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1544 - Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet |
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1731 - Robert Treat Paine, judge, signed Decl of Ind |
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1811 - Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, co-discovered Neptune |
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1885 - Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min |
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1898 - Dorothy Gish, silent film actress (Orphans of the Storm) |
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1903 - Dorothy Schiff, (NY Post) |
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1903 - Lawrence Welk, conductor (champagne bubbles) |
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1914 - Ralph Ellison, writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act) |
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1916 - Sir Harold Wilson, (Labour), British PM (1964-70, 1974-76) |
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1926 - Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader |
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1931 - Rupert Murdoch, publisher, Australia |
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1934 - George Stamatoyannopoulos, geneticist |
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1934 - Sam Donaldson, ABC correspondent |
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1934 - Tina Louise, marooned with Gilligan, professor & Mary Ann |
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1936 - Antonin Scalia, Trenton NJ, Supreme Court Justice |