2008

2008 Tibetan unrest
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African-American
http://wn.com/African-American

Agata Mróz-Olszewska
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Aimé Césaire
http://wn.com/Aimé_Césaire

Alain Robbe-Grillet
http://wn.com/Alain_Robbe-Grillet

Alan E. Nourse
http://wn.com/Alan_E_Nourse

Albert Hofmann
http://wn.com/Albert_Hofmann

Alexei Cherepanov
http://wn.com/Alexei_Cherepanov

Alexey Prokurorov
http://wn.com/Alexey_Prokurorov

Alfredo Reinado
Alfredo Alves Reinado (November 11, 1968 – February 11, 2008), sometimes spelled Reinhado, was a former major in the military of Timor-Leste, the Timor Leste Defence Force (F-FDTL). He deserted on May 4, 2006 to join approximately 600 former soldiers who had been sacked in March 2006 after complaining of regional discrimination in promotions, sparking the 2006 East Timor crisis. Reinado was one of the leaders of the rebel soldiers, and the highest ranking deserter.
http://wn.com/Alfredo_Reinado

Algis Budrys
http://wn.com/Algis_Budrys

All Saints
'''All Saints' Day (in the Roman Catholic Church officially the Solemnity of All Saints and also called All Hallows or Hallowmas), often shortened to All Saints''', is a solemnity celebrated on 1 November in Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity, in honour of all the saints, known and unknown.
http://wn.com/All_Saints

Andrew Bertie
http://wn.com/Andrew_Bertie

Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 1954 — 18 March 2008) was an English film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.
http://wn.com/Anthony_Minghella

Antonio Innocenti
Antonio Innocenti (23 August 1915 – 6 September 2008) was a cardinal who was a mainstay of the Roman Curia and the Vatican diplomatic service for many years. He was born in Poppi, Italy.
http://wn.com/Antonio_Innocenti

Arthur C. Clarke
http://wn.com/Arthur_C_Clarke

Arthur Mutambara
Arthur Guseni Oliver Mutambara (born 25 May 1966) is a Zimbabwean politician. He became the President of the Movement for Democratic Change-Mutambara faction (MDC) in February 2006. He has worked as the Managing Director and CEO of Africa Technology and Business Institute since September 2003. Under a September 2008 power-sharing agreement, Mutambara became Deputy Prime Minister on 11 February 2009.
http://wn.com/Arthur_Mutambara

Arthur Shawcross
Arthur John Shawcross (June 6, 1945 – November 10, 2008) was an American serial killer, also known as The Genesee River Killer in Rochester, New York. He claimed most of his victims after being paroled early following a conviction in the manslaughter of two children, which led to criticism of the justice system.
http://wn.com/Arthur_Shawcross

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.
http://wn.com/Austria

Avery Dulles
Avery Robert Dulles, S.J. (August 24, 1918 – December 12, 2008) was a Jesuit priest, theologian, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and served as the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University from 1988 to 2008. He was an internationally known author and lecturer.
http://wn.com/Avery_Dulles

Baba Amte
http://wn.com/Baba_Amte

Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.
http://wn.com/Barack_Obama

Beijing
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Benoît Lamy
http://wn.com/Benoît_Lamy

Bernardin Gantin
Bernardin Gantin (8 May 1922 – 13 May 2008) was a Beninese cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the highest-ranking black African in the history of the Catholic Church, though three early Popes came from the Mediterranean shores of the African landmass.
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Bernie Mac
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough (October 5, 1957August 9, 2008) better known by his stage name Bernie Mac, was an American actor and comedian. Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Mac gained popularity as a stand-up comedian. He joined comedians Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, and D. L. Hughley as The Original Kings of Comedy.
http://wn.com/Bernie_Mac

Bettie Page
http://wn.com/Bettie_Page

Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen.
http://wn.com/Bill_Gates

