List of Famous people born in United States of America

Henry Hartsfield

First Name Henry
Last Name Hartsfield
Born on November 21, 1933
Died on July 17, 2014 (aged 80)

Henry Warren "Hank" Hartsfield Jr. was a United States Air Force Colonel and a USAF and NASA astronaut who logged over 480 hours in space. He was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2006.

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Wally Pfister

First Name Wally
Last Name Pfister
Born on July 8, 1961 (age 65)

Walter C. Pfister is an American cinematographer and director, who is best known for his work with acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan. Some of his collaborations with Nolan include Memento (2000), The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012), and Inception (2010). For his work on Inception, Pfister won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and received a BAFTA Award nomination.

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Wilfred Jackson

First Name Wilfred
Born on January 24, 1906
Died on August 7, 1988 (aged 82)

Wilfred Jackson was an American animator, arranger, composer and director best known for his work on the Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies series of cartoons and the Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria Segment of Fantasia from Walt Disney Productions. He was also instrumental in developing the system with which Disney added music and sound to Steamboat Willie, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon.

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Cornelia Wallace

First Name Cornelia
Last Name Wallace
Born on January 28, 1939
Died on January 8, 2009 (aged 69)

Cornelia Wallace was the First Lady of Alabama from 1971–1978 and the second wife of Democratic Governor George C. Wallace.

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Emma Willard

Emma Hart
First Name Emma
Born on February 23, 1787
Died on April 15, 1870 (aged 83)
Born in Spain

Emma Hart Willard was an American women's rights activist who dedicated her life to education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women's higher education, the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York. With the success of her school, Willard was able to travel across the country and abroad, to promote education for women. The seminary was renamed the Emma Willard School in 1895 in her honor.

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Varina Anne Davis

First Name Varina
Born on June 27, 1864
Died on September 18, 1898 (aged 34)

Varina Anne "Winnie" Davis was an American author who was most known as the youngest daughter of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America and Varina (Howell) Davis. Born in the last year of the war, by the late 1880s she became known as the "Daughter of the Confederacy". Images of her were widely circulated when she was young, helping morale. Later in the 1880s, she appeared with her father on behalf of Confederate veterans' groups. After his death, she and her mother moved in 1891 to New York City, where they both worked as writers. She published a biography and two novels, in addition to numerous articles. Davis died from an infectious disease at age 34.

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Leah Rhodes

First Name Leah
Born on July 21, 1902
Died on October 17, 1986 (aged 84)

Leah Rhodes was an American costume designer.

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Ed Nelson

Edwin Stafford Nelson
First Name Ed
Last Name Nelson
Born on December 21, 1928
Died on August 9, 2014 (aged 85)

Edwin Stafford Nelson was an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Michael Rossi in the television series Peyton Place.

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Dennis G. Peters

First Name Dennis
Last Name Peters
Born on April 17, 1937
Died on April 13, 2020 (aged 82)

Dennis Gail Peters was an analytical chemist who specialized in electrochemistry and was named the Herman T. Briscoe Professor at Indiana University in 1975. Peters led his own research group at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana until his death in 2020. Peters' research focused on the electrochemical behavior of halogenated organic compounds, more recently moving to focus on transition metal catalysts in regards to the oxidation and reduction of organic species. He authored or co-authored over 210 publications and 5 analytical chemistry textbooks.

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David Santee

First Name David
Last Name Santee
Born on July 22, 1952 (age 74)

David Neil Santee is an American former competitive figure skater. He is the 1981 World silver medalist and an eight-time U.S. national medalist. He also competed at the Winter Olympics twice. His younger brother James Santee was also an elite-level skater.

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