Gender:
Female
Real/Birth Name:
Frances Elizabeth Allen
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Age today:
80
Zodiac Sign:
Leo 
- the Lion - people born July 23 through August 21
Brief Facts:
A computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. The first female IBM Fellow and first female winner of the Turing Award.
Women in Technology International Hall of Fame 1997.
Gender:
Male
Real/Birth Name:
Hans Albrecht Bethe
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Age at Death:
98
Zodiac Sign:
Cancer 
- the Crab - people born June 22 through July 22
Brief Facts:
Pronounced Bay-ta. Winner of the Nobel Prize in physics. Member of the Manhattan Project. Explained how the sun and stars get their energy.
Gender:
Female
Real/Birth Name:
Roberta Lynn Bondar
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Age today:
67
Zodiac Sign:
Sagittarius 
- the Archer or Centaur - people born November 23 through December 22
Brief Facts:
First Canadian Woman into space - Shuttle mission STS-42 in the Spacelab. Neurobiologist.
Gender:
Female
Real/Birth Name:
Rachel Louise Carson
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Age at Death:
56
Zodiac Sign:
Gemini 
- the Twins - people born May 22 through June 21
Brief Facts:
Marine biologist, conservationist.
Book:
Credited with initiating much of the popular ecology movement. Her book led to the banning of DDT.
National Women's Hall of Fame 1973.
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1980.
Gender:
Male
Real/Birth Name:
Jacques-Ives Cousteau
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Age at Death:
87, 14 days after his birthday
Zodiac Sign:
Gemini - the Twins - people born May 22 through June 21
Brief Facts:
Co-developer of the aqua-lung. Known for films, books, and television under-sea photography and exploration.
Television Academy Hall of Fame 1995.
Gender:
Male
Real/Birth Name:
Francis Harry Compton Crick
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Age at Death:
88
Zodiac Sign:
Gemini - the Twins - people born May 22 through June 21
Brief Facts:
Co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work showing the double helix shape of DNA.
Gender:
Female
Real/Birth Name:
Maria Salomea Skłodowska
Also Known As:
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
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Age at Death:
66
Zodiac Sign:
Scorpio 
- the Scorpion - people born October 24 through November 22
Brief Facts:
Discoverer of radium radiation. Discovered the element polonium. The first person honored with two Nobel Prizes, in physics and chemistry.
Gender:
Male
Real/Birth Name:
René Descartes
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Age at Death:
53
Zodiac Sign:
Aries 
- the Ram - people born March 21 through April 20
Brief Facts:
Famed for studies in mathhematics, geometry, optics, and philosophy. Stated "a vacuum cannot exist."
Gender:
Female
Real/Birth Name:
Stanley Ann Dunham
Also Known As:
S. Ann Dunham
Ann Dunham Sutoro
Ann Dunham Soetoro
Dr. Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro
Nickname(s):
"Anna"
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Age at Death:
52, 22 days before her 53rd birthday
Zodiac Sign:
Sagittarius - the Archer or Centaur - people born November 23 through December 22
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mother of
grandmother of
grandmother of
Brief Facts:
Earned a PhD in cultural anthropology and did research on village industries in Indonesia. Married twice, first to Kenyan
Barack Obama Sr. then to
Lolo Soetoro