Bo Diddley
http://wn.com/Bo_Diddley

Boris Efimov
http://wn.com/Boris_Efimov

Brad Renfro
http://wn.com/Brad_Renfro

Bronisław Geremek
http://wn.com/Bronisław_Geremek

Buddhism
http://wn.com/Buddhism

Caspar Weinberger
Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger (August 18, 1917 – March 28, 2006), was an American politician, vice president and general counsel of Bechtel Corporation, and Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan from January 21, 1981, until November 23, 1987, making him the third longest-serving defense secretary to date, after Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld. He is also known for his role in the Strategic Defense Initiative and the Iran-Contra Affair.
http://wn.com/Caspar_Weinberger

Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor of film, theatre and television.
http://wn.com/Charlton_Heston

Chinghiz Aitmatov
Chyngyz Aitmatov (, ; ) (12 December 1928, Sheker, Kirghiz ASSR, USSR - 10 June 2008, Nuremberg, Germany) was a Soviet and Kyrgyz author who wrote in both Russian and Kyrgyz. He was the best known figure in Kyrgyzstan's literature.
http://wn.com/Chinghiz_Aitmatov

Claude Piron
Claude Piron (26 February 1931 – 22 January 2008), a linguist and psychologist, was a translator for the United Nations (from Chinese, English, Russian and Spanish into French) from 1956 to 1961.
http://wn.com/Claude_Piron

Cornell Capa
http://wn.com/Cornell_Capa

Craig Lowndes
Craig Lowndes (born 21 June 1974 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian racing driver, three time V8 Supercar champion and five time Bathurst 1000 winner.
http://wn.com/Craig_Lowndes

Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse (March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008) was an American actress and dancer.
http://wn.com/Cyd_Charisse

David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron (; born 9 October 1966) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, and Leader of the Conservative Party. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney.
http://wn.com/David_Cameron

David Foster Wallace
http://wn.com/David_Foster_Wallace

Dimitris Christofias
Dimitris Christofias also Demetris () is a left-wing Greek Cypriot politician and the current and sixth President of the Republic of Cyprus. Christofias was the General Secretary of AKEL and is Cyprus's first, and the European Union's first and so far only, communist head of state. He won the 2008 Cypriot presidential elections in the second round of voting. Throughout the election campaign, he pledged to restart talks with Turkish Cypriots in order to find a solution to the Cyprus dispute and reunify the island. He has also supported the closure of the British military bases on Cyprus.
http://wn.com/Dimitris_Christofias

Dino Risi
http://wn.com/Dino_Risi

Dith Pran
Dith Pran (27 September 1942 - 30 March 2008) was a Cambodian photojournalist best known as a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian Holocaust. He was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields (1984). He was portrayed in the movie by first-time actor Haing S. Ngor (1940-1996), who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.
http://wn.com/Dith_Pran

Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (; born 14 September 1965) is the third and current President of the Russian Federation, inaugurated on 7 May 2008. He won the presidential election held on 2 March 2008 with 71.25% of the popular vote.
http://wn.com/Dmitry_Medvedev

Don LaFontaine
http://wn.com/Don_LaFontaine

Dražan Jerković
http://wn.com/Dražan_Jerković

Eartha Kitt
http://wn.com/Eartha_Kitt

Edmund Hillary
http://wn.com/Edmund_Hillary

Edward Norton Lorenz
Edward Norton Lorenz (May 23, 1917 - April 16, 2008) was an American mathematician and meteorologist, and a pioneer of chaos theory. He discovered the strange attractor notion and coined the term butterfly effect.
http://wn.com/Edward_Norton_Lorenz

Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) is the reigning queen and head of state of 16 independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. In addition, as Head of the Commonwealth, she is the figurehead of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations and, as the British monarch, she is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
http://wn.com/Elizabeth_II

Erik Ortvad
http://wn.com/Erik_Ortvad

Evelyn Keyes
Evelyn Louise Keyes (November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008) was an American film actress. She is best-known for her role as Suellen O'Hara in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind.
http://wn.com/Evelyn_Keyes

Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban politician. One of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Castro served as the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then as the President of the Council of State of Cuba and the President of Council of Ministers of Cuba until his resignation from the office in February 2008. He currently serves as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, a position he has held since 1965.
http://wn.com/Fidel_Castro

