45.5089° N, 73.5618° W

MONTREAL

Most Famous People Born in Montreal, Canada

Notable people
4,921
Peak decade
1960s
Median birth year
1948
Most distinctive
Hockey 8.4×

Bilingual, with a comic streak. Montreal's distinctive profession is hockey at more than eight times the global rate, alongside an unusually thick column of actors, filmmakers, singers, and poets — the city's notables split almost evenly between French and English in every category. Hockey is the constant, but the comedy tradition that runs from the cabarets of Saint-Laurent through the National Film Board to the Just for Laughs festival is the cultural surprise the panel can't quite carry.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Montreal during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1960s with 594 notable births.

What Montreal Is Known For

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Actor is Montreal's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (592).

Montreal over-indexes on hockey8.4× the global rate.

Montreal under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.

  1. Actor592
  2. Politician522
  3. Hockey492
  4. Writer245
  5. Singer193
  6. Football157
  7. Film134
  8. Lawyer116
  1. Hockey4928.4×
  2. Actor5922.3×
  3. Film1342.2×
  4. Singer1931.9×
  5. Poet941.8×
  6. Business791.6×
  7. Writer2451.5×
  1. Football1570.3×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Montreal's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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0001 ACTOR

William Shatner

Born 1931

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0011 PHILOSOPHER

Charles Taylor (philosopher)

Born 1931

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0023 ECONOMIST

Henry Mintzberg

Born 1939

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0028 SCIENCE

Hubert Reeves

Born 1932

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0033 SCREENWRITER

Mordecai Richler

1931 - 2001

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0052 PIANIST

Paul Bley

1932 - 2016

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0056 ACTOR

August Schellenberg

1936 - 2013

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0068 ACTOR

Ruta Lee

Born 1936

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0069 POLITICIAN

Jacques Parizeau

1930 - 2015

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0072 BIOLOGIST

Sidney Altman

Born 1939

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0073 POLITICIAN

Robert Bourassa

1933 - 1996

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0077 HOCKEY

Scotty Bowman

Born 1933

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0090 FILM

Claude Jutra

1930 - 1986

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0093 ACTOR

Alexandra Stewart

Born 1939

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0105 HOCKEY

Henri Richard

1936 - 2020

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0107 SINGER

Maureen Forrester

1930 - 2010

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0109 FILM

Albert S. Ruddy

Born 1930

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0150 HOCKEY

Bernie Geoffrion

1931 - 2006

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0174 ACTOR

Monique Mercure

1930 - 2020

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0180 PRESENTER

Robert MacNeil

Born 1931

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0193 PSYCHOLOGIST

Victor Vroom

Born 1932

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0231 CONDUCTOR

Kenneth Gilbert

1931 - 2020

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0232 PLAYWRIGHT

Marcel Dubé

1930 - 2016

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0257 NOVELIST

Jacques Godbout

Born 1933

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0265 PHYSICIST

Marvin L. Cohen

Born 1935

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0279 HOCKEY

Dickie Moore (ice hockey)

1931 - 2015

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0282 POLITICIAN

Bill Graham (Canadian politician)

Born 1939

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0307 SINGER

Huguette Tourangeau

1938 - 2018

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0315 SINGER

Jean-Pierre Ferland

Born 1934

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0320 FILM

Paul Almond

1931 - 2015

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0326 BUSINESS

Charles Bronfman

Born 1931

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0331 COMPOSER

Oliver Jones (pianist)

