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A. Philip Randolph
Asa Philip Randolph (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was a prominent twentieth-century African-American civil rights leader and the founder of both the March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a landmark for labor and particularly for African-American labor organizing.
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Aaliyah
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), who performed under the mononym Aaliyah (), was an American recording artist, actress and model. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Detroit, Michigan. At an early age, she appeared on the television show Star Search and performed in concert alongside Gladys Knight. At age 12, Aaliyah signed with Jive Records and Blackground Records by her uncle, Barry Hankerson. He introduced her to R. Kelly, who became her mentor, as well as lead songwriter and producer of her debut album, ''Age Ain't Nothing but a Number''. The album sold three million copies in the United States and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). After facing allegations of an illegal marriage with Kelly, Aaliyah ended her contract with Jive and signed to Atlantic Records.
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Aaron Douglas
Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1899 – February 3, 1979) was an African American painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
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Aaron Hughes
Aaron William Hughes (born 8 November 1979) is a Northern Irish footballer who plays for Fulham. Hughes is able to play centre back, right back or left back, as well as anywhere in midfield. He is usually deployed in a centre half position for his club and country, and is the current Northern Ireland captain.
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Abdus Salam
Mohammad Abdus Salam (Urdu: محمد عبد السلام) (January 29, 1926; Sahiwal, Punjab, British Raj (present-day Pakistan) – November 21, 1996; Oxford, England) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist, astrophysicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work in Electro-Weak Theory. Salam, Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg shared the prize for this discovery. Salam holds the distinction of being the first Pakistani and the first Muslim Nobel Laureate to receive the prize in the Sciences. Even today, Salam is considered one of the most influential scientists and physicists in his country.
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Abul Ala Maududi
'''Syed Abul A'ala Maududi (lang-ur| - alternative spellings of last name Maudoodi and Modudi''') ( - ), also known as Molana (Maulana) or Shaikh Syed Abul A'ala Mawdudi, was a Sunni Pakistani journalist, theologian, Muslim revivalist leader and political philosopher, and a major 20th century Islamist thinker. He was also a prominent political figure in his home country (Pakistan). He was also the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, the Islamic revivalist party.
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Adam Brody
Adam Jared Brody (born December 15, 1979) is an American film and television actor and part time musician. He began his career in 1995, appearing on the Gilmore Girls and other series, and subsequently came to fame for his role as Seth Cohen on The O.C. Brody subsequently appeared in several film roles, including Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Thank You for Smoking, ''Jennifer's Body, In the Land of Women, and Cop Out, and will co-star in Scream 4''.
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Adam Levine
Adam Noah Levine (born March 18, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is the frontman for the pop rock band Maroon 5.
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Adolph Dubs
Adolph "Spike" Dubs (August 4, 1920 - February 14, 1979) was the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan from May 13, 1978 until his death in 1979. He was killed in an exchange of fire after a kidnapping attempt.
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Adrian Serioux
Adrian Serioux (born May 12, 1979 in Scarborough, Ontario) is a Canadian soccer player of Trinidadian descent who currently plays for Houston Dynamo in Major League Soccer.
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African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
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Agostinho Neto
António Agostinho Neto (September 17, 1922 – September 10, 1979) served as the first President of Angola (1975–1979), leading the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the war for independence and the civil war. His birthday is celebrated as National Heroes Day, a public holiday in Angola.
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Ahmad Zahir
Ahmad Zahir ( - - Aḥmad Zāhir; 14 June 1946 – 14 June 1979), was an Afghan singer, songwriter, and composer. Still popular more than a quarter-century after his death, he is considered an icon of music in Afghanistan.
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Airey Neave
Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave DSO, OBE, MC (23 January 1916 – 30 March 1979) was a British soldier, barrister and politician.
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Akin Ayodele
Akinola James "Akin" Ayodele () (born September 17, 1979 in Irving, Texas) is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at Purdue.
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Al Capp
Alfred Gerald Caplin (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip ''Li'l Abner. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an' Slats and Long Sam''. He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award (posthumously) for his "unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning."
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Alan Browning
Alan Browning (23 March 1926 - 7 September 1979) was an English film and television actor, born in Sunderland. He is best remembered as the character Alan Howard in the television series Coronation Street, a role he played from 1969 until 1973. He was married to his Coronation Street co-star Pat Phoenix from 23 December 1972 until his 1979 death from liver failure, a result of his heavy alcohol intake. Phoenix played his on screen wife Elsie Tanner in Coronation Street.
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Alberto di Jorio
Alberto di Jorio (July 18, 1884 – September 5, 1979), was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and for many years along with the layman Bernadino Nogara the powerhouse behind the growing wealth of the Vatican and the Istituto per le Opere di Religione (popularly known as the "Vatican Bank").
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Alexander Haig
Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (December 2, 1924 – February 20, 2010) was a United States Army general who served as the United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He also served as Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, the second-highest ranking officer in the Army, and as Supreme Allied Commander Europe commanding all U.S. and NATO forces in Europe.
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Alexi Laiho
Alexi "WildChild" Laiho (born Markku Uula Aleksi Laiho; April 8, 1979) is a Finnish singer, composer, and guitarist. He is best known for being the lead guitarist as well as lead vocalist for heavy metal band Children of Bodom, and he is also the guitarist for Sinergy and Kylähullut. He has previously played with Thy Serpent and Impaled Nazarene on occasion, as well as Warmen and Hypocrisy.
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Alfred Deller
Alfred George Deller CBE (31 May 1912 – 16 July 1979), was an English singer and one of the main figures in popularizing the return of the countertenor voice in Renaissance and Baroque music during the 20th Century.
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Alison Lohman
Alison Marion Lohman (born September 18, 1979) is an American actress. She has had lead roles in the films White Oleander, Where the Truth Lies, Flicka and Drag Me to Hell as well as smaller parts in Matchstick Men, Big Fish and Beowulf. She has also been on several television shows including 7th Heaven, Crusade, Tucker, and Pasadena.
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Allan M. Cormack
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Alvin Karpis
Alvin Francis "Creepy Karpis" Karpowicz (August 10, 1907 – August 26, 1979), born Alvin Karpowicz, better known as Alvin Karpis and nicknamed "Creepy" for his sinister smile, was an American criminal known for his alliance with the Barker gang in the 1930s. He was the last "public enemy" to be taken.
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Amy Davidson
Amy Davidson (born September 15, 1979) is an American television actress best known for her role as Kerry Michelle Hennessy in the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. Although her character is younger than her on-screen sister Bridget, she is six years older than her co-star Kaley Cuoco.
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Amélie Mauresmo
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Andrea Pirlo
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Andreas Aniko
Andreas Aniko (born September 10, 1979) is an Estonian football midfielder, playing for JK Tallinna Kalev in Estonian Esiliiga, the highest division of Estonia. He is also member of Estonia national beach soccer team, playing beach football for Unibet/Nõmme Kalju.
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Andreas Kuettel
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Angus MacLise
Angus MacLise (Bridgeport, Connecticut, March 4, 1938 - Kathmandu, Nepal June 21, 1979) was an American percussionist, composer, poet, occultist and calligrapher probably best known as the first drummer for the Velvet Underground.
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Ann Dvorak
Ann Dvorak (August 2, 1911 – December 10, 1979) was an American film actress.
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Anthony Davidson
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Anthony Jay
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Antoaneta Stefanova
Antoaneta Stefanova () (born April 19, 1979) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE.
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Antonio Chatman
Antonio Tavaras Chatman (born February 12, 1979 in ) is an American football wide receiver and punt returner for the Sacramento Mountain Lions of the United Football League. He was signed by the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent in 2002. He played college football at Cincinnati.
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Anwar Sadat
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Ari Hest
Ari Hest is an American singer-songwriter and a native of Riverdale in the Bronx borough of New York.
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Arthur Fiedler
:Not to be confused with Arthur Fielder, a Kent fast bowler of the 1900s.
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Arthur Hunnicutt
Arthur Lee Hunnicutt (February 17, 1910 – September 26, 1979) was an American actor known for his portrayal of wise, grizzled, old rural characters. In one of his last movies, Moonrunners which was the precursor to The Dukes of Hazzard, he played the original Uncle Jesse.
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Ashley Massaro
Ashley Marie Massaro (born May 26, 1979) is an American model and inactive professional wrestler best known for her work with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and her appearance on . She first joined WWE after winning the Raw Diva Search 2005. After an initial rivalry with Vince's Devils, an alliance of female villains, Massaro became the valet for the WWE Tag Team Champions Paul London and Brian Kendrick. Her most high profile matches were a WWE Women's Championship match against Melina Perez at WrestleMania 23 and a Playboy Bunnymania Lumberjill match at WrestleMania XXIV. She left WWE in mid-2008.
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Assata Shakur
Assata Olugbala Shakur (born July 16, 1947 as JoAnne Deborah Byron, married name Chesimard) is an African-American activist and escaped convict who was a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and Black Liberation Army (BLA). Between 1971 and 1973, Shakur was accused of several crimes, of which she would never be charged, and made the subject of a multi-state manhunt.
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Audrey Hollander
Audrey Hollander (born November 4, 1979 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American pornographic actress.
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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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Axel Teichmann
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Ayako Fujitani
Ayako Fujitani (藤谷文子 Fujitani Ayako; b. December 7, 1979 in Osaka, Japan), a writer and actress, is the daughter of Steven Seagal from his first wife, aikido master Miyako Fujitani. She is fluent in English and Japanese.
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Ayatollah Khomeini
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Ayiesha Woods
Ayiesha Woods (born July 2, 1979 in Long Island, New York) is a contemporary Christian musician signed to Gotee Records. She has released two studio albums on Gotee: Introducing Ayiesha Woods (2006) and Love Like This (2008). Woods is known for the hit songs "Happy" and "Big Enough" from her debut album. Her musical style is a distinct mix of several genres, predominantly including pop, soul, urban and rock.
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Azumi Kawashima
, born August 8, 1979 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese idol and Adult Video actress (or so-called "AV idol")." Kawashima was already known as a "gravure princess" at the time of her AV debut in December 1998. By May, 1999 she was called one of the most popular AV idols, and "the number one AV idol" by August of that year.
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Babrak Karmal
Babrak Karmal (6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996) was the third President of Afghanistan (1979–1986) during the period of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. He is the best known of the Marxist leadership.
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Bahram Radan
Bahram Radan () is an award-winning Iranian actor.
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Bam Margera
Brandon Cole "Bam" Margera (pronounced ; born September 28, 1979) is an American professional skateboarder, television and radio personality, and daredevil. He released a series of videos under the CKY banner and came to prominence after being drafted into MTV's Jackass crew. He has since appeared in MTV's Viva La Bam and ''Bam's Unholy Union'', all three , and ' and ', both of which he co-wrote and directed.
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Barbara Hutton
Barbara Woolworth Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979) was an American socialite dubbed by the media as the "Poor Little Rich Girl" because of her troubled life. She donated Winfield House to the United States government, to be used as the residence of the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, in a symbolic $1 transaction following World War II.
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Barbara Luddy
Barbara Luddy (25 May 1908 — 1 April 1979) was an American actress from Great Falls, Montana. Her film career began with silent pictures in the 1920s, during which time she was also a prolific radio performer.
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Barnes Wallis
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE FRS, RDI, FRAeS (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979), was an English scientist, engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the RAF in Operation Chastise (the "Dambusters" raid) to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II. The raid was the subject of the 1954 film The Dam Busters, in which Wallis was played by Michael Redgrave. Among his other inventions were the geodesic airframe and the earthquake bomb.
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Baron Davis
Baron Walter Louis Davis (born April 13, 1979) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA. Davis became a star at Crossroads School and UCLA. Davis was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets as the third pick in the 1999 NBA Draft.
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Beijing
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Ben Fouhy
Ben Fouhy (born 4 March 1979, Taumarunui) is a New Zealand flatwater canoer who has been competing since the early 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won the silver in the K-1 1000 m event at Athens in 2004.
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Ben Lyon
Ben Lyon (February 6, 1901 – March 22, 1979) was an American film actor and a 20th Century Fox studio executive.
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Ben Silverstone
Benjamin Maurice Silverstone (born London, 9 April 1979) is an English pupil barrister and former actor. He has one sister and one brother. He studied English at Cambridge University and law (LLM) at the LSE.
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Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini KSMOM GCTE (29 July 1883, Predappio, Province of Forlì-Cesena - 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism.
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Bernice Liu
Bernice Jan Liu (born January 6, 1979) is a Chinese Canadian actress, singer, and commercial model from Hong Kong. She has previously held the title Miss Chinese Vancouver 2000 as well as Miss Chinese International 2001, the latter position bringing her fame in Hong Kong.
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Bertil Ohlin
Bertil Gotthard Ohlin () (23 April 1899 – 3 August 1979) was a Swedish economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929 to 1965. He was also leader of the People's Party, a social-liberal party which at the time was the largest party in opposition to the governing Social Democratic Party, from 1944 to 1967. He served briefly as Minister for Trade from 1944 to 1945 in the Swedish coalition government during World War II.
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Bill Todman
William (Wilbur) S. "Bill" Todman (July 31, 1916 – July 29, 1979) was an American television producer born in New York City. He produced many of television's longest running shows with business partner Mark Goodson.
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Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu (Bengali: বিপাশা বসু, Hindi: बिपाषा बासु; born 7 January 1979) is an Indian actress who mainly appears in Bollywood films and a former model. She was the winner of the Ford's Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest for 1996.
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BJ Flores
Benjamin Flores (born January 29, 1981) is a Mexican-American professional boxer and mixed martial artist.
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Blair Peach
Clement Blair Peach (25 March 1946 – 23 April 1979) was a New Zealand-born teacher who was fatally assaulted by a police officer during an anti-racism demonstration in London, England.
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Brandy Norwood
Brandy Rayana Norwood (born February 11, 1979), known professionally as Brandy, is an American R&B; singer-songwriter, record producer, television entertainer, actress, and film producer. In 2009, she introduced her rap alter-ego '''Bran'Nu'''.
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Brenda Ann Spencer
Brenda Ann Spencer (born April 3, 1962) is a convicted American murderer who carried out a shooting spree from her home in San Diego, California on January 29, 1979. During the shooting spree, she killed two people and injured nine others at Cleveland Elementary School, which was located across the street from her home. Spencer is best known for her quote "I don't like Mondays," which inspired the song "I Don't Like Mondays" by Bob Geldof of The Boomtown Rats. The song was a UK number one single for four weeks in mid-1979.
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Brian Kendrick
Brian David Kendrick (born May 29, 1979) is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He is best known for working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), both under his real name and as "The" Brian Kendrick.
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Brian O'Driscoll
'''Brian Gerald O'Driscoll' (Irish name: Briain Gearóid Ó hEidirsceoil'' ; born 21 January 1979) is an Irish professional rugby union player. He is the current captain of the Irish national team and captained Leinster Rugby until the start of 2008 season. He also captained the British and Irish Lions for their 2005 tour of New Zealand. Registered at University College Dublin RFC, he plays at outside for the Irish provincial team Leinster. O'Driscoll was chosen as Player of the Tournament in the 2006, 2007 and 2009 RBS Six Nations Championships.
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Bubba Crosby
Richard Stephen "Bubba" Crosby (born August 11, 1976, in Bellaire, Texas) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who played with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees. He is best known for his tenure as a backup outfielder for the Yankees, when his defense and running games were often put to use and he played a prominent starting role near the end of the 2005 season.
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Canuplin
Canuto Francia (January 28, 1904 – September 4, 1979), better known as Canuplin, was a Filipino stage performer and magician who gained fame for his impersonation of Charlie Chaplin in Filipino movies and the local bodabil circuit.
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Carl Laemmle, Jr.
Carl Laemmle Jr. (28 April 1908 – 24 September 1979) was in charge of production at Universal Studios from about 1928 to 1936. He was the son of Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures. Laemmle, called “Junior”, by his friends and family, developed a reputation for spending too much money at the studios on several films that did not earn back their cost. During his tenure, Universal had great success with All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Dracula (1931), Waterloo Bridge (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933), Imitation of Life (1934) (a film which Laemmle Jr. did not personally produce), and Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
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Carl Philip
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Carly Colón
Carlos Edwin "Carly" Colón, Jr. (born on February 21, 1979) is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler better known internationally by his ring name Carlito. He is best known for his work in the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), but was released from his contract on May 21, 2010. In his native Puerto Rico, he is known as both Carly Colón and Carlito. Colón occasionally still performs in the World Wrestling Council (WWC) where he is a former eleven-time Universal World Heavyweight Champion.
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Carmine Galante
Carmine Galante, also known as "Lilo" and "Cigar" (February 21, 1910 – July 12, 1979) was a mobster and acting boss of the Bonanno crime family. Galante was rarely seen without a cigar, leading to the nickname "Cigar". "Lilo" came from an Italian slang word for cigar.
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Carson Palmer
Carson Hilton Palmer (born December 27, 1979) is an American professional football quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Bengals first overall in the 2003 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at the University of Southern California and won the Heisman Trophy in 2002. He has been selected to two Pro Bowls.
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Charity Rahmer
Charity Rahmer (born January 4, 1979 in Maui, Hawaii) is an American actress.
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Charles Haughey
Charles James "Charlie" Haughey (; 16 September 1925 – 13 June 2006) was Taoiseach of Ireland, serving three terms in office; from December 1979 to June 1981, March 1982 to December 1982 and March 1987 to February 1992. Haughey, one of the most controversial of Irish politicians in the 20th century, was the fourth leader of Fianna Fáil, from 1979 until 1992. He died of prostate cancer at the age of eighty.
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Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.
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Chick Evans
Charles E. "Chick" Evans, Jr. (July 18, 1890 – November 6, 1979) was a leading amateur golfer of the 1910s and 1920s. Evans was the first amateur to win the U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur in one year, a feat he achieved in 1916. Evans went on to win the U.S. Amateur in 1920, while finishing runner-up three times. Selected to the Walker Cup team in 1922, 1924, and 1928, Evans competed in a record 50 consecutive U.S. Amateurs in his long career. All this was achieved with only seven hickory-shafted clubs. In addition to his golf career, Evans is known for sponsoring a college scholarship for qualified caddies.
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Chris Daughtry
Christopher Adam Daughtry (born December 26, 1979) is an American musician and the guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist for the band Daughtry. He was the fourth-place finalist on the fifth season of American Idol, eliminated from the competition on May 10, 2006. After his elimination from Idol, he was given a record deal by RCA Records and released his self-titled debut album, which sold more than one million copies after just five weeks of release, becoming the fastest selling debut rock album in history. In its ninth week of release, the album reached number one on the Billboard charts. Chris Daughtry is now the third most successful American Idol contestant in terms of record sales, behind only Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, who both won their respective seasons. At the 50th Grammy Awards, the band was nominated for Best Rock Song for "It's Not Over".
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Chris Doran
Christopher "Chris" Doran, (born 22 November 1979) from Waterford, Ireland was the winner of Ireland's You're A Star 2003-2004 talent search competition to find Ireland's Eurovision Song Contest entry. The competition held auditions throughout Ireland, and the winners went through to the final stages, with one act eventually decided on. The show was aired on RTÉ.
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Chris Neil
Chris Neil (born June 18, 1979 in Flesherton, Ontario) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player, playing right wing for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League.
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Chris Smith (rapper)
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Christian Dotremont
Christian Dotremont, (12 December 1922 - 20 August 1979), was a Belgian painter and poet who was born in Tervuren, Belgium. He was a founding member of the group Cobra, and later became well known for his painted poems, which he called logograms.
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Christijan Albers
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Chun Doo-hwan
Chun Doo-hwan (born January 18, 1931) was a former ROK Army general and the President of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. Chun was sentenced to death in 1996 for the Gwangju massacre, but later pardoned by President Kim Young-sam with the advice of then President-elect Kim Dae-jung, whom Chun himself had sentenced to death some 20 years earlier.
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Cindy Klassen
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Claire Danes
Claire Catherine Danes (born April 12, 1979) is an American actress of television, stage and film. She is best known for her roles as Angela Chase in My So-Called Life, as Juliet in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, as Yvaine in Stardust, and as Temple Grandin in the HBO TV movie Temple Grandin.
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Clarence Muse
Clarence Muse (October 14, 1889 – October 13, 1979) was an actor, screenwriter, director, composer, and lawyer. He was inducted in the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1973. Muse was the first African American to "star" in a film. He acted for more than sixty years, and appeared in more than 150 movies.
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Claudia Jennings
Claudia Jennings (born Mary Eileen Chesterton, 20 December 1949, Saint Paul, Minnesota — died October 3, 1979, Malibu, California) was an American model and actress. Jennings was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month in November 1969 and later Playmate of the Year 1970. Her original pictorial was photographed by Pompeo Posar.
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Cobra Starship
Cobra Starship is an American pop punk/synthpop band created by former Midtown bassist and lead vocalist Gabe Saporta in 2005 in New York City, New York. Other members are guitarist Ryland Blackinton, bassist Alex Suarez, drummer Nate Novarro, and keytarist Victoria Asher, all of whom provide backing vocals. The group released their debut album, While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets in 2006, which they followed with ¡Viva la Cobra! in 2007. They most recently released Hot Mess in 2009. The group is currently perhaps best known for their hit singles "Good Girls Go Bad" and "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)".
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Coco Crisp
Covelli Loyce "Coco" Crisp (born November 1, 1979, in Los Angeles, California) is a Major League Baseball center fielder for the Oakland Athletics. Crisp is a switch-hitter and throws right-handed. He previously played for the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox and Kansas City Royals. Crisp is well known for being a very good defensive outfielder.
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Conrad Hilton
Conrad Nicholson Hilton (December 25, 1887 – January 3, 1979) was an American hotelier and founder of the Hilton Hotels chain.
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Craig Shergold
Craig Shergold (born 24 June 1979) is a British former cancer patient who is most famous for receiving over 35 million greeting cards, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of Records. Variations of the plea for greeting cards sent out on his behalf in 1989 are still being distributed through the Internet, making the plea one of the most persistent urban legends.
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Cristian Mora
Cristian Rafael Mora Medrano (born August 26, 1979 in Vinces, Los Ríos) is an Ecuadorian football goalkeeper who plays for Universidad Católica.
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Dallas Clark
Dallas Dean Clark (born June 12, 1979) is an American football tight end for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Colts 24th overall in the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Iowa. He has been called a hybrid tight end for the Colts due to his ability to transform as both wide receiver and tight end in the game.
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Dan Marshall
Dan Marshall was the former coach of the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League (AHL).
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Dan White
Daniel James "Dan" White (September 2, 1946 – October 21, 1985) was a San Francisco supervisor who assassinated San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, on November 27, 1978, at City Hall. In a controversial verdict that led to the coining of the legal slang "Twinkie defense," White was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder in the deaths of Milk and Moscone. Less than two years after serving a sentence of five years, White returned to San Francisco and committed suicide. San Francisco Weekly has referred to White as "perhaps the most hated man in San Francisco's history."
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Daniel Bedingfield
Daniel John Bedingfield (born 3 December 1979) is a New Zealand born, British singer-songwriter. He is the brother of pop singers Natasha Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle.
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Darla Hood
Darla Jean Hood (November 4, 1931 – June 13, 1979) was an American child actress, best known as the leading lady in the Our Gang series from 1935 to 1941. She was born in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner. Her father worked in a bank and her mother was a music teacher.
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Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979) was an American producer, writer, actor, director, and studio executive who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career being rivalled only by that of Adolph Zukor).
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Dave Fleischer
David "Dave" Fleischer (July 14, 1894 – June 25, 1979) was an American animator film director and film producer, best known as a co-owner of Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer (the father of director Richard Fleischer). He was a native of New York City.
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Dave Line
Dave Line (1942? – 1979) was a British beer author. An electrical engineer by profession, he is regarded as a pioneer in homebrewing during the 1970s because at the time homebrewing as a hobby was in its infancy. At the time of his death he was 37, living in Southampton, was married and had a son.
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David Carr
David Duke Carr (born July 21, 1979, in ) is an American football quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Houston Texans first overall in the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at Fresno State.
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David Dacko
David Dacko (March 24, 1930 – November 20, 2003) was the first President of the Central African Republic (CAR), from August 14, 1960 to January 1, 1966, and the third president of the CAR from September 21, 1979 to September 1, 1981. Even after being removed from power twice by coups d'état, Dacko continued to be a very active politician and presidential candidate with a loyal group of supporters. Dacko was thus an important political figure in CAR politics for a period of over half a century.
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Derek Paravicini
Derek Paravicini (born 26 July 1979) is a blind English autistic savant and a musical prodigy. He currently lives in Surrey, England, UK.
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Dhyan Chand
'''Major Dhyan 'Chand' Singh (; August 29, 1905 – December 3, 1979), better known as Dhyan Chand''' () was an Indian hockey player, widely regarded as the greatest player of all time . A legendary center-forward, he is remembered for his goal-scoring feats, first as a player and later as captain. Chand won 3 Olympic gold medals (1928 Amsterdam, 1932 Los Angeles, 1936 Berlin) and was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour, in 1956. He was the elder brother of fellow player Roop Singh.
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Diana Gurtskaya
Diana Gudaevna Gurtskaya (, born July 2, 1979 in Sukhumi, Abkhazia) is a blind Georgian singer residing in Moscow, Russia. On March 1, 2008, she won the Georgian national final with 39.4% of the vote, therefore she represented Georgia at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade, Serbia. She won a place in the final at the second semi-final on May 22 and finished 11th.
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Dick Foran
'''John Nicholas 'Dick' Foran''' (June 18, 1910 – August 10, 1979) was an American actor, known for his performances in western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures.
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Diego Forlan
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Diego Luna
Diego Luna (born December 29, 1979) is a Mexican actor known for his childhood telenovela work, a starring role in the film Y tu mamá también, and supporting roles in American films. He is also known for his roles in Rudo y Cursi and Milk. Luna also had minor roles in Frida and Before Night Falls.
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Diego Milito
Diego Alberto Milito (born 12 June 1979) is an Argentine footballer who currently plays as a striker for F.C. Internazionale Milano. He also plays for the Argentine national team. A prolific and consistent center-forward, Milito has statistically averaged just over a goal every two appearances, over the course of his 10 year professional career. He was pivotal in Inter's 2009/10 treble winning season and his two goals in the Champions League he was now known internationally as one of the most dangerous strikers in the world.
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Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (, Dmytro Zynoviyovych Tiomkin, , ''Dmitrij Zinov'evič Tëmkin'', sometimes transliterated as Dmitri Tiomkin) (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, Miklós Rózsa, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated composers in Hollywood.
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Dimitry Vassiliev
Dimitry Viktorovich Vassiliev (, born 26 December 1979 in Ufa) is an Russian ski jumper who has been competing in the World Cup since 1999. His best finish at the World Championships is fifth in the team normal hill in Oberstdorf 2005 while his best individual finish was seventh in the individual large hill at the Sapporo 2007.
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Dolores Costello
Dolores Costello (September 17, 1903 – March 1, 1979) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies. She was nicknamed "The Goddess of the Silent Screen". She was stepmother of John Barrymore's child Diana by his second wife Blanche Oelrichs, the mother of John Drew Barrymore and the grandmother of Drew Barrymore.
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Donna Summer
LaDonna Adrian Gaines (born December 31, 1948), known by her stage name, Donna Summer is an American singer who gained prominence and notoriety during the disco era of the seventies with the majority of her early work produced by the team of Giorgio Moroder and Pete Belotte.
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Donny Hathaway
Donny Edward Hathaway (October 1, 1945 – January 13, 1979) was an American soul musician.
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Doris Kenyon
Doris Kenyon (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1979) was a popular actress of motion pictures and television.
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Dr Christopher Evans
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Dr. Phil McGraw
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Duffy Lewis
George Edward "Duffy" Lewis (April 18, 1888 – June 17, 1979), born in San Francisco, California, was a left fielder and left-handed batter who played Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox (1910–17), New York Yankees (1919–20) and Washington Senators (1921). Lewis attended Saint Mary's College of California.
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Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan (March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s. As Uncle Joe, he took over as proprietor of the Shady Rest Hotel following the death of Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley.
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Edvard Kardelj
Edvard Kardelj (January 27, 1910 - February 10, 1979) also known under the pseudonyms Sperans and Krištof was a Yugoslav communist political leader, economist, partisan, publicist, and full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is considered the main creator of the Yugoslav system of establishing workers' self-management.
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Elaine Cassidy
Elaine Cassidy (born 31 December 1979) is an award winning Irish actress and is best known for playing the lead character Abby Mills in the American CBS tv series ''Harper's Island, Felicia in Felicia's Journey opposite Bob Hoskins, Runt in Disco Pigs opposite Cillian Murphy, and Lydia in The Others''.
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Ella Koon
Ella Koon Yun Na is Hong Kong-based Cantopop singer, actress and model. She is French by citizenship.
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Elva Hsiao
Elva Hsiao (), also known as Elva Siu, is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer.
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Emmett Kelly
Emmett Leo Kelly (December 9, 1898 – March 28, 1979), a native of Sedan, Kansas, was an American circus performer, who created the memorable clown figure "Weary Willie, " based on the hobos of the Depression era. Kelly began his career as a trapeze artist. By 1923, Emmett Kelly was working his trapeze act with John Robinson's circus when he met and married Eva Moore, another circus trapeze artist. They later performed together as the "Aerial Kellys" with Emmett still performing occasionally as a white face clown.
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Erica Hubbard
Erica Hubbard (born January 2, 1984) is an American film and television actress and model.
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Erin Brown
Erin Brown (born October 16, 1979) is an American horror film actress, model, filmmaker, and softcore pornographic actress. Brown has starred in over 50 low-budget films, under the names Erin Brown and Misty Mundae.
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Erin Chambers
Erin Chambers (born September 24, 1979) is an American actress commonly known for her roles in LDS films. She has made guest appearances in a number of television shows. Erin received a BFA in acting from Brigham Young University.
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Ernst Boris Chain
Sir Ernst Boris Chain (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist, and a 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.
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Estela Giménez
Estela Giménez Cid is a Spanish former rhythmic gymnast that won gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics as part of the group all-around event.
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Ethel Lackie
Ethel Minnie Lackie (later Watkins) (February 10, 1907 – December 15, 1979) was an American swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
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Evangeline Lilly
Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born August 3, 1979) is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as Kate Austen in the ABC drama, Lost.
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Evonne Hsu
Evonne Hsu (born 5 December 1979, in Longview, Texas, United States), also known as Hsu Hui-hsin, is a Taiwan-based Chinese American Mandopop singer.
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Faisal Shahzad
Faisal Shahzad (Urdu: ; born , 1979) is a Pakistani American who attempted the May 1, 2010, Times Square car bombing. On , 2010, in Federal District Court in Manhattan he confessed to 10 counts arising from the bombing attempt. Throughout his court appearance, Shahzad was unrepentant, and the United States attorney indicated there was no plea deal, so Shahzad faced the maximum sentence, a mandatory life term.
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Fani Halkia
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Fanny (singer)
Fanny Biascamano (known as Fanny, born on September 16, 1979, in Sète) is a French singer.
