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Born Person description occupation position held country of citizenship given name 2007-01-29 AJ Dybantsa: American basketball player (born 2007) basketball player: Anicet: 2007-01-29 Ben Broggio: English footballer (born 2007) association football player: 2006-01-29 Ryan Sloan: American baseball pitcher baseball player: United States: Ryan ...
1660 – The four-year-old Charles XI became King of Sweden upon his father's death.; 1891 – Frances Coles was killed in the last of eleven unsolved murders of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London.
1966 – Sophie Tucker, Russian-born American singer (b. 1884) 1969 – George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor and singer (b. 1885) 1976 – Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908) 1977 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Bureau (b. 1894)
Nearly 100 years ago, one of the most fondly remembered U.S. presidents was born. John F. Kennedy was born May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, a little town just outside of center Boston.
1712 – Zebi Hirsch Kaidanover, Lithuanian-born rabbi and writer (b. c. 1650) [59] 1742 – Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French historian and author (b. 1670) 1747 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French general (b. 1675) 1748 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German organist and composer (b. 1684) 1754 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian and ...
Feb. 29—PLATTSBURGH — North Country residents Bonnie Black, Cindy Jennett, Sara Welch Munson and Bruce Kokernot are among the 5 million people globally celebrating their Leap Year births today ...
1955 – Hazel O'Connor, English-born Irish singer-songwriter and actress; 1955 – Páidí Ó Sé, Irish footballer and manager (d. 2012) 1955 – Debra Winger, American actress; 1956 – Loretta Schrijver, Dutch television host, news anchor; 1957 – Joan Benoit, American runner; 1957 – Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft, English politician
He used his art to reflect on war, peace and politics in a way that enabled people to open their eyes and gain new insight to such prevalent topics.