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NEW YORK CITY

Most Famous People Born in New York City, USA

Notable people
22,064
Peak decade
1940s
Median birth year
1935
Most distinctive
Screenwriter 5.4×

If the 20th century held a casting call, it was in New York. Almost all of the city's notable births fall after 1900, fueled by an entertainment economy — Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, the studio system, late-night TV, hip-hop in the Bronx — that has minted more actors, comedians, and musicians than any other American city. Even its 19th-century names skew literary: poets, editors, journalists, not generals or industrialists.

Standouts

What New York City Is Known For

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Actor is New York City's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (3,012).

New York City over-indexes on screenwriter 5.4× the global rate.

New York City under-produces football — only 0.1× the global rate.

  1. Actor 3,012 2.6×
  2. Politician 1,004 0.4×
  3. Writer 859 1.2×
  4. Film 841 3.1×
  5. Lawyer 794 2.1×
  6. Music 767 2.4×
  7. Baseball 584 2.3×
  8. Singer 573 1.3×
  1. Screenwriter 522 5.4×
  2. Producer 225 3.6×
  3. Novelist 299 3.4×
  4. Film 841 3.1×
  5. Photographer 287 2.7×
  6. Actor 3,012 2.6×
  7. Music 767 2.4×
  8. Baseball 584 2.3×
  1. Football 365 0.1×
  2. Politician 1,004 0.4×

Profession Mix Over Time

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

1800 1850 1900 1950 2000
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  • Writing
  • Music
  • Sports
  • Politics & Law
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7904 PAINTER

Chaim Koppelman

1920 - 2009

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7920 THEOLOGIAN

John Tietjen

1928 - 2004

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7929 LITERARY

Frederick Karl

1927 - 2004

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7933 COLLECTOR

Wilhelmina Holladay

Born 1922

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7944 MUSIC

Al Rex

1928 - 2020

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7953 PSYCHIATRIST

Richard Fisch

1926 - 2011

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7959 ACTOR

David Sheiner

Born 1928

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7963 FILM

Joseph L. Scanlan

Born 1929

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7964 BASKET

Danny Finn

1928 - 2007

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7976 ARCHIVIST

Tony Schwartz (sound archivist)

1923 - 2008

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7981 FILM

Steve Krantz

1923 - 2007

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7984 BASKET

Stan Miasek

1924 - 1989

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7988 ARCHITECT

Allan Temko

1924 - 2006

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7989 PHYSICIAN

Daniel Harold Casriel

1924 - 1983

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7990 SCULPTOR

James Metcalf

1925 - 2012

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7993 WRITER

Marilyn Sachs

1927 - 2016

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8010 TRANSLATOR

Burton Raffel

1928 - 2015

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8013 INTERIOR DESIGNER

Robert Denning

1927 - 2005

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8016 ACTOR

Joe Silver

1922 - 1989

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8019 PSYCHOLOGIST

Judith Wallerstein

1921 - 2012

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8024 NOVELIST

Theodore L. Thomas

1920 - 2005

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8028 SCULPTOR

Dimitri Hadzi

1921 - 2006

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8038 POLITICIAN

Bertram L. Podell

1925 - 2005

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8044 SPORT

Bob Wolff

1920 - 2017

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8048 PHILOSOPHER

Marcus George Singer

1926 - 2016

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8072 OLYMPIC

Julian Roosevelt

1924 - 1986

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8073 DIPLOMAT

Luis Villar Borda

1929 - 2008

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8083 SINGER

Judith Raskin

1928 - 1984

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8086 NOVELIST

Donald Barr

1921 - 2004

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8089 FILM

Herbert B. Leonard

1922 - 2006

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8101 MATHEMATICIAN

Murray Gerstenhaber

Born 1927

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8106 MUSIC

Eddie Jones (jazz musician)

1929 - 1997

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8114 MATHEMATICIAN

Julian Cole

1925 - 1999

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8115 CINEMA

Gayne Rescher

1924 - 2008

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8123 AUTHOR

Sheldon Kopp

1929 - 1999

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8125 OFFICER

Roy Boehm

1924 - 2008

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8128 ACTOR

Bernard Barrow

1927 - 1993

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8132 BASKET

Jerry Fleishman

1922 - 2007

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8139 LAWYER

Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal

1923 - 1983

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8145 BASKET

Fred Lewis (basketball, born 1921)

1921 - 1994

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8149 PRODUCER

Monte Kay

1924 - 1988

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8150 PAINTER

Adele Morales

1925 - 2015

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8153 BASKET

Sid Tanenbaum

1925 - 1986

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8157 BIOMEDICAL

Richard Skalak

1923 - 1997

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8160 SCREENWRITER

William Kelley (scénariste)

