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•  Colin Dexter

  Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, (born 29 September 1930 in Stamford, Lincolnshire) is an English crime writer, known for his Inspector Morse novels.

  

  35.0%
  

  30.0%
  

  35.0%
  
•  Charles McCarry

  Charles McCarry (born 1930 Massachusetts, USA) is an American writer primarily of spy fiction.

  

  25.0%
  

  36.1%
  

  38.9%
  
•  Derek Walcott

  The Hon. Derek Alton Walcott, OCC (born January 23, 1930) is a Caribbean poet, playwright, writer and visual artist. Born in Castries, Saint Lucia, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. His work, which developed independently of the schools of magic realism emerging in both South America and Europe at around the time of his birth, is intensely related to the symbolism of myth and its relationship to culture.

  

  30.4%
  

  34.8%
  

  34.8%
  
•  Edsger W. Dijkstra

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist. He received the 1972 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 2000. Shortly before his death in 2002, he received the ACM PODC Influential Paper Award in distributed computing for his work on self-stabilization of program computation.

  

  30.2%
  

  41.3%
  

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•  FM-2030

  FM-2030 (October 15, 1930 – July 8, 2000) was an author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and consultant. FM-2030 was born Fereidoun M. Esfandiary. He became notable as a transhumanist with the book Are You a Transhuman?: Monitoring and Stimulating Your Personal Rate of Growth in a Rapidly Changing World, published in 1989. In addition, he wrote a number of works of fiction under his original name F.M. Esfandiary.

  

  24.5%
  

  28.6%
  

  46.9%
  
•  Félix Guattari

  Pierre-Félix Guattari (April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French militant, an institutional psychotherapist and a philosopher; he founded both schizoanalysis and ecosophy. Guattari is best known for his intellectual collaborations with Gilles Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980).

  

  27.3%
  

  39.4%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Gene Hackman

  Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is an American actor and novelist. Hackman has made 80 films. He came to fame in 1967 when his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde earned him his first Oscar nomination.

  

  36.4%
  

  31.8%
  

  31.8%
  
•  Gary Snyder

  Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist (frequently described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology"). Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His work, in his various roles, reflects an immersion in both Buddhist spirituality and nature. Snyder has also translated literature into English from ancient Chinese and modern Japanese.

  

  34.1%
  

  22.7%
  

  43.2%
  
•  Gavin MacLeod

  Gavin MacLeod (born February 28, 1931) is an American actor most notable for playing Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat. He is the stepfather of Drew Steele, of the rock band the Surf Punks.

  

  21.1%
  

  44.7%
  

  34.2%
  
•  J. G. Ballard

  James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and prominent member of the New Wave movement in science fiction. His best-known books are Crash (1973), adapted into a film by David Cronenberg, and the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun (1984), made into a film by Steven Spielberg, based on Ballard's boyhood in the International Settlement and internment by the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War.

  

  28.6%
  

  37.1%
  

  34.3%
  

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• Irish novelists by likeorhate
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•  Iguatemi

  Iguatemi is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Its population was 15,194 and its area is 2,947 km².

  

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•  Czarnowo-Dąb

  Czarnowo-Dąb is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kołaki Kościelne, within Zambrów County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) south of Kołaki Kościelne, 8 km (5 mi) east of Zambrów, and 56 km (35 mi) west of the regional capital Białystok.

  

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•  Klada

  Krokodeilos Kladas, variously also Krokondeilos or Korkondelos, born about 1425, was a Greek military leader in the Morea in the latter 15th century. He was a member of the prominent Kladas clan. When the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II took the Morea in 1460, Kladas handed over his castle of Agios Giorgios and was given in exchange the castle of Vardounia in Upper Mani and the territory of Elos.

  

  34.5%
  

  24.1%
  

  41.4%
  
•  Riccoldo da Monte di Croce

  Riccoldo da Monte di Croce or Ricoldo of Monte Croce, c.1243 - 1320, was an Italian Dominican monk, travel writer, missionary, and Christian apologist.

  

  40.9%
  

  31.8%
  

  27.3%
  
•  Robert Edwards (journalist)

  

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