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Essie Compton 1901 - 1976

Essie Compton of Roanoke, Roanoke City County, Virginia was born on May 19, 1901, and died at age 74 years old in March 1976.
Essie Compton
Roanoke, Roanoke City County, Virginia 24013
May 19, 1901
March 1976
Female
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Essie Compton's History: 1901 - 1976

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  • 05/19
    1901

    Birthday

    May 19, 1901
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  • 03/dd
    1976

    Death

    March 1976
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    Essie Compton lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1901, in the year that Essie Compton was born, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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In 1931, when she was 30 years old, on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.
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