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".
1937 – Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in Great Britain.
1939 – William Hewlett and David Packard found Hewlett-Packard.
1939 – Sydney, Australia, swelters in 45 ˚C (113 ˚F) heat, a record for the city.
1942 – The Declaration by the United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
1945 – World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops massacre 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne.
1945 – World War II: The German ''Luftwaffe'' launches ''Unternehmen Bodenplatte'', a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
1945 – World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major German offensive on the Western Front begins.
1947 – The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, that later became the Federal Republic of Germany.
1947 – The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
1948 – The British railway network is nationalised to form British Railways.
1948 – The Constitution of Italy comes into force.
1949 – United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
1954 – NBC makes the first coast-to-coast NTSC color broadcast when it telecast the Tournament of Roses Parade, with public demonstrations given across the United States on prototype color receivers.
1956 – The Republic of the Sudan achieves independence from the Egyptian Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
1956 – A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people.
1957 – George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
1957 – An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA's Operation Harvest.
1958 – The European Community is established.
1959 – Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces during the Cuban Revolution.
1960 – The Republic of Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
1962 – Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
1962 – United States Navy SEALs established.
1964 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.
1965 – The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul.
1966 – A twelve-day New York City transit strike begins.
1966 – After a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumes power as president of the Central African Republic.
1970 – Unix epoch time begins at 00:00:00 UTC/GMT.
1971 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
1973 – Denmark, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland are admitted into the European Community.
1978 – Air India Flight 855 Boeing 747 crashes into the sea, due to instrument failure and pilot disorientation, off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
1978 – The Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands becomes effective.
1979 – Formal diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America.
1980 – Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden.
1981 – The Republic of Greece is admitted into the European Community.
1981 – The Republic of Palau achieves self-government though it is not independent from the United States.
1982 – Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary General of the United Nations.
1983 – The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
1984 – The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T;.
1984 – The Sultanate of Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
1985 – The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
1985 – The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone.
1986 – Aruba becomes independent of Curaçao, though it remains in free association with the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
1986 – The Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic are admitted into the European Community.
1988 – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
1989 – The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer comes into force.
1990 – David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
1993 – Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic.
1993 – A single market within the European Community is introduced.
1994 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas.
1994 – The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
1995 – The World Trade Organization goes into effect.
1995 – The Kingdom of Sweden and the republics of Austria and Finland are admitted into the European Union.
1995 – The ''Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe'' becomes the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
1995 – The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
1996 – Curaçao gains limited self-government, though it remains within free association with the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
1997 – The Republic of Zaïre officially joins the World Trade Organization, as ''Zaïre''.
1997 – Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan is appointed Secretary General of the United Nations.
1998 – Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
1998 – The European Central Bank is established.
1999 – The Euro currency is introduced in 11 countries - members of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden).
2002 – Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union's member states.
2002 – Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei.
2002 – The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially comes into force.
2004 – In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007.
2006 – Sydney, Australia swelters through its hottest New Years Day on record. The thermometer peaked at , sparking bushfires and power outages. (Same as 1939)
2007 – Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Also, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages.
2007 – Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.
2008 – Malta and Cyprus officially adopt the Euro currency and become the fourteenth and fifteenth Eurozone countries.
2009 – 66 die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
2010 – A suicide car bomber detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100 more.
