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•  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%
  
•  Enver Hoxha

  Enver Halil Hoxha (16 October 1908 – 11 April 1985) was the Communist leader of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania. He served as Prime Minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954, Minister of Defense (1944–1953) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1946 to 1953. Hoxha's leadership was characterized by isolation from the mid 1970s onwards and his proclaimed firm adherence to anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninism.

  

  33.9%
  

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•  George Pólya

  George Pólya (December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985, in Hungarian Pólya György) was a Hungarian mathematician.

  

  37.5%
  

  25.0%
  

  37.5%
  
•  Italo Calvino

  Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Lionised in Britain and America, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

  

  38.8%
  

  38.8%
  

  22.4%
  
•  Janusz Zajdel

  Janusz Andrzej Zajdel (August 15, 1938 in Warsaw – July 19, 1985 in Warsaw) was a prominent Polish science fiction author. He died from cancer. Zajdel is a precursor of social and dystopian fiction. In his works, he envisions totalitarian states and collapsed societies. His heroes are desperately trying to find sense in world around them, sometimes, as in Cylinder van Troffa, they are outsiders from a different time or place, trying to adapt to a new environment.

  

  28.1%
  

  40.4%
  

  31.6%
  
•  James Beard

  James Andrew Beard (May 5, 1903 – January 21, 1985) was an American chef and food writer.

  

  35.2%
  

  37.0%
  

  27.8%
  
•  Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt

  Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt (March 13, 1910 – March 25, 1985) was a Danish film actor. He appeared in the Carl Theodor Dreyer masterpiece Gertrud (1965).

  

  32.6%
  

  32.6%
  

  34.9%
  
•  Konstantin Chernenko

  Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was a Soviet politician and the sixth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He led the Soviet Union from 13 February 1984, until his death just thirteen months later on 10 March 1985. Chernenko was also Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 11 April 1984, until his death.

  

  33.3%
  

  37.8%
  

  28.9%
  
•  Orson Welles

  George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, writer, actor, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio. Noted for his innovative dramatic productions as well as his distinctive voice and personality, Welles is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished dramatic artists of the twentieth century, in spite of the failure of many film projects after his impressive initial debut.

  

  26.8%
  

  41.5%
  

  31.7%
  
•  Ruth Gordon

  Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985), better known as Ruth Gordon, was an American actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her film roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby, the eccentric life-loving Maude in Harold and Maude and as the mother of Orville Boggs in the Every Which Way films. In addition to her acting career, Gordon wrote numerous well-known plays, film scripts and books.

  

  29.5%
  

  38.6%
  

  31.8%
  

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•  Web browser

  A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users to easily navigate their browsers to related resources.

  

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•  Fors seulement

  Fors seulement is a French chanson, popular as a basis for variations and as a cantus firmus. An early version is attributed to Ockeghem - (this is sometimes called 'Fors seulement l'attente' to distinguish it from his similarly titled 'Fors seulement contre').

  

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•  Reuil

  Reuil is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.

  

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•  The Earth Invader Girl

  

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  46.7%
  
•  Jo Kyu-hyun

  

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