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Eqbal Ahmad
1933 - 1999 (66 years)
Eqbal Ahmad was a Pakistani political scientist, writer and academic known for his anti-war activism, his support for resistance movements globally and academic contributions to the study of the Near East. Born in Bihar, British India, Ahmad migrated to Pakistan as a child and went on to study economics at the Forman Christian College. After graduating, he worked briefly as an army officer and was wounded in the First Kashmir War in 1948. He participated in the Algerian Revolution, then studied the Vietnam War and U.S. imperialism, becoming an early opponent of the war upon his return to the U.S.
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Lindsay J. Whaley
1950 - Present (74 years)
Lindsay J. Whaley is a professor of linguistics and classics at Dartmouth College He received his bachelor's degree with honors from Calvin College in 1988. He went on to the State University of New York, where he earned his master's degree and PhD .
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Jonathan Capehart
1967 - Present (57 years)
Jonathan T. Capehart is an American journalist and television commentator. He writes for The Washington Post PostPartisan blog and is host of The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC.
Go to ProfileMark Davis is an Australian investigative journalist and lawyer, best known for his work on Dateline for SBS TV, where he is currently a co-presenter and video journalist. Davis was educated at Warrandyte Primary School and then St Kevin's College in Melbourne.
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Pam Peters
1942 - Present (82 years)
Pamela Hardy Peters is an Australian linguist. She is an Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney. She is a member of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Standing Committee on Spoken English. She has published several books on Australian and international English usage, including The Cambridge Guide to English Usage and The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage . She was a member of the editorial committee of the Macquarie Dictionary.
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Kirk Hammett
1962 - Present (62 years)
Kirk Lee Hammett is an American musician who has been the lead guitarist of heavy metal band Metallica since 1983. Prior to joining Metallica, he co-formed the thrash metal band Exodus in 1979. In 2003, Hammett, along with bandmate James Hetfield, was ranked 23rd on Rolling Stones list of Greatest Guitarists of All Time. In 2009, Hammett was ranked number 15 in Joel McIver's book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists.
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Greg Phillinganes
1956 - Present (68 years)
Gregory Arthur Phillinganes is an American keyboardist. A prolific session musician, Phillinganes has contributed to numerous albums representing a broad array of artists and genres. He has toured with artists including Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour and Toto, was musical director for Michael Jackson, and has released two solo studio albums.
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Seijun Suzuki
1923 - 2017 (94 years)
Seijun Suzuki, born , was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre. His increasingly surreal style began to draw the ire of the studio in 1963 and culminated in his ultimate dismissal for what is now regarded as his magnum opus, Branded to Kill , starring notable collaborator Joe Shishido. Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal, but he was blacklisted for 10 years after that.
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Béla Drahos
1955 - Present (69 years)
Béla Drahos is a Hungarian conductor and flautist. Biography Drahos started out as a flautist, joining the orchestra in his hometown when he was just 8 years old. At the age of 12 he became the principal flautist, and as a young man he won several flute competitions. He studied at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, graduating in 1978.
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Jon Hiseman
1944 - 2018 (74 years)
Philip John Albert "Jon" Hiseman was an English drummer, recording engineer, record producer, and music publisher. He played with the Graham Bond Organisation, with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and later formed what has been described as the "seminal" jazz rock/progressive rock band, Colosseum. He later formed Colosseum II in 1975.
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McCandlish Phillips
1927 - 2013 (86 years)
John McCandlish Phillips, Jr. was an American journalist and author on religious subjects. He worked at The New York Times from 1952 to 1973 before focusing his career on evangelical Christianity. Life and career Phillips was born in Glen Cove, New York and graduated from Brookline High School in Massachusetts. He served in the United States Army from 1950 to 1952 at Fort Holabird, where he became a born-again Christian. In 1962, he helped found the New Testament Missionary Fellowship in Manhattan.
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Dodie Bellamy
1951 - Present (73 years)
Dodie Bellamy is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist, educator and editor. Her book, Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award. Her work is frequently associated with that of the New Narrative movement in San Francisco and fellow writers Robert Glück, Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, Kevin Killian, and Eileen Myles.
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Alan Wagner
1931 - 2007 (76 years)
Alan Cyril Wagner was an American television executive, radio personality, writer, and opera historian and critic. He served as the East Coast vice president of programming at CBS from 1976 to 1982. After he left CBS, he became the first president of Disney Channel, but only presiding the role for a year.
