Felicia Farr (October 4, 1932) is an American former actress and model. Farr was born in Westchester County, New York. [Wikipedia]
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Steve Reich (October 3, 1936) is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich’s work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. Reich describes this concept in his essay “Music as a Gradual Process” by stating, “I am interested in perceptible processes. [Wikipedia]
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Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, actor, comic vocalist and game show host who performed in vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, and television. A master of the one-line retort, he is considered one of America’s greatest comedians. [Wikipedia]
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Ronen Altman Kaydar (October 1, 1972) is an Israeli writer and poet. The topics of his academic and artistic writing include science fiction, sexual identity, philosophy of science, history of science and more.
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Elie Wiesel (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, which is based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Holocaust. [Wikipedia]
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Oscar Handlin (September 29, 1915 – September 20, 2011) was an American historian. As a professor of history at Harvard University for over 50 years, he directed 80 PhD dissertations and helped promote social and ethnic history, virtually inventing the field of immigration history in the 1950s. [Wikipedia]
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Mordechai Hod (September 28, 1926 – June 29, 2003) was the Commander of the Israeli Air Force during the 1967 Six-Day War. Hod was born as Mordechai Fein in the British Mandate of Palestine in Kibbutz Degania in 1926 to Jewish parents, Yosef and Menucha Fein. [Wikipedia]
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Marc David Maron (born September 27, 1963) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, musician, and former radio presenter and podcaster. [Wikipedia]
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George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned jazz, popular and classical music. Among his best-known works are the songs “Swanee” (1919) and “Fascinating Rhythm” (1924), the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928). [Wikipedia]
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Shel Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American writer, cartoonist, songwriter, and musician. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Silverstein briefly attended college before being drafted into the United States Army. [Wikipedia]
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Linda McCartney (September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, cookbook author, and activist. She was the keyboardist and harmony vocalist in the band Wings, which she had formed with her husband Paul McCartney of the Beatles. [Wikipedia]
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Jason Alexander (September 23, 1959) is an American actor and comedian. Over the course of his career, he has received an Emmy Award and a Tony Award as well as nominations for four Golden Globe Awards. He gained stardom for his role as George Costanza in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998). [Wikipedia]
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David Stern (September 22, 1942 – January 1, 2020) was an American lawyer and business executive who was the commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 2014. He oversaw NBA basketball’s growth into one of the world’s most popular sports during the 1990s and 2000s. [Wikipedia]
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Ethan Coen (September 21, 1957) is an American filmmaker. Working alongside his brother Joel, he has directed, written, edited and produced many feature films, the most acclaimed of which include Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Miller’s Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998). [Wikipedia]
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