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Chapel Hill, NC
TOWN
Official Website:
http://www.ci.chapel-hill.nc.us/
Population:
48715 (2000 census) Founding Date:
1819 (founded) County:
Durham County, Orange County SCHOOLS
COMPANY HEADQUARTERS
BIRTHS
DEATHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Paul Bogart |
Film Director |
13-Nov-1919 |
15-Apr-2012 |
Prolific TV and film director |
| Lee Chamberlin |
Actor |
14-Feb-1938 |
30-May-2014 |
The Electric Company |
| Elizabeth Edwards |
Relative |
3-Jul-1949 |
7-Dec-2010 |
Wife of ex-Senator John Edwards |
| William C. Friday |
Educator |
13-Jul-1920 |
12-Oct-2012 |
President of UNC, 1956-86 |
| Bill Guthridge |
Basketball |
27-Jul-1937 |
12-May-2015 |
UNC Head Coach, 1997-2000 |
| George H. Hitchings |
Scientist |
18-Apr-1905 |
27-Feb-1998 |
Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, arthritis |
| Luther H. Hodges |
Politician |
9-Mar-1898 |
6-Oct-1974 |
Governor of North Carolina, 1954-61 |
| Randall Jarrell |
Poet |
6-May-1914 |
14-Oct-1965 |
The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
| Kay Kyser |
Musician |
18-Jun-1897 |
23-Jul-1985 |
The Ol' Professor, eleven #1 records |
| Lewis Leary |
Educator |
18-Apr-1906 |
1-May-1990 |
That Rascal Freneau |
| William H. Pease |
Historian |
31-Aug-1924 |
20-Jun-2013 |
The Web of Progress |
| Martin Rodbell |
Scientist |
1-Dec-1925 |
7-Dec-1998 |
G-protein cell signal transmission |
| Dean Smith |
Basketball |
28-Feb-1931 |
7-Feb-2015 |
UNC Basketball Head Coach, 1961-97 |
| Oliver Smithies |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1925 |
10-Jan-2017 |
Knock-out mice |
| Helen Vinson |
Actor |
17-Sep-1907 |
7-Oct-1999 |
The Wedding Night |
| Karl Edward Wagner |
Novelist |
12-Dec-1945 |
14-Oct-1994 |
Creator of Kane, the mystic swordsman |
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