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It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

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Tony Curtis
Age: 85 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 3
Died: 2010
Died: September 29
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Bernard Herschel Schwartz
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