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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20th century. Presley's energetic and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, brought both great success and initial controversy.
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Tenzin Gyatso
14th Dalai Lama
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Woody Allen
Heywood "Woody" Allen is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and comedian. In a career spanning eight decades, he has written for film, television, and theater. Allen has received many accolades, including the most wins and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has won four Academy Awards, ten BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for an Emmy Award and a Tony Award. Allen has also received numerous honors, including an Honorary Golden Lion in 1995, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, an Honorary Palme d'Or in 2002, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2014. Two of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
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Alain Delon
French actor (1935–2024)
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Luciano Pavarotti
Italian operatic tenor (1935–2007)
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José Mujica
Uruguayan guerrilla fighter and politician
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Kenzaburō Ōe
Japanese writer and Nobel Laureate (1935–2023)
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Mahmoud Abbas
president of the Palestinian Authority since 2005
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Julie Andrews
Dame Julie Andrews is an English actress, singer and author. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, three Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards and nominations for three Tony Awards. One of the biggest box office draws of the 1960s, Andrews has been honoured with the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022. She was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2000 New Year Honours.
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Pranab Mukherjee
President of India from 2012 to 2017
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Donald Sutherland
Canadian actor (1935–2024)
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Edward Said
Palestinian-American professor (1935–2003)
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Ron Paul
American politician (born 1935)
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Françoise Sagan
French writer (1935-2004)
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Hussein I of Jordan
King of Jordan from 1952 to 1999
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Omar Bongo
Gabonese politician (1935–2009)
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Michel Aoun
13th President of Lebanon from 2016 to 2022
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Ken Kesey
American novelist (1935–2001)
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Arvo Pärt
Estonian composer (born 1935)
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Norman Foster
British architect (born 1935)
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Jim Peebles
Canadian-American astronomer & Nobel Laureate in Physics
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Jerry Lee Lewis
American rock 'n' roll musician (1935–2022)
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Giya Kancheli
Soviet and Georgian composer (1935-2019)
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Gherman Titov
Soviet cosmonaut (1935-2000)
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Dharmendra
Dharmendra (8 December 1935 – 24 November 2025) was an Indian actor, producer and politician, primarily known for his work in Hindi films. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema. In a career spanning 65 years, he worked in over 300 films, holding the record for starring in the highest number of hit films in Hindi cinema.
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Erich von Däniken
Swiss pseudoscientific writer and ufologist (1935–2026)
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Isao Takahata
Japanese animator, animation director, director, producer (1935-2018)
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Omar Sívori
Italian-Argentine footballer
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Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma
President of Togo from 1967 to 2005
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Tsutomu Hata
80th Prime Minister of Japan (1935-2017)
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Mercedes Sosa
Argentine singer (1935-2009)
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Lee Remick
American actress (1935-1991)
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Akira Kitaguchi
Japanese association football player
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Thodoros Angelopoulos
Greek film director, screenwriter and film producer (1935–2012)
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Danilo Kiš
Serbian and Yugoslav novelist (1935–1989)
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Bibi Andersson
Swedish actress (1935–2019)
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Abdou Diouf
Senegalese President
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Annie Proulx
American novelist, short story and non-fiction author (b. 1935)
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Lyudmila Gurchenko
Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, singer, composer, director (1935—2011)
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William Friedkin
American director and producer (1935–2023)
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Dudley Moore
British actor, comedian, composer and musician (1935–2002)
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Zhelyu Zhelev
President of Bulgaria (1935-2015)
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Thomas Keneally
Australian novelist
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John Cazale
American actor (1935–1978)
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Roger Bruce Chaffee
United States Navy commander, NASA astronaut (1935–1967)
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Bent Larsen
Danish chess grandmaster and author (1935–2010)
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Brian Clough
English football player and manager (1935–2004)
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Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
Prime Minister of Bahrain (1970-2020)
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Harrison Schmitt
Astronaut, geologist, politician, 12th man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17)
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Diane Ladd
Diane Ladd was an American actress. With a career spanning over 70 years, she appeared in over 200 films and television shows, receiving three Academy Award nominations for her roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990) and Rambling Rose (1991), the first of which won her a BAFTA Award. She was also nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards, winning one for her role in the sitcom Alice (1980–1981).
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Charles Duke
American engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (born 1935)
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Sylvia A. Earle
American oceanographer
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Jack Charlton
English footballer and manager (1935-2020)
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David Lodge
English writer (1935–2025)
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Peter Boyle
American actor (1935–2006)
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Chaim Topol
Israeli actor (1935–2023)
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John G. Avildsen
American film director
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Diahann Carroll
American actress, singer, model and activist (1935–2019)
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Richard Brautigan
American novelist, poet, and short story writer (1935–1984)
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Geraldine Ferraro
American politician (1935–2011)