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Carl Blegen
American archaeologist (1887–1971)
John Paul Getty III
eldest of the five children of John Paul Getty, Jr. (1956-2011)
Herbert Putnam
American librarian and lawyer (1861-1955)
John Darley
American psychologist (1938–2018)
Ross Wilson
American ambassador
Emmett L. Bennett, Jr.
American classicist
Gordon Solie
professional wrestling announcer (1929–2000)
Fay Gillis Wells
American aviator (1908-2002)
Joybubbles
Joybubbles ( – ), born Josef Carl Engressia Jr. in Richmond, Virginia, was an early phone phreak. Born blind, he became interested in telephones at age four. He had absolute pitch, and was able to whistle 2600 hertz — an operator tone also used by blue box phreaking devices — into a telephone. Joybubbles said that he had an IQ of "172 or something". Joybubbles died at his Minneapolis home on . According to his death certificate, he died of natural causes with congestive heart failure as a contributing condition.
Nils Frykman
Swedish teacher, evangelist and hymnwriter, emigrated to the United States (1842-1911)
Annie Lobert
former prostitute; social service worker; missionary
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American activist killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer
Ade Olufeko
Technologist, designer and entrepreneur of Ijebu ancestry
Abigail Harrison
STEAM advocate, scientist, science communicator and Internet personality
Gordon Parks, Jr.
American film director (1934–1979)
Paul Yule
German-American archaeologist
Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm
American models
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American male ICU nurse shot and killed by the ICE in Minnesota
Erin Lee Carr
American documentary film director, writer and producer
Mali Finn
American casting director (1938-2007)
Robert F. Woodward
United States ambassador (1908–2001)
Slick Woods
American model
Darnella Frazier
American woman who filmed the murder of George Floyd
Jeff Weise
American mass murderer
William Albert Allard
American documentary photographer