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Felicia Day
Kathryn Felicia Day (born June 28, 1979 in Huntsville, Alabama) is an American actress, known for her work as "Vi" on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and for parts in movies such as Bring It On Again and June, as well as the Internet musical, ''Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Day is also the star, script writer and producer of the original web series The Guild''. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Academy of Web Television.
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Ferman Akgül
Ferman Akgül (born 25 December 1979; Ankara) is a Turkish songwriter and the singer of the rock band maNga. He writes both lyrics and music.
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Flo Rida
Tramar Dillard (born on September 17, 1979), better known by his stage name Flo Rida (), is an American rapper and singer. Later, he appeared in numerous popular rap mixtapes and studio albums, most notably in We the Best in 2006. Mail on Sunday was Flo Rida's solo debut album; its first single "Low", featuring T-Pain which was a #1 hit for ten weeks in United States in early 2008. Two other singles resulted from Mail on Sunday: "Elevator" and "In the Ayer". In 2009, his second album R.O.O.T.S. was released; its most successful single "Right Round" was at the top of the Hot 100 for six weeks.
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Forrest Griffin
Forrest Griffin (born July 1, 1979) is an American mixed martial artist and author currently competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and has a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Cameron Diffley. He currently trains and fights out of Throwdown Training Center in Las Vegas.
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Frank Mir
Francisco Santos Mir III (born May 24, 1979) is an American mixed martial artist and a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Kenpo Karate, competing in the heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion and a former UFC Interim Heavyweight Champion. He was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mir is currently ranked the #7 heavyweight in the world by Sherdog.
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Fred Akuffo
Lieutenant General Frederick William Kwasi Akuffo (21 March 1937 – 26 June 1979) was a soldier and politician. He is a former Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces and the Head of state and chairman of the ruling Supreme Military Council (SMC) in Ghana from 1978 to 1979. He came to power in a military coup, was overthrown in another military coup and executed three weeks later.
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Freema Agyeman
Freema Agyeman (born Frema Agyeman on 20 March 1979) is a British actress of Ghanaian and Iranian descent who is best known for playing Martha Jones, former companion of the Tenth Doctor in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, and its
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Félix Malloum
General Félix Malloum or Félix Malloum Ngakoutou Bey-Ndi (September 10, 1932 – June 12, 2009) was a Chadian politician from the south. He served as an officer in the Chadian Military and as a member of the ruling Chadian Progressive Party (PPT). He later became the Chief of Staff with the rank of colonel. He was imprisoned by President François Tombalbaye, but was released after a successful coup-d'etat on April 13, 1975. He served as both President and Prime Minister of Chad until August 29, 1978, when Hissène Habré was appointed Prime Minister to integrate armed northern rebels into the government. However, he was unsuccessful and resigned from the presidency on March 23, 1979.
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Gabe Saporta
Gabriel Eduardo "Gabe" Saporta (born October 11, 1979) is the lead singer and primary creative force behind the band Cobra Starship. He was previously the lead singer, bassist, and lyricist for the punk band Midtown.
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Gao Ling
Gao Ling (; born March 14, 1979 in Wuhan, Hubei; China) is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.
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Geoff Huegill
Geoffrey Andrew Huegill (born 4 March 1979 in Gove, Northern Territory), nicknamed Skippy and Skip, is an Australian butterfly swimmer. He is a multiple Olympic, World, Pan Pacific and Commonwealth Games medallist, and a previous world record holder in the 50m Butterfly.
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Georg Wittig
Georg Wittig (June 16, 1897 – August 26, 1987) was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Herbert C. Brown in 1979.
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George Brent
George Brent (March 15, 1899 – May 26, 1979) was an Irish film and television actor in American cinema.
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George Dunning
George Garnett Dunning (November 17, 1920 – February 15, 1979) was born in Toronto and studied in Canada at the Ontario College of Art, and soon found freelance work as an illustrator. Dunning joined the NFB of Canada in 1943, where he worked with Norman McLaren and contributed to several episodes of the Chants populaires series. From 1944 to 1947 Dunning created many original short films and developed his skills animating articulated, painted, metal cut-outs.
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Gerd Kanter
Gerd Kanter (born May 6, 1979 in Tallinn, Estonia) is an Estonian discus thrower.
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Giulio Natta
Giulio Natta (26 February 1903 - 2 May 1979) was an Italian chemist and Nobel laureate. He who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high polymers.
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Gordon Shedden
Gordon Shedden (born 15 February 1979 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish auto racing driver.
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Gorilla Zoe
Alonzo Mathis, better known by his stage name Gorilla Zoe (, rhymes with JOE),was born on November 28, 1980 in Atlanta, Georgia. he is an American rapper and member of rap group Boyz N Da Hood. His solo debut album Welcome to the Zoo came out in 2007.
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Gracie Fields
Dame Gracie Fields, DBE (born Grace Stansfield, 9 January 1898 – 27 September 1979), was an English-born, later Italian-based actress, singer and comedienne and star of both cinema and music hall.
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Grzegorz Rasiak
Grzegorz Rasiak () born 12 January 1979 in Szczecin, is a Polish international footballer who currently plays for AEL Limassol in Cyprus. Since 2002, he has played for the Poland national team.
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Gucci Mane
Radric Davis (born February 12, 1980), better known by his stage name Gucci Mane, is an American rapper. He debuted in 2005 with Trap House and followed with albums such as Hard to Kill in 2006, Trap-A-Thon and Back to the Trap House in 2007. In 2009, his second studio album The State vs. Radric Davis was released. Gucci Mane has released many other mixtapes as well.
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Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños (12 March 1911 – 15 July 1979) served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970.
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Hafizullah Amin
Hafizullah Amin () (August 1, 1929 – December 27, 1979) was the fourth President of Afghanistan during the period of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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Hanna Reitsch
Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and the only woman awarded the Iron Cross First Class and the Luftwaffe Combined Pilots-Observation Badge in Gold with Diamonds during World War II. Along with her flying skills Reitsch was photogenic and willingly appeared in Nazi Party propaganda throughout the late 1930s and early 1940s, which made her a celebrity. Reitsch was the first woman to fly a helicopter, a rocket plane, and a jet fighter. She set over forty aviation altitude and endurance records during her career, both before and after World War II, and several of her international gliding records are still standing to this day.
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Harvey Milk
Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician who became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Politics and gay activism were not his early interests; he was not open about his homosexuality and did not participate in civic matters until around age 40, after his experiences in the counterculture of the 1960s.
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Hasan al-Bakr
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Heath Ledger
Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career. His work encompassed nineteen films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), ''Monster's Ball (2001), A Knight's Tale (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and The Dark Knight'' (2008). In addition to his acting, he produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director.
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Hedo Türkoğlu
Hidayet "Hedo" Türkoğlu (; born March 19, 1979 in Gaziosmanpaşa, İstanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish professional basketball player in the NBA currently playing for the Phoenix Suns. He plays the small forward position, although he has played four positions in his career. He possesses above-average ballhandling and playmaking skills for a forward, and is sometimes used in a point forward role.
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Herbert C. Brown
Herbert Charles Brown (May 22, 1912 – December 19, 2004) was a chemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate for his work with organoboranes.
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Hilary Hahn
Hilary Hahn (born November 27, 1979) is an American violinist.
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Honeysuckle Weeks
:This article is about the British actress. For the album of the same name, see Honeysuckle Weeks (album).
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong () is one of two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau. Situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour. With a land mass of and a population of seven million people, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Hong Kong's population is 95 percent ethnic Chinese and 5 percent from other groups. Hong Kong's Han Chinese majority originate mainly from the cities of Guangzhou and Taishan in the neighbouring Guangdong province.
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Hope Summers
Hope Summers (June 7, 1896 – July 22, 1979) was an American character actress known for her work on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry RFD, portraying Clara Edwards.
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Ian Smith
Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID (8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007) served as the Prime Minister of the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia from 13 April 1964 to 11 November 1965. Smith unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965 and he served as the first Prime Minister of Rhodesia from that date to 1 June 1979 during white minority rule. The country failed to gain international recognition and United Nations economic sanctions were instituted.
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Idi Amin
Idi Amin Dada (c.1925 – 16 August 2003) was the military dictator and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles, in 1946, and eventually held the rank of Major General and Commander of the Ugandan Army prior to taking power in the military coup of January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. He later promoted himself to Field Marshal while he was the head of state.
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Immanuel Velikovsky
Immanuel Velikovsky (Иммануил Великовский) (Vitebsk, 10 June 1895 (NS) – 17 November 1979) was a Russian-born American independent scholar, best known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision, published in 1950. Earlier, he played a role in the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, and was a respected psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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Issa Pliyev
Issa Alexandrovich Pliyev (; ) ( — 2 February 1979) was a Soviet military commander, Army General (1962), twice Hero of the Soviet Union (4.16.1944 and 9.8.1945), Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic (1971). Member of the CPSU since 1926. He was an ethnic Ossetian.
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Italo-Brazilian
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Ivan Miljković
volleyball player
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Ivana Wong
Ivana Wong is a female Cantopop singer and songwriter.
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Ivica Kostelic
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Jack Haley
John Joseph "Jack" Haley (August 10, 1898 – June 6, 1979) was an American stage, radio, and film actor best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz.
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Jack Lynch
John Mary "Jack" Lynch (15 August 1917 – 20 October 1999) was the Taoiseach of Ireland, serving two terms in office; from 1966 to 1973 and 1977 to 1979.
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Jack Mulhall
Jack Mulhall, born John Joseph Francis Mulhall, (October 7, 1887 in Wappingers Falls, New York – June 1, 1979 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California) was a movie actor since the silent film era and appeared in over 430 films. Reputedly, he was one of a number of male models(Fredric March & Reed Howes were two others) for the Arrow Collar Man in the Arrow collar ads illustrated by J. C. Leyendecker for the Cluett Peabody shirt company. Died from congestive heart failure.
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Jack Soo
Jack Soo (October 28, 1917 – January 11, 1979) was a Japanese American actor. He is best known for his role as Detective Nick Yemana on the television sitcom Barney Miller.
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Jaime King
Jaime King (born April 23, 1979) is an American actress and model. In her modeling career and early film roles, she went by the names Jamie King and James King, which was a childhood nickname given to King by her parents, because her agency already represented another Jaime — the older, then more famous model Jaime Rishar.
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Jake Shields
Jake Shields (born January 9, 1979) is an American mixed martial artist who is currently fighting in the welterweight division of the UFC. He is the last Rumble on the Rock 175 lb (79 kg) champion. He is the first and last Elite XC Welterweight Champion. He is also the former Shooto Middleweight Champion and is the former Strikeforce Middleweight Champion. He has trained extensively with Cesar Gracie, and is a member of the "scrap pack" which includes fellow Cesar Gracie students Dave Terrell, Nick Diaz, Nate Diaz and Gilbert Melendez. Since his last loss to Akira Kikuchi he has had 14 consecutive wins in 5 years. Shields is currently fighting at Welterweight for the Ultimate Fighting Championships organization.
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Jamal Lewis
Jamal Lafitte Lewis (born August 26, 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former American football running back. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens fifth overall in the 2000 NFL Draft. He played college football at Tennessee.
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James Blake
James Riley Blake (born December 28, 1979) is an American professional tennis player and currently the tenth-highest ranked American man (No. 115 in the world as of July 19, 2010). Blake is known for his speed and powerful, flat forehand. He is currently ninth among active male players with 24 career finals appearances (10-14 record). His career highlights including reaching the final of the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup, the semifinals of the Beijing Olympics and the quarterfinals of the Australian Open (2008) and U.S. Open (2005, 2006). He also was a key performer for the United States 2007 Davis Cup championship team, going 2-0 in the championship tie vs. Russia at second singles. In 2005, Blake was presented with the Comeback Player of the Year award for his remarkable return to the tour. Later, in 2008, Blake was awarded another honor by the ATP where he was named the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year. On July 3, 2007, Blake's autobiography Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life, which discussed his comeback after his unlucky 2004 season, was released and debuted at Number 22 on the New York Times Best Seller list. He co-wrote this book with Andrew Friedman.
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James Lloyd (actor)
James Lloyd (born 10 January 1980 , in London) is an English actor.
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James T. Farrell
James Thomas Farrell (February 27, 1904 - August 22, 1979) was an American novelist. One of his most famous works was the Studs Lonigan trilogy, which was made into a film in 1960 and into a television miniseries in 1979. The trilogy was voted number 29 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century.
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Jamie Korab
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Janne Wirman
Janne Viljami "Warman" Wirman (born April 26, 1979) is a Finnish musician; he is the keyboardist for the bands Children of Bodom and Warmen.
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Jay Chou
Jay Chou () (born January 18, 1979) is a Taiwanese musician, singer, music and film producer, actor and director who has won the World Music Award four times. He is well-known for composing all his own songs and songs for other singers. In 1998 he was discovered in a talent contest where he displayed his piano and song-writing skills. Over the next two years, he was hired to compose for popular Chinese singers. Although he was trained in classical music, Chou combines Chinese and Western music styles to produce songs that fuse R&B;, rock and pop genres, covering issues such as domestic violence, war, and urbanization.
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Jay McGraw
Jay Phillip McGraw (born September 12, 1979 in Wichita County, Texas) is the son of Phil McGraw of The Dr. Phil Show and Robin McGraw. He has one younger brother, Jordan (a musician). He has written several books aimed at young people. He has also appeared on The Dr. Phil Show.
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Jayceon Taylor
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Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. As an author, he wrote the definitive biography of his father, the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1962).
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Jean Seberg
Jean Dorothy Seberg (November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979) was an American actress. She starred in 37 films in Hollywood and in France, including the musical Paint Your Wagon (1969) and the disaster film Airport (1970). She committed suicide at age 40.
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Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford (July 1, 1915 – March 26, 1979) was an American short story writer and novelist, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970.
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Jean-Bedel Bokassa
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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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Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress, television director, voice actress, singer-songwriter, author, and film and television producer. Hewitt began her acting career as a child by appearing in television commercials and the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated. She rose to fame in teenage popular culture in her roles in the Fox series Party of Five, as Sarah Reeves, and films I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, as Julie James.
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Jenny Wolf
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Jeong Seung-hwa
Jeong Seung-hoa(정승화, 鄭昇和 1926 ~ 2002) was South Korean soldier, and the 22th ROK Army Chief of Staff. He was in Gungjeong-dong during the assassination of President Park Chung-hee.
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Jerry Rawlings
Jerry John Rawlings (born Jeremiah Rawlings John 22 June 1947 in Accra, Gold Coast) ruled Ghana as a military dictator 1981-1992 and then as the first elected president of the Fourth Republic, 1992-2001. He initially took power in a coup d'état, but in the 1990s began a process of political liberalization. He founded the National Democratic Congress which won the 1992 general election. He took office in 1993, and was re-elected in 1997.
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Jessica Morris
Jessica Morris (born May 16, 1979) is an American actress.
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Jim Callaghan
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. Before he became President, Carter served two terms as a Georgia State Senator and one as Governor of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975, and was a peanut farmer and naval officer.
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Jimmy McCulloch
'''James 'Jimmy' McCulloch''' (4 June 1953 – 27 September 1979) was a Scottish musician, born in Glasgow, who was best known for playing lead guitar in Paul McCartney's Wings from 1974 to 1977. Before that, McCulloch had been a member of the Glasgow psychedelic band One in a Million (from the age of 11, when the band was known as The Jaygars), Thunderclap Newman, and Stone the Crows. He also made appearances on a number of albums, including John Entwistle's Whistle Rymes in 1972, as lead guitarist playing alongside Peter Frampton on two tracks — "Apron Strings" and "I Feel Better". McCulloch was a friend of The Who, and his band Thunderclap Newman was created and produced by Pete Townshend.
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Joan Blondell
Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress.
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Joan Chandler
Joan Chandler (born Joan Cheeseman; 24 August 1923 - 11 May 1979) was an American actress who starred in several movies during the 1940s and 1950s, most notably Rope with James Stewart and Humoresque with Joan Crawford.
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Joanna Garcia
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Jodie Prenger
Jodie Prenger (born 12 June 1979 in Blackpool, Lancashire) is an English actress and singer. She was the winner of BBC talent show-themed television series ''I'd Do Anything on 31 May 2008. She was also the winner of the second series of The Biggest Loser on Living in 2006. As of 2009 she is a panelist on daytime show Loose Women''.
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Joe Clark
Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark, PC, CC, AOE (born June 5, 1939) is a Canadian journalist, politician, statesman, businessman, and university professor. He served as the 16th Prime Minister of Canada, from June 4, 1979, to March 3, 1980.
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Joel Teitelbaum
Rabbi Joel (Yoel) Teitelbaum, () (born 1887 - died August 19, 1979) known as Reb Yoelish or the Satmar Rav (or Rebbe), was a prominent
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Johan Borgen
Johan Collett Müller Borgen (28 April 1902, Kristiania – 16 October 1979) was a Norwegian author, journalist and critic. He was married to Annemarta Borgen. Under the pseudonym of Mumle Gåsegg (Mumble Goose-egg) he wrote shorter articles in the newspaper Dagbladet, particularly during World War II. His articles were ironic and derogatory of the Nazi government, and he kept this up for a long time before being found out. In the end though, he was caught and sent to the prison camp Grini. His best known work is the novel Lillelord (1955). Borgen was editor of the literary magazine Vinduet ("The Window") 1954-1959.
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John Carew
John Alieu Carew (born 5 September 1979 in Lørenskog, Akershus), is a Norwegian footballer who currently plays for Aston Villa and the Norwegian national team. His father is Gambian and his mother is Norwegian; he was born and raised in Norway.
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John Carroll (actor)
John Carroll (July 17, 1906 – April 24, 1979) was an American actor and singer. He was born Julian Lafaye in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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John Diefenbaker
John George Diefenbaker, PC, CH, QC (September 18, 1895 – August 16, 1979) led Canada as its 13th Prime Minister, serving from June 21, 1957, to April 22, 1963. He was the only Progressive Conservative (PC, or Tory) party leader between 1930 and 1979 to lead the party to an election victory, doing so three times, although only once with a majority of the seats in the Canadian House of Commons.
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John Duddy (boxer)
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John Lawler
John Lawler is a University of Michigan-based general linguist who is perhaps best known to the wider public for his role in creating the Chomskybot. He is also the editor of "Using Computers in Linguistics: A Practical Guide," a member of the "Ask-A-Linguist" panel of experts, and the creator of the Monosyllable Database.
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John N. Mitchell
John Newton Mitchell (September 15, 1913–November 9, 1988) was United States Attorney General under President Richard M. Nixon. He also served as Nixon's campaign manager in 1968 and in 1972. Due to his role as director for the Committee to Re-elect the President, which engineered the Watergate first break-in, he became the only Attorney General ever to be convicted of illegal activities.
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John Paul II
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John Spenkelink
John Arthur Spenkelink (March 29, 1949 in Le Mars, Iowa, – May 25, 1979 in Starke, Florida) was the first person executed in Florida (and the second one nationwide) since the re-introduction of the death penalty in the United States in 1976. The last man executed in Florida had been in 1964, and the last execution nationwide had been in Colorado in 1967.
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John Wayne
Marion Mitchell "Duke" Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an Academy Award-winning American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. He was also known for his conservative political views and his support, beginning in the 1950s, for anti-communist positions.
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Johnson Beharry
Lance Corporal Johnson Gideon Beharry VC (born , in Grenada), of the 1st Battalion, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, is a British Army soldier who, on 18 March 2005, was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration for valour in the British and Commonwealth armed forces, for twice saving members of his unit from ambushes on 1 May and again on 11 June 2004 at Al-Amarah, Iraq. He sustained serious head injuries in the latter engagement. Beharry was formally invested with the Victoria Cross by Queen Elizabeth II on 27 April 2005.
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Jon Hall
Jon Hall (February 23, 1915 – December 13, 1979) was an American film actor.
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Jon Peter Lewis
Jon Peter Lewis (born November 7, 1979, Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American singer and songwriter, and was one of the finalists on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series American Idol. He would frequently be referred to by the judges and Ryan Seacrest as simply JPL.
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Jonny Wilkinson
Jonathan Peter Wilkinson OBE (born 25 May 1979 in Frimley, Surrey) is an English rugby union player and member of the England national team. Wilkinson rose to acclaim from 2001 to 2003, before and during the 2003 Rugby World Cup and was acknowledged as one of the world’s best rugby players. He was an integral member of the 2003 Rugby World Cup-winning England squad, scoring the winning drop goal in the last minute of extra time against Australia. He plays his club rugby for Toulon following twelve seasons in the Guinness Premiership for Newcastle Falcons. Wilkinson has also toured twice with the British and Irish Lions, in 2001 and 2005, scoring 67 Test points in the 6 Lions test matches he has started. On 3 April 2009 at Guildford Cathedral, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Surrey for services to the sports industry.
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Jordi Bonet
Jordi Bonet (7 May 1932 – 25 December 1979) was a Catalan-born Quebec painter, ceramic artist, muralist, and sculptor.
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Jorge Arce
Jorge Arce (pronounced "ar-say"; born July 27, 1979 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the former WBO World Light Flyweight Champion, WBC World Light Flyweight Champion, WBC World Flyweight Interim Champion, WBA World Super Flyweight Interim Champion and WBO World Super Flyweight Champion. A world champion in three weight divisions, Arce remains a favorite fighter among many boxing fans.
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Jorge Solis
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Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele (, 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979), also known as the Angel of Death (Todesengel in German), was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. He earned doctorates in anthropology from Munich University and in medicine from Frankfurt University. He initially gained notoriety for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced labourer, but is far more infamous for performing grisly human experiments on camp inmates, for which Mengele was called the "Angel of Death".
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Juhayman al-Otaibi
Juhayman ibn Muhammad ibn Sayf al-Otaibi () (1936 – 9 January 1980) was a militant who led the takeover of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest site, in the last months of 1979.
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Julie Augustyniak
Julie Ann Augustyniak (born Norfolk, VA, February 1, 1979) is an American soccer player who played for the Atlanta Beat of the Women's United Soccer Association.
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Julius Kay
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Justin Bruening
Justin Bruening is an American actor and former fashion model. In 2003, his acting career began when he was cast in the role of Jamie Martin on the daytime drama All My Children, earning him a Soap Opera Digest Award in 2005 for the portrayal. In late 2007, not long after leaving the role, Bruening was cast as Mike Traceur, the son of character Michael Knight, a new take on the original Knight Rider series.
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Justine Pasek
Yustin "Justine" Lissette Pasek Patiño (born August 29, 1979) is a Panamanian model, FAO Goodwill Ambassador, and Miss Universe 2002.
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Ján Kadár
Ján Kadár (April 1, 1918 - June 1, 1979) was a Slovak film writer and director. As a filmmaker, he worked in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, the United States, and Canada. Most of his films were directed in tandem with Elmar Klos. The two became best known for their Oscar-winning The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze, 1965). As a professor at the FAMU (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague, Kadár trained most of the directors who spawned the Czechoslovak/Czech New Wave in the 1960s. His personal life as well as his films encompassed and spanned a range of cultures: Jewish, Slovak, Hungarian, Czech, and American.
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Kamya Panjabi
Kamya Panjabi, (born 14 September 1979), is a television actress from India, who generally plays the vamp or negative characters in Hindi television serials.
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Kate Hudson
Kate Garry Hudson (born April 19, 1979) is an American actress. She came to prominence in 2001 after winning a Golden Globe and receiving several nominations, including a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Almost Famous. She then starred in the hit film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) which gained her wider fame. She has since established herself in Hollywood after starring in several productions including Raising Helen (2004), The Skeleton Key (2005), You, Me and Dupree (2006), ''Fool's Gold (2008) and Bride Wars (2009). She recently starred in the musical Nine'' (2009), alongside several notable film actresses.
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Kate Tsui
Kate Tsui Tze-san () is a Miss Hong Kong pageant winner and a TVB actress.
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Katharine Blodgett
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Kenny Miller
Kenneth "Kenny" Miller (born 23 December 1979 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish footballer who currently plays for Scottish Premier League side Rangers and the Scottish national team.
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Kerry Ellis
Kerry Ellis (born May 6, 1979) is an English singer and stage actress best known for her work in musical theatre both in London's West End and on Broadway. She was raised in Haughley, Suffolk and later attended Laine Theatre Arts School. In 2001, at the age of 21, she made her first professional appearance on stage; marking her West End debut in a recent revival of My Fair Lady where she was second understudy to Martine McCutcheon in the role of Eliza Doolitte.
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Kevin Devine
Kevin Devine is an American songwriter and musician from Brooklyn, New York, who is known for alternately introspective and political lyrics and melodic acoustic guitar tunes. He cites his influences as Neutral Milk Hotel, Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Pavement and Nirvana, among others.
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Kevin Youkilis
Kevin Edmund Youkilis (; born March 15, 1979, in Cincinnati, Ohio), also known as "Youk" (), is an All Star Major League Baseball player, who has played for the Boston Red Sox and its minor league affiliates throughout his professional career, which began in 2001.
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Khomeini
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Kim Dong Wan
Kim Dong Wan (; born November 21, 1979) is a South Korean singer and actor. He is best known as a member of teen idol boy band Shinhwa, but since 2002 has been making a name for himself as an actor, with prominent roles in television dramas such as A Farewell to Sorrow and Children of Heaven. He has said that given the opportunity he would prefer a career in acting rather than as a singer, although since the release of his debut album he says that now he prefers singing more. From Shinhwa, Kim is the fourth member to go solo, following Lee Min Woo, Shin Hye Sung, and Jun Jin.
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Kim Jaegyu
Kim Jaegyu (March 6, 1926 – May 24, 1980) was a retired ROK Army Lieutenant General and intelligence officer, who had been director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
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Kimi Räikkönen
Kimi-Matias Räikkönen (; born 17 October 1979 in Espoo), nicknamed Iceman, and occasionally described as "the fastest driver on the planet", is a Finnish World Rally Championship and former Formula One driver. After nine seasons racing in Formula One, in which he took the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, he now competes in the World Rally Championship for the Citroën Junior Team.
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Kinya Kotani
, also known as KINYA, is a male singer and actor from Saitama Prefecture, Japan. His songs were made into theme songs for the anime and Gravitation.
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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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Kourtney Kardashian
Kourtney Mary Kardashian (born on April 18, 1979) is an American entrepreneur, heiress, socialite and reality television personality who gained fame as a cast member of , Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami.
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Kris Kross
Kris Kross was an American teenage rap duo of the early 1990s comprising Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly and Chris "Daddy Mac" Smith. The duo are best known for their 1992 hit "Jump", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks and was certified double platinum as a single. They were also known for their fashion styling, which consisted of wearing their clothes backwards.
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Kurt Jooss
Kurt Jooss (12 January 1901, Wasseralfingen, Germany – 22 May 1979, Heilbronn, West Germany) was a famous German Ballet dancer and choreographer mixing classical ballet with theatre; he is also widely regarded as the founder of Dance Theatre or Tanztheater. Jooss is noted for establishing several dance companies, including most notably, the Folkwang Tanztheater, in Essen.
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Kurt Waldheim
Kurt Josef Waldheim (; 21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria, from 1986 to 1992. While running for President in Austria in 1985, his service as an intelligence officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II raised international controversy.
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LaDainian Tomlinson
LaDainian Tramayne Tomlinson (born June 23, 1979 in Rosebud, Texas) is an American football running back for the New York Jets of the National Football League. He was drafted by the San Diego Chargers fifth overall in the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas Christian.
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Larry Hughes
Larry Darnell Hughes (born January 23, 1979 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American professional basketball player who most recently played for the Charlotte Bobcats. He is a and shooting guard.
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Laurentia Tan
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Lauri Ylönen
Lauri Ylönen (born Lauri Johannes Ylönen, 23 April 1979, Helsinki) is the frontman of the Finnish alternative rock band The Rasmus.
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Lazar Lagin
Lazar Yosifovych Lagin () was the pen name of Lazar Ginzburg (4 December 1903, Vitebsk – 4 June 1979, Moscow), a Soviet satirist and children's writer.
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Lee Bo-young
Lee Bo-young (born 12 January 1979) is a South Korean actress and model.
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Lee Bowman
Lee Bowman (December 28, 1914 – December 25, 1979) was an American film and television actor.
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Lee Hyori
Lee Hyo-ri (, also romanized as Lee Hyori) (born May 10, 1979) is a South Korean R&B; & hip-hop singer and actress. She started off as part of the successful K-pop girl group Fin.K.L, but has since become a solo artist. Her first album was very successful, winning many "Daesangs" (a Korean award equivalent to "Artist of the Year") for that album. She has since become the highest-paid female singer in South Korea.
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Lee Iacocca
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca (born October 15, 1924) is an American businessman known for his revival of the Chrysler Corporation in the 1980s, serving as President and CEO from 1978 and additionally as chairman from 1979, until his retirement at the end of 1992. One of the most famous business people in the world, he was a passionate advocate of U.S. business exports during the 1980s. He is the author (or co-author) of several books, including (with William Novak), and Where have all the Leaders Gone?
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Lee Pace
Lee Grinner Pace (born March 25, 1979) is an American actor. Pace has been featured in film, stage and television. He is known best for his starring role as Ned in the ABC series Pushing Daisies.
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Lee Si-yeon
Lee Si-yeon (born Lee Dae-hak, 24 July 1979) is a South Korean transsexual actress and model.
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Lelio Basso
Lelio Basso (December 25, 1903 – December 16, 1978) was an Italian democratic socialist politician and journalist.
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Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (, 19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982. His eighteen year term as General Secretary was one of the lengthiest, second only to that of Joseph Stalin. During Brezhnev's rule, the global influence of the Soviet Union grew dramatically, in part because of the expansion of the Soviet Military during this time. In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to support the fragile Marxist government located there, a move condemned by the West. His tenure as leader has often been criticized for marking the beginning of a period of economic stagnation, overlooking serious economic problems which eventually led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Lester Flatt
Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 – May 11, 1979) was a bluegrass musician and guitarist, best known for his membership in the Bluegrass duo The Foggy Mountain Boys, also known as Flatt and Scruggs, along with banjo player Earl Scruggs. Flatt's career spanned multiple decades; besides his work with Scruggs, he released multiple solo and collaboration works. Flatt also served as a member of Bill Monroe's band during the 1940s.
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Lote Tuqiri
Lote Daulako Tuqiri (born 23 September 1979 in Suva, Fiji) is a Fijian/Australian rugby league player and former rugby union player who is currently signed to the Wests Tigers in the NRL who has represented Australia in both rugby codes, and Fiji in rugby league. He usually plays as a winger.
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Louis Chiron
Louis Alexandre Chiron (born 3 August 1899 in Monte Carlo, Monaco – died there on 22 June 1979) was a Grand Prix driver.
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Louis Durey
Louis Durey (27 May 18883 July 1979) was a French composer.
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Lowell George
Lowell Thomas George (April 13, 1945 – June 29, 1979) was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, who was the main guitarist and songwriter for the rock band Little Feat.
