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•  Bud Spencer

  Bud Spencer (born Carlo Pedersoli on 31 October 1929) is an Italian actor, filmmaker, former swimmer (he was the first Italian to swim 100m in less than a minute). He is known for his height at 194 cm (6ft 4 1/2in) and his past roles in spaghetti westerns. Growing from a successful swimmer in his youth, he got a degree in law, and has registered several patents.

  

  38.5%
  

  35.9%
  

  25.6%
  
•  Bob Hawke

  Robert James Lee "Bob" Hawke, AC (born 9 December 1929) was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving Australian Labor Party Prime Minister. After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered politics at the 1980 election and became Prime Minister within three years. He became by far the longest-serving and most electorally successful Labor Prime Minister, achieving the rare feat of winning four consecutive federal elections.

  

  32.4%
  

  32.4%
  

  35.1%
  
•  Babrak Karmal

  Babrak Karmal (6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996) was the third President of Afghanistan (1979 - 1986) during the period of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. He is the best known of the Marxist leadership. Having been restored to power with Soviet support, he was unable to consolidate his power and, in 1986, he was replaced by Dr. Mohammad Najibullah. He left Afghanistan for Moscow, where he died in 1996.

  

  27.9%
  

  20.9%
  

  51.2%
  
•  Colin Kapp

  Colin Kapp (1928 - August 3, 2007) was a British science fiction author. A contemporary of Brian Aldiss and James White, Kapp is best known for his stories about the Unorthodox Engineers. His 1984 short story "Something in the City" was eerily prescient about the situation faced by the US military after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

  

  35.5%
  

  41.9%
  

  22.6%
  
•  E. O. Wilson

  Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, a branch of entomology. Wilson is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. He is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for environmentalism, and his secular-humanist and deist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters.

  

  25.5%
  

  37.3%
  

  37.3%
  
•  Francis Gary Powers

  Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while violating Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.

  

  26.7%
  

  20.0%
  

  53.3%
  
•  Hafizullah Amin

  Hafizullah Amin (August 1, 1929 – December 27, 1979) was the second President of Afghanistan during the period of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Amin tried to broaden his internal base of support and to bring the interest of Pakistan and the United States in Afghan security. During the 104 days of his rule, except for one failed military rebellion, no major uprising took place. Amin also pursued the policy of Pashtunization of the country.

  

  27.5%
  

  27.5%
  

  45.1%
  
•  Joe Pass

  Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Passalacqua) January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was a jazz guitarist. His extensive use of walking basslines, melodic counterpoint during improvisation, use of a chord-melody style of play and outstanding knowledge of chord progressions opened up new possibilities for jazz guitar and had a profound influence on future guitarists.

  

  38.2%
  

  20.6%
  

  41.2%
  
•  Jürgen Habermas

  Jürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his work on the concept of the public sphere, the topic of his first book entitled The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere.

  

  42.3%
  

  34.6%
  

  23.1%
  
•  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he has become a human rights icon: King is recognized as a martyr by two Christian churches. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career.

  

  22.9%
  

  31.4%
  

  45.7%
  

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•  Battle of San Jacinto

  The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texas Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican forces in a fight that lasted just eighteen minutes. About 700 of the Mexican soldiers were killed and 730 captured, while only nine Texans died. Santa Anna, the President of Mexico, was captured the following day and held as a prisoner of war.

  

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•  Hecataeus of Miletus

  Hecataeus of Miletus (c. 550–c. 476 BC), named after the Greek goddess Hecate, was an early Greek historian of a wealthy family. He flourished during the time of the Persian invasion. After having travelled extensively, he settled in his native city, where he occupied a high position, and devoted his time to the composition of geographical and historical works.

  

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•  Prostitution in Italy

  In Italy prostitution (the exchange of sexual services for money) is not illegal, but organized prostitution (brothels, prostitution rings or other forms of pimping) is prohibited. Brothels were outlawed in 1959.

  

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•  Ortigosa de Pestano, Segovia

  

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