40.6979° N, 73.9995° W

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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Showing 2,151 of 22,064 notable people

11241 COLUMNIST

Rona Barrett

Born 1936

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11273 ACTOR

Arthur French (actor)

Born 1931

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11276 FENCER

James Margolis

Born 1936

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11287 POET

Ruth Fainlight

Born 1931

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11288 ACTOR

Paul Kent (actor)

1930 - 2011

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11291 PRIEST

John Charles Dunne

Born 1937

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11316 ART HISTORIAN

Daniel Robbins (art historian)

1932 - 1995

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11333 WRITER

Seymour Simon (author)

Born 1931

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11334 MUSIC

Max Salazar

1932 - 2010

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11335 NOVELIST

William Melvin Kelley

1937 - 2017

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11337 POLITICIAN

Peter Tarnoff

Born 1937

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11358 BANK

Arthur L. Carter

Born 1931

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11367 ATTORNEY

Paul R. Verkuil

Born 1939

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11413 RADIO

Bob Fass

Born 1933

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11417 WRITER

Steven Schrader

Born 1935

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11427 CHEMIST

Joan Berkowitz

Born 1931

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11429 PHILOSOPHY

David Seyfort Ruegg

Born 1931

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11432 ARTIST

Naomi Siegmann

1933 - 2018

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11436 JOURNALIST

Haynes Johnson

1931 - 2013

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11440 LAWYER

Herbert Jay Stern

Born 1936

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11454 COMPOSER

Joe Jones (Fluxus musician)

1934 - 1993

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11467 LAWYER

Robert B. Shapiro

Born 1938

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11491 POET

Marvin Bell

Born 1937

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11502 WRITER

Stanley Keleman

1931 - 2018

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11530 SCREENWRITER

Bob Brunner

1934 - 2012

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11546 POLICE

Frank Potenza

1933 - 2011

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11566 PROFESSOR

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg

Born 1937

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11569 POET

Rochelle Owens

Born 1936

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11584 WRITER

Ann Rinaldi

Born 1934

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11610 INTELLECTUAL

Robert S. Leiken

1939 - 2017

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11614 COMEDIAN

David Frye

1933 - 2011

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11618 WRITER

Fred Marcellino

1939 - 2001

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11622 POLITICIAN

Betsy Gotbaum

Born 1938

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11631 EXPLORER

Jon Lindbergh

Born 1932

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11632 PHYSICIST

Donald T. Farley

1933 - 2018

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11634 ARTIST

Arnold Skolnick

Born 1937

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11651 TELEVISION

Herbert Franklin Solow

Born 1930

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11660 POLITICIAN

J. Edward Meyer

Born 1935

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11679 NOVELIST

Richard Elman

1934 - 1997

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11684 FILM

Zina Rachevsky

1930 - 1973

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11694 POLITICIAN

Charles E. Rice

1931 - 2015

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11710 JOURNALIST

Linda Wolfe

1932 - 2020

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11720 HISTORIAN

William S. McFeely

1930 - 2019

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11744 COMPOSER

Ben Lanzarone

Born 1938

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11757 RESEARCH

John B. Robbins

1932 - 2019

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11775 BUSINESS

Frank Zarb

Born 1935

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11791 HISTORIAN

Wallace Terry

1938 - 2003

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11815 MUSIC

Arthur Weisberg

1931 - 2009

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11848 ACTOR

Lennie Dale

1934 - 1994

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11859 BASKET

Tony Windis

Born 1933

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11861 ACADEMIC

Paul Torgersen

1931 - 2015

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11862 WRITER

Norma Klein

1938 - 1989

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11873 FEMINIST

Claire Kahane

Born 1938

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11880 ARTIST

Richard Bernstein (artist)

1939 - 2002

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11900 FILM

Harry Hurwitz

1938 - 1995

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11920 DEPUTY

Tom J. Donohue

Born 1938

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11927 ACTOR

Bobby Astyr

1937 - 2002

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11937 ARMY

Paul Rader

Born 1934

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11943 ART HISTORIAN

Jack Burnham

1931 - 2019

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11953 VIROLOGIST

Mary Guinan

Born 1939

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11979 ARMY

Leonard M. Kravitz

1931 - 1951

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11991 SCIENTIST

James J. Tietjen

1933 - 2016

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12002 BANJOIST

Billy Faier

1930 - 2016

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12003 LAWYER

Kevin Duffy

1933 - 2020

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12004 POET

Paul Schmidt (translator)

