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Richard Wiese
1953 - Present (71 years)
Richard Wiese is a German linguist, with academic degrees from the universities of Bielefeld and Düsseldorf. Since 1996, he is a professor of German Linguistics at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, now retired. He has also worked at the universities of Bielefeld, Kassel, TU Berlin, and Düsseldorf.
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Adam Cohen
1962 - Present (62 years)
Adam Seth Cohen is an American journalist, author, lawyer, and former assistant editorial page editor of The New York Times. He also worked in the administration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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Renata Adler
1938 - Present (86 years)
Renata Adler is an American author, journalist, and film critic. Adler was a staff writer-reporter for The New Yorker, and in 1968–69, she served as chief film critic for The New York Times. She is also a writer of fiction.
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J. J. Cale
1938 - 2013 (75 years)
John Weldon "J. J." Cale was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Though he avoided the limelight, his influence as a musical artist has been acknowledged by figures such as Mark Knopfler, Neil Young, Waylon Jennings, and Eric Clapton, who described him as one of the most important artists in rock history. He is one of the originators of the Tulsa sound, a loose genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country, and jazz.
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Maynard Ferguson
1928 - 2006 (78 years)
Walter Maynard Ferguson CM was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader. He came to prominence in Stan Kenton's orchestra before forming his own big band in 1957. He was noted for his bands, which often served as stepping stones for up-and-coming talent, his versatility on several instruments, and his ability to play in a high register.
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Mark Zusman
1954 - Present (70 years)
Mark Zusman is the editor and publisher of Willamette Week, an alternative newspaper and media company based in Portland, Oregon. He has been the paper's editor since 1983, and became its publisher in 2015, when Richard Meeker stepped down from that position.
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Amira Nowaira
1950 - Present (74 years)
Amira Nowaira is an Egyptian academic, translator, columnist and author. She gained her doctorate in English literature from Birmingham University. She has served as chair of the English department at Alexandria University, and is currently a professor there. She has published a number scholarly books and journal articles. More recently, she has contributed journalistic pieces to The Guardian. Apart from her own books, Nowaira has also done translations, both from Arabic to English and from English to Arabic .
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Benny Golson
1929 - Present (95 years)
Benny Golson is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launching his solo career. Golson is known for co-founding and co-leading The Jazztet with trumpeter Art Farmer in 1959. From the late 1960s through the 1970s Golson was in demand as an arranger for film and television and thus was less active as a performer, but he and Farmer re-formed the Jazztet in 1982.
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David Neil MacKenzie
1926 - 2001 (75 years)
David Neil MacKenzie FBA was a scholar of Iranian languages. Biography Neil MacKenzie was born in London in 1926 and attended a succession of schools in Southern England. In 1943, aged 17, he enlisted in the British Army. In 1945 and 1946 he served as a soldier on the North-West Frontier Province of British India, where he learned Pashto. Thus acquainted with Iranian languages, he acquired a Bachelor's degree in New Persian and a Master's degree in Old- and Middle Persian at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. His PhD dissertation, Kurdish Dialect Studies...
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Brad Wood
1964 - Present (60 years)
Brad Wood is an American record producer based in Los Angeles. He has produced many albums, including Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville and Placebo's self-titled debut. Career Wood is from Rockford, Illinois. In 1988, Wood, along with Brian Deck and Daniel Sonis, built Idful Music Corporation recording studio in Chicago's Wicker Park. While at Idful he recorded and produced hundreds of records, including Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville, Veruca Salt's American Thighs, Ben Lee's Grandpaw Would, Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary and LP2, and albums by Red Red Meat, Seam, That Dog, and others. In addition t...
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Hans Eberstark
1929 - 2001 (72 years)
Hans Eberstark was an Austrian linguist and translator, known as a mental calculator, multilinguist and interpreter. Life Eberstark often lectured on language and translation in Europe and was known for asking someone whose first language was a small local dialect of German to speak with him ; after a few minutes Eberstark would suddenly start speaking fluently in that dialect.
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Alastair Pennycook
1957 - Present (67 years)
Alastair Pennycook is an applied linguist. He is Emeritus Professor of Language, Society and Education at the University of Technology Sydney, and a Research Professor at the Centre for Multilingualism in Society Across the Lifespan at the University of Oslo. He was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2016.
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George Roy Hill
1921 - 2002 (81 years)
George Roy Hill was an American film director. He is most noted for directing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting , both starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Hill is also known for directing The World of Henry Orient , Hawaii , Thoroughly Modern Millie , Slaughterhouse-Five , The Great Waldo Pepper , Slap Shot , A Little Romance , The World According to Garp and his final film Funny Farm . According to one obituary "few directors achieved such fame and success... even fewer enjoyed such eminence for such a short period of time."
