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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Born: July 4, 1868
Died: December 12, 1921 (aged 53)
Bio: Henrietta Swan Leavitt was the American astronomer who discovered the relationship between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars. She made this discovery, among others, while employed at the Harvard College Observatory as a human computer examining photographic plates to measure and catalog the brightness of stars.