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•  Alan Kay

  Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design, and for coining the phrase, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it. " He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also on the advisory board of TTI/Vanguard.

  

  41.5%
  

  36.6%
  

  22.0%
  
•  Brian De Palma

  Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and writer. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, Carlito's Way, The Untouchables, and '.

  

  36.4%
  

  36.4%
  

  27.3%
  
•  Burhanuddin Rabbani

  Burhanuddin Rabbani (b. 1940), is a former President of Afghanistan.

  

  27.8%
  

  27.8%
  

  44.4%
  
•  Bob Knight

  Robert Montgomery "Bob" or "Bobby" Knight (born October 25, 1940) is a retired American basketball coach. Nicknamed "The General", Knight has won 902 NCAA Division I men's college basketball games, more than any other head coach. On January 1, 2007, he achieved his 880th victory, breaking the record held by Dean Smith. His 900th victory came on January 16, 2008. He was most recently the head men's basketball coach at Texas Tech before announcing his retirement on February 4, 2008.

  

  31.1%
  

  28.9%
  

  40.0%
  
•  Enrico Bombieri

  Enrico Bombieri (born 26 November 1940) is an Italian mathematician, born in Milan. He is now at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is known for work in number theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical analysis. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1974 and the Balzan Prize in 1980. In 2010 he received the King Faisal International Prize jointly with Terence Tao. The Bombieri–Vinogradov theorem is one of the major applications of the large sieve method.

  

  21.7%
  

  21.7%
  

  56.5%
  
•  Frank Zappa

  Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.

  

  33.3%
  

  22.7%
  

  43.9%
  
•  H. R. Giger

  Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger is a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer, who won an Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual Effects for his design work on the film Alien.

  

  25.6%
  

  39.5%
  

  34.9%
  
•  John Lennon

  John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English rock musician, singer-songwriter, author, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. With Paul McCartney, Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history".

  

  41.5%
  

  26.4%
  

  32.1%
  
•  Jim Bakker

  James Orsen "Jim" Bakker (born January 2, 1940) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, and a former host (with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program. A sex scandal led to his resignation from the ministry. Subsequent revelations of accounting fraud brought about his imprisonment and divorce and effectively ended his time in the larger public eye.

  

  38.2%
  

  29.4%
  

  32.4%
  
•  John Fink

  John Fink (born February 11, 1940) is an American actor. In the 1970-1971 the NBC sitcom Nancy, Fink was cast as an Iowa veterinarian, Dr. Adam Hudson, who marries the daughter of the President of the United States. The short-lived series starred Renne Jarrett (born 1946) as the title character and Celeste Holm and Robert F. Simon in supporting roles.

  

  51.3%
  

  30.8%
  

  17.9%
  

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•  Jonny Quest

  Jonny Quest (often referred to, but never titled on screen, as The Adventures of Jonny Quest) is an American science fiction/adventure animated television series about a boy who accompanies his father on extraordinary adventures. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for Screen Gems, and created and designed by comic book artist Doug Wildey.

  

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•  Leibniz and Newton calculus controversy

  The calculus controversy was an argument between seventeenth-century mathematicians Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz (begun or fomented in part by their disciples and associates – see Development of the quarrel below) over who had first invented calculus. Newton claimed to have begun working on a form of the calculus (which he called "the method of fluxions and fluents") in 1666, but did not publish it except as a minor annotation in the back of one of his publications decades later.

  

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•  Picketfield Lock

  Picketfield Lock is a lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal, near Hungerford, Berkshire, England. Picketfield Lock was built between 1718 and 1723 under the supervision of the engineer, John Hore of Newbury. The canal is administered by British Waterways. The lock has a rise/fall of 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m).

  

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•  Lovisa Augusti

  Lovisa Sofia Augusti, (born Ester Salomon; Germany 1756- 25 June in Stockholm, 1790), was a Swedish opera singer. She was a court singer and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

  

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•  1992 South African Referendum

  

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