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ART/PHOTOGRAPHERS/ARCHITECTS |
MUSIC/DANCE |
LITERATURE |
OTHER |
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Kiyonon Kikutake Architect Dan Flavin Artist |
Rachmaninoff Busoni |
Lon Chaney Actor Toshiro Mifune Actor Edmand Rostond Writer Milan Kundera Writer Wallace Beery Actor Debbie Reynolds Ali MacGraw Jan Kador Film Director Jane Powell Actor |
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| 2 | Max Ernst |
Hans Christian Anderson Emile Zola Alec Guiness, Rita Gam Actor Camile Paglia Writer Dana Carvey Actor Rochelle Owens Playwright Buddy Ebsen Actor Jack Webb Actor |
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| 3 |
MARLON BRANDO,
Washington Irving Writer Eddie Murphy Actor Doris Day, Henry Luce Publisher Alex Baldwin Actor Leslie Howard Daisy Ashford Writer Miyoshi Umeki Actor |
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| 4 |
Edward Hicks Artist Pierre PRUD'HON Artist Maurice de Vlaminck |
Arthur Murray Dance Elmer Bernstein Music Anthony Tudor Dance Pierre Monteux |
Marguerite Duras Writer Anthony Perkins Actor Maya Angelou Writer Robert Downey Junior Actor Cloris Leachman Emmett Williams Writer Kitty Kelly Writer |
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| 5----- |
Jean Honore FRAGONARD Akira Toriyama |
Herbert von Karajan |
Spencer Tracy Gregory Peck Melvyn Douglas Actor Robert Bloch Writer Algernon Swinburne Writer Roger Corman Film Director Michael Moriarty Actor Alester James Peries Film Director |
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| 6 |
Gustave MOREAU Raphael |
Andre Previn |
Barry Levinson Film Director Billy dee Williams Actor |
Houdini |
| 7 | Ravi Shankar |
Wordsworth Billy Holliday FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA Film Director James Garner Actor |
Buddha David Frost Ole Kirk Christiansen - Lego, |
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| 8 |
Franco Corelli Music Sir Adrian Boult Julian Lennon |
Hou Hsia Hsien Film Director Ilka Chase Actor |
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| 9 | Victor Vasarely |
Paul Robeson Robert Helpmann Tom Lehrer Anton Dorati |
Baudelaire Mary Pickford Jean Paul Belmondo Actor Hugh Hefner Dennis Quaid Actor Efrem Zimbalist Dorothy Tutin, |
James W Fulbright |
| 1* |
Pat Steir Artist Ben Nicholson Artist Kenneth Noland Artist |
Paul Theroux Writer Playwright, Hugo Grotius
Writer Max von Sydow Actor Omar Sharif Actor William Hazlitt Writer Chuck Connors Actor |
Joseph Pulitzer | |
| 11 |
Oleg Cassini Fashion Designer Manuel Neri Sculptor |
Gervase de Peyer |
Clive Exton Writer Playwright, Louise Lasser
Actor Joel Grey Actor |
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| 12 | Robert DELAUNAY |
Montserrat Caballe Lili Pons |
Tamar Janowitz Writer Anne Miller Actor Alan Ayckbourn Playwright Jane Withers Actor David Cassidy Scott Turow Writer Georges Franju Film Director, Hardy Kruger Actor |
David Letterman David Cassidy/ |
| 13 |
Lousiana Purchase Architect James Ensor Artist |
Samuel Beckett Playwright Landford Wilson Playwright, Seamus Heaney Writer Stanley Dorren Film Director, Eudora Welty Writer Ron Perlman Actor |
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| 14 |
Hermene Butos Artist Friederich von Amerling Artist, |
Morton Subotnick Music Aprile Millo Music |
Arnold Toynbee Writer Sir John Gielgud Loretta Lynn Rod Steiger Julie Christie Erich von Daniken Writer James Branch Cabell Writer Bradford Dillman Actor James Branch Cabell Writer |
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| 15 |
Leonardo DA VINCI Thomas Hart Benton Artist David Gilhooly Sculptor |