First Nations
http://wn.com/First_Nations

François Sterchele
http://wn.com/François_Sterchele

Fred Sinowatz
http://wn.com/Fred_Sinowatz

Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives for modern jazz and bebop.
http://wn.com/Freddie_Hubbard

Galyani Vadhana
Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana, the Princess of Naradhiwas ( Full title: Somdet Phra Chao Phi Nang Thoe Chao Fa Galyani Vadhana Kromma Luang Narathiwat Ratchanakharin - ; literally: Royal Elder Sister Galyani Vadhana, the Princess of Narathiwat), or Princess Galyani Vadhana (; RTGS: Kanlayaniwatthana) (6 May 1923–2 January 2008), was a princess of Thailand and the elder sister of King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) and King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX). She was also a direct granddaughter of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V).
http://wn.com/Galyani_Vadhana

Gary Gygax
http://wn.com/Gary_Gygax

Gautama Buddha
http://wn.com/Gautama_Buddha

George Emil Palade
George Emil Palade (November 19, 1912 – October 7, 2008) was a Romanian-American cell biologist. In 1974, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve, for discovering the vacuole.
http://wn.com/George_Emil_Palade

George Habash
http://wn.com/George_Habash

George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (; born July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut) was the 43rd President of the United States, serving from 2001 to 2009, and the 46th Governor of Texas, serving from 1995 to 2000.
http://wn.com/George_W_Bush

Gilles Duceppe
http://wn.com/Gilles_Duceppe

Giuseppe Di Stefano
Giuseppe Di Stefano (24 July 1921 – 3 March 2008) was an Italian operatic tenor who sang professionally from the late 1940s until the early 1970s. In his prime, he was known as the "Golden voice" or "The most beautiful voice", as the true successor of Beniamino Gigli. He was also known for his long-term performance and recording association and brief romantic episode with the soprano Maria Callas.
http://wn.com/Giuseppe_Di_Stefano

Gordon B. Hinckley
http://wn.com/Gordon_B_Hinckley

Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford (born 30 January 1941 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.
http://wn.com/Gregory_Benford

György Kolonics
http://wn.com/György_Kolonics

Hamid Karzai
http://wn.com/Hamid_Karzai

Harald zur Hausen
Harald zur Hausen (born March 11, 1936 in Gelsenkirchen, Province of Westphalia) is a German virologist and professor emeritus. He has done research on cancer of the cervix, where he discovered the role of papilloma viruses, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008.
http://wn.com/Harald_zur_Hausen

Harold Pinter
http://wn.com/Harold_Pinter

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.
http://wn.com/Heath_Ledger

Henri Cartan
http://wn.com/Henri_Cartan

Henri Salvador
Henri Salvador (18 July 1917 - 13 February 2008) was a French singer.
http://wn.com/Henri_Salvador

Hrvoje Ćustić
http://wn.com/Hrvoje_Ćustić

Hua Guofeng
http://wn.com/Hua_Guofeng

Hugo Claus
Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (; 5 April 1929 – 19 March 2008) was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, the novel, and poetry; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director. He wrote primarily in Dutch, although he also wrote some poetry in English.
http://wn.com/Hugo_Claus

Ibrahim Nasir
http://wn.com/Ibrahim_Nasir

Imad Mughniyah
http://wn.com/Imad_Mughniyah

Iranian peoples
The Iranian people or Iranic peoples are a historical ethnic-linguistic group, forming a branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly on the Iranian plateau and beyond in central, southern, and southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe. As a group of people, they are predominantly defined along linguistic lines as speaking the Iranian languages, a major branch of the Indo-European language family. They are spread across the Iranian plateau, stretching from the Hindu Kush to the Armenian Highlands and central Anatolia and from Central Asia to the Persian Gulf - a region that is sometimes termed Greater Iran. Speakers of Iranian languages, however, were once found throughout Eurasia, from the Balkans to western China. As Iranian people are not confined to the borders of the current state of Iran, the term Iranic peoples is sometimes used to avoid confusion with the citizens of Iran.
http://wn.com/Iranian_peoples

Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov ( ; born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov, ; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards. His works have been published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (The sole exception being the 100s: philosophy and psychology, although he did write a foreword for The Humanist way, which is published in the 100s).
http://wn.com/Isaac_Asimov

Ivan Rebroff
:For the Kyrgyz politician, see Ivan Rebrov.
http://wn.com/Ivan_Rebroff

Jacques Piccard
Jacques Piccard (28 July 1922 – 1 November 2008) was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed underwater vehicles for studying ocean currents. He is one of only two people, along with Lt. Don Walsh of the United States Navy, to have explored the deepest part of the world's ocean, and the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust, the Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench located in the western North Pacific Ocean.
http://wn.com/Jacques_Piccard

Jamie Whincup
Jamie Whincup (born 6 February 1983 in Melbourne, Victoria) is the reigning V8 Supercar champion, driving for TeamVodafone.
http://wn.com/Jamie_Whincup

Jean Delannoy
Jean Delannoy (12 January 1908 – 18 June 2008) was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.
http://wn.com/Jean_Delannoy

Jean-Marie Balestre
Jean-Marie Balestre (April 9, 1921 – March 27, 2008) was a French auto racing executive, who was president of FISA from 1978 to 1991 and of the FIA from 1985 to 1993.
http://wn.com/Jean-Marie_Balestre

Jeff Healey
Norman Jeffrey "Jeff" Healey (March 25, 1966 - March 2, 2008) was a blind Canadian jazz and blues-rock vocalist and guitarist who attained musical and personal popularity, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s.
http://wn.com/Jeff_Healey

Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (born August 7, 1933) is an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte and has since 1998 been maintaining his own website/blog.
http://wn.com/Jerry_Pournelle

Jerry Wexler
Gerald "Jerry" Wexler (January 10, 1917 – August 15, 2008) was a music journalist turned music producer, and was regarded as one of the major record industry players behind music from the 1950s through the 1980s. He coined the term "rhythm and blues", and was integral in signing and/or producing many of the biggest acts of the last 50 years, including Ray Charles, the Allman Brothers, Chris Connor, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Wilson Pickett, Dusty Springfield and Bob Dylan. Wexler was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Jerry Wexler was one of the most highly-regarded A&R; men in popular music history, a status bolstered by his accomplishments with Aretha Franklin.
http://wn.com/Jerry_Wexler

Jesse Helms
Jesse Alexander Helms, Jr. (October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008) was a five-term Republican United States Senator from North Carolina who served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001. A leading conservative, he helped organize and fund the conservative resurgence in the 1970s, aiding Ronald Reagan quest for the White House and helping many local and regional candidates.
http://wn.com/Jesse_Helms

John Barnes (author)
John Barnes (born 1957) is an American science fiction author. His stories generally focus on moral responsibility and social criticism within social contexts. The four novels in his Thousand Cultures series pose serious questions about the effects of globalization on isolated societies. Barnes holds a doctorate in theatre and for several years taught in Colorado, where he still lives.
http://wn.com/John_Barnes_(author)

Johnny Griffin
John Arnold Griffin III (April 24, 1928 – July 25, 2008) was an American bop and hard bop tenor saxophonist.
http://wn.com/Johnny_Griffin

Joseph Weizenbaum
http://wn.com/Joseph_Weizenbaum

Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg (May 23, 1925 – February 2, 2008) was an American molecular biologist known for his work in genetics, artificial intelligence, and space exploration. He was just 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes. He shared the prize with Edward L. Tatum and George Beadle who won for their work with genetics.
http://wn.com/Joshua_Lederberg

José Ramos-Horta
http://wn.com/José_Ramos-Horta

Juan Camilo Mouriño
http://wn.com/Juan_Camilo_Mouriño

Jules Dassin
http://wn.com/Jules_Dassin

Julian May
Julian May (born July 10, 1931) is an American science fiction writer, best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile (Saga of the Exiles in the UK) and Galactic Milieu books.
http://wn.com/Julian_May

