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•  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (sometimes referred to by the handle ast) (born March 16, 1944) is a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and for his computer science textbooks, regarded as standard texts in the field. He regards his teaching job as his most important work.

  

  27.9%
  

  34.9%
  

  37.2%
  
•  George Lucas

  George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an Academy Award-nominated American film producer, screenwriter, director and founder/chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the epic science fiction franchise Star Wars and joint creator of the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones. Today, Lucas is one of the American film industry's most financially successful independent directors/producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.0 billion as of 2009.

  

  33.3%
  

  31.4%
  

  35.3%
  
•  Gary Busey

  Gary Busey (born June 29, 1944) is an American film and stage actor and artist.

  

  34.6%
  

  30.8%
  

  34.6%
  
•  Jack L. Chalker

  Jack Laurence Chalker (December 17, 1944 – February 11, 2005) was an American science fiction author. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for a time. He also was a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association and was involved in the founding of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.

  

  27.3%
  

  34.1%
  

  38.6%
  
•  Jonathan Demme

  Robert Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944) is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter.

  

  14.8%
  

  35.2%
  

  50.0%
  
•  James Heckman

  James Joseph Heckman (born 19 April 1944) is an American economist and Nobel laureate. He is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, Distinguished Chair of Microeconometrics at University College, London, and University College, Dublin. Heckman shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2000 with Daniel McFadden for his pioneering work in econometrics and microeconomics.

  

  22.9%
  

  25.7%
  

  51.4%
  
•  Kinky Friedman

  Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman (born November 1, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular Will Rogers and Mark Twain. He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas. Receiving 12.6% of the vote, Friedman placed fourth in the six-person race.

  

  36.7%
  

  18.4%
  

  44.9%
  
•  Kary Mullis

  Kary Banks Mullis (born December 28, 1944) is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate. Mullis shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith. Mullis received the prize for his development of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), a process first described by Kjell Kleppe and 1968 Nobel laureate H. Gobind Khorana that allows the amplification of specific DNA sequences. The improvements provided by Mullis have made PCR a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology.

  

  34.2%
  

  15.8%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Klaus Maria Brandauer

  Klaus Maria Brandauer (born 22 June 1944) is an Austrian actor, film director, and pedagogue.

  

  35.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  45.0%
  
•  Leonard Peltier

  Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is an American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was convicted and sentenced in 1977 to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. There has been debate over Peltier’s guilt and the fairness of his trial.

  

  53.8%
  

  15.4%
  

  30.8%
  

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•  Tao Qian

  Tao Qian, also known as Tao Yuanming (陶淵明), was a Chinese poet. Born in modern Jiujiang, Jiangxi, he was one of the most influential pre-Tang Dynasty (618-907) Chinese poets. He came from a notable family which had descended into poverty; when young, he was torn between ambition and a desire to retreat into solitude. His great-grandfather was the famous Eastern Jin general and governor, Tao Kan.

  

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•  Henry Peacham

  Henry Peacham is the name shared by two English Renaissance writers who were father and son. The elder Henry Peacham (1546 - 1634) was an English curate, best known for his treatise on rhetoric titled The Garden of Eloquence first published in 1577. His son, Henry Peacham (1576 - 1643) was a poet and writer, known today primarily for his book, The Compleat Gentleman, first printed in 1622. It is presented as a guidebook on the arts for young men of good birth.

  

  33.3%
  

  66.7%
  

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•  Lee Mulhern

  Lee Mulhern (born on 12 June 1988) is a singer who won awards at the World Championships for Performing Arts competition at age 11. The song that won him a gold medal there, "I May Be Young", later became used as a peace song, in particular with memorials of the attacks of September 11th. He was also a member of the international bands Streetwize and Stateside.

  

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•  Boroughs and localities of Bratislava

  Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia, is divided into five national administrative districts and into 17 boroughs . These boroughs vary in size and population, from the smallest Lamač and least populated Čunovo to the largest Podunajské Biskupice and most populated Petržalka. Each of the boroughs has its own mayor and council. The number of councillors in each depends on the size and population of that borough. Mayor and the local council are elected in municipal election every four years.

  

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•  Forêt de Marly

  The Forêt de Marly (known as the forêt de Cruye until the 18th century) is a 2000 hectare forest estate in Yvelines, between Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Versailles about 15 km to the west of Paris. It is about 12 km long east to west, over the communes of Louveciennes, Marly-le-Roi, Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, Feucherolles and others.

  

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