1929 - 2003

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8167 MATHEMATICIAN

Murray Rosenblatt

1926 - 2019

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8175 COMICS

Paul S. Newman

1924 - 1999

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8179 MUSIC

Herbie Lovelle

1924 - 2009

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8184 WRITER

Jack Sendak

1923 - 1995

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8193 CHEMIST

Morton B. Panish

Born 1929

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8196 CAMPAIGN

Helmut Krone

1925 - 1996

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8207 SOCIOLOGIST

Murray A. Straus

1926 - 2016

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8216 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Jack Minker

Born 1927

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8225 LAWYER

Jack Greenberg

1924 - 2016

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8235 COSTUME DESIGNER

Florence Klotz

1920 - 2006

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8242 HISTORIAN

David Lowenthal

1923 - 2018

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8273 BIOGRAPHER

Arnold Hano

Born 1922

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8277 ENTREPRENEUR

Albert Rudolph

1928 - 1973

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8278 SCREENWRITER

James A. Lebenthal

1928 - 2014

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8284 ACTOR

Arthur Storch

1925 - 2013

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8289 ACTOR

Jack DeLeon

1924 - 2006

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8295 ACTOR

Vincent Beck

1924 - 1984

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8296 POLITICIAN

Fred Heineman

1929 - 2010

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8303 SOCIALITE

Marie-Hélène de Rothschild

1927 - 1996

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8326 MUSIC

Gene DiNovi

Born 1928

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8328 ENVIRONMENTALIST

Jim Bohlen

1926 - 2010

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8338 NEUROSCIENTIST

Elliot Valenstein

Born 1923

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8344 BANJOIST

Tom Paley

1928 - 2017

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8347 HISTORIAN

Joan Kelly

1928 - 1982

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8349 MAGAZINE

Earl Norem

1924 - 2015

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8360 ACTOR

Jane White

1922 - 2011

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8365 ACTOR

Josephine Premice

1926 - 2001

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8370 PHILOSOPHER

Maurice Natanson

1924 - 1996

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8373 COMPOSER

Meyer Kupferman

1926 - 2003

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8375 ACADEMIC

Karl Turekian

1927 - 2013

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8391 BASKET

Buddy O'Grady

1920 - 1992

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8405 ACTOR

Dolores Sutton

1927 - 2009

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8409 ECONOMIST

Lester Wunderman

1920 - 2019

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8424 MAGAZINE

Bernard Spindel

1923 - 1972

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8426 PHOTOGRAPHER

Lida Moser

1920 - 2014

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8433 FOOTBALL

Allie Sherman

1923 - 2015

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8445 CHEMIST

Harmon Craig

1926 - 2003

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8450 ACTOR

Ken Scott (actor)

1928 - 1986

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8477 ANNOUNCER

Bill Wendell

1924 - 1999

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8495 ÉTUDES

Saville Sax

1924 - 1980

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8497 BASEBALL

Eddie Yost

1926 - 2012

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8501 PHOTOGRAPHER

James Prigoff

Born 1927

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8534 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Bernard Cohn (anthropologist)

1928 - 2003

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8546 BASEBALL

Joe Pignatano

Born 1929

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8549 LAWYER

Theodore R. Kupferman

1920 - 2003

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8554 PSYCHOLOGIST

Roy Schafer

1922 - 2018

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8584 SCIENTIST

Abraham Klein (physicist)

1927 - 2003

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8587 WRITER

Roberta Gellis

1927 - 2016

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8592 ACADEMIC

Charles Muscatine

1920 - 2010

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8600 MUSIC

Remo Palmier

1923 - 2002

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8618 MATHEMATICIAN

Louis Auslander

1928 - 1997

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8628 SCIENTIST

Edwin Kessler

1928 - 2017

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8659 ARTIST

Alex Kotzky

1923 - 1996

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8661 MUSIC

Specs Powell

1922 - 2007

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8670 LIBRETTIST

Arnold Weinstein

1927 - 2005

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8674 ART DIRECTOR

Harold Michelson

1920 - 2007

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8678 COMPOSER

Leonard Kastle

1929 - 2011

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8688 FILM

Herb Wallerstein

1925 - 1985

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8690 MUSIC

Sonny Russo

1929 - 2013

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8693 MATHEMATICIAN

Allen Shields

1927 - 1989

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8696 CONDUCTOR

Julius Hegyi

1923 - 2007

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8697 BASKET

Tom Kelly (basketball)

