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Venetia Burney
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 15 years ago |
Date of birth | July 11,1918 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Oxford |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | April 30,2009 |
Died | Banstead |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | Edward Phair |
Parents | Charles Fox Burney |
Education | Newnham College, University of Cambridge |
University of Cambridge | |
Downe House School | |
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ID | 1360320 |
Venetia Burney Life story
Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney, as an English girl of 11 years old, was credited by Clyde Tombaugh with first suggesting the name Pluto for the planet he discovered in 1930. She was living in Oxford, England, at the time. As an adult she worked as an accountant and a teacher.