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The list 20th-century zoologists includes Steve Irwin, Peter Cushing, Ian Fleming, Dian Fossey and Marlin Perkins. The list consists of 1,865 members and 35 sublists.

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  • 1.

    Peter Cushing
    English actor
    Peter Cushing
    Overview: Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994), was an English actor best known for his roles in the Hammer Productions horror films of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, and as Grand Moff Tarkin ...
    Date of birth: 26 May 1913
    Date of death: 11 August 1994
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' (183 cm)
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    Philosophical theists 22T
    People associated with the Vegetarian Society 46T
    Best Actor BAFTA Award (television) winners 55T
  • 2.

    Steve Irwin
    Australian zookeeper, conservationist and television personality (1962–2006)
    Steve Irwin
    Overview: Stephen Robert Irwin (22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006), nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian zookeeper, conservationist, television personality, wildlife expert, and environmentalist ...
    Date of birth: 22 February 1962
    Date of death: 4 September 2006
    Age: 44 (age at death)
    Nationality: Australian
    Occupation: TV Personality
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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    Steve Irwin 5T
    20th-century Australian zoologists 140T
    Q150 Icons 30T
  • 3.

    Marlin Perkins
    American zoologist
    Marlin Perkins
    Overview: Richard Marlin Perkins (March 28, 1905 – June 14, 1986) was an American zoologist. He was best known as a host of the television program Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom from 1963 to 1985.
    Date of birth: 28 March 1905
    Date of death: 14 June 1986
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Biologist
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    Reptile attack victims 6T
    Scientists from St. Louis 65T
    Zoo directors 55T
  • 4.

    Ian Fleming
    British author (1908–1964)
    Ian Fleming
    Overview: Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy ...
    Date of birth: 28 May 1908
    Date of death: 12 August 1964
    Age: 56 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' (183 cm)
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    Collectors from London 23T
    Military personnel from London 979T
    20th-century British short story writers 287T
  • 5.

    Hugo Van Lawick
    Dutch film director
    Hugo Van Lawick
    Overview: Hugo Arndt Rodolf, Baron van Lawick (10 April 1937 – 2 June 2002) was a Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer.
    Date of birth: 10 April 1937
    Date of death: 2 June 2002
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: Dutch
    Occupation: Photographer
    Gender: Male
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    Barons of the Netherlands 36T
    Jane Goodall 13T
    People from Surabaya 155T
  • 6.

    Dian Fossey
    American zoologist
    Dian Fossey
    Overview: Dian Fossey (, January 16, 1932 – c.) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her 1985 murder. She studied ...
    Date of birth: 16 January 1932
    Date of death: 26 December 1985
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century American women scientists 967T
    1980s murders in Rwanda 1T
    1985 murders in Africa 6T
  • 7.

    Percy Edwards
    British, Actor
    Percy Edwards
    Overview: Percy Edwards MBE (1 June 1908 – 7 June 1996) was an English animal impersonator, entertainer and ornithologist.
    Date of birth: 1 June 1908
    Date of death: 7 June 1996
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    Entertainers from Ipswich 6T
    Scientists from Ipswich 7T
    20th-century British zoologists 463T
  • 8.

    Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author
    Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    Overview: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC (, , 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied ...
    Date of birth: 11 June 1910
    Date of death: 25 June 1997
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Explorer
    Gender: Male
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    Pipe smokers 77T
    20th-century French inventors 87T
    20th-century French biologists 16T
  • 9.

    Eric Morecambe
    English comedian (1926–1984)
    Eric Morecambe
    Overview: John Eric Bartholomew, OBE (14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984), known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the double act Morecambe and Wise. The partnership ...
    Date of birth: 14 May 1926
    Date of death: 28 May 1984
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Comic
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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    Best Entertainment Performance BAFTA Award (television) winners 32T
    20th-century English comedians 250T
    British male comedy actors 243T
  • 10.

    Alfred Kinsey
    American scientist
    Alfred Kinsey
    Overview: Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956) was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana U ...
    Date of birth: 23 June 1894
    Date of death: 25 August 1956
    Age: 62 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Biologist
    Gender: Male
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    Writers on LGBT topics 8T
    Bussey Institution alumni 13T
    Deaths from pneumonia in Indiana 18T
  • 11.

