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Boris Franz Becker ( born 22 November 1967 ) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Germany.
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Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Boris Blacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Rochberg and Witold Lutosławski, among others, wrote well-known variations on these themes.
Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy ( English: Francis Maurice de Lacy, Russian: Boris Petrovich Lassi ), ( 21 Oct 1725, St. Petersburg – 24 Nov 1801, Vienna ), was the son of Count Peter von Lacy and a famous Austrian field marshal.
Boris and Becker
* 1985 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17
Hewitt was only the third defending Grand Slam champion in the open era to lose in the first round, after Boris Becker at the 1997 Australian Open and Patrick Rafter at the 1999 US Open.
This was his fourth title there, equalling the records of John McEnroe and Boris Becker.
* 1967 – Boris Becker, German tennis player
* Boris Becker
** Boris Becker, German tennis player
* July 9 – Steffi Graf and Boris Becker of West Germany win singles titles at the 1989 Wimbledon Championships.
He won the prestigious Italian Open in 1994, defeating Boris Becker in the final, and two singles matches in the 1995 Davis Cup final against Russians Andrei Chesnokov and Yevgeny Kafelnikov in Moscow.
The old Bulgar name Boris has spread from Bulgaria to a number of countries in the world with Russian Tsar Boris Godunov, British politician Boris Johnson, and German tennis player Boris Becker being three of the examples of its use.
The club also has quite a number of high profile supporters, among them Pope Benedict XVI, the current Pope, Boris Becker, retired German tennis player, Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer, and Horst Seehofer and Edmund Stoiber, current and former Minister-President of Bavaria, to name just a few.
He was the youngest ever male Grand Slam singles champion at 17 years, 9 months, a record since broken by Boris Becker and Michael Chang.
He defeated Boris Becker in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, only to lose to Stefan Edberg in straight sets in the semifinals.
** Men's Doubles Competition: Boris Becker & Michael Stich
*# Wimbledon championships – Boris Becker
*# US Open – Boris Becker
On September 16, 1989, six days after losing the final of the US Open to Boris Becker, Lendl married Samantha Frankel.
Success continued when he also took the Masters Grand Prix title for the third time defeating Boris Becker in straight sets.
In 1986 and 1987 he added wins in the French Open to his U. S Open victories including the season ending 1986 and 1987 Masters Grand Prix championship titles, Where he defeated Boris Becker ( 86 ) in straight sets and Mats Wilander ( 87 ) in three sets.
After reaching the semifinals in 1983 and 1984, he reached the final there twice, losing in straight sets to Boris Becker in 1986 and Pat Cash in 1987.
McEnroe nearly broke that record in a 6-hour, 20-minute loss to Boris Becker five years later.
In 1992, McEnroe defeated third-ranked and defending champion Boris Becker in the third round of the Australian Open 6 – 4, 6 – 3, 7 – 5 before a sell-out crowd.
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Mehmet Barış Manço ( also spelled Boris Mancho in some European album releases ), born Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço, ( January 2, 1943-February 1, 1999 ) was a Turkish rock singer, composer, and television producer.
* Bulgarian Adela, some sources claim that Adela is not necessarily Bulgarian as Boris and Gleb were born from some other wife
Boris was born on 30 January 1894 in Sofia.
Boris Vasilievich Spassky ( also Spasskij ; ; born January 30, 1937 ) is a Soviet-French chess grandmaster.
Some of the Absurdists were born in France such as Jean Genet, Jean Tardieu, and Boris Vian.
* Boris Gulko ( born 1947 ), International Grandmaster and former winner of the U. S. Chess Championship.
* Paul Boris ( born 1955 ), former pitcher for the Minnesota Twins.
* Princess Marie Louise of Bulgaria ( born 1933 ), daughter of Tsar Boris III and Tsaritsa Ioanna of Bulgaria and the sister of HM Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria, the deposed monarch.
* Pavel Borodin ( born 1946 ), Russian politician, member of Boris Yeltsin's administration
He was born in Moscow, the son and successor to Boris Godunov.
Spain's Queen Sofia, French first lady Bernadette Chirac and President Ilham Aliev of Azerbaijan, where Rostropovich was born, as well as Naina Yeltsina, the widow of Boris Yeltsin, were among those in attendance at the funeral on April 29.
Boris Valentinovich Volynov (; born December 18, 1934 ) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21.
The brothers Arkady (; August 28, 1925 – October 12, 1991 ) and Boris (; born April 14, 1933 ) Strugatsky (; alternate spellings: Strugatskiy, Strugatski, Strugatskii ) are Soviet-Russian science fiction authors who collaborated on their fiction.
Her mother, Sara Zwilling, was a writer and producer who died of heart disease ; her father, Boris Sagal, was a director, born in the Ukraine, who died in an accident on the set of the television movie World War III.
Bloom was born Andrei Borisovich Bloom () on 19 June, 1914, in Lausanne, Switzerland, to Xenia and Boris Edwardovich Bloom.
Moritz Hermann ( Boris Semyonovich ) von Jacobi () ( September 21, 1801 – March 10, 1874 ) was a Jewish German engineer and physicist born in Potsdam.
* Boris Johnson ( born 1964 ), British politician
* Boris Gelfand ( born 1968 ), vice world-chess-champion
Boris was born into a Methodist family.
Simeon was born in 864 or 865, as the third son of Knyaz Boris I of Krum's dynasty.
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (, born in Moscow on 23 January 1946 ) is a former Russian oligarch, government official and mathematician, member of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Osvaldas Balakauskas ( born 1937, Miliūnai ) Graduated from the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute in 1961, attended Boris Lyatoshinsky's composition class at Kiev Conservatory in 1969.
Boris Akunin () is the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili (; ) ( born May 20, 1956 ), a Russian writer of Georgian origin.
* Boris Akunin ( born 1956 ), a Georgian-Russian writer with the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili
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