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Ludivine Sagnier
Ludivine Sagnier (born 3 July 1979) is a French actress and model, who has worked in 33 movies since 1989. She was nominated for two César Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Swimming Pool (2003) and Un secret (2007).
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Ludvík Svoboda
Ludvík Svoboda [Svoboda - "Freedom"] (25 November 1895, Hroznatín, Moravia – 20 September 1979, Prague) was a Czechoslovak general and politician. He fought in both World Wars, for which he is regarded as a national hero, and was later the president of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
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Ludwig Merwart
Ludwig Merwart (September 1, 1913 in Vienna, Austria; † July 13, 1979 Vienna) was an influential Austrian painter and graphic artist. He is an important representative of abstract expressionism and was a major force in graphic arts and prints, especially after World War II. His work belongs to the most significant and interesting contributions to graphic arts in Austria to this day.
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Léonide Massine
Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin (Russian: Леонид Фёдорович Мясин), better known in the West by the French transliteration as Léonide Massine (15 March 1979) was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer.
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Maggie Q
Margaret Denise Quigley, better known as Maggie Q (; born May 22, 1979), is an American-born actress and former fashion model. She initially gained fame in Hong Kong. She is currently starring in the lead role of the action-thriller series Nikita.
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Mamie Eisenhower
Mamie Geneva Doud-Eisenhower (November 14, 1896 – November 1, 1979) was the wife of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
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Marc Elliott
Marc Elliott (born 19 October 1979) is a half Anglo-Indian and half Scottish British actor from Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (née Roberts; born 13 October 1925) served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. Thatcher is the only woman to have held either post.
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Mariana Ochoa
Mariana Yolanda Ochoa Reyes (born February 19, 1979, in Mexico City) is a singer and actress.
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Marie Byles
Marie Beuzeville Byles (April 8, 1900—November 21, 1979) is known as a committed conservationist, the first practicing female solicitor in New South Wales, mountaineer, explorer and avid bushwalker, feminist, author and an original member of the Buddhist Society in New South Wales. She was also a travel and non-fiction writer.
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Mario Matt
Mario Matt (born April 9, 1979) is an Austrian alpine skier. He is the brother of skicross competitor, Andreas Matt.
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Maritza Sayalero
Maritza Sayalero (born Maritza Sayalero Fernández on February 16, 1961 in Caracas) was a model, Miss Venezuela in 1979 and became that country's first Miss Universe that same year. She is married to Mexican tennis player Raúl Ramírez with whom she has lived in Mexico since 1981.
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Mariusz Lewandowski
Mariusz Lewandowski (; born 18 May 1979 in Legnica) is a Polish footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for PFC Sevastopol and the Polish national football team. He also plays in defensive midfield where his stamina, strength and aerial ability come to good use.
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Marián Hossa
Marián Hossa (; born January 12, 1979) is a Slovak professional ice hockey player who currently plays for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Hossa was drafted by the Ottawa Senators in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft; after playing for the Senators, he played for the Atlanta Thrashers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Detroit Red Wings. Over the course of his career, he has made four NHL All-Star Game appearances. Hossa played in three consecutive Stanley Cup Finals' with three different teams before finally winning the Stanley Cup in 2009–10 with the Blackhawks.
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Marko Stanojevic
Marko Peter Stanojevic (born 1 October 1979 in Birmingham, England) is an Italian rugby union footballer.
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Marleen Veldhuis
Magdalena Johanna Maria ("Marleen") Veldhuis (born 29 June 1979 in Borne, Overijssel) is a professional swimmer from the Netherlands. She is world record holder in 4 events (1 individual event and 3 relay events). Veldhuis won 6 world championship gold medals and 20 European gold medals. In the Olympics, not living up to expectations, she only managed to win 2 relay medals: bronze in 2004 and gold in 2008.
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Martin Rowlands
Martin Charles Rowlands (born 8 February 1979 in Hammersmith, London) is an Irish professional footballer who plays for QPR. He formerly played for Brentford.
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Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was a Canadian-born American motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Known as "America's Sweetheart," "Little Mary" and "The girl with the curls," she was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and a significant figure in the development of film acting.
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Matt Murley
Matt Murley (born December 17, 1979 in Troy, New York) is an American professional ice hockey forward currently playing for Linköpings HC of the Swedish Elite League (Elitserien).
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Matt Stevic
Matt Stevic (born 12 November 1979 in Leongatha, Victoria) is an Australian rules football field umpire in the Australian Football League. He has umpired 120 career games in the AFL.
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Matt Walters
Matthew Jeremy Walters (born August 22, 1979) is a former American football player.
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Matthew Spring
Matthew John Spring (born 17 November 1979, in Harlow, Essex) is an English central midfielder who plays for Leyton Orient.
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Maurice Bishop
Maurice Rupert Bishop (May 29, 1944 – October 19, 1983) was a Grenadian politician and revolutionary.
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Mauro Bergamasco
Mauro Bergamasco (born May 1, 1979) is an Italian rugby union footballer. He predominantly plays as an openside . He is considered to be one of Italy's best players being world class in his position.
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Mavie Hörbiger
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Maxim Afinogenov
Maxim Sergeyevich Afinogenov (Russian: Максим Сергеевич Афиногенов, ; born September 4, 1979) is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is a member of the SKA St. Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Known for his blistering skating speed, he was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres 69th overall in 1997 and played nine seasons with the club. He played one season with the Atlanta Thrashers before signing with St. Petersburg in 2010.
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Melina Perez
Melina Nava Perez (born March 9, 1979), better known simply as Melina, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestling on its Raw brand.
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Mena Suvari
Mena Alexandra Suvari (born February 13, 1979) is an American actress, fashion designer, and model. Despite beginning her career as a model, she soon transitioned into acting after appearing in guest roles on 1990s' television shows such as Boy Meets World and High Incident. She made her film debut in the 1997 drama film Nowhere.
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Menachem Begin
(, , , 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on February 1, 1944, against the British mandatory government, which was opposed by the Jewish Agency. He played a significant role in Jewish resistance against the British control in the waning years of the mandate, leading the more militant faction within Zionism.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and philanthropist. Referred to as the King of Pop, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in the mid-1960s, and began his solo career in 1971.
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Michael Owen
Michael James Owen (born 14 December 1979 in Chester) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Manchester United.
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Michel Riesen
Michel Riesen (born April 11, 1979 in Oberbalm, Switzerland) is a professional ice hockey winger currently playing for HC Davos in the Swiss National Liga A.
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Mike Bishai
Mike Bishai (born May 30, 1979 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a professional ice hockey centre, who is currently a Free Agent. He last played for Jokerit in the Finnish SM-liiga. Bishai was never drafted, but has played in the National Hockey League with the Edmonton Oilers.
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Mike Vogel
Michael James "Mike" Vogel (born July 17, 1979) is an American actor and former fashion model. Vogel began acting in 2001, and has since appeared in several films and series, including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Grind, Poseidon, and Cloverfield.
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Milana Terloeva
Milana Bakhaeva () (born December 30, 1979 in Orekhovo, Chechnya), also known by the pen name Milana Terloeva, is a Chechen journalist and author of the 2006 French language bestseller Danser sur les ruines. Une jeunesse tchétchène (Dancing on ruins. A Chechen youth).
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Minnie Riperton
Minnie Julia Riperton (November 8, 1947 – July 12, 1979) was an American singer-songwriter best known for her vocal range of five-and-a-half octaves and her 1975 single "Lovin' You". She was married to songwriter and music producer Richard Rudolph from 1972 until her death in the summer of 1979. They had two children - music engineer Marc Rudolph and actress/comedienne Maya Rudolph.
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Molly Jenson
Molly Jenson is a singer/songwriter from Southern California. She won the award for "Best Acoustic Act" at the 2007 San Diego Music Awards. In April of 2007, Teen Vogue Magazine named her "One of the three best new artists on MySpace". In 2007, she collaborated with Switchfoot lead singer Jon Foreman on his solo “Spring" EP. In May, 2008, she signed to producer Mark Joseph's Bully! Pulpit Records, in a joint partnership with Nettwerk Music Group (home to top artists like Sarah McLachlan, Avril Lavigne and The Cardigans). Her first album on Bully! Pulpit/Nettwerk "Maybe Tomorrow", produced by Greg Laswell, was released worldwide on March 3rd, 2009, featuring a duet with Foreman titled "Do You Only Love The Ones Who Look Like You." In September of 2008 Jenson's song "Give It Time" was selected to appear in the Freshman Survival Kit, which went out to 75,000 incoming college freshman. In the fall of 2008, Jenson's song, "Wait For You Here," was used in the premiere of the new NBC Television show Knight Rider, while another song "Give It Time" was used in the CW show Privileged. More recently, Molly Jenson was featured on Sherwood's third album, Qu on the song "Worn".
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Morena Baccarin
Morena Baccarin (born June 2, 1979) is a Brazilian-born American actress best known for her roles as Inara Serra in the sci-fi television series Firefly, Adria in Stargate SG-1, and as Anna in V.
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Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa (26 August 19105 September 1997), born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (pronounced ), was a Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.
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Mpule Kwelagobe
Mpule Keneilwe Kwelagobe of Gaborone, Botswana was crowned Miss Universe in May 1999 in Trinidad and Tobago. Since being crowned Miss Universe 1999, Mpule has been recognized and honored as a human health rights activist, especially for her fight against HIV/AIDS and advocacy for youth and women to have greater access to sexual reproductive education and services.
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Mustafa Barzani
Mustafa Barzani () (March 14, 1903 – March 1, 1979) was a Kurdish nationalist leader, and the most prominent political figure in the modern Kurdish politics. In 1946 he was chosen as the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) to lead the Kurdish revolution against Iraqi regimes. Barzani was the primary political and military leader of the Kurdish revolution until his death in March 1979. He led campaigns of armed struggle against both the Iraqi and Iranian governments.
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Mustis
:Mustis may also refer to the ancient Roman city of Musti (Tunisia).
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Myolie Wu
Myolie Wu Hang-Yee is a Hong Kong actress for the popular Hong Kong TVB television station and a singer under contracts with Neway Star
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Mýa
Mýa Marie Harrison (born October 10, 1979), who performs under the mononym Mýa is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, actress, and model. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Harrison's eponymous debut album with Interscope Records was released in April 1998, and sold over one million copies in the United States, producing the gold-certified top ten single "It's All About Me" featuring Sisqo.
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Nadia Boulanger
(Juliette) Nadia Boulanger (16 September 1887 – 22 October 1979) was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.
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Naomichi Marufuji
(born September 26, 1979) is a Japanese professional wrestler who competes for Pro Wrestling Noah, with occasional appearances in other professional wrestling promotions like Ring of Honor, All Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling, among others. Marufuji is the first of only two Grand Slam Champion in Pro Wrestling Noah history. He is also the only man to win Junior Heavyweight Championships in all three major Japanese promotions. In 2009, he was appointed to the position of Vice President of the promotion.
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Natasha Yi
Natasha Yi (born March 25, 1979) is an American model and actress. She was a former Barker's Beauty. She is known for her appearance in numerous commercials and campaigns for popular brands such as Nokia, Regis Hair Salons, Pepsi, Marriott Hotels, Timberland, Target, Bud Light, Toyota, Sony, SBC and more. She has been featured and on the cover of numerous magazines including FHM, Maxim, Vanity Fair, The New York Post, Playboy, ''Men's Fitness, Steppin' Out and many other major mainstream magazines. She is also well known as an import model and has been animated in video games such as SRS and 187 Ride or Die. Yi had minor roles in the movies Rush Hour 2, Cradle 2 the Grave, and The Rundown. She is the first Asian American to be a showcase model on the daytime game show, The Price Is Right''.
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Ne-Yo
Shaffer Chimere Smith (born October 18, 1982), better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American pop and R&B; singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor, and occasional rapper. Since his debut, Ne-Yo has had five top ten songs on the Billboard Hot 100 as a lead artist and two number-one albums on the Billboard 200. Ne-Yo has also amassed a catalog of chart-topping songs that he has written for other artists.
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Ned Collette
Ned Collette is a Melbourne singer-songwriter signed with the Australian record label Dot Dash.
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Neg Dupree
Neg Hasan Dupree ( , born in London, England) is a British comedian, writer and actor, best known for his act "Neg's Urban Sports" on the British television show Balls of Steel. Neg's acting versatility has earned him many various television appearances including on ''Footballers' Wives, EastEnders, and The Bill and also cameo appearances in blockbuster movie 28 Weeks Later''.
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Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 January 26, 1979) was the 41st Vice President of the United States under Gerald Ford, and the 49th Governor of New York, as well as serving the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Nixon administrations in a variety of positions. He was also a noted businessman, art collector, and philanthropist.
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Neville Wran
Neville Kenneth Wran, AC, CNZM, QC (born 11 October 1926) was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 until 1986. He was National President of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1980 to 1986 and Chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) from 1986 to 1991.
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Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle; 7 August 1911 – 16 June 1979) was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause.
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Nicolas Anelka
Nicolas Sebastien Anelka (; born 14 March 1979) is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for Chelsea in the Premier League. Anelka was also a regular starter for the French national team. Carlo Ancelotti describes him as a quick player with good aerial ability, technique, shooting, and movement off the ball.
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Nicolas Massu
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Niki Chow
Niki Chow Lai-ki is a Hong Kong actress and Cantopop singer. She was born and raised in Hong Kong. Her school life ended when she was spotted by an agent who offered her a modeling opportunity. This was the beginning of her life as an artist. She was just about 17 years old at that time. A few years later, she started acting in movies and TV series. In 2005, she became famous by the TV show "Gentle Crackdown" (秀才遇著兵). She signed for BMA Entertainment Group and released her first album in the August.
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Nila Håkedal
Nila Ann Håkedal (born on 13 June 1979 in Kristiansand) is a Norwegian beach volleyball player.
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Nino Rota
Nino Rota (December 3, 1911, Milan – April 10, 1979, Rome) was a world-renowned Italian composer and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving for the latter the Academy Award for Best original Score in 1974.
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Norrie Paramor
Norrie Paramor (15 May 1914 – 9 September 1979) was a British record producer, composer, arranger, and orchestral conductor.
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Noémie Lenoir
Noémie Lenoir (born September 19, 1979) is a French model and actress.
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Nur Muhammad Taraki
Nur Muhammad Taraki () (July 15, 1917 – September 14, 1979) was an Afghan politician. His party, the PDPA, was eventually successful in overthrowing the Afghan monarchy and, after the prior president and his family were murdered in a coup, assumed authority as the next President of Afghanistan from 1978 until he was overthrown (and thereafter murdered) by Hafizullah Amin, his rival in the PDPA in 1979.
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Odysseas Elytis
Odysseas Elytis () (November 2, 1911—March 18, 1996) was a Greek poet regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Olga Kurylenko
Olha Kostyantynivna Kurylenko (; born November 14, 1979) better known as Olga Kurylenko, is a Ukrainian actress and model. She is perhaps best known as the Bond girl, Camille Montes, in the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace. She also portrayed Nika Boronina in the movie adaptation of the video game Hitman. Born in Ukraine, she became a French citizen in 2001.
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Olivia Lufkin
Olivia Lufkin (born December 9, 1979), professionally known as OLIVIA, is a bilingual singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of an American father and an Okinawan mother. Her two younger siblings are Jeffrey Lufkin, who is a musician she collaborates regularly with and Caroline Lufkin, who is an independent musician. Lufkin began her solo career after being in the Japanese girl group D&D.; She gained mainstream success in 2006 after creating songs for the fictional band Trapnest under the alias of ''Olivia Inspi' Reira (Trapnest)'', and the songs were used for the popular anime adaptation of Nana.
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Oumar Kondé
Oumar Kondé (born August 19, 1979 in Binningen, Switzerland) is a Swiss footballer. He plays for FC Zürich.
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Pablo Aimar
Pablo César Aimar Giordano (born 3 November 1979 in Río Cuarto, Córdoba) is an Argentine professional footballer who currently plays for Sport Lisboa e Benfica in the Portuguese first division.
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Paola Rey
Paola Andrea Rey (born December 19, 1979 in Bucaramanga, Santander) is a Colombian actress and model.
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Paradorn Srichaphan
Paradorn Srichaphan (; born 14 June 1979) is a retired professional tennis player from Thailand. He is the highest ranked player from Thailand and Asia in history, reaching a career high World No. 9, the highest ranking that has been achieved by a player born in Thailand. His nickname is "Ball".
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Patrick Merrill
Patrick Merrill (b. February 22, 1979 in Montreal, Quebec) is a lacrosse player for the Orlando Titans in the National Lacrosse League and the Toronto Nationals in Major League Lacrosse.
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Patty Hearst
Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954), now known as Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw, is an American newspaper heiress, socialite, actress, kidnap victim, and convicted bank robber.
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Paul Popenoe
Paul Bowman Popenoe (October 16, 1888 - June 19, 1979) was an American agricultural explorer, eugenicist, influential advocate of the compulsory sterilization of the mentally ill and the mentally disabled.
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Paul Wexler (actor)
Paul Wexler (May 23, 1929 – November 21, 1979), was an American character actor. Tall and physically imposing with a long face and deep baritone voice, he specialized in macabre or off-beat roles.
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Paulo Ferreira
Paulo Renato Rebocho Ferreira (born 18 January 1979 in Cascais, Portugal) is a Portuguese footballer. He currently plays as a defender at full back for Chelsea in the Premier League.
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Pete Doherty
Peter Doherty (born 12 March 1979) is an English musician, writer, and artist. He is best known musically, for being co-frontman of The Libertines, which he reformed with Carl Barât in 2010. His other musical project is indie band Babyshambles. In 2005, Doherty became prominent in tabloids, the news media, and pop culture blogs because of his romantic relationship with model Kate Moss and his frequently-publicised heroin addiction.
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Pete Wentz
Pete Wentz (born Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III; June 5, 1979) is an American musician, best known for being the bassist and primary lyricist for the American rock band Fall Out Boy. Wentz has also ventured into other non-musical projects, including acting and fashion; in 2005 he founded a clothing company called Clandestine Industries.
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Peter Brock
Peter Geoffrey Brock AM (26 February 1945 – 8 September 2006) otherwise known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain" or simply as "Brocky" was one of Australia's best-known and most successful motor racing drivers. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, although he raced vehicles of other manufacturers including BMW, Ford, Volvo, Porsche and Peugeot. He won the Bathurst 1000 endurance race nine times, the Sandown 500 touring car race nine times, the Australian Touring Car Championship three times and was inducted into the V8 Supercar Hall of Fame in 2001. Brock's business activities included the Holden Dealer Team (HDT) that produced Brock's racing machines as well as a number of modified high-performance road versions of his racing cars.
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Peter Sarno
Peter Sarno (born July 26, 1979 in Toronto, Ontario) is a professional ice hockey forward. He was selected in the sixth round of the 1997 NHL Entry Draft, 141st overall, by the Edmonton Oilers.
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Petra Nemcova
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Pierre Bouvier
Pierre Charles Bouvier (born 9 May 1979) is a French Canadian musician, who is best known as the lead singer for pop punk band Simple Plan.
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Pierre Roland
Pierre Roland who was born Pierre Roland Christy, in Jakarta, Indonesia on 14 April 1979, is an Indonesian actor. He is known as Pierre Roland and is famous for his role as a super hero in a hit tv series "Gerhana". He has also appeared on films and other tv series as well as music videos, advertisements (magazines, television, billboards) and as tv presenter. His parents are of mixed Indonesian and European ancestry: father is English/Indonesian (Bengkulu) while his mother is Dutch/Indonesian (Javanese/Manadonese).
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Pink (singer)
Alecia Beth Moore (born September 8, 1979), better known by her stage name Pink (stylized as P!nk), is an American contralto singer-songwriter, musician, acrobat, dancer and actress, who rose to fame in early 2000. She released her first single "There You Go", on her first album, the R&B-oriented; ''Can't Take Me Home, in 2000 via LaFace Records, which garnered commercial success. Her more pop rock-oriented second studio album, Missundaztood'', which began a marked shift in the sound of her music, was released in 2001 and was a huge success worldwide, featuring the singles Get The Party Started, Don't Let Me Get Me, Just Like A Pill and Family Portrait. Pink released her third album, Try This, in November 2003, which although less successful commercially than her previous release, still managed to sell around 3 million copies and earned her a Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the single Trouble. Her fourth album, called ''I'm Not Dead, was released in April 2006. The album generated several hit singles, including "Stupid Girls", "U + Ur Hand" and "Who Knew". Both "U + Ur Hand" and "Who Knew" went to #1 on the pop chart. Her fifth album, Funhouse'', was released in late October 2008 and was preceded by her first solo number one on the Hot 100, "So What". The album notched three other Top 20 hits; "Sober", "Please Don't Leave Me" and "Glitter in the Air"
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Pol Pot
Saloth Sar (May 19, 1928 – April 15, 1998), better known as Pol Pot, (), was the leader of the Cambodian communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge and was Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976–1979. His time as the leader of Cambodia, in which he attempted to "cleanse" the country, resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million people.
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Pope John Paul II
The Venerable Pope John Paul II (18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005, born Karol Józef Wojtyła) reigned as Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005. His was the second-longest documented pontificate; only Pope Pius IX served longer (St. Peter the Apostle is reputed to have served for more than thirty years as the first pontiff, but documentation is too sparse to definitively support this). He has been the only Slavic and Polish Pope to date, and was the first non-Italian Pope since Dutch Pope Adrian VI in 1522.
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Rachael Leigh Cook
Rachael Leigh Cook (born October 4, 1979) is an American actress, known for her role in the romantic comedy ''She's All That and her This is Your Brain on Drugs'' PSA.
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Rachel Corrie
Rachel Aliene Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). She was crushed to death in the Gaza Strip by an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) bulldozer when she was kneeling in front of a local Palestinian's home, thus acting as a human shield, attempting to prevent IDF forces from demolishing the home. The IDF stated that the death was due to the restricted angle of view of the IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozer driver, while ISM eyewitnesses said "there was nothing to obscure the driver's view." A student at the Evergreen State College, she had taken a year off and traveled to the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada.
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Rachele Mussolini
Donna Rachele Mussolini (11 April 1890 – 30 October 1979) was the mistress, wife, and widow of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
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Rafael Márquez
Rafael Márquez Álvarez (born 13 February 1979 in Zamora, Michoacán) is a Mexican footballer, who currently plays for the New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer. He plays as a centre back or defensive midfielder.
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Rainbow Sun Francks
Rainbow Sun Francks (born December 3, 1979 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is an actor and songwriter. He is the son of actor/musician Don Francks and dancer Lili Francks, a member of the Plains Cree First Nation. He is also the brother of Cree Summer. For a brief time, he was an on-air personality at MuchMusic, a Canadian music video and variety television channel. He starred in Stargate Atlantis Season 1 as US Marine Lieutenant Aiden Ford. His role was reduced to that of a recurring character for Season 2, and was written out entirely for Season 3 and 4 (he made a brief cameo in a dream sequence in season 5). He also produces a hip hop group known as The Oddities.
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Randy McMichael
Randy Montez McMichael (born June 28, 1979 in ) is an American football tight end who is currently a member of the San Diego Chargers. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the fourth round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at Georgia.
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Rashad Evans
Rashad Anton Evans (born September 25, 1979) is an American mixed martial artist from Niagara Falls, New York, currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship where he is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. Evans won the heavyweight division of The Ultimate Fighter 2. Evans trains out of Albuquerque, New Mexico with Jackson's Submission Fighting. Evans lost the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship by way of knockout to then undefeated Lyoto Machida at UFC 98.
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Raymond Lam
Raymond Lam (born 8 December 1979) is a Hong Kong actor and singer under contracts with TV station TVB and EEG's Music Plus label.
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Raymond Washington
Raymond Lee Washington (August 14, 1953 – August 9, 1979) was the original founder of the notorious South Central Los Angeles street gang the Crips.
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Rebecca DiPietro
Rebecca DiPietro (born April 14, 1979) is an American model and former WWE Diva best known for her stint as the backstage interviewer for World Wrestling Entertainment's ECW brand.
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Reginald Maudling
Reginald Maudling (7 March 1917 - 14 February 1979) was a British politician who held several Cabinet posts, including Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had been spoken of as a prospective Conservative leader since 1955, and was twice seriously considered for the post; he was Edward Heath's chief rival in 1965. He also held many directorships in the British financial world.
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Richard Barnwell
Richard Michael Barnwell (born February 12, 1979) is an English professional footballer, who plays in Estonian Meistriliiga, for JK Nõmme Kalju. He plays the position of midfielder. His former clubs include FC Levadia Tallinn, JK Kalev Tallinn, FC Concordia Audentes Tallinn and Íþróttabandalag Akraness. Barnwell also works as a youth coach at Levadia Tallinn.
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Richard Beckinsale
Richard Arthur Beckinsale (6 July 1947 – 19 March 1979) was an English actor, best known for his roles as Lennie Godber in the popular BBC sitcom Porridge and Alan Moore in the British sitcom Rising Damp.
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Richard Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. His compositions have had a significant impact on popular music down to the present day, and have an enduring broad appeal.
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Rick Baxter
Rick Baxter is a businessman and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He currently is the owner/operator of Driven Motors in Jackson, Michigan.
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Rick Gonzalez
Rick Gonzalez (born June 30, 1979) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Timo Cruz in the motion picture Coach Carter, and as Ben Gonzalez on the CW supernatural drama television series Reaper.
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Rick Mears
Rick Ravon Mears (born December 3, 1951 in Wichita, Kansas) is a retired American race car driver. He is one of three men to have won the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race four times (1979, 1984, 1988, 1991), and the current record-holder for pole positions in the race with six (1979, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991). Mears is also a three-time CART national champion (1979, 1981 and 1982).
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Ricky Carmichael
Ricky Carmichael (born November 27, 1979 in Clearwater, Florida) is a motocross racer, now transitioning to a stock car career. He currently drives the #4 Monster Energy Chevrolet Silverado for Turner Motorsports in the Camping World Truck Series. His unrivaled successes in the sport of Motocross have given him the nickname "The GOAT", standing for Greatest of All Time.
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Robert Hoyzer
Robert Hoyzer (born 28 August 1979 in West Berlin, West Germany) is a retired German football referee, who scandalized German football by fixing matches in the Bundesliga scandal of 2005.
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Robertson Hare
J. Robertson Hare (17 December 1891 – 25 January 1979) was an English comedy actor, popularly known as Bunny, who came to fame in the . He is known for routinely losing his trousers on-stage, at which point he would utter his catchphrase "Oh Calamity". He is best remembered by modern audiences for his performances as the Archdeacon in the popular sitcom, All Gas and Gaiters.
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Robyn
Robin Miriam Carlsson, better known by her stage name Robyn (born 12 June 1979) is a Swedish recording artist and singer-songwriter. Robyn became known in the late nineties for her worldwide dance-pop hits "Show Me Love" and "Do You Know (What It Takes)" from her debut album Robyn Is Here (1997). Robyn entered Melodifestivalen 1997 as a songwriter with the entry "Du gör mig hel igen" (You Make Me Whole Again). The popularity of her #1 hit single "With Every Heartbeat", and subsequent album release Robyn (2005), brought her mainstream success worldwide. In January 2009 Robyn won a Swedish Grammis award for Best Live Act 2008.
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Rock Cartwright
Roderick Rashaun Cartwright (born December 3, 1979 in ) is an American football running back for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the seventh round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at Kansas State.
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Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer-songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English lineage.
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Roddy McMillan
Roddy McMillan (23 March 1923 - 9 July 1979) was a Scottish actor and playwright, possibly most famous for his comedy role as Para Handy for BBC Scotland television. He also played the lead role in Edward Boyd's private eye series The View from Daniel Pike.
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Roger Penske
Roger S. Penske (born February 20, 1937, in Shaker Heights, Ohio) is the owner of the automobile racing team Penske Racing, the Penske Corporation, and other automotive related businesses. A winning racer in the late 1950s, Penske was named 1961's Sports Car Club of America Driver of the Year by Sports Illustrated. Retiring from driving a few years later he created one of the most successful teams in IndyCar Series and NASCAR racing.
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Ron Artest
Ronald William "Ron" Artest, Jr. (born November 13, 1979) is an American professional basketball player who is currently with the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA. Artest gained a reputation as one of the league's premier defenders as he won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2004. He was a major participant in the Pacers–Pistons brawl and is known for his sometimes eccentric, outspoken behavior. He is also a rapper, known for his single "Champions".
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Ron Ng
Ron Ng Cheuk-hei is a Hong Kong TVB actor, singer, professional dancer, ambassador, and model.
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Rose Byrne
Rose Byrne (born Mary Rose Byrne; 24 July 1979) is an Australian actress. Her films include 28 Weeks Later, Sunshine, Knowing, Marie Antoinette and Get Him to the Greek. She appears regularly as Ellen Parsons in the U.S. television series Damages.
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Rudi Johnson
Burudi Ali "Rudi" Johnson (born October 1, 1979) is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. Rudi was born in Petersburg, Virginia approximately 30 miles south of Richmond. His first name "Burudi" is Swahili and means "cool'" and his middle name "Ali" represented his family's respect and admiration for Muhammed Ali. He began playing football at the age of six with the Ettrick Trojans of the Chesterfield Quarterback League. During his high school career, he played both offense and defense for the Thomas Dale Knights under head coach Victor Williams following in the footsteps of Ken Oxendine and William Henderson. During his career, he broke the school's rushing record which was held by his friend, mentor and coach Henry Jefferson. Upon graduation he enrolled at Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kansas joining the same junior college network which produced his NFL teammate Corey Dillon who played earlier for Butler's arch rival Garden City. After completing his Associates Degree at Butler, he was recruited and transferred to Auburn University playing under the coaching staff of Tommy Tuberville and running backs coach Eddie Gran. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the fourth round of the 2001 NFL Draft.
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Sayyed Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini (, ; 24 September 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. Following the revolution and a national referendum, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader—a position created in the constitution as the highest ranking political and religious authority of the nation—until his death.
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Ryan Malcolm
Ryan Michael Malcolm (born October 13, 1979 in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian singer best known as the winner of the first season of Canadian Idol.
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Ryan Tedder
Ryan Benjamin Tedder (born June 26, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. He is best known as being the frontman for the pop rock band, OneRepublic, though he has written and produced for various artists such as Hilary Duff, Leona Lewis, Jordin Sparks and Beyoncé.
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Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: ; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power.
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Sally Rand
Sally Rand (April 3, 1904 – August 31, 1979) was a burlesque dancer and actress, most noted for her ostrich feather fan dance and balloon bubble dance. She also performed under the name Billie Beck.
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Samoa Joe
:"King Joe" redirects here. For the monster, see King Joe (Ultra monster).
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Sandra Klösel
Sandra Klösel (born 22 June 1979 in Oberkirch, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany) is a professional female tennis player from Germany. She turned pro in July 1995.
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Sara Bareilles
Sara Beth Bareilles (; born December 7, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single "Love Song", which brought her into the number one spot on the Billboard Pop 100 chart. Bareilles' vocal range registers from contralto to mezzo-soprano.
