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Neil Simon
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Neil Simon

Entrepreneur · born July 4, 1927 · died 2018

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Marvin Neil Simon was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays.

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Milestones, by age

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  1. ~50Received the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay1977
  2. ~50Notable work: The Goodbye Girl1977
  3. ~64Received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama1991
  4. ~68Named Kennedy Center Honors1995

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Calvin Coolidge

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1872–1933 · United States

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he served from 1921 to 1923 as the 29th vice president, under President Warren G. Harding, and from 1919 to 1921 as the 48th governor of Massachusetts.

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Susumu Kitagawa

Scientist

1951 · Japan

Susumu Kitagawa is a Japanese Nobel Prize-winning chemist specializing in coordination chemistry, with a focus on organic–inorganic hybrid compounds and the chemical and physical properties of porous coordination polymers, particularly metal-organic frameworks.

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Gérard Debreu

Scientist

1921–2004 · United States

Gérard Debreu was a French-born economist and mathematician. Best known as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began work in 1962, he won the 1983 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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