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
  • Film & TV
  • Writing
  • Music
  • Sports
  • Politics & Law
  • Science
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17442 ARTIST

Kwame Brathwaite

Born 1938

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17448 POLITICIAN

Albert Vann

Born 1934

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17458 POLITICIAN

Hazel Gluck

Born 1934

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17460 CRITIC

Daniel Rogov

1935 - 2011

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17466 POLITICIAN

Penny Williams

1937 - 2018

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17471 ACTOR

Simon Kornblit

1933 - 2010

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17475 TEACHER

Sally Rogow

1930 - 2012

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17514 INVESTMENT

Burton Levin

1930 - 2016

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17528 ACTOR

Lewis Van Bergen

1938 - 2018

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17546 BUSINESS

Leonard N. Stern

Born 1938

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17547 LAWYER

Jay Goldberg

Born 1933

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17562 POLITICIAN

Bob Callahan

Born 1937

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17568 CRIME

Gennaro Langella

1938 - 2013

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17574 FOOTBALL

Dick Easterly

Born 1939

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17591 WRITER

Gloria Feman Orenstein

Born 1938

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17604 PHYSICIST

Allen Goldman

Born 1937

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17620 ACADEMIC

Richard K. Gershon

1932 - 1983

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17630 ART HISTORIAN

Raymond Ward Bissell

1936 - 2019

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17631 DJ

Alison Steele

1937 - 1995

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17635 PHILOSOPHER

Peter Hewitt Hare

1935 - 2008

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17656 ACTOR

Dolores Wettach

Born 1937

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17657 DIPLOMAT

William Green Miller

1931 - 2019

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17659 BOXING

Bob Goodman

Born 1939

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17692 POLITICIAN

Jim King (politician)

1939 - 2009

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17693 THEATRE

Ernest Martin (theatre)

Born 1932

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17694 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Jerome Richard Mintz

1930 - 1996

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17712 BANDLEADER

Pucho Brown

Born 1938

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17715 FOOTBALL

John McMullan

1933 - 1994

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17776 COMPOSER

Ken Sutherland

Born 1939

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17797 BASEBALL

Dave Gerard (baseball)

1936 - 2001

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17807 ASTROPHYSICIST

Kenneth John Frost

1934 - 2013

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17818 LAWYER

Irma S. Raker

Born 1938

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17827 ACADEMIC

Marcus Alexis

1932 - 2009

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17842 PSYCHIATRIST

Joseph Schildkraut (médecin)

1934 - 2006

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17868 ATTORNEY

Richard Brown (lawyer)

1932 - 2019

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17888 THEOLOGIAN

Stanley M. Wagner

1932 - 2013

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17890 COMPOSER

Robert Waldman

Born 1936

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17893 PROFESSOR

Melvin A. Eisenberg

Born 1934

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17902 HISTORIAN

Carol Herselle Krinsky

Born 1937

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17918 PSYCHOLOGIST

Jerome Sattler

Born 1931

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17946 PHYSICIST

Richard M. Friedberg

Born 1935

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17948 ARCHITECT

Richard Lewis Blinder

1935 - 2006

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17949 PAINTER

Jerome Podwil

Born 1938

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17960 IMMUNOLOGIST

Leonore Herzenberg

Born 1935

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17972 MUSIC

Armen Halburian

1933 - 2011

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17991 ACTOR

Jon T. Benn

1935 - 2018

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17996 HORSE TRAINER

Art Sherman

Born 1937

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18040 PSYCHOLOGIST

Howard Leventhal

Born 1931

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18042 BASEBALL

Ralph Mauriello

Born 1934

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18048 ENGINEER

Robert Briskman

Born 1932

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18072 LAWYER

Mario Palumbo

1933 - 2004

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18075 ATTORNEY

Robert Stephan Cohen

Born 1939

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18081 LAWYER

Peter L. Malkin

Born 1934

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18095 PALAEONTOLOGIST

William A. Berggren

Born 1931

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18106 ACADEMIC

Thomas Francis Carney

Born 1931

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18108 PHYSICIAN

Burton J. Lee III

1930 - 2016

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18160 MUSIC

Steve Little (Musiker)

