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Christopher Lee (1922 - 2015)
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Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ (27 May 1922 - 7 June 2015[2]) was an English actor, singer and author. Read more
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Samantha Cristoforetti
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The first Italian woman in Space in November 2014 Announcing the launch of Captain Samantha Cristoforetti, member of ESA's astronaut corps: she will fly to the ISS on the Soyuz, Expedition 42/43 The first "space" mission of an Italian woman is officially on the agenda. Just over a couple...
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Nichelle Nichols
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Science-Fiction's Most Famous Comm. Officer Visits Goddard Hundreds of scientists and engineers (even the occasional astronaut) pass through Goddard's gates every day. One of science fiction's most famous astronauts joined the mix on February 29. Nichelle Nichols, best known in the role of S...
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Irwin Rose (1926 - 2015)
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Irwin A. Rose (July 16, 1926 - June 2, 2015) was an American biologist. Read more
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John Nash (1928 - 2015)
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John Forbes Nash, Jr. (June 13, 1928 - May 23, 2015) was an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the factors that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life. Read more
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Egtved Girl
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The Egtved Girl (c. 1390 - 1370 BC) was a Nordic Bronze Age girl whose well-preserved remains were discovered outside Egtved, Denmark in 1921. Aged 16 - 18 at death, she was slim, 160 cm tall, had short, blond hair and well-trimmed nails. Her burial has been dated by dendrochronology to 1370 BC. Read mo...
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David Octavius Hill (1802 – 1870)
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David Octavius Hill (20 May 1802 - 17 May 1870) was a Scottish painter and arts activist. Read more
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Sarah Brightman
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Sarah Brightman may be Russia's next space tourist British singer Sarah Brightman may be the next paying passenger to ride a Russian rocket to the International Space Station, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday, citing an unidentified official in the space industry in Russia. [url=h...
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Joseph Lade Pawsey (1908 - 1962)
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Joseph Lade Pawsey (14 May 1908 - 30 November 1962) was an Australian scientist, radiophysicist and radio astronomer. At the end of World War II he became a pioneer of the new science of radio astronomy, his interest being stirred by the discovery of radio waves from the Galaxy and by reports of intens...
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Captain William Kidd (1645 - 1701)
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Captain William Kidd (c. 22 January 1645 - 23 May 1701) was a Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean. Read more
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Rabindranath Tagore, also written Rabndranatha Thakura (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read more In Our Time With Melvyn Br...
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Oscar Holderer (1919 - 2015)
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Oscar Holderer (November 4, 1919 - May 5, 2015) was an engineer who worked with Wernher von Braun in the United States and Germany beforehand. Read more
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Grace Lee Whitney (1930 - 2015)
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Grace Lee Whitney (born Mary Ann Chase; April 1, 1930 - May 1, 2015) was an American actress and entertainer. She was known for her role as Janice Rand on the original Star Trek television series and subsequent Star Trek films. Read more
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Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (1900 - 1979)
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Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin (May 10, 1900 - December 7, 1979) was a British-American astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, proposed in her Ph.D. thesis an explanation for the composition of stars in terms of the relative abundances of hydrogen and helium. Read more
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Walter H. Haas (1917 - 2015)
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Walter H. Haas (July 3, 1917 - April 6, 2015) was an American amateur astronomer. He started observing in the 1930s. After the Second World War he founded the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO) Read more
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