Cormac McCarthy was an American author who wrote twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western, post-apocalyptic, and Southern Gothic genres.
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Musician
1964–2017 · United States
Christopher John Cornell was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and primary lyricist for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. He also had a solo career and contributed to numerous movie soundtracks.
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Actor
1938–1981 · United States
Natalie Wood was an American actress. She began acting at age four and co-starred at age eight in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).
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Entrepreneur
1980 · Brazil
Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian model and activist. Since 2001, she has been one of the highest-paid models in the world.
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Scientist
1947 · Germany
Gerd Karl Binnig is a German physicist. He is most famous for having won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope.
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Author
1864–1931 · Sweden
Erik Axel Karlfeldt was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously after he had been nominated by Nathan Söderblom, member of the Swedish Academy.
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Scientist
1897–1996 · Poland
Tadeusz Reichstein, also known as Tadeus Reichstein, was a Polish-Swiss chemist and a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (1950), which was awarded for his work on the isolation of cortisone.
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