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Sheldon Adelson
Entrepreneur / 1933 -
Sheldon Adelson developed COMDEX, a computer trade show, which made him a fortune and launched him into the casino resort business.
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(1933-)
Entrepreneur
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Akihito
Political Leader, Emperor / 1933 -
Akihito has been emperor of Japan since 1989 and is, according to tradition, the 125th direct descendant of Jimmu, Japan's legendary first emperor.
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(1933-)
Political Leader, Emperor
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Lou Albano
Film Actor, Television Actor, Athlete, Television Personality / 1933 - 2009
Lou Albano was a professional wrestler-turned-wrestling personality in the hugely popular World Wrestling Federation of the 1980s.
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(1933-2009)
Film Actor, Television Actor, Athlete, Television Personality
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Corazon Aquino
World Leader / 1933 - 2009
Corazon Aquino was the 11th president (and first female president) of the Philippines. She restored democracy after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
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(1933-2009)
World Leader
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Nicky Barnes
Drug Dealer, Organized Crime Boss / 1933 -
Sometimes called Mr. Untouchable, Leroy 'Nicky' Barnes became one of the biggest drug dealers in New York City during the 1970s.Âť
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(1933-)
Drug Dealer, Organized Crime Boss
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John Barry
Songwriter / 1933 - 2011
John Barry was a British film composer best known for his memorable work on James Bond films.
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(1933-2011)
Songwriter
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Jean-Paul Belmondo
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1933 -
Jean-Paul Belmondo is a French actor best known for starring in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless.
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(1933-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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Robert Blake
Film Actor, Television Actor / 1933 -
Robert Blake is an Emmy-winning actor known for his film roles and as the star of the '70s cop drama Baretta. He's also known for the murder trial of his second wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley.
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(1933-)
Film Actor, Television Actor
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Jeremy Brett
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1933 - 1995
Jeremy Brett was a British actor and singer known for his roles in My Fair Lady and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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(1933-1995)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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James Brown
Activist, Dancer, Songwriter, Singer / 1933 - 2006
James Brown, the "Godfather of Soul," was a prolific singer, songwriter and bandleader, as well as one of the most iconic figures in funk and soul music from 1956 to 2006.
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(1933-2006)
Activist, Dancer, Songwriter, Singer
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Carol Burnett
Actress, Comedian / 1933 -
Carol Burnett is a comedian and actress who had a long-running sketch and variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, in the 1960s and '70s.
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(1933-)
Actress, Comedian
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Michael Caine
Film Actor / 1933 -
Michael Caine is a beloved Oscar-winning actor known for his roles in films like Alfie, Hannah and Her Sisters and The Cider House Rules.
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(1933-)
Film Actor
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Anita Carter
Bassist, Singer / 1933 - 1999
Anita Carter is best known for singing with Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, a family band of early country music.
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(1933-1999)
Bassist, Singer
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Joan Collins
Film Actress, Television Actress / 1933 -
Actress Joan Collins played Alexis Carrington Colby, the vicious, vengeful ex-wife of patriarch Blake Carrington, on Aaron Spelling’s prime-time drama Dynasty.
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(1933-)
Film Actress, Television Actress
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Bert Convy
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Singer, Game Show Host / 1933 - 1991
Bert Convy was an actor and game show host for many decades. In addition to theater, Convy was the host of Super Password and Win, Lose, or Draw.
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(1933-1991)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Singer, Game Show Host
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Tim Conway
Comedian / 1933 -
Tim Conway is an American comedian and actor, best known for co-starring alongside Carol Burnett on The Carol Burnett Show.
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(1933-)
Comedian
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Philippe de Broca
Director / 1933 - 2004
Philippe de Broca was a French filmmaker, best known for his light-hearted comedies. He was awarded the Legion of Honor for his contributions to French culture.
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(1933-2004)
Director
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Dom DeLuise
Film Actor, Television Actor / 1933 - 2009
Dom DeLuise was an actor of film and TV known for parts in such Mel Brooks movies as Silent Movie and Blazing Saddles.
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(1933-2009)
Film Actor, Television Actor
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Sacha Distel
Songwriter, Singer / 1933 - 2004
Sacha Distel was a French singer and guitarist who had hits with a cover version of the Academy Award-winning "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head".
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(1933-2004)
Songwriter, Singer
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M. Joycelyn Elders
Civil Servant, Doctor / 1933 -
M. Joycelyn Elders is a physician who briefly served as U.S. Surgeon General under President Clinton.
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(1933-)
Civil Servant, Doctor
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Myrlie Evers-Williams
Civil Rights Activist, Journalist / 1933 -
Author and activist Myrlie Evers-Williams was the wife of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, and served as chair of the NAACP 1995–1998.
