In his travels, he met presidents Trump and Biden as well as 40 governors.
Born 1919
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Ferlinghetti was known for poetry including “A Coney Island of the Mind.”
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Lumpkin was president of the Los Angeles chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc.
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Jackson was a caregiver to Civil War vet James Bolin, and they were briefly married.
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Champion went on to a career in movies, often dancing with her husband, Gower Champion.
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Col. dePyssler served in World War II, the Korean War, the French Indochina War, and the Vietnam War, as well as at the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
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Wood set a speed-record of 150.375 mph on the sand at Daytona Beach in 1960.
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Taught MLK and Barbara Jordan during a 70-year career
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Helped liberate Paris from the Nazis during World War II
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Margaret Burbidge (1919–2020), astronomer who showed elements form inside stars
by Kirk FoxBurbidge was a renowned astronomer known for fighting discrimination towards women in the field. Died: Sunday, April 5, 2020. (Who else died April 5?) Details of Death: Died at the …