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David M. Bunis
1952 - Present (72 years)
David Monson Bunis is a professor in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Languages, Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and heads its program in Judezmo studies. He is also an advisor to the Israel Autoridad Nasionala del Ladino and a member of the Akademia Nasionala del Ladino. He is the editor of Languages and Literatures of Sephardic and Oriental Jews , co-editor of Massorot, a Hebrew-language journal devoted to the study of Jewish language traditions, and author of books and articles on the Judezmo language and its literature.
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Herbert Spencer
1924 - 2002 (78 years)
Herbert Spencer was a British designer, editor, writer, photographer and teacher. He was born in London. Life and work Spencer was an RAF cartographer during the Second World War. He taught typography at the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1949 to 1955. In 1966 he became a senior research fellow in the print research department of the Royal College of Art; he was a professor of graphic arts there from 1978 until 1985.
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Senta Trömel-Plötz
1939 - Present (85 years)
Senta Trömel-Plötz is a German linguist. Together with Luise F. Pusch she introduced feminist linguistics in Germany. Life Trömel-Plötz studied linguistics in the USA. She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania with the dissertation, Simple Copula Structures in English. This was followed by her habilitation. From 1980 to 1984 she was a professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Konstanz. The professorship was not converted into a permanent position. Trömel-Plötz believes that anti-feminist beliefs at the time prevented her being given tenure. She then chose to move to the USA for better opportunities at Universities.
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Leontyne Price
1927 - Present (97 years)
Mary Violet Leontyne Price is an American spinto soprano who was the first African American soprano to receive international acclaim. From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan Opera, where she was the first African American to be a leading performer. She regularly appeared at the world's major opera houses, including the Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and La Scala; at La Scala, she was also the first African American to sing a leading role. She was particularly renowned for her performances of the title role in Verdi's Aida.
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Herbert Mitgang
1920 - 2013 (93 years)
Herbert Mitgang was an American author, editor, journalist, playwright, and producer of television news documentaries. Life Born in Manhattan, he graduated with a law degree from what is now St. John's University. While a student he wrote sports articles for The Brooklyn Eagle.
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Baldev Raj Gupta
1942 - Present (82 years)
Baldev Raj Gupta is an Indian academic in the field of linguisticss, and a Punjabi and Hindi writer. In addition to his Doctorate in Punjabi linguistics, Gupta has an MA degree in Sanskrit and Punjabi, and a Post Graduate Diploma in French, Tamil and linguistics. He is also fluent in Urdu and Dogri. He has taught at Punjabi University, Annamalai University and Jammu University, where he was the head of the Department of Punjabi. He holds positions on the academic boards and advisory committees of several literary and cultural organisations.
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Johnny Clegg
1953 - 2019 (66 years)
Jonathan Paul Clegg, was a South African musician, singer-songwriter, dancer, anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist. He first performed as part of a duo - Johnny & Sipho - with Sipho Mchunu which released its first single, Woza Friday in 1976. The two then went on to form the band Juluka which released its debut album in 1979. In 1986, Clegg founded the band Savuka, and also recorded as a solo act, occasionally reuniting with his earlier band partners. Sometimes called Le Zoulou Blanc , he was an important figure in South African popular music and a prominent white figure in the resist...
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Giuseppe Tornatore
1956 - Present (68 years)
Giuseppe Tornatore is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian cinema. In a career spanning over 30 years he is best known for directing and writing drama films such as Everybody's Fine, The Legend of 1900, Malèna, Baarìa and The Best Offer. His most noted film is Cinema Paradiso, for which Tornatore won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has also directed several advertising campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana.
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Yuen-Ying Chan
1947 - Present (77 years)
Yuen-Ying Chan is a Hong Kong-based American journalist and journalism academic whose investigative work and subsequent successful defence of a libel suit helped establish Taiwanese media freedom. Background and career overview A Hong Kong native with American citizenship, Chan received a bachelor's degree in social sciences from the University of Hong Kong and a master's in journalism from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Chan moved to the United States in 1972 to pursue a graduate degree at the University of Michigan. She later worked for the New York Daily News.
