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•  August Derleth

  August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction and biography.

  

  53.8%
  

  23.1%
  

  23.1%
  
•  Al Capp

  Alfred Gerald Caplin (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an' Slats and Long Sam. He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award (posthumously) for his "unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning."

  

  30.3%
  

  39.4%
  

  30.3%
  
•  Barry Goldwater

  Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election. He was also a Major General in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. He was known as "Mr. Conservative". Goldwater is the politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had a substantial impact on the libertarian movement.

  

  23.5%
  

  26.5%
  

  50.0%
  
•  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Cyril Northcote Parkinson (30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993) was a British naval historian and author of some sixty books, the most famous of which was his bestseller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration.

  

  37.5%
  

  28.1%
  

  34.4%
  
•  Kwame Nkrumah

  Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 - 27 April 1972), was an influential 20th century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966.

  

  30.3%
  

  27.3%
  

  42.4%
  
•  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Stephen Cole Kleene was an American mathematician who helped lay the foundations for theoretical computer science. One of many distinguished students of Alonzo Church, Kleene, along with Alan Turing, Emil Post, and others, is best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory. Kleene's work grounds the study of which functions are computable.

  

  31.8%
  

  22.7%
  

  45.5%
  
•  Victor Borge

  Victor Borge (pronounced "BOR-guh"; January 3, 1909 – December 23, 2000), born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Danish comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark, The Unmelancholy Dane, and The Great Dane.

  

  31.7%
  

  36.6%
  

  31.7%
  
•  Paweł Jasienica

  Paweł Jasienica was the pen-name of Leon Lech Beynar (10 November 1909 – 19 August 1970), a Polish non-academic historian, journalist, writer and soldier.

  

  43.5%
  

  21.7%
  

  34.8%
  
•  Stanislaw Ulam

  Stanisław Marcin Ulam (April 13, 1909 – May 13, 1984) was a Jewish Polish-American mathematician who participated in the Manhattan Project and originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons. He also invented nuclear pulse propulsion and developed a number of mathematical tools in number theory, set theory, ergodic theory, and algebraic topology.

  

  38.7%
  

  25.8%
  

  35.5%
  
•  Elia Kazan

  Elia Kazan (pronounced ē-LĒ-ä ka-ZAHN; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was an American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947.

  

  36.7%
  

  40.0%
  

  23.3%
  

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•  Speculative fiction

  Speculative fiction is a fiction genre speculating about worlds that are unlike the real world in various important ways. In these contexts, it generally overlaps one or more of the following: science fiction, fantasy fiction, horror fiction, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history.

  

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•  Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

  The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), based primarily at 55 Water Street in New York City, is the world’s largest post-trade financial services company. It was set up to provide an efficient and safe way for buyers and sellers of securities to make their exchange, and thus "clear and settle" transactions. It also provides custody of securities.

  

  100.0%
  

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•  Valentina Yegorova

  Valentina Mikhailovna Yegorova is a long-distance runner from Russia. She was born in Cheboksary. Yegorova competed in the women's marathon for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain. There she won the gold medal beating the Japanese athlete Yuko Arimori into second. She returned to compete for Russia in the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, U.S. , where she won the silver medal in the women's marathon, again beating Yuko Arimori this time into third.

  

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  50.0%
  

  50.0%
  
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