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Don Cornelius
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Don Cornelius
Television Personality, Television Producer / 1936 - 2012
American television icon Don Cornelius created and hosted Soul Train, which spent more than 30 years on the air.
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Barbara Jordan
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- Famous Black Activists
- Famous Civil Rights Activists
Barbara Jordan
Civil Rights Activist, U.S. Representative / 1936 - 1996
Barbara Jordan was a U.S. congressional representative from Texas and was the first African American congresswoman to come from the Deep South.
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Robert Redford
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- Honorary Oscar Recipients
Robert Redford
Environmental Activist, Film Actor, Director, Producer / 1936 -
Robert Redford is a Hollywood legend, starring in several blockbuster films in his day, and producing and directing many others. He also helped start the Sundance Film Festival in the late 1970s.
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Wilt Chamberlain
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- The Ed Sullivan Show Guests
- Famous Black Athletes
- Famous Leos
Wilt Chamberlain
Basketball Player / 1936 - 1999
Wilt Chamberlain was the first NBA player to score more than 30,000 cumulative points over his career, and the first and only player to score 100 points in a single game.
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Buddy Holly
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- The Ed Sullivan Show Guests
- Musical Monikers
Buddy Holly
Singer / 1936 - 1959
Buddy Holly was a singer/songwriter whose records, conveying a sense of the wide-open spaces of West Texas and unstoppable joie de vivre, remain vital today.
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Roy Orbison
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- Famous Singers
- Famous People Named Roy
Roy Orbison
Singer / 1936 - 1988
Singer-songwriter Roy Orbison wrote romantic 1960s pop ballads like "Oh, Pretty Woman." In 1987, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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