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Robin Williams
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Robin Williams

Actor · born July 21, 1951 · died 2014

$100Molder estimate, as of August 2014 · Forbes

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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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Milestones, by age

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  1. ~28Received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy1979
  2. ~43Received the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy1994
  3. ~46Received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture1997
  4. 46Received the Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorMarch 23, 1998
  5. ~52Received the Saturn Award for Best Actor2003
  6. ~54Received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award2005

Reported wealth

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August 2014$100MForbes · current

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Joseph Lau

Entrepreneur

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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Ernest Hemingway

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1899–1961 · United States

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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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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