Born 1934

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0337 ACTOR

Gilles Latulippe

1937 - 2014

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0342 ACTOR

Jacques Languirand

1931 - 2018

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0343 PAINTER

Dorothea Rockburne

Born 1934

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0345 HOCKEY

Denis Brodeur

1930 - 2013

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0346 ACTOR

Albert Millaire

1935 - 2018

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0356 SKIER

Lucile Wheeler

Born 1935

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0359 PAINTER

Guido Molinari

1933 - 2004

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0364 EDITOR

Mortimer Zuckerman

Born 1937

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0378 ARTIST

Carl Johan De Geer

Born 1938

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0390 HOCKEY

Claude Provost

1933 - 1984

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0424 ACTOR

Richard Easton

1933 - 2019

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0442 COMEDIAN

Yvon Deschamps

Born 1935

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0448 WRITER

Pierre Vallières

1938 - 1998

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0454 WRITER

Gilles Archambault

Born 1933

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0461 FILM

Arthur Lipsett

1936 - 1986

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0466 PRIEST

Jean-Claude Turcotte

1936 - 2015

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0471 STATISTICIAN

David A. Freedman

1938 - 2008

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0484 JUDGE

Antonio Lamer

1933 - 2007

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0485 AUTHOR

Ronald Lee

Born 1934

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0490 SCREENWRITER

Jean Beaudin

1939 - 2019

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0493 ACTOR

Andrée Lachapelle

1931 - 2019

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0495 ECONOMIST

Stephen Hymer

1934 - 1974

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0513 BOBSLED

Vic Emery

Born 1933

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0528 PHILOSOPHER

Zenon Pylyshyn

Born 1937

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0557 ACTOR

Denise Filiatrault

Born 1931

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0558 PLAYWRIGHT

Jean-Claude Germain

Born 1939

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0560 ACTOR

Donald Pilon (actor)

Born 1938

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0573 POET

Jacques Brault

Born 1933

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0579 SKIER

Peter Kirby

Born 1931

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0581 DESIGNER

Arnold Scaasi

1930 - 2015

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0607 ACTOR

Joby Baker

Born 1934

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0613 PRESENTER

Lise Payette

1931 - 2018

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0627 BOBSLED

John Emery (bobsleigh)

Born 1932

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0635 POLITICIAN

Warren Allmand

1932 - 2016

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0639 ACTOR

Luce Guilbeault

1935 - 1991

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0662 ACTOR

Monique Miller

Born 1933

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0667 HOCKEY

Eddie Johnston

Born 1935

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0686 PSYCHOLOGIST

Eleanor Duckworth

Born 1935

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0699 HOCKEY

Don Marshall

Born 1932

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0703 ACTOR

Jean-Louis Millette

1935 - 1999

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0707 HOCKEY

Noel Picard

1938 - 2017

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0728 ARTIST

Melvin Charney

1935 - 2012

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0747 WRITER

Fernand Ouellette

Born 1930

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0756 GENETICIST

Charles Scriver

Born 1930

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0763 POET

Jovette Marchessault

1938 - 2012

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0777 SENATE

Francis Fox

Born 1939

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0802 ACTOR

Renée Claude

1939 - 2020

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0828 WRESTLER

Paul Vachon

Born 1938

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0830 MUSIC

Guido Basso

Born 1937

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0836 ACTOR

Jacques Godin

1930 - 2020

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0838 CONDUCTOR

Vic Vogel

1935 - 2019

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0846 SINGER

Colette Boky

Born 1935

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0851 FILM

Gilles Groulx

1931 - 1994

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0870 PAINTER

Claude Tousignant

Born 1932

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0875 LITERARY

Sacvan Bercovitch

1933 - 2014

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0881 HOCKEY

Reg Fleming

1936 - 2009

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0894 ONCOLOGIST

Phil Gold

Born 1936

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0895 SPORT

Bill Torrey

1934 - 2018

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0900 MUSIC

Judy Feld Carr

Born 1938

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0916 HOCKEY

Jean-Guy Gendron

Born 1934

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0942 ECONOMIST

Harold Tafler Shapiro

Born 1935

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0943 WRITER

Henriette Major

1933 - 2006

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0947 POLITICIAN

Guy Tardif

1935 - 2005

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0955 POET

Michèle Lalonde

Born 1937

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0969 ACTOR

Aubert Pallascio

1937 - 2020

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0982 POET

Louky Bersianik

1930 - 2011

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1000 ACTOR

Claude Préfontaine

1933 - 2013

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1010 LAWYER

Ian Binnie

Born 1939

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1023 ACTOR

Fernand Gignac

1934 - 2006

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1024 BASEBALL

Ron Piché

1935 - 2011

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1025 PAINTER

Fernand Toupin

1930 - 2009

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1029 FILM

Harold Greenberg

1930 - 1996

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1030 ACTOR

Ève Gagnier

1930 - 1984

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1031 JOURNALIST

Claude Poirier

Born 1938

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1032 COSTUME DESIGNER

François Barbeau

1935 - 2016

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1065 PSYCHIATRIST

René Major

Born 1932

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1068 LAWYER

Erik Jayme

Born 1934

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1073 ECONOMIST

Athanasios Asimakopulos

1930 - 1990

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1076 BIOLOGIST

Martin Raff

Born 1938

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1080 PSYCHOLOGIST

John W. Berry

Born 1939

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1084 ACTOR

Louis Turenne

Born 1933

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1090 PHYSICIST

W. M. Wonham

Born 1934

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1096 PAINTER

Jacques Hurtubise (painter)