Jörg Haider
http://wn.com/Jörg_Haider

Jørn Utzon
http://wn.com/Jørn_Utzon

Karen Asrian
http://wn.com/Karen_Asrian

Kashgar
http://wn.com/Kashgar

Kevin Rudd
Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian politician, the current Minister for Foreign Affairs, and a former Prime Minister of Australia. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives since the 1998 federal election, representing Griffith, Queensland. He was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia, from December 2007 until June 2010.
http://wn.com/Kevin_Rudd

Kiyoshi Itō
http://wn.com/Kiyoshi_Itō

Kon Ichikawa
was a Japanese film director.
http://wn.com/Kon_Ichikawa

Kurt Furgler
Kurt Furgler (June 24, 1924 - July 23, 2008) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1972-1986).
http://wn.com/Kurt_Furgler

Lansana Conté
http://wn.com/Lansana_Conté

Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938 in Los Angeles, California) is an American science fiction author. Perhaps his best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes The Magic Goes Away series, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. Niven also writes humorous stories; one series is collected in The Flight of the Horse.
http://wn.com/Larry_Niven

Levy Mwanawasa
http://wn.com/Levy_Mwanawasa

Leyla Gencer
http://wn.com/Leyla_Gencer

Ljube Boškoski
http://wn.com/Ljube_Boškoski

Luc Bourdon
http://wn.com/Luc_Bourdon

Luc Montagnier
http://wn.com/Luc_Montagnier

Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish () (13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet. In his work, Palestine became a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile.
http://wn.com/Mahmoud_Darwish

Maila Nurmi
Maila Nurmi (December 11, 1922 – January 10, 2008) was a Finnish-American actress who created the campy 1950s character
http://wn.com/Maila_Nurmi

Majel Barrett
http://wn.com/Majel_Barrett

Manuel Marulanda
For the town Marulanda click here.
http://wn.com/Manuel_Marulanda

Margaret Truman
http://wn.com/Margaret_Truman

Mark Spitz
Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is a retired American swimmer. He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, an achievement surpassed only by Michael Phelps who won eight golds at the 2008 Olympics. Between 1968 and 1972, Spitz won nine Olympic golds plus a silver and a bronze, five Pan American golds, 31 US Amateur Athletic Union titles and eight US National Collegiate Athletic Association titles. During those years, he set 33 world records. He was named World Swimmer of the Year in 1969, 1971 and 1972.
http://wn.com/Mark_Spitz

Martin Chalfie
Martin Chalfie (born January 15, 1947) is an American scientist. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where he is also chair of the department of biological sciences. He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Osamu Shimomura and Roger Y. Tsien "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP". He holds a Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard University.
http://wn.com/Martin_Chalfie

Masanobu Fukuoka
(February 2, 1913 – August 16, 2008), a Japanese natural-philosopher-farmer, , writer, naturalist, researcher and professional biological scientist early in working life, and an overall polymath.
http://wn.com/Masanobu_Fukuoka

Mate Parlov
Mate Parlov (November 16, 1948 – July 29, 2008) was a Yugoslavian boxer, and an Olympic gold medalist for former Yugoslavia. As a professional, he won the European light heavyweight title in 1976 and WBC light heavyweight world title in 1978.
http://wn.com/Mate_Parlov

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom () (born December 29, 1937) was President of the Maldives from 1978 to 2008. After serving as Minister of Transport, he was elected as President by the Majlis and succeeded Ibrahim Nasir on November 11, 1978. He eventually became the longest-ruling head of government in Asia. After 30 years in office, Gayoom was defeated in the October 2008 presidential election and was succeeded by the opposition leader, Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldivian Democratic Party on November 11, 2008 - exactly 30 years to the day he first came to power. Gayoom also served as the leader of the Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party from 2005 to 2010. Remaining as the opposition leader from November 2008 onwards, in January 2010 Gayoom retired from active politics and was bestowed with the title of "Zaeem" (Honorary Leader) by the third congress of the DRP.
http://wn.com/Maumoon_Abdul_Gayoom