766 – Ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818)
871 – King Zwentibold of Lotharingia (d. 900)
1431 – Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)
1449 – Lorenzo de' Medici (d. 1492)
1467 – King Sigismund I the Old of Poland (d. 1548)
1484 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious figure (d. 1531)
1511 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall (d. 1511)
1516 – Margaret Leijonhufvud, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1551)
1557 – Prince István Bocskay of Transylvania (d. 1606)
1600 – Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (d. 1649)
1614 – John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (d. 1672)
1618 – Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, Spanish painter (baptism) (d. 1682)
1638 – Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
1648 – Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724)
1655 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)
1684 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)
1704 – Soame Jenyns, English writer (d. 1787)
1711 – Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (d. 1749)
1714 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1780)
1735 – Paul Revere, American patriot (d. 1818)
1745 – Anthony Wayne, American general and statesman (d. 1796)
1750 – Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman and 1st and 3rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1801)
1752 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress (d. 1836)
1767 – Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist (d. 1849)
1774 – André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (d. 1860)
1779 – William Clowes, English printer (d. 1847)
1803 – Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician (d. 1869)
1814 – Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (d. 1864)
1819 – Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet (d. 1861)
1823 – Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1849)
1833 – Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902)
1834 – Ludovic Halévy, French playwright (d. 1908)
1848 – John Goff, Irish lawyer (d. 1924)
1852 – Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist (d. 1904)
1854 – Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (d. 1941)
1859 – Thibaw Min, King of Burma (d. 1916)
1860 – John Cassidy, Irish sculptor and painter (d. 1939)
1860 – Dan Katchongva, Native American leader (d. 1972)
1860 – Michele Lega, Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1935)
1860 – Dirk van Erp, Dutch American coppersmith (d. 1933)
1860 – Jan Vilímek, Czech illustrator and painter (d. 1938)
1863 – Pierre de Coubertin, French aristocrat and founder of the modern Olympic Games (d. 1937)
1864 – Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (d. 1957)
1864 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946)
1867 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (d. 1941)
1868 – Snitz Edwards, American actor (d. 1937)
1873 – Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (d. 1952)
1874 – Frank Knox, American journalist and 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
1874 – Gustave Whitehead, German inventor (d. 1927)
1876 – Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933)
1878 – Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (d. 1929)
1879 – E. M. Forster, English novelist (d. 1970)
1879 – William Fox, Hungarian-born American film producer (d. 1952)
1881 – Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)
1887 – Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (d. 1945)
1888 – John Garand, American inventor (d. 1974)
1888 – Georgios Stanotas, Greek cavalry officer (d. 1965)
1889 – Charles Bickford, American film actor (d. 1967)
1890 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966)
1892 – Artur Rodziński, Croatian conductor (d. 1958)
1892 – Manuel Roxas, Filipino statesman (d. 1948)
1894 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician (d. 1974)
1894 – Shitsu Nakano, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2007)
1895 – J. Edgar Hoover, American FBI director (d. 1972)
1900 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish musician (d. 1990)
1900 – Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (d. 1986)
1902 – Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977)
1904 – Vasilis Avlonitis, Greek actor (d. 1970)
1904 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982)
1905 – Stanisław Mazur, Polish mathematician (d. 1981)
1906 – Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (d. 1974)
