Michael Rosenbaum (July 11, 1972) is an American actor and podcaster. He is known for portraying Lex Luthor on the television series Smallville, a role that TV Guide included in their 2013 list of “The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time”. [Wikipedia]
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Otto Freundlich (July 10, 1878 – March 9, 1943) was a German painter and sculptor of Jewish origin. One of the first generation of abstract artists, Freundlich deeply admired cubism and spent much of his life in France. He was murdered at the Majdanek concentration camp during the Holocaust. [Wikipedia]
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Oliver Sacks (July 9, 1933 – August 30, 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Born in London, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen’s College, Oxford, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career. [Wikipedia]
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Martin Feldman (July 8, 1934 – December 2, 1982) was a British actor, comedian, and writer. He was known for his prominent, misaligned eyes. [Wikipedia]
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Marc Chagall (July 7, 1887 – March 28, 1985) was a Russian and French artist of Jewish ancestry. An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris, as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints. [Wikipedia]
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Adi Shamir (July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor. [Wikipedia]
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Gary Shteyngart (July 5, 1972) is a Soviet-born American writer. He is the author of six novels (including The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, Super Sad True Love Story, Vera, or Faith), and a memoir. [Wikipedia]
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Amos Elon (July 4, 1926 – May 25, 2009) was an Israeli journalist and author. He was a writer for the newspaper Haaretz for most of his career and contributed essays to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and The New York Review of Books. [Wikipedia]
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Jerry Blavat (July 3, 1940 – January 20, 2023), also known as “The Geator with the Heater” and “The Big Boss with the Hot Sauce,” was an American disc jockey and performer who had been a major influence in promoting oldies music on the radio. [Wikipedia]
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Ota Pavel (July 2, 1930 – March 31, 1973) was a Czech writer, journalist and sport reporter. He is primarily an author of autobiographical and biographical novels. [Wikipedia]
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Michael Burstein (July 1, 1945) is an Israeli-American actor known onstage as Mike Burstyn. He was born in New York City to the late Yiddish-language actors, Pesach Burstein and Lillian Lux. His first cousin was Borsch Belt comedian, Jay Lester. [Wikipedia]
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Harold Laski (June 30, 1893 – March 24, 1950) was an English political theorist and economist. He was active in politics and served as the chairman of the British Labour Party from 1945 to 1946 and was a professor at the London School of Economics from 1926 to 1950. [Wikipedia]
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Micky Arison (June 29, 1949) is an Israeli-American billionaire businessman and chairman of Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise operator. [Wikipedia]
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Mel Brooks (June 28, 1926) is an American actor, filmmaker, comedian, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 28 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. [Wikipedia]
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