1934 - 1999

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12014 ILLUSTRATOR

Alan E. Cober

1935 - 1998

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12015 HISTORIAN

Eugene P. Trani

Born 1939

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12024 MUSIC

Bennett Reimer

1932 - 2013

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12028 BASKET

Hank Whitney

Born 1939

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12042 PAINTER

Jerome Witkin

Born 1939

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12049 FACULTY

Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy

Born 1939

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12070 BUSINESS

Richard Gilder

1932 - 2020

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12071 SCREENWRITER

Norman Bogner

Born 1935

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12074 EXECUTIVE

Ira Glasser

Born 1938

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12093 PAINTER

Alfredo Da Silva

1935 - 2020

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12096 JOURNALIST

Frank Brady (writer)

Born 1934

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12102 WRITER

Robert Kimmel Smith

1930 - 2020

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12103 ARTIST

Tom Feelings

1933 - 2003

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12109 WRITER

Albert Marrin

Born 1936

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12112 COMMISSIONER

Nicholas Scoppetta

1932 - 2016

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12114 HISTORIAN

Lawrence W. Levine

1933 - 2006

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12119 POET

William Packard (author)

1933 - 2002

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12120 LAWYER

Richard J. Daronco

1931 - 1988

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12125 BASEBALL

Al Ferrara

Born 1939

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12138 PALAEONTOLOGIST

Leonard Radinsky

1937 - 1985

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12145 WRITER

C. A. Patrides

1930 - 1986

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12151 LAWYER

Pierre N. Leval

Born 1936

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12179 ACTOR

Dick Kallman

1933 - 1980

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12188 RESTAURATEUR

Mel Haber

1936 - 2016

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12197 JOURNALIST

Lawrence Van Gelder

1933 - 2016

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12204 BASKET

Stacey Arceneaux

1936 - 2015

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12227 PSYCHOLOGIST

Irwin Altman

Born 1930

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12229 WRITER

Karla Kuskin

1932 - 2009

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12239 POLITICIAN

Roy M. Goodman

1930 - 2014

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12247 POLITICAL

Anne Wexler

1930 - 2009

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12249 ARTIST

Barbara Nessim

Born 1939

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12251 COMPOSER

Martin Boykan

Born 1931

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12252 TEACHER

Samuel O. Thier

Born 1937

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12264 PHILOLOGIST

David H. Porter

1935 - 2016

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12275 ACTOR

Sean Garrison

1937 - 2018

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12292 WRITER

Jeannette Lander

1931 - 2017

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12311 POLITICIAN

Frank Fahrenkopf

Born 1939

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12314 WRITER

H. B. Gilmour

1939 - 2009

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12325 MUSIC

John Gordon (trombonist)

1939 - 2003

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12329 HISTORIAN

Gary Mokotoff

Born 1937

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12336 ACTOR

Eduardo López Rojas

1937 - 1999

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12337 CONDUCTOR

Joan Franks Williams

1930 - 2003

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12368 ROWER

Seymour Cromwell

1934 - 1977

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12373 PHOTOGRAPHER

Bruce Jackson (scholar)

Born 1936

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12376 POLITICIAN

Donald Manes

1934 - 1986

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12383 POLITICIAN

Kenneth LaValle

Born 1939

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12384 BIOLOGIST

Eugene Rosenberg

Born 1935

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12387 DRUMMER

Roger Blank

Born 1938

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12409 MUSIC

Johnny Glasel

1930 - 2011

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12411 BASKET

Jerry Paulson

1935 - 1986

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12418 PRELATE

Emerson John Moore

1938 - 1995

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12428 LAWYER

Barry Slotnick

Born 1939

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12443 PHYSICIAN

Michael Lesch

1939 - 2008

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12445 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Alan A. Altshuler

