- Gareth Jones was a Welsh journalist who in March 1933 first reported in the Western world,
without equivocation and under his own name, the existence of the Soviet famine of 1932–33, including the Holodomor. Jones also became one of the first
foreign journalists to fly with Hitler as he accompanied Hitler and Joseph Goebbels to Frankfurt where he reported for the Western Mail on the new Chancellor's
tumultuous acclamation in that city. He wrote in the Welsh Western Mail that if the Richthofen had crashed the history of Europe would have changed.
He died on a "Round-the-World Fact-Finding Tour" in Mongolia where had been captured and murdered by bandits. There was a suspicion that his murder had been
engineered by the Soviet NKVD, as revenge for the embarrassment he had caused the Soviet regime.
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- Lee "Scratch" Perry is a Jamaican record producer and singer noted for his innovative studio
techniques and production style. For example in 1970, Perry produced and released the Wailers track "Mr. Brown" with its unusual use of studio effects and eerie opening highlighting his unique approach to production.
– Sources: Wikipedia - Funk Brothers were a group of Detroit-based session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown recordings from 1959 until the company moved to Los Angeles in 1972.
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- Douglas Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, which resulted in creation of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces.
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- Günter Faltin is a German economist, entrepreneur, and Professor of Economics. In 1985, he founded the Projektwerkstatt GmbH, based on the "Teekampagne" ("tea campaign"). The "Teekampagne" is the world's largest importer of Darjeeling leaf tea, according to the Tea Board of India. In 1992 Faltin launched and sponsored the reforestation project S.E.R.V.E. (“Save the Environment & Regenerate Vital Employment"); the WWF is taking charge of the project on location in Darjeeling.
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- Andreas Wetzel is a German pastor who brought the Christmas tree to the United States.
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