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Sara Carter
Sara Carter (July 21, 1898 – January 8, 1979) was an American Country music musician. Known for her deep and distinctive singing voice, she was the lead singer on most of the recordings of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Sarah Balabagan
Sarah Balabagan (born August 16, 1979) (her family name is phonetically pronounced as Ba-la-BAH-gan) was a Filipina prisoner in the United Arab Emirates during 1994 - 96 whose case caused a good deal of controversy. Her story was made into a controversial film in 1997.
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Sayuri Katayama
is a Japanese singer, stage actress and songwriter.
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Sebastien Grainger
Sebastien Alexandre Grainger (born 11 April 1979) from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada is a Canadian singer and musician, best known as drummer and singer of the now defunct dance-punk duo Death from Above 1979 and the singer and guitarist for his current band, Sebastien Grainger and The Mountains. He is part owner of Giant Studios in Toronto with Jimmy Shaw of Metric.
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Shannon Moore
Shannon Brian Moore (born July 27, 1979) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). He is best known for his work with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as a member of 3 Count, and for WWE, as a follower of Mattitude in 2003. He returned to WWE in 2006 on the ECW brand, before returning to SmackDown in 2007. On August 8, 2008, he was released from WWE.
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Sharon Chan
Sharon Chan Man-Chi (born 17 January 1979) is a Hong Kong actress and model. She is currently under contract with TVB in Hong Kong.
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Sheldon Lee Glashow
Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is a Nobel Prize winning American physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University.
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Shinji Ono
is a Japanese football player, who plays as a midfielder for Shimizu S-Pulse in Japan.
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Show Luo
Show Luo also known as Xiao Zhu (小豬) () was born on 30 July 1979. He is a Taiwanese entertainer: Mandopop singer, dancer, host and actor.
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Siad Barre
Mohamed Siad Barre (, ) (October 6, 1919 – January 2, 1995) was the military dictator and President of the Somali Democratic Republic from 1969 to 1991. During his rule, he styled himself as Jaalle Siyaad ("Comrade Siad").
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Sigrid Schauman
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Simon Neil
Simon Alexander Neil (born 31 August 1979 in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland) is a Scottish vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter, known for his work in the bands Biffy Clyro and Marmaduke Duke.
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Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga or '''Shin'ichirō Tomonaga' (朝永 振一郎 Tomonaga Shin'ichirō'', March 31, 1906 – July 8, 1979) was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger.
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Sino-Vietnamese War
The Sino–Vietnamese War (), also known as the Third Indochina War, known in the PRC as 对越自卫反击战 (duì yuè zìwèi fǎnjī zhàn) (Counterattack against Vietnam in Self-Defense) and in Vietnam as Chiến tranh chống bành trướng Trung Hoa (War against Chinese expansionism), was a brief but bloody border war fought in 1979 between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The PRC launched the offensive in response to Vietnam's invasion and occupation of Cambodia, which ended the reign of the PRC-backed Khmer Rouge.
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Siti Nurhaliza
Dato', or occasionally Datin Seri, Siti Nurhaliza binti Tarudin DIMP, JSM, SAP, PMP, AAP (pronounced ; born January 11, 1979) (Jawi: سيتي نورهاليز بنت تارودين) is a Malaysian singer, songwriter, record producer and businesswoman. To date, she has garnered more than 200 local awards as well as international awards. She rose to fame as a multiple-platinum selling artist, since her winning of Bintang HMI 1995 when she was only 16 where she was given offers in form of singing contract from four different international recording companies. Her first single, Jerat Percintaan from her debut album won the 11th Anugerah Juara Lagu and another two awards for Best Performance and Best Ballad.
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor (born 10 April 1979) is an English singer, songwriter and model. She first came to prominence in the late 1990s, as the lead singer of the indie rock band theaudience. After the group disbanded, Ellis-Bextor went solo, achieving widespread success in the early 2000s. Her music is a mixture of mainstream pop, disco, nu-disco, and 1980s electronic influences.
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Stacey Dales
Stacey Dales, (born September 5, 1979, in Collingwood, Ontario, and raised in Brockville, Ontario) is a former Canadian basketball player and a current host on the NFL Network.
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Stat Quo
Stanley Benton, better known as Stat Quo, is an American rapper. Benton attended University of Florida, where he majored in economics and international business in 2000. Benton was contemplating law school, until veteran Southern rapper Scarface encouraged him to rap professionally.
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Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.
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Stipe Pletikosa
Stipe Pletikosa (; born 8 January 1979 in Split) is a Croatian football goalkeeper who plays for Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur on loan from Spartak Moscow. He also plays for the Croatian national team, for whom he made 80 appearances.
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Stuart Fielden
Stuart Fielden (born 14 September 1979 in Halifax, West Yorkshire) is an English professional rugby league footballer for the Wigan Warriors of Super League. A Great Britain international representative prop forward, he previously played club football for the Bradford Bulls with whom he won the 2001 and 2005 Championships before he moved to Wigan in 2006, winning the 2010 Championship with them.
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Summer Altice
Summer Danielle Altice (born December 23, 1979) is an American fashion model and actress. She was named after Miss USA 1975, Summer Bartholomew.
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Sung Si Kyung
Sung Si Kyung (born April 17, 1979) is a K-pop ballad singer. Sung Si Kyung became a singer through an internet audition. His first hit single was "내게 오는 길 (The Road to me)" in November 2000, followed by his debut album, "처음처럼 (Like the Beginning)" in April 2001. He currently has seven full albums - five are traditional ballad/pop albums, a "remake" album and a "special" album called Try to Remember. He also released a "best of" album in Japan which includes his first Japanese title. His sixth and final pre-army was released in 2008.
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Susan Eldridge
Susan Eldridge (born October 7, 1979) is an American model.
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Sándor Kocsis
Sándor Kocsis Péter (September 21, 1929 - July 22, 1979) was a Hungarian footballer who played for Ferencváros TC, Budapest Honvéd, Young Fellows Zürich, FC Barcelona and Hungary. During the 1950s, along with Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, József Bozsik and Nándor Hidegkuti, he was a member of the so-called Mighty Magyars. After the 1956 Hungarian Revolution he moved to Spain where he became a member of the FC Barcelona team of the late 1950s.
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Sébastien Bourdais
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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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Taizō Sugimura
is a Japanese politician and a member of the Diet of Japan, representing the Liberal Democratic Party until 2009. He ran in House of Councillors election in 2010 as a proportional candidate of The Sunrise Party of Japan.
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Tang Gonghong
Tang Gonghong (; born March 5, 1979 in Fushan, Yantai, Shandong) is a female Chinese weightlifter who competed in the 2003 Afro-Asian Games and 2004 Summer Olympics.
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Tang Wei
Tang Wei () (born October 7, 1979) is a Chinese actress. She rose to prominence for her appearance in Lust, Caution.
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Tatyana Ali
Tatyana Marisol Ali (born January 24, 1979) is an American actress and R&B; singer, best known for her role as Ashley Banks in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
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Tavia Yeung
Tavia Yeung Yi (born August 30, 1979) is a Hong Kong actress under Hong Kong's Television Broadcast Limited or TVB. She has starred in numerous popular Hong Kong television series such as Vigilante Force, Twin of Brothers, Dicey Business, Heart of Greed, Moonlight Resonance and Beyond the Realm of Conscience.
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Ted Cassidy
Theodore Crawford Cassidy (July 31, 1932 - January 16, 1979), known as Ted Cassidy, was an American actor and voice actor who performed in television and films. Extremely tall at , he tended to play unusual characters in offbeat or science-fiction series such as Star Trek and I Dream of Jeannie. He is best known for playing the part of Lurch, the butler on the 1960s television series The Addams Family and performing the opening narration of the 1970s TV series The Incredible Hulk (TV series).
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Ted Geoghegan
Filmmaker and author Ted Geoghegan (born August 10, 1979 in Beaverton, Oregon, United States) grew up in Great Falls, Montana, attending private and public schools and studying film extensively. He attended The University of Montana in Missoula, Montana and attained a degree in English Education.
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the Boomtown Rats
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The Game (rapper)
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) His last name is, according to Roosevelt himself, "pronounced as if it was spelled 'Rosavelt.' That is in three syllables. The first syllable as if it was 'Rose.'" ; An [http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/record.cfm?recordid=509 Audio recording] in which Roosevelt pronounces his own last name distinctly. To listen at the correct speed, slow the recording down by 20%. Retrieved on July 12, 2007. ) was the 26th President of the United States. He is noted for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President (1901–1909) he held offices at the municipal, state, and federal level of government. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician.
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Theodore Schultz
Theodore William Schultz (April 30, 1902 February 26, 1998) was the 1979 winner (jointly with William Arthur Lewis) of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Thurman Munson
Thurman Lee Munson (June 7, 1947 – August 2, 1979) was an American catcher in Major League Baseball who played eleven seasons from 1969 to 1979 for the New York Yankees of the American League. A perennial All-Star, Munson is the only Yankee ever to win both the Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player Awards.
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Tian Liang (diver)
Tian Liang (; born August 27, 1979 in Chongqing) is a male Chinese former diver. In the Summer Olympics 2004, he won the bronze medal in the 10 m platform event and a gold medal in the synchronised platform event. Tian was also the previous 10 m platform Olympics champion, winning gold in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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Tim McIlrath
Timothy "Tim" James McIlrath (born November 3, 1979) is the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, songwriter and co-founder for the American punk rock band Rise Against. McIlrath is known to support animal rights and actively promotes PETA with his band. He follows the straight edge lifestyle, along with Rise Against bassist Joe Principe and guitarist Zach Blair.
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Tom Chaplin
Tom Chaplin (born Thomas Oliver Chaplin, 8 March 1979, Battle, East Sussex, England) is a musician and composer, best known as the lead vocalist of the piano rock band, Keane.
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Tracy McGrady
Tracy Lamar McGrady, Jr., (born May 24, 1979, in Bartow, Florida) is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons. He is a shooting guard, but can also play as a small forward. He is commonly referred to as "T-Mac".
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Travis Fimmel
Travis Fimmel (born 15 July 1979) is an Australian actor and former fashion model who currently resides in America.
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Travis Meeks
Travis Shane Meeks (born April 27, 1979 in Jeffersonville, Indiana), is an American musician, and is the lead singer, guitarist and song writer for acoustic rock band Days of the New.
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Traxamillion
Traxamillion is a hip hop producer from San Jose, California.
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Trevor Immelman
Trevor John Immelman (born 16 December 1979) is a South African professional golfer and winner of the 2008 Masters Tournament.
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Tsuyoshi Domoto
(born April 10, 1979) is a Japanese idol, singer, singer-songwriter, composer, lyricist, television personality and actor. Along with Koichi 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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Tyrone Burton
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Unabomber
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Urijah Faber
Urijah Christopher Faber (born May 14, 1979) is a mixed martial artist currently fighting as a featherweight in the World Extreme Cagefighting organization. Faber won the WEC featherweight championship at WEC 19 on March 17, 2006 and held the title for over two years until his loss to Mike Brown at WEC 36 on November 5, 2008. Currently Faber is ranked the #4 featherweight in the world by Sherdog.
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Vernon Fox
Vernon Lee Fox, III (born October 9, 1979 in ) is an American football safety for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. He was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2002. He played college football at Fresno State.
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Victor Kilian
Victor Arthur Kilian (March 6, 1891 – March 11, 1979) was an American actor who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
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Vince Chong
Vincent Chong Ying-Cern (, ; pinyin: Zhāng Yīngshèng) (born September 30, 1979), internationally known by his stage name Vince , is the first reality TV star to issue from Malaysian Akademi Fantasia. Chong is popular as a R&B-inclined; singer-songwriter. His popularity increased internationally after he teamed up with Nikki Gil and Alicia Pan to record the theme from High School Musical, Breaking Free (Asian Version).
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Vivian Vance
Vivian Vance (July 26, 1909 – August 17, 1979) was an American award winning television and theater actress and singer. Often referred to as “TV’s most beloved second banana,” she is best known for her role as Ethel Mertz, sidekick to Lucille Ball on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, and as Vivian Bagley on The Lucy Show.
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W.A.C. Bennett
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Walter O'Malley
'''Walter Francis O'Malley''' (October 9, 1903 – August 9, 1979) was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from to . He served as Brooklyn Dodgers chief legal counsel when Jackie Robinson broke the racial color barrier in . In , as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major league baseball to the West Coast, moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and coordinating the move of the New York Giants to San Francisco at a time when there were no teams west of Missouri. For this, he was long vilified by Brooklyn Dodgers fans. However, neutral parties describe him as a visionary for the same business action, and many authorities cite him as one of the most influential sportsmen of the 20th century. His detractors who say that he was not a visionary, but instead a man who was in the right place at the right time, still regard him as the most powerful and influential owner in baseball after moving the team. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame for his contributions to and influence on the game of baseball.
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Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos on 14 November 1939) is an American composer and electronic musician. Carlos first came to notice in the late 1960s with recordings made on the Moog synthesizer, then a relatively new and unknown instrument; most notable were LPs of synthesized Bach and the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange. Several years prior, two Carlos compositions using classical (pre-Moog) electronic techniques had been issued on LP (Variations for Flute and Tape and Dialogues for Piano and Two Loudspeakers). Although the first Carlos Moog albums were interpretations of the works of classical composers, she later resumed releasing original compositions.
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Wendy van der Plank
Wendy van der Plank is a British actress best known for playing Wizadora in the ITV series of the same name.
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Werner Forssmann
Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann, (August 29, 1904 – June 1, 1979) was a physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Andre Cournand and Dickinson Richards) for developing a procedure that allowed for cardiac catheterization.
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Wes Butters
Wes Butters (born Wesley Lee-Butters in Salford, Greater Manchester, 4 May 1979), is a radio broadcaster, formerly of BBC Radio 1, and writer.
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William Gargan
William Gargan (July 17, 1905 – February 17, 1979) was an American motion picture, television and radio actor. Gargan played character roles in many Hollywood productions, including two appearances as detective Ellery Queen, but was best known for his role as Detective Martin Kane in the 1949-51 radio-television series, Martin Kane, Private Eye, sponsored by U.S. Tobacco. He also appeared as a private detective in the NBC radio show Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, which ran from 1951 to 1955.
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Willie Stargell
Wilver Dornell "Willie" Stargell (March 6, 1940 – April 9, 2001), nicknamed "Pops" in the later years of his career, was a professional baseball player who played his entire Major League career (1962-1982) with the Pittsburgh Pirates as an outfielder and first baseman. Over his 21-year career with the Pirates, he batted .282, with 2,232 hits, 423 doubles, 475 home runs and 1540 runs batted in, helping his team capture six National League East division titles, two National League pennants and two World Series (1971, 1979).
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Wu Chun
Goh Kiat Chun (; born 10 October 1979), better known by his stage name Wu Chun (), is a Brunei-born Taiwanese actor, singer, former model and gym instructor.
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Yana Gupta
Yana Gupta or Yaana (born Jana Synková) is a Czechoslovakian born model-actress working in India.
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Yuichi Tsuchiya
Yuichi Tsuchiya (土屋 裕一, Tsuchiya Yūichi, born February 6, 1979 in Yamanashi Prefecture) is a Japanese actor and full-time member of the 4-man theatre troupe *pnish*. His nickname is "Tuti". He is best known for his stage roles as Shuichiro Oishi of the Prince of Tennis musical series, Tenimyu, and as Gin Ichimaru in the rock musical Bleach.
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Yukie Nakama
is a Japanese actress, singer and former idol. She was born in Okinawa, Japan, in a fisherman's family, the youngest of five siblings.
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Yulia Nestsiarenka
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Yumiko Kobayashi
is a female seiyū who was born in Yōkaichiba, Chiba Prefecture. She is currently a freelance seiyū but until August 2007 was affiliated with Arts Vision.
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Yusuke Kamiji
is a Japanese actor, singer, and tarento. In the music world, he is known mononymously as .
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Yuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja ( ; born 31 August 1979) is an Indian Tamil film score and soundtrack composer, singer and occasional lyricist. He has predominantly scored music for Tamil as well as Telugu films. In 1996, at age 16, his musical career began as he composed the film score for Aravindhan. He subsequently composed film scores for a variety of South Indian films, which include commercial blockbusters such as Dheena, Manmadhan, Paruthiveeran, Billa, Yaaradi Nee Mohini and Paiyaa as well as acclaimed films such as Nandha, Kaadhal Kondein, 7G Rainbow Colony, Raam, Pudhupettai and Kattradhu Thamizh
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Yvonne Mitchell
Yvonne Mitchell (7 July 1915 – 24 March 1979) was an English stage, television and film actor. She was born Yvonne Frances Joseph, but in 1946 changed her name by deed poll to Yvonne Mitchell (without the Frances). Her mother's maiden name was Mitchell.
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Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi (; born February 9, 1979) is a Chinese film actress. Zhang is coined by the media as one of the Four Young Dan actresses (四小花旦) in the Film Industry in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun. With a string of Chinese and international hits to her name, she has worked with renowned directors such as Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai, Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark, Lou Ye, Seijun Suzuki, Feng Xiaogang and Rob Marshall.
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Zivile Balciunaite
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Urdu: lang|ur|, , ) (January 5, 1928 – April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician who served as the fourth President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as the ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1973 to 1977. He was the founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), the largest and most influential political party in Pakistan. His daughter Benazir Bhutto also served twice as prime minister. She was assassinated on December 27, 2007.
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Érik Bédard
Érik Joseph Bédard (pronounced baydar; born March 6, 1979, in the Ottawa suburb of Navan, Ontario, Canada) is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Seattle Mariners.
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Albania
Albania ( , , Gheg Albanian: Shqipnia/Shqypnia), officially known as the Republic of Albania (, pronounced ), is a country in South Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the west, and on the Ionian Sea to the southwest. It is less than from Italy, across the Strait of Otranto which links the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea.
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Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh (, ), abbreviated A.P., is a state situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Hyderabad. The State has the second longest coastline among all the States in India. The official language of Andhra Pradesh is Telugu, while other languages spoken in Andhra Pradesh are Urdu, English, Tamil, and Hindi.
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Antarctica
Antarctica
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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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Bantry
Bantry () is a town on the coast of County Cork, Ireland, located on the N71 national secondary road at the head of Bantry Bay, a deep-water gulf extending for 30 km to the west. The Beara peninsula is to the northwest, with Sheep's Head also nearby, on the peninsula south of Bantry Bay.
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Beijing
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Belgium
Belgium (, ), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, as well as those of several other major international organizations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of , and it has a population of about 10.8 million people.
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Betelgeuse incident
'The Betelgeuse incident', also known as the Betelgeuse or Whiddy Island disaster, occurred on 8 January 1979, at around 1:00 a.m., when the oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded in West Cork, Ireland, at the offshore jetty of the Whiddy Island Oil Terminal, due to the failure of the ship's structure during an operation to discharge its cargo of oil. The tanker was owned by Total S.A., and the oil terminal was owned and operated by Gulf Oil.
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Blair Peach
Clement Blair Peach (25 March 1946 – 23 April 1979) was a New Zealand-born teacher who was fatally assaulted by a police officer during an anti-racism demonstration in London, England.
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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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Brighton
Brighton () is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove (formed from the previous towns of Brighton, Hove, Portslade and several other villages) in East Sussex on the south coast of Great Britain. For administrative purposes, Brighton and Hove is not part of the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex, but remains part of the ceremonial county of East Sussex.
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Bucharest
Bucharest ( ) is the capital city, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmboviţa River.
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Cambodia
The "Kingdom of Cambodia" "Royaume du Cambodge" (official name), also known as Cambodia, derived from Sanskrit Kambujadesa ()), is a country in Southeast Asia that borders Thailand to the west and northwest, Laos to the northeast, Vietnam to the east, and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest. The geography of Cambodia is dominated by rivers and a lake namely: The Mekong River (Upper and Lower) (Khmer: ទន្លេមេគង្គ Tonlé Mékong Pronounced: Tonlé Mékung = Mother Water River), Sab River Tonlé Sap (Khmer: ទន្លេសាប Pronounced: Tonlé Sab = Fresh Water River), Bassac River Tonlé Bassac (Khmer: ទន្លេបាសាក់ Pronounced: Tonlé Bassuck = ?)
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Camp Fuji
Comined Arms Training Center (CATC) Camp Fuji is an installation of the United States Marine Corps and the Japan Ground Self Defense Force. It is located near the town of Gotemba in the Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan, at the base of Mount Fuji. Camp Fuji is one of several Camps of the Marine Corps Base Camp Butler complex.
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Canada
Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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Cape Verde
The Republic of Cape Verde (; , ; ) is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 15 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa. The islands, covering a combined area of slightly over , are of volcanic origin and while three of them (Sal, Boa Vista and Maio) are fairly flat, sandy and dry, the remaining ones are generally rockier and have more vegetation. Due to the infrequent occurrence of rainfall the overall landscape is not particularly green, as the country's name suggests (verde is Portuguese for "green"). The name of the country stems instead from the nearby Cap Vert, on the Senegalese coast.
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Chad
Chad (, Tshād), officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west. Due to its distance from the sea and its largely desert climate, the country is sometimes referred to as the "Dead Heart of Africa".
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Chicago
Chicago ( or ) is the largest city in the state of Illinois. With over 2.8 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous city in the country. Its metropolitan area, commonly named "Chicagoland," is the 26th most populous in the world, home to an estimated 9.7 million people spread across the U.S. states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County.
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Colombia
Colombia (), officially the Republic of Colombia (, ), is a constitutional republic in northwestern South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the northwest by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Colombia also shares maritime borders with Venezuela, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. With a population of over 45 million people, Colombia has the 29th largest population in the world and the second largest in South America, after Brazil. Colombia has the fourth largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico, the United States, and Spain.
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County Down
County Down (named after its county town, Downpatrick) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland. Adjoined to the south-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of 2,448 km², with a population of approximately 516,000. It is also one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland, lying within the historical province of Ulster.
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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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Dominica
Dominica, ( ) officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. To the north-northwest lies Guadeloupe, to the southeast Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth of Dominica has an estimated population of 72,500. The capital is Roseau.
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Dublin
Dublin (; locally or ) is the primate and capital city of Ireland. It is officially known in Irish as Baile Átha Cliath or Áth Cliath . The English name is derived from the Irish Dubh Linn (meaning "black pool"). The city has an urban population of over 1 million people and is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region. Originally founded as a Viking settlement, it evolved into the Kingdom of Dublin and became the island's primary city following the Norman invasion. It is currently ranked 29th in the Global Financial Centres Index, has one of the fastest growing populations of any European capital city, and is listed by the GaWC as a global city (with a ranking of Alpha), placing Dublin among the top 30 cities in the world. It is a historical and contemporary cultural centre for the country, as well as a modern centre of education, the arts, administration, economy and industry.
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East Germany
The German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR), informally called East Germany by the West, was the socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany and in the East Berlin portion of the Allied-occupied capital city. The German Democratic Republic, which consisted geographically of northeast Germany rather than all of eastern Germany, had an area of 107,771 km2. (41,610 mi.2), bordering Czechoslovakia in the south, West Germany (officially: Federal Republic of Germany) in the south and west, the Baltic Sea to the north, and Poland in the east.
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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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English Channel
The English Channel (, the "sleeve") is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest, to only in the Strait of Dover. It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe, covering an area of some .
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Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (, ; , ; , ) is a country located in Middle Africa. With an area of it is one of the smallest countries in continental Africa. It is also the most prosperous, however the wealth is concentrated in government and elite hands, with 70% of the population living under the United Nations Poverty Threshold of $2/day. It has a population of 1,014,999. It comprises two parts: a Continental Region (Río Muni), including several small offshore islands like Corisco, Elobey Grande and Elobey Chico; and an insular region containing Annobón island and Bioko island (formerly Fernando Po) where the capital Malabo is situated.
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Ethiopia
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European Parliament
The European Parliament (abbreviated as Europarl or the EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU). Together with the Council of the European Union (the Council), it forms the bicameral legislative branch of the EU and has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world. The Parliament and Council form the highest legislative body within the EU. The Parliament is composed of 736 MEPs (Member of the European Parliament), who serve the second largest democratic electorate in the world (after India) and the largest trans-national democratic electorate in the world (375 million eligible voters in 2009).
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Florida
Florida () is a state of the United States. It is located in the Southeastern United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the north. Much of the state's land mass is a large peninsula with the Gulf of Mexico to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Caribbean to the south. Florida was admitted as the 27th U.S. state in 1845, after a three hundred year period of European colonization.
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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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Golborne
Golborne is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.
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Greenland
Greenland ( meaning "Land of the Kalaallit people"; ) is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Physiographically, it is a part of the continent of North America. The largest island in Greenland is also named Greenland, and makes up most of the country's land area.
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Grenada
Grenada () is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. Grenada is located northwest of Trinidad and Tobago, northeast of Venezuela, and southwest of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
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Guyana
Guyana ( ), officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and previously known as British Guiana, is a state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana has been a former colony of the British, Dutch and for a brief period, the French. It is the only state of the Commonwealth of Nations on mainland South America, and is also a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which has its secretariat headquarters in Guyana's capital, Georgetown. Guyana achieved independence from the United Kingdom on 26 May 1966 and became a Republic on 23 February 1970.
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Harare
Harare ( or , before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area (2006). Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its administrative, commercial, and communications centre. The city is a trade centre for tobacco, maize, cotton, and citrus fruits. Manufactures include textiles, steel, and chemicals, and gold is mined in the area. Harare is situated at an elevation of 1483 metres (4865 feet) and its climate falls into the warm temperate category.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong () is one of two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau. Situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour. With a land mass of and a population of seven million people, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Hong Kong's population is 95 percent ethnic Chinese and 5 percent from other groups. Hong Kong's Han Chinese majority originate mainly from the cities of Guangzhou and Taishan in the neighbouring Guangdong province.
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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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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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Iraq
Iraq ( or , Arabic: ), officially the Republic of Iraq (Arabic:
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Ireland
Ireland (,; , ; Ulster Scots: Airlann) is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the northwest of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland is Great Britain, separated from it by the Irish Sea. The island is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers just under five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remainder and is located in the northeast of the island. The population of Ireland is approximately 6.2 million people. Just under 4.5 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just under 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
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Islamabad
(Punjabi, Pashto, {{lang-ur|) Islām ābād (Meaning "Abode of Islam") is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. The population of the city has increased from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.21 million in 2009. The Rawalpindi/Islamabad Metropolitan Area is the third largest in Pakistan with a population of over 4.5 million inhabitants.
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Israel
Israel (, ''Yisrā'el; , Isrā'īl), officially the State of Israel (Hebrew: , Medīnat Yisrā'el; , Dawlat Isrā'īl''), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and Gaza on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel is the world's only predominantly Jewish state, and is defined as A Jewish and Democratic State by the Israeli government.
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Italy
Italy (; ), officially the Italian Republic (), is a country located in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia — the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea — and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, whilst Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.4 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.
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Jamaica
Jamaica () is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harboring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Its indigenous Arawakan-speaking Taíno inhabitants named the island Xaymaca, meaning the "Land of Wood and Water", or the "Land of Springs".
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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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Kampala
Kampala is the largest city and capital of Uganda. The city is divided into five boroughs that oversee local planning: Kampala Central, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division and Lubaga Division. The city is coterminous with Kampala District.
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Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull ( usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles (40 km) inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of ().
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Kiribati
Kiribati ( ; ), officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. It is composed of 32 atolls and one raised coral island, dispersed over 3.5 million square kilometres, (1,351,000 square miles) straddling the equator, and bordering the International Date Line at its easternmost point.
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Lancashire
Lancashire ( or, less commonly, ) is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston. Lancashire is sometimes referred to by the abbreviation Lancs, originally used by the Royal Mail. The population of the county is 1,449,700. People from the county are known as Lancastrians.
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Laos
Laos (, , or ), officially the '''Lao People's Democratic Republic''', is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west.
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Lesotho
Lesotho (, ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave—entirely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is just over in size with a population of approximately 2,067,000. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The name "Lesotho" translates roughly into "the land of the people who speak Sesotho". About 40% of the population live below the international poverty line of US$1.25 a day.
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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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Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
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Majlis of Iran
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Malaysia
Malaysia (pronounced or ) is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia. It consists of thirteen states and three federal territories and has a total landmass of . The country is separated by the South China Sea into two regions, Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo (also known as West and East Malaysia respectively). Malaysia shares land borders with Thailand, Indonesia, and Brunei and has maritime boundaries with Singapore, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government. The population as of 2009 stood at over 28 million.
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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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Maltese Islands
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Manchester
Manchester () is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. In 2009, the population of the city was estimated to be 483,800, making it the seventh-most populous local authority district in England. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas; the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester had an estimated population of 2,600,100, the Greater Manchester Urban Area a population of 2,240,230, and the Larger Urban Zone around Manchester, the second-most-populous in the UK, had an estimated population in the 2004 Urban Audit of 2,539,100. The demonym of Manchester is Mancunian.
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Mauritania
Mauritania ( Mūrītāniyā; ; Soninke: Murutaane; Pulaar: Moritani; ), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in North Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest. It is named after the Roman province of Mauretania, even though the modern state covers a territory far to the southwest of the old province. The capital and largest city is Nouakchott, located on the Atlantic coast.
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Mecca
Mecca (), also spelled Makkah (occasionally 'Bakkah') (; Makkah and in full: transliterated Makkah Al Mukarramah ) is a city in Saudi Arabia, and the holiest meeting site in Islam, closely followed by Medina.
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Montenegro
Montenegro ( or ; Montenegrin: Crna Gora, Црна Гора, , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the southeast. Its capital and largest city is Podgorica, while Cetinje is designated as the Prijestonica (Пријестоница), meaning the former Royal Capital City.
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Montevideo
:Also see: Montevideo (disambiguation) or Monteverde (Costa Rica).
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Morocco
Morocco (, al-Maġrib; Berber: Amerruk / Murakuc; French: Maroc), officially the Kingdom of Morocco (المملكة المغربية, al-Mamlakah al-Maġribiyya), is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of nearly 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², including the disputed Western Sahara which is mainly under Moroccan administration. Morocco has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Spain to the north (a water border through the Strait and land borders with three small Spanish-controlled exclaves, Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera), Algeria to the east, and Mauritania to the south.
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México
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, ) is an Executive Branch agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's civilian space program and aeronautics and aerospace research. Since February 2006, NASA's self-described mission statement is to "pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research."
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO ( ; ), also called the "(North) Atlantic Alliance", is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party.
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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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Nicaragua
Nicaragua ( ) officially the Republic of Nicaragua (, ), is a representative democratic republic. It is the largest country in Central America with an area of 130,373 km2. The country is bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The Pacific Ocean lies to the west of the country, the Caribbean Sea to the east. The country's Caribbean coast is part of the Western Caribbean Zone. Falling within the tropics, Nicaragua sits between 11 degrees and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere. Nicaragua's abundance of biologically significant and unique ecosystems contribute to Mesoamerica's designation as a biodiversity hotspot. The capital city of Nicaragua is Managua. Roughly one quarter of the nation's population lives in the Nicaraguan capital, making it the second largest city and metropolitan area in Central America (following Guatemala City).
