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Gene Pitney
1940 - 2006 (66 years)
Gene Francis Alan Pitney was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Pitney charted 16 top-40 hits in the United States, four in the top ten. In the United Kingdom, he had 22 top-40 hit singles, including 11 in the top ten. Among his most famous hits are "Town Without Pity", " Liberty Valance", "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa", "I'm Gonna Be Strong", "It Hurts to Be in Love", and "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart". He also wrote the early-1960s hits "Rubber Ball" recorded by Bobby Vee, "Hello Mary Lou" by Ricky Nelson, and "He's a Rebel" by the Crystals. In 2002, he was inducted into the...
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Heidi Harley
1969 - Present (55 years)
Heidi Britton Harley is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Her areas of specialization are formal syntactic theory, morphology, and lexical semantics. Career Harley was born in Oregon, but was raised in St. John's, Newfoundland. She earned her B.A. in Linguistics and English at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1991. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy in 1995 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Alec Marantz.
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Lenore Grenoble
1950 - Present (74 years)
Lenore A. Grenoble is an American linguist specializing in Slavic and Arctic Indigenous languages. She is currently the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor and chair at University of Chicago.
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Marc van Oostendorp
1967 - Present (57 years)
Marc van Oostendorp is a Dutch linguist and Esperantist. From 2004 he has served as a weekly commentator on linguistics for Radio Noord-Holland. Since 2007, he has researched phonological microvariation, dialectology and interlinguistics. He is currently attached to the Radboud University in Nijmegen.
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Gavin Bryars
1943 - Present (81 years)
Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has worked in jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, avant-garde, and experimental music. Early life and career Born on 16 January 1943 in Goole, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Bryars studied philosophy at Sheffield University but became a jazz bassist during his three years as a philosophy student.
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Claude Buridant
1938 - Present (86 years)
Claude Buridant is a French linguist, professor emeritus of French and Romance philology at the University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg. He is director of the Centre for Linguistics and Romance Philology in Strasbourg.
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Eni Orlandi
1942 - Present (82 years)
Eni de Lourdes Puccinelli Orlandi is a Brazilian researcher with great influence in French Discourse Analysis, being the one to bring it to Brazil by translating to Portuguese Michel Pêcheux's books and articles.
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James Brown
1965 - Present (59 years)
James Brown is a British former journalist, author, radio host and media entrepreneur. His first book, Above Head Height: A Five-a-Side Life, was published in 2017 by Quercus and received positive reviews in The Guardian, The Australian and The Daily Telegraph. A renowned Leeds United supporter, Brown also co-hosts The Late Tackle on Talksport with the comedy writer Andy Dawson, of Athletico Mince fame. In addition to his media profile, he is the owner of Sabotage Times – a music, football and culture website – and the Sabotage Agency, which has provided content for such brands as Scotts, Car...
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Boy Abunda
1955 - Present (69 years)
Eugenio "Boy" Romerica Abunda Jr. is a Filipino television presenter, publicist, and talent manager. Known as the "King of Talk", Abunda has presented several talk shows centered on the Philippine entertainment industry. On GMA, he co-presented Show & Tell and Startalk . After transferring to ABS-CBN, he hosted The Buzz , Kontrobersyal , Homeboy , The Bottomline with Boy Abunda , and Tonight with Boy Abunda . He partnered with Kris Aquino in hosting Boy & Kris , SNN: Showbiz News Ngayon , and Aquino & Abunda Tonight . After the ABS-CBN shutdown, he returned to GMA to host Fast Talk with Boy Abunda .
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Gianfranco Folena
1920 - 1992 (72 years)
Gianfranco Folena was an Italian linguist, philologist, and academic. Biography Born in Savigliano in Piedmont in 1920, from a Tuscan family. He attended the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa along with Giorgio Pasquali. After his involvement in the war and imprisonment in India, he graduated in Florence, with Bruno Migliorini. He had held the chair of Romance Philology and then of History of the Italian Language at the University of Padua until the end of his teaching activity in 1990.
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Ashk Dahlén
1972 - Present (52 years)
Ashk Peter Dahlén is a Swedish scholar, linguist, Iranologist, translator, and associate professor in Persian language at Uppsala University. He is quadrilingual in Swedish, Persian, English, and French. He has published extensively in journals, and has written several books.
