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Who was born in May 1939

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Dixie Carter

Dixie Carter

19392010

American actress known for her roles as Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women and Randi King on Family Law

Peter Grünberg

Peter Grünberg

19392018

German physicist and Nobel laureate who co-discovered giant magnetoresistance, revolutionizing hard disk drive technology

Sidney Altman

Sidney Altman

19392022

Canadian-American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate who discovered the catalytic properties of RNA

Amos Oz

Amos Oz

19392018

Amos Oz, Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual who championed a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict