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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
  • Film & TV
  • Writing
  • Music
  • Sports
  • Politics & Law
  • Science
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5425 LINGUIST

Paul Kay

Born 1934

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5433 MUSIC

Gloria Lynne

1931 - 2013

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5442 PHYSICIST

Harold E. Puthoff

Born 1936

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5446 SCULPTOR

Paul Thek

1933 - 1988

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5457 FILM

John Hayes (director)

1930 - 2000

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5466 PERFORMER

Bruce Morrow

Born 1935

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5474 PLAYWRIGHT

Warren Casey

1935 - 1988

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5479 AEROSPACE

Karol J. Bobko

Born 1937

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5483 ACTIVIST

Ralph Schoenman

Born 1935

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5489 PHILOSOPHER

Irving Greenberg

Born 1933

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5490 THEATRE

Dick Schaap

1934 - 2001

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5492 PAINTER

Mort Künstler

Born 1931

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5503 ASTRONOMER

James B. Pollack

1938 - 1994

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5504 PHOTOGRAPHER

Joel Brodsky

1939 - 2007

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5515 HISTORIAN

Eugene Genovese

1930 - 2012

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5518 MATHEMATICIAN

Underwood Dudley

Born 1937

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5532 PRODUCER

Marvin Hier

Born 1939

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5539 PHOTOGRAPHER

Ira Cohen

1935 - 2011

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5551 SOCIOLOGIST

David Matza

1930 - 2018

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5594 FILM

Terry Sanders

Born 1931

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5598 ACTOR

Stephen Strimpell

1934 - 2006

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5603 DESIGNER

Bob Gill (artist)

Born 1931

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5623 MUSIC

Larry Gales

1936 - 1995

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5624 PHOTOGRAPHER

Harold Feinstein

1931 - 2015

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5638 SCREENWRITER

Anthea Sylbert

Born 1939

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5645 OPHTHALMOLOGIST

Charles Kelman

1930 - 2004

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5659 ECONOMIST

Neil Wallace

Born 1939

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5679 AUTHOR

Barbara Seaman

1935 - 2008

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5683 JOURNALIST

Robert Gottlieb

Born 1931

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5684 SONGWRITER

Bruce Hart (songwriter)

1938 - 2006

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5686 JOURNALIST

Larry Merchant

Born 1931

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5687 DESIGNER

John Alcorn (artist)

1935 - 1992

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5688 OBOIST

Paul Jeffrey

1933 - 2015

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5700 JAZZ

Gene Bertoncini

Born 1937

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5703 WRITER

Bernie S. Siegel

Born 1932

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5704 EDITOR

Edward L. Ferman

Born 1937

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5707 INVENTOR

Ron Popeil

Born 1935

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5708 COMPOSER

Dick Smothers

Born 1939

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5713 MATHEMATICIAN

George Nemhauser

Born 1937

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5719 JOURNALIST

Marty Peretz

Born 1938

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5729 MATHEMATICIAN

Gerald Sacks

1933 - 2019

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5733 DIPLOMAT

Edward Djerejian

Born 1939

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5734 MUSIC

John Pisano

Born 1931

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5740 ZIONIST

Moshe Hirsch

1930 - 2010

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5746 ACTOR

Donald Arthur

1937 - 2016

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5780 BASKET

Ray Felix

1930 - 1991

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5782 ACTOR

Marty Ingels

1936 - 2015

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5809 HISTORIAN

Ira M. Lapidus

Born 1937

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5812 PRODUCER

Al Schmitt

Born 1930

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5813 ACTOR

Frank Adonis

1935 - 2018

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5820 PSYCHOLOGIST

Robert Ader

1932 - 2011

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5839 THEATRE

Charles Marowitz

1934 - 2014

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5849 MUSIC

Irene Reid

1930 - 2008

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5851 COMPOSER

Malcolm Goldstein

Born 1936

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5853 ASTRONOMER

Hyron Spinrad

1934 - 2015

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5854 ARTIST

B. Kliban

1935 - 1990

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5857 JOURNALIST

Hal Fishman

1931 - 2007

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5870 LINGUIST

Seth Benardete

1930 - 2001

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5884 POLITICIAN

Thomas J. Manton

1932 - 2006

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5897 POET

Lenore Kandel

1932 - 2009

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5906 MUSIC

Ray Mantilla

1934 - 2020

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5908 PHYSICIST

Stephen E. Harris

Born 1936

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5921 ACTOR

Larry Gelman

Born 1930

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5936 DRUG TRAFFICK

James Burke (gangster)

1931 - 1996

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5962 MUSIC

Ronnie Mathews

1935 - 2008

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5967 HISTORIAN

Ralph Raico

1936 - 2016

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5969 MATHEMATICIAN

Donald Samuel Ornstein

Born 1934

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5972 WRITER

Maryam Jameelah

1934 - 2012

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5980 PHYSICIST

Leonard Parker

Born 1938

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5982 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Vincent Crapanzano

Born 1939

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5989 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Daniel G. Bobrow

1935 - 2017

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6004 BASKET

Jack Donohue (basketball)

1931 - 2003

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6016 JOURNALIST

Victor Saul Navasky

Born 1932

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6020 SCREENWRITER

Tom Whedon

1932 - 2016

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6043 WRITER

Judith Rossner

1935 - 2005

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6053 BASKET

Herb Brown

Born 1936

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6059 PUBLIC SERVANT

Morton Halperin

Born 1938

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6068 PSYCHIATRIST

Richard Green (sexologist)

1936 - 2019

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6069 MUSIC

Lewis Lockwood

Born 1930

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6078 SONGWRITER

Perry Botkin Jr.

Born 1933

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6081 ACTOR

Peter White (actor)

Born 1937

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6096 ACTOR

Al Israel

1935 - 2011

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6101 BASEBALL

Frank Torre

1931 - 2014

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6118 ACTOR

Nancy Dow

1936 - 2016

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6123 BASKET

Connie Dierking

1936 - 2013

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6137 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Tim Asch

1932 - 1994

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6149 PRODUCER

Roy Halee

Born 1934

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6160 PHOTOGRAPHER

Nat Finkelstein

1933 - 2009

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6164 AUTHOR

C. D. B. Bryan

1936 - 2009

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6171 PRODUCER

Sheila Nevins

Born 1939

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6175 PHOTOGRAPHER

Steve Schapiro

Born 1934

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6209 PAINTER

Joan Semmel

Born 1932

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6221 MATHEMATICIAN

Richard Swan

Born 1933

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6230 SINGER

Gloria Davy

1931 - 2012

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6236 POLITICAL

Stew Albert

1939 - 2006

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6245 ETHOLOGIST

Karen Pryor

Born 1932

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6253 PRIEST

Robert D. Hales

1932 - 2017

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6254 COMPOSER

Elliott Schwartz

1936 - 2016

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6257 FILM

David V. Picker

1931 - 2019

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6259 HISTORIAN

Jonathan Steinberg

Born 1934

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6267 PLAYER

Ronald Holmberg

Born 1938

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6278 ACTOR

Robert Hogan (actor)

Born 1933

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6288 FILM

James W. Skotchdopole

Born 1933

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6299 SCREENWRITER

Eric Bercovici

1933 - 2014

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6317 NOVELIST

Ronald Sukenick

1932 - 2004

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6342 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Lionel Tiger

Born 1937

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6363 MATHEMATICIAN

Michael Rosen (mathematician)

Born 1938

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6366 ACTOR

Del Negro (actor)

1939 - 2015

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6367 BIOGRAPHER

Richard Reeves (American writer)

1936 - 2020

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6381 NOVELIST

Joseph McElroy

Born 1930

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6387 JOURNALIST

Joe Morgenstern

Born 1932

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6392 MATHEMATICIAN

Donald J. Newman

1930 - 2007

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6393 IMMUNOLOGIST

William E. Paul

1936 - 2015

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6398 JOURNALIST

Jack Newfield

1938 - 2004

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6403 COMPOSER

Teddy Randazzo

1935 - 2003

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6418 ACTOR

Tony Young (actor)

1937 - 2002

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6437 BASKET

York Larese

1938 - 2016

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6470 MUSIC

Eric Dixon

1930 - 1989

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6492 SCREENWRITER

Ronald Tavel

1936 - 2009

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6497 PHYSICIAN

Rama Coomaraswamy

1932 - 2006

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6512 SINGER

Varetta Dillard

1933 - 1993

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6517 POET

Robert Kelly (poet)

