Timeline Sunday 23 May 1937

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Sunday 23 May 1937

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Events on Sunday 23 May 1937 1

1937 John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) Died 23 May 1937, aged 97 American businessman who founded Standard Oil and became the richest person of his era. In later life he gave away much of his fortune, founding the Rockefeller Foundation and the University of Chicago.

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