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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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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (, Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west. At the time of the 2001 UK Census, its population was 1,685,000, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the population of the United Kingdom.
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ODESSA
ODESSA, (from the German Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, “Organization for Former SS Members”) is believed to have been an international Nazi network set up toward the end of World War II by a group of SS officers in order to avoid their capture and prosecution for war crimes. Several authoritative books by those involved in the U.S. War Crimes Commission (including T.H. Tetens and Joseph Wechsberg) have verified the organization's existence and provided details of its operations. Wechsberg studied Simon Wiesenthal's memoirs on ODESSA and verified them with his own experiences in the book The Murderers Among Us. In the realm of fiction, Frederick Forsyth best-selling 1972 thriller The Odessa File brought the organization to popular attention (the novel was turned into a film starring Jon Voight). Forsyth's ODESSA smuggled war criminals to Latin America.
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Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,
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Pakistan
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Penmanshiel Tunnel
Penmanshiel Tunnel is a now-disused railway tunnel near Grantshouse, Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland. It was formerly used as part of the East Coast Main Line between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Dunbar.
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Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh (, another Romanization: Phnum Pénh. literally: "Mountain Full" or more loosely "Full Mountain") is the capital and largest city of Cambodia. Located on the banks of the Mekong River, Phnom Penh has been the national capital since the French colonized Cambodia, and has grown to become the nation's center of economic activities. Phnom Penh has grown to become the industrial, commercial, cultural, tourist and historical center of Cambodia.
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Plains, Georgia
Plains is a city in Sumter County, Georgia, United States. The population was 637 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Americus Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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Poland
Poland (), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, being its most populous Slavic member.
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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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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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Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia (; ) is an island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 620 km2 (238 sq mi) and has an estimated population of 160,000. Its capital is Castries. The island nation has been the home of two Nobel laureates, Arthur Lewis and Derek Walcott. It is the nation with the second most such honorees per capita after Faroe Islands.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2009 estimated population of 815,358. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,323 people/mi² (6,688.4 people/km²). It is the most densely-settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States. San Francisco is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than 7.4 million.
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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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Somalia
Somalia ( ; ; ), officially the Republic of Somalia (, ) and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under communist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Djibouti to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, the Gulf of Aden with Yemen to the north, the Indian Ocean to the east, and Ethiopia to the west. With the longest coastline on the continent, its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands.
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Southern Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia was the name of the British colony situated north of the Limpopo River and the Union of South Africa. Since its independence and the institution of a majority African government, the area has been re-named Zimbabwe.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, , abbreviated СССР, SSSR), informally known as the Soviet Union () or Soviet Russia, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed on the territory of most of the former Russian Empire in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.
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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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St. Lucia
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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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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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Tehran
Tehran (Persian: تهران Tehrān ), is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With a population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the 21st largest city in the world.
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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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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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Uganda
The Republic of Uganda ( or ) is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, which is also bordered by Kenya and Tanzania.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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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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Uruguay
Uruguay (, ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (sometimes rendered as the Eastern Republic of Uruguay in the English language; , ), is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.4 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area. An estimated 88% of the population are of European descent.
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Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south. Its roughly northern coastline includes numerous islands in the Caribbean Sea, and in the north east borders the northern Atlantic Ocean. Caribbean islands such as Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Curaçao, Aruba and the Leeward Antilles lie near the Venezuelan coast. Venezuela's territory covers around with an estimated population of 26,414,816. Venezuela is considered a country with extremely high biodiversity, with habitats ranging from the Andes mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rainforest in the south, via extensive llanos plains and Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.
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Vienna
Vienna (; ; ) is the capital of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million (2.3 million within the metropolitan area, more than 25% of Austria's population), and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 10th largest city by population in the European Union. Vienna is host to many major international organizations such as the United Nations and OPEC.
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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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Wales
Wales ( ; pronounced ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has an estimated population of three million and is officially bilingual with the Welsh and English languages having equal status. The Welsh language is an important element of Welsh culture. Its decline has reversed over recent years, with Welsh speakers estimated to be around 20% of the population of Wales.
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Warsaw
Warsaw ( ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population as of June 2009 was estimated at 1,711,466, and the Warsaw metropolitan area at approximately 2,785,000. The city area is , with an agglomeration of (Warsaw Metro Area Obszar Metropolitalny Warszawy). Warsaw is the 9th largest city in the European Union by population.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. (), formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. Article One of the United States Constitution provides for a federal district, distinct from the states, to serve as the permanent national capital. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the federal territory until an act of Congress in 1871 established a single, unified municipal government for the whole District. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of Columbia, is known as Washington, D.C. The city shares its name with the U.S. state of Washington, which is located on the country's Pacific coast.
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Western Sahara
Western Sahara (Arabic: الصحراء الغربية, Berber: Taneẓṛuft Tutrimt, ) is a disputed territory in North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Its surface area amounts to . It is one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world, mainly consisting of desert flatlands. The population of the territory is estimated at just over 500,000, over half of whom live in El Aaiun, the largest city in Western Sahara.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical style. It has been the residence of every U.S. President since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.
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Wichita Falls, Texas
Wichita Falls is a city in and the county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States, United States. Wichita Falls is the principal city of the Wichita Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Archer, Clay and Wichita counties. According to the U.S. Census estimate of 2008, the city had a population of 101,202. In addition to Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls is also home to the "world's littlest skyscraper". Wichita Falls is sister city to Fürstenfeldbruck in Bavaria, Germany.
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Wigan
Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It stands on the River Douglas, south of Preston, west-northwest of Manchester, and east-northeast of Liverpool. Wigan is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town of Wigan had a total population of 81,203 in 2001, whilst the wider borough has a population of 305,600.
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Windsor Locks, CT
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Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg (, also romanized Ekaterinburg), formerly Sverdlovsk () is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District. Its population of which is down from 1,364,621 recorded in the 1989 Census, makes it Russia's fifth largest city. Between 1924 and 1991, the city was known as Sverdlovsk (), after the Bolshevik party leader Yakov Sverdlov.
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Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (Croatian, Serbian, Slovene: Jugoslavija; Macedonian, Serbian Cyrillic: Југославија) is a term that describes three political entities that existed successively on the western part of Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century.
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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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Zaragoza
Zaragoza (), also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It is situated on the river Ebro and its tributaries, the Huerva and Gállego, near the centre of the region, in a valley with a variety of landscapes, ranging from desert (Los Monegros) to thick forest, meadows and mountains.
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The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:22
- Published: 03 Aug 2011
- Updated: 13 Feb 2012
- Author: SmashingPumpkinsVEVO
Music video by The Smashing Pumpkins performing 1979. (P) 2006 Virgin Records America, Inc.. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Virgin Records America, Inc., 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011.
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Good Charlotte - 1979
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- Duration: 3:24
- Published: 14 Jul 2011
- Updated: 15 Feb 2012
- Author: GoodCharlotteVEVO
Music video by Good Charlotte performing 1979. (P) (C) 2011 Capitol Records, LLC. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Capitol Records, LLC, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028.
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Run (LIKE HELL) From The Cure - The Rick Simpson Story.wmv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:25
- Published: 14 Sep 2011
- Updated: 13 Feb 2012
- Author: WeSellHemp
Music by-Twisted Sister
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Good Charlotte - 1979
NOW you can see new 1979 official videoclip !!! ;)) : www.youtube.com New album from Good Charlotte Cardiology ! - 1979 + LYRICS HERE !!! 1. Introduction To Cardiology 2. Let The Music Play 3. Counting The Days 4. Silver Screen Romance 5. Like It's Her Birthday 6. Last Night 7. Sex On The Radio 8. Alive 9. Standing Ovation 10.Harlow's Song (Can't Dream Without You) 11.Interlude - The Fifth Chamber 12.1979 13.There She Goes 14.Right Where I Belong 15.Cardiology Oh oh oh, Oh oh oh Life was simple, Roger was working round the clock to make a living No computers, none of that He used his two hands Ignore the cold war His wife would keep him warm On the weekends, He'd load the car up with the kids and they'd go fishing No need to work an extra job, there's no recession Damn right he smiled a lot They lay awake at night so in love It was a good good year (oh oh oh) The kids were alright "Highway To Hell", beat up, "Staying alive" (oh oh oh) The Clash was on the radio And Mom and Dad were still in love in 1979 It was a good good year In the morning, Robyn always woke up early in the kitchen She'd make the coffee, pack his lunch and then she'd kiss him And he would hold her tight, When they were newly weds He'd say maybe, And she would laugh they knew they'd have another baby She'd slave away all day until dinner was ready And they would dance so slow, To just the way you are It was a good good year (oh oh oh) The kids were alright "Highway To Hell", beat up, "Staying alive" (oh <b>...</b>
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1979 - Smashing Pumpkins Live
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- Duration: 5:24
- Published: 29 Apr 2006
- Updated: 15 Feb 2012
- Author: alaskanbastard
The Smashing Pumpkins performing 1979 at the Budokan. 6-30-00
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Buggles - Video killed the radio star 1979
Buggles - Video killed the radio star 1979 I heard you on the wireless back in 52 lying awake intent a tuning in on you if I was young it didn't stop you coming through They took the credit for your second symphony re-written by machine and new technology and now I understand the problems you can see Oh oh -- I met your children oh oh -- what did you tell them video killed the radio star video killed the radio star pictures came and broke your heart we can't rewind we've gone too far And now we meet in an abandoned studio we hear the playback and it seems so long ago and you remember the jingle used to go Oh oh -- you were the first one oh oh -- you were the last one video killed the radio star video killed the radio star in my mind and in my car we can't rewind we've gone too far Video killed the radio star video killed the radio star in my mind and in my car we can't rewind we've gone too far (Instrumental) Video killed the radio star video killed the radio star In my mind and in my car we can't rewind we've gone too far pictures came and broke your heart look I'll play my VCR Oh radio star Oh radio star Video killed the radio star video killed the radio star video killed the radio star video killed the radio star Video killed the radio star video killed the radio star video killed the radio star video killed the radio star video killed the radio star
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Tomorrow's World: Mobile Phone 13 September 1979 - BBC
From the BBC Archive 'Tomorrow's World' collection: www.bbc.co.uk Michael Rodd makes a call with an experimental cordless mobile phone. It's 1979 and time for the telephone to go mobile. In this report from a longer programme, Michael Rodd (pictured above) examines a British prototype for a cordless telephone that allows the user to make calls from anywhere. Also included at the end of this item is a rather nice out-take as Rodd also experiences the first mobile wrong number.
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Blondie - Sunday Girl 1979
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- Duration: 2:52
- Published: 07 Nov 2006
- Updated: 13 Feb 2012
- Author: susieretrofuture
Blondie - Sunday Girl 1979
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Tragedy 1979
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- Duration: 4:58
- Published: 11 Nov 2007
- Updated: 12 Feb 2012
- Author: wirderherllme
Tragedy 1979 with karaoke this video is not mine. by the way the sound of the video is the original tragedy song and is not the version from the concert Spirit tour. I'm still searching that original video :P
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Bob marley "no woman no cry" 1979
A great performance of No Woman No Cry from Bob Marley. For the real fans!! Enjoy it!!
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The Knack - My Sharona (1979)
The first (original) uploaded clip - the Knack's song "My Sharona". The song is dedicated to Doug Fieger's (the singer) girlfriend. I don't own the copyright of this song!
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The Police - Roxanne live 1979
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- Duration: 4:21
- Published: 17 Jun 2007
- Updated: 14 Feb 2012
- Author: Iamthebloodyearth
The(very young)Police at Pinkpop 1979
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Dream Police - Cheap Trick - 1979 Promo
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- Duration: 4:53
- Published: 11 May 2009
- Updated: 15 Feb 2012
- Author: cheaptrick
Dream Police - Cheap Trick - 1979 Promo - www.cheaptrick.com
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![Coca-Cola Classic ad: Mean Joe Green [Full Version] (1979)](http://web.archive.org./web/20120316203021im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xffOCZYX6F8/0.jpg "Coca-Cola Classic ad: Mean Joe Green [Full Version] (1979)")
Coca-Cola Classic ad: Mean Joe Green [Full Version] (1979)
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- Duration: 1:02
- Published: 17 Jul 2007
- Updated: 15 Feb 2012
- Author: stiggerpao
One of the famous Coca-Cola commercial in history featuring Mean Joe Green in 1979.
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Roxy Music - Dance away 1979
Roxy Music - Dance away 1979 Yesterday - well it seemed so cool When I walked you home, kissed goodnight I said it´s love you said all right It´s funny how I could never cry Until tonight and you pass by Hand in hand with another guy You´re dressed to kill and guess who´s dying?...
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Patti Smith - Gloria (1979) Germany
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- Duration: 9:59
- Published: 14 May 2009
- Updated: 15 Feb 2012
- Author: PretzelFarmer
4/22/1979 Patti Smith Group at Rockpalast TV 01 Rock 'n' Roll Star 02 Hymn 03 Rock 'n' Roll Nigger 04 Privilege 05 Dancing Barefoot 06 Redondo Beach 07 25th Floor 08 Revenge 09 5-4-3-2-1-Wave 10 Pumpin' My Heart 11 7 Ways Of Going 12 Because The Night 13 Frederic 14 Jailhouse Rock 15 Gloria 16 My Generation
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GOODNIGHT TONIGHT - Paul McCartney & Wings - 1979
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- Duration: 4:24
- Published: 13 Mar 2008
- Updated: 16 Feb 2012
- Author: Ramblexaudio
Paul McCartney & Wings - Goodnight Tonight - Sencillo de 1979. Don't Get Too Tired For Love Don't Let It End Don't Say Goodnight To Love It May Never Be The Same Again Don't Say It! Don't Say It! Say Anything But Don't Say Goodnight Tonight Don't Say It! Don't Say It!...
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1979 NCAA Finals - Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson [Ending]
Michigan State, coached by Jud Heathcote, won the national title with a 75-64 victory in the final game over Indiana State, coached by Bill Hodges. Magic Johnson of Michigan State was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. The final game marked the beginning of the rivalry between future Hall of Famers Johnson and Larry Bird. To this day, it remains the highest-rated game in the history of televised college basketball. Both Magic and Bird would enter the NBA in the fall of 1979, and the rivalry between them and their teams (respectively, the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics) was a major factor in the league's renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s. The game also led to the "modern era" of college basketball, as it introduced a nationwide audience to a sport that was once relegated to second-class status in the sports world. This was the first tournament in which all teams were seeded by the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee. The top six seeds in each regional received byes to the second round, while seeds 7-10 played in the first round.
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Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive (Live 1979)
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- Duration: 5:06
- Published: 13 Dec 2008
- Updated: 16 Feb 2012
- Author: Ichnos71live
GLORIA GAYNOR. Her name is recognized worldwide. Her voice a dynamic force. Her Grammy Award winning signature song, I Will Survive, an inspiration that has touched the hearts of people all over the world. This September 2002, Logic Records/BMG released the highly anticipated US LP entitled I Wish You Love. This is Gloria Gaynors first worldwide release in 15 years. It will encompass 15 singles including the debut power ballad I Never Knew with dance remixes by Grammy veteran Hex Hector. Glorias depth as an artist reach new heights in several up-tempo hits including Just No Other Way and Got To Be Forever. As an added bonus track, Gloria recorded her anthem I Will Survive in Spanglish, recorded live in Brazil! In 1973, Gloria Gaynor made history as Billboard gave birth to the Disco Action Charts. Never Can Say Good-Bye bowed at #1 on the charts and became the first Dance Song to reach #1 status in dance music. 30 years later, Gloria Gaynor is still setting the standard. In March of 2001, her single, Just Keep Thinkin About You, topped the Billboard Dance/Club charts at #1, while her international hit Last Night with Giorgio Moroder debuted at #1 throughout Europe. In keeping with the theme of #1, Gloria Gaynor was the first to record an album especially for clubs, and the first to do a mega-extended dance medley party mix, releasing 12 dance singles that are now high-end collectors items. Gloria Gaynors popularity has continuously flourished into the new millennium. In <b>...</b>
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Robert John "Sad Eyes" (1979 - #1 hit)
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- Duration: 3:28
- Published: 26 Jan 2007
- Updated: 16 Feb 2012
- Author: mdonnelly1971
They don't make songs that sound like THIS these days.
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Apocalypse Now (1979) - Original Extended Trailer
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- Duration: 3:48
- Published: 16 Jan 2011
- Updated: 13 Feb 2012
- Author: thecultbox
A legendary film, without any exaggeration. Winning 2 Oscars and proving that Francis Ford Coppola was the biggest director of the last 40 years. During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe. Released on 1979 Starring: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper
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Blondie Apollo Theatre "Dreaming" 1979
Blondie performing the song "Dreaming" at Glasgow's Apollo Theatre in 1979.
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Originally published in the Guardian on 15 March 1979 In an incident that not even a publicity agent would dare to manufacture, the star of a new...(size: 1.0Kb)
>A 1979 Mars Rover Mission (1970)
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As evening settled over Baikonur Cosmodrome in Soviet Kazakhstan on November 10, 1970, a Proton rocket thundered to life and began its climb toward space. Six days later, the rocket’s payload, the automated Luna 17 moon lander, soft-landed on broad, flat Mare Imbrium. A team of five...(size: 18.5Kb)
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Back in 2002, I found myself with a couple of extra grand in my pocket and a strong desire for an automobile project. Knowing that I didn’t have enough cash for something already restored, I knew I was going to be in the market for a long term commitment. I scoured the local classifieds and internet...(size: 7.1Kb)
Man Trying To Find Owner Of 1979 Class Ring
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Fast forward this 1979 interview with Tom Waits to the 2:22 mark and hear an uncanny similarity to Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark...(size: 0.9Kb)
Iraq: oil output highest since 1979
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"Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room" by Geoff Dyer; Pantheon ($24) Imagine going to the movies but, for one reason or another, you can't see or hear anything on-screen. Fortunately, you can still experience the film with the help of a friend tugging on your sleeve excitedly and...(size: 5.1Kb)
The Pop Group: Y (Radar, 1979)
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The Pop Group was one of the most militant of all the punk in the 70s or 80s bands. They were headstrong idealists who believed and practiced, musically, functional anarchy. Their music was punk at the root but muddled with pseudo free jazz structures built on a funk base. They are usually referred...(size: 7.0Kb)
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Year 1979 (MCMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
January 1
* United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund including ABBA, who wrote the song Chiquitita, to commemorate the event.
* The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full diplomatic relations.
January 4 – The State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured in the Kent State shootings.
January 7 – Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retreat west to an area along the Thai border.
January 8 – The French tanker ''Betelgeuse'' explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at Bantry, Ireland; 50 are killed.
January 9 – The ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' is held at the United Nations General Assembly to raise money for UNICEF and promote the Year of the Child. It is broadcast the following day in the United States and around the world. Hosted by The Bee Gees, other performers include Donna Summer, ABBA, Rod Stewart and Earth, Wind & Fire. A soundtrack album is later released.
January 16 – Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran flees Iran with his family, relocating to Egypt after a year of turmoil.
January 19 – Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell is released on parole after 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama.
January 29 – Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire at a school in San Diego, California, killing 2 faculty members and wounding 8 students. Her justification for the action, "I don't like Mondays," inspired the Boomtown Rats to make a song of the same name.
February 1
* Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
* Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
February 3 – Khomeini creates the Council of the Islamic Revolution.
February 7
* Supporters of Khomeini take over the Iranian law enforcement, courts and government administration; the final session of the Iranian National Consultative Assembly is held.
* Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science.
February 10 – February 11 – The Iranian army mutinies and joins the Islamic Revolution.
February 11 – Khomeini seizes power in Iran, overthrowing Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi.
February 12 – Prime Minister Hissène Habré starts the Battle of N'Djamena in an attempt to overthrow Chad's President Félix Malloum.
February 13 – The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
February 14
* In Kabul, Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs, who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
* Following her 1972 sex reassignment surgery, musician Wendy Carlos legally changes her name from Walter. She later reveals this information in an interview in the May 1979 issue of ''Playboy'' Magazine.
February 15 – A suspected gas explosion in a Warsaw bank kills 49.
February 17 – The People's Republic of China invades northern Vietnam, launching the Sino-Vietnamese War.
February 18 – The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes.
February 22 – Saint Lucia becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
February 24 – Ethiopia recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
February 26 – A total solar eclipse arcs over northern Canada, and a partial solar eclipse is visible over almost all of North America and Central America.
February 27 – The annual Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana is canceled due to a strike called by the New Orleans Police Department.
March 1 – Scotland votes narrowly for home rule, which is not implemented, and Wales votes against it.
March 4 – The U.S. Voyager I spaceprobe photos reveal Jupiter's rings.
March 5 – Voyager I makes its closest approach to Jupiter at 172,000 miles.
March 7 – The largest Magnetar (Soft gamma repeater) event is recorded.
March 8 – Philips demonstrates Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
March 13 – Maurice Bishop leads a successful coup in Grenada.
March 14 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
March 17 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel in the U.K. collapses, killing 2 workers.
March 18 – Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan, Lancashire.
March 25 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, ''Columbia'', is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center, to be prepared for its first launch.
March 26 – In a ceremony at the White House, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel sign a peace treaty.
March 28
In Britain, Jim Callaghan's minority Labour government loses a motion of confidence by 1 vote, forcing a general election which is to be held on 3 May.
* America's most serious nuclear power plant accident, at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania.
March 29 – Sultan Yahya Petra of Kelantan, the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (Head of State) of Malaysia, dies in office. He is replaced by Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang.
March 30 – Airey Neave, World War II veteran and Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman, is killed by an Irish National Liberation Army bomb in the British House of Commons car park.
March 31
* The last British soldier (belonging to the Royal Navy) leaves the Maltese Islands, after 179 years of presence. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
* Gali Atari and Milk and Honey win the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 for Israel, with the song ''Hallelujah''.
April 1
* Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially.
* The Pinwheel Network changes its name to Nickelodeon and begins airing on various Warner Cable systems beginning in Buffalo, New York, expanding its audience reach.
April 1 – April 18 – Police lock Andreas Mihavecz in a holding cell in Bregenz, Austria, and forget about, leaving him there without food or drink.
April 2 – Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak: A Soviet biowarfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
April 10
* A tornado hits Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 42 people (the most notable of 26 tornadoes that day).
* Cambodia recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
April 11 – Tanzanian troops take Kampala, the capital of Uganda; Idi Amin flees.
April 13 – The La Soufière volcano erupts in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
April 15 – 1979 Montenegro Earthquake: A major earthquake (7.0 on the Richter scale) strikes Montenegro (then part of Yugoslavia) and parts of Albania, causing extensive damage to coastal areas and taking 136 lives; the old town of Budva is devastated.
April 17 – Schoolchildren in the Central African Empire are arrested (and around 100 killed) for protesting against compulsory school uniforms. An African judicial commission later determines that Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa "almost certainly" took part in the massacre.
April 20 – President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a swamp rabbit while fishing in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, USA.
April 22 – The Albert Einstein Memorial is unveiled at The National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.
April 23 – Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group results in the death of protestor Blair Peach.
May 1 – Greenland gets home rule.
May 4 – Counting in the previous day's British general election shows that the Conservatives have won and Margaret Thatcher becomes the country's first female prime minister.
May 8 – The Manchester, England Woolworth's in city centre is seriously damaged by fire; 10 shoppers die.
May 9
* A Unabomber bomb injures Northwestern University graduate student John Harris.
* Laos recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
May 10 – The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
May 21
* Dan White receives a light sentence for killing San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, gay men in the city riot.
* The Montréal Canadiens defeat the New York Rangers 4 games to 1 in the best-of-seven series, winning the Stanley Cup.
May 23 – Afganistan recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
May 25
* American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport, killing all 271 on board and 2 people on the ground in the deadliest aviation accident in U. S. history.
* John Spenkelink is executed in Florida, in the first use of the electric chair in America after the reintroduction of death penalty in 1976.
May 27 – Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins the race for the first time, and car owner Roger Penske for the second time.
June 1
* The Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
* The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, in succession to Ian Smith and under his power-sharing deal.
* The Seattle SuperSonics win the NBA Championship against the Washington Bullets.
June 2 – Pope John Paul II arrives in his native Poland on his first official, nine-day stay, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country. This visit, known as nine days that changed the world, brought about the solidarity of the Polish peoples against communism, ultimately leading to the rise of the Solidarity movement.
June 3
* A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional oil spill until it was surpassed by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010.
* General elections are held in Italy.
June 4
* Joe Clark becomes Canada's 16th and youngest Prime Minister.
* Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
June 7 – The first direct elections to the European Parliament begin, allowing citizens from across all then-9 European Community member states to elect 410 MEPs. It is also the first international election in history.
June 12 – Bryan Allen flies the man-powered Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel.
June 18 – Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna.
June 20 – A Nicaraguan National Guard soldier kills ABC TV news correspondent Bill Stewart and his interpreter Juan Espinosa. Other members of the news crew capture the killing on tape.
June 23 – Sydney: New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway. It operates as a shuttle between Central & Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line in 1980.
June 24 – Bologna: founding of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, an international opinion tribunal, at the initiative of Senator Lelio Basso.
June 25 – Belgium: NATO Supreme Allied Commander Alexander Haig escapes an assassination attempt by the Baader-Meinhof terrorist organization.
July 1
* Sweden outlaws corporal punishment in the home.
* The Sony Walkman goes on sale for the first time in Japan.
July 3 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
July 4 – Cape Verde recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
July 8 – Los Angeles passes its gay and lesbian civil rights bill.
July 9 – A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
July 11 – NASA's first orbiting space station ''Skylab'' begins its return to Earth, after being in orbit for 6 years and 2 months.
July 12
* Kiribati declares independence from the United Kingdom.
* A ''Disco Demolition Night'' publicity stunt goes awry at Comiskey Park, forcing the Chicago White Sox to forfeit their game against the Detroit Tigers.
* Carmine Galante, boss of the Bonanno crime family, is assassinated.
* A fire at a hotel in Saragossa, Spain leaves 72 dead. Worst hotel fire in Europe in decades.
July 16 – Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President Saddam Hussein replaces him.
July 17 – Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
July 19
* Maritza Sayalero of Venezuela wins the Miss Universe Pageant; the stage collapses after contestants and news photographers rush to her throne.
* The Sandinista National Liberation Front concludes a successful revolutionary campaign against the U.S. backed Somoza dictatorship and assumes power in Nicaragua.
* Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo becomes prime minister of Portugal
August 3 – Dictator Francisco Macías Nguema of Equatorial Guinea is overthrown in a in a bloody coup d'état lead by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
August 4 – Opening game of the ''American Football Bundesliga'' played between Frankfurter Löwen and Düsseldorf Panther, first-ever league game of American football in Germany.
August 5 – The Polisario Front signs a peace treaty with Mauritania. Mauritania withdraw from the Western Sahara territory it had occupied, and ceded it to the SADR.
August 9
* A nudist beach is established in Brighton.
* Raymond Washington, co-founder of the Crips, today one of the largest, most notorious gangs in the United States, is killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles (his killers have not yet been identified).
August 10 – Michael Jackson releases his first breakthrough album ''Off the Wall''. It sells 7 million copies in the United States alone, making it a 7x platinum album.
August 11 – The former Mauritanian province of Tiris al-Gharbiyya in Western Sahara is annexed by Morocco.
August 14 – A freak storm during the Fastnet Race results in the death of 15 sailors.
August 20 – Grenada recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
August 24 – Ghana recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
August 27 – Lord Mountbatten of Burma and 3 others are assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. He was a British admiral, statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. On the same day, the Warrenpoint ambush occurs: Provisional Irish Republican Army members attack a British convoy at Narrow Water, County Down, killing 18 British soldiers.
August 28 – The death toll of the previous day's IRA bombing reaches 5 when Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne, 83, dies in a hospital as a result of her injuries.
August 29 – A national referendum is held in which Somali voters approve a new liberal constitution, promulgated by President Siad Barre to placate the United States.
September 1
* The U.S. ''Pioneer 11'' becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn, when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
* Dominica, Guyana & St. Lucia recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
September 4 – Jamaica recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
September 6 – Nicaragua and Uganda recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
September 7 – The Entertainment Sports Programming Network, known as ESPN, debuts.
September 8 – México recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
September 9 – The long-running comic strip ''For Better or For Worse'' begins its run.
September 12 – Hurricane Frederic makes landfall at 10:00 p.m. on Alabama's Gulf Coast.
September 16 – Two families flee from East Germany by balloon.
September 20 – French paratroopers help David Dacko to overthrow Bokassa in the Central African Republic.
September 22 – The South Atlantic Flash is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
September 30 – The Hong Kong MTR begins service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka Kwun Tong Line).
October 1 – Nigeria terminates military rule, and the Nigerian Second Republic is established.
October 1 – October 6 – Pope John Paul II visits the United States.
October 3 – A EF4 Tornado hits Windsor Locks, CT causing extensive damage to the town.
October 6 – Federal Reserve System changes from an interest rate target policy to a money supply target policy.
October 9
* Peter Brock wins the Bathurst 1000 by a record 6 laps, with a lap record on the last lap.
* Lesotho recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
October 12 – Zambia recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
October 14 – A major gay rights march in the United States takes place in Washington, D.C., involving tens of thousands of people.
October 15 – Black Monday events, in which members of a political group sack a newspaper office, unfold in Malta.
October 16 – A tsunami in Nice, France kills 23 people.
October 17 – The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Baltimore Orioles in Game 7 of the World Series. Willie Stargell is named the Series MVP.
October 19 – 13 Marines die in a fire at Camp Fuji, Japan as a result of Typhoon Tip.
October 26 – Park Chung-hee, the President of South Korea, is assassinated by KCIA director Kim Jaegyu.
October 27 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains independence.
November 1 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urges his people to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand attacks on United States and Israeli interests.
November 2
* French police shoot gangster Jacques Mesrine in Paris.
* Assata Shakur (née Joanne Chesimard), a former member of Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, escapes from a New York prison to Cuba, where she remains under political asylum.
November 3 – In Greensboro, North Carolina, 5 members of the Communist Workers Party are shot to death and 7 are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis, during a "Death to the Klan" rally.
November 4 – Iran hostage crisis begins: 3,000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former Shah of Iran back to stand trial.
November 5 – The radio news program ''Morning Edition'' premieres on National Public Radio.
November 6 – At Montevideo, Uruguay, the International Olympic Committee adopts a resolution, whereby Taiwan Olympic and sports teams will participate with the name Chinese Taipei in future Olympics Games and international sports tournaments and championships.
November 7 – U.S. Senator Edward Moore Kennedy announces that he will challenge President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
November 9
The Carl Bridgewater murder trial ends with all 4 men found guilty. James Robinson, 45, and 25-year-old Vincent Hickey are sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended 25-year minimum for murder. 18-year-old Michael Hickey is also found guilty of murder and sentenced to indefinite detention. Patrick Molloy, 53, is found guilty on a lesser charge of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert was cancelled.
November 12
* Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all oil imports into the United States from Iran.
