Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. She was nominated for the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.
8 June 1903
Born on the same birth date (8 June 1903): Ralph Yarborough
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