Born 1936

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12467 CRIMINOLOGIST

Jerome Herbert Skolnick

Born 1931

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12469 ENGINEER

Kenneth H. Keller

Born 1934

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12479 MATHEMATICIAN

Stephen Lichtenbaum

Born 1939

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12483 HIGH JUMP

Ann Marie Flynn

Born 1938

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12491 MATHEMATICIAN

Leonard E. Baum

1931 - 2017

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12498 WRITER

Suzanne Massie

Born 1931

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12505 SINGER

Shirley Bunnie Foy

1936 - 2016

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12524 PUBLISHER

Robert Rodale

1930 - 1990

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12525 BASEBALL

Bob Aspromonte

Born 1938

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12558 RIDER

Edith Master

1932 - 2013

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12597 ARCHITECT

Richard Levine

Born 1939

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12607 PHOTOGRAPHER

Louise Odes Neaderland

Born 1932

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12617 FINANCIER

Ira Rennert

Born 1934

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12623 ETCHER

Kathan Brown

Born 1935

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12635 NEUROLOGIST

Robert B. Daroff

Born 1936

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12644 FEMINIST

Dottie Lamm

Born 1937

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12654 PHILOSOPHER

R. Kent Greenawalt

Born 1936

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12660 ENTREPRENEUR

Earl G. Graves Sr.

1935 - 2020

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12673 JOURNALIST

John Johnson (reporter)

Born 1938

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12674 COMPOSER

Alan Heyman

1931 - 2014

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12683 PAINTER

Alan Gussow

1931 - 1997

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12685 ACTOR

Eddie Foy III

1935 - 2018

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12691 SONGWRITER

Beverly Ross

Born 1939

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12731 DANCER

Serena Wilson

1933 - 2007

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12732 BASEBALL

Norm Sherry

Born 1931

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12744 PHOTOGRAPHER

Lee Lockwood

1932 - 2010

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12746 OFFICER

James G. Roche

Born 1939

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12751 POLITICAL

Gerald Rafshoon

Born 1934

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12754 SURGEON

Richard M. Ehrlich

Born 1938

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12767 SINGER

Tony Saletan

Born 1931

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12770 PRODUCER

Walter C. Miller

1931 - 2020

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12778 LAWYER

Frederic Block

Born 1934

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12791 MUSIC

Bobby Cole (musician)

1932 - 1996

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12792 COMPOSER

Stanley Silverman

Born 1938

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12793 POET

Grace Schulman

Born 1935

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12800 EDITOR

William Honan

1930 - 2014

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12804 THEATRE

James Ferman

1930 - 2002

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12806 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Abigail Thernstrom

1936 - 2020

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12815 CHOREOGRAPHER

Joseph Russillo

Born 1938

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12821 JOURNALIST

Robert C. Maynard

1937 - 1993

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12831 FOOTBALL

Bob Reifsnyder

Born 1937

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12833 CARTOONIST

Sidney Harris (cartoonist)

Born 1933

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12835 BUSINESS

Fred Sands

1938 - 2015

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12844 BUSINESS

Kent Kresa

Born 1938

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12858 MATHEMATICIAN

Ed Posner

1933 - 1993

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12872 TRANSLATOR

Peter Bien

Born 1930

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12887 PHOTOGRAPHER

John Loengard

1934 - 2020

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12890 DIPLOMAT

Carl Spielvogel

Born 1930

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12906 BANK

William R. Rhodes

Born 1935

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12936 REPUBLICAN

Gerald Cardinale

Born 1934

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12943 EMPLOYEE

Herbert Romerstein

1931 - 2013

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12955 METALLURGIST

David V. Ragone

Born 1930

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12965 COMEDIAN

Rusty Warren

Born 1931

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12994 PHYSICIST

Stephen J. Lukasik

1931 - 2019

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12995 ACTOR

Bill Thompson (television host)

1931 - 2014

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13001 RIDER

Michael Page (equestrian)

Born 1938

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13010 CARTOONIST

Willy Murphy

1937 - 1976

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13016 SCREENWRITER

Peter Feibleman

1930 - 2015

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13051 GANGSTER

Thomas Agro

1931 - 1987

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13064 SCREENWRITER

Meade Roberts

1930 - 1992

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13065 MUSIC

Joan Peyser

1930 - 2011

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13068 ARTIST

Ed Koren

Born 1935

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13075 BIOLOGIST

Irwin Sherman

Born 1933

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13081 HISTORIAN

Eugene Kusielewicz

1930 - 1996

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13083 ACTIVIST

Bill Baird (activist)