1939 - 2014

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1107 ACTOR

Françoise Graton

1930 - 2014

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1111 POET

Michel Garneau

Born 1939

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1132 WRITER

Bernard Assiniwi

1935 - 2000

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1143 WRESTLER

Terry Garvin

1937 - 1998

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1169 SCULPTOR

Yves Trudeau (artist)

1930 - 2017

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1187 SINGER

Suzanne Lapointe

1934 - 2015

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1194 GENETICIST

David Rimoin

1936 - 2012

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1195 HOCKEY

Phil Goyette

Born 1933

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1201 COMPOSER

Pierre F. Brault

1939 - 2014

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1216 WRITER

Peter Desbarats

1933 - 2014

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1234 SCULPTOR

Henry Saxe

Born 1937

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1249 CONDUCTOR

Pierre Hétu

1936 - 1998

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1255 ESSAYIST

Roland Arpin

1934 - 2010

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1261 LAWYER

John Gomery

Born 1932

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1267 ACTOR

Claude Léveillée

1932 - 2011

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1290 ACADEMIC

Bernard Shapiro

Born 1935

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1312 PRESENTER

Jacques Fauteux

1933 - 2009

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1316 WRITER

Raymond Barbeau

1930 - 1992

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1330 WRITER

Serge Mongeau

Born 1937

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1331 HOCKEY

Jean Gauthier

1937 - 2013

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1356 ACTOR

Jacques Desrosiers

1938 - 1996

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1358 POLITICIAN

John Lynch-Staunton

1930 - 2012

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1360 CERAMIST

Claude Vermette

1930 - 2006

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1364 POLITICIAN

Claude Forget

Born 1936

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1365 POLITICIAN

Andrée Ferretti

Born 1935

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1366 PHYSICIAN

René Simard (health professional)

Born 1935

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1370 WRESTLER

Lumberjack Pierre

Born 1939

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1372 ADVERTISING

Jacques Bouchard

1930 - 2006

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1385 POLITICIAN

Robert Burns (Quebec politician)

1936 - 2014

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1387 ACTOR

Robin Gammell

Born 1936

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1388 LAWYER

Herbert Marx (politician)

1932 - 2020

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1400 POLITICIAN

William Shaw (Quebec politician)

1932 - 2018

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1407 OPERA

Pierre Duval (singer)

1932 - 2004

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1414 POLITICIAN

Monique Landry

Born 1937

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1424 NEUROSCIENTIST

André Barbeau

1931 - 1986

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1431 METALLURGIST

John Jonas

Born 1932

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1446 RACER

Yvon Duhamel

Born 1939

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1447 WRITER

Johanne Harrelle

1930 - 1994

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1455 ACTOR

Marcel Sabourin

Born 1935

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1464 POLITICIAN

Marcel Léger

1930 - 1993

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1476 HISTORIAN

Micheline Dumont

Born 1935

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1484 WRITER

Hélène Ouvrard

1938 - 1999

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1486 FILM

Martin Duckworth

Born 1933

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1493 PHOTOGRAPHER

Stanley Lewis (sculptor)

1930 - 2006

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1495 LINGUIST

Jean-Claude Corbeil

Born 1932

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1516 MAFIA

Frank Cotroni

1931 - 2004

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1538 HOCKEY

Marcel Bonin

Born 1931

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1546 COMPOSER

Ruth Lomon

Born 1930

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1556 HOCKEY

Connie Broden

1932 - 2013

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1559 ACTOR

Gérard Poirier

Born 1930

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1582 PHOTOGRAPHER

Sorel Cohen

Born 1936

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1593 ECONOMIST

Gordon Wasserman, Baron Wasserman

Born 1938

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1618 ARTIST

Ita Aber

Born 1932

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1620 WRITER

Michèle Mailhot

1932 - 2009

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1645 ACTOR

André Montmorency

1939 - 2016

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1647 ACTOR

Lionel Blair

Born 1931

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1648 TRADE UNION

Fernand Foisy

1934 - 2018

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1672 ACTOR

Benoît Girard

1932 - 2017

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1673 BASEBALL

Pete Ward

Born 1937

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1689 POLITICIAN

Louis Bernard

Born 1937

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1690 HOCKEY

Terry Gray (ice hockey)