1908 – Bill Tapia, American musician
1909 – Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992)
1909 – Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959)
1911 – Basil Dearden, British film director (d. 1971)
1911 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1911 – Roman Totenberg, Polish-born American violinist
1911 – Audrey Wurdemann, American poet (d.1960)
1912 – Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician (d. 1995)
1912 – Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988)
1912 – Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek writer and poet (d. 1991)
1914 – Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and SOE agent (d. 1944)
1917 – Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981)
1917 – Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004)
1918 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
1918 – Frances Bay, Canadian actress
1919 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer (d. 1990)
1919 – Carole Landis, American film actress (d. 1948)
1919 – J. D. Salinger, American novelist (d. 2010)
1919 – Yoshio Tabata, Japanese singer
1920 – Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian cartoonist (d. 2007)
1920 – Willie Fennell, Australian comedian, actor (d. 1992)
1920 – Virgilio Savona, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 2009)
1921 – Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi, Palestinian philosopher (d. 1986)
1921 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor (d. 1998)
1921 – Wadih El Safi, Lebanese singer and songwriter
1922 – Ernest Hollings, American politician, 106th Governor of South Carolina and United States Senator from South Carolina
1922 – Jerry Robinson, American comic book artist
1923 – Daniel Gorenstein, American mathematician (d. 1992)
1923 – Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
1924 – Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet
1924 – Charlie Munger, American philanthropist
1925 – Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (d. 1981)
1925 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador (d. 2005)
1925 – Valentina Cortese, Italian actress
1925 – Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (d. 2007)
1926 – Richard Verreau, French-Canadian tenor (d. 2005)
1927 – Maurice Béjart, French choreographer (d. 2007)
1927 – Pat Heywood, Scottish actress
1927 – Calum MacKay, Canadian hockey player (d. 2001)
1927 – Vernon L. Smith, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner
1927 – Doak Walker, American football star (d. 1998)
1928 – Ernest Tidyman, American writer (d. 1984)
1928 – Gerhard Weinberg, German-American historian
1929 – Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer
1929 – Joseph Lombardo, American mafioso
1929 – Haruo Nakajima, Japanese actor
1930 – Gaafar al-Nimeiry, Sudanese politician (d. 2009)
1930 – Jean-Pierre Duprey, French poet and sculptor (d. 1959)
1930 – Ty Hardin, American film actor
1930 – Frederick Wiseman, American documentary filmmaker
1932 – Jackie Parker, American football player (d. 2006)
1932 – Giuseppe Patanè, Italian opera conductor (d. 1989)
1933 – James Hormel, American philanthropist and diplomat
1933 – Joseph Koo, Chinese composer
1933 – Frederick Lowy, Canadian educator
1933 – Joe Orton, English writer (d. 1967)
1933 – Norman Yemm, Australian actor
1935 – B. Kliban, American cartoonist (d. 1990)
1936 – Don Nehlen, American football player and coach
1936 – James Sinegal, American businessman
1937 – John Fuller, English poet
1937 – Petros Markaris, Greek writer
1937 – Matt Robinson, American actor (d. 2002)
1937 – Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, Polish author (d. 1995)
1938 – Clay Cole, American television host and producer (d. 2010)
1938 – Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (d. 2005)
1938 – Frank Langella, American actor
1939 – Michèle Mercier, French actress
1941 – Asrani, Indian actor and comedian
1941 – Barry Goldberg, American musician
1942 – Dennis Archer, American politician
1942 – Martin Frost, American politician
1942 – Al Hunt, American reporter and news anchor
1942 – Country Joe McDonald, American musician (Country Joe and the Fish)
1942 – Alassane Ouattara, former Prime Minister of Ivory Coast
1942 – Gennadi Sarafanov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2005)
1942 – Judy Stone, Australian pop singer
1943 – Larry Clark, American director
1943 – Tony Knowles, American politician and 7th Governor of Alaska
1943 – Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Indian scientist
1943 – Don Novello, American actor