Born 1930

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13085 DESIGNER

Jacqueline Ayer

1930 - 2012

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13097 BASEBALL

Bobby Wine

Born 1938

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13102 BASKET

John Moráles

Born 1939

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13103 ADVERTISING

Phil Dusenberry

1936 - 2007

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13114 FILM

Ed Pincus

1938 - 2013

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13117 PSYCHIATRIST

Lenore Terr

Born 1936

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13120 ACTOR

Lawrence Cook (actor)

1930 - 2003

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13148 LAWYER

Robert B. Fiske

Born 1930

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13157 DRAUGHTSWOMAN

Sigmund Abeles

Born 1934

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13165 PSYCHOLOGIST

Saul Sternberg

Born 1933

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13168 BASKET

Joe Quigg

Born 1937

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13194 BUSINESS

David Rosen (businessman)

Born 1930

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13204 BUSINESS

Alan Patricof

Born 1935

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13208 PRODUCER

Stuart Ostrow

Born 1932

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13216 PRINTMAKER

Donald Saff

Born 1937

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13231 ACTOR

Johnny Stewart

Born 1934

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13240 MUSIC

Ronnie Bright

1938 - 2015

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13245 ACTOR

Alexandra Kenworthy

Born 1932

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13254 ART HISTORIAN

Iris Love

1933 - 2020

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13260 FILM

Gavrik Losey

Born 1938

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13264 HISTORIAN

William Glen (geologist)

Born 1932

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13269 PAINTER

Michael Mazur

1935 - 2009

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13281 LAWYER

William L. Taylor

1931 - 2010

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13286 SPEECHWRITER

Ray Price (speechwriter)

1930 - 2019

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13298 JOURNALIST

Michael S. Cullen

Born 1939

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13300 SONGWRITER

Bobby Weinstein

Born 1939

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13303 WEIGHTLIFTER

Dave Sheppard

1931 - 2000

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13304 ACTIVIST

Megan Rice

Born 1930

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13305 MANAGER

Ralph S. Larsen

1938 - 2016

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13314 NOVELIST

R. M. Koster

Born 1934

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13319 WRITER

Christopher Collier (historian)

1930 - 2020

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13320 WRITER

Brenda Webster

Born 1936

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13327 SCULPTOR

Nancy Azara

Born 1939

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13331 POET

Jack Marshall (author)

