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Born July 14, 1931 (age 95) • Gdańsk • Poland
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Tony Sarg
American puppeteer
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Bil Baird
American puppeteer
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Cora Baird
American puppeteer
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Burr Tillstrom
American puppeteer
Chong, Ping
Ping Chong
American playwright, theater director, and video artist
Švankmajer, Jan
Jan Švankmajer
Czech artist, puppeteer, animator, and filmmaker
Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog
Jim Henson
American puppeteer
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Robert Clampett
American director
Obraztsov
Sergey Vladimirovich Obraztsov
Soviet puppeteer
Shari Lewis with her puppets Lamb Chop (left) and Hush Puppy
Shari Lewis
American puppeteer and author
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Jiří Trnka
Czech filmmaker
Teschner
Richard Teschner
Austrian puppeteer
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Imre Madách
Hungarian poet
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Konrad Zuse
German engineer
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Robert Wiene
German film director
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Joseph Weizenbaum
American computer scientist
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Jakob Fugger II the Rich
German merchant
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Anton Fugger
German merchant
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Reinhard Gehlen
German general
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Johann Christoph Blumhardt
German theologian