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Yayoi Kusama had three older brothers and sisters, so she was the youngest child in her family. She grew up with her siblings on their family’s plant nursery!

John Lennon lived in New York City for the last years of his life — he moved there in 1971 and stayed until he died in 1980.

Mae Jemison flew into space about 30 years after John Glenn's historic orbital flight.

Pope John Paul II was born with the name Karol Józef Wojtyła on May 18, 1920, in Wadowice, Poland.

Rita Moreno was born on December 11, 1931, in Humacao, Puerto Rico, with the birth name Rosa Dolores Alverío Marcano.