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Kenneth Alibek
Biologist
c. 1951
Biological weapons designer
Rafid Ahmed Alwan
Hoaxer
1968
"Curveball"
Nadia Comaneci
Gymnastics
12-Nov-1961
Olympic gymnast
Charles-François Dumouriez
Military
25-Jan-1739
14-Mar-1823
French general, intriguer
Milos Forman
Film Director
18-Feb-1932
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
George Gamow
Physicist
4-Mar-1904
19-Aug-1968
Proponent of Big Bang Theory
Roberto C. Goizueta
Business
18-Nov-1931
18-Oct-1997
CEO of Coca-Cola, 1981-97
Donald Maclean
Spy
25-May-1913
6-Mar-1983
Spy for Moscow, Cambridge Five
Georgi Markov
Victim
1-Mar-1929
11-Sep-1978
Killed with a ricin-tipped umbrella
Martina Navratilova
Tennis
18-Oct-1956
Nine-time Wimbledon winner
Rudolf Nureyev
Dancer
17-Mar-1938
6-Jan-1993
Defected to France from Kirov Ballet
Kim Philby
Spy
1-Jan-1912
11-May-1988
One of the Cambridge Five in MI6
Wernher von Braun
Scientist
23-Mar-1912
16-Jun-1977
German-American rocket scientist
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