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Frank Sesno
2000 - Present (24 years)
Frank Sesno is an American journalist, former CNN correspondent, anchor, and Washington bureau chief. He is also author, and former director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. Sesno is the creator and host of Planet Forward, a web-to-television show on PBS. Sesno is a Professor of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University. Sesno assumed the Director's role at the School of Media and Public Affairs in September 2009 and stepped down from the role in June 2020. In 2020, Sesno announced he would serve as the school’s director of strat...
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Jo Stafford
1917 - 2008 (91 years)
Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American traditional pop music singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song "You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top the UK Singles Chart, and the first by a female artist to do so.
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Ike Turner
1931 - 2007 (76 years)
Izear Luster "Ike" Turner Jr. was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, record producer, and talent scout. An early pioneer of 1950s rock and roll, he is best known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with his wife Tina Turner as the leader of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.
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Stuart Loory
1932 - 2015 (83 years)
Stuart Hugh Loory was an American journalist and educator. Early and education Loory was born in Wilson, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Dover, New Jersey, where his parents, Harry and Eve Loory, owned a large furniture store. Along with his younger brother, Melvyn, he attended prep school at Blair Academy. In 1954, Loory graduated from Cornell University, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society and editor-in-chief of The Cornell Daily Sun. After three years at the Newark News, he received a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1958, and did postgraduate work in...
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Kevin Godley
1945 - Present (79 years)
Kevin Michael Godley is a British singer, songwriter, musician and music video director. He is known as the singer and drummer of the art rock band 10cc and later as part of collaboration duo Godley & Creme with Lol Creme.
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Kathleen Matthews
1953 - Present (71 years)
Kathleen Ann Matthews is the former chief communications and public affairs officer for hotel company Marriott International. Prior to joining Marriott International, she was a reporter for 25 years at WJLA-TV. She was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives for Maryland's 8th congressional district in the 2016 elections. She is the former chair of the Maryland Democratic Party.
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Richard Clayderman
1953 - Present (71 years)
Richard Clayderman is a French pianist who has released numerous albums including the compositions of Paul de Senneville, Olivier Toussaint and Marc Minier, instrumental renditions of popular music, rearrangements of movie soundtracks, ethnic music, and easy-listening arrangements of popular works of classical music.
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Heinrich Schmid
1921 - 1999 (78 years)
Heinrich Schmid was a Swiss linguist and "father" of the Rhaeto-Romance Dachsprachen Rumantsch Grischun and Ladin Dolomitan. Heinrich Schmid lived his entire life in the same house in Zürich in which he was born. Although he was born with a hearing impairment, he discovered a love for languages at a young age learning Greek alongside Latin and the Romance languages French, Italian, Spanish and the different varieties of Romansh.
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Jerry Herman
1931 - 2019 (88 years)
Gerald Sheldon Herman was an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway theatre. One of the most commercially successful Broadway songwriters of his time, Herman was the composer and lyricist for a number of hit musicals, starting in the 1960s, that were characterized by an upbeat and optimistic outlook and what Herman called "the simple, hummable showtune". His shows include Hello, Dolly! , at one time the longest-running musical in Broadway history, which also produced the hit title song for Louis Armstrong; Mame , a vehicle for Angela Lansbury; and La Cage aux Folles , ...
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Kiri Te Kanawa
1944 - Present (80 years)
Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa, , is a retired New Zealand opera singer. She had a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". Her extensive discography includes three albums which featured in the top forty in charts in Australia in the mid-1980s.
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Helen de Hoop
1964 - Present (60 years)
Helen de Hoop is a Dutch linguist and Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen. She is known for her works on the relationship between the form and interpretation of language.
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Bryn Terfel
1965 - Present (59 years)
Sir Bryn Terfel Jones, is a Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer. Terfel was initially primarily associated with the roles of Mozart, particularly Figaro, Leporello and Don Giovanni, and has subsequently shifted his attention to heavier roles, especially those by Puccini and Wagner.
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Buck Owens
1929 - 2006 (77 years)
Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and band leader. He was the lead singer for Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart. He pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, named in honor of Bakersfield, California, Owens's adopted home and the city from which he drew inspiration for what he preferred to call "American music".