Sir Neville Marriner |
Henry James Writer Claudia Cardinale Actor Samantha Fox Actor Jeffrey Archer Writer |
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| 16 |
Jules Hardovin Mansart Architect Vladimir von Bechtejeff Artist Tristan Tzara |
Merce Cunningham Dance, Henry Mancini, |
Charles Chaplin Anatole France Writer Peter Ustinov Kingsley Amis Writer Spike Milligan Writer Ellen Barkin Actor |
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| 17 |
Isak Dinesen Writer, Konstantinos Kavafis Writer,
Thornton Wilder Playwright Clare Francis Writer William Holden Cynthia Ozick Writer Lindsay Anderson Film Director, Olivia Hussey Actor, |
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| 18 |
Huntinton Hartford Art Patron Ludwig Meidner Artist Max Weber Artist |
Leopold Stokowski, Miklos Rozsa Music |
James Woods Actor, Eric Roberts
Actor Robert Hooks Actor Hayley Mills Actor |
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| 19 |
Dudley Moore Murray Perahia Anthony Bliss Opera |
Jayne Mansfield Hugh O'Brien Actor Don Adams Actor Constance Talmadge Actor, Richard Hughes Writer |
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| 2* | Joan MIRO | Gregor Piatigorsky |
Jessica Lange Actor Daniel Day-Lewis Actor Harold Lloyd Actor Ryan O'Neill Actor George Takei Actor Nina Foch Actor |
Adolf Hitler |
| 21 |
Norman Parkinson Photographer Richard DIEBENKORN Alfred Maurer |
Charlotte Bronte Anthony Quinn Silvana Mangano Actor Tony Danza Actor John Clifford Mortimer Writer |
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| 22 | Odile REDON |
Yehudi
Menuhin, Kathleen Ferrier Glen Campbell |
Alexander Kemensky Writer, Jack
Nicholson Actor Bai Yang Actor Ellen Glasgow Writer Mme Anne Louise de Stael Writer Aaron Spelling TV Producer |
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| 23333 | William TURNER Artist |
Prokofiev Roy Orbison |
Shakespeare Vladimir Nabokov Writer Ngaio Marsh Writer Shirley Temple Majors |
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| 24 |
Willem de KOONING Bridget Riley Artist |
Barbra Steisland John William Music |
Shirley MacLaine Robert Pen Warren Writer, Anthony Trollope Writer Jill Ireland Actor |
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| 25 |
Karel Appel Artist |
Al Pacino Actor Talia Shire Actor Paul Mazursky Director, Bertrand Tavernier Film Director, Walter de la Mare Writer |
Oliver Cromwell | |
| 26 | Jean James AUDUBON Artist, Eugene DELACROIX | Michel Fokine Dance |
Carol Burnett Bernard Malamud Writer Anita Loos Writer AE Van Vogt Writer |
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| 27 |
Cecil Day-Lewis Writer Norman Bel Gedes Stage Designer Jack Klugman Actor Walter Lantz - Woody Woodpecker Zhang Jie Writer Sandy Dennis Actor Anouk Aimee Actor |
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| 28 | Yves KLEIN Artist | Angana Enters Dancer |
Harper Lee Writer Lionel Barrymore Actor Ann Margret Actor Kaneto Shindo Film Director |
Oskar Schindler |
| 29 |
Duke Ellington Sir Thomas Beechman Sir Malcolm Sargent Zubin Mehta |
William Randolph Hearst Publisher Michelle Pfeiffer Celeste Holm Actor |
Andre Agassi | |
| 3* |
Herbert Ferber Artist Peter Ahrends, Architect Édouard Manet |
Franz Lehar Robert Shaw Music |
Eve Arden Actor Jill Clayburgh John Crowe Ransom Writer Corinne Calvert Actor, |
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| 0AY 1**** | Rita Coolidge Singer |
Terry Southern Writer Joseph Heller Writer Judy Collins Actor Bobbie Ann Mason Writer Joseph Addison Writer Glen Ford Actor Danielle Darrieux Actor Wendy Toye Theatre, |
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| 2 |
