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Thomas Etholen Selfridge (1882 - 1908)
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Thomas Etholen Selfridge (February 8, 1882 - September 17, 1908) was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first person to die in a crash of a powered airplane. He was a passenger on an aircraft piloted by Orville Wright. Read more
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Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888 - 1964)
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Cecilia McGough
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Cecilia McGough's Pulsar Discovery For most people the thought of being a 'rocket scientist' would be daunting, but for 17-year-old Cecilia McGough it has simply been a goal. McGough, a senior at Strasburg High School, has taken every possible opportunity to realise her lifelong dream. After yea...
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Linda Sinkay
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Following the stars Linda Sinkay, an insurance broker, has gone from virgin stargazer to insatiable amateur astronomer. And now she has teamed up with friend and fellow Rotarian Jim Goodenough to offer star-gazing entertainment at public and private events, from birthday parties to a recent fun...
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Liz Bonnin
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Liz Bonnin (born 16 September 1975) is a French-born television presenter who has worked on television in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. She currently works for the BBC. Read more Liz Bonnin 5. January 2011
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Antoine Parent (1666 - 1716)
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Antoine Parent (September 16, 1666 - September 26, 1716) was a French mathematician, born at Paris and died there, who wrote in 1700 on analytical geometry of three dimensions. His works were collected and published in three volumes at Paris in 1713. Read more
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Phillip Lamason (1918 - 2012)
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Phillip (Phil) John Lamason DFC & Bar (15 September 1918 - 19 May 2012) was a pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during the Second World War, who rose to prominence as the senior officer in charge of 168 Allied airmen taken to Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, in August 1944. Re...
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Mokshagundam Visveswaraiah (1860 - 1962)
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Sir Mokshagundam Visveswaraiah (KCIE, popularly known as Sir MV; 15 September 1860 - 14 April 1962) was a notable Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore during 1912 to 1918. He was a recipient of the Indian Republic's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. Read more
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Norman Richard Spinrad
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Norman Richard Spinrad (born September 15, 1940) is an American science fiction author, essayist, and critic. His fiction has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award and two Nebula Awards. Read more
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Miroslaw Hermaszewski
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Miroslaw Hermaszewski (born September 15, 1941), is a retired Polish Air Force officer. He became the first (and to this day remains the only Polish national in space when he flew aboard the Soyuz 30 spacecraft in 1978. Read more
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Oskar Klein (1894 - 1977)
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Oskar Benjamin Klein (September 15, 1894 - February 5, 1977) was a Swedish theoretical physicist. Klein is credited for inventing the idea, part of Kaluza-Klein theory, that extra dimensions may be physically real but curled up and very small, an idea essential to string theory / M-theory. Read mo...
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Edward Bouchet (1852 - 1918)
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Edward Bouchet (1852 - 1918) was the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. from an American university and the first African-American to graduate from Yale University in 1874. He completed his dissertation in Yale's Ph.D. program in 1876 becoming the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. (i...
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Marco Polo (1254 - 1324)
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Marco Polo (September 15, 1254 - January 9, 1324) was a Venetian merchant traveller whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. Read more
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Nicol Williamson (1936 - 2011)
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Nicol Williamson (14 September 1936 - 16 December 2011) was a British actor once described by English playwright John Osborne as "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando". He was also described by playwright Samuel Beckett as "touched by genius" and viewed by many critics as...
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Claudius Clavus (September 14, 1388-?)
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Claudius Clavus (Suartho) also known as Nicholas Niger, (Danish: Claudius Claussøn Swart), (September 14, 1388-?), was a Danish geographer sometimes considered to be the first Nordic cartographer. It is believed that he was born in the village of Salling on the Danish island of Funen. He is comme...
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