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Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut
Author / 1922 - 2007
Kurt Vonnegut was an American author best known for the novels Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions.
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Jimmy Smits
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Jimmy Smits
Actor / 1955 -
Jimmy Smits in an Emmy-award winning actor of Puerto Rican and Dutch descent. He starred in the Steven Bochco television dramas "L.A. Law" and "N.Y.P.D. Blue."
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Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison
Writer / 1931 -
Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court Justice / 1933 -
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, the second woman to be appointed to the position.
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Bill Maher
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- Famous Animal Rights Activists
Bill Maher
Animal Rights Activist, Comedian, Talk Show Host / 1956 -
Bill Maher is an American comedian, talk show host and political commentator.
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Janet Reno
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- Influential Women of Washington
- Famous Cancerians
Janet Reno
Lawyer / 1938 -
Janet Reno broke new ground in 1993 as the first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney General, serving under President Bill Clinton.
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