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Acker Bilk
1929 - 2014 (85 years)
Bernard Stanley "Acker" Bilk, was an English clarinetist and vocalist known for his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register style, and distinctive appearance – of goatee, bowler hat and striped waistcoat.
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John Surman
1944 - Present (80 years)
John Douglas Surman is an English jazz saxophone, clarinet, and synthesizer player, and composer of free jazz and modal jazz, often using themes from folk music. He has composed and performed music for dance performances and film soundtracks.
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Shirley Brice Heath
1939 - Present (85 years)
Shirley Brice Heath is an American linguistic anthropologist, and Professor Emerita, Margery Bailey Professorship in English, at Stanford University. She graduated from Lynchburg College, Ball State University, and Columbia University, with a Ph.D. in 1970. She is a Brown University professor-at-large, and a visiting research professor at the Watson Institute.
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Keith Forsey
1948 - Present (76 years)
Keith Forsey is an English pop musician and record producer. Early life Forsey began his career as a percussionist in the mid-late 1960s as the drummer for The Spectrum and as the drummer in Udo Lindenberg's Panik Orchester until 1976, during which he also played percussion for Amon Düül II. By late 1970s, he was a pioneer of disco, working with artists such as Lipstique, Claudja Barry, La Bionda, the Italo disco pioneers and Boney M. He became Giorgio Moroder's drummer and played on records by Donna Summer, including Bad Girls, and Sparks' "No. 1 in Heaven." Forsey's own band, Trax, a collaboration with Pete Bellotte, was not as popular.
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Kenneth C. Laudon
1944 - 2019 (75 years)
Kenneth C. Laudon was a professor of Information Systems at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Life and work Kenneth Laudon graduated from Stanford University and has a Ph.D from Columbia University.
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Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo
1967 - Present (57 years)
Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo is an Ivoirian-born Canadian poet and journalist. She has won the Trillium Book Award and been nominated for the Ottawa Book Award. Biography She was born in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and raised in Upper Volta. She was an avid reader as a child, and was encouraged by her local librarian who eventually taught her as his assistant, which allowed her access to more books than she would normally be allowed. She wrote her first poem around the age of 11 to 12, after being influenced by her brother Francis, who would go on to be a well known poet in Côte d'Ivoire. Her first p...
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Peter Schickele
1935 - Present (89 years)
Peter Schickele is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, but which he presents as being composed by the fictional P. D. Q. Bach. He also hosted a long-running weekly radio program called Schickele Mix.
Go to ProfileBabylas Boton is an African journalist and political presenter. He is the anchor for the channel Africa 24 which is broadcast across much of western and central Africa. He regularly interviews political figures and representatives from various French-speaking African nations whether it is Sidya Toure of Guinea, Jean-Louis Billon of Côte d'Ivoire or Isabelle Ameganvi of Togo etc. His native language is French.
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Richard Brooks
1912 - 1992 (80 years)
Richard Brooks was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and film producer. Nominated for eight Oscars in his career, he was best known for Blackboard Jungle , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Elmer Gantry , In Cold Blood and Looking for Mr. Goodbar .
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Harald Burger
1940 - Present (84 years)
Harald Burger is a Swiss-German linguist. He received his Ph.D. in 1964 at the University of Zurich. . In 1975 Burger was appointed full professor of Germanic philology. In 1990 Harald Burger was naturalized in Switzerland. In 2006 he became professor emeritus.
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Conway Twitty
1933 - 1993 (60 years)
Harold Lloyd Jenkins , better known by his stage name Conway Twitty, was an American singer and songwriter. Initially a part of the 1950s rockabilly scene, Twitty was best known as a country music performer. From 1971 to 1976, Twitty received a string of Country Music Association awards for duets with Loretta Lynn. He was inducted into both the Country Music and Rockabilly Halls of Fame.
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Carola Häggkvist
1966 - Present (58 years)
Carola Maria Häggkvist , commonly known simply as Carola, is a Swedish pop singer. She has been among Sweden's most popular performers since the early 1980s and has released albums ranging from pop and disco to hymns and folk music. Her debut album, Främling , sold around one million copies and remains the biggest-selling album in Swedish music history. She has also worked as a songwriter. During her career, she has recorded many top-selling albums and singles and is referred to as Sweden's most prominent female singer. Some of her biggest hits are "Främling", "Tommy tycker om mig", "Fångad av en stormvind", "All the Reasons to Live", "I Believe in Love", "Genom allt", and "Evighet".
