List: 1935 births

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•  Chaim Topol

  Chaim Topol, often billed simply as Topol, is an Israeli theatrical and film performer.

  

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•  Elvis Presley

  Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American musician and actor. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13.

  

  29.8%
  

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•  Harrison Schmitt

  Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, a former NASA astronaut, University Professor and a U.S. Senator for one term. He is the twelfth and last of the Apollo astronauts to arrive and set foot on the Moon. However, as Schmitt re-entered the module first, Cernan became the last astronaut to walk on and depart the moon.

  

  35.3%
  

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  26.5%
  
•  Harold Kushner

  Harold S. Kushner is a prominent American rabbi aligned with the progressive wing of Conservative Judaism.

  

  29.6%
  

  33.3%
  

  37.0%
  
•  Jack Kemp

  Jack French Kemp (July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009) was an American politician and a collegiate and professional football player. A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989–93, having previously served nine terms as a Congressman for Western New York from 1971-89. He was the Republican Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1996 election, where he was the running-mate of presidential nominee Bob Dole.

  

  27.6%
  

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•  Ken Kesey

  Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), and as a counter-cultural figure who considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. "I was too young to be a beatnik, and too old to be a hippie," Kesey said in a 1999 interview with Robert K. Elder.

  

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•  Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank

  

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  29.2%
  
•  Rolf Ekéus

  Carl Rolf Ekéus is a Swedish diplomat. From 1978 to 1983, he was a representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, and he has worked on various other disarmament committees and commissions. Between 1991 and 1997 he was director of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq, the United Nations disarmament observers in Iraq after the Gulf War.

  

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  28.0%
  

  36.0%
  
•  Ron Popeil

  Ronald M. Popeil is an American inventor and marketing personality, best known for his direct response marketing company Ronco. He is well known for his appearances in infomercials for the Showtime Rotisserie ("Set it, and forget it!") and for using Ed Valenti's (Ginsu knife creator) famous lines, "But wait, there's more!" and "Now how much would you pay?" Each phrase followed the addition of another item or feature to the catalog of a product's advantages or attachments.

  

  35.5%
  

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•  Sonny Bono

  Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono (February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998) was an American record producer, singer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades.

  

  22.2%
  

  47.2%
  

  30.6%
  
•  Terry Riley

  Terrence Mitchell Riley, better known as Terry Riley (born June 24, 1935), is an American composer associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music.

  

  41.7%
  

  33.3%
  

  25.0%
  
•  Woody Allen

  Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright. Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him a notable American director. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them.

  

  33.3%
  

  25.0%
  

  41.7%
  
•  Roger B. Chaffee

  Roger Bruce Chaffee (February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967) was an engineer, Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy and a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program. Chaffee was killed along with fellow astronauts Gus Grissom and Ed White during a training exercise and pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at the Kennedy Space Center. Chaffee was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, the Purple Heart and the United States Navy Air Medal.

  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Peter Schickele

  Johann Peter Schickele (born July 17, 1935) is an American composer, musical educator and parodist, best known for his comedy music albums featuring music he wrote as P. D. Q. Bach.

  

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•  Frank Robinson

  Frank Robinson (born August 31, 1935 in Beaumont, Texas), is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. He was an outfielder, most notably with the Cincinnati Reds and the Baltimore Orioles. During a 21-season career, he is the only player to win League MVP honors in both the National and American Leagues, won the Triple crown, was a member of two teams that won the World Series, and amassed the fourth-most career home runs at the time of his retirement (he is currently seventh).

  

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•  Dudley Moore

  Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician. Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became famous as half of the popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook. His fame as a comedic actor was later heightened by his success in Hollywood movies such as 10 with Bo Derek and Arthur in the late 1970s and early 1980s, respectively.

  

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•  Jack McDevitt

  Jack McDevitt (born 1935) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology. McDevitt's first published story was "The Emerson Effect" in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981. Two years later, he published his first novel, The Hercules Text, about the discovery of an intelligently conceived signal whose repercussions threaten human civilization.

  

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•  Susan Cooper

  Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is a British author best known for The Dark Is Rising, an award-winning five-volume fantasy saga set in and around England and Wales. The books incorporate traditional British mythology with original material. She has written works for children, adolescents and adults. Susan Cooper is also a board member of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance, a not-for-profit organization in the U.S.

  

  11.1%
  

  33.3%
  

  55.6%
  
•  Utah Phillips

  Bruce "Utah" Duncan Phillips (May 15, 1935 – May 23, 2008) was a labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and the "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest". He described the struggles of labor unions and the power of direct action, self-identifying as an anarchist. He often promoted the Industrial Workers of the World in his music, actions, and words.

  

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  18.2%
  

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•  Carol Shields

  Carol Ann Shields, CC, OM, FRSC, MA (née Warner) (June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.

  

  33.3%
  

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  16.7%
  
•  Theodoros Angelopoulos

  Theodoros Angelopoulos (born 27 April 1935) is a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.

  

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•  Thomas Keneally

  Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Stephen Spielberg's Schindler's List and win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

  

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•  Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov

  Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (born November 10, 1935 in Moscow) is a Russian theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist. Novikov formulated the Novikov self-consistency principle in the mid-1980s, an important contribution to the theory of time travel. Novikov gained his Ph.D. degree in astrophysics in 1965 and the Russian D. Sc. degree in astrophysics in 1970. From 1974 to 1990 he was head of the Department of Relativistic Astrophysics at the Russian Space Research Institute in Moscow.

  

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•  Li Ao

  Li Ao (born April 25, 1935), is a writer, social commentator, historian, and independent politician in the Republic of China (Taiwan). He is considered by many to be one of the most important modern Chinese essayists today, although critics have termed him an intellectual narcissist.

  

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•  Régine Deforges

  Régine Deforges (born 15 August 1935) is a French author, editor, director, and playwright. Born in Montmorillon, Vienne, she is sometimes called the "High Priestess of French erotic literature. " Deforges was the first woman to own and operate a publishing house in France. Over the years, she has been censored, prosecuted, and heavily fined for publishing "offensive" literature. One of her novels, La Bicyclette bleue ("The Blue Bicycle"), published in 1981, was France's biggest bestseller.

  

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