Born 1935

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18168 BASEBALL

Arnie Portocarrero

1931 - 1986

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18170 SHOWGIRL

Cynthia Bouron

1934 - 1973

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18171 WRITER

Paula Wolfert

Born 1938

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18173 LAWYER

Raoul Felder

Born 1939

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18192 ACTOR

Jordan Derwin

1931 - 2000

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18207 POLITICIAN

Henry Stern

1935 - 2019

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18209 BANK

James Harmon

Born 1935

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18214 SINGER

Natalie Lamb

1932 - 2016

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18243 SCULPTOR

Rhoda Sherbell

Born 1933

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18247 TRADE UNION

Sandra Feldman

1939 - 2005

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18248 BASKET

Richard Percudani

1936 - 2001

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18280 MUSIC

Richard Grossman (pianist)

1937 - 1992

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18294 PAINTER

Marty Greenbaum

Born 1934

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18307 ART HISTORIAN

Donald E. Gordon

1931 - 1984

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18312 PAINTER

Stanley Tomshinsky

1935 - 2004

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18338 SAXOPHONIST

Bobby Porcelli

Born 1937

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18397 GEOLOGIST

John Pojeta

1935 - 2017

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18398 LAWYER

Edward J. Philbin

1932 - 2014

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18403 ARTIST

Michael Venezia

Born 1935

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18409 OFFICER

Alfred G. Hansen

Born 1933

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18430 ACADEMIC

Richard E. Goodman

Born 1935

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18435 ACTOR

Ed Kovens

1934 - 2007

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18469 LAWYER

Donald S. Coburn

Born 1939

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18498 BASEBALL

Gloria Cordes

1931 - 2018

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18502 PHYSICIST

Marvin Chester

1930 - 2016

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18525 BASEBALL

Evans Killeen

Born 1936

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18529 POLITICIAN

Anthony S. Seminerio

1935 - 2011

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18540 ACADEMIC

John Paul Schaefer

Born 1934

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18545 ASTRONOMER

Noel Hinners

1935 - 2014

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18565 POET

Marvin Cohen (American writer)

Born 1931

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18589 FILM

Joseph Wishy

1934 - 1993

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18600 SCREENWRITER

Anthony Spinner

Born 1930

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18603 POLITICIAN

Rhoda S. Jacobs

Born 1937

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18619 PHYSICIST

Arthur M. Poskanzer

Born 1931

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18627 ACTIVIST

Pat Norman (activist)

