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| 14 April 1940 -> |
Julie Christie - stunning 1960s icon: star of "Darling", "Dr Zhivago" & "Far from the Madding Crowd" |
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| 1937-2021 |
The Everly Brothers |
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| 1927-2011 |
Peter Falk - a man born to play Lieutenant Columbo |
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| 1926-1962 |
Marilyn Monroe, iconic Hollywood superstar |
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| 1915-1998 |
Frank Sinatra: with Sammy Davis Jr. & Marlene Dietrich |
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| 1914-2000 |
Hedy Lamarr, a Hollywood star and a genius inventor |
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| 1908-1997 |
James Stewart, one of Hollywood's greatest stars, AND an airforce Major-General war hero |
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| 1908-1991 |
David Lean, the great director of masterpiece epics such as "Dr Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia" |
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| 1904-1984 |
Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic Swimming Champion and star of 12 Tarzan films |
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| 1897-1977 |
Dennis Wheatley: highly successful novelist and advisor on D-Day landings |
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| 1893-1952 |
Hattie McDaniel, the first black to win a Hollywood Oscar (for "Gone With The Wind") |
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| 1892-1972 |
Margaret Rutherford, the first Miss Marple in film |
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| 1889-1966 |
C. S. Forester (The "Hornblower" novels and much more) |
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| 1874-1942 |
Lucy Maud Montgomery: creator of "Anne of Green Gables" |
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| 1859-1930 |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the Sherlock Holmes stories |
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| 1854-1900 |
Oscar Wilde: famous playwright, raconteur, wit - and prisoner for his alleged homosexuality |
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| 1835-1910 |
Mark Twain: writer, wit and philosopher |
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| 1828-1910 |
Leo Tolstoy |
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| 1788-1899 |
Sarah Josepha Hale, author of "Mary had a little lamb" & instigator of Thanksgiving Day in the USA |
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| 1686-1758 |
Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet, playwright, publisher, and librarian of early Enlightenment |
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| 1343-1400 |
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Father of English Literature' |
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| 8th c BC |
Homer |
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