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14 Photos Of Successful People Who Were Born In The Year Of The Horse

They say people who were born in the year of the horse are animated, active and energetic ones who love taking centre stage. See if this rings true for the 14 successful people we found!

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EMMA WATSON made Britain's Richest 100 Young Millionaires at age 18 and was named Hollywood's highest paid actress at 19

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress and model. She rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series.

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JIMI HENDRIX is widely regarded as one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter.

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ARETHA FRANKLIN was named the Greatest Singers Of All Time by Rolling Stone Magazine and has won 18 Grammy Awards

Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and musician. Franklin began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklin's church as a child.

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WARREN BUFFETT was named one of the most influential people in the world in 2012; he also pledged to give away 99% of his fortune to philanthropic causes

Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist.

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JACKIE CHAN is a cultural icon who has been acting since the 1960s

Jackie Chan has received stars on the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars and the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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ISAAC NEWTON built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed Newton's method for approximating the roots of a function

Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727) was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT was the youngest President of the United States and also first of only three sitting presidents to have won the Nobel Peace Prize

Theodore Roosevelt is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity.

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SANDRA BULLOCK is listed as the highest-paid actress in the 2012 edition of the Guinness Book Of World Records

Sandra Annette Bullock (born July 26, 1964) is an American actress and producer.

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NELSON MANDELA is South Africa's first black president, he spent 27 years in prison for trying to overthrow the pro-apartheid government

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, activist, lawyer, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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DAVID CAMERON became the youngest British Prime Minister since the Earl of Liverpool 198 years earlier

David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party.

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JENNIFER LAWRENCE became the youngest person ever to be nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actress at age 22

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. Her first major role was as a lead cast member on TBS's The Bill Engvall Show (2007–2009) and she subsequently appeared in the independent films The Burning Plain (2008) and Winter's Bone (2010).

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LARRY C. PRICE is a photojournalist and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he describes what he does as "putting a frame around chaos, one image at a time"

The 1985 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography was awarded for a portfolio of work taken in Angola and El Salvador for two Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday magazine stories.

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In 1981 he won the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography, recognising images from Liberia published by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In 1985 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for images from war-torn Angola and El Salvador published by The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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CHOPIN was a child prodigy and leading symbol of the Romantic era as a Polish composer

Frédéric François Chopin (born 22 February or 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849), born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, was a Romantic-era Polish composer.

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RAY CHARLES went completely blind at age 7 but went on to becoming the pioneer of soul music during the 1950s

While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.

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