Born 1939

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18635 SECRETARY

Gerald A. Cann

Born 1931

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18639 PAINTER

Jules Maidoff

Born 1933

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18643 JUDGE

Lawrence M. Baskir

Born 1938

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18651 POLITICIAN

Chuck Caputo

Born 1938

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18656 PHOTOGRAPHER

Bob Gomel

Born 1933

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18661 SPORT

Sal Messina

Born 1939

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18663 FOOTBALL

George Brancato

1931 - 2019

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18694 ATTORNEY

Fred Wertheimer

Born 1939

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18714 POLITICAL

C. Peter Magrath

Born 1933

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18725 FOOTBALL

Sam DeLuca

1936 - 2011

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18736 POLITICIAN

Edwina P. Dalton

Born 1936

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18766 PHYSICIST

Sven R. Hartmann

Born 1932

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18770 JOURNALIST

Alvin Klein

1938 - 2009

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18782 EXECUTIVE

Alexander S. Farkas

1930 - 1999

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18794 NOVELIST

Edmund P. Murray

1930 - 2007

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18816 BASEBALL

Lou DiMuro

1931 - 1982

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18830 BASEBALL

Bill Oster

1933 - 2020

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18848 BUSINESS

Arthur G. Cohen

1930 - 2014

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18860 ARCHITECT

Ricardo Scofidio

Born 1935

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18867 COMPOSER

Burt Levy

Born 1936

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18886 INVENTOR

Harvey L. Berger

1938 - 2007

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18898 MINERALOGIST

William A. Bassett

Born 1931

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18899 CRIMINOLOGIST

Patrick Mullany

1935 - 2016

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18904 TELEVISION

Norma Quarles

Born 1936

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18924 BILLIONAIRE

Leandro Rizzuto

1938 - 2017

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18940 ATHLETIC

Sara Mae Berman

Born 1936

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18956 JUDGE

Armand Arabian

1934 - 2018

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18959 POLITICIAN

Joan Menard

Born 1935

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18968 WRESTLER

Ray Stern

1933 - 2007

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18985 POLITICIAN

Carl Gatto

1937 - 2012

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18986 BIOLOGIST

J. Richard McIntosh

Born 1939

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18988 LITERARY

Morton L. Janklow

Born 1930

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19011 ACADEMIC

R. Gordon Douglas

Born 1934

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19037 JUDGE

John Paul Wiese

Born 1934

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19044 BUSINESS

Bob Leaf

Born 1931

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19047 BUSINESS

John Jay Mortimer

1935 - 2013

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19078 BASEBALL

Bob Giallombardo

Born 1937

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19079 LITERARY

Barry Menikoff

Born 1939

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19083 BUSINESS

David Cornstein

Born 1938

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19086 GOVERNOR

Thomas E. Dewey Jr.

Born 1932

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19093 POLITICIAN

Elaine Bloom

Born 1937

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19099 PHILOSOPHER

Kenneth F. Schaffner

Born 1939

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19103 LAWYER

Tom Baruch

Born 1938

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19115 ACTOR

John Nolan (American actor)

1933 - 2000

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19127 BUSINESS

Leonard Marsh (businessman)

1933 - 2013

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19136 ACTOR

Lee Chamberlin

1938 - 2014

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19150 BUSINESS

C. Daniel Clemente

Born 1936

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19159 RADIO

Penny Crone

Born 1935

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19166 BOXER

Bobby Halpern

1933 - 2015

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19168 CHEMIST

Kenneth B. Eisenthal

Born 1933

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19186 ENTREPRENEUR

Jean Griswold

Born 1930

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19225 BUSINESS

S. Parker Gilbert

1933 - 2015

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19231 ACTOR

David De Silva

Born 1936

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19240 ACTIVIST

Jim Toy

Born 1930

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19252 POLITICIAN

Wendell H. Phillips

1934 - 1993

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19255 PSYCHOLOGIST

Patricia Klein Frithiof

Born 1937

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19270 PHYSICIST

Daniel Zwanziger

Born 1935

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19272 COACH

Nick Nicolau

1933 - 2014

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19275 LAWYER

Martin L. Greenberg

Born 1932

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19312 POLITICIAN

Florence M. Sullivan

1930 - 2020

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19315 FOOTBALL

Ed Nickla

Born 1933

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19320 LAWYER

Harold Baer Jr.

1933 - 2014

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19326 ARTIST

Rachel bas-Cohain

1937 - 1982

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19333 JOURNALIST

John Henning (journalist)

1937 - 2010

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19345 POLITICIAN

Joseph Clemmons

Born 1930

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19357 PUBLISHING

Richard E. Snyder

Born 1933

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19362 POLITICIAN

Michael J. Tully Jr.

1933 - 1997

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19369 LAWYER

Charles Proctor Sifton

1935 - 2009

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19380 OFFICER

Ruben A. Cubero

Born 1939

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19394 POLITICIAN

John E. Rooney (politician)

Born 1939

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19406 WRESTLER

Russell Camilleri

Born 1936

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19413 ASTROLOGER

Louise Huebner

1930 - 2014

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19421 METEOROLOGIST

Pete Giddings

Born 1939

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19423 PROFESSOR

Abby Lippman

1939 - 2017

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19425 BASEBALL

Ed Connolly (pitcher)

1939 - 1998

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19470 OFFICER

Arnold Greenberg (Snapple)

1932 - 2012

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19477 POLITICIAN

Judith Jacobs

1939 - 2016

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19502 BASEBALL

Ted Schreiber

Born 1938

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19508 JOCKEY

Walter Blum

Born 1934

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19515 LAWYER

Gerald Walpin

1931 - 2016

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19525 BIOCHEMIST

Phoebe S. Leboy

1936 - 2012

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19526 WORKER

Arthur Naparstek

1938 - 2004

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19528 POLITICAL

Demetrios James Caraley

Born 1932

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19577 RADIO

John Cigna

1935 - 2011

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19579 CERAMIC

Ruth Gowdy McKinley

1931 - 1981

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19581 MATHEMATICIAN

Harvey P. Greenspan

Born 1933

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19584 LAWYER

Guy James Mangano

Born 1930

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19593 DIPLOMAT

William Bodde Jr.

