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Sidney Poitier
Dead
Born: 2/20/1927 in Miami, Florida, USADied: 1/6/2022
Age: 94
Cause of death: heart failure
Full name: Sidney L. Poitier
Noted For: actor; The Defiant Ones (1958), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). Won an Academy award for Lilies of the Field (best actor, 1964). Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009).
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