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David Antin
1932 - 2016 (84 years)
David Abram Antin was an American poet, art critic, performance artist, and university professor. Education and early career Antin was born in New York City in 1932. After graduating from Brooklyn Technical High School, he earned his B.A. from City College of New York in 1955 and his M.A. from New York University in 1966. He spent the first ten years of his career as a translator of both scientific texts and fiction, including multiple scientific text translations for Pergamon Press where he interacted frequently with the company's flamboyant founder, British publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell.
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Ulrike Zeshan
1970 - Present (54 years)
Ulrike Zeshan is a German-born linguist and academic specializing in the linguistics of signed languages. She is Professor of Sign Language Linguistics at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. Biography Zeshan obtained an MA at the University of Cologne in 1996 and her PhD in linguistics from the same institution in 2000. Between 1999 and 2006 she held two postdoctoral positions: first at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology in Canberra, Australia, and then at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen in the Netherlands. In 2006 she took up her current position as...
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John Wood
1945 - Present (79 years)
John Wood, DipAD, ADF, FRSA is Emeritus Professor of Design at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He taught many Young British Artists when he was Deputy Head of the Fine Art Department at Goldsmiths between 1978 and 1988. He has received AHRC and EPSRC funding for research into metadesign.
Go to ProfileJeffrey P. Jones is executive director of the George Foster Peabody Awards and Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabodys at the University of Georgia. Jones was appointed as only the fifth director of the program in July 2013. He is also Director of the Peabody Media Center. Jones is the author and editor of six books including Entertaining Politics: Satirical Television and Political Engagement and Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era.
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John Gould
1908 - 2003 (95 years)
John Thomas Gould was an American humorist, essayist, and columnist who wrote a column for the Christian Science Monitor for over sixty years from a farm in Lisbon Falls, Maine. He was published in most major American newspapers and magazines and wrote thirty books.
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Jerry Hey
1950 - Present (74 years)
Jerry Hey is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Michael Jackson's Thriller, Rock with You, Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough, Workin’ Day and Night and the flugelhorn solo on Dan Fogelberg's hit "Longer". Additionally, he has performed with artists such as George Benson, Nik Kershaw, Al Jarreau, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, Earth, Wind & Fire, Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra, George Duke, Lionel Richie, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Patti Au...
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Diana Krall
1964 - Present (60 years)
Diana Jean Krall is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, including over six million in the US. On December 11, 2009, Billboard magazine named her the second greatest jazz artist of the decade , establishing her as one of the best-selling artists of her time.
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Gil Scott-Heron
1949 - 2011 (62 years)
Gilbert Scott-Heron was an American jazz poet, singer, musician, and author known for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson fused jazz, blues, and soul with lyrics relative to social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles. He referred to himself as a "bluesologist", his own term for "a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues". His poem "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", delivered over a jazz-soul beat, is considered a major influence on hip hop musi...
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Herbert Lomas
1924 - 2011 (87 years)
Herbert Lomas was a British poet and translator. He served in the infantry from 1943 to 1946née Aatila Awards Guinness Poetry Competition1982 Cholmondeley AwardKnight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
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T. L. Taylor
1960 - Present (64 years)
T. L. Taylor is an American sociologist and professor. Taylor specialises in researching the culture of gaming and online communities, in particular, esports, live-streaming, and MMOGs such as EverQuest and World of Warcraft.
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Donald Nally
1960 - Present (64 years)
Donald Nally is an American conductor, chorus master, and professor of conducting, specializing in chamber choirs, opera, and new music. He is conductor of the professional new-music choir, The Crossing, based in Philadelphia. He teaches graduate students at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music.
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Paul Di Filippo
1954 - Present (70 years)
Paul Di Filippo is an American science fiction writer. He is a regular reviewer for print magazines Asimov's Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Science Fiction Eye, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Interzone, and Nova Express, as well as online at Science Fiction Weekly. He is a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop. Along with Michael Bishop, Di Filippo has published a series of novels under the pseudonym Philip Lawson.
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Jeff Porcaro
1954 - 1992 (38 years)
Jeffrey Thomas Porcaro was an American drummer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for being the co-founder and drummer of the rock band Toto but is one of the most recorded session musicians in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions. While already an established studio player in the 1970s, he came to prominence in the United States as the drummer on the Steely Dan album Katy Lied.