Born 1935

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6526 PHYSICIST

Eugene D. Commins

1932 - 2015

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6551 PAINTER

Richard Merkin

1938 - 2009

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6555 ARTIST

Robert Whitman

Born 1935

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6569 FILM

Richard Michaels

Born 1936

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6573 ACTOR

Charlie Brill

Born 1938

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6575 MATHEMATICIAN

Leon Ehrenpreis

1930 - 2010

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6577 POLITICIAN

John Miller (Washington politician)

1938 - 2017

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6578 PHILOSOPHER

Theodore Drange

Born 1934

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6580 BIOGRAPHER

Lee Israel

1939 - 2014

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6588 HISTORIAN

Gerald Feldman

1937 - 2007

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6618 CONDUCTOR

Maurice Peress

1930 - 2017

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6628 JOURNALIST

Adam Clymer

1937 - 2018

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6631 ACTOR

George Memmoli

1938 - 1985

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6648 PHOTOGRAPHER

John Pfahl

1939 - 2020

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6656 MUSIC

Neal Zaslaw

Born 1939

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6659 ACTOR

May Wynn

Born 1930

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6671 SCULPTOR

Alice Adams (artist)

Born 1930

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6674 ZOOLOGIST

Raymond B. Manning

1934 - 2000

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6679 BEEKEEPER

Burt Shavitz

1935 - 2015

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6697 DIPLOMAT

Matthew Nimetz

Born 1939

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6706 MANAGER

Herb Cohen

1932 - 2010

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6708 CONDUCTOR

Eve Queler

Born 1931

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6711 ACTOR

Larry Keith

1931 - 2010

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6714 ARTIST

Helène Aylon

1931 - 2020

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6717 FILM

Hugh A. Robertson

1932 - 1988

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6723 SINGER

Merle Louise

Born 1934

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6732 STATISTICIAN

Samuel Sanford Shapiro

Born 1930

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6739 ART CRITIC

David Antin

1932 - 2016

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6741 SWIMMER

Shelley Mann

1937 - 2005

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6763 HISTORIAN

Marilyn B. Young

1937 - 2017

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6790 MATHEMATICIAN

Michael Sean Mahoney

1939 - 2008

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6791 HISTORIAN

Charles E. Rosenberg

Born 1936

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6794 POLITICIAN

Richard Ravitch

Born 1933

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6797 ACTOR

Steve Rossi

1932 - 2014

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6798 CHOREOGRAPHER

Joe Layton

1931 - 1994

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6803 ACTOR

Rosemary Prinz

Born 1930

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6804 MUSIC

Steve Marcus

1939 - 2005

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6810 MOBSTER

Albert Gallo

Born 1930

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6816 BASEBALL

Ken Aspromonte

Born 1931

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6820 RELIGIOUS

Basil Pennington

1931 - 2005

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6821 ACTOR

Nicholas Georgiade

Born 1933

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6829 PLAYWRIGHT

Tina Howe

Born 1937

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6831 DIPLOMAT

John Langeloth Loeb Jr.

Born 1930

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6851 LAWYER

Floyd Abrams

Born 1936

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6855 JOURNALIST

Walter Pincus

Born 1932

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6856 NOVELIST

David F. Case

1937 - 2018

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6865 COMPOSER

Richard Teitelbaum

1939 - 2020

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6871 MUSIC

Lenny Welch

Born 1938

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6885 ACTOR

Dennis Marks (screenwriter)

1932 - 2006

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6886 ACTOR

Adam Roarke

1937 - 1996

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6887 PHILOSOPHER

David Hartman (rabbi)

1931 - 2013

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6910 ART CRITIC

Donald Kuspit

Born 1935

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6918 ACTOR

Cyrus Elias

1930 - 2013

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6921 PHILOSOPHER

Peter Achinstein

Born 1935

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6925 MUSIC

George Braith

Born 1939

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6926 FILM

Jack Schwartzman

1932 - 1994

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6928 ACTOR

John Martino (actor)

