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- Tom Avera was born on 21 February 1921 in Smithfield, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for Lights Out (1946), Suspense (1949) and Studio One (1948). He died on 24 September 1998 in Pittsboro, North Carolina, USA.
- Martha Flowers was born on 15 February 1926 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. She died on 11 March 2022 in Pittsboro, North Carolina, USA.
- Doris June Betts (nee) Waugh was born in Statesville, North Carolina in 1932, the only child of Mary Ellen and William Elmore. In 1950 she graduated from Statesville High School, and attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. While an undergraduate student she married then law student Lowry Betts, who later became a district judge in Chatham and Orange Counties, North Carolina; they had three children. She won the Mademoiselle College Fiction contest during her sophomore year (1953) for the story "Mr. Shawn and Father Scott". After working as a newspaper reporter for a number of years, she joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1966. She received the UNC Putnam Book Prize in 1954 for her first book, The Gentle Insurrection, three Sir Walter Raleigh Awards (1958, 1965, and 1973) for the best fiction books by a North Carolinian, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Writing (1958-1959), the North Carolina Award and Medal (1975), the Distinguished Service Award for Women (Chi Omega), and the John Dos Passos Award from Longwood College. She has also written articles for professional journals, lectured at writers' conferences, and delivered speeches on major college campuses. In 1980 she was named a UNC Alumni Distinguished Professor of English. She received the Tanner Award for distinguished undergraduate teaching in 1973 and the Katherine Carmichael Teaching Award in 1980. The Ugliest Pilgrim", the most widely printed of her stories, became an Academy Award winner as a short film titled "Violet", and in 1998 was the basis of a musical that won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Coinciding with her retirement from teaching, an endowed chair was named in her honor, The Doris Betts Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing. She served as the Chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
- Abby Overton was born on 5 June 1970 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Invisible Me (2003). She died on 21 October 2021 in Pittsboro, North Carolina, USA.
- Actress
Sherry Sherwood was born on 25 January 1928 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She was an actress. She died on 2 April 2020 in Pittsboro, North Carolina, USA.