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October 28
Bill Gates
Computer engineer and entrepreneur, born in Seattle, Washington, USA.
At age 15 he constructed a device to control traffic patterns in
Seattle, and in 1975 co-wrote a compiler for BASIC and interested the
MITS company in it. He dropped out of Harvard in 1975 to spend his
time writing programmes. In 1977, he...
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Edith Head
Costume designer, born in Los Angeles, California, USA. Educated at
the University of California, Los Angeles and Stanford University, she
taught languages and art before joining Paramount studios during the
1930s. She was head designer there until 1967, when she moved to
Universal. As Hollywood's best-known...
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Eliphalet Remington
Firearms manufacturer, born in Suffield, Connecticut, USA. He stayed
on his father's farm even after marriage. In 1816 the family removed
to Herkimer Co, NY, where the father built a water-powered forge to
make agricultural tools. Eliphalet made rifle barrels, a task at which
he became highly skilled. By his...
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Julia Roberts
US film actress, born in Smyrna, Georgia, USA. She made her screen
debut in Baja Oklahoma (1988), and became well known following Mystic
Pizza (1988) and Steel Magnolias (1989, Oscar nomination for Best
Supporting Actress). Later films include Pretty Woman (1990), Michael
Collins (1996), Notting Hill (1999), Erin...
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Jonas (Edward) Salk
Immunologist, born in New York City, New York, USA. He began his
path-breaking studies on viruses and immunization by starting with the
influenza virus while at the University of Michigan (1942–7). At the
University of Pittsburgh (1947–63), he developed the first vaccination
against poliomyelitis, a killed-virus...
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Evelyn (Arthur St John) Waugh
Writer, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and quickly
established a reputation with such stylistically brilliant satirical
novels as Decline and Fall (1928), Vile Bodies (1930), A Handful of
Dust (1934), and Scoop (1938). He became a Catholic in 1930, and his
later books display a more serious attitude, as...
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