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Venetia Burney

Accountant and teacher
Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney was an English accountant and teacher. She is remembered as the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the dwarf planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she was 11 years old. Wikipedia
Born: July 11, 1918, Oxford, United Kingdom
Died: April 30, 2009 (age 90 years), Banstead, United Kingdom
Spouse: Edward Phair (m. 1947)
Children: Patrick Phair