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Audrey Hepburn
Featured Biography Audrey Hepburn

Born this day in 1929, Audrey Hepburn became a film icon with such classic movies as Roman Holiday (1953) and Sabrina (1954), which highlighted her ability to project an air of sophistication tempered by a charming innocence.

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March 14, 1908 — May 4, 1961
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a philosopher and man of letters, the leading...
Amos Oz
May 4, 1939 — December 28, 2018
Amos Oz
Amos Oz was an Israeli novelist, short-story writer, and essayist...
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May 4, 1767 — January 6, 1847
Tyagaraja
Tyagaraja was an Indian composer of Carnatic songs of the genre kirtana,...
View of Cotopaxi, oil on canvas by Frederic Edwin Church, 1857; in The Art Institute of Chicago.
May 4, 1826 — April 7, 1900
Frederic Edwin Church
Frederic Edwin Church was an American Romantic landscape painter who...
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May 4, 1917 — April 29, 2004
Nick Joaquin
Nick Joaquin was a Filipino novelist, poet, playwright, essayist,...
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September 12, 1492 — May 4, 1519
Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici, duca di Urbino
Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici, duca di Urbino was the ruler of Florence...
Carl von Ossietzky
October 3, 1889 — May 4, 1938
Carl von Ossietzky
Carl von Ossietzky was a German journalist and pacifist, winner of...
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May 4, 1907 — January 5, 1996
Lincoln Kirstein
Lincoln Kirstein was an American dance authority, impresario, writer,...