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(1933-)
Civil Rights Activist, Journalist
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Jerry Falwell
Radio Talk Show Host, Evangelist, Minister, Pastor, Television Personality / 1933 - 2007
Jerry Falwell is a religious leader, political activist and television evangelist. He restarted The Moral Majority Coalition in 2004.
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(1933-2007)
Radio Talk Show Host, Evangelist, Minister, Pastor, Television Personality
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Louis Farrakhan
Civil Rights Activist, Religious Leader / 1933 -
Louis Farrakhan has led the Nation of Islam, an African American movement that combined elements of Islam with black nationalism since 1978.
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(1933-)
Civil Rights Activist, Religious Leader
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Dianne Feinstein
Mayor, U.S. Representative / 1933 -
Dianne Feinstein is a United States senator from California and a former mayor of San Francisco.
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(1933-)
Mayor, U.S. Representative
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Ernest J. Gaines
Educator, Author / 1933 -
Novelist Ernest J. Gaines’s wrote The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, which reflects the African American experience and oral tradition of rural Louisiana.
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(1933-)
Educator, Author
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court Justice / 1933 -
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, the second woman to be appointed to the position.
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(1933-)
Supreme Court Justice
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Robert Goulet
Film Actor, Television Actor, Singer, Television Personality / 1933 - 2007
Actor Robert Goulet played a dashing Lancelot in 1960s and went on to a varied career as a singer and actor, winning a Tony, a Grammy and an Emmy.
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(1933-2007)
Film Actor, Television Actor, Singer, Television Personality
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Danny Greene
Organized Crime Boss / 1933 - 1977
Known as "The Irishman," Daniel "Danny" Greene was one of most notorious crime figures in the Midwest. He even took on the entire Mafia in his quest for power.
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(1933-1977)
Organized Crime Boss
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Quincy Jones
Children's Activist, Songwriter, Music Producer, Trumpet Player, Television Producer / 1933 -
Quincy Jones is best known as a composer and record producer for legendary musicians such as Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Celene Dion and Aretha Franklin.
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(1933-)
Children's Activist, Songwriter, Music Producer, Trumpet Player, Television Producer
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Larry King
Talk Show Host / 1933 -
In addition to his career of talk show host on Larry King Live, Larry King has appeared as himself in several movies and television shows.
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(1933-)
Talk Show Host
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Jerzy Kosinski
Author / 1933 - 1991
Jerzy Kosinksi was a Polish-American novelist. He wrote Being There in 1971, which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film in 1979.
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(1933-1991)
Author
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Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion Designer / 1933 -
In addition to his own label, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has been a major creative force behind such well-known brands as Tommy Hilfiger, Chanel, and Fendi.
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(1933-)
Fashion Designer
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Shari Lewis
Television Personality / 1933 - 1998
Shari Lewis was the host of Lamb Chop's Play-Along, which aired on PBS from 1992 to 1997, and received several Emmy Awards.
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(1933-1998)
Television Personality
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Jayne Mansfield
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Pin-up / 1933 - 1967
Jayne Mansfield was an American actress best known for her bombshell curves and roles in films during the 1950s and '60s.
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(1933-1967)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Pin-up
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Peter Mansfield
Academic, Physicist / 1933 -
Professor Peter Mansfield received the Nobel Prize for further developing magnetic resonance (MRI) technology, leading to its widespread use in hospitals.
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(1933-)
Academic, Physicist
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Cormac McCarthy
Author, Playwright / 1933 -
Cormac McCarthy is a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist best known for his Border Trilogy, including All the Pretty Horses.
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(1933-)
Author, Playwright
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James Meredith
Civil Rights Activist / 1933 -
James Meredith is a civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962.
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(1933-)
Civil Rights Activist
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Warith Deen Mohammed
Religious Leader / 1933 - 2008
Warith Deen Mohammed was a religious leader and son and successor of Elijah Muhammad as head of the Nation of Islam, which he reformed.
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(1933-2008)
Religious Leader
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Elizabeth Montgomery
Television Actress, Pin-up / 1933 - 1995
Actress Elizabeth Montgomery made magic on TV's top-rated sitcom Bewitched from 1964 to 1972.
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(1933-1995)
Television Actress, Pin-up
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Willie Nelson
Animal Rights Activist, Songwriter, Singer / 1933 -
Willie Nelson is a country singer and songwriter best known for hit songs including “Crazy” and “On the Road Again.”
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(1933-)
Animal Rights Activist, Songwriter, Singer
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Julie Newmar
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Pin-up / 1933 -
Film, stage and TV actress Julie Newmar played Catwoman in the 1960’s TV series Batman. She was also in the musical film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
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(1933-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Pin-up
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Kim Novak
Film Actor, Pin-up / 1933 -
Film actress Kim Novak was a leading box-office attraction of the 1950s, perhaps the last of the ‘sex goddesses’ produced by the Hollywood star system.
