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Chad Hurley
(Webmaster Businessman and Former Chief Executive Officer of YouTube)
Chad Hurley
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Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: July 24, 1977
Sun Sign: Leo

Media mogul Chad Hurley is a co-founder and former CEO of the video-sharing websites, YouTube and MixBit. Interested in computers and electronic media since high school, he co-founded YouTube with Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in 2005. The following year, the trio sold YouTube to Google Inc. Hurley is also a part-owner of the NBA's Golden State Warriors.

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Meg Foster
(Best Known for Her Role as ‘Hester Prynne’ in the TV Miniseries ‘The Scarlet Letter’)
Meg Foster
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Birthdate: May 10, 1948
Sun Sign: Taurus
Meg Foster is best known for her roles in series such as The Scarlet Letter and movies such as Ticket to Heaven, and was nominated for a Genie Award for the latter. Known for her natural pale-blue eyes, she was made to wear contact lenses to reduce their distractive effect.
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John Updike
(Poet, Novelist)
John Updike
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: March 18, 1932
Sun Sign: Pisces
Died: January 27, 2009
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Michael Constantine
(Actor)
Michael Constantine
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Birthdate: May 22, 1927
Sun Sign: Gemini
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
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John Fetterman
(Politician)
John Fetterman
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Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: August 15, 1969
Sun Sign: Leo
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Richie Kotzen
(Guitarist)
Richie Kotzen
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Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: February 3, 1970
Sun Sign: Aquarius
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Travis Knight
(American Animator)
Travis Knight
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Birthdate: February 14, 1967
Sun Sign: Aquarius

Travis Knight is a film producer, director, and animator. He is best known for working as the lead animator for the stop-motion animation studio, Laika. In 2013, he won the Annie Award for his work in the film ParaNorman. Knight also directed Kubo and the Two Strings, which won the Best Animated Film award at the British Academy Film Awards.

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Jillian Murray
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Birthdate: June 4, 1984
Sun Sign: Gemini
Height: 5'2" (157 cm)
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Wallace Stevens
(Modernist poet)
Wallace Stevens
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: October 2, 1879
Sun Sign: Libra
Died: August 2, 1955
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Betsy King
(American Professional Golfer)
Betsy King
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Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: August 13, 1955
Sun Sign: Leo
Height: 5'6" (168 cm)
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Donyell Marshall
(Basketball coach)
Donyell Marshall
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Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: May 18, 1973
Sun Sign: Taurus
Height: 6'9" (206 cm)
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Lonnie Walker
(Basketball player)
Lonnie Walker
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Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: December 14, 1998
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Height: 6'4" (193 cm)
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Keith Haring
(American artist)
Keith Haring
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: May 4, 1958
Sun Sign: Taurus
Died: February 16, 1990

Keith Haring was an American artist whose pop art contained sexual images, which he used to advocate for AIDS awareness and safe sex. In 1989, he set up the Keith Haring Foundation to provide imagery and funding to AIDS organizations. In 2019, 29 years after his death from AIDS-related complications, Haring was inducted into the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor.

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Dana Linn Bailey
(American IFBB Pro Fitness and Figure Competitor Who Is the Winner of Joe Weider’s Olympia)
Dana Linn Bailey
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Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: May 30, 1983
Sun Sign: Gemini
Height: 5'4" (163 cm)
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Lenny Moore
(American Football Player)
Lenny Moore
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Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: November 25, 1933
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Height: 6'1" (185 cm)
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Denise Rutkowski
(Former American Professional Bodybuilder)
Denise Rutkowski
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Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: 1962 AD
Height: 5'5" (165 cm)
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Hildegard Peplau
(American Nurse and the First Published Nursing Theorist Since Florence Nightingale)
Hildegard Peplau
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: September 1, 1909
Sun Sign: Virgo
Died: March 17, 1999

Hildegard Peplau was an American nurse best remembered for creating the middle-range nursing theory, which helped revolutionize the scholarly work in the field of nursing. She was the first nurse to publish her nursing theory since Florence Nightingale. Hildegard Peplau's work paved the way for humane treatment of people with personality and behavior disorders.

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Hunter Liggett
(Army officer)
Hunter Liggett
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: March 21, 1857
Sun Sign: Aries
Died: December 30, 1935
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Travis Kauffman
(Boxer)
Travis Kauffman
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Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: August 21, 1985
Sun Sign: Leo
Height: 6'3" (190 cm)
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Nova
(American Rapper)
Nova
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Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: May 28, 2000
Sun Sign: Gemini
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Spencer Fullerton Baird
(US Naturalist, Ornithologist, and Zoologist Who Mostly Studied North American Birds and Mammals)
Spencer Fullerton Baird
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Birthdate: February 3, 1823
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Died: August 19, 1887

American naturalist, ornithologist, and vertebrate zoologist Spencer Fullerton Baird was an expert on North American birds and mammals. Initially a professor of natural history, he was later associated with the Smithsonian Institution as a curator and assistant secretary. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the US Commission of Fish and Fisheries.

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Theodore Weiss
(Poet)
Theodore Weiss
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Birthdate: December 16, 1916
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Died: April 15, 2003