1943 – Ronald Perelman, American businessman
1944 – Jimmy Hart, American wrestling manager
1944 – Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician
1945 – Peter Duncan, Australian politician
1945 – Jacky Ickx, Belgian race car driver
1945 – Max Julien, American actor
1946 – Carl B. Hamilton, Swedish economist and politician
1946 – Rick Hurst, American actor
1946 – Rivelino, Brazilian football player
1946 – Shelby Steele, American author and filmmaker
1947 – Jon Corzine, American politician, 54th Governor of New Jersey and former United States Senator from New Jersey
1947 – James K. Glassman, American journalist and diplomat
1947 – Leonard Thompson, American professional golfer
1947 – Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer
1947 – Frances Yip, Hong Kong singer
1948 – Devlet Bahçeli, Turkish politician
1948 – Pavel Grachev, Russian general
1948 – Joe Petagno, American artist
1948 – Ashok Saraf, Marathi/Hindi actor
1948 – Ismael Zambada García, Mexican drug lord
1949 – Max Azria, French fashion designer
1949 – Daniel E Gawthrop, American composer
1949 – Borys Tarasyuk, Ukrainian politician
1950 – Wayne Bennett, Australian rugby league coach
1950 – Morgan Fisher, English musician (Mott the Hoople)
1950 – Deepa Mehta, Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter
1951 – Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
1951 – Nana Patekar, Indian film and stage actor
1951 – Hans-Joachim Stuck, German race car driver
1952 – Stephanie Faracy, American actress
1952 – Rosario Marchese, Italian-Canadian politician
1953 – Alpha Blondy, Ivorian reggae singer
1953 – Greg Carmichael, British guitarist (Acoustic Alchemy)
1953 – Gary Johnson, American politician and 29th Governor of New Mexico
1953 – Lynn Jones, American baseball player
1954 – Richard Edson, American actor and musician
1954 – Bob Menendez, American politician and United States Senator from New Jersey
1954 – Yannis Papathanasiou, Greek politician
1955 – LaMarr Hoyt, American baseball player
1956 – Sergei Avdeyev, Russian cosmonaut
1956 – Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (d. 2000)
1956 – Sheila McCarthy, Canadian actress
1956 – Mike Mitchell, American basketball player
1956 – Ziad Rahbani, Lebanese composer
1956 – Kōji Yakusho, Japanese actor
1957 – Mark Hurd, American businessman
1957 – Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress
1957 – Evangelos Venizelos, Greek lawyer and politician
1958 – Grandmaster Flash, Barbadian musician
1958 – Dave Silk, American ice hockey player
1958 – Ren Woods, American actress and singer
1959 – Abdul Ahad Momand, Afghan cosmonaut
1959 – Andy Andrews, American tennis player
1959 – Azali Assoumani, Comorian president
1959 – Panagiotis Giannakis, Greek basketball player and coach
1959 – Michel Onfray, French philosopher
1960 – Rayo de Jalisco, Jr., Mexican wrestler
1960 – Leilani Kai, American wrestler
1960 – Michael Seibert, American ice dancer
1961 – Sergei Babayan, American classical pianist
1961 – Sam Backo, Australian rugby league footballer
1961 – Sam Palahnuk, American video game designer
1961 – Fiona Phillips, British television presenter
1961 – Mark Wingett, British actor
1962 – Ari Up, German musician (The Slits) (d. 2010)
1963 – Alberigo Evani, Italian footballer
1963 – Linda Henry, English actor
1963 – Lina Kačiušytė, Lithuanian swimmer
1963 – Dražen Ladić, Croatian footballer
1963 – Jean-Marc Gounon, French race car driver
1964 – Juliana Donald, American actress
1964 – Dedee Pfeiffer, American actress
1965 – John Sullivan, American politician
1965 – Andrew Valmon, American athlete
1966 – Anna Burke, Australian politician
1966 – Tina Landon, Mexican-American choreographer
1966 – Adam Paskowitz, American singer (The Flys)
1967 – John Digweed, English DJ
1967 – Tim Dog, American rapper
1967 – Gorsha Sur, Russian ice dancer
1967 – Derrick Thomas, American football player (d. 2000)
1967 – Spencer Tunick, American artist
1967 – Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Spanish film director
1968 – Felix Chong, Hong Kong screenwriter
1968 – Miki Higashino, Japanese composer
1968 – Joey Stefano, American actor (d. 1994)
1968 – Davor Šuker, Croatian footballer
1969 – Morris Chestnut, American actor
1969 – Nicolle Dickson, Australian actress
1969 – Melissa DiMarco, Canadian actress
1969 – Paul Lawrie, Scottish golfer
1969 – Christi Paul, American news anchor
1969 – Verne Troyer, American actor
1970 – Kimberly Page, American manager and actress
1971 – Juan Carlos Plata, Guatemalan soccer player
1971 – Sammie Henson, American wrestler