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Jessye Norman
1945 - 2019 (74 years)
Jessye Mae Norman was an American opera singer and recitalist. She was able to perform dramatic soprano roles, but did not limit herself to that voice type. A commanding presence on operatic, concert and recital stages, Norman was associated with roles including Beethoven's Leonore, Wagner's Sieglinde and Kundry, Berlioz's Cassandre and Didon, and Bartók's Judith. The New York Times music critic Edward Rothstein described her voice as a "grand mansion of sound", and wrote that "it has enormous dimensions, reaching backward and upward. It opens onto unexpected vistas. It contains sunlit rooms,...
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John Lynch
1946 - 2021 (75 years)
John Dominic Lynch was a linguist specializing in Oceanic languages. He was an emeritus professor of Pacific Languages and the former Director of the Pacific Languages Unit at the University of the South Pacific in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
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Richard Hunt
1951 - 1992 (41 years)
Richard Hunt was an American puppeteer, best known as a Muppet performer on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and other projects for The Jim Henson Company. His roles on The Muppet Show included Scooter, Statler, Janice, Beaker, and Sweetums and characters on Sesame Street include Gladys the Cow, Don Music, and Forgetful Jones.
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Georg Renatus Solta
1915 - 2005 (90 years)
Georg Renatus Solta was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist who specialized in Balkan linguistics. Works 1960, Die Stellung des Armenischen im Kreise der Indogermanischen Sprachen, Vienna1965, Palatalisierung und Labialisierung, IF 70, 276–315.1974, Zur Stellung der lateinischen Sprache, .1980, Einführung in die Balkanlinguistik mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Substrats und des Balkanlateinischen, .1997, with G. Deeters and V. Inglisian, Armenisch Und Kaukasische Sprachen, .
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Ivan Reitman
1946 - 2022 (76 years)
Ivan Reitman was a Czechoslovak-born Canadian filmmaker. He was best known for his comedy work, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998.
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Louise Sandhaus
1955 - Present (69 years)
Louise Sandhaus is an American graphic designer and design educator. She is a professor at California Institute of the Arts and is principal of Louise Sandhaus Design. Early life and education Louise Sandhouse was born in 1955 outside of Boston, Massachusetts to Norman, an art director, and Harriet Sandhaus, a newspaper columnist. The family later relocated to Orlando, Florida.
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Michael Apted
1941 - 2021 (80 years)
Michael David Apted, was a British television and film director and producer. Apted began working in television and directed the Up documentary series . He later directed Coal Miner's Daughter , which was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. His subsequent work included Gorillas in the Mist , Nell , James Bond film The World Is Not Enough , and Enigma . His film Amazing Grace premiered at the closing of the Toronto International Film Festival that year.
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Bruce Welch
1941 - Present (83 years)
Bruce Welch is an English guitarist, songwriter, producer, singer and businessman best known as a founding member of the Shadows. Early life Bruce Welch was born in Bognor Regis in 1941. His parents moved him to 15 Broadwood View, Chester-le-Street, County Durham shortly after. Welch's mother died when he was aged six, and he grew up with his Aunt Sadie.
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Nigel Kennedy
1956 - Present (68 years)
Nigel Kennedy is an English violinist and violist. Discovered at age 11 by Jimmy Savile on a British television series, his early career was primarily spent performing classical music, and has since expanded into jazz, klezmer, and other music genres.
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Jean-Marie Zemb
1928 - 2007 (79 years)
Jean-Marie Zemb was a French linguist.
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Pino Palladino
1957 - Present (67 years)
Giuseppe Henry "Pino" Palladino is a Welsh musician, songwriter, and record producer. A prolific session bassist, he has played bass for acts such as The Who, the John Mayer Trio, Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan, Jeff Beck and D'Angelo.
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Julian C. Boyd
1931 - 2005 (74 years)
Julian Charles Boyd was an American linguist, reputed for his expertise on modality in English, as well as for his pedagogical excellence at the University of California, Berkeley, where he spent most of his academic career.
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Joe Hisaishi
1950 - Present (74 years)
, known professionally as , is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. Hisaishi's music has been known to explore and incorporate different genres, including minimalist, experimental electronic, Western classical, and Japanese classical. He has also worked as a music engraver and arranger.
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Samah Selim
1950 - Present (74 years)
Samah Selim is an Egyptian scholar and translator of Arabic literature. She studied English literature at Barnard College, and obtained her PhD from Columbia University in 1997. At present she is an associate professor at the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She has also taught at Columbia, Princeton and Aix-en-Provence universities.
