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Explorer / 1491 - 1557
French explorer Jacques Cartier is known chiefly for exploring the St. Lawrence River and giving Canada its name.
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Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Singer / 1896 - 1977
Ethel Waters was a blues and jazz singer and dramatic actress whose singing, based in the blues tradition, featured her full-bodied voice and slow vibrato.
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Luis W. Alvarez
Physicist / 1911 - 1988
Luis Alvarez was an experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968.
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