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George Robert Carruthers

First Name George
Last Name Carruthers
Born on October 1, 1939
Died on December 26, 2020 (aged 81)

George Robert Carruthers was an African American inventor, physicist, engineer and space scientist. Carruthers perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera/spectrograph for NASA to use when it launched Apollo 16 in 1972. He designed it so astronauts could use it on the lunar surface, making all adjustments inside their bulky space suits. Upon instructions from Carruthers, they used the camera to record the Earth's outermost atmosphere, noting its variations, and also mapped portions of the far-ultraviolet sky recording stars and galaxies, and the gaseous media between them. In 1970, sending his instruments aboard Aerobee sounding rockets, he had demonstrated that molecular hydrogen exists in the interstellar medium. Among numerous citations and awards, in 2003, Carruthers was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame. He received an honorary doctorate for Engineering from Michigan Technological University, and in 2013 the 2012 National Medal for Technology and Invention from President Barack Obama.

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Hugh Detmar Torrens O’Neill, 3rd Baron Rathcavan

First Name Hugh
Born on June 14, 1939 (age 86)

Hugh Detmar O'Neill, 3rd Baron Rathcavan is a hereditary peer who sat as a crossbencher in the British House of Lords from 1994 until 1999.

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Anjanette Comer

First Name Anjanette
Born on August 7, 1939 (age 86)

Anjanette Comer is an American actress.

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William Eggleston

First Name William
Last Name Eggleston
Born on July 27, 1939 (age 86)

William Eggleston is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium. Eggleston's books include William Eggleston's Guide (1976) and The Democratic Forest (1989).

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Annelie Keil

First Name Annelie
Born on January 17, 1939 (age 87)
Born in Germany
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Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling

First Name Jack
Last Name Felling
Born on August 4, 1939 (age 86)

John Anderson Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling, PC, DL is a British politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament for over 30 years, serving for Whitehaven from 1970 to 1983 and then Copeland until the 2005 general election, and had served in the Cabinet of Tony Blair.

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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

First Name Ellen
Last Name Zwilich
Born on April 30, 1939 (age 87)

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style. She has been called "one of America's most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Zwilich has served as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.

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George Reid

First Name George
Last Name Reid
Born on June 4, 1939 (age 86)

Sir George Reid is a Scottish politician who served as Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament from 2003 to 2007. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire from February 1974 to 1979, a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Mid Scotland and Fife region from 1999 to 2003 and member for the Ochil constituency from 2003 to 2007.

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John M. Hollerbach

First Name John
Last Name Hollerbach
Born on November 30, 1939 (age 86)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

John Matthew Hollerbach is a professor of computer science and research professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Utah. He is the editor of The International Journal of Robotics Research, a Senior Editor of Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments, and a Governing Board member of the electronic journal Haptics-e.

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Michael Castle

First Name Michael
Last Name Castle
Born on July 2, 1939 (age 86)

Michael Newbold Castle is an American attorney and politician who was governor of Delaware (1985–92) and the U.S. Representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district (1993–2011). He is a member of the Republican Party.

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