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Born March 11, 1961 (age 65) • Echuca • Australia
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Rupert Murdoch
Australian-born American publisher
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German philosopher
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John Wilkes
British journalist and politician
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat
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Filipino diplomat
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Carl Schurz
German-American politician
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American journalist and editor
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Serbian statesman
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Sir William Haley
British editor
Pietro Sandro Nenni.
Pietro Nenni
Italian journalist and politician
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Alicia Patterson
American journalist and publisher
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Percy Qoboza
South African journalist
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Joseph Medill
American publisher
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William Allen White
American journalist
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Louis Veuillot
French writer and politician
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Wang Tao
Chinese journalist
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Antanas Smetona
president of Lithuania
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Solomon Tshekiso Plaatje
South African writer
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English publisher