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Craig Flournoy
1951 - Present (73 years)
John Craig Flournoy is a journalism professor at the University of Cincinnati and a former investigative reporter for The Dallas Morning News, at which his work included coverage of the latter portion of the civil rights movement.
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Martha Argerich
1941 - Present (83 years)
Martha Argerich is an Argentine classical concert pianist. She is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time. Born and raised in Buenos Aires to Jewish-Spanish parents, Argerich gave her debut concert at eight before receiving further piano training in Europe. At an early age, she won several competitions, including the VII International Chopin Piano Competition, and has since recorded numerous albums and performed with leading orchestras worldwide.
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John Milius
1944 - Present (80 years)
John Frederick Milius is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. He was a writer for the first two Dirty Harry films, received an Academy Award nomination as screenwriter of Apocalypse Now , and wrote and directed The Wind and the Lion , Conan the Barbarian , and Red Dawn . He later served as the co-creator of the Primetime Emmy Award-winning television series Rome .
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Antoni Maria Badia i Margarit
1920 - 2014 (94 years)
Antoni Maria Badia i Margarit was a Catalan linguist and philologist who produced works on the grammar and history of the Catalan language. He was born in Barcelona. He graduated in philology or Romance languages at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1943, where he was professor of history of Catalan language and Spanish language. He was rector of Universitat de Barcelona from 1978 to 1986. He is visitor professor of several universities around the world . He is doctor honoris causa by several universities . He has been president of the Société de Linguistique Romane, president of Philology sect...
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Juan Atkins
1962 - Present (62 years)
Juan Atkins , also known as Model 500 and Infiniti, is an American record producer and DJ from Detroit, Michigan. Mixmag has described him as "the original pioneer of Detroit techno." He has been a member of The Belleville Three, Cybotron, and Borderland.
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Abul Khair Kashfi
1932 - 2008 (76 years)
Muhammad Abul Khair Kashfi was a Pakistani author, researcher, critic, linguist and scholar of Urdu literature and linguistics. Career He remained associated with the University of Karachi as Professor and chairman in the Department of Urdu from 1958 to 1994. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan. After retirement Kashfi devoted his time to writing, guiding research, public speaking and media appearances.
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William Stewart Harris
1922 - 1994 (72 years)
William Stewart Harris was a senior research fellow in anthropology in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. He was known as a journalist and Aboriginal rights advocate who also published on a range of other subjects, including Palestinian self-determination and the defence of the Builders' Labourers' Federation who had come under attack for its militant industrial actions and its campaigns on environmental and social issues. He was an outspoken opponent of Apartheid and was arrested and charged with hindering police during demonstrations against the 1...
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Alberto Lattuada
1914 - 2005 (91 years)
Mario Alberto Lattuada was an Italian film director. Career Lattuada was born in Vaprio d'Adda, the son of composer Felice Lattuada. He was initially interested in literature, becoming, while still a student, a member of the editorial staff of the antifascist fortnightly Camminare... and part of the artists' group Corrente di Vita .
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Lawrence Kasdan
1949 - Present (75 years)
Lawrence Edward Kasdan is an American filmmaker. He is the co-writer of the Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back , Return of the Jedi , The Force Awakens , and Solo: A Star Wars Story . He also co-wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Bodyguard , and is the writer-director of Body Heat , The Big Chill , Silverado , The Accidental Tourist , and Dreamcatcher . He is known for updating old Hollywood genres—film noir, science-fiction, westerns—in a classical dramatic style with quick-witted dialogue, but dealing with contemporary social themes. As a director, he has made various personal film...
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Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen is a linguist and Professor of French Language and Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK. Biography Hansen studied at the University of Copenhagen, where she received an MA in 1992, a PhD in 1996 , and a higher doctorate in 2008 . On completion of her PhD she took up an assistant professorship at the same university, and was promoted to associate professor in 2000.
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Louis Remacle
1910 - 1997 (87 years)
Louis Remacle was a linguistics professor at the University of Liège who contributed in particular to the recognition and study of the Walloon language. He also published a number of innovative collections of poetry in his local dialect.
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Motoi Sakuraba
1965 - Present (59 years)
Motoi Sakuraba is a Japanese composer and keyboardist. He is known for his numerous contributions in video games, including the Tales, Star Ocean, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Golden Sun, and Dark Souls series, as well as several other anime series, television dramas, and progressive rock albums.
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Hugh Hopper
1945 - 2009 (64 years)
Hugh Colin Hopper was a British progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist. He was a prominent member of the Canterbury scene, as a member of Soft Machine and other bands. Biography Early career Starting in 1963 as bassist with The Daevid Allen Trio, alongside drummer Robert Wyatt, he alternated between free jazz and rhythm and blues. In 1964 with Brian Hopper , Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers and Richard Sinclair he formed The Wilde Flowers, a pop music group. Although they never released any records during their existence , The Wilde Flowers are acknowledged as the founders of the Canterbur...
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Sofia Gubaidulina
1931 - Present (93 years)
Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina is a Soviet-Russian composer and an established international figure. Major orchestras around the world have commissioned and performed her works. She is considered one of the foremost Russian composers of the second half of the 20th century.
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Ron Goodwin
1925 - 2003 (78 years)
Ronald Alfred Goodwin was an English composer and conductor known for his film music. He scored over 70 films in a career lasting over fifty years. His most famous works included Where Eagles Dare, Battle of Britain, 633 Squadron, Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple films, and Frenzy.
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Laura Diaz
1958 - Present (66 years)
Laura Diaz is an American newscaster on KTTV Fox 11 in Los Angeles. She began working for the Fox station in May 2012. She had served as solo anchor of the weekday editions of CBS2 News at 6 pm from April 2010 until she left the station. She produced and hosted some "Eye on Our Community" specials for CBS2. She was previously Diaz the lead anchor at CBS2 and ABC7 in Los Angeles. She was the first Mexican-American to hold a lead anchor position at a Southern California English-language television station.
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Margo Chase
1958 - 2017 (59 years)
Margo Chase was an American graphic designer known for her eclectic and experimental design style. Chase was prolific – with a career bridging the graphic design field's transition from the analog to the digital era, working with clients ranging from Selena and Prince to Mattel and Procter & Gamble.
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Adam Green
1901 - Present (123 years)
Adam Green is an American journalist. He is Vogue magazine's theater critic. and a regular contributor to The New Yorker His work has also appeared in other publications, among them The New York Times. Before becoming a journalist, Green was a staff writer for Saturday Night Live; his other television credits include several comedy specials, among them a CBS tribute to Superman's 50th Anniversary. In the late 1980s, Green and Maura Moynihan formed the comedy duo Moynihan and Green. They performed in nightclubs around New York City and appeared in the Merchant-Ivory film Slaves of New York.
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Bruce Mitchell
1920 - 2010 (90 years)
Raymond Bruce Mitchell was a scholar of Old English. Biography Early life, Australia Mitchell was born in Lismore, New South Wales. He won a free place at the University of Melbourne but was unable to take it up and instead after leaving school at 15, worked as a student teacher while studying part-time. He earned a general Arts degree.
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Hasan Eren
1919 - 2007 (88 years)
Hasan Eren was a Turkish academic etymologist, linguist, Turkologist, and Hungarologist specializing in Turkish language, other Turkic languages, and Hungarian language who served as head of the Turkish Language Association from 1983 to 1993. He is member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1988. Eren was working on etymology of Turkish for decades. He also wrote the Dictionary of Turkish Etymology. Viktor Orbán awarded Hasan Eren by a medal for his contributions to the Hungarian language on 24 June 2000.
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John Duncan
1953 - Present (71 years)
John Duncan is an American multi-platform artist whose body of work includes performance art, installations, contemporary music, video art and experimental film, often involving the extensive use of recorded sound. His music is composed mainly of recordings from shortwave radio, field recordings and voice. His events and installations are a form of existential research, often confrontational in nature. Duncan currently lives in Bologna, Italy.
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Nigel Vincent
1947 - Present (77 years)
Nigel Vincent is a British linguist. He is Professor Emeritus of General and Romance Linguistics at the University of Manchester. He is best known for his work on morphology, syntax, and historical linguistics, with particular focus on the Romance languages.
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Norman Newell
1919 - 2004 (85 years)
Norman Newell was an English record producer, who was mainly active in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also the co-writer of many notable songs. As an A&R manager for EMI, he worked with musicians such as Shirley Bassey, Dalida, Claude François, Vera Lynn, Russ Conway, Bette Midler, Judy Garland, Petula Clark, Jake Thackray, Malcolm Roberts, Bobby Crush and Peter and Gordon.
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Robert Craft
1923 - 2015 (92 years)
Robert Lawson Craft was an American conductor and writer. He is best known for his intimate professional relationship with Igor Stravinsky, on which Craft drew in producing numerous recordings and books.
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