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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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- Famous Geminis
- Famous Philanthropists
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist / 1794 - 1877
Cornelius Vanderbilt was an industrialist in railroads and shipping. He had accumulated the largest fortune in the U.S. at the time of his death, in 1877.
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Erwin Schrödinger
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- Famous Academics
- Famous Leos
- Famous Scholars
Erwin Schrödinger
Scholar, Physicist / 1887 - 1961
Austrian theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger contributed to the wave theory of matter and to other fundamentals of quantum mechanics.
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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
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- Famous Virgoans
- Famous Nuns
- Famous Saints
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Nun, Saint / 1774 - 1821
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was an activist and advocate for the poor in the 18th to 19th centuries who established the group Sisters of Charity.
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T.S. Eliot
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- Famous Libras
- Famous Nobel Prize Winners
- Famous People Born in 1888
T.S. Eliot
Writer / 1888 - 1965
T.S. Eliot was an American-born English poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century.
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Author / 1913 - 1960
Algerian born writer Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for literature in part due to his embrace of existentialism in books like The Stranger.
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Charlotte E. Ray
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- Famous Capricorns
- Famous Black Lawyers
- Famous Black Activists
Charlotte E. Ray
Civil Rights Activist, Women's Rights Activist, Lawyer / 1850 - 1911
Charlotte E. Ray was the first female African-American lawyer in the United States.
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profile name: Albert Camus profile occupation: Author
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profile name: Charlotte E. Ray profile occupation: Civil Rights Activist, Women's Rights Activist, Lawyer
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