William E. "Bill" Conway Jr. is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Conway is co-executive chairman and co-founder of the Carlyle Group.
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| As of | Estimate | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $4.6B | Forbes · current |
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Also born on August 27
Politician
1908–1973 · United States
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's assassination in 1963, when he assumed the presidency.
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Actor
1979 · United States
Aaron Paul is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Jesse Pinkman in the AMC series Breaking Bad (2008–2013) for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series thrice.
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Actor
1952–2023 · United States
Paul Reubens was an American actor and comedian, widely known for creating and portraying the character Pee-wee Herman.
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Politician
1865–1951 · United States
Charles Gates Dawes was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929 under President Calvin Coolidge. He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925 for his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations, and a member of the Republican Party.
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Inventor
1874–1940 · German Reich
Carl Bosch was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one point the world's largest chemical company.
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Scientist
1928–2018 · Japan
Osamu Shimomura was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and professor emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine.
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