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Ian Hunter (b. 1939)
British rocker, singer/frontman of Mott the Hoople, frequent collaborator with late, great guitarist Mick Ronson.

Essential tracks include: All the Young Dudes, All the Way From Memphis, Honaloochie Boogie, Violence, I Wish I Was Your Mother (Mott); Once Bitten Twice Shy, Who Do You Love, Bast*rd (solo)
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
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Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter; 1911 – 1937), American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s.
 


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Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003).
American actress, one of the greatest.
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Dear censorious software:

Bast@rd: one born out of wedlock; a type of file or rasp (the word is stamped right on them); a type of heavy sword

In its primary meaning of an illegitimate child, the word can serve as a (very) mild expletive but it is hardly worth censoring. It is found all throughout literature, and shows up frequently in books of royal lineage.

Stop censoring Ian Hunter and me. It's not as if I wrote f**k, c**t, prick, dick, t**t, or even JESUS CHRIST!
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Lena Horne (1917 – 2010), African American jazz/pop singer, dancer, actress and civil rights activist.
 
 
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Michel Houellebecq (b. 1956)

French novelist
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Nick Hornby (b. 1957), English writer, best known for his memoir Fever Pitch and novels High Fidelity and About a Boy, all of which were adapted into films.
 
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Otto Hahn (1879 - 1968)

German chemist and physicist, pioneer in the field of radioactivity 
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Originally posted by Matti Matti wrote:

(Had to delete nearly 10Mb of uploaded images before I could send this. I didn't even know they are being saved in my member control panel!)

Me too! That was a shocker, but now we know why some of the older posts have no images anymore.
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Pavel Haas (1899 - 1944).
Czech composer murdered during the Holocaust.
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Google cheating: Quentin Harris (b. 1970), New York City-based house music producer, remixer and DJ. Neverheard.
 
An honest answer (skipping QH): Richard Harris (1930 – 2002), Irish actor and singer. The original performer of the Jimmy Webb classic 'MacArthur Park':
 
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Samuel Hahnemann (1755 - 1843).
German doctor who created homeopathy.
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Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679), English philosopher.
 
 
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The listed persons in this game up to this point:    from AA to ZE  (2nd choices not listed here)
 
Anouk Aimée       Arthur Brown        A. C. Clarke             Arthur Dent          Ahmet Ertegun
Buzz Aldrin          Big Bill Broonzy     Bernard of Clairvaux Benjamin Disraeli  Blake Edwards
Carmine Appice   Chico Buarque       Claudia Cardinale     Charles Darwin      Carolus Enckell
Dan Aykroyd      Dieuwertje Blok      Dolores Claiborne     Donald Duck         Duke Ellington
Edson Arantes    Emily Brontë          Elijah Craig              Eugene Delacroix   Edward Elgar
Fred Astaire       Francis Bacon         Frank Capra             Francis Drake       Friedrich Engels
Gianni Agnelli     Georges Bizet        Gustave Courbet       Georges Danton    George Eliot 
Hans Arp           Herman Brood       Holden Caulfield        Henri Dunant        Harlan Ellison
Ian Anderson     Irving Berlin          Ingram C. Connor III  Ivan Drago          Irineu Evangelista de Sousa
Jon Anderson     J. S. Bach             Jean Cocteau             Johnny Depp       Jan van Eyck
Kevin Ayers        Karl Benz              Klaas Compaen         Krishna Das          Keith Emerson
Laura Antonelli    Leonid Brezhnev   Lucius Catilina           Lawrence Durrell   Leif Erikson
Marian Anderson  Monica Bellucci    Michael Caine           Marcel Dassault      Michael Ende
Neil Armstrong    Neil Bartlett          Nero Claudius           Nick Drake            Nora Ephron
Outi Alanen       Olivier Bourdeaut    Ornette Coleman     Ophelia of Denmark  Osiris of Egypt
Pedro Almodovar   Paul Bunyan       Pierre de Coubertin  Philip K. Dick            Phil Everly
(Quentin Alexander) Quentin Blake   Quentin Crisp         Quincy Delightt Jones  ( QE skipped )
Roger Ackroyd         Richard Branson  Raynard de Chatillon  Richard Dawkins   Ralph W. Emerson
Salvador Allende      Simon Bolivar     Samuel T. Coleridge   Salvador Dalí        Stuart Elliott
Theodor Adorno      Timothy Bottoms  Thomas Cochrane    Tess Durbyfield     Timothy of Ephesus
Urbanus van Anus   ( UB skipped )      Ulric Cross               Uschi Dicard         Umberto Eco
Vincent Auriol         Martin Van Buren  Vera Clouzot            ( VD skipped )      Vince Edwards
Wim Aantjes          W. A. van Buren    William Campbell      Walt Disney          Will Eisner 
(X, Y, Z skipped)    [Zowie Bowie]      Jacques-Yves Cousteau (X, Y, Z skipped) Yevgeny Erastov/Ziggy Elman
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Uriah the Hittite, a biblical character whose wife, Bathsheba, was in King David's wishlist. Uriah was then deceived and murdered by King David. 


Uriah, taken from the painting David and Uriah, by Rembrandt.
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Victor Halberstadt (b. 1939)

Dutch Professor of Economics. Core member of the Bilderberg Group.
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William Hurt (b. 1950), American actor - and a very good one!
 
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Xaviera Hollander, born 1943.
Dutch author, former call girl and madam, known for her best-seller The Happy Hooker.




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(Skipping Y and Z.)  Now comes a little more demanding letter for surnames.
 
Annika Idström (1947 - 2011), Finnish novelist, dramatist and translator. His best known novel is Veljeni Sebastian (1985), = My Brother Sebastian, which is translated into several languages.
 
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Bodo Illgner (born 1967).
German gooalkeeper. 1990 World Cup Champion for Germany (then West Germany).
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