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Actress
USA
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She
was born on April 27, 1953 in Norwich, Connecticut.
She is an American-born singer and actress working
primarily in the Cinema of France. Her breakthrough
role in France was Eric Rohmer's "Pauline at
the Beach" and Alain Robbe-Grillet's ''The Blue
Villa. Although born in the U.S., she was raised
in Mexico by her grandparents after her mother
died, where her grandfather served as the French
Ambassador. She eventually went to live in France
with her grandmother and embarked on a singing
career and acting and in film. She has appeared
in several Hollywood English-language productions
but most of her acting work has been in the
French language as are her music albums. She
is married to French philosopher and writer,
Bernard-Henri Lévy.
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DJ
France
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His
real name is Christophe LeFriant. He was born
in 1967. He is a French record producer, DJ,
remixer and owner of the label Yellow Productions.
He started DJing in 1986, when he was just 18
years old, specializing in funk and hip-hop
music, with the name Chris The French Kiss.
His first club hit was "Gym Tonic", a collaboration
with Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk, featuring
vocals illegally taken from a Jane Fonda fitness
tape. The persona was based on a character from
Philippe de Broca's film Le Magnifique.
In 2005 he scored a hit with the single "Love
Generation", that reached #1 on the Australian
ARIA Singles Charts and the German Media Control
Single Charts in 2006. The followup hit was
"World, Hold On", that features Steve Edwards
and also managed to chart in the top ten in
most of the European countries. "Rock This Party
(Everybody Dance Now)" followed on August 22,
2006.
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Politician
United-Kingdom
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He
was born on February 7, 1478 — July 6, 1535.
He was an English lawyer, author, statesman,
and a Catholic martyr. During his lifetime he
earned a reputation as a leading humanist scholar
at Oxford university and occupied many public
offices, including that of Lord Chancellor from
1529 to 1532. He is recognised as having a major
influence on developing equity as an additional
legal system in English law. More coined the
word "utopia", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary
island nation whose political system he described
in a book published in 1516. He is chiefly remembered
for his principled refusal to accept King Henry
VIII's claim to be the supreme head of the Church
of England, a decision which ended his political
career and led to his execution as a traitor.
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Autority
Poland

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He
was born Karol Józef Wojtyla on May 18, 1920
in Wadowice in southern Poland – April 2, 2005.
He became the 264th Pope according to the chronological
List of popes. At only 58 years of age, he was
the youngest pope elected since Pope Pius IX
in 1846. Like his immediate predecessor, he
dispensed with the traditional Papal coronation
and instead received ecclesiastical investiture
with the simplified Papal inauguration on October
22, 1978. travelled extensively and came into
contact with believers from many divergent faiths.
He constantly attempted to find common ground,
both doctrinal and dogmatic. At the World Day
of Prayer, held in Assisi on October 27, 1986,
more than 120 representatives of different religions
and Christian denominations spent a day together
with fasting and praying.
On 9 May 2005 Benedict XVI began the beatification
process for his predecessor.
Normally five years must pass after a person's
death before the beatification process can begin.
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