Born 1937

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6942 SCULPTOR

Richard Nonas

Born 1936

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6943 BIOCHEMIST

Leonard Herzenberg

1931 - 2013

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6974 PATHOLOGIST

Michael Baden

Born 1934

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6984 ACTOR

Bob May (actor)

1939 - 2009

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6985 PSYCHOLOGIST

Yehuda Ben-Meir

Born 1939

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7006 SINGER

John Reardon (baritone)

1930 - 1988

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7025 DRIVER

Bob Said

1932 - 2002

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7026 ACTOR

Eddie Egan

1930 - 1995

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7038 WRITER

Norma Fox Mazer

1931 - 2009

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7045 NOVELIST

Richard Sapir

1936 - 1987

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7052 WRITER

Alan Levy

1932 - 2004

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7057 LITERARY

Ed Victor

1939 - 2017

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7060 HISTORIAN

Horace Freeland Judson

1931 - 2011

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7068 MUSIC

Larry Finnegan

1938 - 1973

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7077 PAINTER

Robert Cottingham

Born 1935

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7085 MINISTER

Lester Bird

Born 1938

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7101 NOVELIST

William Caunitz

1933 - 1996

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7105 JUDGE

Stephen Reinhardt

1931 - 2018

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7112 MUSIC

Dick Garcia

Born 1931

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7120 LAWYER

Antonio Colorado

Born 1939

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7125 MUSIC

Al Levitt

1932 - 1994

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7126 ARTS

Jan Wilsgaard

1930 - 2016

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7129 ASTRONOMER

Kenneth Kellermann

Born 1937

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7135 WRITER

Stan Fischler

Born 1932

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7148 PAINTER

Joseph Raffael

Born 1933

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7158 MATHEMATICIAN

Harold Widom

Born 1932

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7192 BASKET

Ed Conlin

1933 - 2012

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7205 WRESTLER

Johnny Rodz

Born 1938

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7220 ACTOR

Mitzi Hoag

1932 - 2019

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7235 CONDUCTOR

Martin Mailman

1932 - 2000

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7244 PLAYER

Marty Reisman

1930 - 2012

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7249 SCREENWRITER

Paul D. Zimmerman

1938 - 1993

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7251 MUSIC

Don Smithers

Born 1933

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7266 MATHEMATICIAN

Robert Hermann (mathematician)

1931 - 2020

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7292 HISTORIAN

Sarah B. Pomeroy

Born 1938

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7310 PHOTOGRAPHER

Jay Maisel

Born 1931

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7312 ACTOR

Don Hastings

Born 1934

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7319 TEACHER

Deborah Meier

Born 1931

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7326 MATHEMATICIAN

Harold Rosenberg (mathematician)

Born 1938

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7329 BASKET

Pete Brennan

1936 - 2012

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7340 ACTOR

Raymond Serra

1936 - 2003

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7342 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Oscar White Muscarella

Born 1931

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7349 MUSIC

Stephen Simon

1937 - 2013

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7367 MATHEMATICIAN

Arthur Mattuck

Born 1930

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7382 SOCIOLOGIST

Leonore Davidoff

1932 - 2014

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7387 AUTHOR

Alan Lelchuk

Born 1938

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7392 ART DIRECTOR

Philip Rosenberg

Born 1935

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7395 CRITIC

Jeffrey Hart

1930 - 2019

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7419 FILM

Daniel Melnick

1932 - 2009

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7435 ARTIST

Sylvia Plimack Mangold

Born 1938

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7445 ILLUSTRATOR

John Schoenherr

1935 - 2010

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7473 PRODUCER

Walter Yetnikoff

Born 1933

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7475 MUSIC

Louie Ramirez

1938 - 1993

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7485 PUBLISHING

Charles N. Brown

1937 - 2009

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7500 ACTOR

Lee Wallace (actor)

Born 1930

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7509 MUSIC

Jimmy Sabater

1936 - 2012

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7514 HISTORIAN

Rosalyn Baxandall

1939 - 2015

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7537 MUSIC

Mel Taylor

1933 - 1996

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7542 ENGINEER

Judith Love Cohen

1933 - 2016

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7544 ACTOR

Louise Troy

1933 - 1994

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7550 VIROLOGIST

Harvey J. Alter

Born 1935

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7609 ENTREPRENEUR

Maurice Kanbar

Born 1930

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7611 HISTORIAN

Allan R. Millett

Born 1937

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7613 ACADEMIC

Daniel Slotnick

1931 - 1985

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7624 LAWYER

Clifford Alexander Jr.