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Diane McFarlin
1901 - Present (123 years)
Diane McFarlin is an American educator and author. She retired in 2021 as dean of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. Career McFarlin began her journalism career in high school and took a reporting job at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune after earning her degree at the University of Florida. She became managing editor at 30 and was named executive editor of The Gainesville Sun three years later. She then returned to the Herald-Tribune, serving as executive editor for a decade and publisher for 13 years. McFarlin became dean of the UFC College of Journalism and Commu...
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Bob Friend
1938 - 2008 (70 years)
Bob Friend, MBE was one of the original news anchors for the Sky News channel from its launch in 1989 until his retirement in late 2003. Journalism career Early days After completing his education at the Skinners' School, Friend started his career in 1953 aged 15 as a cub reporter on the Tunbridge Wells Advertiser, reporting on the Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation. After he undertook National Service as a corporal clerk with the Brigade of Gurkhas in Hong Kong, Friend served a ten-year freelance career in various British newspapers before starting his broadcast career with BBC News in 1969.
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Joseph A. Smith
1936 - Present (88 years)
Joseph Anthony Smith , also known as Jos. A. Smith, is an American artist who is best known for illustrating children's books. He has been a professional artist since 1961 and served as Professor of Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, since 1962.
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Tom Paxton
1937 - Present (87 years)
Thomas Richard Paxton is an American folk singer-songwriter who has had a music career spanning more than sixty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a music educator as well as an advocate for folk singers to combine traditional songs with new compositions.
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Tim Soudan
1968 - Present (56 years)
Tim Soudan is the current head coach for the Denver Outlaws of the Premier Lacrosse League. He joined the team, known as Chrome Lacrosse Club at the time after the conclusion of their 2019 season, replacing legendary coach Dom Starsia. Soudan is a former National Lacrosse League and Major League Lacrosse player. Soudan was one year too early before the Olympic lacrosse team was formed, and was registered as a player but injured himself making him unable to play. Soudan also played in the NLL for the Boston Blazers and the Rochester Knighthawks , and in the MLL for the Rochester Rattlers . S...
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Juice Newton
1952 - Present (72 years)
Judith Kay "Juice" Newton is an American pop and country singer, songwriter, and musician. Newton has received five Grammy Award nominations in the Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist categorieswinning once in 1983as well as an ACM Award for Top New Female Artist and two consecutive Billboard Female Album Artist of the Year awards. Newton's other awards include a People's Choice Award for "Best Female Vocalist" and the Australian Music Media's "Number One International Country Artist".
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Aileen Adams
1923 - Present (101 years)
Aileen Kirkpatrick Adams is a British retired consultant anaesthetist. Early life Aileen Adams was born on 5 September 1923. She graduated from the University of Sheffield. Career Adams worked as a junior anaesthetist at Addenbrooke's Hospital from 1946 to 1951
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Brian Priestman
1927 - 2014 (87 years)
Brian Priestman was a British conductor and music educator. Biography Priestman was born in Birmingham, England. He studied at the University of Birmingham and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Belgium.
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Alberto Cairo
1974 - Present (50 years)
Alberto Cairo is a Spanish information designer and professor. Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communication of the University of Miami. Education Cairo holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Santiago de Compostela, and MA and PhD from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya .
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Tom Stern
1946 - Present (78 years)
Thomas Evans Stern, , is an American cinematographer. He is best known for his work on films directed by Clint Eastwood, having been his primary cinematographer since Blood Work in 2002. Stern began work as a gaffer in 1977, and for his work in Changeling was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
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Judy Davis
1955 - Present (69 years)
Judith Davis is an Australian actress in film, television, and on stage. With a career spanning over 40 years, she has been commended for her versatility and regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation. Frequent collaborator Woody Allen described her as "one of the most exciting actresses in the world". She is the most awarded recipient for the AACTA Award with nine accolades and has received numerous accolades, including three Emmy Awardss, two BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, and two nominations for Academy Awards.
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Milton Coleman
1901 - Present (123 years)
Milton R. Coleman is an American journalist. He teaches journalism ethics and diversity at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication as the Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics. He is the former senior editor of The Washington Post, former president of the American Society of News Editors and the current president of Inter American Press Association.
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