Mauricio Kagel
http://wn.com/Mauricio_Kagel

Mehmet Ali Talat
http://wn.com/Mehmet_Ali_Talat

Mel Ferrer
http://wn.com/Mel_Ferrer

Michael Crichton
http://wn.com/Michael_Crichton

Michael E. DeBakey
Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was a world-renowned Lebanese-American cardiac surgeon, innovator, scientist, medical educator, and international medical statesman. DeBakey was the chancellor emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and director of The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center and senior attending surgeon of The Methodist Hospital in Houston.
http://wn.com/Michael_E_DeBakey

Michael Phelps
Swimmer
http://wn.com/Michael_Phelps

Mikel Laboa
http://wn.com/Mikel_Laboa

Mitch Mitchell
John "Mitch" Mitchell (9 July 1947 – 12 November 2008) was an English drummer, best known for his work in The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
http://wn.com/Mitch_Mitchell

Natalia Bessmertnova
http://wn.com/Natalia_Bessmertnova

Neil Aspinall
http://wn.com/Neil_Aspinall

Nikola Kljusev
Nikola Kljusev () (October 2, 1927 – January 16, 2008) was a Macedonian academician and politician. Kljusev served as the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia from January 27, 1991 until August 17, 1992, following the country's independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991.
http://wn.com/Nikola_Kljusev

Nina Foch
Nina Foch (April 20, 1924 - December 5, 2008) was a Dutch-born American actress and leading lady in many 1940s and 1950s films.
http://wn.com/Nina_Foch

Nouhak Phoumsavanh
http://wn.com/Nouhak_Phoumsavanh

Odetta
Odetta Holmes, (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008) known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she was influential musically and ideologically to many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin.
http://wn.com/Odetta

Ollie Johnston
Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr. (October 31, 1912 – April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death. He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company with its Disney Legend Award in 1989. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005.
http://wn.com/Ollie_Johnston

Osamu Shimomura
is a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and Professor Emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University Medical School. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP) with two American scientists: Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and Roger Tsien of the University of California-San Diego.
http://wn.com/Osamu_Shimomura

Ove Andersson
:For persons with a similar name, see Ove Andersen.
http://wn.com/Ove_Andersson

