What do economist Adam Smith, activist Dorothea Dix, singer Billie Holiday, baseball player Ty Cobb, and the last of the Russian royals, the Romanovs, have in common?
All died on July 17.
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Adam Smith (1723-1790) was a Scottish philosopher whose study Wealth of Nations secured his reputation as a founding father of free market economics.
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