1924 - 2008

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8706 PHOTOGRAPHER

Leigh Wiener

1929 - 1993

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8733 NOVELIST

Gloria D. Miklowitz

1927 - 2015

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8760 BOXER

Al Davis (boxer)

1920 - 1945

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8771 POLITICIAN

Tonie Nathan

1923 - 2014

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8772 FILM

Joseph Cates

1924 - 1998

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8776 CHEMIST

Harold Scheraga

1921 - 2020

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8787 MUSIC

George Barrow (musician)

1921 - 2013

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8805 BIOLOGIST

Seymour Jonathan Singer

1924 - 2017

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8807 CLARINET

Abe Most

1920 - 2002

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8821 CRIME

Benjamin Ruggiero

1926 - 1994

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8829 MUSIC

Julian Euell

1929 - 2019

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8831 COMPOSER

George Handy

1920 - 1997

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8832 WRITER

Martin Elkort

1929 - 2016

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8844 SOCIALITE

Ann Mara

1929 - 2015

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8847 WRITER

Ruth Gay

1922 - 2006

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8849 PSYCHOLOGIST

Milton J. Rosenberg

1925 - 2018

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8868 MUSIC

Walt Levinsky

1929 - 1999

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8870 ACTOR

Sheila Bond

1928 - 2017

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8878 ACTOR

Katharine Balfour

1921 - 1990

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8882 PSYCHIATRIST

Arthur J. Deikman

1929 - 2013

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8885 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Robert I. Levy

1924 - 2003

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8905 FILM

Al Brodax

1926 - 2016

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8908 BASKET

Leo Gottlieb

1920 - 1972

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8910 TALENT AGENT

Martin Baum (agent)

1924 - 2010

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8918 PAINTER

Mary Abbott (artist)

1921 - 2019

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8920 ACTOR

Cate Bauer

Born 1922

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8944 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Jonas C. Greenfield

1926 - 1995

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8951 NEUROLOGIST

John F. Kurtzke

1926 - 2015

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8956 JAVELIN THROWER

Steve Seymour

1920 - 1973

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8957 WRITER

Lawrence Ritter

1922 - 2004

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8963 SINGER

Klara Barlow

1928 - 2008

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8965 ART HISTORIAN

Robert Branner

1927 - 1973

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8976 PHYSICIST

Malvin Ruderman

Born 1927

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8983 CHEMIST

Charles Heidelberger

1920 - 1983

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8991 PHILOSOPHER

Robert Scholes

1929 - 2016

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8996 SERIAL KILLER

Peter Manuel

1927 - 1958

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9003 POET

Ned O'Gorman

1929 - 2014

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9010 MUSIC

Ray Abrams (musician)

1920 - 1992

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9026 JOURNALIST

Joseph Wershba

1920 - 2011

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9037 BIOGRAPHER

John A. Garraty

1920 - 2007

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9041 ACTOR

Roy Stuart (actor)

1927 - 2005

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9044 BOXER

Paddy DeMarco

1928 - 1997

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9054 MUSIC

Ron Jefferson

1926 - 2007

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9059 POLITICIAN

John W. Wydler

1924 - 1987

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9064 CONDUCTOR

John Crosby (conductor)

1926 - 2002

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9067 AUTHOR

Nat Shapiro

1922 - 1983

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9068 PRODUCER

Woody Kling

1925 - 1988

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9070 ARTIST

Fred Kida

1920 - 2014

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9081 ENGINEER

Samuel Jefferson Mason

1921 - 1974

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9099 SCREENWRITER

John Kohn

1925 - 2002

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9102 PHYSICIST

Edward A. Frieman

1926 - 2013

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9104 ACADEMIC

Marvin Zelen

1927 - 2014

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9106 BASKET

Harry Miller (basketball, born 1923)

1923 - 2007

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9119 BASKET

Ray Corley

1928 - 2007

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9133 SCHOLAR

Philip Yampolsky

1920 - 1996

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9143 STATISTICIAN

Seymour Geisser

1929 - 2004

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9154 ACTOR

Rosita Fornés

1923 - 2020

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9201 BASKET

Lionel Malamed

1924 - 1989

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9208 ETHICIST

Moshe David Tendler

Born 1927

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9215 BASKET

Johnny Ezersky

1922 - 2012

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9222 STATISTICIAN

Donald Marquardt

1929 - 1997

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9226 GENETICIST

Paul Marks (scientist)

