Jamie Gorelick (May 6, 1950) is an American lawyer who served as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1994 to 1997, during the Clinton administration. [Wikipedia]
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Ed Schwartz (May 5, 1946 – February 4, 2009) was a Chicago media personality who hosted local late-night radio programs from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. He was nicknamed “Chicago Ed.” [Wikipedia]
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Leslie Epstein (May 4, 1938 – May 18, 2025) was an American educator, essayist and novelist. Epstein was born on May 4, 1938, to an American Jewish family in Los Angeles and grew up in Hollywood. [Wikipedia]
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Steven Weinberg (May 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021) was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow “for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current”. [Wikipedia]
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Pinky Lee (May 2, 1907 – April 3, 1993) was an American actor of stage, screen, radio, and television. He is best known as a children’s TV personality of the 1950s. [Wikipedia]
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Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. [Wikipedia]
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Simon Kuznets (April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was a Russian-born American economist and statistician who received the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences “for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development.” [Wikipedia]
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Jerry Seinfeld (April 29, 1954) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, filmmaker, and television producer specializing in observational comedy. Seinfeld gained stardom playing a fictionalized version of himself in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), which he co-created and wrote with Larry David. [Wikipedia]
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Emily Sunstein (April 28, 1924 – April 21, 2007) was an American campaigner, political activist, and biographer. [Wikipedia]
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Nicolas Slonimsky (April 27, 1894 – December 25, 1995), born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy (Russian: Николай Леонидович Слoнимский), was a Russian-American musicologist, conductor, pianist, lexicographer, and composer. [Wikipedia]
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Miriam Ben-Porat (April 26, 1918 – July 26, 2012) was an Israeli jurist. She was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel and the State Comptroller of Israel from 1988 to 1998. [Wikipedia]
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Hank Azaria (April 25, 1964) is an American actor and producer. He is known for voicing many characters in the animated sitcom The Simpsons since 1989, including Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Superintendent Chalmers, Comic Book Guy, Snake, Professor Frink, Kirk Van Houten, Duffman, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Lou, and Carl Carlson, among others. [Wikipedia]
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Oscar Zariski (April 24, 1899 – July 4, 1986) was an American mathematician. The Russian-born scientist was one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century. [Wikipedia]
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Ivor Montagu (April 23, 1904 – November 5, 1984) was an English filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer, table tennis player, and Communist activist and spy in the 1930s. [Wikipedia]
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