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TIL Yoko Ono, Nina Simone, Quincy Jones, Willie Nelson, Carol Burnett, James Brown, Joan Rivers, Gene Wilder, Julie Newmar, Roman Polanski, Conway Twitty, Larry King, and Emperor Akihito were all the same age, born in 1933.

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