* Süleyman Demirel, of AP forms the new government of Turkey (43rd government, a minority government)
November 14 – Iran hostage crisis: U.S. President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks in response to the hostage crisis.
November 16 – Bucharest Metro Line One is opened, in Bucharest, Romania (from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea stations, 8.63 km).
November 17 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and African American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
November 20 – A group of 200 Juhayman al-Otaibi militants occupy Mecca's Grand Mosque. They are driven out by French commandos (allowed into the city under these special circumstances despite their being non-Muslims) after bloody fighting that leaves 250 people dead and 600 wounded.
November 21 – After false radio reports from the Ayatollah Khomeini that the Americans had occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing 4 (see Foreign relations of Pakistan).
November 23 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten of Burma.
November 28 – Air New Zealand Flight 901: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus (in Antarctica) on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
December 3
* Eleven fans are killed during a crowd crush for unreserved seats before The Who concert at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio.
* The United States dollar exchange rate with the Deutsche Mark falls to 1.7079 DM, the all-time low so far; this record is not broken until November 5, 1987.
December 4 – The Hastie fire in Kingston upon Hull, England, leads to the deaths of 3 boys and begins the hunt for Bruce George Peter Lee, the UK's most prolific killer.
December 5 – Jack Lynch resigns as Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland; he is succeeded by Charles Haughey.
December 6 – The world premiere for ''Star Trek: The Motion Picture'' is held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
December 9 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
December 12
* A major earthquake and tsunami kills 259 people in Colombia.
* Coup d'état of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee.
* The unrecognised state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia returns to British control and resumes using the name Southern Rhodesia.
December 21 – A ceasefire for Rhodesia is signed at London.
December 23 – The highest aerial tramway in Europe, the Klein Matterhorn, opens.
December 24
* The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
* The first European Ariane rocket is launched.
December 26 – In Rhodesia, 96 Patriotic Front guerrillas enter the capital Salisbury to monitor a ceasefire that begins December 28.
December 27 – The Soviet Union seizes control of Afghanistan, and Babrak Karmal replaces overthrown and executed President Hafizullah Amin.
The One Child Policy is introduced in China - it has since prevented about 400 million births.
VisiCalc becomes the first commercial spreadsheet program.
The first usenet experiments are conducted by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis of Duke University.
Worldwide per capita oil production reaches an historic peak.
McDonald's introduces the Happy Meal in June.
Lego's golden age begins.
Chrysler receives government loan guarantees upon the request of CEO Lee Iacocca.
January 1
* Brody Dalle, Australian singer
* Koichi Domoto, Japanese entertainer (KinKi Kids)
January 2
* Morena Baccarin, Italo-Brazilian actress
* Erica Hubbard, American actress
January 3 – Francesco Bellissimo, Italian Chef
January 4 – Charity Rahmer, American actress
January 6 – Bernice Liu, Hong Kong actress
January 7 – Bipasha Basu, Indian actress and model
January 8 – Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian football goalkeeper
January 9 – Jake Shields, UFC fighter
January 10
* Chris Smith, American rapper (Kris Kross)
* James Lloyd, British actor
January 11 – Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer
January 12
* Marián Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player
* Lee Bo-young, South Korean actress and model
* Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
January 14 – Julius Kay, Ugandan Radio Presenter and Journalist
January 15
* Drew Brees, American football player
January 16 – Aaliyah, American R&B; singer/actress (d. 2001)
January 17 – Sharon Chan, Hong Kong actress
January 18
* Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer, song producer and actor
* Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
January 20 – Asaka Kubo, Japanese gravure idol
January 21 – Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union player
January 23 – Larry Hughes, American basketball player
January 24 – Tatyana Ali, American actress
January 27
* Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer
* Rosamund Pike, British actress
January 29 – BJ Flores, American boxer
January 31 – Jenny Wolf, German speed skater
February 1 – Julie Augustyniak, American footballer
February 2
* Yuichi Tsuchiya, Japanese actor
* Fani Halkia, Greek athlete
February 8 – Martin Rowlands, Irish footballer
February 9
* Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and model
* Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
February 11 – Brandy Norwood, American singer and actress
February 12
* Richard Barnwell, English footballer
* Antonio Chatman, American football player
* Jesse Spencer, Australian actor
February 13
* Anders Behring Breivik, Norwegian right-wing terrorist
* Mena Suvari, American actress
* Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer
February 15 – Gordon Shedden, Scottish race car driver
February 16 – Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer
February 18 – Tyrone Burton, American actor
February 19 – Mariana Ochoa, Mexican singer and actress
February 21
* Carly Colón, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
* Christopher Hayes, American Journalist
* Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and singer
February 22 – Patrick Merrill, Canadian lacrosse player
February 25 – László Bodnár, Hungarian footballer
February 28 – Sébastien Bourdais, French racing driver
March 4
* Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist
* Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
* John Lawler (John Fratelli), Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
March 5 – Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
March 6 – Érik Bédard, Canadian pitcher
March 8 – Tom Chaplin, British singer (Keane)
March 9 – Melina Perez, American professional wrestler
March 11 – Benji Madden and Joel Madden, American musicians (Good Charlotte)
March 12 – Pete Doherty, British singer and guitarist (The Libertines, Babyshambles)
March 14
* Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
* Gao Ling, Chinese badminton player
March 15 – Kevin Youkilis, American baseball player
March 17 – Samoa Joe, American wrestler
March 18 – Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5)
March 19 – Hedo Türkoğlu, Turkish basketball player
March 20
* Freema Agyeman, British actress
* Molly Jenson, American musician
March 23 – Bryan Fletcher, American football player
March 25
* Lee Pace, American actor
* Natasha Yi, Korean-American actress and model
* Traxamillion, American producer rapper
* Gorilla Zoe, American rapper
March 29 – Estela Giménez, Spanish gymnast
March 30 – Norah Jones, American musician
April 3
* Grégoire, French singer-songwriter
* Zivile Balciunaite, Lithuanian long-distance runner
April 4 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)
April 8 – Alexi Laiho, Finnish rock guitarist (Children of Bodom)
April 9
* Keshia Knight Pulliam, American actress
* Mario Matt, Austrian alpine skier
* Ben Silverstone, British actor
April 10
* Rachel Corrie, American activist (d. 2003)
* Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese entertainer (KinKi Kids)
* Sophie Ellis-Bextor, British singer
April 11
* Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
* Sebastien Grainger, Canadian singer and musician
April 12
* Claire Danes, American actress
* Jennifer Morrison, American actress
April 13 – Baron Davis, American basketball player
April 14
* Pierre Roland, Indonesian actor
* Rebecca DiPietro, American model
April 16 – Christijan Albers, Dutch racing driver
April 17 – Sung Si Kyung, South Korean pop/ballad singer
April 18
* Kourtney Kardashian, American reality television star
* Michael Bradley, American basketball player
* Yusuke Kamiji, Japanese actor
* Anthony Davidson, English racing driver
April 19
* Kate Hudson, American actress
* Antoaneta Stefanova, Bulgarian chess player
April 21 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor
April 22 – Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair)
April 23
* Lauri Ylönen, Finnish singer (The Rasmus)
* Jaime King, American actress
* Yana Gupta, Indian actress of Czech origin
April 24 – Laurentia Tan, Singaporean Paralympic equestrienne
April 25 – Andreas Kuettel, Swiss ski jumper
April 26 – Janne Wirman, Finnish keyboardist (Children of Bodom)
April 27 – Travis Meeks, American musician (Days of the New)
April 28 – Bahram Radan, Iranian actor
May 1 – Mauro Bergamasco, Italian rugby union player
May 2 – Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player
May 4
* Wes Butters, English broadcaster
* Lance Bass, American singer
May 6
* Kerry Ellis, English stage actress/singer
* Gerd Kanter, Estonian discus thrower
May 9
* Rosario Dawson, American actress
* Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician
May 10 – Lee Hyori, South Korean entertainer
May 12 – Adrian Serioux, Canadian soccer player
May 13 – Carl Philip, Prince of Sweden
May 14 – Urijah Faber, WEC Featherweight Champion
May 16 – Jessica Morris, American actress
May 18 – Mariusz Lewandowski, Polish footballer
May 19
* Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
* Diego Forlan, Urguayan football player
May 22 – Maggie Q, American actress
May 23 – Matt Flynn, drummer for the alternative band, Maroon 5
May 24
* Frank Mir, American mixed martial artist
* Tracy McGrady, American basketball player
May 25 – Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby union player
May 26 – Ashley Massaro, American wrestler and model
May 28 – Jesse Bradford, American actor
May 29 – Brian Kendrick, American wrestler
May 30 – Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
June 5 – Pete Wentz, American musician and lyricist
June 8 – Pete Orr, Canadian baseball player
June 9 – Émilie Loit, French tennis player
June 12
* Dallas Clark, American football player
* Jodie Prenger, British actress
* Robyn, Swedish singer-songwriter
* Diego Milito, Argentine football player
June 13 – Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
June 14 – Paradorn Srichaphan, Thai tennis player
June 15 – Yulia Nestsiarenka, Belarusian athlete
June 16 – Ari Hest, American singer-songwriter
June 18
* Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter
* Chris Neil, Canadian ice hockey player
* Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
June 19
* John Duddy, Irish boxer
* Kate Tsui, Hong Kong actress
June 22 – Sandra Klösel, German tennis player
June 23 – LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
June 24
* Craig Shergold, British cancer patient
* Petra Nemcova, Czech model
June 26 – Ryan Tedder, American singer (OneRepublic)
June 28
* Randy McMichael, American football player
* Felicia Day, American actress, writer, director, violinist, and singer
June 29 – Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
June 30
* Rick Gonzalez, American actor
* Faisal Shahzad, Pakistani-American bomber
July 1 – Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial arts fighter
July 2
* Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer
* Ayiesha Woods, American singer
July 3
* Sayuri Katayama, Japanese actress, singer and lyricist
* Ludivine Sagnier, French model and actress
July 5
* Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
* Shane Filan, Irish singer (Westlife)
July 7 – Gucci Mane, American rapper
July 9 – Ella Koon, Hong Kong actress
July 14 – Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier
July 15 – Travis Fimmel, Australian fashion model and actor
July 16 – Kinya Kotani, Japanese singer
July 17 – Mike Vogel, American Actor
July 18 – Rick Baxter, American politician
July 21 – David Carr, American football player
July 24
* Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress
* Stat Quo, American rapper
* Rose Byrne, Australian actress
July 26
* Johnson Beharry, British recipient of the Victoria Cross
* Derek Paravicini, British pianist
* Tamyra Gray, American singer
* Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
July 27
* Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
* Shannon Moore, American professional wrestler
July 30
* Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish professional golfer
* Show Luo, Taiwanese singer
August 1
* Honeysuckle Weeks, British actress
* Jason Momoa, American actor
August 3 – Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress
August 5 – David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
August 4 – Patryk Dominik Sztyber, Polish metal musician
August 7 – Wendy van der Plank, English actress
August 8 – Azumi Kawashima, Japanese idol and AV idol
August 10
* Joanna Garcia, American actress
* Ted Geoghegan, American screenwriter
August 11 – Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
August 12 – Cindy Klassen, Canadian speed skater
August 13 – Taizō Sugimura, Japanese politician
August 15 – Dan Marshall, Canadian hockey player
August 16 – Sarah Balabagan, Filipina prisoner and singer
August 19 – Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
August 22 – Matt Walters, American football player
August 24 – Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer
August 26
* Jamal Lewis, American football player
* Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
August 27
* Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker/actor
* Tian Liang, Chinese diver
August 28
* Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
* Yuki Maeda, Japanese singer
August 29 – Justine Pasek, Miss Universe 2002
August 30
* Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress
* Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress
August 31
* Mickie James, American professional wrestler
* Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian film composer
* Simon Neil, Scottish Musician (vocalist, guitarist, songwriter), Biffy Clyro Marmaduke Duke
September 1 – Neg Dupree, British comedian
September 2 – Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor
September 3 – Julio Cesar, Brazilian football goalkeeper
September 4 – Maxim Afinogenov, Russian ice hockey player
September 5
* John Carew, Norwegian footballer
* Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
September 6 – Ned Collette, Australian singer and musician
September 8 – Pink, American singer
September 10
* Andreas Aniko, Estonian footballer
* Mustis, Norwegian pianist
September 12 – Jay McGraw, American author, son of TV psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw
September 13 – Ivan Miljković, Serbian volleyball player
September 14
* Stuart Fielden, English rugby league player
* Kamya Panjabi, Indian television actress
September 15
* Amy Davidson, American actress
* Edna Ngeringway Kiplagat, Kenyan long-distance runner
September 16 – Fanny, French singer
September 17 – Akin Ayodele, American football player
September 18 – Alison Lohman, American actress
September 19 – Noémie Lenoir, French supermodel
September 20 – David Long, New Zealand musician
September 23 – Lote Tuqiri, Australian rugby union player
September 24
* Justin Bruening, American actor and model
* Erin Chambers, American actress
September 25 – Rashad Evans a fighter in the MMA sport UFC
September 26 – Naomichi Marufuji, Japanese professional wrestler
September 27 – Shinji Ono, Japanese football player
September 28 – Bam Margera, American skateboarder
September 29 – Artika Sari Devi, Putri Indonesia 2004
September 30 – Vince Chong, Malaysian singer
October 1
* Rudi Johnson, American football player
* Marko Stanojevic, English-born Italian rugby union player
October 3
* John Hennigan, American professional wrestler
* Matt Davis, American stand-up comedian
October 4 – Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
October 7
* Tang Wei, Chinese actress
* Susan Eldridge, American supermodel
October 9
* Vernon Fox, American football player
* Brandon Routh, American actor
October 10
* Mýa, American singer and actress
* Wu Chun, Bruneian actor, model, and singer
* Nicolas Massu, Chilean tennis player
October 11 – Gabe Saporta, Uruguayan singer (Cobra Starship)
October 13
* Ryan Malcolm, Canadian singer
* Mamadou Niang, Senegalese footballer
October 16 – Erin Brown, American actress
October 17 – Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
October 18 – Ne-Yo, American singer and songwriter
October 19 – Marc Elliott, British actor
October 20
* Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby union player
* John Krasinski, American actor
October 21
*Anthony Jay, Inter-A Teacher
October 23 – Jorge Solis, Mexican professional boxer
October 28 – Martin Skoula, Czech ice hockey player
October 30 – Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
November 1
* Coco Crisp, American baseball player
* Milan Dudić, Serbian footballer
November 3
* Tim McIlrath, American rock singer, songwriter (Rise Against)
* Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
November 4 – Audrey Hollander, American pornographic actress
November 6
* Lamar Odom, American basketball player
* Myolie Wu, Hong Kong actress
November 7 – Jon Peter Lewis, American singer and songwriter
November 8 – Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
November 9 – Dania Ramirez, Dominican-American actress
November 12
* Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
* Matt Stevic, Australian rules football umpire
November 13 – Ron Artest, American basketball player
November 14
* Mavie Hörbiger, German actress
* Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian model and actress
* Mpule Kwelagobe, Miss Universe 1999
November 17 – Matthew Spring, English footballer
November 19 – Larry Johnson, American football player
November 20 – Ericson Alexander Molano, Colombian gospel singer
November 21 – Kim Dong Wan, South Korean singer and actor
November 22
* Mohammad Tanzeel-ul-siddiqi al-husaini, Pakistani author
* Chris Doran, Irish singer
November 23
* Ivica Kostelic, Croatian alpine skier
* Kelly Brook, English actress/model
November 27
* Ricky Carmichael, American motorcycle and stock car racer
* Hilary Hahn, American violinist
November 28
* Jamie Korab, Canadian curler
* Hakeem Seriki, American rapper (Chamillionaire)
November 29 – Jayceon Taylor, American rapper (The Game)
December 3
* Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor and singer
* Rock Cartwright, American football player
* Daniel Bedingfield, English pop singer and songwriter
December 5 – Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer
December 7
* Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress
* Sara Bareilles, American singer, songwriter and pianist
December 8 – Raymond Lam, Hong Kong actor
December 9 – Olivia Lufkin, English-Japanese singer, songwriter
December 11 – Rider Strong, American Actor
December 14 – Michael Owen, English footballer
December 15 – Adam Brody, American actor
December 16
* Trevor Immelman, South African golfer
* Flo Rida, American rapper
December 17
* William Green, American football player
* Matt Murley, American hockey player
December 18 – Amy Grabow, American actress
December 19
* Kevin Devine, American songwriter and musician
* Paola Rey, Colombian actress and model
December 23
* Summer Altice, American model and actress
* Kenny Miller, Scottish football player
December 25
* Ferman Akgül, vocalist of Turkish nu-metal band maNga
December 26
* Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper
* Chris Daughtry, American singer and guitarist
December 27 – Carson Palmer, American football player
December 28
* James Blake, American tennis pro
* Diego Luna, Mexican actor
December 30 – Milana Terloeva, Chechen journalist and author
December 31
* Elaine Cassidy, Irish actress
* Bob Bryar, American drummer (My Chemical Romance)
January 3 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
January 4 – Vincent Korda, Hungarian art director (b. 1897)
January 5
* Charles Mingus, American musician (b. 1922)
* Billy Bletcher, American actor (b. 1894)
January 8 – Sara Carter, American bluegrass and country singer (b. 1898)
January 11 – Jack Soo, Japanese-American actor (b. 1917)
January 13 – Donny Hathaway, African-American musician (''Where Is The Love?'') (b. 1945)
January 16
* Peter Butterworth, English actor (b.1919)
* Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
January 25 – Robertson Hare, English actor (b.1891)
January 26 – Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York, Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)
February 2
* Sid Vicious, English musician (''Sex Pistols'') (drug overdose) (b. 1957)
* Issa Pliyev, Soviet general (b. 1903)
February 3 – Aaron Douglas, American painter (b. 1899)
February 7 – Josef Mengele, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)
February 9 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
February 10 – Edvard Kardelj, Yugoslav communist political leader, economist, partisan and publicist (b. 1910)
February 12 – Jean Renoir, French film director (b. 1894)
February 14 – Reginald Maudling, British politician (b. 1917)
February 15 – George Dunning, cartoon director and animator (b. 1920)
February 17 – William Gargan, American actor (b. 1905)
February 22 – Sigrid Schauman, Finnish painter (b. 1877)
February 23 – W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (b. 1900)
March 1
* Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician (b. 1903)
* Dolores Costello, American actress (b. 1903)
March 11 – Victor Kilian, American actor (b. 1891)
March 15 – Léonide Massine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1896)
March 19 – Richard Beckinsale, British actor (b. 1947)
March 22 – Ben Lyon, American actor (b. 1901)
March 23 – Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
March 24 – Yvonne Mitchell, English actress (b. 1915)
March 26 – Jean Stafford, American writer (b. 1915)
March 28 – Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
March 29 – Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, King of Malaysia (b. 1917)
March 30
* Airey Neave, British politician (assassinated) (b. 1916)
* Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, former President of Ecuador (b. 1893)
April 1 – Barbara Luddy, American actress (b. 1908)
April 4
* Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (executed) (b. 1928)
* Edgar Buchanan, American actor (b. 1903)
April 10 – Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)
April 23 – Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-Nazi campaigner (killed by police) (b. 1946)
April 24 – John Carroll, American actor (b. 1906)
May 2 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
May 6 – Milton Ager, American songwriter (b. 1893)
May 11
* Joan Chandler, American actress (b. 1923)
* Lester Flatt, American bluegrass and folk singer (b. 1914)
* Barbara Hutton, American socialite (b. 1912)
May 16
* Robert Florey, French screenwriter (b. 1900)
* A. Philip Randolph, African-American civil rights leader (b. 1889)
May 22 – Kurt Jooss, German dancer and choreographer (b. 1901)
May 26 – George Brent, Irish actor (b. 1899)
May 29 – Mary Pickford, Canadian actress and studio founder (b. 1892)
June 1
* Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1904)
* Ján Kadár, Czechslovakian film director (b. 1918)
* Jack Mulhall, American actor (b. 1887)
June 2 – Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
June 4 – Lazar Lagin, Soviet satirical and children's writer (b.1903)
June 6 – Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898)
June 11 – John Wayne, American actor (''The Searchers'', ''True Grit'') (b. 1907)
June 13 – Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1930)
June 14 – Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer and composer (b. 1946)
June 16 – Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
June 17 – Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (b. 1888)
June 19 – Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
June 21 – Angus MacLise, American rock percussionist (''Velvet Underground'') (b. 1938)
June 22 – Louis Chiron, Monacan Grand Prix driver (b. 1899)
June 25 – Dave Fleischer, American animator (b. 1894)
June 29 – Lowell George, American rock musician (''Little Feat'') (b. 1945)
July 3 – Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
July 8
* Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
* Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
* Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
July 9 – Roddy McMillan, Scottish actor (b. 1923)
July 10 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (''Boston Pops'') (b. 1894)
July 12 – Minnie Riperton, American R&B; singer (''Lovin' You'') (b. 1947)
July 13
* Corinne Griffith, American actress (b. 1894)
* Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (1913)
July 15 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican President (b. 1911)
July 16 – Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
July 22
* Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
* Hope Summers, American actress (b. 1896)
July 28 – George Seaton, American screenwriter and director (b. 1911)
July 29 – Bill Todman, American game show producer (b. 1916)
August 2
* Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician, founder of the APRA Party (b. 1895)
* Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
August 3 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
August 6 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
August 9 – Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (b. 1903)
August 10 – Dick Foran, American actor (b. 1910)
August 12 – Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b. 1906)
August 16 – John Diefenbaker, Canadian Prime Minister (b. 1895)
August 17 – Vivian Vance, American actress (b. 1909)
August 19
* Mary Millington, British porn star (b. 1945)
* Joel Teitelbaum, Hungarian Rebbe (b. 1887)
August 20 – Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer (b. 1922)
August 22 – James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
August 24 – Hanna Reitsch, German aviator (b. 1912)
August 25 – Stan Kenton, American jazz pianist (b. 1911)
August 26 – Alvin Karpis, last of America's depression era criminals. (b. 1907)
August 27 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British Viceroy of India (assassinated) (b. 1900)
August 31 – Sally Rand, American dancer (b. 1904)
September 1 – Doris Kenyon, American actress (b. 1897)
September 2 – Felix Aylmer, British actor (b. 1889)
September 4 – Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (b. 1904)
September 5 – Alberto di Jorio, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1884)
September 6 – Guy Bolton, British playwright (b. 1884)
September 7 – Alan Browning, English actor (b. 1926)
September 8 – Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
September 9 – Norrie Paramor, British music producer (b. 1914)
September 10 – Agostinho Neto, Angolan nationalist (b. 1922)
September 14 – Nur Muhammad Taraki, President of Afghanistan (b. 1917)
September 20
* Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, King of Malaysia (b. 1907)
* Ludvík Svoboda, president of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
September 22 – Abul Ala Maududi, Pakistani journalist and philosopher (b. 1903)
September 24 – Carl Laemmle, Jr., American film studio executive (b. 1908)
September 26
* John Cromwell, American film director and actor (b. 1887)
* Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (b. 1911)
September 27
* Gracie Fields, British actress (b. 1898)
* Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish Guitarist (Paul McCartney & Wings) (b. 1953)
September 28 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b. 1921)
September 29 – Francisco Macías Nguema, first president of Equatorial Guinea (executed) (b. 1924)
October 1
* Dorothy Arzner, American film director (b. 1897)
* Roy Harris, American composer (b. 1898)
October 3 – Claudia Jennings, American model (b. 1949)
October 6 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (b. 1911)
October 10 – Dr Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
October 12 – Katharine Blodgett, American Scientist and inventor (b. 1898)
October 13
* Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (b. 1886)
* Clarence Muse, American actor (b. 1889)
* Archibald Roosevelt, American conservative political activist, son of President Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1894)
October 16 – Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
October 17 – S.J. Perelman, American humorist (b. 1904)
October 22 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b. 1887)
October 26 – Park Chung-Hee, President of South Korea (b. 1917)
October 30
* Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer (b. 1887)
* Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
November 1 – Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (b. 1896)
November 5 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
November 6 – Chick Evans, American golf champion (b. 1890)
November 11 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian film composer (b. 1894)
November 17 – Immanuel Velikovsky, Russian author and psychiatrist (b. 1895)
November 21
* Marie Byles, Australian conservationist (b. 1900)
* Paul Wexler, American actor (b. 1929)
November 23 – Merle Oberon, British actress (b. 1911)
November 29 – Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
December 3 – Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (b. 1905)
December 10 – Ann Dvorak, American actress (b. 1911)
December 13 – Jon Hall, American actor (b. 1915)
December 15 – Ethel Lackie, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1907)
December 22 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer (b. 1902)
December 23 – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b. 1898)
December 25
* Joan Blondell, American actress (b. 1906)
* Jordi Bonet, Canadian artist (b. 1932)
* Lee Bowman, American actor (b. 1914)
December 27 – Hafizullah Amin, General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)
December 30 – Richard Rodgers, American composer (b. 1902)
Dave Line, British author
Physics – Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg
Chemistry – Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig
Medicine – Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield
Literature – Odysseas Elytis
Peace – Mother Teresa
Economics – Theodore Schultz, Arthur Lewis
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| Coordinates | 41°52′55″N87°37′40″N |
|---|---|
| name | The Cure |
| background | group_or_band |
| origin | Crawley, England |
| genre | Alternative rock, gothic rock, New Wave, post-punk |
| years active | 1976–present |
| label | Fiction, Suretone, Geffen, Polydor, Elektra, Asylum, Sire|, Warner |
| associated acts | Malice, Easy Cure, The Glove, Siouxsie and the Banshees |
| website | |
| current members | Robert SmithSimon Gallup Porl Thompson Jason Cooper |
| past members | Michael DempseyMatthieu HartleyPhil ThornalleyAndy AndersonBoris WilliamsPerry Bamonte Lol Tolhurst Roger O'Donnell }} |
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member. The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970s with its debut album ''Three Imaginary Boys'' (1979); this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the post-punk and New Wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom. During the early 1980s, the band's increasingly dark and tormented music helped form the gothic rock genre.
After the release of ''Pornography'' (1982), the band's future was uncertain and Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had acquired. With the 1982 single "Let's Go to Bed" Smith began to place a pop sensibility into the band's music (as well as a unique stage look). The Cure's popularity increased as the decade wore on, especially in the United States where the songs "Just Like Heaven", "Lovesong" and "Friday I'm in Love" entered the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. By the start of the 1990s, The Cure were one of the most popular alternative rock bands in the world. The band is estimated to have sold 27 million albums as of 2004. The Cure have released thirteen studio albums and over thirty singles during the course of their career.
History
Formation and early years (1973–1979)
The first incarnation of what became The Cure was The Obelisk, a band formed by students at Notre Dame Middle School in Crawley, Sussex. The band made their public debut in a one-off performance in April 1973, and featured Robert Smith (piano), Michael "Mick" Dempsey (guitar), Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst (percussion), Marc Ceccagno (lead guitar) and Alan Hill (bass guitar). The first real incarnation though came in January 1976 when Ceccagno formed Malice with Smith and Dempsey along with two other classmates from St. Wilfrid's Catholic Comprehensive School, with Ceccagno on lead, Smith on guitar, and Dempsey switching to bass. Ceccagno soon left, however, to form a jazz-rock fusion band called Amulet. Increasingly influenced by the emergence of punk rock, Malice's remaining members became known as Easy Cure in January 1977. By this time, Smith and Dempsey had been joined by Lol Tolhurst from The Obelisk on drums, and new lead guitarist Porl Thompson. Both Malice and Easy Cure also trialled several unsuccessful vocalists before Smith finally assumed the role of Easy Cure's frontman in September 1977.That year, Easy Cure won a talent competition with German label Hansa Records, and received a recording contract. Although the band recorded tracks for the company, none were ever released. Following disagreements in March 1978 over the direction the band should take, the contract with Hansa was dissolved. Smith later recalled, "We were very young. They just thought they could turn us into a teen group. They actually wanted us to do cover versions and we always refused." Thompson was dropped from the band in May, and the remaining trio (Smith/Tolhurst/Dempsey) were soon renamed The Cure by Smith. Later that month the band recorded their first sessions as a trio at Chestnut Studios in Sussex, which were distributed as a demo tape to a dozen major record labels. The demo found its way to Polydor Records scout Chris Parry, who signed The Cure to his newly formed Fiction label—distributed by Polydor—in September 1978. However, as a stopgap while Fiction finalised distribution arrangements with Polydor, in December 1978 The Cure released their debut single "Killing an Arab" on the Small Wonder label. "Killing an Arab" garnered both acclaim and controversy: while the single's provocative title led to accusations of racism, the song is actually based on French existentialist Albert Camus' novel ''The Stranger''. The band placed a sticker label that denied the racist connotations on the single's 1979 reissue on Fiction. An early ''NME'' article on the band wrote that The Cure "are like a breath of fresh suburban air on the capital's smog-ridden pub and club circuit" and noted "With a John Peel session and more extensive London gigging on their immediate agenda, it remains to be seen whether or not The Cure can retain their refreshing ''joie de vivre''."
The Cure released their debut album ''Three Imaginary Boys'' in May 1979. Due to the band's inexperience in the studio, Parry and engineer Mike Hedges took control of the recording. The band, particularly Smith, were unhappy with their debut; in a 1987 interview, he admitted, "a lot of it was very superficial – I didn't even like it at the time. There were criticisms made that it was very lightweight, and I thought they were justified. Even when we'd made it, I wanted to do something that I thought had more substance to it". The band's second single "Boys Don't Cry" was released in June. The Cure then embarked as the support band for Siouxsie & The Banshees' ''Join Hands'' promotional tour of England, Northern Ireland, and Wales between August and October. The tour saw Smith and Tolhurst pull double duty each night by performing with The Cure and as the guitarist / drummer with The Banshees when their guitarist John McKay and drummer Kenny Morris both walked out on the group just two days into the tour. That musical experience had a strong impact on him: "On stage that first night with the Banshees, I was blown away by how powerful I felt playing that kind of music. It was so different to what we were doing with The Cure. Before that, I'd wanted us to be like The Buzzcocks or Elvis Costello, the punk Beatles. Being a Banshee really changed my attitude to what I was doing."
The Cure's third single "Jumping Someone Else's Train" was released in early October 1979. Soon afterwards, Dempsey was dropped from the band due to his cold reception to material Smith had written for the upcoming album. Dempsey joined the Associates, while Simon Gallup (bass) and Matthieu Hartley (keyboards) from The Magspies joined The Cure. The Associates toured as support band for The Cure and The Passions on the ''Future Pastimes Tour'' of England between November and December—all three bands were on the Fiction Records roster—with the new Cure line-up already performing a number of new songs for the projected second album. Meanwhile, a spin-off band comprising Smith, Tolhurst, Dempsey, Gallup, Hartley and Thompson, with backing vocals from assorted family and friends, and lead vocals provided by their local postman Frankie Bell released a 7-inch single in December under the assumed name of Cult Hero.
