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•  Akio Morita

  Akio Morita (盛田昭夫 Morita Akio, January 26, 1921, Tokoname, Aichi – October 3, 1999, Tokyo) was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation along with Masaru Ibuka.

  

  44.0%
  

  28.0%
  

  28.0%
  
•  Andrei Sakharov

  Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975.

  

  27.0%
  

  24.3%
  

  48.6%
  
•  Chris Marker

  Chris Marker (born 29 July 1921) is a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentary maker. His best known films are La Jetée, A Grin Without a Cat, Sans Soleil and AK, a documentary on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

  

  28.0%
  

  36.0%
  

  36.0%
  
•  Donald Campbell

  Donald Malcolm Campbell, CBE (23 March 1921 – 4 January 1967) was a British car and motorboat racer who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 60s. He remains the only person to set both land and water speed records in the same year (1964).

  

  25.0%
  

  20.6%
  

  54.4%
  
•  Gene Roddenberry

  Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American screenwriter, producer and futurist. He created the American science-fiction series Star Trek, an accomplishment for which he was sometimes referred to as the "Great Bird of the Galaxy" due to the show's influence on popular culture. He was one of the first people to have his ashes "buried" in space.

  

  26.3%
  

  35.5%
  

  38.2%
  
•  Harry Secombe

  Sir Harry Donald Secombe CBE (8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001) was a Welsh entertainer with a talent for comedy and a noted fine tenor singing voice. He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show (1951-60). He also appeared in musicals and, in his later years, was a prominent presenter of television shows incorporating hymns and other devotional songs.

  

  25.0%
  

  32.1%
  

  42.9%
  
•  Jean Richard

  For the French historian, see Jean Richard (historian) Jean Richard (April 18, 1921 – December 12, 2001) was a famous French actor. He was born in the town of Bessines, France and began his career as a caricaturist before acting in comedy films. Although he played a part in more than 80 movies, it was his TV role as Maigret that made him famous. He portrayed the famous inspector character from Georges Simenon's novels for over 20 years. He also created the well-known Jean Richard Circus.

  

  21.7%
  

  34.8%
  

  43.5%
  
•  Karel van het Reve

  Karel van het Reve (19 May 1921 - 4 March 1999) was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature. He was born in Amsterdam and was raised as a communist. He lost his 'faith' in his twenties and became an active critic and opponent of the Soviet regime. With his help, work of dissident Andrei Sakharov was smuggled to the west, and his Alexander Herzen Foundation published dissident Soviet literature.

  

  26.3%
  

  21.1%
  

  52.6%
  
•  Nancy Reagan

  Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins on July 6, 1921) is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and served as an influential First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. She was born in New York; her parents divorced soon after her birth and she grew up in Maryland, living with an aunt and uncle while her mother pursued acting jobs.

  

  31.6%
  

  34.2%
  

  34.2%
  
•  Norma MacMillan

  Norma MacMillan (15 September 1921 – 16 March 2001) was a Canadian voice actress. Her roles included "Sweet Polly Purebred" in Underdog, Davey in Davey and Goliath, and the title roles of Casper the Friendly Ghost and Gumby. She also voiced Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. on the comedy album The First Family. She also voiced the title role for the 1966 animated feature Alice of Wonderland in Paris.

  

  21.4%
  

  50.0%
  

  28.6%
  

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•  1960 Summer Paralympics

  The 1960 Summer Paralympics were the first international Paralympic Games, following on from the Stoke Mandeville Games of 1948 and 1952. They were held in Rome, Italy with the 1960 Summer Olympics. The only disability included in these Paralympics were spinal cord injury. There were about 400 participants, including staff as well as athletes, from 23 countries.

  

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•  CRTC2

  CREB regulated transcription coactivator 2, also known as CRTC2, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the CRTC2 gene.

  

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  27.3%
  

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