Philippe Halsman Fashion Photographer Edmund Bacon Architect |
Bing Crosby Scarlatti, |
Sat Yajit Ray Film Director Noralis Writer, Sir John Malcolm Writer Theodore Bikel Actor Hadda Hopper Actor Sidney Skolsky Film Producer, Bianca Jagger, |
Lorenzo Hart - Robers & Hart |
| 3 | Allessandro Allori Artist |
Pete Seeger, Folk Singer Englebert Humperdinck |
Henry Fielding Writer Walter Slezak Actor Mary Astor Actor Mary Sarton Writer William Inge Playwright |
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| 4 |
Keith Haring Artist Frederick Edwin Church Artist |
Cristofori - 1st piano |
AUDREY HEPBURN Howard da Silva Actor Amos Oz Writer |
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| 5 |
Hans Baluschek Artist George Muche Artist |
Tammy Wynette Hans Pfitzer Music |
Karl Marx Writer Tyrone Power Michael Palin Charles Bennet Gullans Writer |
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| 6 | Ernst Kirchner Artist |
ORSON WELLES Film Director,
Rudolph Valentino Max Ophuls Film Director, T H White Writer Yasushi Inove Writer Christian Morgenstern Writer, Stewart Granger Victor Neuburg Writer |
Freud | |
| 7 | Carolyn Roehm Fashion Designer | Johannes Brahms, Tschaikovsky |
Robert Browning Archibald Macleish Playwright, Gary Cooper Rabindranath Tagore Writer Anne Baxter Marjorie Boulton Writer |
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| 8 | Oscar Hammerstein |
Gary Snyder Poet Roberto Rossellini Film Director, Candice Bergen Thomas Pynchon Writer Ricky Nelson Actor Sloan Wilson Writer Don Rickles Actor Peter Benchley Writer Jane Roberts Writer |
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| 9 |
Gordon Bunshaft architect Jan Dibberts artist, |
Billy Joel Carlo Maria Giulini Music Dietrich Buxtehude Music |
James Barrie Playwright Glenda Jackson |
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| 1* |
Fred Astaire Judith Jamison Dance Max Steiner Film Composer, Dmitri Tiomkin film composer, Milton Babbitt Music |
John Wilkes Booth Actor David O Selznick Film Producer Ariel Durant Writer |
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| 11 |
Salvador DALI, Yakov Agam Artist |
Martha Graham Irving Berlin |
Camilo Jose Cela Writer Andre Gregory Writer Margaret Rutherford Marco Ferreri Film Director Phil Silvers Jerzy Jarocki Theatre |
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| 12 |
Joseph Berrys Artist Frank Stella Artist Rossetti Artist |
Faure Music Burt Bacharach, Lennox Berkeley |
Edward Lear - The Owl and the Pussycat Katherine Hepburn Emilo Esterez Film Director Wilfred Hyde White Actor |
Florence Nightingale |
| 13 | Theodore Aventowicz Artist |
Stevie Wonder Sir Arthur Sullivan Adolf Holzel Artist Ravi Shankar Jane Alison Glver Music |
Daphne du Maurier Harvey Keitel Film Director, Bruce Chatwin Writer Bea Arthur Actor Alphse Daudet Writer |
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| 14 |
Thomas GAINSBOROUGH
Artist Antonio Berni Artist |
Otto Klemperer Patrice Munsel Music Norman Luboff Music |
George Lukas Film Director, | |
| 15 |
Jasper Johns Artist Richard Avedon Fashion Photographer, Zoe Fontana Fashion Designer |
Monteverdi Brian Eno Music Richard Tauber, Mike Oldfield Music |
Frank Baum Writer - Wizard of Oz James Mason Peter Shaffer Playwright Joseph Cotton Actor Pierre Curie Writer Katherine Anne Porter Writer, Mikhail Bulgakov Writer Max Frisch Playwright David Cronenburg Film Director, Mario Monicelli Film Director |
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| 16 |
Christian Lacroix Fashion Designer Zoe Fontana Fashion Designer |
Liberace Janet Jackson Woody Herman Music Richard Tauber |