1938 - 2020

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1694 POLITICIAN

André Léveillé

1933 - 2017

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1705 ACTOR

Edgar Fruitier

Born 1930

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1714 PHILANTHROPIST

Jack Rabinovitch

1930 - 2017

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1721 ACTOR

Luc Durand (comédien)

1935 - 2000

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1739 POLITICIAN

Jean-Claude Malépart

1938 - 1989

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1746 POET

Yves Préfontaine

1937 - 2019

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1750 SAXOPHONIST

Paul Brodie

1934 - 2007

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1773 COMPOSER

John Warren (Canadian musician)

Born 1938

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1783 JUDGE

Morris Fish

Born 1938

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1790 SENATE

Marcel Prud'homme

1934 - 2017

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1803 POLITICIAN

Art Phillips

1930 - 2013

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1826 ACTOR

André Lawrence

Born 1939

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1849 BUSINESS

H. Arnold Steinberg

1933 - 2015

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1868 COACH

Maurice Filion

1932 - 2017

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1875 NOVELIST

Edward O. Phillips

1931 - 2020

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1892 ACTOR

Ronald France

1936 - 2011

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1900 PSYCHIATRIST

Stuart Lyon Smith

1938 - 2020

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1917 WRITER

Claude Jasmin

Born 1930

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1926 BUSINESS

Roger Landry

1934 - 2020

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1934 HOCKEY

Phil Latreille

Born 1938

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1961 ACTOR

Guy L'Écuyer

1931 - 1985

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1967 SWIMMER

Beth Whittall

1937 - 2015

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1997 ACTOR

Réal Giguère

1933 - 2019

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2004 ARTIST

Yves Gaucher

1934 - 2000

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2007 POET

Janou Saint-Denis

1930 - 2000

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2014 PRIEST

Jacques Berthelet

1934 - 2019

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2030 DRUMMER

Bernard Primeau

1939 - 2006

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2070 LAWYER

Jean-Pierre Goyer

1932 - 2011

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2096 SPRINT

Doug Clement

Born 1933

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2107 LAWYER

Claude Béland

1932 - 2019

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2117 ACTOR

Robert A. Silverman

Born 1938

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2119 LAWYER

Andrée Lajoie

Born 1933

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2130 ACTOR

Corinne Orr

Born 1936

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2134 POLITICIAN

Shirley Maheu

1931 - 2006

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2137 FILM

Jean Cousineau

1937 - 2013

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2146 POLITICIAN

Christian Ouellet

Born 1934

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2172 SPORT

Ronald Corey

Born 1938

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2190 PSYCHOLOGIST

Sam Glucksberg

Born 1933

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2205 POLITICIAN

Jean Rochon

Born 1938

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2212 ACTOR

François Tassé

Born 1938

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2216 FILM

Jean Bissonnette

1934 - 2016

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2222 FILM

Hubert Tison

Born 1937

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2225 WRITER

Denis Monette

Born 1936

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2235 ACTOR

Pierre Collin

Born 1938

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2241 SCREENWRITER

Gilles Richer

1938 - 1999

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2256 SINGER

Stu Phillips (country singer)

Born 1933

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2261 ACTOR

Dyne Mousso

1930 - 1994

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2273 ACTOR

Marc Laurendeau

Born 1939

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2289 POLITICIAN

Jean Corbeil

1934 - 2002

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2290 ACTOR

Pierre Valcour

1931 - 2012

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2301 COMPOSER

Philippe Bruneau (musicien)

1934 - 2011

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2302 PSYCHIATRIST

Theodore Reich

1938 - 2003

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2303 ACTOR

Céline Léger

1937 - 2017

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2316 ARTIST

René Derouin

Born 1936

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2322 HOCKEY

Jim Morrison (ice hockey)

Born 1931

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2323 FILM

Bernard Longpré

1937 - 2002

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2332 ESSAYIST

André Belleau

1930 - 1986

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2338 SINGER

Jacques Blanchet

1931 - 1981

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2360 ACTOR

Yvon Thiboutot

1937 - 2004

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2361 PRIEST

Guido Plante

1936 - 2015

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2362 ACTOR

Victor Désy

1932 - 2017

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2370 POLITICIAN

Jean Campeau

Born 1931

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2375 HOCKEY

Fred Burchell (ice hockey)

