actressBorn: 6/19/1928Birthplace: Buffalo, New York versatile character actress who most recently portrayed feisty matriarch Livia Soprano on HBO's Sopranos. Theatrically trained, Marchand started…
business executive, philanthropistBorn: 1867Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pa. One of seven sons of Meyer Guggenheim, he worked with his brothers in the family's mining and metal processing firm. He…
writerBorn: 6/14/1941Birthplace: Washington, D.C. Wideman grew up in Homewood, a Black middle-class section of Pittsburgh that is the setting of one of his best-known works, The Homewood Trilogy (…
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