Venetia Burney was born on July 11, 1918 and died on April 30, 2009. Venetia Burney would have been 90 years old at the time of death or 97 years old today.
Venetia Burney was born on July 11, 1918.
Fanny Burney died on January 6, 1840 at the age of 87.
Charles Fox Burney died in 1925.
Henry Burney died in 1845.
Willard H. Burney died in 1943.
Venetia Burney died on April 30, 2009 at the age of 90.
Venetia Burney was born on July 11, 1918.
Venetia Burney was born on July 11, 1918.
Venetia Burney died on April 30, 2009 at the age of 90.
Venetia Phair's birth name is Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney.
I don't believe she died yet.
Actually the name Pluto was proposed by a an eleven-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, England named Venetia Burney.
At age 11, in 1930, Venetia Burney of England suggested the name "Pluto" for the newly discovered ninth planet.
She didn't discover Pluto, instead it was a man called Clyde Tombaugh; but she was 11 years old when she suggesed that the planet discovered in 1930 should be called Pluto, after the Roman god of the underworld.
a 12 year old girl called youcrechea verni came up with the name Pluto
Venetia Katherine Douglas Phair, born in 1919, was the person to suggest the name Pluto for the planet discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old and lived in Oxford, England.(Pluto is an alternate name for Hades, the Greek god of the underworld.)See one of the links below for a full explanation.Pluto was named after the roman god, Pluto. he was the god of dardness and of the underworld.Pluto got its name from an 11-year-old Venetia Burney of Oxford, England, who suggested to her grandfather that the new world get its name from the Roman god of the underworld. Her grandfather then passed the name on to Lowell Observatory.
Fanny Burney was born on June 13, 1752 and died on January 6, 1840. Fanny Burney would have been 87 years old at the time of death or 263 years old today.