1926 - 2020

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9228 NOVELIST

Sonya Dorman

1924 - 2005

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9230 NOVELIST

Donald R. Bensen

1927 - 1997

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9240 BASKET

Edward Bartels

1925 - 2007

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9252 METEOROLOGIST

André Robert

1929 - 1993

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9256 CLARINET

Sol Yaged

1922 - 2019

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9257 BUSINESS

Ralph J. Roberts

1920 - 2015

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9258 CASTING DIRECTOR

Howard Austen

1929 - 2003

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9264 SINGER

Nancy Overton

1926 - 2009

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9266 ECONOMIST

Edward A. Tenenbaum

1922 - 1975

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9269 MUSIC

Sam Ulano

1920 - 2014

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9271 ACTOR

Norma Donaldson

1928 - 1994

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9276 PHILOSOPHER

Marx W. Wartofsky

1928 - 1997

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9286 ACTIVIST

Peggy Charren

1928 - 2015

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9287 HISTORIAN

Rudolph Binion

1927 - 2011

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9303 WRITER

Chris Chase

1924 - 2013

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9315 FILM

Bobby Hollander

1929 - 2002

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9324 PRODUCER

Sy Weintraub

1923 - 2000

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9334 PRIEST

James Joseph Daly

1921 - 2013

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9347 ART DIRECTOR

Stan Jolley

1926 - 2012

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9353 LITERARY

Robert Langbaum

1924 - 2020

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9361 COMPOSER

Robert Prince (composer)

1929 - 2007

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9367 LAWYER

Jacob H. Gilbert

1920 - 1981

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9373 FILM

Sy Kravitz

1924 - 2005

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9377 JOURNALIST

Arthur Gelb

1924 - 2014

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9381 ANTHROPOLOGIST

William Kelly Simpson

1928 - 2017

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9396 PHOTOGRAPHER

Frank Worth

1923 - 2000

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9404 PHOTOGRAPHER

Herbert Keppler

1925 - 2008

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9408 PAINTER

Shirley Gorelick

1924 - 2000

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9414 ACTOR

Nesbitt Blaisdell

Born 1928

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9421 BASKET

Dermie O'Connell

1928 - 1988

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9426 POET

Cynthia Macdonald

1928 - 2015

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9444 CHOREOGRAPHER

Albert Marre

1924 - 2012

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9452 JOURNALIST

Johnny Most

1923 - 1993

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9455 ARTIST

Chic Stone

1923 - 2000

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9467 JOURNALIST

Joan Kennedy Taylor

1926 - 2005

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9468 MATHEMATICIAN

Lee Albert Rubel

1928 - 1995

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9488 JOURNALIST

Herbert Mitgang

1920 - 2013

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9496 PLAYER

John Bonetti

1928 - 2008

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9504 ACADEMIC

Harry Woolf (historian)

1923 - 2003

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9505 BASEBALL

Jim Rivera

1922 - 2017

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9514 SURGEON

Nina Starr Braunwald

1928 - 1992

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9550 MUSIC

Roy Harte

1924 - 2003

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9551 BIOCHEMIST

Eugene Goldwasser

1922 - 2010

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9565 JOURNALIST

Arnold Brackman

1923 - 1983

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9571 SINGER

Ruth Wallis

1920 - 2007

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9580 MUSIC

Freddie Gruber

1927 - 2011

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9586 ACTOR

Joseph Bernard (actor)

1923 - 2006

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9589 FILM

Roger Mayer (film industry executive)

1926 - 2015

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9591 PSYCHOLOGIST

Lila R. Gleitman

Born 1929

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9592 ENTREPRENEUR

Ray Kassar

1928 - 2017

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9594 RABBI

Moshe Sherer

1921 - 1998

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9603 PLAYER

Tobias Stone

1921 - 2012

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9605 MUSIC

Jimmy Nottingham

1925 - 1978

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9608 ACTOR

Charles McGregor

1922 - 1996

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9611 SINGER

Daniel Ferro

1921 - 2015

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9618 FILM

Jud Kinberg

1925 - 2016

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9620 THERAPIST

Robert Langs

1928 - 2014

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9653 SINGER

Wally Gold

1928 - 1998

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9660 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Harold Borko

1922 - 2012

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9664 SCULPTOR

Lin Emery

Born 1928

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9668 SCIENTIST

George F. Cahill Jr.

