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Norma McCorvey

Died on February 18, 2017

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Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey (née Nelson; September 22, 1947 – February 18, 2017), also known by the pseudonym Jane Roe, was the plaintiff in the landmark 1973 American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional.

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1475–1564

Michelangelo

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Timur

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Toni Morrison

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