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Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway

Creator · born July 21, 1899 · died 1961

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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image.

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  1. 27Notable work: The Sun Also RisesOctober 22, 1926
  2. ~30Notable work: A Farewell to Arms1929
  3. ~48Received the Bronze Star Medal1947
  4. 53Notable work: The Old Man and the SeaSeptember 1, 1952
  5. ~54Received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction1953
  6. ~55Received the Nobel Prize in Literature1954

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1951 · People's Republic of China

$16.9Bolder estimate, as of 2019 · Forbes

Joseph Lau Luen-hung is a Hong Kong billionaire businessman. Lau is the former chairman of property developer Chinese Estates. He is an avid art and wine collector. His fortune is estimated by Forbes at $13.3 billion as of September 2021.

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Robin Williams

Actor

1951–2014 · United States

$100Molder estimate, as of August 2014 · Forbes

Robin McLaurin Williams was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters he created spontaneously and portrayed in drama and comedy films, he is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all time.

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Rudolph A. Marcus

Scientist

1923–2026 · Canada

Rudolph Arthur Marcus was a Canadian-born American chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems".

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