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Meredith Davis
1948 - Present (76 years)
Meredith Davis is an educator, writer and graphic designer. Her work centers for advocating for a comprehensive, critical and challenging design education. Career Davis graduated from The Pennsylvania State University in 1970, receiving her BS in art education and her MEd in 1974. She began her career teaching middle-school art. In 1975, she received her MFA in design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. While at Cranbrook, she received a grant to develop the Michigan curriculum to introduce students to communication, objects and environments through design thinking. The curriculum research cul...
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Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
1943 - Present (81 years)
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen is an American linguist and distinguished professor from the University of Helsinki. Couper-Kuhlen is regarded as an important figure in the development of interactional linguistics and the study of prosody in conversation, through a number of books co-edited with Margret Selting: the 1996 book Prosody in Conversation, the 2001 book Studies in Interactional Linguistics also co-edited with Selting, and the textbook Interactional Linguistics. Her book Building Responsive Action written together with Barbara Fox and Sandra Thompson received the best book award from the I...
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Gerry Philipsen
1944 - Present (80 years)
Gerry Philipsen , Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of Washington is an American academic and ethnographer of communication. Philipsen's research treats communicative acts as occurring within cultural, social and small group settings. He is most noted for developing speech code theory a framework for communication in a given speech community. Speech code theory explores the manner in which groups communicate based on societal, cultural, gender, occupational or other factors. Philipsen received recognition for his lifetime achievement from the National Communication Association.
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Peter Baker
1967 - Present (57 years)
Peter Eleftherios Baker is an American journalist and author. He is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC, and was previously a reporter for The Washington Post for 20 years. Baker has covered five presidencies, from Bill Clinton through Joe Biden.
Go to ProfileMatt Jones is the co-author - with Gary Marsden - of Mobile Interaction Design and a full research Professor at Swansea University. With the late Marsden and Simon Robinson he authored a new book in 2015 - There's Not an App for That . He is an active researcher and has organized large scale of scientific conferences such as ACM CHI 2014. He has also edited several special issues of journals including an ACM ToCHI journal special issue on social issues and the "turn to the wild".
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Renato Corsetti
1941 - Present (83 years)
Renato Corsetti is an Italian Esperantist who served as President of the Universal Esperanto Association between 2001 and 2007. Born in Rome, Corsetti supports the idea that the people of the world should be able to communicate in a neutral and easy international language. He teaches psycholinguistics at the Sapienza University of Rome. He also is an associate professor at the International Academy of Sciences San Marino.
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Andrew Powell
1949 - Present (75 years)
Andrew Powell is an English musical composer, arranger and performer, born of Welsh parents. He moved to Wales in 2003. Early life Powell was born in Surrey, England. He began piano lessons at the age of four and later attended King's College School, Wimbledon, by which time he was also learning viola, violin and orchestral percussion. He was writing music by the age of eleven and later studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen and György Ligeti at Darmstadt in Germany, before taking a music master's degree at King's College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he joined an electronic music gr...
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Leonard Stein
1916 - 2004 (88 years)
Leonard David Stein was a musicologist, pianist, conductor, university teacher, and influential in promoting contemporary music on the American West Coast. He was for years Arnold Schoenberg's assistant, music director of the Schoenberg Institute at USC, and among the foremost authorities on Schoenberg's music. He was also an influential teacher in the lives of many younger composers, such as the influential minimalist La Monte Young.
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Goran Bregović
1950 - Present (74 years)
Goran Bregović is a recording artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Slavic-speaking countries in the Balkans, and is one of the few former Yugoslav musicians who has performed at major international venues such as Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall and L'Olympia.
Go to ProfileEthan F. Becker is an author, executive, and speech coach. Early life Becker graduated from Fitchburg State University in 1993 from a degree in mass communication, before beginning a career in marketing. While working as the marketing director at Media 100, he created a prototype video streaming service in the late-1990s during a partnership with Canon, a service that was sold to Autodesk.
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Melvin Claxton
1958 - Present (66 years)
Melvin L. Claxton is an American journalist, author, and entrepreneur. He has written about crime, corruption, and the abuse of political power. He is best known for his 1995 series of investigative reports on corruption in the criminal justice system in the U.S. Virgin Islands and its links to the region's crime rate. His series earned the Virgin Islands Daily News the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1995. Another series by Claxton, this time on the criminal justice system in Detroit, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003. Claxton has won a number of national r...
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Béla H. Bánáthy
1919 - 2003 (84 years)
Béla Heinrich Bánáthy was a Hungarian-American linguist, and Professor at San Jose State University and UC Berkeley. He is known as founder of the White Stag Leadership Development Program, established the International Systems Institute in 1982, and was co-founder of the General Evolutionary Research Group in 1984.
