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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]]...
77: *[[William Aberhart|Aberhart, William]], (1878-1943), Canadian politician
98: ...p://www.nyjournalnews.com/newsroom/090303/b05w03abplanalp.html] - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
14: ==== People named Adam ====
28: *[[Adamo]], (born 1943), singer
32: ===== People named Adams =====
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...Tarja Kaarina Halonen''' (born [[December 24]], [[1943]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] lawyer and politician...
18: Tarja Halonen was born on [[24 December]] [[1943]] in [[Helsinki]] in the district of [[Kallio]], ...
26: ...nion]] in the autumn of 1999 was also fresh in people's memory. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ... States|American]] [[human rights]] activist, [[diplomat]] and as the wife of [[President of the Unite...
9: ...However their marriage almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin D...
25: ...ternment camp]]s on the [[U.S. West]] Coast. In [[1943]] Mrs. Roosevelt, along with [[Wendell Willkie]] ...
29: ...|280px|Eleanor Roosevelt and Mme Chiang Kai-shek, 1943]]
33: ...eful action based on sensitive discourse among people of diverse perspectives focusing on the varied n... - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
5: ...ecame a writer instead. She changed her name in [[1943]] for ''[[Duras]]'', the name of a village in the...
7: She is the author of a great many [[novel]]s, plays, [[film]]s and short narratives, including her... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
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9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
22: ...]] to [[Universal Studios]]. Rand then wrote the play, ''[[The Night of January 16th]]'' in [[1934]] ...
26: ...er best-selling novel ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' ([[1943]]). The novel was rejected by many publishers be...
28: ...tlas Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete statement of Objectivist philosophy in any of ... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
7: ... [[1942]] with her as a squadron commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...he [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's ...
9: ...[[1905]], initially for the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]''. In [[1912]] she married [[Leonard Woolf...
13: ...e atmosphere closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work...
41: **''A Haunted House and Other Stories'' ([[1943]]) - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
5: In [[1943]] she joined the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] and was a...
7: In [[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert]]-[[John Ma...
14: In the 1970s, she pioneered the implementation of [[standards]] testing of computers, ...
38: ... is famous for her ''nanoseconds'' visual aid. People (such as generals and admirals) used to ask her ... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...e:Janis Joplin-In Concert.jpg|right|thumb|Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live ...
2: ...sional [[songwriter]] with a distinctive voice. Joplin released four [[album]]s as the frontwoman for ...
4: ... in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], though she never completed a degree. There, she began singing blues and ...
6: ...ovement was still in its infancy at this time - Joplin styled herself in part after her female blues h...
10: ...together with the Monterey performance, it made Joplin into one of the leading musical stars of the la... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
3: ... '''Roberta Joan Anderson''' on [[November 7]], [[1943]], in [[Fort Macleod, Alberta|Fort Macleod]], [[A...
5: ...garette smoker since the age of nine, which may explain the unique texture to her voice, which was esp...
11: ...ses]]'' (1972), whose title track continued her exploration of the themes of "For Free", sold well, su...
13: ..."). The album was stylistically diverse, with complex vocal harmonies set with African drumming (the ...
15: ...dominated by the lengthy part-improvised "Paprika Plains". The album received mixed reviews: some enj... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
13: ...t as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...e, where he was found among the doctors in the temple (Luke 2:41-52). Probably also during this perio...
17: ...ster Mary, and [[Mary Magdalene]], [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and other women (John 19:26). Mary cr...
19: Of the roughly 100 people in the Upper Room after the Ascension on the day...
27: ...was conceived. They took her to live in the [[Temple in Jerusalem]] when she was three years old, muc... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
7: ...house's capture, she went into hiding until early 1943 when she was put in touch with SOE agents [[Georg... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
8: ...osted to [[Kandy]], Ceylon (now [[Sri Lanka]]) in 1943, where she met her future husband Paul Cushing Ch...
10: ... to fine cuisine. She learned to cook in order to please him and entertain their large social circle. ...
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34: ...rs during a series of [[stroke]]s in 1989. The couple did not have children. - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ...'' ([[March 28]], [[1912]]–[[January 4]], [[1943]]) was a famous [[Russian]] navigator, often refe...
5: ...gnificantly in the eyes of the Soviet Union which placed its aviators among those of celebrity status,...
7: ...Komsmolosk]] (in the Far East). When finally completed, the flight took 26 hours and 29 minutes, ove...
9: ... be near the landing spot, was unable to find the plane for 10 days, having no water and almost no foo...
11: ...ictions on women serving in combat roles, their applications tended to be blocked, run through red tap... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ...quested all French-born residents of London to supply them with photographs of their home towns, Odett...
11: Odette was condemned to death in June 1943 and sent to [[Ravensbr?[[Concentration Camp]]. Sh... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
7: ...gary]]. Her father, B鬡 Szenes, a journalist and playwright, died when she was six years old. She con...
11: ...]]. February 4, 1942 she visited [[Caesarea]]. In 1943 she enlisted in the British army. In 1944 she beg...
15: ...th other prisoners with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She tried to k... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...e'''. She became celebrated especially for her exploits in [[Germany|German-occupied]] [[Poland]] and...
7: ...zy Giżycki]] {[[1899]]-[[1970]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ... into Poland. Arriving in [[Warsaw]], she vainly pleaded with her [[Jew]]ish mother to leave a [[Pola...
17: ...y General [[Colin Gubbins]] — to be, from [[1943]], head of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June ...
26: ...ents that would lead to some of her most famous exploits. - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
6: ...s a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren.
8: Upon her return to [[New York City]] in 1943 her social circle included the likes of [[Andre B...
14: ...ndover]]'' (1982). James Merrill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films.
19: *''[[Meshes of the Afternoon]]'' (1943) with [[Alexander Hammid]], music by [[Teiji Ito]...
26: *''The Witches' Cradle'' (1943) with [[Marcel Duchamp]] and Pajorita Matta - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
5: ... for the film, ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' ([[1943]]). The following year she won Best Actress for '...
9: ...e Orient Express]]'' ([[1975]]). In [[1978]] she played in [[Ingmar Bergman]]'s ''[[Autumn Sonata]]''...
13: ...art kept to be interred in the [[Norra begravningsplatsen]] in [[Stockholm]].
38: * [[For Whom the Bell Tolls]] (1943)
39: * [[Swedes in America]] (1943) (short subject)
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