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Patrick Sims-Williams
Patrick Sims-Williams is Emeritus Professor of Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth University and founding editor of the journal Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies. Education Sims-Williams was educated at Borden Grammar School in Kent. He took a B.A. at the University of Cambridge, including achieving upper-second-class honours in the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic tripos in 1972, followed by a PhD at the University of Birmingham.
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Juanita León
1970 - Present (54 years)
Juanita León García is a Colombian journalist, writer, and public speaker. She is best known as the founder and director of the news website La Silla Vacía. Biography León obtained a law degree at the University of the Andes in Bogotá and an M.S. in Journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York. She worked as a reporter on the Wall Street Journal Americas before returning to Colombia in 1998.
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Hans-Jürgen Sasse
1943 - 2015 (72 years)
Hans-Jürgen Sasse was a German linguist. Life Sasse studied linguistics, Indo-European, Semitics and Balkanology in Berlin, Thessaloniki and Munich. He was awarded a Ph.D. in 1970 in Munich by the department of Semitic languages for his dissertation Linguistische Analyse des arabischen Dialekts der Mhallamiye in der Provinz Mardin . From 1972 to 1977 he was research assistant at the Institut für Allgemeine und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft in Munich. In 1975, he received his habilitation with the book Die Morphophonologie des Galab-Verbs and in 1977 he was made a professor. In 1987, he became chair of general and comparative linguistics at the University of Cologne.
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Jiao Guobiao
1963 - Present (61 years)
Jiao Guobiao is a Chinese dissident who was formerly an associate professor at Peking University's College of Journalism and Communications until he was dismissed. A prominent journalist at Chinese Cultural Newspaper from 1996 to 2001, he has published widely on issues of journalism in China. Following the appearance online of his March 2004 essay condemning the Chinese government's Central Propaganda Department and his continued efforts to promote freedom of the press and human rights in China, he was suspended from his teaching duties.
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Levon Ananyan
1946 - 2013 (67 years)
Levon Ananyan was an Armenian journalist and translator. Biography Born in Koghb, Tavush, Levon Ananyan was a graduate of the Yerevan State University, Department of Philology. He worked for a number of state journals. For approximately 25 years, he worked for the Garoun monthly.
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Garrett Graff
1981 - Present (43 years)
Garrett M. Graff is an American journalist and author. He is a former editor of Politico Magazine, editor-in-chief of Washingtonian magazine in Washington, D.C., and instructor at Georgetown University in the Masters in Professional Studies Journalism and Public Relations program.
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Charles Gibson
1943 - Present (81 years)
Charles deWolf Gibson is an American broadcast television anchor, journalist, and podcaster. Gibson was a host of Good Morning America from 1987 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2006, and the anchor of World News with Charles Gibson from 2006 to 2009.
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Itzhak Perlman
1945 - Present (79 years)
Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-American violinist. He has performed worldwide and throughout the United States, in venues that have included a state dinner for Elizabeth II at the White House in 2007, and at the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama. He has conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Westchester Philharmonic. In 2015, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Perlman has won 16 Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and four Emmy Awards.
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Starr Roxanne Hiltz
1942 - Present (82 years)
Starr Roxanne Hiltz is a retired Distinguished Professor of Information Science/Information Systems at New Jersey Institute of Technology . She, along with Murray Turoff , are the authors of The Network Nation, a book that is described as "the seminal book that helped define the electronic frontier".
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Ian Falconer
1959 - 2023 (64 years)
Ian Woodward Falconer was an American author and illustrator of children's books, and a designer of sets and costumes for the theater. He created 30 covers for The New Yorker as well as other publications. Falconer wrote and illustrated the Olivia series of children's books, chronicling the adventures of a young pig, a series initially conceived as a Christmas gift for his young niece.
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Ed O'Brien
1968 - Present (56 years)
Edward John O'Brien is an English guitarist, songwriter and member of the rock band Radiohead. He releases solo music under the name EOB. O'Brien attended Abingdon School in Oxfordshire, England, where he formed Radiohead with schoolmates. O'Brien said his role was to "service the songs" and support the songwriter, Thom Yorke. He often creates ambient sounds and textures, using effectss, sustain units and the EBow, and provides backing vocals.
