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    Arthur Lee

    1945 - 2006 Male
    Songwriter, Musician, Singer
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    Arthur Lee was the frontman, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the Los Angeles rock band Love, best known for the critically acclaimed 1967 album, Forever Changes.

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    Arthur Kane

    1949 - 2004 Male
    Musician, Bass, Guitarist
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    Arthur Kane was a musician best known as the bass guitarist for the pioneering glam rock band the New York Dolls. He stated in the 2005 documentary film New York Doll that his nickname, Arthur "Killer" Kane, was inspired by the first article written about the Dolls in which the journalist described Kane's "killer bass" playing.read more

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    Arthur Brown

    Age 69 Male
    Musician, Songwriter, Singer
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    Arthur Brown is an English rock and roll musician best known for his flamboyant, theatrical style and significant influence on Alice Cooper, Peter Gabriel, Marilyn Manson, George Clinton, Kiss, King Diamond, and Bruce Dickinson, among others, and for his number one hit in the UK Singles Chart and Canada, "Fire" in 1968.read more

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    Arthur Sullivan

    1842 - 1900 Male
    Composer, Musician

    Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado.read more

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    Arthur Eve

    Age 79 Male
    New York State Politician

    Arthur O. Eve is a retired American politician who served as a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly (1967–2002) and Deputy Speaker of the Assembly (1979–2002) representing districts in Buffalo, New York. He was the first African American to win the Buffalo Mayoral Democratic Primary but was defeated in the following mayoral election.read more

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    Arthur Morris

    Age 90 Male
    Cricketer

    Arthur Robert Morris MBE is a former Australian cricketer who played 46 Test matches between 1946 and 1955. An opener, Morris is regarded as one of Australia's greatest left-handed batsmen. He is best known for his key role in Don Bradman's Invincibles side, which made an undefeated tour of England in 1948. He was the leading scorer in the Tests on the tour, with three centuries.read more

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    Arthur Evans

    1851 - 1941 Male
    Archeologist, Social Scientist, Scientist

    Sir Arthur John Evans FRS was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout eastern Mediterranean. Evans was the first to define Cretan scripts Linear A and Linear B, as well as an earlier pictographic writing.read more

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    Arthur Schopenhauer

    1788 - 1860 Male
    Philosopher

    Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the four separate manifestations of reason in the phenomenal world. Schopenhauer's most influential work, The World as Will and Representation, claimed that the world is fundamentally what humans recognize in themselves as their will.read more

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    Arthur Russell

    1951 - 1992 Male
    Cellist, Composer, Singer

    Charles Arthur Russell, Jr. was an American cellist, composer, singer, and musician whose work spanned the genres of classical, disco, experimental, folk and rock. Although he found the most commercial success in the dance music genre, Russell's career bridged New York's downtown, rock, and dance music scenes. His collaborators included Philip Glass, David Byrne, and Nicky Siano.read more

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    Arthur Sifton

    1858 - 1921 Male
    Premier of Alberta

    Arthur Lewis Watkins Sifton, PC, KC was a Canadian politician who served as the second Premier of Alberta from 1910 until 1917 and as a minister in the Government of Canada thereafter. Born in Ontario, he grew up there and in Winnipeg, where he became a lawyer. He subsequently practiced law with his brother Clifford Sifton in Brandon, Manitoba, where he was also active in municipal politics. He moved west to Prince Albert in 1885 and to Calgary in 1889.read more

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    Arthur Koestler

    1905 - 1983 Male
    British/hungarian Writer

    Arthur Koestler was a Hungarian-British author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931 Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany but, disillusioned by Stalinist atrocities, he resigned in 1938. In 1940 he published his novel Darkness at Noon, an anti-totalitarian work, which gained him international fame.read more

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    Arthur C. Clarke

    1917 - 2008 Male
    and Sri Lankan Author and Inventor

    Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS, Sri Lankabhimanya, was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.read more

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    Arthur J. Finkelstein

    Age 67 Male
    Adviser, Philosopher

    Arthur J. Finkelstein is a New York-based Republican Party (GOP) consultant who has worked for conservative candidates in the United States, Canada, Israel and Eastern Europe over the past four decades. With his brother he runs a political consulting and lobbying firm based in Irvington, New York. Finkelstein's specialties are polling, strategy, message, media, ad placement, and advising on general campaign management.read more