Henry Fonda Debra Winger Frank F Mankiewicz Writer, Kenji Mizoguchi Film Director |
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| 17 | Birgit Nilsson, Dennis Brain |
Dennis Hopper Actor Eric Satie Jean Gabin Actor Maureen o'Sullivan Actor, Frederick Prokosch Writer |
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| 18 | Pierre Balmain Fashion Designer |
Margot Fonteyn Ballet Perry Como Charles Trenet |
Bertrand Russell Writer Frank Capra Film Director Richard Brooks Film Director |
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| 19 |
Grace Jones Nellie Melba Froberger Music |
Lorraine Hansberry Poet, Writer, James Fox
Actor Nora Ephraon Writer Yusuf Idris Playwright |
Edward de Bono | |
| 2* |
William Thornton Architect - Capitol in Washington Lya Bosi Artist |
Cher Joe Cocker |
Honore de Balzac Jimmy Stewart Actor Sigrid Undset Writer Constance Towers Actor Elijah Fenton Writer |
Socrates |
| 21 |
Albrecht DURER Marcel Breuer Architect Henri ROUSSEAU |
Fatts Waller Maurice Andre Gina Bachauer |
Harold Robbins Writer Robert Montgomery Actor, Raymond Buss Actor |
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| 22 |
Mary Cassatt Herge - Tintin Posters, Marisol Artist Jean Tinguely Artist |
Richard Wagner Charles Aznavour |
Sir Lawrence Olivier Sir Arthur Conon Doyle Paul Winfield Actor Michael Sarzin Actor Alexander Pope Writer M Scott Peck Writer Susan Strasberg Actor |
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| 23 |
Franz Kline Artist Sir Charles Barry Architect - House of Parliament |
Robert Moog Alicia de Larrocha Music Rosemary Clooney |
Joan Collins Douglas Fairbanks Sn Actor |
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| 24 | Albert Andre Artist | Bob Dylan |
Joseph Brodsky Writer Mai Zetterling Joan Micklin Silver Film Director, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero Writer |
Queen Victoria Priscilla Presley |
| 25 | John Weitz Clothing Designer, Carlo Dolci Artist |
MILES DAVIS Beverley Sills Leslie Uggams Music |
Ralph Waldo Emerson Writer Sir Ian McKellar Actor John K Fairbanks Writer Robert Ludlum Writer Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton Writer |
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| 26 | Peggy Lee |
Charles Duke of Orleans Writer -
Valentines John Wayne Actor James Arness Actor Jay Silverheels Actor Pam Grier, Actor Philip Michael Thomas Actor Peter Cushing Actor Jean Crain Actor |
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| 27 | Isadora Duncan |
Julia Ward Howe Writer Dashiell Hammett Writer George Rouault Actor John Barth Writer Vincent Price Actor Christopher Lee Actor Herman Wouk Writer Louis Gossettjn Actor |
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| 28 |
Ligeti Music Gladys Knight Music Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Music |
Ian Fleming Writer Patrick White Writer Warwich Deeping Writer, Thomas Moore Writer |
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| 29--- |
---Albeniz Music, Xenakis Music, Pearl Lang Dance--- |
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--John F Kennedy-- | |
| 3* |
Peter Carl Faberge Jeweller Paolo Fendi Fashion Designer James MacGillivray Sculpture |
Benny Goodman, Alfred Deller Music |
Howard Hawks Film Director Agnes Varda Film Director Mel Blanc Actor, Keir Dullea Actor Stepin Fetchit Actor |
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| 31 | Frei Potto Architect |
Walt Whitman Writer Clint Eastwood Rainer Werner Fassbinder Film Director Brooke Shields Don Amechie Actor Peter Fleming Writer Ludwig Tieck Writer, Playwright, Jean Rouch Film Director, |
Norman Vincent PealeNE1 | |