Gothic phase (1980–1982)
Wary, due to the band's lack of creative control on the first album, Smith exerted a greater influence on the recording of The Cure's second album ''Seventeen Seconds'', which he co-produced with Mike Hedges. The album was released in 1980 and reached number 20 on the UK charts. A single from the album, "A Forest", became the band's first UK hit single, reaching number 31 on the singles chart. The album was a departure from The Cure's sound up to that point, with Hedges describing it as "morose, atmospheric, very different to ''Three Imaginary Boys''." In its review of ''Seventeen Seconds'' the ''NME'' said, "For a group as young as The Cure, it seems amazing that they have covered so much territory in such a brief time." At the same time, Smith was pressed concerning the concept of an alleged "anti-image". Smith told the press he was fed up with the anti-image association that some considered to be "elaborately disguising their plainness", stating, "We had to get away from that anti-image thing, which we didn't even create in the first place. And it seemed like we were trying to be more obscure. We just didn't like the standard rock thing. The whole thing really got out of hand." That same year ''Three Imaginary Boys'' was repackaged for the American market as ''Boys Don't Cry'', with new artwork and a modified tracklist. The Cure set out on their first world tour to promote both releases. At the end of the tour, Matthieu Hartley left the band. Hartley said, "I realised that the group was heading towards suicidal, sombre music—the sort of thing that didn't interest me at all."The band reconvened with Hedges to produce their third album ''Faith'' (1981), which furthered the mood of misery present on ''Seventeen Seconds''. The album peaked at number 14 on the UK charts. Included with cassette copies of ''Faith'' was an instrumental soundtrack for ''Carnage Visors'', an animated film shown in place of an opening act for the band's 1981 Picture Tour. In late 1981, The Cure released the non-album single "Charlotte Sometimes". By this point, the sombre mood of the music had a profound effect on the attitude of the band. The band would refuse requests for older songs in concert, and sometimes Smith would be so absorbed by the persona he projected onstage he would leave at the end in tears.
In 1982, The Cure recorded and released ''Pornography'', the third and final album of an "oppressively dispirited" trio that cemented the Cure's stature as purveyors of the emerging gothic rock genre. Smith has said that during the recording of ''Pornography'' he was "undergoing a lot of mental stress. But it had nothing to do with the group, it just had to do with what I was like, my age and things. I think I got to my worst round about ''Pornography''. Looking back and getting other people's opinions of what went on, I was a pretty monstrous sort of person at that time". Gallup described the album by saying, "Nihilism took over [. . .] We sang 'It doesn't matter if we all die' and that is exactly what we thought at the time." Parry was concerned that the album did not have a hit song for radio play and instructed Smith and producer Phil Thornalley to polish the track "The Hanging Garden" for release as a single. Despite the concerns about the album's uncommercial sound, ''Pornography'' became the band's first UK Top 10 album, charting at number eight. The release of ''Pornography'' was followed by the Fourteen Explicit Moments tour, where the band finally dropped the anti-image angle and first adopted their signature look of big, towering hair and smeared lipstick on their faces. The tour also saw a series of incidents that prompted Simon Gallup to leave The Cure at the tour's conclusion. Gallup and Smith did not talk to each other for eighteen months following his departure.
Increasing commercial success (1983–1986)
With Gallup's departure from The Cure and with Smith's work with Siouxsie & the Banshees, rumours spread that The Cure had broken up. In December 1982, Smith remarked to ''Melody Maker'', "Do The Cure really exist any more? I've been pondering that question myself [. . .] it has got to a point where I don't fancy working in that format again." He added, "Whatever happens, it won't be me, Laurence, and Simon together any more. I know that."Parry was concerned at the state of his label's top band, and became convinced that the solution was for The Cure to reinvent its musical style. Parry managed to convince Smith and Tolhurst of the idea; Parry said, "It appealed to Robert because he wanted to destroy The Cure anyway." With Tolhurst now playing keyboards instead of drums, the duo released the single "Let's Go to Bed" in late 1982. While Smith wrote the single off as a throwaway, "stupid" pop song to the press, it became a minor hit in the UK, reaching number 44 on the singles chart. It was followed in 1983 by two more successful songs: the synthesiser-based "The Walk" (number 12), and the jazz-influenced "The Lovecats", which became the band's first British Top 10 hit, reaching number seven. The group released these studio singles and their B-sides as the compilation album ''Japanese Whispers'', designed by Smith for the Japanese market only, but released worldwide on the decision of the record company. The same year, Smith also recorded and toured with Siouxsie & the Banshees, contributing as guitarist on their ''Nocturne'' live video and their ''Hyaena'' studio album. Meanwhile, he recorded the ''Blue Sunshine'' album with Banshees bassist Steven Severin as The Glove, while Lol Tolhurst produced the first two singles and debut album of the English band And Also The Trees.
In 1984, The Cure released ''The Top'', a generally psychedelic album on which Smith played all the instruments except the drums—played by Andy Anderson—and the saxophone—played by returnee Porl Thompson. The album was a Top 10 hit in the UK, and was their first studio album to break the ''Billboard'' 200 in the U.S., reaching number 180. ''Melody Maker'' praised the album as "psychedelia that can't be dated", while pondering, "I've yet to meet anyone who can tell me why The Cure are having hits now of all times." The Cure then embarked on their worldwide "Top Tour" with Thompson, Anderson, and producer-turned-bassist Phil Thornalley on board. Released in late 1984, The Cure's first live album, ''Concert'' consisted of performances from this tour. Near the tour's end, Anderson was fired for destroying a hotel room and was replaced by Boris Williams. Thornalley also left due to the rigors of the road. However, the bassist slot was not vacant long, for a Cure roadie named Gary Biddles had brokered a reunion between Smith and former bassist Simon Gallup, who had been playing in the band Fools Dance. Soon after reconciling, Smith asked Gallup to rejoin the band. Smith was ecstatic about Gallup's return and declared to ''Melody Maker'', "It's a group again."
In 1985, the new line-up of Smith, Tolhurst, Gallup, Thompson, and Williams released ''The Head on the Door'', an album which managed to bind together the optimistic and pessimistic aspects of the band's music that they had previously shifted between. ''The Head on the Door'' reached number seven in the UK and was the band's first entry into American Top 75 at number 59, a success partly due to the international impact of the LP's two singles, "In Between Days" and "Close to Me". Following the album and world tour, the band released the singles compilation ''Standing on a Beach'' in three formats (each with a different track listing and a specific name) in 1986. This compilation made the US Top 50, and saw the re-issue of three previous singles: "Boys Don't Cry" (in a new form), "Let's Go To Bed" and later "Charlotte Sometimes". This release was accompanied by a VHS or LaserDisc called ''Staring at the Sea'', which featured videos for each track on the compilation. The Cure toured to support the compilation and released a live concert VHS of the show, filmed in the south of France called ''The Cure in Orange''. During this time, The Cure became a very popular band in Europe (particularly in France, Germany and the Benelux countries) and increasingly popular in the U.S.
''Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me'' and worldwide success (1987–1993)
In 1987, The Cure released the double LP ''Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me'', which reached number six in the UK, the Top 10 in several countries and was the band's first entry into the U.S. Top 40 at number 35 (where it was certified platinum), due to the combination of the band's rising popularity and the success of lead single, "Why Can't I Be You?". The album's third single, "Just Like Heaven" was the band's most successful single to date in the US, being their first to enter the ''Billboard'' Top 40. After the album's release, the band embarked on the successful Kissing Tour. During the European leg of the tour, Lol Tolhurst's alcohol consumption was interfering with his ability to perform so The Psychedelic Furs keyboardist Roger O'Donnell was frequently called upon to stand in for him. In 1989, The Cure released the album ''Disintegration'', which saw a return to the gothic atmospheres of earlier releases like ''Faith'' and ''Pornography''. It became their highest charting album in the UK to date, entering at number three and featuring three Top 30 singles in the UK and Germany ("Lullaby", "Lovesong" and "Pictures of You"). ''Disintegration'' also reached number twelve on the US charts. The first single stateside, "Fascination Street", reached number one on the American Modern Rock chart, but was quickly overshadowed when its third US single, "Lovesong", reached number two on the American pop charts (the only Cure single to reach the US Top 10). By 1992, ''Disintegration'' had sold over three million copies worldwide.During the ''Disintegration'' sessions, the band gave Smith an ultimatum that either Tolhurst would have to leave the band or they would. In February 1989, Tolhurst's exit was made official and announced to the press; this resulted in Roger O'Donnell becoming a full-fledged member of the band and left Smith as The Cure's only remaining founder member. Smith attributed Tolhurst's dismissal to an inability to exert himself and issues with alcohol, concluding, "He was out of step with everything. It had just become detrimental to everything we'd do." Because Tolhurst was still on the payroll during the recording of ''Disintegration'', he was credited in the album's liner notes as playing "other instruments", however it has since been revealed that he contributed nothing to the album in either performance or song writing. The Cure then embarked on the Prayer Tour, which saw the band playing stadiums in America.
In May 1990, Roger O'Donnell quit and was replaced with the band's guitar technician Perry Bamonte. That November, The Cure released a collection of remixes called ''Mixed Up''. The album was not well received and quickly slid down the charts. The one new song on the collection, "Never Enough", was released as a single. In 1991 The Cure were awarded the BRIT Award for Best British Band. That same year Tolhurst filed a lawsuit against Smith and Fiction Records in 1991 over royalties payments, and claimed joint ownership of the name "The Cure" with Smith; the verdict was handed out in September 1994 in favour of Smith. In respite from the lawsuit, the band returned to the studio to record their next album. ''Wish'' reached number one in the UK and number two in the US and yielded the international hits "High" and "Friday I'm in Love". The Cure also embarked on the "Wish Tour" with Cranes, and released the live albums ''Show'' (September 1993) and ''Paris'' (October 1993). As a promotional exercise with the Our Price music chain in the UK, a limited edition EP was released consisting of instrumental outtakes from the ''Wish'' sessions. Entitled ''Lost Wishes'', the proceeds from the four-track cassette tape went to charity.
In the years between the release of ''Wish'' and the start of sessions for The Cure's next album, the band's line-up shifted again. Thompson left the band once more during 1993 to play with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, and Bamonte took over as lead guitarist. Boris Williams also left the band, and was replaced by Jason Cooper (formerly of My Life Story).
Period of transition (1994–1999)
The album sessions began in 1994 with only Smith and Bamonte present; the pair were later joined by Gallup (who was recovering from physical problems), and Roger O'Donnell, who had been asked to rejoin the band at the end of 1994. The Cure performed "Burn" in the movie The Crow and "Dredd Song," the theme song of the 1995 movie ''Judge Dredd'' starring Sylvester Stallone. It was not released on a Cure album until 2004 on ''Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978–2001 (The Fiction Years)''.''Wild Mood Swings'', finally released in 1996, was poorly received compared with previous albums and marked the end of the band's commercial peak. Early in 1996, the Cure played festivals in South America, followed by a world tour in support of the album ''Galore''. ''Galore'' contained all of the Cure's singles released between 1987 and 1997, as well as the new single "Wrong Number", which featured longtime David Bowie guitarist Reeves Gabrels. Gabrels also accompanied the Cure on a brief American radio festival tour as an onstage guest guitarist for "Wrong Number". In 1998 The Cure contributed to the soundtrack album for ''The X-Files'' feature film as well as the Depeche Mode tribute album ''For the Masses'', with their cover of "World in My Eyes".
Recent years (2000–present)
With only one album left in their record contract and with commercial response to ''Wild Mood Swings'' and the ''Galore'' compilation lacklustre, Smith once again considered that the end of The Cure might be near and thus wanted to make an album that reflected the more serious side of the band. The Grammy-nominated album ''Bloodflowers'' was released in 2000 after being delayed since 1998. According to Smith, The album was the third of a trilogy along with ''Pornography'' and ''Disintegration''. The band also embarked on the nine-month Dream Tour, attended by over one million people worldwide. In 2001, The Cure left Fiction and released their ''Greatest Hits'' album and DVD, which featured the music videos for a number of classic Cure songs. In 2002, the band headlined twelve major summer music festivals, and played three extended concerts (one in Brussels, two in Berlin) in which they performed the albums ''Pornography'', ''Disintegration'' and ''Bloodflowers'' in their respective entireties each night. The Berlin performances were released on DVD as ''The Cure: Trilogy'' in 2003.In 2003, The Cure signed with Geffen Records. In 2004, they released a new four-disc boxed set on Fiction Records titled ''Join the Dots: B-Sides and Rarities, 1978-2001 (The Fiction Years)''. The compilation includes seventy Cure songs, some previously unreleased, and a 76-page full-colour book of photographs, history and quotes, packaged in a hard cover. The album peaked at number 106 on the ''Billboard'' 200 album charts. The band released their twelfth album ''The Cure'' on Geffen in 2004, which was produced by Ross Robinson. It made a top ten debut on both sides of the Atlantic in July 2004. To promote the album, the band headlined the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival that May. From 24 July to 29 August, The Cure headlined the Curiosa concert tour of North America. While attendances were lower than expected, Curiosa was still one of the more successful American summer festivals of 2004. The same year the band was honoured with an MTV Icon television special.
In May 2005, Roger O'Donnell and Perry Bamonte were fired from the band. O'Donnell claims Smith informed him he was reducing the band to a three-piece. Previously O'Donnell said he had only found out about the band's upcoming tour dates via a fan site and added, "It was sad to find out after nearly 20 years the way I did but then I should have expected no less or more." The remaining members of the band—Smith, Gallup and Cooper—made several appearances as a trio before it was announced in June that Porl Thompson would be returning for the band's 2005 Festival summer shows, as well as their set at Live 8 in Paris on 2 July. Later that year, the band recorded a cover of John Lennon's "Love" for Amnesty International's charity album ''Make Some Noise''. It is available for download on the Amnesty website, while the album was released on CD in 2006. On 1 April 2006, The Cure appeared at the Royal Albert Hall on behalf of the Teenage Cancer Trust. It was their only show through to the end the year. In December a live DVD, entitled ''The Cure: Festival 2005'' including 30 songs of their 2005 Festival tour was released.
The Cure began writing and recording material for their thirteenth album in 2006. Smith initially stated it would be a double album. The Cure announced a last-minute postponement of their autumn 2007 North American 4Tour in August in order to continue working on the album, rescheduling the dates for spring 2008. Titled ''4:13 Dream'', the album was released in October 2008. The group released four singles and an EP—"The Only One", "Freakshow", "Sleep When I'm Dead", "The Perfect Boy" and ''Hypnagogic States'' respectively—on or near to the 13th of each month, in the months leading up to the album's release. In February 2009, The Cure received the 2009 Shockwaves NME Award for Godlike Genius.
In 2011, the band played their first 3 studio albums in their entirety during two shows in Sydney, Australia. These "Reflections" shows notably featured Roger O'Donnell and Laurence Tolhurst, both in a keyboard and percussion role. The shows are due to be released on DVD in 2011.
Musical style
The Cure are often identified with the gothic rock subgenre of alternative rock, and are viewed as one of the form's definitive bands. However, the band has routinely rejected classification, particularly as a gothic rock band. Robert Smith said in 2006, "It's so pitiful when 'goth' is still tagged onto the name The Cure", and added, "We're not categorisable. I suppose we were post-punk when we came out, but in total it's impossible [...] I just play Cure music, whatever that is." Smith has also expressed his distaste for gothic rock, describing it as "incredibly dull and monotonous. A dirge really." While typically viewed as producers of dark and gloomy music, The Cure have also yielded a number of upbeat songs. ''Spin'' has said "The Cure have always been an either/or sort of band: either [...] Robert Smith is wallowing in gothic sadness or he's licking sticky-sweet cotton-candy pop off his lipstick-stained fingers."The Cure's primary musical traits have been listed as "dominant, melodic bass lines; whiny, strangulated vocals; and a lyric obsession with existential, almost literary despair." Most Cure songs start with Smith and Gallup writing the drum parts and bass lines. Both record demos at home and then bring them into the studio for fine-tuning. Smith said in 1992, "I think when people talk about the 'Cure sound,' they mean songs based on 6-string bass, acoustic guitar, and my voice, plus the string sound from the Solina." On top of this foundation is laid "towering layers of guitars and synthesisers". Keyboards have been a component of the band's sound since ''Seventeen Seconds'', and their importance increased with the instrument's extensive use on ''Disintegration''. With the Departure of Roger O'Donnell in 2005, keyboards have not been as prominent in the band's album 4:13 Dream and their live shows.
Music videos
The band's early music videos have been described as "dreadful affairs" and have been maligned for their poor quality, particularly by the band itself. Lol Tolhurst said, "Those videos were unmitigated disasters; we weren't actors and our personalities weren't coming across." It was with the video for "Let's Go to Bed", their first collaboration with director Tim Pope, that The Cure would become noted for their videos. Pope added a playful element to the band's videos; the director insisted in a 1987 ''Spin'' interview, "I think that side of them was always there, but was never brought out." Pope would go on to direct the majority of The Cure's videos, and his videos, which became synonymous with the band, helped expand The Cure's audience during the 1980s. Pope explained the appeal of working with The Cure by saying, "The Cure is the ultimate band for a filmmaker to work with because Robert Smith really understands the camera. His songs are so cinematic. I mean on one level there's this stupidity and humour, right, but beneath that there are all [Smith's] psychological obsessions and claustrophobia."
Legacy
The Cure were one of the first alternative bands to have chart and commercial success in an era before alternative rock had broken into the mainstream. In 1992 the ''NME'' declared The Cure had during the 1980s become "a goth hit machine (19 to date), an international phenomenon and, yep, the most successful alternative band that ever shuffled disconsolately about the earth". Smith has noted he looks at Cure-influenced bands like Interpol and My Chemical Romance with affection, adding, "I also think [Interpol bassist] Carlos D.'s obsession with Simon Gallup is sweet." Interpol lead singer, Paul Banks was quoted as saying ""The Cure is the band that all of us in Interpol can say influenced us. When I was younger I listened to them a lot. Carlos as well. Actually, he took a straight influence from this band on the way he played the bass and the keys. To me, Robert Smith is also one of these examples: you can't be Robert Smith if you're not Robert Smith. It's one of the bands with the deepest influence on Interpol, because we all like them. They're legendary."Several references to The Cure and their music have been made in popular culture. A number of films have used the title of a Cure song as the film's title, including ''Boys Don't Cry'' (1999) and ''Just Like Heaven'' (2005). The Cure's gloomy image has been the subject of parody at times. In series two of ''The Mighty Boosh'', The Moon sings 'The Lovecats' over the credits. In the same episode, a powerful gothic hairspray, Goth Juice, is said to be "The most powerful hairspray known to man. Made from the tears of Robert Smith." ''The Mary Whitehouse Experience'' often featured brief clips of the stars of the show performing comical songs and nursery rhymes as The Cure in a morose style. Robert Smith appeared in the final episode of the first series of ''The Mary Whitehouse Experience'' singing "The Sun has got his hat on" before punching the character Ray (played by Robert Newman) whilst uttering Ray's catch phrase "Oh no what a personal disaster". Robert Smith was also portrayed on an episode of ''South Park'' (Season 1, Episode 12) where he transforms into the form of Mothra and battles Mecha-Streisand to save the day and Kyle shouts "''Disintegration'' is the best album ever!" In Craig Thompson's graphic novel ''Blankets'' the chapter seven is called "Just Like Heaven". The same chapter shows Raina singing some lyrics from this song to Craig.
Discography
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| Coordinates | 41°52′55″N87°37′40″N |
|---|---|
| honorific-prefix | The Honourable |
| name | Bob Marley |
| alt | Black and white picture of a man with long dreadlocks playing the guitar on stage. |
| background | solo_singer |
| birth name | Robert Nesta Marley |
| alias | Tuff Gong |
| birth date | February 06, 1945 |
| birth place | Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica |
| death date | May 11, 1981 |
| death place | Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| instrument | Vocals, guitar, piano, saxophone, harmonica, percussion |
| genre | Reggae, ska, rocksteady |
| occupation | Singer-songwriter, musician |
| years active | 1962–1981 |
| label | Studio One, Upsetter, Tuff Gong |
| associated acts | Bob Marley & The Wailers, Wailers Band, The Upsetters, I Threes |
| website | |
| notable instruments | Gibson Les Paul Special }} |
Marley's music was heavily influenced by the social issues of his homeland, and he is considered to have given voice to the specific political and cultural nexus of Jamaica. His best-known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, "Three Little Birds", as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album ''Legend'' (1984), released three years after his death, is reggae's best-selling album, going ten times Platinum which is also one Diamond in the U.S., and selling 25 million copies worldwide.
Early life and career
Bob Marley was born in the village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica as Nesta Robert Marley. A Jamaican passport official would later swap his first and middle names. His father, Norval Sinclair Marley, was a white Jamaican of mixed and English descent whose family came from Essex, England. Norval was a captain in the Royal Marines, as well as a plantation overseer, when he married Cedella Booker, an Afro-Jamaican then 18 years old. Norval provided financial support for his wife and child, but seldom saw them, as he was often away on trips. In 1955, when Marley was 10 years old, his father died of a heart attack at age 70. Marley faced questions about his own racial identity throughout his life. He once reflected:I don't have prejudice against meself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.Although Marley recognised his mixed ancestry, throughout his life and because of his beliefs, he self-identified as a black African, following the ideas of Pan-African leaders. Marley stated that his two biggest influences were the African-centered Marcus Garvey and Haile Selassie. A central theme in Bob Marley's message was the repatriation of black people to Zion, which in his view was Ethiopia, or more generally, Africa. In songs such as "Black Survivor", "Babylon System", and "Blackman Redemption", Marley sings about the struggles of blacks and Africans against oppression from the West or "Babylon".
Marley became friends with Neville "Bunny" Livingston (later known as Bunny Wailer), with whom he started to play music. He left school at the age of 14 to make music with Joe Higgs, a local singer and devout Rastafari. At a jam session with Higgs and Livingston, Marley met Peter McIntosh (later known as Peter Tosh), who had similar musical ambitions. In 1962, Marley recorded his first two singles, "Judge Not" and "One Cup of Coffee", with local music producer Leslie Kong. These songs, released on the Beverley's label under the pseudonym of Bobby Martell, attracted little attention. The songs were later re-released on the box set ''Songs of Freedom'', a posthumous collection of Marley's work.
Bob Marley & The Wailers
1963–1974
In 1963, Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith formed a ska and rocksteady group, calling themselves "The Teenagers". They later changed their name to "The Wailing Rudeboys", then to "The Wailing Wailers", at which point they were discovered by record producer Coxsone Dodd, and finally to "The Wailers". By 1966, Braithwaite, Kelso, and Smith had left The Wailers, leaving the core trio of Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, and Peter Tosh.In 1966, Marley married Rita Anderson, and moved near his mother's residence in Wilmington, Delaware in the United States for a short time, during which he worked as a DuPont lab assistant and on the assembly line at a Chrysler plant, under the alias Donald Marley.
Though raised in the Catholic tradition, Marley became captivated by Rastafarian beliefs in the 1960s, when away from his mother's influence. Formally converted to Rastafari after returning to Jamaica, Marley began to wear his trademark dreadlocks (''see the ''religion section'' for more on Marley's religious views''). After a conflict with Dodd, Marley and his band teamed up with Lee "Scratch" Perry and his studio band, The Upsetters. Although the alliance lasted less than a year, they recorded what many consider The Wailers' finest work. Marley and Perry split after a dispute regarding the assignment of recording rights, but they would remain friends and work together again.
Between 1968 and 1972, Bob and Rita Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer re-cut some old tracks with JAD Records in Kingston and London in an attempt to commercialise The Wailers' sound. Bunny later asserted that these songs "should never be released on an album ... they were just demos for record companies to listen to". Also in 1968, Bob and Rita visited the Bronx to see Johnny Nash's songwriter Jimmy Norman. A three-day jam session with Norman and others, including Norman's co-writer Al Pyfrom, resulted in a 24-minute tape of Marley performing several of his own and Norman-Pyfrom's compositions. This tape is, according to Reggae archivist Roger Steffens, rare in that it was influenced by pop rather than reggae, as part of an effort to break Marley into the American charts. According to an article in ''The New York Times'', Marley experimented on the tape with different sounds, adopting a doo-wop style on "Stay With Me" and "the slow love song style of 1960's artists" on "Splish for My Splash". An artist yet to establish himself outside his native Jamaica, Marley lived in Ridgmount Gardens, Bloomsbury, London during 1972.
In 1972, the Wailers entered into an ill-fated deal with CBS Records and embarked on a tour with American soul singer Johnny Nash. Broke, the Wailers became stranded in London. Marley turned up at Island Records founder and producer Chris Blackwell's London office, and asked him to advance the cost of a new single. Since Jimmy Cliff, Island's top reggae star, had recently left the label, Blackwell was primed for a replacement. In Marley, Blackwell recognized the elements needed to snare the rock audience: "I was dealing with rock music, which was really rebel music. I felt that would really be the way to break Jamaican music. But you needed someone who could be that image. When Bob walked in he really was that image." Blackwell told Marley he wanted The Wailers to record a complete album (essentially unheard of at the time). When Marley told him it would take between £3,000 and £4,000, Blackwell trusted him with the greater sum. Despite their "rude boy" reputation, the Wailers returned to Kingston and honored the deal, delivering the album ''Catch A Fire''.
Primarily recorded on eight-track at Harry J's in Kingston, ''Catch A Fire'' marked the first time a reggae band had access to a state-of-the-art studio and were accorded the same care as their rock'n'roll peers. Blackwell desired to create "more of a drifting, hypnotic-type feel than a reggae rhythm", and restructured Marley's mixes and arrangements. Marley travelled to London to supervise Blackwell's overdubbing of the album, which included tempering the mix from the bass-heavy sound of Jamaican music, and omitting two tracks.
The Wailers' first major label album, ''Catch a Fire'' was released worldwide in April 1973, packaged like a rock record with a unique Zippo lighter lift-top. Initially selling 14,000 units, it didn't make Marley a star, but received a positive critical reception. It was followed later that year by ''Burnin''', which included the standout songs "Get Up, Stand Up", and "I Shot the Sheriff", which appealed to the ear of Eric Clapton. He recorded a cover of the track in 1974 which became a huge American hit, raising Marley's international profile. Many Jamaicans were not keen on the new "improved" reggae sound on ''Catch A Fire'', but the Trenchtown style of ''Burnin''' found fans across both reggae and rock audiences.
During this period, Blackwell gifted his Kingston residence and company headquarters at 56 Hope Road (then known as Island House) to Marley. Housing Tuff Gong Studios, the property became not only Marley's office, but also his home.
The Wailers were scheduled to open 17 shows for the number one black act in the States, Sly and the Family Stone. After 4 shows, the band was fired because they were more popular than the acts they were opening for. The Wailers broke up in 1974 with each of the three main members pursuing solo careers. The reason for the breakup is shrouded in conjecture; some believe that there were disagreements amongst Bunny, Peter, and Bob concerning performances, while others claim that Bunny and Peter simply preferred solo work.
1974–1981
Despite the break-up, Marley continued recording as "Bob Marley & The Wailers". His new backing band included brothers Carlton and Aston "Family Man" Barrett on drums and bass respectively, Junior Marvin and Al Anderson on lead guitar, Tyrone Downie and Earl "Wya" Lindo on keyboards, and Alvin "Seeco" Patterson on percussion. The "I Threes", consisting of Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, and Marley's wife, Rita, provided backing vocals. In 1975, Marley had his international breakthrough with his first hit outside Jamaica, "No Woman, No Cry", from the ''Natty Dread'' album. This was followed by his breakthrough album in the United States, ''Rastaman Vibration'' (1976), which spent four weeks on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. On 3 December 1976, two days before "Smile Jamaica", a free concert organised by the Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley in an attempt to ease tension between two warring political groups, Marley, his wife, and manager Don Taylor were wounded in an assault by unknown gunmen inside Marley's home. Taylor and Marley's wife sustained serious injuries, but later made full recoveries. Bob Marley received minor wounds in the chest and arm. The shooting was thought to have been politically motivated, as many felt the concert was really a support rally for Manley. Nonetheless, the concert proceeded, and an injured Marley performed as scheduled, two days after the attempt. When asked why, Marley responded, "The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?" The members of the group Zap Pow, which had no radical religious or political beliefs, played as Bob Marley's backup band before a festival crowd of 80,000 while members of The Wailers were still missing or in hiding.
Marley left Jamaica at the end of 1976, and after a month-long "recovery and writing" sojourn at the site of Chris Blackwell's Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, arrived in England, where he spent two years in self-imposed exile. Whilst there he recorded the albums ''Exodus'' and ''Kaya''. ''Exodus'' stayed on the British album charts for 56 consecutive weeks. It included four UK hit singles: "Exodus", "Waiting in Vain", "Jamming", and "One Love" (a rendition of Curtis Mayfield's hit, "People Get Ready"). During his time in London, he was arrested and received a conviction for possession of a small quantity of cannabis. In 1978, Marley returned to Jamaica and performed at another political concert, the One Love Peace Concert, again in an effort to calm warring parties. Near the end of the performance, by Marley's request, Michael Manley (leader of then-ruling People's National Party) and his political rival Edward Seaga (leader of the opposing Jamaica Labour Party), joined each other on stage and shook hands.
Under the name Bob Marley and the Wailers eleven albums were released, four live albums and seven studio albums. The releases included ''Babylon by Bus'', a double live album with thirteen tracks, were released in 1978 and received critical acclaim. This album, and specifically the final track "Jamming" with the audience in a frenzy, captured the intensity of Marley's live performances.
''Survival'', a defiant and politically charged album, was released in 1979. Tracks such as "Zimbabwe", "Africa Unite", "Wake Up and Live", and "Survival" reflected Marley's support for the struggles of Africans. His appearance at the Amandla Festival in Boston in July 1979 showed his strong opposition to South African apartheid, which he already had shown in his song "War" in 1976. In early 1980, he was invited to perform at the 17 April celebration of Zimbabwe's Independence Day. ''Uprising'' (1980) was Bob Marley's final studio album, and is one of his most religious productions; it includes "Redemption Song" and "Forever Loving Jah". ''Confrontation'', released posthumously in 1983, contained unreleased material recorded during Marley's lifetime, including the hit "Buffalo Soldier" and new mixes of singles previously only available in Jamaica.
Personal life
Religion
Bob Marley was a member of the Rastafari movement, whose culture was a key element in the development of reggae. Bob Marley became an ardent proponent of Rastafari, taking their music out of the socially deprived areas of Jamaica and onto the international music scene. He once gave the following response, which was typical, to a question put to him during a recorded interview:
Family
Bob Marley had a number of children: three with his wife Rita, two adopted from Rita's previous relationships, and several others with different women. The Bob Marley official website acknowledges eleven children.Those listed on the official site are: # Sharon, born 23 November 1964, to Rita in previous relationship # Cedella born 23 August 1967, to Rita # David "Ziggy", born 17 October 1968, to Rita # Stephen, born 20 April 1972, to Rita # Robert "Robbie", born 16 May 1972, to Pat Williams # Rohan, born 19 May 1972, to Janet Hunt # Karen, born 1973 to Janet Bowen # Stephanie, born 17 August 1974; according to Cedella Booker she was the daughter of Rita and a man called Ital with whom Rita had an affair; nonetheless she was acknowledged as Bob's daughter # Julian, born 4 June 1975, to Lucy Pounder # Ky-Mani, born 26 February 1976, to Anita Belnavis # Damian, born 21 July 1978, to Cindy Breakspeare
Makeda was born on 30 May 1981, to Yvette Crichton, after Marley's death. Meredith Dixon's book lists her as Marley's child, but she is not listed as such on the Bob Marley official website.
