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Laurence Olivier
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Laurence Olivier

Politician · born May 22, 1907 · died 1989

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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier was an English actor and director. He and his contemporaries John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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  1. ~32Notable work: Wuthering Heights1939
  2. ~33Notable work: Rebecca1940
  3. ~40Received the Academy Honorary Award1947
  4. ~40Named Knight Bachelor1947
  5. ~41Notable work: Hamlet1948
  6. 41Received the Academy Award for Best ActorMarch 24, 1949
  7. ~63Received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role1970
  8. ~70Received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture1977
  9. 73Received the Order of MeritFebruary 6, 1981

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Leonardo Del Vecchio

Entrepreneur · Luxottica · manufacturing

1935–2022 · Italy

$19.8Bolder estimate, as of 2019 · Forbes

Leonardo Del Vecchio was an Italian billionaire businessman, the founder and chairman of Luxottica, the world's largest producer and retailer of glasses and frames, with 77,734 employees and over 8,000 stores.

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Dustin Moskovitz
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Dustin Moskovitz

Entrepreneur · Facebook · technology

1984 · United States

$11.1Bolder estimate, as of 2019 · Forbes

Dustin Aaron Moskovitz is an American internet entrepreneur who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes.

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Ted Kaczynski
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Ted Kaczynski

Author

1942–2023 · United States

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Arthur Conan Doyle

Creator

1859–1930 · United Kingdom

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr.

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Richard Wagner
musician

Richard Wagner

Musician

1813–1883 · Kingdom of Saxony

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to as music dramas. Unlike most composers, Wagner wrote both the libretti and the music for all of his stage works.

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