| JUNE 1 | Norman Foster Architect |
Pat Boone Nelson Riddle Glinka Edo de Waart Frederica von Stade |
Marilyn Monroe Morgan Freeman Jonathan Pryce Actor Colleen McCullogh Writer Andy Griffith Actor John Masefield Poet, Cleavon Little Actor, |
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| 2 |
Marvin Hamlish, Music Sir Edward Elgar |
Thomas Hardy Writer Marquis de Sade Writer Albert Innaurato Playwright Stacy Keach Actor Sally Kellerman Actor Edwin way Teale Writer Milo O'Shea Actor |
Johnny Weissmuller - Tarzan | |
| 3 | Raol DUFY Artist |
Josephine Baker Actor, Dancer Jan Peerce Music Suzi Quatro Martha Clarke Dance |
Tony Curtis Actor Allen Ginsberg Poet Paulette Goddard Actor Maurice Evans Actor Colleen Dewhurst Actor Alain Resnais Film Director |
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| 4 | Natalie Gontsjarova Artist |
Robert Merrill Music Cecilia Bartoli Darci Kistler Dance |
Judith Malina Actor Bruce Dern Actor Dennis Weaver Actor, Rosalind Russell Actor Jean alla Nazimora Actor, Henning Carlsen Film Director |
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| 6 | Diego de silva VELAZQUEZ Artist |
Dame Ninette de Valois Khatchaturian |
Thomas Mann Writer Alexander Pushkin Writer Robert Englund Actor Pierra Corneille Film Director |
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| 7 |
Paul GAUGUIN Pietro Annigoni Artist |
Tom Jones Al Jolson George Szell Philippe Entremont, |
Jessica Tandy Actor James Ivory Film Director, Elizabeth Bowen Writer, |
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| 8 |
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT's Buildings Le Roy Neimann Artist |
Schumann Nancy Sinatra |
Marguerite Yourcenar Writer Sara Paretsky Writer Alexis Smith Actor Bo Widerberg Film Director |
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| 9 |
Cole Porter Carl Neilsen Music |
Michael J Fox Johnny Depp |
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| 1* | Gustav COURBET |
Richard Foreman Theatre Designer,
Maurice Sendak Writer, Grace Mirabella Publisher Mirabella Magazine Judy Garland |
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| 11 | John CONSTABLE, |
Richard Strauss Nina Timofeyer Ballet |
Ben Jonson Playwright Athol Fugard Playwright William Styron Writer - Sophies Choice Gene Wilder Actor Michael Cacoyannis Film Director - Zorba the Greek Adrienne Barbeau Actor |
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| 12 | Egon Schiele Artist | John Charles Clifford Choreographer |
Anne Frank Irwin Allen Film Producer Luis Garcia Berlanga Film Director Alessandro Penna Writer Jim Nabors Actor Brigid Brophy Writer Rona Jafte Writer Mary Lavin Writer Charles Kingsley Writer - Westward Ho |
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| 13 | Christo - wrapping landmarks |
J B Yeats Writer Basil Rathbone Actor Dorothy L Sayres Writer, Richard Thomas Actor Ally Sheedy Actor Paul Lynde Actor Fanny Burney Writer |
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| 14 |
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
Photographer Borek Sipek Architect |
Burl Ives Nicholas Rubinstein Music Vanessa Harwood Dancer |
Harriet Beecher Stowe Writer, Jerzy Kosinski
Writer Sam Wanamaker Actor Director Gene Barry Actor Dorothy McGuire Actor |
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| 15 | Saul Steinberg Artist |
Lofts Mansoun San Francisco Opera Director Robert Russell Bennett Music, Malvina Hoffman Sculptor Carol Fox opera producer |
Grief Claude Brasseur Actor Jim Belushi Actor Harry Langdon Actor Amy Clampitt Poet |
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| 16 | Jim Dine Artist |
