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Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf

Author · born January 25, 1882 · died 1941

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Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.

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  1. 43Notable work: Mrs DallowayMay 14, 1925
  2. ~45Notable work: To the Lighthouse1927
  3. 46Notable work: Orlando: A BiographyOctober 1, 1928
  4. 47Notable work: A Room of One's OwnSeptember 1, 1929

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Brian Armstrong
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Brian Armstrong

Entrepreneur · Coinbase

1983 · United States

$12.9Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes

Brian Armstrong is an American businessman and investor who is CEO of cryptocurrency platform Coinbase, which he co-founded with Fred Ehrsam. He received media attention for his policy of keeping the workplace free of political activism.

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Sheila Crump Johnson
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Sheila Crump Johnson

Entrepreneur

1949 · United States

$840Molder estimate, as of June 2023 · Forbes

Sheila Crump Johnson is an American businesswoman, who co-founded BET and is the CEO of Salamander Hotels and Resorts. In 2001, she became the first Black female billionaire after the purchase of BET by Viacom.

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Paul Nurse
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Paul Nurse

Scientist

1949 · United Kingdom

Nobel prize winning British biochemist

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Ilya Prigogine
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Ilya Prigogine

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1917–2003 · Belgium

Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine was a Belgian physical chemist of Russian origin, noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility.

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