Simone Weil, was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist.
Weil was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany.
She grew up in comfortable circumstances, as her father was a doctor.
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2012-09-03
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María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the second wife of President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.
She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita, which literally translates into English as "Little Eva".
She was born out of wedlock in the village of Los Toldos in rural Argentina in 1919, the fourth of five children. In 1934, at the age of 15, she went to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires, where she pursued a career as a stage, radio, and film actress.
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2012-09-03
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Phyllis Diller (born Phyllis Ada Driver; July 17, 1917 - August 20, 2012) wa an American actress and comedienne.
She created a stage persona of a wild-haired, eccentrically-dressed housewife who makes jokes about a husband named "Fang" while pretending to smoke from a long cigarette holder.
2012-08-20
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Lee Ann Womack (born August 19, 1966 in Jacksonville, Texas, United States) is an American country music singer and songwriter.
She is best-known for her old fashioned-styled country music songs that often discuss subjects such as cheating and lost love.
2012-08-19
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Larisa Semyonovna Latynina born December 27, 1934 in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian-Ukrainian and former Soviet gymnast who is the only female athlete to win nine Olympic gold medals.
She holds 18 total medals, second most won by a competitor in any sport at the Olympics.
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2012-07-31
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