Stan Laurel - Laurel & Hardy Joyce Carol Oates Writer Erich Segal Writer Nelson Doubleday NY Publisher |
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| 17 |
MC Escher Artist Andre DERAIN Artist Nicola Trussardi Fashion Designer |
Stravinsky Charles Gounod Music, Barry Manilow |
Gwendolyn Brooks Writer Dean Martin Joe Piscopo Actor Ralph Bellamy Actor John Hersey Writer |
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| 18 | Eli Levin Artist |
Paul McCartney Jeanette MacDonald - with Nelson Eddy |
Isabella Rossellini EG Marshall Actor Richard Boone Actor Gail Godwin Writer Ian Carmichael Actor |
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| 19 | Charles Gwathmey Architect |
Paula Abdul Music Louis Jourdan Music, Guy Lombardo |
Kathleen Turner Phylicia Rashad Actor Salman Rushie Writer Pauline Kael Writer Gena Rowlands Actor Moe Howard Actor Moe Haward - 3 Stooges Tom Wicker Writer Tobias Wolff Writer |
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| 2* | Kurt Schwitters Artist |
Cyndi Lauper Lionel Richie Offenbach |
Errol Flynn Audie Murphy Actor Stephen Frears Film Director Oympia Dukakis Actor Lillian Hellman Playwright Martin Laudau Actor Catherine Cookson Writer, Tadashi Suzuki Theatre |
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| 21 |
Rockwell Kent Artist Robert B Stacy-Judd architect |
Jean Paul Sartre Francoise Sagan Mary McCarthy Writer Jane Russell Actor Judy Holliday Actor John O'Neukk Writer |
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| 22 | Kris Kristofferson |
Meryl Streep Erich Maria Remarque - all quiet on the western front Billy Wilder Film Director H Rider Haggard Writer - King Solomon's Mines Joseph Papp theatre Mike Todd, Hollywood Producer, Klaus Maria Brandauer Actor, Anne Morrow Lindbergh Writer, Freddie prinze,actor Lindsay Wagner Actor, |
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JUNE
23 Alfred Kinsey - Kinsey Report, Bob Fosse Actor, Ray Charles, Music, James Levine Music, Jean Anouilh Playwright, Richard Bach Writer, Ted Lapidus Fashion Designer, Allan Matheson Tyring computers, Claude Goretta Film Director, Edward P Morgan Actor
24 John Ciardi Poet, Claude Chabrol Film Director, Ambrose Bierce Writer, George Stanford Brown Actor, Michel Lee Actor
25 George Orwell Writer,
ANTONIO
GAUDI Architect, Signey Lumet Film Director, Carly
Simon Music, Sam Francis Artist, Robert C Venturi Architect, Peter Blake Artist,
Michelangelo Pistoletto Artist, June Lockhart Actor, Denys Arnold Filmaker, George Abbott Playwright
26 Pearl S Buck Writer, Peter Lorre Actor, Claudio Abbado Music, Lucinda Eustis Childs choreographer, Colin Wilson Writer, Walter Farley Writer, Laurie Lee Poet
27 Helen Keller, Isabel Adjani Actor, Alice McDermott Writer, Philip Guston Aritst
28 Jean Jacques Rousseau,
Peter Paul RUBENS Artist, Richard Rogers Music, Mel Brooks Actor, Luigi Pirandello Playwright, John Cusack Actor, Joseph Joachim Music, Kathy Bates Actor, Eric Ambler Writer
29 Antoine de Saint-Exopery Writer, Oriana Fallaci Writer, Rafael Kubelik Music, Slim Dickens Actor, Ray Harryhausen Film Producer, Anne Sophie Mutter, Luisi Tetrazzini Music, Gary Busey Actor, Claude Montana Fashion Designer, Giacomo Leopardi Poet, Nelson Eddy
30 Lona Horne Actor, Susan Hayward Actor, Winston Graham Writer, Tony Musante Actor, Walter Hampden Actor
April
2 Darvin Gaye,
3 , Marsha Mason,
13 Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kaszan,
19 Lucrezia Borgia,
20 Hittler,
22 Immanuel Kant, , Signer Nolan
25 Ellan Fitzgerald
28 Odette Sansom,
30 Willie Nelson,
MAY
13George Braue,t
16Margaret Sullivan,
24 Gary Burghoff
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