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Today's Birthdays of Famous People & Celebrities:
Giovanni Paisiello1740
Giovanni Paisiello
Composer - Il Barbiere di Siviglia
J. M. Barrie1860
J. M. Barrie
Author - Peter Pan
image not available1882
Henry J. Kaiser
Business -
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Philosopher - Raciovitalismo, Razón Histórica
Hank Snow1914
Hank Snow
Country Musician - "I'm Movin' On
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Carlo Maria Giulini
Conductor -
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Manfred Eigen
Physicist -
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Alan Bennett
Actor -
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Glenda Jackson
Actor -
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Charles Simic
Poet - The World Doesn't End
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Candice Bergen
Actor -
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Billy Joel
Singer/Songwriter -
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Anne-Sofie von Otter
Singer - Mezzo-soprano

Today's Death Anniversaries of Famous People & Celebrities:
Dietrich Buxtehude1707
Dietrich Buxtehude
Composer - Baroque period organist
Francis Hopkinson1791
Francis Hopkinson
Author - The Ballad of the Kegs
Friedrich Schiller1805
Friedrich Schiller
Playwright - Ode an die Freude
image not available1860
Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Writer -
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Ezio Pinza
Singer - Bass
image not available1903
Paul Gaugin
Painter - French post-impressionist painter
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Author -
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Canada Lee
Actor - Cry, the Beloved Country
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Marion Lorne
Actor - Played Aunt Clara on the TV series "Bewitched"
Walter Reuther1970
Walter Reuther
Labor Leader - UAW and CIO labor leader
James Jones1977
James Jones
Author - From Here to Eternity
Aldo Moro1978
Aldo Moro
Head of State - Kidnapped and murdered PM of Italy
image not available1981
Nelson Algren
Writer -
Edmond O1985
Edmond O'Brien
Actor - D.O.A.
image not available1986
Tenzing Norgay
Explorer - With Edmund Hillary, first two men on Everest
image not available1993
Penelope Gilliatt
Writer -
Dana Plato1999
Dana Plato
Actor - Kimberly on Diff'rent Strokes
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Alan King
Comic -
Recent Deaths:
Dick Wilson1916

Dick Wilson
Actor - Ladies, please don't squeeze the Charmin!
image not available1929
Ira Levin
Novelist - Rosemary's Baby
Norman Mailer1923
Norman Mailer
Author - Armies of the Night
Paul Tibbets1915
Paul Tibbets
Military - Dropped "Little Boy" on Hiroshima
Robert Goulet1933
Robert Goulet
Actor - Baritone star of stage and screen
Most Influencial People:
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Jesus of Nazareth
Religion - Son of God
Albert Einstein, 19471879

Albert Einstein
Physicist - Theory of relativity
Isaac Newton1643
Isaac Newton
Physicist - Father of modern physics
Paul the Apostle0010

Paul the Apostle
Religion - Apostle to the Gentiles
Moses1393

Moses
Religion - Wrote the Torah
Muhammad0570
Muhammad
Religion - Muslim Prophet
Cai Lun0050
Cai Lun
Inventor - Inventor of paper
Johannes Gutenberg1398
Johannes Gutenberg
Inventor - Inventor of movable type
Christopher Columbus1451
Christopher Columbus
Explorer - Re-discovered the New World
Louis Pasteur1822
Louis Pasteur
Chemist - Discovered process of pasteurization
Galileo Galilei1564
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer - Invented telescope
Aristotle0384
Aristotle
Philosopher - Politics
Euclid of Alexandria0365

Euclid of Alexandria
Mathematician - The Elements
Adolf Hitler1889

Adolf Hitler
Head of State - Teppichfresser
Osama bin Laden1957
Osama Bin Laden
Terrorist - Head of al Qaeda terrorist organization
Abraham Lincoln1809
Abraham Lincoln
President - 16th US President, 1861-65
George W. Bush1946
George W. Bush
President - 43rd US President
Ronald Reagan1911
Ronald Reagan
President - 40th US President, 1981-89
Martin Luther1483
Martin Luther
Religion - Created Protestant movement
Thomas Edison1847
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor - Invented the light bulb
Buddha0563
Gautama Buddha
Religion - Enlightened One
Confucius0551
Confucius
Religion - Founder of Confucianism
Martin Luther King, Jr1929
Martin Luther King
Activist - African American civil rights activist
William Shakespeare1564
William Shakespeare
Playwright - Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth
Karl Marx1818
Karl Marx
Philosopher - Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto


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Pancho Villa1878
Pancho Villa
Military - Revolutionary, invaded United States
Nicanor Abelardo1893
Nicanor Abelardo
Composer - Kundiman songs
Frances Farmer1913
Frances Farmer
Actor - Come and Get It
Jurnee Smollett1986
Jurnee Smollett
Actor - On Our Own
Josef Stalin1879

Josef Stalin
Head of State - Dictator, Soviet Union
Jesse Jackson, 19831941
Jesse Jackson
Activist - Rainbow Coalition
image not available1848
Wyatt Earp
Government -
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Duke Ellington
Musician -
Raven-Symoné1985
Raven-Symone
Actor - That's So Raven
Che Guevara1928
Che Guevara
Revolutionary - Symbol of rebellion


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