Music · Politics · Art · 1933–2006

James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, and record producer. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is referred to by various nicknames, among them "Mr.

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Age at death: 73
Years since death: 19

Born: May 3, 1933 · Augusta, United States
Died: December 25, 2006
Nationality: American
Known for: Music, Politics, Art

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1469–1527

Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine diplomat, author, political philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance.

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1891–1940

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( buul-GAH-kof; Russian: Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков, IPA: 15 May 1891 – 10 March 1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.

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1977–2017

Maryam Mirzakhani

Maryam Mirzakhani (Persian: مریم میرزاخانی, pronounced; 12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research focused on hyperbolic geometry, dynamical systems, complex analysis, and topology.

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1933–2021

Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg (May 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021) was an American theoretical physicist.

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1919–2014

Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and social activist.

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1845–1916

Élie Metchnikoff

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (15 May 1845 – 15 July 1916), gallicised and known in Western sources as Élie Metchnikoff, was a zoologist from the Russian Empire of Moldavian noble ancestry best known for his research in immunology (study of immune systems) and thanatology (study of death).

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1889–1945

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany in the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.

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