1927 - 2012

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9672 ACADEMIC

Eugene P. Gross

1926 - 1991

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9678 PSYCHOLOGIST

Arnold H. Buss

Born 1924

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9687 ARTIST

Sidney Tillim

1925 - 2001

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9689 MUSIC

Earl May

1927 - 2008

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9693 PHOTOGRAPHER

Fred W. McDarrah

1926 - 2007

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9696 EDUCATOR

Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves

Born 1927

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9697 COMPOSER

Gino Marinuzzi (1920-1996)

1920 - 1996

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9714 DERMATOLOGIST

Norman Orentreich

1922 - 2019

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9715 PHYSICIST

Ira B. Bernstein

Born 1924

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9723 PIANIST

Gil Coggins

1928 - 2004

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9724 NOVELIST

William Murray (writer)

1926 - 2005

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9725 MATHEMATICIAN

Dorothy P. Rice

1922 - 2017

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9729 POLITICIAN

Stuyvesant Wainwright

1921 - 2010

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9733 BUSINESS

David Gottesman

Born 1926

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9753 PAINTER

Bernard Safran

1924 - 1995

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9760 MUSIC

Harold Powers

1928 - 2007

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9771 COMPOSER

Ben Zion Shenker

1925 - 2016

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9800 BASKET

Ed Steitz

1920 - 1990

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9805 OFFICER

J. Murray Mitchell

1928 - 1990

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9835 DENTIST

Irwin Smigel

1924 - 2016

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9837 BOTANIST

Ruth Lyttle Satter

1923 - 1989

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9850 ACTOR

Alex Barris

1922 - 2004

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9853 FILM

Howard Gottfried

1923 - 2017

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9854 JOURNALIST

Elliott Stein

1928 - 2012

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9863 TRUMPET

Johnny Windhurst

1926 - 1981

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9882 FILM

Vincent M. Fennelly

1920 - 2000

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9889 ACTOR

Hy Anzell

1923 - 2003

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9890 MOBSTER

Mario Gigante

Born 1923

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9891 ACTOR

Carl Lee (actor)

1926 - 1986

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9899 DIPLOMAT

Frank Shakespeare

Born 1925

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9909 PRODUCER

Mel Ferber

1922 - 2003

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9911 POET

Dachine Rainer

1921 - 2000

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9924 POLITICIAN

Leo C. Zeferetti

1927 - 2018

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9951 PHILOSOPHER

Irving Singer

1925 - 2015

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9976 SINGER

Carline Ray

1925 - 2013

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9987 BASKET

Sidney Hertzberg

1922 - 2005

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10000 POET

Marie Borroff

1923 - 2019

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10002 PRIEST

John J. Snyder

1925 - 2019

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10004 TELEVISION

Sonny Fox

Born 1925

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10013 SCREENWRITER

John Furia Jr.

1929 - 2009

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10016 RABBI

Abraham Hecht

1922 - 2013

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10019 SCIENTIST

Frederick I. Ordway III

1927 - 2014

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10020 PRODUCER

Philip Rose (theatrical producer)

1921 - 2011

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10024 ACADEMIC

Abraham S. Goldstein

1925 - 2005

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10030 ACTOR

Danny Arnold

1925 - 1995

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10033 PRODUCER

Ed Friendly

1922 - 2007

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10034 CHEMIST

Sheldon Datz

1927 - 2001

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10036 BIOMEDICAL

Robert Plonsey

1924 - 2015

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10039 BASEBALL

Saul Mariaschin

1924 - 1990

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10055 ACTOR

Jack Grimes (actor)

1926 - 2009

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10062 ACTOR

Ted Beniades

1922 - 2014

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10088 DEVELOPER

John L. Tishman

1926 - 2016

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10091 FILM

Richard Kinon

1924 - 2004

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10099 PAINTER

James Bama

Born 1926

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10112 ACTOR

Jean Allison

Born 1929

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10123 HISTORIAN

Robert V. Remini

1921 - 2013

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10141 PAINTER

Frank McCarthy (artist)

1924 - 2002

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10147 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Russell A. Kirsch

1929 - 2020

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10154 PLAYER

Jimmy Casella

1924 - 1976

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10163 RABBI

Gerson D. Cohen

1924 - 1991

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10181 POET

Herschel Silverman

1926 - 2015

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10183 MUSIC

Irv Kluger

1921 - 2006

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10186 BUSINESS

Bernard L. Schwartz

Born 1926

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10197 BASKET

Ken Keller

1922 - 1983

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10213 VETERINARIAN

Robert M. Miller

Born 1927

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10224 HISTORIAN

Paul Robeson Jr.

1927 - 2014

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10239 PLAYER

Dick Miles

1925 - 2010

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10240 VIROLOGIST

Julius Youngner

1920 - 2017

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10251 MUSIC

Joe Roland

1920 - 2009

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10284 ARTIST

Howard Post

1926 - 2010

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