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1810 Frederic Chopin
1848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece.
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1847 Alexaner Graham Bell
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1394 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsored Portuguese voyages of discovery
1678 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer.
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1824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame)
1908 Rex Harrison
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1619 Cyrano de Bergerac
1756 Aaron Burr, dualist
1812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking.
1906 Lou Costello
1937 Valentina Tereshkova, 1st woman cosmonaut
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1849 Luther Burbank, plant breeder
1875 Maurice Ravel
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1787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery
1859 Kenneth Grahame, author, "The Wind in the Willows"
1879 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
@09
1824 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford Univ.
1934 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man into space
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1928 James Earl Ray
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1903 Lawrence Welk
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1831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.
1832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts.
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1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer.
1864 Casey Jones
1879 Albert Einstein
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1767 Andrew Jackson, 7th President (1828-1836)
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1751 James Madison, 4th President (1809-1817)
1836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car.
1912 Pat Nixon
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1804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellance.
1834 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer
1917 Nat King Cole
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1782 John C. Calhoun, statesman
1837 Grover Cleveland, President (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
1858 Rudolf Diesel, invented an engine.
1869 Neville Chamberlain
1932 John Updike, poet and novelist.
1939 Charlie Pride
1961 Pillsbury Dough Boy
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1623 Blaise Pascal
1849 Wyatt Earp
1860 William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner'
1921 Louis Jourdan
@20
1856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management.
1904 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism.
1928 Mr. Rogers (remember his neighborhood ?)
1948 Bobby Orr
@21
1685 Johann Sebastian Bach
1768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist
1869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame.
@22
1947 L.B. McCuskee
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1908 Joan Crawford
1912 Werner von Braun, rocketeer
@24
1930 Steve McQueen
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1920 Howard Cosell
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1874 Robert Frost, poet
1911 Tennessee Williams
1925 Pierre Boulez, French composer.
1931 Leonard Nimoy, beam him up, Mr. Scott.
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1813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives)
1845 Wilhelm Roentgen (X-rays man !).
1863 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce.
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1790 John Tyler, 10th President (1841-1845)
1819 Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive oil well in US.
1867 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911).
1937 Billy Carter
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1719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote 1st history of music in English
1853 Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear
1945 Eric Clapton
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1596 Rene Descartes, he thought, therefore he was
1732 Joseph Haydn, composer, helped develop the Classical style.
1809 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
1854 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine.
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