1971 – Bobby Holik, Czech ice hockey player
1971 – Chris Potter, American jazz saxophonist
1971 – Phoebus, Greek songwriter
1971 – Scott Riggs, American racing driver
1971 – Fredro Starr, American rapper (Onyx)
1971 – Ezra Weisz, American voice actor
1972 – Garrett K. Gomez, American horse jockey
1972 – Yermakhan Ibraimov, Kazakh boxer
1972 – Catherine McCormack, British actress
1972 – Neve McIntosh, Scottish actress
1972 – Barron Miles, American Canadian football player
1972 – Lilian Thuram, French footballer
1973 – Shelda Bede, Brazilian beach volleyball player
1973 – Li Fang, Chinese tennis player
1973 – Danny Lloyd, American actor
1973 – Anwar Mansoor Mangrio, Sindhi poet
1973 – Magnus Sahlgren, Swedish musician (Lake of Tears
1974 – Christian Paradis, Canadian politician
1974 – Hamilton Ricard, Colombian footballer
1974 – Eva Birthistle, Irish actress
1975 – Chris Anstey, Australian basketball player
1975 – Sonali Bendre, Indian model and actress
1975 – Joe Cannon, American footballer
1975 – Becky Kellar-Duke, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Eiichiro Oda, Japanese manga artist
1975 – Bengt Sæternes, Norwegian footballer
1975 – Fernando Tatis, Dominican baseball player
1977 – Leoš Friedl, Czech tennis player
1977 – María de la Paz Hernández, Argentinian field hockey player
1977 – Robert Roode, Canadian professional wrestler
1977 – Hasan Salihamidžić, Bosnian footballer
1977 – Andrei Stoliarov, Russian tennis player
1977 – Jerry Yan, Taiwanese actor and singer
1978 – Vidya Balan, Indian model and actress
1978 – Nina Bott, German actress
1978 – Phillip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer
1978 – Tarik O'Regan, British composer
1978 – Mykhaylo Renzhyn, Latvian skier
1979 – Brody Dalle, Australian singer (The Distillers)
1979 – Koichi Domoto, Japanese artist
1979 – Fadi El Khatib, Lebanese basketball player
1980 – Lazaros Agadakos, Greek basketball player
1980 – Elin Nordegren, Swedish model
1981 – Jonas Armstrong, English actor
1981 – Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian racing driver
1981 – Abdülkadir Koçak, Turkish boxer
1981 – Mladen Petrić, Croatian footballer
1981 – Eden Riegel, American actress
1982 – David Nalbandian, Argentinian tennis player
1983 – Ali Bastian, English actress and model
1983 – Calum Davenport, English footballer
1983 – Thomas Morrison, English actor
1983 – Emi Kobayashi, Japanese model
1983 – Park Sung-Hyun, South Korean Olympic archer
1984 – José Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer
1984 – Alok Kapali, Bangladeshi cricketer
1984 – Stefano Pastrello, Italian footballer
1984 – Mohammed Ghaddar, Lebanese footballer
1984 – Michael Witt, Australian rugby league footballer
1984 – Cheung Kin Fung, Hong Kong footballer
1985 – Jeff Carter, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
1985 – Tiago Splitter, Brazilian basketball player
1986 – Pablo Cuevas, Uruguayan tennis player
1986 – Glen Davis, American basketball player
1986 – James Davis, American football player
1986 – Colin Morgan, Northern Irish actor
1986 – Sungmin, South Korean singer (Super Junior)
1987 – Gilbert Brule, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 – Chris Collins, American actor and comedian
1987 – Devin Setoguchi, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Grzegorz Panfil, Polish tennis player
1992 – He Kexin, Chinese gymnast
1992 – Tim Menzel, German rugby player
1992 – Jack Wilshere, English footballer
1998 – Marlene Lawston, American child actress
379 – Saint Basil of Caesarea (b. 330)
404 – Saint Telemachus
874 – Hasan al-Askari, eleventh Shia Imam (b. 846)
898 – Odo, Count of Paris (b. 860)
962 – Baldwin III, Count of Flanders (b. c. 940)
1204 – King Haakon III of Norway (b. c. 1170)
1387 – King Charles II of Navarre (b. 1332)
1515 – King Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
1554 – Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500)
1559 – Christian III of Denmark and Norway (b. 1503)
1560 – Joachim du Bellay, French poet (b. 1522)
1617 – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (b. 1558)
1631 – Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544)
1697 – Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624)
1716 – William Wycherley, English dramatist (b. 1640)
1730 – Samuel Sewall, English judge (b. 1652)
1742 – Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686)
1748 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
1759 – Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705)
1766 – James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (b. 1688)
