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Dean, John Gunther

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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011040034

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Dienstfertig, Gunther

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http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2011040034

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Dean, John Gunther
John Gunther Dean Label from public data source Wikidata

Sources

found: Danger zones, 2009:t.p. (John Gunther Dean)

found: OCLC, Mar. 14, 2011(hdg.: Dean, John Gunther; usage: John G. Dean)

found: New York times WWW site, viewed June 12, 2019(in obituary published June 11: John Gunther Dean; b. Gunther Dienstfertig, Feb. 24, 1926, Breslau, Germany (now part of Poland); on the eve of World War II, the family fled Germany, first to Holland, then to England before sailing on the Queen Mary to the United States, where they changed their name to Dean; they settled in Kansas City, Mo.; at his public school, Gunther was renamed John by the principal, who said it would smooth his transition to American life; he was officially John Gunther Dean by the time he became a naturalized citizen in 1944; d. June 6, Paris, aged 93; career foreign service officer who favored diplomacy over military action; served as the American ambassador to Cambodia, Denmark, Lebanon, Thailand, and India)

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2011-03-14: new
2019-06-12: revised

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