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Stewart Purvis
1901 - Present (123 years)
Stewart Peter Purvis CBE is a British broadcaster, broadcasting executive, author and academic. Purvis is married with three children. Education Purvis was educated at Southville School, a state primary in Feltham, West London then Dulwich College, an independent school for boys in Dulwich in South London. He graduated with a BA in Politics from the University of Exeter.
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Sheldon Harnick
1924 - 2023 (99 years)
Sheldon Mayer Harnick was an American lyricist and songwriter best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on musicals such as Fiorello!, She Loves Me, and Fiddler on the Roof. Early life Sheldon Mayer Harnick was born to American Jewish parents Esther and Harry M. Harnick, a dentist, in Chicago on April 30, 1924. He grew up in the Chicago neighborhood of Portage Park. He took an interest in music from an early age, playing the violin as a child. He began writing music while a student at Carl Schurz High School.
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Vilen Komissarov
1924 - 2005 (81 years)
Professor Vilen Naumovich Komissarov has gained recognition in Russia and beyond its borders as an authority on translation theory and methods of translator training . He was also Head of the Department of Translation Theory, History and Criticism at Moscow State Linguistic University, and has a record of half a century of research and teaching in this field, as well as of practical work as a conference interpreter and translator.
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Irene McAra-McWilliam
Irene Helen McAra-McWilliam, is a design researcher and academic, specialising in design innovation. She was the interim Director of the Glasgow School of Art from November 2018 to May 2020, having been head of its School of Design from 2005. She stood down from the role in 2020, becoming Deputy Director. Penny Macbeth became the new Director following her.
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Larry Coryell
1943 - 2017 (74 years)
Larry Coryell was an American jazz guitarist. Early life Larry Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas, United States. He never knew his biological father, a musician. He was raised by his stepfather Gene, a chemical engineer, and his mother Cora, who encouraged him to learn piano when he was four years old.
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Peter Yates
1929 - 2011 (82 years)
Peter James Yates was an English film director and producer. He is known for directing such films as Bullitt , John and Mary , The Friends of Eddie Coyle , Breaking Away , and The Dresser . He received nominations for four Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Tito Puente
1923 - 2000 (77 years)
Ernest Anthony Puente Jr. , commonly known as Tito Puente, was an American musician, songwriter, bandleader, timbalero, and record producer. He composed dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz music. Puente and his music have appeared in films including The Mambo Kings and Fernando Trueba's Calle 54. He guest-starred on television shows, including Sesame Street and The Simpsons two-part episode "Who Shot Mr. Burns?".
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David Abercrombie
1909 - 1992 (83 years)
David Abercrombie was a British phonetician who established the Department of Phonetics at the University of Edinburgh. He was a student of J. R. Firth and Daniel Jones. He retired as Professor of Phonetics in 1980 and died in Edinburgh at the age of 82.
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Jack Clayton
1921 - 1995 (74 years)
Jack Isaac Clayton was a British film director and producer who specialised in bringing literary works to the screen. Overview Starting out as a teenage studio "tea boy" in 1935, Clayton worked his way up through British film industry in a career that spanned nearly sixty years. He rapidly rose through a series of increasingly important roles in British film production, before shooting to international prominence as a director with his Oscar-winning feature film debut, the drama Room at the Top . This was followed by the much-lauded horror film The Innocents , based on Henry James's The Turn ...
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Ranko Bugarski
1933 - Present (91 years)
Ranko Bugarski is a Serbian linguist, academic and author. Life and career He was born on 1 January 1933 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, where he completed his secondary education and graduated in English and German languages and literatures at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo . After working for three years as a teacher of English at the Institute of Foreign Languages in his hometown, he was appointed by the Department of English, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade as a teaching assistant , to progress through the academic hierarchy to the rank of Professor of English . I...
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Brad Paisley
1972 - Present (52 years)
Bradley Douglas Paisley is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Starting with his 1999 debut album Who Needs Pictures, he has released twelve studio albums and a Christmas compilation on the Arista Nashville label, with all of his albums certified Gold or higher by the RIAA. He has scored 35 Top 10 singles on the US Billboard Country Airplay chart, 20 of which have reached number one. He set a new record in 2009 for the most consecutive singles reaching the top spot on that chart.
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Birgit Nilsson
1918 - 2005 (87 years)
Märta Birgit Nilsson was a Swedish dramatic soprano. Although she sang a wide repertoire of operatic and vocal works, Nilsson was best known for her performances in the operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. Her voice was noted for its overwhelming force, bountiful reserves of power, and the gleaming brilliance and clarity in the upper register.
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