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    Arthur Laurents

    1918 - 2011 Male
    Playwright, Theatre Director, Screenwriter

    Arthur Laurents was an American playwright, stage director and screenwriter. After writing scripts for radio shows after college and then training films for the U.S. Army during World War II, Laurents turned to writing for Broadway, producing a body of work that includes West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959), Hallelujah, Baby! (1967) and La Cage Aux Folles (1983), and directing some of his own shows and other Broadway productions.read more

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    Arthur Currie

    1875 - 1933 Male
    General, Artilleryman, Military Person

    Sir Arthur William Currie GCMG, KCB, was a Canadian general during World War I. He had the unique distinction of starting his military career on the very bottom rung as a pre-war militia gunner before rising through the ranks to become the first Canadian commander of the four divisions of the unified Canadian Corps of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was the first Canadian to attain the rank of full general.read more

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    Arthur Godfrey

    1903 - 1983 Male
    Television Actor

    Arthur Morton Godfrey was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead.

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    Arthur

    Age 46 Male
    Producer, Comedian, Actor

    Arthur is a TV presenter, producer and comedian. After having cancelled his law studies, he began his career as a host on local radio in the Paris region in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s, he found a certain notoriety by presenting programs on Fun Radio, Europe 1 and Europe 2 (Arthur et les pirates, PlanetArthur and Radio Arthur).read more

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    Arthur Schafer

    Age 69 Male
    Ethicist

    Professor Arthur Schafer is a Canadian ethicist specializing in bioethics, philosophy of law, social philosophy and political philosophy. He is Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, at the University of Manitoba. He is also a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy and an Ethics Consultant for the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg.read more

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    Arthur Balfour

    1848 - 1930 Male
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

    Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician and statesman. He served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 1902 to December 1905, and was later Foreign Secretary in 1916–1919. Born in Scotland and educated as a philosopher, Balfour first entered parliament in the 1874 general election. At first seen as something of a dilettante, he attained prominence as Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1887–1891.read more

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    Arthur Desmond

    1859 - 1929 Male
    Politician, Reporter, Poet

    Arthur Desmond, a.k.a. Arthur Uing, Ragnar Redbeard, Richard Thurland, Desmond Dilg and Gavin Gowrie, was a New Zealand politician, Australian anarchist, poet and author. Today Desmond is best remembered for his pseudonymously written books Might Is Right and Rival Caesars.read more

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    Arthur Percival

    1887 - 1966 Male
    Army Officer

    Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival, CB, DSO & Bar, OBE, MC, OStJ, DL was a British Army officer and World War I veteran. He built a successful military career during the interwar period but is most noted for his involvement in World War II, when he commanded the forces of the British Commonwealth during the Battle of Malaya and the subsequent Battle of Singapore.read more

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    Arthur Mold

    1863 - 1921 Male
    Cricketer

    Arthur Webb Mold was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket as a fast bowler,for Lancashire between 1889 and 1901. A Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1892, he was selected for England in three Test matches in 1893. Mold, was one of the most effective bowlers in England during the 1890s. However, his career was overshadowed by controversy over his bowling action.read more

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    Arthur Lowe

    1915 - 1982 Male
    Actor

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    Arthur Adams

    Age 68 Male
    Blues Musician

    Arthur Adams is an American blues musician from Medon, Tennessee. Inspired by B.B. King and other 1950s artists, he played gospel music before attending college. He moved to Los Angeles, and during the 1960s and 1970s he released solo albums and worked as a session musician.read more

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    Arthur Gould

    1864 - 1919 Male
    Back, Contractor, Captain

    Arthur Joseph "Monkey" Gould was a Welsh international rugby union centre and full back who was most associated as a club player with Newport Rugby Football Club. He won 27 caps for Wales, 18 as captain, and is considered the first superstar of Welsh rugby. Gould led Wales to the country's very first Home Nations Championship and Triple Crown titles in 1893; defining himself as a great player and captain in the match against England during the same tournament.read more