Paavo Haavikko
http://wn.com/Paavo_Haavikko

Palestinian people
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Patrick Hillery
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Paul Frère
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Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman (; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. In 2008, Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his contributions to New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography. He was voted sixth in a 2005 global poll of the world's top 100 intellectuals by Prospect.
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Paul Newman
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Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008), better known as Paul Scofield, was an English actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, a reprise of the role he played in the stage version at the West End and on Broadway for which he received a Tony Award.
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Pervez Musharraf
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Peter Poreku Dery
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Phil Hill
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Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI (; ; ; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the head of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. A native of Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship. He succeeded John Paul II.
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Prachanda
Prachanda ( , ; born Chhabilal Dahal on 11 December 1954, later Pushpa Kamal Dahal ( ) is a former guerrilla leader and chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). Prachanda led CPN (M) as it launched an insurgency on 13 February 1996. In 2008 the ensuing civil war culminated in the overthrow of the Shah dynasty in favor of a republic. About 13,000 Nepalese died in this conflict.
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Radovan Karadžić
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Ram Baran Yadav
Dr. Ram Baran Yadav () (born 4 February 1948) is the current President of Nepal. He was elected in July 2008 and is the country's first President. He previously served as Minister of Health and as General Secretary of the Nepali Congress party.
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Randy Pausch
Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pausch learned that he had pancreatic cancer in September 2006, and in August 2007 he was given a terminal diagnosis: "3 to 6 months of good health left". He gave an upbeat lecture entitled "The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" on September 18, 2007 at Carnegie Mellon, which became a popular YouTube video and led to other media appearances. He then co-authored a book called The Last Lecture on the same theme, which became a New York Times best-seller. Pausch died of complications from pancreatic cancer on July 25, 2008.
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Raúl Castro
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Raúl Reyes
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René Harris
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Rob Knox
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Robert Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe (, ; born 21 February 1924) is the second and current President of Zimbabwe. One of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power as the head of government since 1980, as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987, and as the first executive head of state since 1987.
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Robert Rauschenberg
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Roger Y. Tsien
Roger Yonchien Tsien (; born February 1, 1952) is an American biochemist and a professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego. He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) with two other chemists: Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and Osamu Shimomura of Boston University and Marine Biological Laboratory.
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Ronnie Drew
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Sam Manekshaw
Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, MC "Sam Bahadur" (lit. sam the Brave) (3 April 1914 – 27 June 2008) was an Indian Army officer. In a long career spanning nearly four decades, Manekshaw rose to be the 8th chief of staff of the Indian Army in 1969 and under his command, Indian forces concluded a victorious campaign during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
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Samak Sundaravej
Samak Sundaravej (June 13, 1935 – November 24, 2009) (; RTGS: Samak Sunthorawet) was a Thai politician who briefly served as the Prime Minister of Thailand and Minister of Defense in 2008, as well as the leader of the People's Power Party in 2008.
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Samuel P. Huntington
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Seamus Brennan
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Shandong
For the people of Shandong, see Shandong people
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Sichuan
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Somchai Wongsawat
Somchai Wongsawat (, born August 31, 1947) is a Thai politician, as well as former executive member of the People's Power Party (PPP) whose political rights have been disfranchised by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) for five years.
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Stan Winston
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Static Major
Stephen Ellis Garrett (November 11, 1974 – February 25, 2008) better known as his stage name Static Major, was an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer from Louisville, Kentucky. He was a member of the R&B; trio Playa. Static major gained posthumous fame for appearing in Lil Wayne's 2008 hit "Lollipop". Static Major was a producer of songs from several artists. Such artists he has helped produce songs for Aaliyah, Ginuwine and Pretty Ricky. Static Major died suddenly on the operating table before Lil Wayne's "Lollipop" was released in his album, Tha Carter III in which he was featured.
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Stephen Harper
Stephen Joseph Harper, PC, MP (born April 30, 1959) is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Canada, and leader of the Conservative Party. Harper became Prime Minister after his party won a minority government in the 2006 federal election. He is the first Prime Minister from the newly reconstituted Conservative Party, following a merger of the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties.
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Studs Terkel
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Stéphane Dion
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Suharto
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Suzanne Pleshette
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Sven Davidson
Sven Davidson (July 13, - 28 May 2008) is a former Swedish tennis player. He won, as first Swede, the French Open in . He had earlier reached the final but lost against Tony Trabert and Lew Hoad.
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Sydney Pollack
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Sœur Emmanuelle
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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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Tassos Papadopoulos
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Thomas Huckle Weller
Thomas Huckle Weller (June 15, 1915 – August 23, 2008) was an American virologist. He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using tissue from a monkey.
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Théoneste Bagosora
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Tim Russert
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Tom Lantos
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Tommy Lapid
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Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman (May 27, 1925 - October 26, 2008) was an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels. Some of his works were made into big-screen and television movies.
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Tony Snow
Robert Anthony "Tony" Snow (June 1, 1955 – July 12, 2008) was an American journalist, political commentator, television news anchor, syndicated columnist, radio host, musician, and the third White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush. Snow also worked for President George H. W. Bush as chief speechwriter and Deputy Assistant of Media Affairs. He served as White House Press Secretary from May 2006 until his resignation effective September 2007.
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Toshihide Maskawa
(born February 7, 1940 in Nagoya, Japan) is a theoretical physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one quarter of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."
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Tsvetanka Khristova
Tsvetanka Mincheva Khristova () (sometimes spelled Tsvetanka Hristova, March 14, 1962 – November 14, 2008) was a Bulgarian discus thrower who competed from the early 1980s to the mid 2000s, with a career break for a drugs ban.
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Van Johnson
Van Johnson (August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during and after World War II.
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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (; born 7 October 1952) served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when president Boris Yeltsin resigned in a surprising move, and then Putin won the 2000 presidential election. In 2004 he was re-elected for a second term lasting until 7 May 2008.
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Võ Văn Kiệt
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Willis Lamb
Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. (July 12, 1913 – May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 together with Polykarp Kusch "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum". Lamb and Kusch were able to precisely determine certain electromagnetic properties of the electron (see Lamb shift). Lamb was a professor at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences.
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Xinjiang
Xinjiang (; ; ; Postal map spelling: Sinkiang) is an autonomous region (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest Chinese administrative division and spans over 1.6 million km2. Xinjiang borders Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, has abundant oil reserves and is China's largest natural gas-producing region.
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Yegor Letov
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Yma Sumac
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Yo-Sam Choi
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Yoichiro Nambu
is a Japanese-born American physicist, currently a professor at the University of Chicago. Known for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded a one-half share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. The other half share was split equally between Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."
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Yousaf Raza Gillani
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Youssef Chahine
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Yuri Glazkov
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Íngrid Betancourt
Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio (born 25 December 1961) is a French-Colombian politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist.
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Šaban Bajramović
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Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s – 2000s – 2010s 2020s 2030s
Years:	2005 2006 2007 – 2008 – 2009 2010 2011

