Slovak Ancestry

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Slovak Ancestry

LISTS

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Gene Cernan Astronaut 14-Mar-1934 Last man on the moon (Apollo 17)

Dale Chihuly Artist 20-Sep-1941 Glass artist

Carolyn Forché Poet 28-Apr-1950 The Country Between Us

D. Carleton Gajdusek Scientist 9-Sep-1923 12-Dec-2008 Kuru (slow virus infections)

Joseph M. Gaydos Politician 3-Jul-1926 Congerssman from Pennsylvania, 1968-93

Ivan Getting Inventor 18-Jan-1912 11-Oct-2003 Global Positioning System

Martina Hingis Tennis 30-Sep-1980 The Swiss Miss

Bianca Kajlich Actor 26-Mar-1977 Rules of Engagement

Philipp Lenard Physicist 7-Jun-1862 20-May-1947 Investigations of cathode rays

Vincent Obsitnik Business 1938 US Ambassador to Slovakia

Douglas D. Osheroff Physicist 1-Aug-1945 Superfluidity of helium-3

Jaroslav Pelikan Historian 17-Dec-1923 13-May-2006 The Christian Tradition

Ivan Reitman Film Director 27-Oct-1946 Ghost Busters

Lizabeth Scott Actor 29-Sep-1922 Dead Reckoning

Robert Urich Actor 16-Dec-1946 16-Apr-2002 Dan Tanna on Vega$

Andy Warhol Artist 6-Aug-1928 22-Feb-1987 Pop Art movement

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