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Stanley Mitchell
1932 - 2011 (79 years)
Stanley Mitchell was a British translator, academic, and author, noted for his English verse translation of Alexander Pushkin's Russian verse novel Eugene Onegin. Life and works Stanley Mitchell was born in London of immigrant Jewish parents in a family in which Yiddish was often spoken. His father was born in Ukraine and, his mother's parents in Belarus. He attended Christ College School in Finchley, North London, which included a period of evacuation to Biggleswade during World War II.
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David Drake
1945 - Present (79 years)
David A. Drake is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now a writer in the military science fiction genre. Biography Drake graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa, majoring in history and Latin. His studies at Duke University School of Law were interrupted for two years when he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry in Vietnam and Cambodia. After the war, from 1972 to 1980 he worked as the Assistant Town Attorney in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Scott Shane
1954 - Present (70 years)
Scott Shane is an American journalist and author, currently employed by The New York Times, reporting principally about the United States intelligence community. In 2023, his nonfiction book Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland was published by Celadon Books.
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Chantal Akerman
1950 - 2015 (65 years)
Chantal Anne Akerman was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for her films Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles , News from Home , and Je Tu Il Elle ; the first of these was ranked the greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound magazine's 2022 "Greatest Films of All Time" critics poll, making her the first woman to top the poll. The latter two films also rank lower in the same poll.
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Ava DuVernay
1972 - Present (52 years)
Ava Marie DuVernay is an American filmmaker. She is a recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award, a NAACP Image Award, a BAFTA Film Award and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee of an Academy Award and Golden Globe.
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Robert Kanigel
1946 - Present (78 years)
Robert Kanigel is an American biographer and science writer, known as the author of seven books and more than 400 articles, essays, and reviews. Early life Born in Brooklyn, Kanigel graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City, and received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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William McKeen
1954 - Present (70 years)
William McKeen is an American author and educator. He is professor and former chairman of the Department of Journalism at Boston University. Biography McKeen was born in Indianapolis September 16, 1954, he was raised in England, Germany, Nebraska, Florida and Texas. His father was an Air Force flight surgeon who retired to private practice in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1968.
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Doireann MacDermott
1923 - Present (101 years)
Doireann MacDermott is an Irish translator, writer, an academic in the field of Spanish philology, and a retired professor of English studies at the University of Barcelona. She pioneered the study of the language and literature of the English-speaking countries of the former Commonwealth.
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Mitchell Stephens
1949 - Present (75 years)
Mitchell Stephens is an American professor of journalism and mass communications at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He is also a respected journalist and historian with several original published works.
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Jack Nitzsche
1937 - 2000 (63 years)
Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He first came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on to work with the Rolling Stones and Neil Young, among others. He also worked extensively in film scores, notably for the films Performance, The Exorcist and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In 1983, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing "Up Where We Belong" with Buffy Sainte-Marie.
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Brian Behan
1926 - 2002 (76 years)
Brian Behan was an Irish writer, public speaker, lecturer, and trade unionist. Early years Behan was born in Dublin, the son of Stephen Behan and Kathleen Behan , nephew of Peadar Kearney , younger brother of Brendan Behan and older brother of Dominic Behan. He is the father of the playwright and actress Janet Behan, journalist Rosemary Behan, writer and musician Ruth Behan, musician and poet Daniel Tobias Behan. and Linsey Jane Behan, solicitor.
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Gayle King
1954 - Present (70 years)
Gayle King is an American television personality, author and broadcast journalist for CBS News, co-hosting its flagship morning program, CBS Mornings, and before that its predecessor CBS This Morning. She is also an editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine.
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Gabriel Ruhumbika
1938 - Present (86 years)
Gabriel Ruhumbika is a Tanzanian born novelist, short story writer, translator and academic. His first novel, Village in Uhuru, was published in 1969. He has written several subsequent novels in Swahili. He has also taught literature at a number of universities, and, until his retirement in 2016, he was a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia in the USA.
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William Diver
1921 - 1995 (74 years)
William Diver was an American linguist. He was the founder of the Columbia School of Linguistics, which is named after Columbia University, where he received his Ph.D. in comparative Indo-European linguistics.
