Nigel Rees
Nigel Rees (born 5 June 1944 near Liverpool) is an English author and presenter, best known for devising and hosting the Radio 4 long running panel game Quote… Unquote (since 1976) and as the author of more than fifty books – reference, humour and fiction.
Whitfield Diffie
Bailey Whitfield ‘Whit’ Diffie (born June 5, 1944) is a US cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. Diffie and Martin Hellman’s paper New Directions in Cryptography was published in 1976. It introduced a radically new method of distributing cryptographic keys, that went far toward solving one of the fundamental problems of cryptography, key distribution. It has become known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange.
Chris Finnegan
Chris Finnegan MBE (5 June 1944 – 2 March 2009) was an English professional boxer.
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Rees
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Finnegan
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