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Post by whatagain on May 30, 2019 11:03:01 GMT
James Somerville. U.K. Admiral. Attacked the french fleet at mers El Kebir. Then protected Malta. Later attacked Vichy forces in Madagascar.
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Post by questa on May 30, 2019 12:01:43 GMT
Reinhold Messner Italian mountaineer, adventurer, explorer, and author
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Post by bjd on May 30, 2019 14:29:00 GMT
Reinhard Heydrich Nasty Nazi eventually assassinated in Prague in 1942
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Post by kerouac2 on May 30, 2019 15:49:29 GMT
Warren G. Harding - American president who died after only two years.
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Post by mossie on May 30, 2019 18:29:37 GMT
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Post by whatagain on May 30, 2019 20:56:11 GMT
Gad Elmaleh. French humorist.
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Post by questa on May 30, 2019 23:57:49 GMT
Della Reese American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister whose career spanned seven decades.
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Post by bjd on May 31, 2019 8:14:44 GMT
Della Street Perry Mason's secretary
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Post by kerouac2 on May 31, 2019 13:22:01 GMT
Ladislas de Hoyos - French TV news anchorman in the 1980's
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Post by mossie on May 31, 2019 15:24:01 GMT
Vladimir Putin - top dog in Russia
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 1, 2019 13:54:29 GMT
Miranda Otto - Australian actress who became famous by playing a cross-dressing princess in the films of The Lord of the Rings
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Post by bjd on Jun 1, 2019 15:00:53 GMT
Randy Newman American singer and songwriter
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Post by amboseli on Jun 1, 2019 15:19:23 GMT
Andy García - Cuban-American actor
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 2, 2019 3:45:51 GMT
Joan of Arc - French heroine
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Post by bjd on Jun 2, 2019 5:45:20 GMT
Joan Miró Spanish painter
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 2, 2019 7:24:52 GMT
Hirohito - emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989
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Post by questa on Jun 2, 2019 9:50:07 GMT
Rohan Dennis Australian professional road racing cyclist.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 2, 2019 9:59:40 GMT
Johan Friend of pirlouit. The first to encounter a Mage and his blue friends. Called the schtroumpfs- Smurfs in English. Smurfen in Dutch.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 2, 2019 10:27:39 GMT
Hanif Mohammad- outstanding Pakistani Test batsman of the 1950’s
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Post by bjd on Jun 2, 2019 11:31:48 GMT
Hanif Kureishi British writer
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 2, 2019 14:33:50 GMT
Diane Kurys - French film director
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 2, 2019 15:19:50 GMT
Kurt Vonnegut- American writer of Slaughterhouse-five among others.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 2, 2019 16:58:06 GMT
Bonnie Tyler - Welsh singer who had a total eclipse of the heart but still alive at age 67
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Post by whatagain on Jun 3, 2019 18:27:58 GMT
Talleyrand. Minister of international relations under Napoleon (also before but not after). Was a key character of the period.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 4, 2019 4:42:07 GMT
Marlon Brando - American actor
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Post by questa on Jun 4, 2019 13:18:40 GMT
Anthony James Donegan MBE, known as Lonnie Donegan, was a British skiffle singer, songwriter and musician, referred to as the "King of Skiffle",
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Post by amboseli on Jun 4, 2019 15:46:11 GMT
Erich Honecker - German politician who was the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
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Post by whatagain on Jun 4, 2019 16:37:42 GMT
Kermitterand. Cross over between Kermit the frog and président Mitterand. In the bébête show - french parody of politicians for at least a decade. PCF leader Marchais was piggy ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 4, 2019 17:14:32 GMT
(Ah, the Belgians will never learn to spell Mitterrand properly... *sigh*)
Liliane Bettencourt - French billionaire, head of the L'Oréal-Lancôme empire until her death in 2017
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Post by amboseli on Jun 4, 2019 20:56:40 GMT
(The Belgians? One Belgian!)
Lilian Baels - Mary Lilian Henriette Lucie Josephine Ghislaine Baels, princess of Belgium, second wife of the Belgian king Leopold III
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