Leonard Bernstein--(August 25, 1918 - October 14, 1990) was an American composer, pianist and conductor. He was the first conductor born in the United States of America to receive world-wide acclaim, and is known for both his conducting of the New York Philharmonic, including the acclaimed Young People's Concerts series, and his multiple compositions, including West Side Story, Candide and On The Town.
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Sun 24 Sep, 2006 06:28 am
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC - (born September 21, 1934 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter.
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Sun 24 Sep, 2006 06:45 am
Norman Kingsley Mailer...born January 1923, supposedly still living...Often married writer who helped co-found The Village Voice (weekly newspaper in New York, at one time quite good, these days overwhelmed with advertisements). He won 2 Pulitzer prize awards, one for fiction (Armies of The Night) and one for non-fiction (The Executioner's Song). Some people enjoy his writings, others (myself included) do not.
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Sun 24 Sep, 2006 06:57 am
Gregory John Norman - (born February 10, 1955) is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's number one ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s. He is nicknamed "The Great White Shark", a reference to a shark inhabiting Australian waters as well as Norman's size and blond locks.
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Sun 24 Sep, 2006 07:07 am
Gregory Oliver Hines--(February 14, 1946 - August 9, 2003) was an American actor, singer, and dancer, regarded by many as the greatest tap dancer of his generation.
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Sun 24 Sep, 2006 07:40 am
Oliver Hardy - (born Norvell Hardy January 18, 1892-August 7, 1957) was an American actor, most remembered for his role in one of the world's most famous double acts, Laurel and Hardy, with his friend Stan Laurel
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Sun 24 Sep, 2006 08:37 am
Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS--(February 7, 1877 - December 1, 1947) was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. He was called "Harold" by a few close friends, and otherwise "G. H.".
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Sun 24 Sep, 2006 04:08 pm
Harold Edward Holt CH - (5 August 1908-17 December 1967) was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia, now best remembered for the bizarre circumstances of his death.
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Tue 26 Sep, 2006 10:43 pm
Tim Holt - Late American actor who starred in about a million B grade western movies in the 1940's.
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Tue 26 Sep, 2006 10:45 pm
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, KBE - (born June 8, 1955 in London, England) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development.
Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 " 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. He remains closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor; the couple's passionate relationship was rarely out of the news
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Shawn Fanning -- (born November 22, 1980, Brockton, Massachusetts) Created Napster, the first file sharing device.
Wallace Shaw, actor and playwright, intellectual extradordinaire: The Princess Bride, My Dinner With Andre, recent author of a collection of Essays entitled as such.
[Born 12 November 1943, New York City, New York, USA]
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (29 June 1911 " 1 December 2004), Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld, born Count Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter of Biesterfeld , was Prince Consort to the late Queen Juliana, and father of six children; one of them is the current monarch, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
Sandra Annette Bullock born July 26, 1964) is an American actress who came to fame in the 1990s, after roles in successful films such as Speed and While You Were Sleeping.
