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Mary McDonnell
(Actress best known for her roles in the films Dances with Wolves (1990), Independence Day (1996), Donnie Darko (2001))
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Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: April 28, 1952
Sun Sign: Taurus
Height: 5'6" (168 cm)
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Florence Foster Jenkins
(American Socialite and Amateur Soprano)
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Birthdate: July 19, 1868
Sun Sign: Cancer
Died: November 26, 1944
Florence Foster Jenkins was an American socialite who was often ridiculed and mocked for her poor singing ability, which in turn made her popular. Known as the world's worst opera singer, Jenkins became a musical cult-figure in New York City due to her technical incompetence as an amateur soprano. Her life inspired several plays and films, including Florence Foster Jenkins.
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Michael Schoeffling
(Actor and Model Known for His Role as ‘Jake Ryan’ in the Film ‘Sixteen Candles’)
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Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: December 10, 1960
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Michael Schoeffling is an American former model and actor. He is known for playing important roles in films like Sixteen Candles, Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, Vision Quest, and Mermaids. After retiring from acting, Schoeffling started a woodworking shop and began producing handcrafted furniture. In 2005, he was named in Teen magazine's Biggest Hunks of the 1980s list.
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David Bohm
(One of the Most Significant Theoretical Physicists of the 20th Century)
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Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: December 20, 1917
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Died: October 27, 1992
Born to Jewish immigrants, David Bohm went against his father’s wish of joining his family’s furniture business and ventured into science instead. He later grew up to be an influential physicist and is now revered for his contribution to quantum mechanics and for introducing concepts such as Bohm’s diffusion.
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(Writer, Director, Producer)
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Birthdate: February 11, 1909
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Died: February 5, 1993
Polish-American screenwriter and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz won Academy Awards for his work in the movies All About Eve and Letter to Three Wives. He was associated with Paramount, MGM, and Twentieth Century Fox. He also had his own production company, Figaro, and directed the film Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor.
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Darlanne Fluegel
(Actress)
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Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: November 25, 1953
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Died: December 15, 2017
Height: 5'8" (173 cm)
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Benjamin Burnley
(Musician)
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George Catlin
(American Painter, Adventurer, Traveler, Lawyer, and Author)
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Franz Kline
(Abstract Expressionist Artist)
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Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: May 23, 1910
Sun Sign: Gemini
Died: May 13, 1962
Franz Kline of the New York School is counted among the most significant artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Labelled as an action painter, Kline’s etched a niche with his seemingly spontaneous and intense style that focused more on actual brushstrokes and use of canvas instead on figures or imagery as exemplified in his masterpiece, Number 2 (1954).
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Bob Sura
(Basketball player)
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Raye Hollitt
(American Actress and Bodybuilder)
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Mary Jo Kopechne
(Political Campaign Specialist of Robert F. Kennedy)
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Rose O'Neill
(Cartoonist)
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Edward B. Lewis
(Geneticist)
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Birthdate: May 20, 1918
Sun Sign: Taurus
Died: July 21, 2004
Edward B. Lewis was an American geneticist who helped found evolutionary developmental biology, a field that compares the developmental processes of various organisms. In 1995, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Eric Wieschaus and Christine Nüsslein-Volhard. He also won several other prestigious awards like the National Medal of Science and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize.
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John J. Yeosock
(Military personnel)
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William Daniel Phillips
(Physicist)
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Britton Chance
(American Biochemist and Olympic Gold-Winning Sailor)
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Birthdate: July 24, 1913
Sun Sign: Leo
Died: November 16, 2010
American biochemist and biophysicist Britton Chance is remembered for developing techniques such as MRI and optical imaging. He also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and worked with Swedish Nobel laureate Hugo Theorell at the Nobel Institute. He was also an Olympic gold medal-winning sailor.
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Aaron Fink
(Musician)
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Lou Teicher
(Pianist)
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