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1723 - John Witherspoon, clergyman & signer of Declaration of Independence |
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1744 - John Jeffries, colonial physician & meteorologist |
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1778 - Sir Robert Peel, (C) British P.M. (1834-46) & founder of Tories |
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1837 - Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody |
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1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, developed pneumatic rubber tire |
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1848 - Belle Starr, of the wild west |
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1878 - Andre-Gustave Citron, French auto maker |
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1900 - Adlai Stevenson, (D) Ill gov & pres candidate |
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1906 - John Carradine, actor |
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1907 - Norton Simon, business executive |
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1914 - William Burroughs, U.S. novelist (Naked Lunch) |
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1919 - Red Buttons, comedian/Actor |
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1926 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher (NY Times) |
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1934 - Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HR's) |
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1939 - Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster |
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1946 - Charlotte Rampling, in England |
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1948 - Barbara Hershey, in Atlanta Georgia |
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1951 - Elizabeth Swados, American composer & playwright |