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(1933-)
Film Actor, Pin-up
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Yoko Ono
Anti-War Activist, Artist, Singer / 1933 -
Yoko Ono is a multimedia artist who became known worldwide in the 1960s when she married Beatles front man John Lennon.
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(1933-)
Anti-War Activist, Artist, Singer
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Joe Orton
Playwright / 1933 - 1967
British dramatist Joe Orton first fond success as a playwright in 1964, when his radio play The Ruffian on the Stair was broadcast by the BBC.
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(1933-1967)
Playwright
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Charles Osgood
Radio Talk Show Host, News Anchor, Journalist / 1933 -
Broadcast journalist Charles Osgood anchored CBS Morning News, the Sunday Night News and Sunday Morning. More recently, he has hosted The Osgood File.
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(1933-)
Radio Talk Show Host, News Anchor, Journalist
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Jack Perkins
News Anchor / 1933 -
Jack Perkins is an American reporter, dubbed "America's most literate correspondent." He has hosted and narrated for NBC Nightly News and A&E Biography.
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(1933-)
News Anchor
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Roman Polanski
Film Actor, Director / 1933 -
Known for his films, charges against him of statutory rape, and for his wife's murder by Charles Manson, Roman Polanski is a complex and controversial figure.
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(1933-)
Film Actor, Director
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Lou Rawls
Singer / 1933 - 2006
Lou Rawls was a singer and songwriter known for his baritone voice and the small acting roles he took on the side.
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(1933-2006)
Singer
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Ann Richards
U.S. Governor / 1933 - 2006
Feisty politician Ann Richards came to national attention as a keynote speaker in the 1988 Democratic National Convention and later as governor of Texas.
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(1933-2006)
U.S. Governor
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Joan Rivers
Comedian, Talk Show Host, Reality Television Star / 1933 -
Comedian Joan Rivers created a Grammy nominated comedy album, launched a syndicated daytime talk show, and went on to win a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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(1933-)
Comedian, Talk Show Host, Reality Television Star
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Philip Roth
Academic, Author / 1933 -
American novelist and short-story writer Philip Roth is best known for his provocative explorations of Jewish and American identity.
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(1933-)
Academic, Author
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Oliver Sacks
Educator, Psychiatrist, Neurologist, Journalist / 1933 -
Neurologist Oliver Wolf Sacks wrote about his patients and their pathological conditions. His 1973 book Awakenings was made in to a film in 1990.
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(1933-)
Educator, Psychiatrist, Neurologist, Journalist
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Wayne Shorter
Songwriter, Saxophonist / 1933 -
Wayne Shorter is a jazz musician and composer, a major jazz saxophonist and a pioneer of jazz-rock fusion music.
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(1933-)
Songwriter, Saxophonist
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Nina Simone
Civil Rights Activist, Pianist, Singer, Journalist / 1933 - 2003
Nina Simone sang a mix of jazz, blues and folk music in the 1950s and '60s. A civil rights activist, she wrote songs promoting the Civil Rights Movement.
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(1933-2003)
Civil Rights Activist, Pianist, Singer, Journalist
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Susan Sontag
Scholar, Women's Rights Activist, Anti-War Activist, Academic Author, Journalist / 1933 - 2004
Susan Sontag was a critical essayist, cultural analyst, novelist and filmmaker. She wrote On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, The Volcano Lover and In America.
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(1933-2004)
Scholar, Women's Rights Activist, Anti-War Activist, Academic Author, Journalist
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Conway Twitty
Songwriter, Singer / 1933 - 1993
Conway Twitty was a country singer who scored 55 No. 1 hits over the long expanse of his career.
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(1933-1993)
Songwriter, Singer
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Cicely Tyson
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1933 -
Cicely Tyson is an Academy Award nominated and Emmy winning actress committed to presenting positive images of strong African American women.
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(1933-)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Steven Weinberg
Academic, Physicist / 1933 -
Steven Weinberg is a U.S. physicist and Nobel laureate who contributed to work on the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.
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(1933-)
Academic, Physicist
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Gene Wilder
Actor, Comedian, Author / 1933 -
Actor Gene Wilder became a children's hero as the star of Mel Brook's film adaptation of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
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(1933-)
Actor, Comedian, Author
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Charlie Wilson
Military Leader, U.S. Representative, Spy / 1933 - 2010
Former congressman Charlie Wilson helped fund Afghanistan's resistance to the Soviet Union. His story was told in the book and film Charlie Wilson's War.
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(1933-2010)
Military Leader, U.S. Representative, Spy
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Flip Wilson
Television Actor, Comedian / 1933 - 1998
Comedian Flip Wilson was one of the first successful African American hosts on television. The Flip Wilson Show ran from 1970 to 1974.
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(1933-1998)
Television Actor, Comedian