1782 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
1789 – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b. 1716)
1793 – Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter (b. 1712)
1796 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (b. 1735)
1800 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (b. 1716)
1817 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (b. 1743)
1835 – Mátyás Godina, writer, teacher and pastor (b. 1768)
1852 – John George Children, British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (b. 1777)
1853 – Gregory Blaxland, Australian explorer (b. 1778)
1862 – Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)
1869 – Martin W. Bates, American politician (b. 1786)
1881 – Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805)
1892 – Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
1894 – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
1896 – Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (b. 1826)
1906 – Sir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
1918 – Wilfred Campbell, Canadian poet (b. 1858)
1919 – Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (b. 1881)
1921 – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
1922 – István Kühár, Slovene (Prekmurian) writer and politician (b. 1887)
1931 – Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
1932 – C P Scott, British journalist, publisher and politician (b. 1846)
1940 – Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865)
1943 – Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, U.S. military officer who gave "a message to Garcia" (b. 1857)
1944 – Sir Edward Lutyens, British architect who designed New Delhi (b. 1869)
1944 – Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
1953 – Hank Williams, American singer (b. 1923)
1954 – Duff Cooper, British diplomat and writer (b. 1890)
1955 – Arthur C. Parker, American archaeologist, folklorist, and historian (b. 1881)
1957 – Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid
1958 – Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
1960 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress, screenwriter (b. 1909)
1964 – Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (b. 1890)
1966 – Vincent Auriol, French politician (b. 1884)
1969 – Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902)
1969 – Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (b. 1888)
1971 – Saint Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint (b. 1894)
1972 – Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (b. 1888)
1973 – Sergei Kourdakov, former KGB agent (b. 1951)
1980 – Adolph Deutsch, American composer and arranger (b. 1897)
1980 – Pietro Nenni, Italian socialist politician (b. 1891)
1981 – Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Jewish concert pianist (b. 1920)
1982 – Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
1984 – Alexis Korner, British blues musician (b. 1928)
1985 – Sigerson Clifford, Irish poet and writer (b. 1913)
1985 – Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
1986 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
1986 – Bruce Norris, American hockey executive (Detroit Red Wings) (b. 1924)
1989 – Aleka Stratigou, Greek actress (b. 1926)
1991 – Buck Ram, American songwriter and businessman (The Platters) (b. 1907)
1992 – Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (b. 1906)
1994 – Lord Arthur Porritt, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900)
1994 – Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907)
1994 – Edward Arthur Thompson, British historian (b. 1914)
1995 – Fred West, British serial killer (suicide) (b. 1941)
1995 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1996 – Arleigh Burke, American admiral (b. 1901)
1996 – Arthur Rudolph, German engineer (b. 1906)
1997 – Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
1997 – Hagood Hardy, Canadian composer and musician (b. 1937)
1997 – Townes Van Zandt, American country musician (b. 1944)
1998 – Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (b. 1905)
2000 – Colin Vaughan, Australian political journalist (b. 1931)
2001 – Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
2002 – Julia Phillips, American film producer (b. 1944)
2003 – Joe Foss, American politician, fighter pilot, Medal of Honor recipient and AFL Commissioner (b. 1915)
2003 – F. William Free, American advertising executive (b. 1928)
2003 – Cyril Shaps, English actor (b. 1923)
2005 – Shirley Chisholm, American politician (b. 1924)
2005 – Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, British newspaperman (b. 1931)
