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explorer (+ 1557) 1761 - John Rennie, engineer (+ 1821) 1778 - Beau Brummel, fashion leader 1811 - James Simpson, obstetrician (used chloroform) (+ 1870) 1848 - Paul Gauguin, painter (+ 1903) 1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and illustrator (+ 1928) 1879 - Knut Rasmussen, explorer (+ 1933) 1886 - Henri Coanda, aerodynamics pioneer (+ 1972) 1896 - Imre Nagy, politician (+ 1958) 1909 - Jessica Tandy, actress (+ 1994) 1917 - Dean Martin, actor (+ 1995) 1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks, poet 1920 - Georges Marchais, politician (+ 1997) 1928 - James Ivory, producer 1929 - John Turner, seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada 1931 - Malcolm Morley, painter 1937 - Claus Peymann, theater director 1940 - Tom Jones, singer 1943 - Nikki Giovanni, poet 1945 - Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian
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1862 - Henry John Newbolt, author († 1938) 1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, explorer († 1912) 1872 - Tsarina Alexandra of Russia († 1918) 1875 - Thomas Mann, German novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1929 († 1955) 1890 - Ted Lewis, bandleader († 1971) 1898 - Ninette de Valois, dancer († 2001) 1901 - Sukarno, first President of independent Indonesia († 1970) 1903 - Aram Khachaturian, composer † [[1978) 1906 - Max August Zorn, mathematician († 1993) 1907 - Bill Dickey, baseball star, coach, manager, scout († 1993) 1916 - Henriette Roosenburg, journalist († 1972) 1934 - King Albert II of Belgium 1934 - Bill Moyers, journalist 1934 - Gilbert Cates, producer, director 1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama 1936 - Levi Stubbs, musician ("The Four
John H. Doeg
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John H. Doeg John H. Doeg is a tennis player who won the US Open in 1930. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it.
John Collier
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but also offers a colorless, tasteless, undetectable poison at a much, much higher price. Cancel All I Said—A couple's young daughter takes a screen test. The couple's lives are torn apart by the studio head's verbal offer to make the child a star. Evening Primrose—Probably his most famous; about people who live in a department store, hiding during the day and coming out at night. Interpretation of a Dream—A man experiences disturbing and serial dreams of falling from the thirty-ninth story of the skyscraper in which he works, passing one story every night. In his dreams he looks through the window and makes detailed and veridical observations of the real-life inhabitants as he passes. Over Insurance—A loving couple puts nine-tenths of their money into life insurance and becomes so impoverished that
John McEnroe
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16, 1959) was a top ranked professional tennis player and was No. 1 player in the world four times between 1981 and 1984. He was famous for his epic matches against rivals Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl. He was an accomplished doubles player as well, and finished career with 77 singles championships and 77 more in men's doubles titles. McEnroe was a perennial member of the U. S. Davis Cup team. After retiring as a player, McEnroe coached the Davis Cup team. Among his Grand Slam titles: U.S. Open (1979-1981,1984) Wimbledon (1981,1983-1984) He attended Stanford University, and won the NCAA singles title in 1978. McEnroe became famous for his volatile temperament, giving rise to catchphrases such as "You cannot be serious". At first subject to booing by crowds, especially
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