Donald Knuth

•  Gary Gygax

  Ernest Gary Gygax was an American writer and game designer, best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson. Gygax is generally acknowledged as the father of role-playing games.

  

  29.7%
  

  32.8%
  

  37.5%
  
•  Janet Reno

  Janet Wood Reno (born July 21, 1938) is the former Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001). She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11. She was the first female Attorney General and the second longest serving Attorney General after William Wirt.

  

  29.6%
  

  29.6%
  

  40.7%
  
•  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%
  
•  Judy Blume

  Judy Blume (born Judy Sussman; February 12, 1938) is an American author. She has written many novels for children and young adults which have exceeded sales of 80 million and been translated into 31 languages.

  

  33.3%
  

  35.1%
  

  31.6%
  
•  Jon Voight

  Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an American film and television actor. He came to prominence at the end of the 1960s, with a performance as a would-be hustler in 1969's Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination.

  

  32.4%
  

  47.1%
  

  20.6%
  
•  Kofi Annan

  Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.

  

  35.0%
  

  17.5%
  

  47.5%
  
•  Larry Niven

  Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938 Los Angeles, California) is an American science fiction author. Perhaps his best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes The Magic Goes Away series, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource.

  

  32.4%
  

  20.6%
  

  47.1%
  
•  Liv Ullmann

  Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the muses of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. A winner of the Golden Globe, Ullmann has also been nominated for the Palme d'Or, two times for the Academy Award, and a BAFTA Award.

  

  18.9%
  

  43.2%
  

  37.8%
  
•  Robert Nozick

  Robert Nozick (November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American political philosopher, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), a libertarian answer to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971). He was a professor at Harvard University and his other work involved decision theory and epistemology.

  

  30.4%
  

  45.7%
  

  23.9%
  
•  Anton Schumacher

  Anton 'Toni' Schumacher (born 1 December 1938 in Bonn) is a former German football goalkeeper. Schumacher played for 1. FC Köln since 1950, from 1963 to 1968 the team played in the Bundesliga. In 1964 he won the German Championship. The goalkeeper Harald Schumacher who played for 1. FC Köln from 1972 to 1987 was also nicknamed Toni by the players of the team, to avoid misunderstandings between him and the defender Harald Konopka.

  

  23.7%
  

  36.8%
  

  39.5%
  

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•  Inner mission

  The Inner Mission was a movement of German evangelists, set up by Johann Hinrich Wichern in Wittenberg in 1848. It quickly spread from Germany to other countries. Like other missions, the Inner Mission sought a "rebirth" of Christianity, by means of the doctrine of "brotherly love" and a social programme of charity (social service) and Christian education.

  

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•  Marboué

  Marboué is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in north-central France.

  

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•  Firlus

  Firlus is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Papowo Biskupie, within Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies 5 kilometres (3 mi) north-east of Papowo Biskupie, 18 km (11 mi) south-east of Chełmno, and 26 km (16 mi) north of Toruń.

  

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