Joan Hammond

•  A. E. van Vogt

  Alfred Elton Van Vogt (April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded by some as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the "Golden Age" of the genre.

  

  38.2%
  

  29.4%
  

  32.4%
  
•  Alan Turing

  Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was influential in the development of computer science and providing a formalisation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, playing a significant role in the creation of the modern computer.

  

  30.3%
  

  30.3%
  

  39.4%
  
•  Chuck Jones

  Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E.

  

  26.8%
  

  25.0%
  

  48.2%
  
•  Clara Petacci

  Clara Petacci (Claretta Petacci) (28 February 1912 – 28 April 1945) was an upper class Roman who became Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's mistress. Her father had been the personal physician to the Pope. She was twenty-eight years younger than Mussolini. Petacci was with Mussolini to the end.

  

  33.3%
  

  26.7%
  

  40.0%
  
•  Gene Kelly

  Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer. A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen.

  

  31.3%
  

  26.9%
  

  41.8%
  
•  Glenn T. Seaborg

  Glenn Theodore Seaborg was an American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements", contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, and developed the actinide concept, which led to the current arrangement of the actinoid series in the periodic table of the elements.

  

  52.6%
  

  26.3%
  

  21.1%
  
•  John Cade

  Dr John Frederick Joseph Cade AO (18 January 1912 - 16 November 1980) was an Australian psychiatrist credited with discovering (in 1948) the effects of lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of bipolar disorder (then known as manic depression). In an age where the standard treatments for psychosis were electroconvulsive therapy and lobotomy, lithium had the distinction of being the first effective medication available to treat a mental illness.

  

  40.0%
  

  16.7%
  

  43.3%
  
•  Jackson Pollock

  Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality and struggled with alcoholism all of his life. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy.

  

  27.3%
  

  30.3%
  

  42.4%
  
•  Julia Child

  Julia Child (August 15, 1912 - August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author, and television personality. She introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her cookbooks, beginning in 1961 with Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her television programs, notably The French Chef which premiered in 1963.

  

  35.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  40.0%
  
•  Kim Philby

  Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby or H.A.R. Philby, (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a spy for and later defected to the Soviet Union. A communist, he served as an NKVD and KGB operative. In 1963, Philby was revealed as a member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five, along with Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross.

  

  20.0%
  

  36.0%
  

  44.0%
  

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•  FIP

  A sigla FIP pode significar: Federação Internacional Farmacêutica Federação Internacional de Polo

  

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•  Blakewill & Harris

  Blakewill & Harris (Marc Blakewill and James Harris) are a UK-based comedy writing partnership, with credits on television, radio and the stage. They have written on the popular ITV1 topical animation shows Headcases and 2DTV, as well as Horrible Histories and Sorry, I've Got No Head, Comedy Cuts, The Charlotte Church Show and The 11 O'Clock Show and The Sitcom Trials - and have written caustic put-downs for Anne Robinson on The Weakest Link.

  

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  0.0%
  

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•  Irchenrieth

  Irchenrieth is a municipality in the district of Neustadt (Waldnaab) in Bavaria in Germany.

  

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  32.7%
  

  34.6%
  

  32.7%
  
•  KL Hutchings

  

  51.9%
  

  25.9%
  

  22.2%