Born 1931

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19595 EDITOR

Edward Kosner

Born 1937

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19598 SCULPTOR

Robert Hess (artist)

1935 - 2014

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19599 ENGINEER

Tom West

1939 - 2011

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19605 ARTIST

Dee Shapiro

Born 1936

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19620 JOURNALIST

Terence Smith (journalist)

Born 1938

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19652 SINGER

Seymour Schwartzman

1930 - 2009

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19653 ARTIST

Mary Louise Coulouris

1939 - 2011

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19660 MUSIC

Mattathias Pearson

1939 - 2017

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19733 NEUROLOGIST

Audrey S. Penn

Born 1934

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19735 BUSINESS

Robert L. Gerry III

Born 1937

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19751 SCIENTIST

James White (engineer)

1938 - 2009

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19785 PHOTOGRAPHER

Art Zeller

1930 - 1990

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19786 DOCTOR

Joseph A. O'Hare

1931 - 2020

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19809 CHESS

Allen Kaufman

Born 1933

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19830 DIPLOMAT

John Thomas McCarthy

Born 1939

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19831 BASEBALL

Frank Carpin

Born 1938

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19886 PUBLICIST

Michael Gershman

1939 - 2000

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19906 BUSINESS

Michael A. Wiener

1938 - 2009

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19959 BASEBALL

Chuck Schilling

Born 1937

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19978 LAWYER

Sylvia Pressler

1934 - 2010

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19982 PHOTOGRAPHER

Rose Hartman

Born 1937

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19984 LAWYER

Gerald Kogan

Born 1933

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19986 ATHLETIC

Constance Darnowski

Born 1934

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19991 LAWYER

Roger M. Milgrim

Born 1937

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20003 LAWYER

Martin S. Ackerman

1932 - 1993

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20011 LAWYER

Lou Frost

1931 - 2008

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20057 SCREENWRITER

Lois Gibson

1930 - 2007

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20059 DESIGNER

Jerry Dior

1932 - 2015

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20061 CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Nancy E. Gary

1937 - 2006

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20074 ACADEMIC

Ray F. Ferrero Jr.

Born 1934

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20081 FOOTBALL

Al Goldstein (American football)

1936 - 2009

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20091 PROFESSOR

David D. Siegel

Born 1931

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20092 LAWYER

Thomas W. Greelish

1939 - 1991

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20099 IMMUNOLOGIST

Stuart F. Schlossman

Born 1935

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20119 LAWYER

Daniel Oliver (policymaker)

Born 1939

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20127 ARCHITECT

Richard Bender

Born 1930

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20128 ARTIST

Muriel Magenta

Born 1932

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20139 BASEBALL

Herb Hippauf

1939 - 1995

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20140 BUSINESS

Ivan Selin

Born 1937

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20156 EXECUTIVE

Charles Benton

1931 - 2015

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20159 POLITICIAN

Mary A. Conroy

1931 - 2014

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20175 LAWYER

Robert Gnaizda

1936 - 2020

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20180 MILITAR

David W. Gay

Born 1935

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20188 FOOTBALL

Henry Clement

Born 1939

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20200 POLITICIAN

Deborah R. Cochran

1939 - 2004

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20206 ATHLETIC

Ken Bantum

Born 1935

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20215 LAWYER

Sidney B. Silverman

Born 1932

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20216 POLITICIAN

Teresa Patterson Hughes

1932 - 2011

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20217 JOURNALIST

Hélène Franck

Born 1932

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20218 ACTOR

Naomi Pollack

Born 1930

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20244 AIR FORCE

Lew Murphy

1933 - 2005

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20245 POLITICIAN

Ron Schultz

Born 1938

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20266 ACADEMIC

Elinor Miller Greenberg

Born 1932

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20273 POLITICIAN

Aurelia Greene

Born 1934

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20286 LAWYER

Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr.

Born 1935

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20320 INVESTOR

Donald C. Clark Sr.

