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Aviatrix
France
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She
was born on May 23, 1908 in Paris.
After a stay in England, she was an apprentice
in a dress-making establishment. She became
a saleslady in a dress shop before running a
little style shop in which she made leather
caps for aviation purposes. She had her baptism
in the air in 1930. In 1931 she was the first
woman student pilot of the Aeroclub of Landes
at Mont-de-Marsan and she obtained the certificate
of pilot of tourism.
She died on November 30, 1934 during a coaching
period above the field of Guyancourt, Department
of Seine et Oise.
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Founder
Italy
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He was born on February
18, 1898 - August 14, 1988.
Made a Cavaliere del Lavoro in 1952, to add
to his honours of Cavaliere and Commendatore
in the 1920s, he also received a number of honorary
degrees, the Hammarskjöld Prize in 1962, the
Columbus Prize in 1965, and the De Gasperi Award
in 1987.
He died in Modena in 1988 at the age of 90 at
the beginning of the dominance of the McLaren
Honda combination.
In 1994, he was posthumously inducted into the
International Motorsports Hall of Fame. He famously
used purple ink in his fountain pen, although
the reason for this remains unclear.
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Politician
France
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She
was born on 22
September 1953 in Dakar, Senegal. She is a French
politician, top presidential candidate according
to most French opinion polls, and a prominent
member of the Socialist Party.
A graduate of the ENA and Sciences Po, she was
a judge (conseiller) of an administrative court
before joining the staff of President François
Mitterrand as a technical adviser. On 22 September
2005 Paris Match published an interview in which
she declared that she was considering running
for the presidency in 2007. After the government
was forced into a humiliating climb-down in
the face of youth riots against the CPE (first
employment contract) laws, she was tipped as
the lead contender in what is dubbed the Sarko-Sego
race against Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Actress
USA

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She
was born on October 28, 1967. She is an Academy
Award-winning American actress and former fashion
model, who shot to fame during the early 1990s
after starring in the romantic comedy 'Pretty
Woman' opposite Richard Gere.
Since then, she has gone on to become the highest-paid
actress in the world, topping the recent Hollywood
Reporter's annual power list of top-earning
female stars for the second year in a row.
She is the first of two actresses (the other
is Cameron Diaz) to join the coveted "$20 Million
Club", when she signed to do Erin Brockovich
for that amount. As of 2005, her net worth was
over US$ 250,000,000.
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