Dean

Dean
Dean, Dizzy
(1911-74) a US ↑baseball player who was a famous ↑pitcher for the St Louis Cardinals team in the 1930s, helping them win the World Series in 1934. He was famous for achieving more ↑strikeouts than any other pitcher.
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Dean, James
(1931-55) a US film actor who became extremely famous, and then died in a car crash at the age of 24. Many people think of him as a typical example of a young ↑rebel (=someone who refuses to do follow social rules or behave in the way that other people want them to) . His films include East of Eden (1955) and Rebel Without a Cause (1955).

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