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Claudette Colvin
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Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is a pioneer of the African-American civil rights movement. She was the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the better known Rosa Parks incident by nine months. The court case stemming from her refusal to give up her se...
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Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev (1929 - 2004)
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Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev (5 September 1929 - 3 July 2004) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He was an ethnic Chuvash. Nikolayev flew on two space flights: Vostok 3 (effectively becoming the third Soviet cosmonaut) and Soyuz 9. Read more
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Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991)
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Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara) (5 September 1946 - 24 November 1991) was a British musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Queen. Read more Queen - 'Who Wants To Live Forever'
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Kyongae Chang
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Kyongae Chang (born September 5, 1946) is a South Korean astrophysicist. She is best known for her work on gravitational lensing, including the Chang-Refsdal lens. Read more
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James Glaisher (1809 - 1903)
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James Glaisher FRS (7 April 1809 - 7 February 1903), was an English meteorologist and aeronaut. He was a founder member of the Meteorological Society (1850) and the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain (1866). He was president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1867 to 1868. He is most famo...
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Karl Schroeder
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Karl Schroeder (born September 4, 1962) is an award-winning Canadian science fiction author. His novels present far-future speculations on topics such as nanotechnology, terraforming, augmented reality and interstellar travel, and have a deeply philosophical streak. One of his concepts, k...
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Martin Wiberg (1826 - 1905)
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Martin Wiberg (September 4, 1826 - December 29, 1905) was born in Viby, Scania, Sweden, enrolled at Lund University in 1845 and became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1850. He is known as a computer pioneer for his 1875 invention of a machine the size of a sewing machine that could print logarithmic tables. R...
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Max Delbrück (1906 - 1981)
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Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück, FRS (September 4, 1906 - March 9, 1981) was a German-American biophysicist. He won the Nobel prize for discovering that bacteria become resistant to viruses (phages) as a result of genetic mutations. Read more
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al-Bīrūnī (973 - 1052)
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al-Brn, in full Ab al-Rayan Muammad ibn Amad al-Brn (born Sept. 4, 973 ce, Khwarezm, Khorasan [now in Uzbekistan] - died c. 1052, Ghazna [now Ghazn, Afg.), Muslim astronomer, mathematician, ethnographist, anthropologist, historian, and geographer Read more
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Oscar E. Monnig (1902 - 1999)
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Oscar E. Monnig (September 4, 1902 - May 4, 1999) was an American amateur astronomer, acknowledged for his contributions to meteoritics. Read more
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Christian of Prachatice (1360/68 - 1439)
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Christian of Prachatice (1360-1368, Prachatice, Kingdom of Bohemia - 4 September 1439, Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia) was a medieval Bohemian astronomer, mathematician and former Catholic priest who converted to the Hussite movement. He was the author of several books about medicine and herbs, a...
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Nicholas Jardine
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Nicholas Jardine FBA (born 4 September 1943) is a British mathematician, philosopher of science and its history, historian of astronomy and natural history, and amateur mycologist. He is Emeritus Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) at the University of Cambri...
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Dick York (1928-1992)
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Richard Allen "Dick" York (September 4, 1928 - February 20, 1992) was an American actor. He is best remembered for his role as the first Darrin Stephens on the ABC television fantasy sitcom Bewitched. His best known motion picture role was as teacher Bertram Cates in the 1960 film Inherit...
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Forrest S. McCartney (1931 - 2012)
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Forrest S. McCartney (March 23, 1931 - July 17, 2012) was a United States Air Force lieutenant general and former director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Centre. Read more
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Gerald Neugebauer
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Gerald 'Gerry' Neugebauer (born 3 September 1932) is an American astronomer known for his pioneering work in infrared astronomy. Neugebauer served as the director of the Palomar Observatory from 1980 to 1994. Read more
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