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    Douglas Hodge

    Age 52 Male
    Actor, Musician, Council Member
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    Douglas Hodge is an English actor, director, and musician who trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Hodge is a council member of the National Youth Theatre for whom, in 1989, he co-wrote Pacha Mama's Blessing about the Amazon rain forests staged at the Almeida Theatre.read more

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    Douglas Bruce

    Age 62 Male
    Politician, Legislator, Counsel

    Douglas Edward Bruce is a convicted felon, conservative activist and former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado. He is also known for being the author of Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR). A strict advocate for limited government, Bruce wrote and promoted TABOR, a spending limitation measure approved by Colorado voters in 1992; his name is so associated with the measure that attempts to bypass its restrictions are known as "de-Brucing.read more

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    Douglas MacArthur

    1880 - 1964 Male
    Field Marshal/general of the Army

    General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign. Arthur MacArthur, Jr. , and Douglas MacArthur were the first father and son to each be awarded the medal.read more

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    Douglas Jardine

    1900 - 1958 Male
    Amateur Cricketer

    Douglas Robert Jardine was an English cricketer and captain of the England cricket team from 1931 to 1933–34. A right-handed batsman, he played 22 Test matches for England, captaining the side in 15 of those matches, winning nine, losing one and drawing five. Jardine is best known for captaining the English team during the 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia, in which his team employed Bodyline tactics against Donald Bradman and other opposing Australian batsmen.read more

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    Douglas W. Owsley

    Age 60 Male
    Forensic Anthropologist, Archaeologist

    Douglas W. Owsley, Ph.D. is a curator and the Division Head of Physical Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). He is one of the world's most prominent and influential archaeologists and forensic anthropologists. In September 2001, he provided forensic analysis at the Pentagon and Dover Air Force Base, following the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon.read more

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    Douglas Bader

    1910 - 1982 Male
    Successful Fighter Pilot In the Royal Air Force During the Second World War.

    Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, FRAeS, DL was a Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter ace during the Second World War. He was credited with 20 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged. Bader joined the RAF in 1928, and was commissioned in 1930. In December 1931, while attempting some aerobatics, he crashed and lost both his legs.read more

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    Douglas Alexander

    Age 44 Male
    Politician and Cabinet Minister
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    Douglas Garven Alexander is a British Labour Party politician, who is currently the Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the shadow cabinet of Ed Miliband. He has held cabinet posts under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, including Secretary of State for Scotland (2006–07) and Secretary of State for International Development (2007–10).read more

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    Douglas Hurd

    Age 82 Male
    Politician
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    Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC, is a British Conservative politician and novelist, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1979 and his retirement in 1995. Born in Marlborough, Wiltshire, Hurd first entered parliament in February 1974, as MP for the Mid Oxfordshire constituency.read more

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    Douglas J. Feith

    Age 58 Male
    Politician, Lawyer

    Douglas J. Feith served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy for United States President George W. Bush from July 2001 until August 2005. His official responsibilities included the formulation of defense planning guidance and forces policy, United States Department of Defense (DoD) relations with foreign countries, and DoD's role in U.S. Government interagency policymaking. Upon his resignation, Feith joined the faculty of the Edmund A.read more

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    Douglas Adams

    1952 - 2001 Male
    Author of the Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy Series

    Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.read more

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    Douglas Wilder

    Age 81 Male
    Politician
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    Lawrence Douglas Wilder is an American politician, the first African American to be elected as governor of Virginia, and the first to serve as governor of a U.S. state. Wilder served as the 66th Governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. When earlier elected as Lieutenant Governor, he was the first African American elected to statewide office in Virginia. His most recent political office was Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, which he held from 2005 to 2009.read more

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    Douglas Carswell

    Age 41 Male
    Member of Parliament, Politician, Speaker
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    John Douglas Wilson Carswell is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton, having been first elected as MP for Harwich in 2005. He found prominence by calling for reform of parliamentary expenses before the 2009 expenses scandal, and leading the campaign to eject Michael Martin as Speaker of the House of Commons.read more

