1924 births

Billie Sol Estes (b. 1924, Abilene, Texas) is a scandal-ridden Texas-based financier best known for his association with US President Lyndon B. Johnson and for accusing Johnson with a variety of crimes, including the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Estes was born in Abilene and began amassing his fortune through the federal surplus grain program. After marrying in 1946 he moved to the small town of Pecos where he sold irrigation pumps powered by natural gas, using the profits to start another su ...

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Boyd Kenneth Packer (born September 10, 1924) has been a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1970. When Howard W. Hunter, who had been President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, succeeded to the Presidency of the Church in 1994, he retained as his counselors in the First Presidency both Gordon B. Hinckley and Thomas S. Monson, the only two Apostles senior to Elder Packer, and accordingly Packer was named Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve. When Pres ...

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• Boyd K. Packer - Controversy Over Views on Anti-Gay Violence
• Boyd K. Packer - External Resources

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Benoît B. Mandelbrot (born November 20, 1924) is a Polish-born French mathematician and leading proponent of fractal geometry. He is Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Emeritus at Yale University and IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Benoît Mandelbrot - Early years. Born in Warsaw, Mandelbrot lived in France from the age of 12 to near the end of his college studies. He was born into a family with a strong academic tradition - his mother was a medical doctor and his unc ...

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• Benoît Mandelbrot - Pronunciation
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Arthur Coleman Danto (b. 1924) is an American art critic, professor and philosopher. Professor Danto has been teaching at Columbia University (NYC) since 1951, a professor since 1966. He has been the recipient of many fellowships and grants including two Guggenheims, ACLS, and Fulbright, and has served as Vice-President and President of the American Philosophical Association, as well a ...

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Cardinal Andrzej Maria Deskur (February 29, 1924 in Sancygniów near Kielce, Poland) is President emeritus of the Pontifical Council of Social Communications and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born to a family of French origin. He received a doctorate in law in 1945 from the Jagiellonian University (study underground). He was the secretary general of the very important post-war Polish student organization called "Bratniak". He entered the seminary in Kraków and was ordained a priest on 20 August 1950. He obtai ...

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Antony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, May 11, 1924) is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969. His undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge was interrupted by war service at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, and at the Telecommunications Research Establishment where he worked with Martin Ryle. Returning to Cambrid ...

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• Antony Hewish - External link

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Carol Haney (December 24, 1924 - May 10, 1964) was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and opened a dancing school when she was fifteen years old. After high school, Haney left her home town for Hollywood and landed bit parts in movies until she was spotted by legendary choreographer- dancer Jack Cole, becoming his dance partner and assistant from 1946-8. In 1949, Haney was hired by Gene Kelly to be his assistant choreographer, and aided Kelly in some of his best work, including On The Town, Summer Stock, An American i ...

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The Right Honourable William Craig (b. December 2, 1924) was a Northern Ireland politician best known for forming the Ulster Vanguard movement of Unionists. Craig was from Cookstown, County Tyrone. After serving in the Royal Air Force (as a Lancaster bomber rear gunner) during World War II he became a solicitor. He was active in the Ulster Unionist Party and led the Ulster Young Unionist Council. He was elected to the Stormont Parliament in a byelection in 1960 for Larne, and became a Minister in 1963. He held several po ...

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Daniel Kahikina Akaka (born September 11, 1924) is a U.S. Senator from Hawaii and a member of the Democratic Party. He is the first U.S. Senator of Native Hawaiian ancestry and is the only Chinese American member of the Senate (and one of two Senators with Japanese ancestry, the other being fellow Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye). Akaka was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including service on Saipan and Tinian. He earned a Bachelor of Education (1952) and Master ...

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• Daniel Akaka - External link

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Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (born June 1, 1924) is a liberal clergyman and long-time peace activist with international stature. He was a CIA agent, and later chaplain of Yale University, where the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr's social philosophy led him to become a leader in the civil-rights and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He went on to serve as Senior Minister at the Riverside Church in New York City, and President of SANE/Freeze (now Peace Action), the nation's largest peace and justice group, and has prominently opposed U.S. ...

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• William Sloane Coffin - Early adulthood
• William Sloane Coffin - The ministry and political activism
• William Sloane Coffin - Nuclear disarmament
• William Sloane Coffin - Personal life
• William Sloane Coffin - Quotes by Coffin
• William Sloane Coffin - Books
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Claude Sautet (February 23, 1924 - July 22, 2000) was a French author and film director. Claude Sautet - Biography. Born in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Claude Sautet first studied painting and sculpture before attending a film university in Paris where he began his career and later became a television producer. He filmed his first movie Bonjour Sourire in 1955. He earned international attention with Les Choses de la Vie (1969), which he wrote and directed, like the rest of ...