Born 1936

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13344 PRIEST

Miguel Pedro Mundo

1937 - 1999

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13362 BOTANIST

Charles Edward Glass

1934 - 1998

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13365 PHOTOGRAPHER

Rowland Scherman

Born 1937

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13390 ACADEMIC

Gerald Blidstein

1938 - 2020

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13398 POLITICIAN

Mel Miller

1939 - 2019

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13416 LAWYER

Anita B. Brody

Born 1935

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13419 FILM

Len Steckler

1930 - 2016

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13441 FILM

Michael Campus

1935 - 2015

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13451 PLAYWRIGHT

Paul Carter Harrison

Born 1936

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13466 PHOTOGRAPHER

Paul Schutzer

1930 - 1967

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13468 PRIEST

Paul Henry Walsh

1937 - 2014

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13486 ACTOR

Virginia Vestoff

1939 - 1982

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13491 SECRETARY

Nancy Kissinger

Born 1934

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13497 JOURNALIST

Daniel S. Greenberg

1931 - 2020

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13515 SCULPTOR

Robert Perless

Born 1938

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13518 POLITICIAN

Leo Berman

1935 - 2015

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13533 POLITICIAN

Stanley Fink

1936 - 1997

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13560 HISTORIAN

Walter Karp

1934 - 1989

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13561 ACTOR

Iris Burton

1930 - 2008

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13577 DIPLOMAT

Adrian A. Basora

Born 1938

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13588 BASKET

Al Seiden

1937 - 2008

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13608 DANCER

Patricia Dineen

1936 - 1961

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13612 ENGINEER

Irwin Lachman

Born 1930

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13613 RABBI

Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff

Born 1937

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13634 LAWYER

Joseph M. McLaughlin

1933 - 2013

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13638 ARTIST

Murray Tinkelman

1933 - 2016

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13642 LAWYER

Deborah Poritz

Born 1936

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13651 POLITICIAN

Ralph J. Lamberti

Born 1934

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13655 JOURNALIST

Marina Vaizey

Born 1938

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13659 WRITER

Chauncey C. Loomis

1930 - 2009

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13682 ARTIST

Josef Levi

Born 1938

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13694 RESTAURATEUR

Calvin B. T. Lee

1934 - 1983

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13704 ACTOR

William Bronder

1930 - 2015

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13713 JOURNALIST

Carl Leubsdorf

Born 1938

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13717 WRITER

Jay Neugeboren

Born 1938

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13730 HISTORIAN

Elizabeth von Till Warren

Born 1934

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13736 HISTORIAN

Norman Fiering

Born 1935

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13739 FILM

Ron Satlof

1938 - 2018

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13751 ARTIST

Margia Kramer

Born 1939

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13789 PRIEST

René Arnold Valero

1930 - 2019

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13822 PHOTOGRAPHER

I. C. Rapoport

Born 1937

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13830 PHYSICIST

Daniel Greenberger

Born 1932

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13831 JOURNALIST

Leonard Fein

1934 - 2014

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13834 MUSIC

Jimmy D'Aquisto

1935 - 1995

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13836 BASEBALL

Danny McDevitt

1932 - 2010

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13837 MOBSTER

Alphonse D'Arco

1932 - 2019

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13838 HAMMER THROWER

Marty Engel

Born 1932

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13874 MATHEMATICIAN

Lawrence Paul Horwitz

Born 1930

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13888 CHEMIST

Mark M. Green

Born 1937

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13900 ENGINEER

Joel S. Engel

Born 1936

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13902 NEUROSCIENTIST

Edmund Fantino

1939 - 2015

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13907 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Abraham Ashkenasi

1934 - 2016

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13934 BASKET

Bob Santini

Born 1932

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13939 ENGINEER

Harvey Jerome Brudner

1931 - 2009

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13942 CHOREOGRAPHER

Loretta Abbott

1933 - 2016

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13947 FILM

Theo Kamecke

1937 - 2017

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13958 LIBRARIAN

Barbara Rose Johns

1935 - 1991

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13964 ARTIST

Maria Alquilar

1938 - 2014

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13967 ARTIST

Ann Chernow

Born 1936

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13971 COMPOSER

Richard Peaslee

1930 - 2016

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13980 HISTORIAN

Peter Stansky

Born 1932

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13987 MILLER

Harvey Golub

Born 1939

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13991 LAWYER

Michael F. Armstrong

1932 - 2019

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13994 DUCHESS

Joan Dillon

Born 1935

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14000 MOBSTER

Nicholas Bianco

1932 - 1994

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14010 WRITER

Mary Anderson (author)

Born 1939

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14027 PAINTER

John Register

1939 - 1996

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14039 POLITICIAN

Larry Sanders (politician)

Born 1934

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14075 PSYCHOLOGIST

Juliet Popper Shaffer

Born 1932

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14079 FOOTBALL

Ron Botchan

Born 1935

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14087 DANCER

Robert Dineen

1937 - 1961

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14090 COMPOSER

Walter Marks (composer)

Born 1934

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14091 DESIGNER

Richard Nelson (lighting designer)

1938 - 1996

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14097 SPORT

Donald Honig

Born 1931

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14115 HISTORIAN

Robert Hessen

Born 1936

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14125 ART CRITIC

Suzi Gablik

Born 1934

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14130 COMPOSER

Stephen J. Lawrence

Born 1939

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14136 ACTOR

Neil Nephew

1939 - 1978

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14150 COMEDIAN

Corbett Monica

1930 - 1998

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14162 PAINTER

Harold Bruder

Born 1930

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14167 MATHEMATICIAN

Bernard J. Matkowsky

1939 - 2020

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14176 BANJOIST

Roger Sprung

Born 1930

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