Gregorian calendar	2008 MMVIII
Ab urbe condita	2761
Armenian calendar	1457 ԹՎ ՌՆԾԷ
Assyrian calendar	6758
Bahá'í calendar	164–165
Bengali calendar	1415
Berber calendar	2958
British Regnal year	56 Eliz. 2 – 57 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2552
Burmese calendar	1370
Byzantine calendar	7516–7517
Chinese calendar	丁亥年十一月廿三日 (4644/4704-11-23) — to — 戊子年十二月初五日 (4645/4705-12-5)
Coptic calendar	1724–1725
Ethiopian calendar	2000–2001
Hebrew calendar	5768–5769
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2064–2065
- Shaka Samvat	1930–1931
- Kali Yuga	5109–5110
Holocene calendar	12008
Iranian calendar	1386–1387
Islamic calendar	1428–1430
Japanese calendar	Heisei 20 (平成20年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4341
Minguo calendar	ROC 97 民國97年
Thai solar calendar	2551
Unix time	1199145600–1230767999
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Persondata
Name	Earworm, Dj
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Guru Josh
Born	(1964-06-09) 9 June 1964 (age 48)
Genres	Acid House, Techno, Electro house
Years active	1981–present
Labels	Deconstruction, Ministry of Sound,
Associated acts	Seal and Adamski
Website	Official Website

Persondata
Name	Josh, Guru
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Date of birth	9 June 1964
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Year	Single	Chart performance
Year	Single	UK ^[7]	GER ^[8]	AUT ^[9]	SUI ^[10]	FRA ^[11]	NED ^[12]	SWE ^[13]	ITA ^[14]	FIN ^[15]	NOR ^[16]	ICE ^[17]
1989	Infinity (1990s...Time For The Guru)	5	2	5	4	—	3	—	—	—	5	—
1990	Whose Law (Is It Anyway?)	26	12	18	14	—	30	—	—	—	—	—
2008	Infinity 2008 (as Guru Josh Project)	3	4	3	2	1	1	8	20	6	3	1
2009	Crying In The Rain (as Guru Josh Project)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2010	Frozen Teardrops (as Guru Josh)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2011	Love of Life (as Guru Josh)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
"—" denotes a single that did not chart

Rémi Gaillard
Gaillard in 2011
Born	(1975-02-07) February 7, 1975 (age 37)
Occupation	Pranker, Humorist
Years active	1999–present
Home town	Montpellier, France
Internet information
Web alias(es)	Rémi Gaillard
Web hosting service(s)	YouTube
Website
nimportequi.com.

Persondata
Name	Gaillard, Remi
Alternative names	King Of Trolls,Dare Devil
Short description	French humorist
Date of birth	1975-02-0
Place of birth	Montpellier, France
Date of death
Place of death

Matthew Harding
Matt Harding in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan on January 27, 2007.
Born	Matthew Harding (1976-09-27) September 27, 1976 (age 35)
Internet information
Web alias(es)	Matt
Web hosting service(s)	YouTube
Meme	Where the Hell is Matt?
Website
http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/

Persondata
Name	Harding, Matt
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Date of birth	September 27, 1976
Place of birth
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