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    Douglas Devananda

    Age 54 Male
    Politician, Cabinet Minister

    Kathiravelu Nithyananda Devananda, commonly known as Douglas Devananda, is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician, Cabinet Minister and leader of the Eelam People's Democratic Party. Originally a Sri Lanka Tamil militant who fought against the Sri Lankan government for an independent Tamil Eelam, he became a pro-government paramilitary leader and politician.read more

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    Douglas Coupland

    Age 50 Male
    Novelist, Short Story Writer, Playwright, and Graphic Designer
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    Douglas Coupland (born December 30, 1961) is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and Generation X.read more

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    Douglas Rushkoff

    Age 51 Male
    Writer, American Media Theorist
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    Douglas Rushkoff is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems. Rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media theorist, and known for coining terms and concepts including viral media (or media virus), digital native, and social currency.read more

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    Douglas Kent Hall

    1938 - 2008 Male
    Writer, Photographer

    Douglas Kent Hall was an American writer and photographer. Hall was a fine art photographer and writer of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, essays, and screenplays. He was in high school when he first published a story, his first published photographs were of Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, and his first exhibition of photographs was at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He published twenty-five books, including two with Arnold Schwarzenegger.read more

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    Douglas Kmiec

    Age 60 Male
    Politician, Scholar, Ambassador

    Douglas W. Kmiec (born September 24, 1951) is an American legal scholar, author, and former U.S. ambassador. He is the Caruso Family Chair and Professor of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University School of Law. Kmiec came to prominence during the United States presidential election, 2008 when, although a Republican, he endorsed Democrat Barack Obama. In July 2009, he was nominated by President Obama to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Malta.read more

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    Douglas Trumbull

    Age 70 Male
    Supervisor, Director
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    Douglas Huntley Trumbull is an American film director, special effects supervisor, and inventor. He contributed to, or was responsible for, the special photographic effects of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner and The Tree of Life, and directed the movies Silent Running and Brainstorm.read more

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    Douglas Hogg

    Age 67 Male
    Politician

    Douglas Martin Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham PC, QC is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1995-97, and was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2010.read more

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    Douglas Romayne

    Age 37 Male
    Composer, Conductor, Orchestrator

    Douglas Romayne is a composer writing music for moving pictures. He is Irish, Scottish and Croatian and works out of his home production studio in Venice, California. Romayne studied music and advanced orchestration at the University of Chicago and DePaul University with Cliff Colnot, Chicago Symphony Orchestra new music conductor and took private composition studies with composer Hans Wurman, father of Alex Wurman.read more

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    Douglas Fraser

    1916 - 2008 Male
    Actor, Adjunct, Labor Leader

    Douglas Andrew Fraser was an American union leader. He was president of the United Auto Workers from 1977 to 1983, and an adjunct professor of labor relations at Wayne State University for many years. He is best remembered for helping to save Chrysler from bankruptcy in 1979 by heavily lobbying Congress for a financial bailout.read more

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    Douglas Engelbart

    Age 87 Male
    Inventing

    Douglas Carl Engelbart is an American inventor, and an early computer and internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on the challenges of human-computer interaction, resulting in the invention of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs. He is a committed, vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world’s increasingly urgent and complex problems.read more

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    Douglas Arthur Teed

    1860 - 1929 Male
    Painter, Founder

    Douglas Arthur Teed was an American painter. He was the only son of the founder of Estero, FL and self-proclaimed messiah, Dr. Cyrus Teed. Douglas Arthur Teed.

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    Douglas Forrester

    Age 59 Male
    Politician, Businessman, Campaigner

    Douglas Forrester is an American businessman in New Jersey. He was the 2002 Republican nominee for New Jersey U.S. Senator and the 2005 Republican nominee for Governor of New Jersey. Forrester was defeated by his two Democratic opponents, Frank Lautenberg and then-U.S. Senator Jon Corzine, respectively. Forrester currently serves as the president of Integrity Health, a health benefits management firm.read more

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    Douglas Fairbanks

    1883 - 1939 Male
    Actor, Producer, Screenwriter, Director

    Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro. An astute businessman, Fairbanks was a founding member of United Artists. Fairbanks was also a founding member of The Motion Picture Academy and hosted the first Oscars Ceremony in 1929.read more