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•  Bill Haley

  Bill Haley (July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song "Rock Around the Clock".

  

  36.2%
  

  42.6%
  

  21.3%
  
•  Brian Aldiss

  Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE (born 18 August 1925) is an English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society. He is also co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. His writings have been compared to those of Isaac Asimov, Greg Bear and Arthur C. Clarke.

  

  37.5%
  

  40.0%
  

  22.5%
  
•  Douglas Engelbart

  Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925) is an American inventor and early computer pioneer. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs; and as a committed and vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world’s increasingly urgent and complex problems.

  

  25.7%
  

  31.4%
  

  42.9%
  
•  David A. Huffman

  David Albert Huffman (August 9, 1925 – October 7, 1999) was a pioneer in the computer science field. Throughout his life, Huffman made significant contributions to the study of finite state machines, switching circuits, synthesis procedures, and signal designs. However, David Huffman is best known for the invention of Huffman code, a highly important compression scheme for lossless variable length encoding.

  

  26.3%
  

  28.9%
  

  44.7%
  
•  Gilles Deleuze

  Gilles Deleuze, (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher of the late 20th century. From the early 1960s until his death, Deleuze wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular books were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), both co-written with Félix Guattari.

  

  31.4%
  

  25.7%
  

  42.9%
  
•  Jack Lemmon

  John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts, Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger, The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing, Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.

  

  35.6%
  

  32.2%
  

  32.2%
  
•  Katherine MacLean

  Katherine Anne MacLean (born January 22, 1925) is an American science fiction author best known for her short stories of the 1950s which examined the impact of technological advances on individuals and society. Brian Aldiss noted that she could "do the hard stuff magnificently," while Theodore Sturgeon observed that she "generally starts from a base of hard science, or rationalizes psi phenomena with beautifully finished logic.

  

  21.4%
  

  42.9%
  

  35.7%
  
•  Lee Van Cleef

  Lee Van Cleef (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989) was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures. His sharp features and piercing eyes led to his casting as a villain in scores of films, though in later years he was often a film's protagonist, such as with his co-lead role as a former colonel in For a Few Dollars More.

  

  37.8%
  

  35.1%
  

  27.0%
  
•  Margaret Thatcher

  Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925) served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She is the only woman to have held either post. Born in Grantham in Lincolnshire, England, she read chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford and later trained as a barrister. She won a seat in the 1959 general election, becoming the MP for Finchley as a Conservative.

  

  30.4%
  

  30.4%
  

  39.1%
  
•  Michael Halliday

  Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M.A.K. Halliday) (born 1925) is a British linguist who developed an internationally influential grammar model, the systemic functional grammar (which also goes by the name of systemic functional linguistics). Halliday was born and raised in England. He took a BA Honours degree in Modern Chinese Language and Literature (Mandarin) at the University of London.

  

  42.1%
  

  31.6%
  

  26.3%
  

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•  Sursee (District)

  Sursee is one of the five Ämtern, or districts, of the German-speaking Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. Its capital is the town of Sursee. Sursee consists of the following municipalities: ^a 1992/97 survey gives a total area of 287.50 km (111.0 sq mi) without including certain large lakes, while the 2000 survey includes lakes and gives the higher value.

  

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•  Lawrence Martinek

  Lawrence F. Martinek (Larry) (born November 24, 1948) is a Los Angeles-based mathematics educator and creator of the curriculum and educational style that later became known as the Mathnasium Method.

  

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•  James Thomas Rapier

  

  23.7%
  

  47.4%
  

  28.9%
  
•  Give us the drugs, Lisa

  

  31.8%
  

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  36.4%