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<html> <head> <title>West Chester, PA</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> West Chester, PA BOROUGH Population: 17861 (2000 census)County: <a href="/geo/167/000143735/">Chester County</a> SCHOOLS <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>School</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/edu/097/000079857/">West Chester University</a></td><td><center>1871</center></td></tr></table> COMPANY HEADQUARTERS <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>Company</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/company/000/000124625/">QVC</a></td><td><center>1986</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/092/000136681/">Commodore Business Machines</a></td><td><center>1962</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/823/000172307/">VWR International</a></td><td><center> </center></td></tr></table> BIRTHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_births"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/223/000092944/">Samuel Barber</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jan-1981</tt></td> <td>Adagio for Strings</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/547/000047406/">Nick Berg</a></td> <td><center>Victim</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Apr-1978</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-2004</tt></td> <td>US contractor, beheaded on Iraq videotape</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/572/000055407/">Smedley Butler</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jul-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1940</tt></td> <td>Exposed the 1933 coup plot</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/187/000109857/">Brandon DiCamillo</a></td> <td><center>TV Personality</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1976</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Jackass and Viva La Bam</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/932/000173413/">Jim Furyk</a></td> <td><center>Golf</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1970</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Winner, 2003 US Open</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/830/000346789/">Kyle Gallner</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Oct-1986</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Cassidy Casablancas on Veronica Mars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/348/000401142/">Sidney Homer</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Oct-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-1983</tt></td> <td>A History of Interest Rates</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/610/000168106/">Charles MacVeagh</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Dec-1931</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Japan, 1925-28</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/448/000027367/">Bam Margera</a></td> <td><center>Skateboarder</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1979</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Skateboarder, appears on Jackass</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/033/000113691/">Matisyahu</a></td> <td><center>Rapper</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jul-1979</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Hasidic toaster</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/303/000109973/">Matthew McGrory</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-May-1973</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-2005</tt></td> <td>Big Fish</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/945/000086687/">Bayard Rustin</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Aug-1987</tt></td> <td>Organized the 1963 March on Washington</td> </tr> </table> DEATHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_deaths"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/891/000366790/">Philip D. Curtin</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jun-2009</tt></td> <td>The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/588/000092312/">Bruce Haack</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-May-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Sep-1988</tt></td> <td>The Electric Lucifer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/769/000206151/">Dorothy Maynor</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Feb-1996</tt></td> <td>Soprano, founder of Harlem School of the Arts</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=79856" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2017 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/425/000002419/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/425/2419/s2419.jpg" width=128> Gavin Newsom's Fairytale Wedding</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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