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•  Alfred Hitchcock

  Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. In 1956 he became an American citizen while retaining his British citizenship. Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades.

  

  38.9%
  

  33.3%
  

  27.8%
  
•  Al Capone

  Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947) was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s.

  

  31.0%
  

  34.5%
  

  34.5%
  
•  C. S. Forester

  Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). His novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

  

  23.1%
  

  38.5%
  

  38.5%
  
•  Ernest Hemingway

  Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. During his lifetime he had seven novels, six collections of short stories, and two works of non-fiction published, with a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction autobiographical works published after his death.

  

  37.1%
  

  22.9%
  

  40.0%
  
•  E. B. White

  Elwyn Brooks "E. B. " White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer. A long-time contributor to "The New Yorker" magazine, he also wrote many famous books for both adults and children, such as the popular Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little.

  

  37.3%
  

  34.3%
  

  28.4%
  
•  Friedrich Hayek

  

  15.4%
  

  38.5%
  

  46.2%
  
•  George Cukor

  George Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director who mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed a string of impressive films including What Price Hollywood? (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Little Women (1933), David Copperfield (1935), Romeo and Juliet (1936), and Camille (1937).

  

  39.2%
  

  37.3%
  

  23.5%
  
•  Humphrey Bogart

  Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American actor. He has been called a cultural icon. After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s. When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turned to film.

  

  28.6%
  

  38.1%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Jorge Luis Borges

  Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986), best known as Jorge Luis Borges, was an Argentine writer, essayist, and poet born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer.

  

  27.0%
  

  43.2%
  

  29.7%
  
•  James Cagney

  James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an American film actor. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys. " In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. For his first performing role, he danced dressed as a woman in the chorus line of the 1919 revue Every Sailor.

  

  48.1%
  

  25.9%
  

  25.9%
  

• 1899 births by likeorhate
• 1958 deaths by likeorhate
• Romanian-Serbs by likeorhate
• Romanian linguists by likeorhate
• People from Vojvodina by likeorhate

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•  Marseille

  Marseille, formerly known as Massalia, is the oldest city in France, and currently its second most-populous, behind Paris, with 852,395 residents as of 2007. It forms the third-largest metropolitan area, after those of Paris and Lyon, with a population recorded to be 1,516,340 at the 1999 census and estimated to be 1,605,000 in 2007. Located on the south east coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, Marseille is France's largest commercial port.

  

  25.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  75.0%
  
•  Cinemex

  Cinemex is a cineplex company based in Mexico that has built a nationally branded cineplex chain. Cinemex started with a college business plan. Adolfo Fastlicht, Miguel Angel Dávila Guzmán and Matthew Heyman speculated that Mexico was ready for larger movie theaters. When the regulations were lifted with the new Cinematography Law passed in Mexico in 1992, Adolfo Fastlicht and Miguel Angel Dávila decided that Mexico City offered an market for a high-end chain of theaters.

  

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•  Fritz Crome

  Fritz Crome (6 May 1879-25 April 1948) was a Danish composer and music writer.

  

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•  Palaeothrissum

  Palaeothrissum is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.

  

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