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Roberta Flack
She was an R&B singer known for her number-one hits "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," as well as her duets with soul singer Danny Hathaway.
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Gene Hackman
This American actor was known for his rugged appearance, emotionally honest and natural performances, appearing in dozens of films and winning two Academy Awards in the process.
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Dalip Singh Saund
Dalip Singh Saund was the first Asian American, first Indian American, and first Sikh to be elected to the U.S. Congress. Before serving, he helped change a law so that Indians could become U.S. citizens. Saund was born in Chhajjal Wadi, in the Punjab province of northern India, which at the time
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
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list of Summer Olympic athletes
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The Polish-born French physicist was famous for her work on radioactivity, becoming the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903 (for Physics), and later becoming the only woman to win a Nobel in two different fields when, in 1911, she won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

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