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1735 Paul Revere
1752 Betsy Ross
1895 J. Edgar Hoover
1919 J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'.
@02
1920 Isaac Asimov
@03
1840 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.
1892 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings.
1945 Stephen Stills
@04
1119 Thomas Beckett
1643 Sir Issac Newton
1809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind.
1838 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person)
@05
Sherlock Holmes
1209 Richard of Cornwall
1779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero
1855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor
@06
1412 Joan of Arc
1811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator
1878 Carl Sandburg
1882 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957)
@07
1800 Millard Fillmore, 13th President (1850-1853)
@08
1786 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank.
1862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co.
1868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
1931 Bill Graham
1935 Elvis Presley, singer.
1946 Tod Brannan
1947 David Bowie
@09
1870 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge.
1901 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip.
1913 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President (1968-1974)
@10
1738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys)
1877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic
precipitator, used for polution control and air ionizers.
@11
1755 Alexander Hamilton, the 1st Secretary of the US Treasury
1807 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University.
1942 Jim Croce
@12
1588 John Winthrop, 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1737 John Hancock
1893 Hermann Goering
1906 Tex Ritter
@13
1832 Horatio Alger, Jr.
1919 Robert Stack
@14
Albert Schweitzer, doctor, humanitarian, organist.
1741 Benidict Arnold
1892 Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
@15
1908 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
1929 Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer
@16
1874 Robert Service
1901 Batista
@17
1706 Benjamin Franklin
1771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.
1880 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
1942 Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.
@18
1779 Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, pocket chessboard
1782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st commercially useable barbed wire
1854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell.
1892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
1904 Cary Grant
@19
1736 James Watt, made the steam engine workable.
1807 Robert E. Lee
1809 Edgar Allen Poe
1839 Paul Cezanne, painter
1943 Janis Joplin
@20
1875 Andre Ampere
1896 Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns)
1930 Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
@21
1743 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton.
1813 John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US
1815 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia.
1924 Telly Savalas
@22
1561 Francis Bacon
@23
1756 Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy
1899 Humphrey Bogart
@24
1712 Frederick the Great
1888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft.
1948 John Belushi
@25
1759 Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
1874 Somerset Maugham, poet
1882 Virginia Woolf, author.
1919 Edwin Newman
@26
1880 Douglas MacArthur, he did return!
1925 Paul Newman
1944 Angela Davis
@27
1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll)
1832 Lewis Carroll
1850 Samuel Gompers, 1st president of the American Federation of Labor
1859 Kaiser Willhelm II
1931 Mordecai Richler
@28
1457 Henry VII
1855 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.
1936 Alan Alda
@29
1737 Thomas Paine
1843 William McKinley, 25th President (1897-1901)
1850 Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite
1860 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard)
1880 Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields)
1880 W.C. Fields
1901 Allen B DuMont, perfected 1st commercially practical cathode ray tube
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1882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (1933-1945)
1931 Gene Hackman
1937 Vanessa Redgrave
@31
1830 James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight'.
1872 Zane Gray, American West novelist
1919 Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player
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