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•  Andrew Wiles

  Sir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS (born 11 April 1953) is a British mathematician and a professor at Princeton University, specializing in number theory. He is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.

  

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•  Ahmad Shah Massoud

  Ahmad Shah Massoud (احمد شاه مسعود- Aḥmad Šāh Mas‘ūd; September 1953 – September 9, 2001) was a Kabul University engineering student turned military leader who played a leading role in driving the Soviet army out of Afghanistan, earning him the nickname Lion of Panjshir. His followers call him Āmir Sāhib-e Shahīd (Our Martyred Commander). An ethnic Tajik, Massoud was a moderate of the anti-Soviet resistance leaders.

  

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•  Alex Lifeson

  Alex Lifeson, OC (born Aleksandar Živojinović; August 27, 1953) is a Canadian musician, best known for his work as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush. In the summer of 1968, Lifeson founded the band that would become Rush with friend and original drummer John Rutsey. He has been an integral member of the three-piece band ever since. For Rush, Lifeson plays electric and acoustic guitars as well as other stringed instruments such as mandola, mandolin, and bouzouki.

  

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•  Carolyn Beug

  Carolyn Ann Mayer-Beug (December 11,1953–September 11, 2001) was a filmmaker and video producer from Santa Monica, California. She was killed at the age of 48 in the crash of American Airlines Flight 11 in the September 11, 2001 attacks. She won an award for the Van Halen music video to their song "Right Now," which she produced. At the time of her death, Carolyn Beug was working on a children's book about Noah's Ark which was to be told from Noah's wife's point of view.

  

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•  Danny Elfman

  Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American musician, best known for composing music for television and movies and leading the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995. He is a frequent collaborator with long-time friend Tim Burton and has scored all of his films (with the exception of Ed Wood and ').

  

  28.2%
  

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•  David Deutsch

  David Elieser Deutsch FRS is a physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory. He pioneered the field of quantum computers by being the first person to formulate a specifically quantum computational algorithm, and is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

  

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•  Geddy Lee

  Geddy Lee OC (born Gary Lee Weinrib; July 29, 1953) is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush. Lee joined Rush in September 1968 at the request of his childhood friend Alex Lifeson in order to replace frontman Jeff Jones.

  

  45.7%
  

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•  Jim Jarmusch

  James R. "Jim" Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953) is an American independent filmmaker. Jarmusch is a major proponent of independent cinema, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.

  

  30.4%
  

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•  John Rutsey

  John Howard Rutsey (May 14, 1953 – May 11, 2008) from Ontario, Canada was a former drummer, most recognized for being a co-founding member of Rush along with Alex Lifeson and Jeff Jones (who was replaced by Geddy Lee).

  

  31.9%
  

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  29.0%
  
•  John Stauber

  John Stauber (1953 -) is an American writer and political activist who has co-authored five books about propaganda by governments, private interests and the PR industry. They include one book about how industry manipulates science, one about the history and current scope of the public relations industry, and one about mad cow disease, which predicted the surfacing of the disease within the United States.

  

  27.7%
  

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•  In Love and Death

  In Love and Death is the second studio album by The Used. It was released on September 28, 2004 and has since been certified gold. It is their most well-received and successful album to date. This was the first album for which Alex Pardee did the artwork, and he has done all artwork for The Used since, excluding the 2009 record, Artwork.

  

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•  50th United States Congress

  The Fiftieth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1887 to March 4, 1889, during the last two years of the first administration of U.S. President Grover Cleveland. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Tenth Census of the United States in 1880.

  

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•  Africa Independent Television

  Africa Independent Television is a Nigerian satellite television station, a subsidiary of Da'ar Communications plc, available throughout Africa, and via Dish Network to North America. In the United Kingdom it is available on Sky TV channel 187. Some of its programming is also available in the United Kingdom through BEN Television. There is an additional channel called AIT Movistar, which is broadcast on Sky TV channel 330.

  

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•  Mittelherwigsdorf

  Mittelherwigsdorf is a municipality in the district Görlitz, in Saxony, Germany.

  

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•  Piazza Unita

  

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