Glenn Murcutt (1936)
Glenn Marcus Murcutt is an Australian architect. He has been the recipient of the 1992 Alvar Aalto Medal, the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the 2009 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal…
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Howard K. Smith (1914)
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Frederic Raphael (1931)
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Zygmunt Bauman (1925)
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929)
American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible leader of the civil rights movement. He advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by Gandhi.