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Yosef Avni (b. December 25, 1924) was an Irgun activist. He was born in Jerusalem as Yosef Danoch, after the establishment of the State of Israel, he changed his name to Avni (his underground cover name). Avni went to work as a locksmith at a young age, to help provide for his family (learned his job at his cousins' workshop, the Sabah brothers). At 16 Avni joined Betar and four years later (in 1942) joined the Irgun. After the declaration of the Revolt (February 1944), Avni became part of the fighting force, and on top of being in charge of arm ...

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Alain Bombard (October 27, 1924 - July 19, 2005) was a French biologist and physician famous for sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat. Alain Bombard was born in Paris. He theorized that a human being could very well survive the trip across the ocean without provisions and decided to test his theory himself in order to save thousands of lives of people lost at sea. On October 19, 1952 Bombard began his trip singlehanded from the Canary Islands heading across the Atlantic for the West Indies. He sailed in a Zodiac inflatable boat called l'Hérétique, which was only 4.5 meters l ...

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Daniel Ken Inouye (born September 7, 1924) is the senior United States Senator from Hawaii. He has been a senator for more than 40 years, a distinction which few other current senators have achieved. He was also the first American of Japanese descent to serve in the United States House of Representatives and later the Senate. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Daniel Inouye - Biography. Inouye was born in Honolulu and spent his childhood there. In 1943 he enlisted in the Army and was assigned t ...

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In recent years Mugabe has emerged as one of Africa's most controversial leaders. His critics accuse him of being a 'corrupt dictator', and an 'extremely poor role model' for the continent. Nevertheless, Mugabe retains considerable popularity throughout Africa. For example, in 2004 the monthly magazine New African had its readers vote for the "100 greatest Africans" last year, Mugabe won a third-place finish, topped only by Nelson Mandela and Ghanaian independence hero Kwame Nkrumah. In addition, in December 2005, Kenneth Kaunda, Zamb ...

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Robert Mugabe, Robert Mugabe - Early life, Robert Mugabe - Anti-colonial conflict, Robert Mugabe - Prime Minister then Executive President, Robert Mugabe - Social programmes, Robert Mugabe - Land reforms, Robert Mugabe - 2000 referendum, Robert Mugabe - Elections, Robert Mugabe - Foreign opposition to Mugabe, Robert Mugabe - Succession, Robert Mugabe - Personal, Robert Mugabe - Contemporaries, Robert Mugabe - Events, Robert Mugabe - Parties, Robert Mugabe - Reference

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He was born in Oita Prefecture. His father was a fisherman. Murayama graduated from the Meiji University. He was appointed secretary of labor union in his company and entered the Japan Socialist Party, which his union supported. He began his political career as a member of the Oita city council in 1955 and went on to serve three terms. In 1963 his supporters urged him to be a candidate of Oita prefectural assembly. He was elected three times successively. On December, 197 ...

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Tomiichi Murayama, Tomiichi Murayama - Early political life, Tomiichi Murayama - Prime Minister

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In the 1950s Spaziani had an affair with the poet Eugenio Montale, and was the inspiration for the character la Volpe ("the Fox") in his poetry. Montale's poem "Da un lago svizzera" is an anacrostic forming Maria Luisa Spaziani. In 1995 Spaziani published her correspondence with Montale, consisting of some eight hundred letters. Spaziani is president of the Centro internazionale Eugenio MontaleSee also:

Maria Luisa Spaziani, Maria Luisa Spaziani - Spaziani and Eugenio Montale, Maria Luisa Spaziani - List of Works

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King Abdullah is a devout Muslim and follows the Salafi understanding of Islam which is a strict intrepretation of the religion based on the teachings of the first three generations of Muslims, and is said to have meetings with leaders of Saudi Arabia's religious establishment on a weekly basis to garner advice and guidance. ...

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Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - Early Life, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - Religion, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - Governance and foreign policy, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - Philanthropy, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - Relationship with the United States, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - On terrorism

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Pierre Cochereau was born in 1924 in Saint-Mandé, near Paris. In 1929, after a few months of violin instruction, Pierre Cochereau began to take piano lessons with Marius-François Gaillard. Marguerite Long became his piano teacher in 1933, and three years later, Paul Pannesay. In 1938, Cochereau was introduced to the organ by Marie-Louise Girod, a student of Marcel Dupré. He continued his organ studies with André Fleury and Paul Delafosse, whom Pierre Cochereau succeeded as ...

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Pierre Cochereau, Pierre Cochereau - Biography, Pierre Cochereau - Compositions, Pierre Cochereau - Bibliography

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Born in San Jose, California, Coleman spent his entire playing career with the New York Yankees. He played 6 years in their minor league system before reaching the big club in 1949. Coleman hit .275 in his first year and led all second basemen in fielding percentage en route to finishing 3rd in rookie of the year balloting. Coleman avoided a sophomore jinx by earning a selection to the All-Star team in 1950. He then shined in the World Series with brilliant defense, earning him the BBWAA's Babe ...

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Jerry Coleman, Jerry Coleman - Playing career, Jerry Coleman - Broadcasting career, Jerry Coleman - Colemanisms

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