Various websites, for example, also list Imani Carole, born 22 May 1963 to Cheryl Murray; but she does not appear on the official Bob Marley website.
Final years and death
In July 1977, Marley was found to have a type of malignant melanoma under the nail of one of his toes. Contrary to urban legend, this lesion was not primarily caused by an injury during a football match in that year, but was instead a symptom of the already existing cancer. Marley turned down doctors' advice to have his toe amputated, citing his religious beliefs. Despite his illness, he continued touring and was in the process of scheduling a world tour in 1980. The intention was for Inner Circle to be his opening act on the tour but after their lead singer Jacob Miller died in Jamaica in March 1980 after returning from a scouting mission in Brazil this was no longer mentioned.
The album ''Uprising'' was released in May 1980 (produced by Chris Blackwell), on which "Redemption Song" is particularly considered to be about Marley coming to terms with his mortality. The band completed a major tour of Europe, where they played their biggest concert, to a hundred thousand people in Milan. After the tour Marley went to America, where he performed two shows at Madison Square Garden as part of the Uprising Tour.
The final concert of Bob Marley's career was held September 23, 1980 at the Stanley Theater (now called The Benedum Center For The Performing Arts) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The audio recording of that concert is now available on CD, vinyl, and digital music services.
Shortly after, Marley's health deteriorated and he became very ill; the cancer had spread throughout his body. The rest of the tour was cancelled and Marley sought treatment at the Bavarian clinic of Josef Issels, where he received a controversial type of cancer therapy (Issels treatment) partly based on avoidance of certain foods, drinks, and other substances. After fighting the cancer without success for eight months, Marley boarded a plane for his home in Jamaica.
While flying home from Germany to Jamaica, Marley's vital functions worsened. After landing in Miami, Florida, he was taken to the hospital for immediate medical attention. He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami (now University of Miami Hospital) on the morning of May 11, 1981, at the age of 36. The spread of melanoma to his lungs and brain caused his death. His final words to his son Ziggy were "Money can't buy life". Marley received a state funeral in Jamaica on 21 May 1981, which combined elements of Ethiopian Orthodoxy and Rastafari tradition. He was buried in a chapel near his birthplace with his red Gibson Les Paul (some accounts say it was a Fender Stratocaster).
On 21 May 1981, Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga delivered the final funeral eulogy to Marley, declaring:
Legacy
In 1999 ''Time'' magazine chose Bob Marley & The Wailers' ''Exodus'' as the greatest album of the 20th century. In 2001, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and a feature-length documentary about his life, ''Rebel Music'', won various awards at the Grammys. With contributions from Rita, The Wailers, and Marley's lovers and children, it also tells much of the story in his own words. A statue was inaugurated, next to the national stadium on Arthur Wint Drive in Kingston to commemorate him. In 2006, the State of New York renamed a portion of Church Avenue from Remsen Avenue to East 98th Street in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn "Bob Marley Boulevard". In 2008, a statue of Marley was inaugurated in Banatski Sokolac, Serbia.
Internationally, Marley’s message also continues to reverberate amongst various indigenous communities. For instance, the Aboriginal people of Australia continue to burn a sacred flame to honor his memory in Sydney’s Victoria Park, while members of the Native American Hopi and Havasupai tribe revere his work. There are also many tributes to Bob Marley throughout India, including restaurants, hotels, and cultural festivals.
Marley has also evolved into a global symbol, which has been endlessly merchandised through a variety of mediums. In light of this, author Dave Thompson in his book ''Reggae and Caribbean Music'', laments what he perceives to be the commercialized pacification of Marley's more militant edge, stating:
Film adaptation(s)
In February 2008, director Martin Scorsese announced his intention to produce a documentary movie on Marley. The film was set to be released on 6 February 2010, on what would have been Marley's 65th birthday. Recently, however, Scorsese dropped out due to scheduling problems. He is being replaced by Jonathan Demme.In March 2008, The Weinstein Company announced its plans to produce a biopic of Bob Marley, based on the book ''No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley'' by Rita Marley. Rudy Langlais will produce the script by Lizzie Borden and Rita Marley will be executive producer.
Discography
Awards and honors
References
Further reading
External links
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| Coordinates | 41°52′55″N87°37′40″N |
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| Name | Joe Greene |
| Position | Defensive Tackle |
| Number | 75 (72 early 1969) |
| Birth date | September 24, 1946 Temple, Texas |
| Debutyear | 1969 |
| Finalyear | 1981 |
| Draftyear | 1969 |
| Draftround | 1 |
| Draftpick | 4 |
| College | North Texas |
| Teams | |
| Stat1label | Sacks |
| Stat1value | 78.5 |
| Stat2label | Games |
| Stat2value | 181 |
| Stat3label | Interceptions |
| Stat3value | 1 |
| Nfl | GRE420024
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| Hof | 80 |
| Collegehof | 60014 }} |
Contrary to unpopular belief, Mean Joe is not related in any way to "Mean" Gene Green of the 70's doo-wop outfit Mean Gene Green and the Appletons, who in 1975 scored a minor hit on the chitlin' circuit with "Didn't Mean to Treat You Mean (Know What I Mean)". However, in a twist of irony, it has been confirmed that Mean Joe is a second cousin to Appletons' tenor man Virgil Appleton. Virgil wrote about their relationship in his 1994 memoir ''Appletons and Oranges''. Says Virgil of Mean Joe, "I always thought he was a nice guy."
College career
Before his NFL career, "Mean Joe" Greene had an outstanding college football career at North Texas State University (now the University of North Texas) (1966–68), leading the team to a 23-5-1 record during his three seasons. In his 29 games at defensive tackle, North Texas State held the opposition to 2,507 yards gained on 1,276 rushes, a per carry average of less than two yards per attempt. His collegiate coach, Rod Rust, said of the 1968 consensus All-America, "There are two factors behind Joe's success. First, he has the ability to make the big defensive play and turn the tempo of a game around. Second, he has the speed to be an excellent pursuit player." A pro scout said, "He's tough and mean and comes to hit people. He has good killer instincts. He's mobile and hostile."He got his nickname when the Pittsburgh fan base mistakenly assumed that the North Texas team nickname of "Mean Green" was ''Joe Greene's'' nickname; however, Coach Rust's wife wanted to give a nickname to the team's outstanding defense. Since green is the school's main color, she gave the defense the name "Mean Green".
In 1984, he was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame. In 2006, Greene was voted to the East-West Shrine Game Hall of Fame.
Pro football career
In 1969, he was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers with the fourth pick of the NFL draft and spent his entire career with them until his retirement in 1981. When Greene was drafted, a newspaper headline asked, ''Who's Joe Greene?'' The question was quickly answered as Greene became so good that teams double-teamed, and even triple-teamed, him throughout his entire career.After he was drafted, Greene quickly established himself as a dominant defensive player. He was strong, quick and intense. He was the NFL's Rookie of the Year in 1969, even though he played on a Steelers team that went 1-13 in Chuck Noll's first year as its head coach. The Steelers quickly improved over the next few seasons. Greene later admitted that he was upset with being drafted by the Steelers due to their long history of losing. He often showed his displeasure on the field, including an incident during a game with the Chicago Bears in which he spat in the face of Dick Butkus and challenged Butkus, long considered the NFL's meanest player, to a fight.
In his early years with the Steelers, Greene was at times uncontrollable, and often let his temper get the best of him. At one time, during a 1975 game against the rival Cleveland Browns at Cleveland Municipal Stadium in which the Steelers won 42-6, Greene repeatedly kicked Browns lineman Bob McKay in the groin while McKay was lying on the ground. Another incident had Greene snap the ball away from the center while the opposing team was lining up for a play. He had no tolerance for losing, and the team veterans quickly took notice. His intense desire to win rallied the veterans around him, and with great drafts as well as superb coaching, the Steelers franchise soon began to undergo a dramatic makeover. Joe Greene was credited as the cornerstone of the great Steelers dynasty and the most important player in team history.
Greene was the leader and the anchor of the "Steel Curtain" defense that won four Super Bowls in the 1970s. He was recognized as the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in both 1972 and 1974. He, along with other members of the Steelers' front four (L. C. Greenwood, Dwight White and Ernie Holmes) even appeared on the cover of Time magazine. In Super Bowl IX, Greene became the first player ever to record an interception, a forced fumble, and fumble recovery in a single Super Bowl. He went to the Pro Bowl 10 times during his career.
Greene is also well-known for the "stunt 4-3" defense, in which he would line up at an angle, between the center and guard, and would explode into the line taking up 2-3 blockers. He started doing this sometime in the 1974 season, and while it cut down on the number of sacks he racked up, it freed up his other defensive teammates like middle linebacker Jack Lambert to make tackles with ease.
After leading the Steelers to another Super Bowl win after the 1975 season over the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl X, Greene missed the first several games of the 1976 season with a back injury. The Steelers started off the season 1-4 and looked like they would not make the playoffs. Quarterback Terry Bradshaw was also injured and was replaced by rookie Mike Kruczek. The season looked lost. But Greene and the Steelers defense carried the Steelers to nine straight wins and the playoffs. With a defense considered one of the best in NFL history, the 1976 Steelers held opponents to an average of less than 10 points per game (138 points over 14 games). During their nine-game winning streak, the Steelers defense recorded five shutouts, another modern record, and gave up a total of just 28 points (roughly 3 points per game). The defense allowed only two touchdowns over nine games.
Ten of the eleven starters on that 1976 Steelers team were players who made the Pro Bowl at least once in their career (eight starters made the Pro Bowl after the 1976 season). Middle linebacker Jack Lambert had, along with Greene, become the emotional leader of the defense and over the next several years became the dominant player at his position while Greene continued to perform at an all-pro level, becoming a 5-time All-Pro (1972–74, 77, 79) and in 1969 receiving the first of his 10 Pro Bowl invitations. He retired after the 1981 season after 13 years in the league.
His spot on the team was technically not replaced: the Steelers switched to a 3-4 defensive alignment for the 1982 season, which has only one nose tackle as opposed to two defensive tackles, giving the extra spot to a second middle linebacker. The team has used the 3-4 alignment since Greene's retirement.
His end stats were 181 games, 78.5 sacks (unofficially, as sacks were not an official statistic until 1982) and 16 fumble recoveries. Joe Greene had 190 tackles in 1978.
Retirement
After retiring from the NFL, Greene spent one year (1982) as a color analyst for CBS' NFL coverage before becoming an assistant coach under Steelers' head coach Chuck Noll in 1987. He spent the next 16 years as an assistant coach with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Miami Dolphins, and Arizona Cardinals. In 2004, he retired from coaching and was named the special assistant for player personnel for the Steelers. In this position he earned his 5th Super Bowl ring after the Steelers won Super Bowl XL, and a sixth from Super Bowl XLIII. Greene is one of four people outside the Rooney family to have Super Bowl rings from the first six championship teams.It was Greene, in fact, who coined the phrase "One for the Thumb in '81" after the Steelers won Super Bowl XIV. After the Steelers missed the playoffs in 1980, the saying was shortened to "One for the Thumb" and became the unofficial rally cry for the Steelers' search for the elusive fifth Vince Lombardi Trophy until the team finally won it in 2005.
Although the Steelers do not officially retire jersey numbers, Greene's number 75 has not been issued since his retirement and is understood to be "unofficially retired". Greene also briefly wore number 72 during his rookie season before switching to his more familiar 75 midseason.
Greene was inducted into the Pro Football Hall Of Fame in 1987.
Greene now resides in Flower Mound, Texas.
Film and television
Greene made a number of television and film appearances:
"Hey, kid, catch!" Coca-Cola commercial
Greene appeared in a famous commercial for Coca-Cola which aired during the 1980 Super Bowl, and won a Clio Award for best ad of the year. In the commercial, which first aired in late 1979 and was part of the "Have a Coke and a Smile" ad campaign, a child (Tommy Okon) gives an injured Greene a Coke, prompting "Mean" Joe to smile and toss the kid his team jersey. The heartwarming commercial became immensely popular, listed as one of the top ten commercials of all time by multiple sources, including ''TV Guide'' magazine. The ad was also shown in many other countries (including the UK) even where Greene wasn't well known. The campaign's art director was Roger Mosconi, the writer was Penny Hawkey, and the singers of the "Coke and a Smile" jingle were Jim Campbell, Don Thomas, Liz Corrigan, Shellie Littman, Arlene Martell, and Linda November. The footage was shot in May 1979 in a small stadium in Mount Vernon, New York, and the commercial was released on October 1, 1979, though it was its airing during the 1980 Super Bowl that brought it the most attention.Greene later recalled that in filming the commercial, it took several takes to get his final line in the commercial right ("Hey, kid, catch!") "It's very hard to gulp down an entire bottle of Coca-Cola, and then speak clearly. The first three takes we did, when I finished the bottle, I looked at the kid and said, 'Hey, kid...''Urrrp!''' It wasn't intentional. I just couldn't say the line without burping."
The commercial was later adapted to star other countries' sports stars, including Argentina (with Diego Maradona playing Greene's role), Brazil (with Zico), Italy (with Dino Zoff) and Thailand. Also, a similar themed advert for Pepsi aired in the UK with David Beckham many years later. In 1981, "The Steeler and the Pittsburgh Kid" expanded the Coke commercial into a TV movie with Greene playing himself and the kid played by Henry Thomas, who soon after starred as Elliot in ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial''. This advertisement was paid homage to in 2006, in a TV ad promoting asthma awareness. In the 2006 ad, a child with asthma tosses his Jerome Bettis Steelers jersey to Jerome himself, who is also an asthma sufferer.
Due to the longstanding popularity of the Coke commercial featuring Greene, Coca-Cola and the Steelers have since developed a longtime partnership, which includes the Coca-Cola Great Hall at Heinz Field, which honors the Steeler greats, including Greene, despite the fact that the NFL as a whole currently has a sponsorship deal with Pepsi.
In 1980, Greene appeared as himself in a sketch parodying the Coca-Cola ad on the CBS comedy-variety series ''The Tim Conway Show'', with the "kid" portrayed by the comedian himself. When Conway says, "Uh Mr. Greene?", Mean Joe throws him the football and knocks him to the ground. In season one of ''Star Wars: Clone Wars'', Mace Windu lands in front of a small farm child during the Battle of Dantooine, who then offers him a sip of his canteen before Windu force jumps away in a reference to the Coke kid commercial. It has also been parodied in the ''Family Guy'' episode "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater" where "Mean" Joe not only offers his jersey, but throws the rest of his clothing as well. This same reference was portrayed once again in ''Family Guy'' in the episode "Road to Germany", when Stewie is given some much-need uranium, to complete his time machine, by Mean Joe Greene. "Mean" has the same line as his previous appearance in Family Guy, saying "Hey, kid, catch!". In the Futurama episode A Leela of Her Own, after jackie Anderson gives a back-handed compliment to Leela after taking over her position on the team, Leela says, "Hey kid" and throws a towel at her, knocking her down.
During Super Bowl XLIII, in which the Steelers would defeat the Arizona Cardinals for their sixth Vince Lombardi Trophy, a commercial of current Steelers player Troy Polamalu aired that had him do a remake of the famous Coke commercial, except it was advertising for Coca-Cola Zero instead. Two Coke "brand managers" take the Coke Zero bottle away right when the kid was to give it to Polamalu, with Polamalu subsequently tackling one of the "brand managers", then instead of giving the kid his own jersey ripped the shirt off the "brand manager" he had tackled and tossed it to the kid. Greene, who like Polamalu lives a very quiet lifestyle off the field in contrast to his on-the-field play, liked the commercial and gave his stamp of approval.
An ad for the Fox TV series ''House'', first aired during the 2011 Super Bowl XLV, parodies the original Mean Joe Greene Coke ad with a similar scene in which Dr. House, played by Hugh Laurie, throws his cane to a young fan played by Preston Bailey.
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| Coordinates | 41°52′55″N87°37′40″N |
|---|---|
| name | Patti Smith |
| background | solo_singer |
| birth name | Patricia Lee Smith |
| birth date | December 30, 1946 |
| birth place | Chicago, Illinois |
| origin | New York City, New York,United States |
| instrument | Vocals, guitar, clarinet |
| genre | Protopunk, punk rock, art rock |
| occupation | Singer-songwriter, poet, artist |
| years active | 1971–present |
| label | Arista, Columbia |
| associated acts | Tom Verlaine |
| website | }} |
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album ''Horses''. Called the "Godmother of Punk", her work was a fusion of rock and poetry. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir ''Just Kids.'' Recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.
Early years
Patricia Lee Smith was born in Chicago. Her mother, Beverly, was a waitress, and her father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant. She spent her entire childhood in Deptford Township, New Jersey, raised as a Jehovah's Witness. She had a strong religious upbringing and a Bible education, but left organized religion as a teenager because she felt it was too confining; much later, she wrote the line "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine" in her cover version of Them's "Gloria" in response to this experience. She has described having an avid interest in Tibetan Buddhism around the age of eleven or twelve, saying "I fell in love with Tibet because their essential mission was to keep a continual stream of prayer", but that as an adult she sees clear parallels between different forms of religion, and has come to the conclusion that religious dogmas are "...man-made laws that you can either decide to abide by or not." At this early age Smith was exposed to her first records, including ''Shrimp Boats'' by Harry Belafonte, Patience and Prudence doing ''The Money Tree'', and ''Another Side of Bob Dylan'', which her mother gave to her. Thurston http://bombsite.com/issues/54/articles/1928 “Patti Smith” in BOMB Magazine Winter, 1996. Retrieved August 9, 2011 Smith graduated from Deptford Township High School in 1964 and went to work in a factory. She gave birth to her first child, a daughter, on April 26, 1967, and chose to place her for adoption.
Career
1967–1973: New York
In 1967, she left Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) and moved to New York City. She met photographer Robert Mapplethorpe there while working at a book store with a friend, poet Janet Hamill. She and Mapplethorpe had an intense romantic relationship, which was tumultuous as the pair struggled with times of poverty, and Mapplethorpe with his own sexuality. Smith considers Mapplethorpe to be one of the most important people in her life, and in her book ''Just Kids'' refers to him as "the artist of my life". Mapplethorpe's photographs of her became the covers for the Patti Smith Group LPs, and they remained friends until Mapplethorpe's death in 1989. In 1969 she went to Paris with her sister and started busking and doing performance art. When Smith returned to New York City, she lived in the Hotel Chelsea with Mapplethorpe; they frequented Max's Kansas City and CBGB. Smith provided the spoken word soundtrack for Sandy Daley's art film ''Robert Having His Nipple Pierced'', starring Mapplethorpe. The same year Smith appeared with Wayne County in Jackie Curtis' play ''Femme Fatale''. As a member of the St. Mark's Poetry Project, she spent the early 70's painting, writing, and performing. In 1971 she performed – for one night only – in ''Cowboy Mouth'', a play that she co-wrote with Sam Shepard (The published play's notes call for "a man who looks like a coyote and a woman who looks like a crow".) She wrote several poems, "for sam shepard" and "Sam Shepard: 9 Random Years (7 + 2)" about her relationship with Shepard.Smith was briefly considered for the lead singer position in Blue Öyster Cult. She contributed lyrics to several of the band's songs, including "Debbie Denise" (inspired by her poem "In Remembrance of Debbie Denise"), "Baby Ice Dog", "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini" (on which she performs duet vocals), and "Shooting Shark". She was romantically involved at the time with the band's keyboardist Allen Lanier. During these years, Smith also wrote rock journalism, some of which was published in ''Rolling Stone'' and ''Creem''.
1974–1979: Patti Smith Group
By 1974, Patti Smith was performing rock music herself, initially with guitarist and rock archivist Lenny Kaye, and later with a full band comprising Kaye, Ivan Kral on bass, Jay Dee Daugherty on drums and Richard Sohl, on piano. Ivan Kral was a refugee from Czechoslovakia, fleeing in 1968 after the fall of Alexander Dubček. Financed by Sam Wagstaff, the band recorded a first single, "Hey Joe / Piss Factory", in 1974. The A-side was a version of the rock standard with the addition of a spoken word piece about fugitive heiress Patty Hearst ("Patty Hearst, you're standing there in front of the Symbionese Liberation Army flag with your legs spread, I was wondering were you gettin' it every night from a black revolutionary man and his women..."). The B-side describes the helpless anger Smith had felt while working on a factory assembly line and the salvation she discovered in the form of a shoplifted book, the 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud's ''Illuminations''.
The Patti Smith Group was signed by Clive Davis of Arista Records, and in 1975 recorded their first album, ''Horses'', produced by John Cale amid some tension. The album fused punk rock and spoken poetry and begins with a cover of Van Morrison's "Gloria", and Smith's opening words: "Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine" (an excerpt from "Oath," one of her early poems). The austere cover photograph by Mapplethorpe has become one of rock's classic images. As the popularity of punk rock grew, Patti Smith Group toured the United States and Europe. The rawer sound of the group's second album, ''Radio Ethiopia'', reflected this. Considerably less accessible than ''Horses'', ''Radio Ethiopia'' initially received poor reviews. However, several of its songs have stood the test of time, and Smith still performs them regularly in concert. She has said that ''Radio Ethiopia'' was influenced by the band Black to Comm.
On January 23, 1977, while touring in support of ''Radio Ethiopia'', Smith accidentally danced off a high stage in Tampa, Florida and fell 15 feet into a concrete orchestra pit, breaking several neck vertebrae. The injury required a period of rest and an intensive round of physical therapy, during which time she was able to reassess, re-energize and reorganize her life. Patti Smith Group produced two further albums before the end of the 1970s. ''Easter'' (1978) was her most commercially successful record, containing the single "Because the Night" co-written with Bruce Springsteen. ''Wave'' (1979) was less successful, although the songs "Frederick" and "Dancing Barefoot" both received commercial airplay.
1980–1995: Marriage
Before the release of ''Wave'', Smith, now separated from long-time partner Allen Lanier, met Fred "Sonic" Smith, former guitar player for Detroit rock band MC5 and his own Sonic's Rendezvous Band, who adored poetry as much as she did. (''Wave'''s "Dancing Barefoot" and "Frederick" were both dedicated to him.) The running joke at the time was that she only married Fred because she would not have to change her name. They had a son, Jackson (b. 1982) who would go on to marry The White Stripes drummer, Meg White in 2009, and a daughter, Jesse (b. 1987). Through most of the 1980s Patti Smith was in semi-retirement from music, living with her family north of Detroit in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. In June 1988, she released the album ''Dream of Life'', which included the song "People Have the Power". Fred Smith died on November 4, 1994 of a myocardial infarction. Shortly afterward, Patti faced the unexpected death of her brother Todd and original keyboard player Richard Sohl. When her son Jackson turned 14, Smith decided to move back to New York. After the impact of these deaths, her friends Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and Allen Ginsberg (whom she had known since her early years in New York) urged her to go back out on the road. She toured briefly with Bob Dylan in December 1995 (chronicled in a book of photographs by Stipe).
1996–2003: Re-emergence
In 1996, Smith worked with her long-time colleagues to record ''Gone Again,'' featuring "About a Boy", a tribute to Kurt Cobain. Smith was a fan of Cobain, but was more angered than saddened by his suicide. That same year she collaborated with Stipe on "E-Bow the Letter", a song on R.E.M.'s ''New Adventures in Hi-Fi,'' which she has also performed live with the band. After release of ''Gone Again,'' Patti Smith had recorded two new albums: ''Peace and Noise'' in 1997 (with the single "1959", about the invasion of Tibet) and ''Gung Ho'' in 2000 (with songs about Ho Chi Minh and Smith's late father). Songs "1959" and "Glitter in Their Eyes" were nominated for Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. A box set of her work up to that time, ''The Patti Smith Masters,'' came out in 1996, and 2002 saw the release of ''Land (1975–2002),'' a two-CD compilation that includes a memorable cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry". Smith's solo art exhibition ''Strange Messenger'' was hosted at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh on September 28, 2002.
2004–present
On April 27, 2004 Patti Smith released ''Trampin''' which included several songs about motherhood, partly in tribute to Smith's mother, who had died two years before. It was her first album on Columbia Records, soon to become a sister label to her previous home Arista Records. Smith curated the Meltdown festival in London on June 25, 2005, the penultimate event being the first live performance of ''Horses'' in its entirety. Guitarist Tom Verlaine took Oliver Ray's place. This live performance was released later in the year as ''Horses/Horses''.
On July 10, 2005, Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In addition to her influence on rock music, the Minister also noted Smith's appreciation of Arthur Rimbaud. In August 2005, Smith gave a literary lecture about the poems of Arthur Rimbaud and William Blake. On October 15, 2006, Patti Smith performed at the CBGB nightclub, with a 3½-hour ''tour de force'' to close out Manhattan's music venue. She took the stage at 9:30 p.m. (EDT) and closed for the night (and forever for the venue) at a few minutes after 1:00 a.m., performing her song "Elegie", and finally reading a list of punk rock musicians and advocates who had died in the previous years.
Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 12, 2007. From November 2006 - January 2007, an exhibition called 'Sur les Traces' at Trolley Gallery, London, featured polaroid prints taken by Patti Smith and donated to Trolley to raise awareness and funds for the publication of Double Blind, a book on the war in Lebanon in 2006, with photographs by Paolo Pellegrin, a member of Magnum Photos. She also participated in the DVD commentary for ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters''. From March 28 to June 22, 2008, the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris hosted a major exhibition of the visual artwork of Patti Smith, ''Land 250'', drawn from pieces created between 1967 and 2007. At the 2008 Rowan Commencement ceremony, Smith received an honorary doctorate degree for her contributions to popular culture. Smith is the subject of a 2008 documentary film, ''Patti Smith: Dream of Life''. A live album by Patti Smith and Kevin Shields, ''The Coral Sea'' was released in July 2008. On September 10, 2009, after a week of smaller events and exhibitions in the city, Smith played an open-air concert in Florence's Piazza Santa Croce, commemorating her performance in the same city 30 years earlier. In 2010, Patti Smith's book, ''Just Kids'', a memoir of her time in 1970s Manhattan and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe, was published. On April 30, 2010 Patti Smith headlined a benefit concert headed by band-mate Tony Shanahan, for The Court Tavern of New Brunswick. Smith's set included "Gloria", "Because the Night" and "People Have the Power."
On May 17, 2010, Patti Smith received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Pratt Institute, along with architect Daniel Libeskind, MoMA director Glenn Lowry, former NYC Landmarks Commissioner Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, novelist Jonathan Lethem, and director Steven Soderbergh. Following the conferral of her degree, Smith delivered the commencement address and sang/played two songs accompanied by long-time band member Lenny Kaye. In her remarks, Smith explained that in 1967 when she moved to New York City (Brooklyn), she would never have been accepted into Pratt, but most of her friends (including Mapplethorpe) were students at Pratt and she spent countless hours on the Pratt campus. She added that it was through her friends and their Pratt professors that she learned much of her own artistic skills, making the honour from the institute particularly poignant for Smith 43 years later.
Smith is currently working on a crime novel set in London. "I've been working on a detective story that starts at the St Giles in the Fields church in London for the last two years," she told NME adding that she "loved detective stories" having been a fan of Sherlock Holmes and US crime author Mickey Spillane as a girl. Part of the book will be set in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 announced that Patti Smith is one of the winners of the Polar Music Prize: "By devoting her life to art in all its forms, Patti Smith has demonstrated how much rock’n'roll there is in poetry and how much poetry there is in rock’n'roll. Patti Smith is a Rimbaud with Marshall amps. She has transformed the way an entire generation looks, thinks and dreams. With her inimitable soul of an artist, Patti Smith proves over and over again that people have the power."
On June 19, 2011, Patti Smith made her acting debut on the TV series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", appearing in an episode called "Icarus".
Smith has recorded a cover of Buddy Holly's classic "Words of Love" for the CD ''Rave On Buddy Holly'', a tribute album tied to Holly's seventy-fifth birthday year which was released June 28, 2011.
Influence
Smith has been a great source of inspiration for Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Listening to her album ''Horses'' when he was 15 made a huge impact on him; he said later, "I decided then that I was going to start a band." In 1998, Stipe published a collection of photos called ''Two Times Intro: On the Road with Patti Smith.'' Stipe sings backing vocals on Smith's songs "Last Call" and "Glitter in Their Eyes." Patti also sings background vocals on R.E.M.'s songs "E-Bow the Letter" and "Blue".In 2004, Shirley Manson of Garbage spoke of Smith's influence on her in ''Rolling Stone'''s issue "The Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time", in which Patti Smith was counted number 47. The Smiths members Morrissey and Johnny Marr shared an appreciation for Smith's ''Horses,'' and reveal that their song "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" is a reworking of one of the album's tracks, "Kimberly". In 2004, Sonic Youth released an album called ''Hidros 3 (to Patti Smith)''. U2 also cites Patti Smith as an influence. In 2005 Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall released the single "Suddenly I See" as a tribute of sorts to Patti Smith. Canadian actress Ellen Page frequently mentions Smith as one of her idols and has done various photo shoots replicating famous Smith photos. In 1978 and 1979, Gilda Radner portrayed a character called Candy Slice on ''Saturday Night Live'' based on Smith.
Activism
In 1993, Smith contributed "Memorial Tribute (Live)" to the AIDS-Benefit Album No Alternative produced by the Red Hot Organization.Furthermore, Smith has been a supporter of the Green Party and backed Ralph Nader in the 2000 United States presidential election. She led the crowd singing "Over the Rainbow" and "People Have the Power" at the campaign's rallies, and also performed at several of Nader's subsequent "Democracy Rising" events. Smith was a speaker and singer at the first protests against the Iraq War organized by Lou Posner of Voter March on September 12, 2002, as U.S. President George W. Bush spoke to the United Nations General Assembly. Smith supported Democratic candidate John Kerry in the 2004 election. Bruce Springsteen continued performing her "People Have the Power" at Vote for Change campaign events. In the winter of 2004/2005, Smith toured again with Nader in a series of rallies against the Iraq War and calls for the impeachment of George W. Bush.
Smith premiered two new protest songs in London in September 2006. Louise Jury, writing in ''The Independent'', characterized them as "an emotional indictment of American and Israeli foreign policy". Song "Qana"
In an interview, Smith stated that Kurnaz's family has contacted her and that she wrote a short preface for the book that he was writing. Kurnaz's book, "Five Years of My Life," was published in English by Palgrave Macmillan in March 2008, with Patti's introduction.
On March 26, 2003, ten days after Rachel Corrie's death, Smith appeared in Austin, Texas, and performed an anti-war concert. She prefaced her song "Wild Leaves" with the following comments and subsequently wrote a new song "Peaceable Kingdom" which was inspired by and is dedicated to Rachel Corrie.
In 2009, in her Meltdown concert in Festival Hall, she paid homage to the Iranians taking part in post-election protests by saying "Where is My Vote?" in a version of the song "People Have the Power".
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