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Juliette Colbert Falletti de Barolo (26 June 1786 – 19 January 1864) - born as Juliette Victoire Colbert and known in Italy as Giulia Falletti di Barolo - was a French Roman Catholic philanthropist and the founder of both the Sisters of Saint Anne and the Daughters of Jesus the Good Shepherd. [1]
Judith Arlene Resnik (April 5, 1949 – January 28, 1986) was an American electrical engineer, software engineer, biomedical engineer, pilot and NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier was born on June 9, 1921, in Quebec, Canada. Her father, Frank Duff Frazier, came from a prosperous Boston family. Her mother, the former Brenda Germaine Henshaw Williams-Taylor, was the only daughter of Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor (a general manager of the Bank of Montreal who was knighted in 1910 and combined his middle name and birth surname into a new hyphenated ...
Lei Feng [i] (18 December 1940 – 15 August 1962) was a soldier in the People's Liberation Army who was the object of several major campaigns in China.The most well-known of these campaigns in 1963 promoted the slogan "Follow the examples of Comrade Lei Feng."
Martina Carrillo (born c. 1750, died after 1778) was a black Ecuadorian (living in what was then the Viceroyalty of New Granada) activist who defended the rights of black people and fought against slavery.
Aziz Sergeyevich Shavershian [2] (Kurdish: Әзиз Шавәршйан; Russian: Азиз Сергеевич Шавершян; 24 March 1989 – 5 August 2011), [3] better known as Zyzz, [4] [5] was an Australian bodybuilder, personal trainer and model.
Fraser Bullock will serve as executive chair and president. The group, which is hosting the Winter Games in 2034, announced its leadership team Friday. Salt Lake City names leaders for 2034 ...
The Briner family mansion in Vladivostok, Russia, where Yul Brynner was born and lived from 1920 to 1927. Yul Brynner was born Yuliy Borisovich Briner on July 11, 1920, [5] [6] [7] in the city of Vladivostok. [8]