biography
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Dublin, Louis Israel
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| male
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| lived:
| (1882–1969)
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| biography:
| Health statistician, born in Kovno, Lithuania. His family emigrated to New York (1886), where he turned his enthusiasm for biology and mathematics into a career as an actuary at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (1909–51). He influenced the keeping of accurate birth and death statistics across the country and wrote prolifically, including a once-popular book on suicides, To Be or Not To Be (1933). |
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