    Nicholas Hughes
    fisheries biologist
    Nicholas Hughes
    Overview: Nicholas Farrar Hughes (January 17, 1962 – March 16, 2009) was an English-American fisheries biologist known as an expert in stream salmonid ecology. Hughes was the son of the American poet Sylvia Plath ...
    Date of birth: 17 January 1962
    Date of death: 16 March 2009
    Age: 47 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Biologist
    Gender: Male
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    2009 suicides 70T
    English ichthyologists 8T
    Male suicides 1,509T
  • 12.

    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist and social philosopher (1904–1990)
    B. F. Skinner
    Overview: Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. He was a professor of psychology at Harvard University from ...
    Date of birth: 20 March 1904
    Date of death: 18 August 1990
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Philosopher
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    20th-century American inventors 1,114T
    20th-century psychologists 972T
    Philosophers from Pennsylvania 27T
  • 13.

    Alister Hardy
    English marine biologist (1896–1985)
    Alister Hardy
    Overview: Sir Alister Clavering Hardy FRS FRSE FLS (10 February 1896 – 22 May 1985) was an English marine biologist, an expert on marine ecosystems spanning organisms from zooplankton to whales.
    Date of birth: 10 February 1896
    Date of death: 22 May 1985
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Biologist
    Gender: Male
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    New Naturalist writers 75T
    Linacre Professors of Zoology 9T
    20th-century British writers 545T
  • 14.

    Rachel L. Carson
    American marine biologist and conservationist (1907–1964)
    Rachel L. Carson
    Overview: Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global en ...
    Date of birth: 27 May 1907
    Date of death: 14 April 1964
    Age: 56 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Members of the Society of Woman Geographers 64T
    20th-century American women scientists 967T
    20th-century American biologists 162T
  • 15.

    Olivier Messiaen
    French composer (1908–1992)
    Olivier Messiaen
    Overview: Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, , December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically ...
    Date of birth: 10 December 1908
    Date of death: 27 April 1992
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Composer
    Gender: Male
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    French male organists 247T
    20th-century male musicians 12,801T
    Male organists 2,110T
  • 16.

    Vladimir Nabokov
    Russian-American novelist (1899–1977)
    Vladimir Nabokov
    Overview: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Ru ...
    Date of birth: 22 April 1899
    Date of death: 2 July 1977
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Novelist
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)
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    20th-century Russian translators 114T
    Russian classical liberals 1T
    American classical liberals 22T
  • 17.

    Otto Plath
    Biologist
    Otto Plath
    Overview: Otto Emil Plath (April 13, 1885 – November 5, 1940) was a German American author, academic, and biologist. Plath worked as a professor of biology and German at Boston University, and as an entomologist ...
    Date of birth: 13 April 1885
    Date of death: 5 November 1940
    Age: 55 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Biologist
    Gender: Male
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    People with acquired American citizenship 943T
    People from the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 25T
    German emigrants to the United States 2,735T
  • 18.

    Hirohito
    Japanese emperor
    Hirohito
    Overview: Hirohito (裕仁, 29 April 1901 – 7 January 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, ruling over the Empire of Japan from 25 December 1926 until 2 May 1947, after ...
    Date of birth: 29 April 1901
    Date of death: 7 January 1989
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: Japanese
    Occupation: Royalty
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    Shōwa Statism 11T
    Sons of emperors 24T
    Knights of the Golden Fleece of Spain 331T
  • 19.

    Jan Zabinski and Antonina Żabińska
    Antonina Żabińska and Jan Żabiński have been married for 50 years.
    Jan Zabinski and Antonina Żabińska
    Overview: Jan Żabiński (8 April 1897 – 26 July 1974) and his wife Antonina Żabińska (née Erdman) (1908–1971) were a Polish couple from Warsaw, recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations for their heroic ...
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    20th-century Polish zoologists 29T
    Scientists from Warsaw 68T
    Polish people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust 21T
  • 20.

    M. K. Chandrashekaran
    Indian zoologist (1937–2009)
    M. K. Chandrashekaran
    Overview: Maroli Krishnayya Chandrashekaran (4 September 1937 – 2 July 2009), also known as Shekar or MKC, was an Indian zoologist, regarded as the founder of Indian chronobiology, the study of biological rhythms ...
    Date of birth: 4 September 1937
    Date of death: 2 July 2009
    Age: 71 (age at death)
    Occupation: Scientist
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    20th-century Indian zoologists 61T
    People from Salem 12T
    Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences 351T
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