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    Melissa Satta

    Italian, TV Personality
    Melissa Satta
    Overview: Melissa Satta (born 7 February 1986) is an Italian television presenter. She was a showgirl in the Italian satirical series Striscia la notizia. Satta has appeared in Maxim magazine and was featured in ...
    Date of birth: 7 February 1986
    Age: 39
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: TV Personality
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)
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    Noam Chomsky

    American linguist and activist (born 1928)
    Noam Chomsky
    Overview: Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American philosopher, linguist, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics" ...
    Date of birth: 7 December 1928
    Age: 96
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Linguist
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
    Partner: Valeria Wasserma (Married)
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    Theodor W. Adorno

    German philosopher
    Theodor W. Adorno
    Overview: Theodor W. Adorno (born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, musicologist, and composer known for his critical theory of ...
    Date of birth: 11 September 1903
    Date of death: 10 September 1969
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Composer
    Gender: Male
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    Roland Barthes

    French philosopher
    Roland Barthes
    Overview: Roland Gérard Barthes (12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes's ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced ...
    Date of birth: 12 November 1915
    Date of death: 25 March 1980
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    Walter Benjamin

    German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
    Walter Benjamin
    Overview: Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism ...
    Date of birth: 15 July 1892
    Date of death: 27 September 1940
    Age: 48 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    I. A. Richards

    English literary critic
    I. A. Richards
    Overview: Ivor Armstrong Richards (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979), known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, and rhetorician. His work contributed to the foundations of the New Cr ...
    Date of birth: 26 February 1893
    Date of death: 7 September 1979
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Critic
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    Max Horkheimer

    German philosopher and sociologist (1895–1973)
    Max Horkheimer
    Overview: Max Horkheimer (14 February 1895 – 7 July 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist who was famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the Frankfurt School of social research. Horkheimer ...
    Date of birth: 14 February 1895
    Date of death: 7 July 1973
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    Herbert Marcuse

    philosopher and sociologist
    Herbert Marcuse
    Overview: Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse ...
    Date of birth: 19 July 1898
    Date of death: 29 July 1979
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Douglas Rushkoff

    American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian
    Douglas Rushkoff
    Overview: Douglas Mark Rushkoff (born February 18, 1961) is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk ...
    Date of birth: 18 February 1961
    Age: 64
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    Paul Martin Lester

    American academic
    Paul Martin Lester
    Overview: Paul Martin Lester (born March 21, 1953) is a Clinical Professor at the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication (ATEC) and a Professor Emeritus from California State University, Fullerton ...
    Date of birth: 21 March 1953
    Date of death: 12 November 2023
    Age: 70 (age at death)
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    Kenneth Burke

    American philosopher
    Kenneth Burke
    Overview: Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical ...
    Date of birth: 5 May 1897
    Date of death: 19 November 1993
    Age: 96 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Critic
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    Irving Janis

    American psychologist
    Overview: Irving Lester Janis (May 26, 1918 – November 15, 1990) was a research psychologist at Yale University and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley most famous for his theory of " ...
    Date of birth: 26 May 1918
    Date of death: 15 November 1990
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Psychologist
    Gender: Male
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    George Herbert Mead

    American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist (1863–1931)
    George Herbert Mead
    Overview: George Herbert Mead (February 27, 1863 – April 26, 1931) was an American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several di ...
    Date of birth: 27 February 1863
    Date of death: 26 April 1931
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    Harold Innis

    Canadian academic (1894–1952)
    Harold Innis
    Overview: Harold Adams Innis FRSC (1894 – 1952) was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory, and Canadian economic h ...
    Date of birth: 5 November 1894
    Date of death: 8 November 1952
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Historian
    Gender: Male
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    Niklas Luhmann

    German sociologist (1927–1998)
    Niklas Luhmann
    Overview: Niklas Luhmann (December 8, 1927 – November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and a prominent thinker in systems theory, who is considered one of the most important social ...
    Date of birth: 8 December 1927
    Date of death: 6 November 1998
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Male
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    Deborah Tannen

    American linguist
    Deborah Tannen
    Overview: Deborah Frances Tannen (born June 7, 1945) is an American academic and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has been a McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton U ...
    Date of birth: 7 June 1945
    Age: 79
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
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    Wendell Johnson

    American psychologist
    Overview: Wendell Johnson (April 16, 1906 – August 29, 1965) was an American psychologist, actor and author and was a proponent of general semantics (or GS). He was born in Roxbury, Kansas and died in Iowa City ...
    Date of birth: 16 April 1906
    Date of death: 29 August 1965
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Psychologist
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    Charles Sanders Peirce

    American thinker who founded pragmatism (1839–1914)
    Charles Sanders Peirce
    Overview: Charles Sanders Peirce ( PURSS; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". He was educated ...
    Date of birth: 10 September 1839
    Date of death: 19 April 1914
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Educator
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    Maria Helena de Moura Neves

    Brazilian linguist (1931–2022)
    Overview: Maria Helena de Moura Neves (31 January 1931 – 17 December 2022) was a Brazilian linguist known for her work on language use, especially functional approaches to Portuguese grammar. She also conducted ...
    Date of birth: 31 January 1931
    Date of death: 17 December 2022
    Age: 91 (age at death)
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    Emma Briant

    British social scientist and academic
    Overview: Emma L. Briant (born 1979) is a British scholar and academic researcher on media, contemporary propaganda, surveillance and information warfare who was involved in exposing the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica ...
    Date of birth: 1979
    Age: 45
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