2005 – Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist (b. 1938)
2005 – Bob Matsui, American politician (b. 1941)
2006 – Bryan Harvey, American musician (House of Freaks) (b. 1956)
2006 – Dawn Lake, Australian TV comedienne (b. 1927)
2006 – Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (b. 1913)
2006 – Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher and inventor (b. 1918)
2007 – A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1908)
2007 – Leon Davidson, American scientist known for studying UFOs (b. 1922)
2007 – Leonard Fraser, Australian serial killer (b. 1951)
2007 – Julius Hegyi, American conductor (b. 1923)
2007 – Tad Jones, American jazz music historian (b. 1952)
2007 – Ernie Koy, American baseball player (b. 1909)
2007 – Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (b. 1943)
2007 – Tillie Olsen, American writer (b. 1912)
2007 – Del Reeves, American country singer (b. 1932)
2007 – Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982)
2008 – Salvatore Bonanno, son of Joseph Bonanno (b. 1932)
2008 – Peter Caffrey, Irish actor (b. 1949)
2008 – Pratap Chandra Chunder, Union minister of India (b. 1919)
2008 – Harold Corsini, American photographer (b. 1919)
2009 – Aarne Arvonen, Finnish supercentenerian (b.1897)
2009 – Claiborne Pell, U.S. senator (b. 1918)
2009 – Nizar Rayan, Hamas leader (b. 1962)
2010 – Lhasa de Sela, Mexican-American singer (b. 1972)
2011 – Marin Constantin, Romanian composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2011 – Reynaldo Dagsa, Filipino politician
2011 – Flemming Jørgensen, Danish singer (b. 1947)
Christian Feast Day:
* Basil the Great (Eastern Orthodox Church)
* Feast of the Circumcision of Christ (Eastern Orthodox Church)
* Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (Lutheran Church)
* Feast of the Solemnity of Mary, the Octave Day of Christmas, considered a holy day of obligation in some country. (Roman Catholic Church)
* Fulgentius of Ruspe
* Telemachus
* January 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Italy)
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia related observances:
* Day of the Establishment of the Slovak Republic (Slovakia)
* Restoration Day of the Independent Czech State (Czech Republic)
Earliest day on which Handsel Monday can fall, while January 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of the year. (Scotland)
Founding Day (Taiwan)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Brunei from United Kingdom in 1984.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Haiti from France in 1804.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Sudan from United Kingdom in 1956.
National Tree Planting Day (Tanzania)
New Year's Day (many countries around the world using the Gregorian calendar)
The eighth day of Christmas (Western Christianity)
The last day of Kwanzaa (United States)
The presidents of Brazil and Switzerland take possession.
Triumph of the Revolution (Cuba)
BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada
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During the Middle Ages under the influence of the Christian Church, many countries moved the start of the year to one of several important Christian festivals — December 25 (the Nativity of Jesus), March 1, March 25 (the Annunciation), or even Easter. Eastern European countries (most of them with populations showing allegiance to the Orthodox Church) began their numbered year on September 1 from about 988.
In England, January 1 was celebrated as the New Year festival, but from the 12th century to 1752 the year in England began on March 25 (Lady Day). So, for example, the Parliamentary record records the execution of Charles I occurring in 1648 (as the year did not end until March 24), although modern histories adjust the start of the year to January 1 and record the execution as occurring in 1649.
Most western European countries changed the start of the year to January 1 before they adopted the Gregorian calendar. For example, Scotland changed the start of the Scottish New Year to January 1 in 1600. England, Ireland and the British colonies changed the start of the year to January 1 in 1752. Later that year in September, the Gregorian calendar was introduced throughout Britain and the British colonies. These two reforms were implemented by the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750.
January 1 became the official start of the year as follows:
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Category:Days of the year Category:January
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