Ahmad Shah Massoud

•  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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•  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 ').

  

  27.8%
  

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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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•  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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•  Mike Oldfield

  Michael Gordon "Mike" Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age and more recently dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature. He is best known for his hit 1973 album Tubular Bells, which broke new ground as an instrumental album and launched Virgin Records, and for his 1983 hit single "Moonlight Shadow".

  

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• 1953 births by likeorhate
• 2001 deaths by likeorhate
• Afghan politicians by likeorhate
• Assassinated Afghan politicians by likeorhate
• Assassinated military personnel by likeorhate
• Cold War leaders by likeorhate
• Government ministers of Afghanistan by likeorhate
• Guerrilla warfare theorists by likeorhate
• Military personnel killed in action by likeorhate
• People involved in the Soviet war in Afghanistan by likeorhate
• People murdered in Afghanistan by likeorhate
• Afghan anti-communists by likeorhate
• Afghan Tajik people by likeorhate

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•  Garry Kasparov

  Garry Kasparov (born Garry Kimovich Weinstein, 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, a former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist, whom many consider the greatest chess player of all time. Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at the age of 22. He held the official FIDE world title until 1993, when a dispute with FIDE led him to set up a rival organization, the Professional Chess Association.

  

  28.6%
  

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•  Neil Armstrong

  Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is an American aviator and a former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He was the first person to set foot on the Moon. His first spaceflight was aboard Gemini 8 in 1966, for which he was the command pilot, becoming the first U.S. civillian to fly in space. On this mission, he performed the first manned docking of two spacecraft together with pilot David Scott.

  

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•  Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

  The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum is a work in Latin by Bede on the history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between Roman and Celtic Christianity. It is considered to be one of the most important original references on Anglo-Saxon history. It is believed to have been completed in 731, when Bede was approximately 60 years old.

  

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•  OVW Triple Crown

  

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•  Jabuti language

  

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