Birthdays for January the 1st:
1449 - Lorenzo de'Medici, (The Magnificent) of Florence
1481 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer
1735 - Paul Revere, US patriot and The British are coming
1745 - General Anthony Wayne, military leader ("Mad Anthony")
1752 - Elizabeth Griscom, (Betsy) Ross--flag maker
1819 - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet and friend of Matthew Arnold
1854 - Sir James Frazer, British anthropologist and author (The Golden Bough)
1864 - Alfred Stieglitz, father of modern photography
1867 - Lew Fields, comedian (of Weber & Fields)
1873 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (The Flies and The Bosses)
1879 - E.M. Forster, English novelist (Howard's End and A Passage to India)
1895 - J Edgar Hoover, Mr FBI
1900 - Xavier Cugat, bandleader
1909 - Barry Goldwater (R), former US senator from Az
1909 - Dana Andrews, actor (Battle of the Bulge and Laura)
1909 - John Glenn, astronaut
1911 - Hank Greenberg, Detroit Tiger Hall of Famer
1919 - Carole Landis
1919 - J D Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'
1922 - Ernest Hollings (D), US senator from SC
1925 - George Conner, NFL tackle and linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1927 - Yuri Grigorovich, Russian choreographer
1932 - Terry Moore, in Los Angeles Calif
1942 - Country Joe McDonald
1942 - Gennadi V. Sarafanov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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