Born 1933

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7635 ACTOR

Don Stewart (actor)

1935 - 2006

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7636 ACTOR

Pamela Duncan (actress)

1931 - 2005

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7655 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Alice Beck Kehoe

Born 1934

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7662 PHILOSOPHER

Jean Houston

Born 1937

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7666 MONK

Philippe Coupey

Born 1937

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7755 LINGUIST

Philip Lieberman

Born 1934

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7761 ACADEMIC

Froma Zeitlin

Born 1933

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7781 MUSIC

Chris White (bassist)

1936 - 2014

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7784 ACADEMIC

Dennis Karjala

1939 - 2017

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7793 COLLECTOR

Kenneth Jay Lane

1930 - 2017

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7795 ACTOR

Ellen Holly

Born 1931

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7798 FILM

Fred J. Lincoln

1937 - 2013

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7827 PRIEST

Henry J. Mansell

Born 1937

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7828 AUTHOR

Michael Kurland

Born 1938

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7857 PROFESSOR

Betty T. Bennett

1935 - 2006

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7865 BASKET

Tommy Kearns

Born 1936

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7868 ACADEMIC

Haddon Robinson

1931 - 2017

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7869 ECONOMIST

Paul A. David

Born 1935

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7878 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

George Coulouris (computer scientist)

Born 1937

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7879 POLITICIAN

J. Sargeant Reynolds

1936 - 1971

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7883 SKATER

Yvonne Sherman

1930 - 2005

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7885 BIOGRAPHER

Hillel Halkin

Born 1939

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7899 BASEBALL

Tommy Davis

Born 1939

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7928 WRITER

David Zelag Goodman

1930 - 2011

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7932 ACTOR

Danny Goldman

1939 - 2020

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7942 UFOLOGIST

James W. Moseley

1931 - 2012

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7945 NOVELIST

Laurence Janifer

1933 - 2002

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7974 ACTOR

Stephen Pearlman

1935 - 1998

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7978 PIANIST

Gilbert Kalish

Born 1935

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7985 SCIENTIST

Robert H. Hewsen

1934 - 2018

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8026 DIPLOMAT

Nicholas Platt

Born 1936

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8032 MUSIC

Barry Rogers

1935 - 1991

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8040 ACTOR

Marcia Haufrecht

Born 1937

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8041 ACTOR

Don Lane

1933 - 2009

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8043 ATHLETIC

Jim Beatty

Born 1934

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8057 WRITER

Hugh Nissenson

1933 - 2013

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8059 PSYCHOLOGIST

Jerome E. Singer

1934 - 2010

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8061 MATHEMATICIAN

Jim Stasheff

Born 1936

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8081 PAINTER

P. Buckley Moss

Born 1933

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8087 ARCHITECT

Paul Davidoff

1930 - 1984

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8088 GYMNAST

Abie Grossfeld

Born 1934

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8091 LITERARY

Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Born 1932

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8136 LAWYER

Arnold Burns

1930 - 2013

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8137 SOCIOLOGIST

Harriet Zuckerman

Born 1937

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8147 AUTHOR

John Ross (activist)

1938 - 2011

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8171 BASKET

Don Ackerman

1930 - 2011

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8173 PHOTOJOURNALIST

Barbara Gluck

Born 1938

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8185 MATHEMATICIAN

Lesley Sibner

1934 - 2013

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8187 MATHEMATICIAN

Stuart S. Antman

Born 1939

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8200 FILM

Stephen J. Friedman (producer)

1937 - 1996

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8201 PAINTER

Susan Weil

Born 1930

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8218 ACADEMIC

Ira Michael Heyman

1930 - 2011

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8233 PRODUCER

George Shapiro

Born 1931

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8250 PRELATE

Ignatius Anthony Catanello

1938 - 2013

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8265 ACTOR

Simon Prescott

Born 1936

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8268 FILM

Ron Rice

1935 - 1964

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