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Ash Carter
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Ash Carter

Politician · born September 24, 1954 · died 2022

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Ashton Baldwin Carter was an American government official and academic who served as the 25th United States secretary of defense from February 2015 to January 2017. He later served as director of the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.

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Milestones, by age

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  1. ~22Named Rhodes Scholarship1976
  2. 57Became United States Deputy Secretary of DefenseOctober 6, 2011
  3. 60Became United States Secretary of DefenseFebruary 17, 2015

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Dieter Schwarz

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1939 · Germany

$41Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes

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Howard Hughes

Entrepreneur · Hughes Aircraft Company · manufacturing

1905–1976 · United States

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American aviator, aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was one of the richest and most influential people in the world during his lifetime.

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Linda McCartney
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Linda McCartney

Musician

1941–1998 · United States

Linda Louise, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician, cookbook author, and activist. She was the keyboardist and harmony vocalist in the band Wings, which she had formed with her husband Paul McCartney of the Beatles.

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Howard Florey
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Howard Florey

Politician

1898–1968 · Australia

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".

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