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J. Allen Hynek
American astronomer.
Born May 1st, 1910 in Chicago.
Died April 27th, 1986 at 75 years old in Scottsdale (brain cancer).
Occupations
academic, astronomer, astrophysicist, physicist, ufologist, university teacher, writer
Wikipedia
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. Martin Luther King Jr.