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Top 10: People who would've turned 100 this year |
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Lucille Desiree Ball Lucille Desiree Ball was an American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms 'I Love Lucy', 'The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour', 'The Lucy Show', 'Here's Lucy' and 'Life With Lucy'. One of the most popular and influential stars in America during her lifetime, with one of Hollywood's longest careers, especially on television, Ball began acting in the 1930s, becoming both a radio actress and B-movie star in the 1940s, and then a television star during the 1950s. |
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Lee Falk Leon Harrison Gross, better known by the alias of Lee Falk, was an American writer, director and producer, best known as the creator of the popular comic strip superheroes 'The Phantom' and 'Mandrake the Magician', who at the height of their popularity attracted over a hundred million readers every day. Falk also contributed to a series of pulp novels about The Phantom. A playwright and theatrical director/producer, Falk directed actors such as Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Chico Marx, and Ethel Waters. |
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Pannalal Ghosh Pannalal Ghosh, also known as Amal Jyoti Ghosh, was an Indian flute player and composer. He was a disciple of Allauddin Khan, and is credited with giving the flute its status in Hindustani classical music. |
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Nagarjun was a major Hindi and Maithili poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, literary biographies and travelogues, and was known as Janakavi - the People's Poet. |