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1976–
Auntwan Demone Riggins (born June 17, 1976) is an American college baseball coach who served as head coach of the Prairie View A&M Panthers baseball team.
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Áurea Carolina de Freitas e Silva (born 20 November 1983) is a Brazilian politician, political scientist and sociologist. Although born in Pará, she has spent her political career representing Minas Gerais, having served as federal deputy representative…
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Áldima Pereira dos Santos, known artistically as Áurea Martins (born 13 June 1940), is a Brazilian singer.
1919–1971
Aurelia Shines Browder Coleman (January 29, 1919 – February 4, 1971) was an African-American civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama. In April 1955, almost eight months before the arrest of Rosa Parks and a month after the arrest of Claudette Colvin,…
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Aurelia Erskine Brazeal (born 1943) is a retired American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia, United States Ambassador to Kenya and United States Ambassador to Ethiopia.
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Aurelia Skipwith Giacometto is an American attorney, businesswoman, and biologist who served as the 17th director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service from 2019 to 2021. She was confirmed by the Senate as director on December 12, 2019, by a 52–39…
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Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn are artists who collaborate on creating art video games, most prominently as Tale of Tales. From 2018 to 2024, Harvey was Professor of Games at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.
1994–
Aurielle Marie (born 1994) is an American poet and activist. Their debut collection Gumbo Ya Ya received the 2020 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry.
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Aurin Squire is an African-American playwright, screenwriter, and reporter. He has written numerous plays, while his reporting has appeared in The New Republic, Talking Points Memo, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, and ESPN, among other outlets.
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Aurora James (born on July 12, 1984) is a Canadian fashion designer and businesswoman. She is well-known for her work in sustainable fashion and for starting the organization 15 Percent Pledge, which promotes greater representation of Black-owned companies…
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Doña Aurora Pinedo y Barra (1910 – 18 April 1992) was the Princess Regent of the Afro-Bolivians from 1954 to 1992. As her father, Bonifacio I, had no male heirs, she succeeded him as princess regent following his death in 1954.
Dates not recorded
Austin Barrow was an American state legislator in Arkansas. He represented Phillips County, Arkansas in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1871.
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Austin Ardinel Chesterfield "Tom" Clarke, (July 26, 1934 – June 26, 2016), was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and short story writer who was based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Among his notable books are novels such as The Polished Hoe (2002), memoirs…
1995–
Austin Crute (born October 24, 1995) is an American actor best known for his roles in the Netflix series Daybreak and the films Booksmart and They/Them.
1910–1996
Austin Hansen (January 28, 1910 – January 23, 1996) was a Black American photographer known for his chronicling of life in Harlem.
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Austin Jarriel Jackson (born February 1, 1987) is an American former professional baseball center fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, San Francisco…
1914–1977
Austin LeCount Fickling (May 11, 1914 – March 6, 1977) was the first African-American judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the highest court for the District of Columbia.
1827–
Austin Reed (1823?–?) is the author (as Rob Reed) of The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict, reportedly the first prison memoir by an African American. Born in Rochester, New York State, Reed was apprenticed to a local farmer in 1832. After being…
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Austin Steward (c. 1793 – February 15, 1869) was an African-American abolitionist and writer. Born into slavery in Prince William County, he was taken at age seven with the William Helm household to New York in 1800.
1985–
Austin Dwayne Trout (born September 18, 1985) is an American professional boxer and bare-knuckle boxer. In boxing he held the World Boxing Association (WBA) light middleweight title (Regular version) from 2011 to 2013. He extended his championship legacy…
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Auston Levi-Jesaiah Trusty (born August 12, 1998) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center-back for Scottish Premiership club Celtic and the United States national team. In club soccer, Trusty played in the USL Championship for…
1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Autauga – Conecuh”.
1831
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA first edition of Samuel Warner's "Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene Which Was Witnessed in Southampton County (Virginia) On Monday The 22nd, of August Last," an account of the rebellion of enslaved persons led by Nat Turner. The…
1919
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Authentic History of the Negro World War” (Books).
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