1931 - 1998

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2382 SINGER

Pierre Létourneau

Born 1938

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2387 WRITER

Laurent Lachance

Born 1931

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2399 POLITICIAN

Anthony Abbott

Born 1930

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2414 SOCIOLOGIST

Allan Schnaiberg

1939 - 2009

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2421 ACTOR

Hubert Loiselle

1932 - 2004

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2423 NURSE

Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral

Born 1938

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2457 DRUMMER

Guy Nadon (batteur)

1934 - 2016

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2466 POLITICIAN

André Bourbeau

1936 - 2018

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2479 PAINTER

Charles Gagnon (peintre)

1934 - 2003

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2489 JOURNALIST

Pierre Nadeau

1936 - 2019

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2490 SINGER

Joël Denis

Born 1936

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2493 POET

Sylvain Garneau

1930 - 1953

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2518 SOCIOLOGIST

Stanley Lieberson

1933 - 2018

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2521 PSYCHOLOGIST

Sandra Trehub

Born 1938

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2527 PAINTER

Mario Merola (peintre)

Born 1931

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2576 ACTOR

Pierre Maheu

1939 - 1979

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2582 MUSIC

Brian Browne

1937 - 2018

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2583 PSYCHOLOGUE

Lucien Auger

1933 - 2001

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2597 MANAGER

Cliff Fletcher

Born 1935

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2611 SPORT

Claude Mouton

1931 - 1993

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2643 POLITICIAN

Normand Cherry

Born 1938

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2653 CRIME

André Desjardins

1930 - 2000

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2670 POLITICIAN

Laurent Lavigne

1935 - 2017

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2720 WORKER

Jean-Claude Parrot

Born 1936

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2723 HOCKEY

André Binette

1933 - 2004

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2759 HISTORIAN

Marcel Tessier

Born 1934

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2771 POLITICIAN

Claude Lanthier

1933 - 2015

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2773 DIPLOMAT

Michael Richard Bell

Born 1939

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2785 LINGUIST

Jacques Laurin

1931 - 2018

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2787 BASEBALL

Dick Lines

Born 1938

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2806 POLITICIAN

Pierre Fortier

1932 - 2019

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2813 EDITOR

Richard Burnett

Born 1932

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2814 BUSINESS

Eric Molson

Born 1937

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2824 PSYCHOLOGIST

Bernard de Montréal

1939 - 2003

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2832 COMEDIAN

Marcel Saint-Germain

1939 - 2007

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2840 ACADEMIC

Peter Jacobs (landscape architect)

Born 1939

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2842 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Louis Balthazar

Born 1931

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2843 POLITICIAN

Gilles Bernier (Quebec politician)

Born 1934

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2847 POLITICIAN

Lyse Leduc

Born 1938

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2876 WRITER

Elizabeth Cleaver

1939 - 1985

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2881 ACTOR

Ginette Letondal

Born 1930

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2943 POLITICIAN

Gerry Weiner

Born 1933

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2989 WRITER

André Berthiaume

Born 1938

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3000 SKIER

Joanne Hewson

Born 1930

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3027 PHOTOGRAPHER

Nancy Petry

Born 1931

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3029 LAWYER

Lyse Lemieux

Born 1936

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3040 FOOTBALL

Errol Crossan

1930 - 2016

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3042 PAINTER

André Turpin (artiste)

1937 - 2017

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3046 ÉDITEUR

Jacques Fortin

Born 1939

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3052 POLITICIAN

Richard Holden (politician)

1931 - 2005

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3054 SINGER

Pierre Calvé

Born 1939

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3098 POLITICIAN

Suzanne Tremblay

1937 - 2020

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3104 ACTOR

George Bloomfield

1930 - 2011

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3108 SPRINT

Rosella Thorne

Born 1930

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3111 ACTOR

Gaétan Labrèche

1931 - 1990

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3120 STUNT

Ken Carter (stuntman)

1938 - 1983

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3135 HOCKEY

John Choyce

1930 - 1999

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3139 WRITER

Jacques Brossard (écrivain)

1933 - 2010

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3144 WRITER

Marcelyne Claudais

Born 1939

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3175 POLITICIAN

John Paul Harney

Born 1931

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3178 LAWYER

Yoine Goldstein

1934 - 2020

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