Born 1931

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20324 WRITER

Joel Rapp

Born 1934

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20395 LAWYER

Michael Millman

1939 - 2014

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20430 COMMISSIONER

Carlos M. Rivera

1934 - 2020

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20437 EDUCATION

Louis Appignani

Born 1933

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20438 ACTIVIST

Iris Long

Born 1934

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20441 POET

Norman Pritchard (poet)

Born 1939

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20453 BASEBALL

Bob Weinhauer

Born 1939

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20473 ACADEMIC

Vincent Cooke

1936 - 2017

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20477 MISSING

A. Kenneth Pye

1931 - 1994

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20514 DESIGNER

Salvatore J. Cesarani

Born 1939

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20517 POLITICIAN

Barbara C. Pringle

Born 1939

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20545 BASEBALL

John Fitzgerald (1950s pitcher)

Born 1933

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20579 BIOLOGIST

Lewis Joel Greene

Born 1934

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20587 MEDICAL

Stephen Malawista

1934 - 2013

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20630 OFFICER

Philip F. Smith

1932 - 2017

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20662 RABBI

Sheila Shulman

1936 - 2014

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20668 LAWYER

Paul Bender (jurist)

Born 1933

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20672 MUSIC

Johnny Morris (Musiker)

Born 1935

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20690 INVENTOR

Stanley Weston (inventor)

1933 - 2017

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20692 PROFESSOR

John Anthony Nevin

1933 - 2018

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20706 MAYOR

Norman Ciment

Born 1936

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20755 WRITER

Howard Wolf

Born 1936

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20788 MISSING

Kenneth Reese Cole Jr.

1938 - 2001

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20789 LAWYER

Donald Horowitz (New Jersey lawyer)

Born 1936

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20791 INVENTOR

Harold Sorgenti

1934 - 2018

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20795 MILITAR

Neil M. Stevenson

1930 - 2009

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20797 PUBLISHER

Syd Silverman

1932 - 2017

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20804 POLITICIAN

James C. Heap

1935 - 2013

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20807 FILM

Philip Burton Jr.

1934 - 2010

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20830 LAWYER

Allen G. Schwartz

1934 - 2003

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20843 BUSINESS

William P. Ford

1936 - 2008

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20845 ATHLETIC

Dick Emberger

Born 1938

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20855 FOOTBALL

Ray Ratkowski

Born 1939

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20866 SCREENWRITER

Mark Grantham

Born 1931

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20868 DEAN

John R. Kramer

1937 - 2006

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20885 BASEBALL

Hy Cohen

Born 1931

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20957 BUSINESS

Norma Yaeger

Born 1930

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20970 SINGER

Phyllis Litoff

1938 - 2002

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20979 JOURNALIST

Anne Morrissy Merick

1933 - 2017

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21003 BASEBALL

Tom McAvoy

1936 - 2011

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21019 TELEVISION

Alan Pultz

1930 - 2001

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21031 JAZZ

Tony Cennamo

1933 - 2010

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21064 POLITICIAN

Theodore Berlin

1938 - 1987

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21159 PUBLISHER

Richard Goldwater

1936 - 2007

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21161 SPORT

Arnold Vitarbo

Born 1936

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21196 JOURNALIST

Stefan Kanfer

1933 - 2018

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21198 LAWYER

Julian Soshnick

1932 - 2004

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21220 POLITICIAN

Fred Lippman

Born 1935

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21231 ACTOR

Phil Campos

1934 - 1987

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21233 SCIENTIST

Thomas B. Day

Born 1932

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21273 POLITICIAN

Doris Bunte

Born 1933

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21281 LAWYER

Eugene P. Spellman

1930 - 1991

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21335 ECONOMIST

Eamon M. Kelly

Born 1936

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21337 BASEBALL

Andy Olsen

1930 - 2014

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21346 PAINTER

Dino Kotopoulis

Born 1932

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21355 DIPLOMAT

Vernon Dubois Penner Jr.

Born 1939

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21366 CEO

Bruce N. Whitman

1933 - 2018

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21375 POLITICIAN

Roger H. Wilson

Born 1937

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21387 WRITER

Helene Moglen

Born 1936

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21398 MUSIC

Mike Morgenstern

Born 1939

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21406 PROFESSOR

Jerome T. Murphy

Born 1938

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21434 MISSING

John D. Hawke Jr.

Born 1933

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21435 SPORT

Laurence Mosely

Born 1933

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21450 ESSAYIST

John Freccero

Born 1931

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