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Robert Enrico
1931 - 2001 (70 years)
Robert Georgio Enrico was a French film director and scriptwriter best known for making the Oscar-winning short An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge . He was born in Liévin, Pas-de-Calais, in the north of France, to Italian immigrant parents, and died in Paris.
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David Mason
1926 - 2011 (85 years)
David Mason was an English orchestral, solo and session trumpet player. He played the flugelhorn for the premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams's ninth symphony and the piccolo trumpet solo on the Beatles' song "Penny Lane".
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André Rieu
1949 - Present (75 years)
André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra. Rieu and his orchestra have turned classical and waltz music into a worldwide concert touring act. He resides in his native Maastricht.
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Shichirō Murayama
1908 - 1995 (87 years)
Shichirō Murayama was a Japanese linguist who started his career lecturing at Juntendo University, and went on to become full professor at Kyoto Sangyo University. One of the world’s foremost authorities on the Altaic languages, he later made important contributions to the mixed-language theory of the origins of Japanese. Denis Sinor regarded him, together with Shirō Hattori, Samuel E. Martin, and Osada Natsuki as one of the four scholars who have done the most to throw light on the origins of the Japanese language.
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Anna Siewierska
1955 - 2011 (56 years)
Anna Siewierska was a Polish-born linguist who worked in Australia, Poland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. She was professor of linguistics at Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University and a leading specialist in language typology.
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Lucien Carr
1925 - 2005 (80 years)
Lucien Carr was a key member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation in the 1940s and also a convicted manslaughterer. He later worked for many years as an editor for United Press International.
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David Soyer
1923 - 2010 (87 years)
David Soyer was an American cellist. He was born in Philadelphia and began playing the piano at the age of nine. At 11, he started the cello. One of his first teachers was Diran Alexanian. Later on he studied with Emanuel Feuermann and Pablo Casals. He debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy in 1942, playing Ernest Bloch's Schelomo.
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Gonzalo Vial Correa
1930 - 2009 (79 years)
Gonzalo Vial Correa was a Chilean historian, lawyer and journalist. He was a member of the State Defense Council and the Council on Ethics in Social Media. In addition he was president of the Barnechea Foundation for Education, which he founded with his wife, María Luisa Vial Cox.
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Derek Jarman
1942 - 1994 (52 years)
Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman was an English artist, film maker, costume designer, stage designer, writer, gardener, and gay rights activist. Biography Jarman was born at the Royal Victoria Nursing Home in Northwood, Middlesex, England, the son of Elizabeth Evelyn and Lancelot Elworthy Jarman. His father was a Royal Air Force officer, born in New Zealand.
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Jerzy Rubach
1948 - Present (76 years)
Jerzy Jan Rubach is a Polish linguist who specializes in phonology. He is a professor of linguistics at the University of Iowa and the University of Warsaw . In 1966-1971 Rubach studied at the Institute of English, University of Warsaw, where he got his master's degree in linguistics in 1971. He earned his Ph.D. in 1974 and Ph.D.Litt in 1981 . In 1988, he was promoted to the rank of professor. In the years 1984-1990, Rubach was chair of the Institute of English, University of Warsaw, and since 1984 he has been chair of the department of English language and linguistics there.
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Paul van Geert
1950 - Present (74 years)
Paul van Geert is a Dutch linguist. He is currently a professor of developmental psychology at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. He is renowned for his work on developmental psychology and the application of dynamical systems theory in social science.
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Gesche Joost
1974 - Present (50 years)
Gesche Joost is a German design researcher. Early life and education Gesche Joost studied design at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences and completed her PhD in Rhetoric at the University of Tübingen.
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Christopher J. Harper
1951 - Present (73 years)
Christopher J. Harper is an American professor and former journalist. Early life and education Born October 1, 1951, in Boise, Idaho, Harper graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism and English literature from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1973. He earned a master's degree in journalism in 1974 from Northwestern University.
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Nathan McCall
1955 - Present (69 years)
Nathan McCall is an American author and journalist. He has written in the genres of novel, memoir, biography, and social commentary, often focusing on the African-American experience. Biography As the stepson of a Navy man, McCall grew up in various locations, such as Morocco, Norfolk, Virginia and the Cavalier Manor section of Portsmouth, Virginia. After serving three years in prison, he studied journalism at Norfolk State University. He reported for The Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before moving to The Washington Post In 1989.
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