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Today's Anniversary – Thursday, January 01


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Births

* 1973 DJ Shadow Prominent musical producer and turntablist.
* 1967 Ihor Pavlyuk Ukrainian writer and research worker.
* 1958 Grandmaster Flash Better known as Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop musician and DJ.
* 1950 James Richardson American poet.
* 1947 Jon Corzine Financial executive and a former American politician, who served as the 54th Governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010.
* 1944 Omar Bashir Has been the chief of state of Sudan since 1989, when he led a bloodless military coup against the existing government.
* 1940 Leonard Susskind American physicist and the Felix Bloch professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University in the field of string theory and quantum field theory.
* 1935 Benjamin W. Lee Or Ben Lee, was a Korean-American theoretical physicist.
* 1933 Joe Orton English playwright.
* 1925 Mario Merz Italian artist.
* 1924 Charlie Munger Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation, the diversified investment corporation chaired by investor Warren Buffett.
* 1922 Ernest Hollings Served as a Democratic United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005 as well as Governor of South Carolina (1959–1963) and Lieutenant Governor (1955–1959).
* 1919 J. D. Salinger American author, most famous for his novel The Catcher in the Rye.
* 1909 Barry Goldwater American politician.
* 1895 J. Edgar Hoover Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1924 until 1972.
* 1890 Karel Capek Czech author and playwright, who introduced and made popular the word "robot" as a word for artificial human beings, which first appeared in his play R U R in 1920.
* 1887 Wilhelm Canaris German admiral and head of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944.
* 1879 E. M. Forster English novelist, short story writer, and essayist.
* 1863 Pierre de Coubertin French educationalist and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee, and is considered the father of the modern Olympic Games.
* 1854 James Frazer Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
* 1839 James Ryder Randall Journalist and poet.
* 1830 Paul Hamilton Hayne Nineteenth century Southern poet, critic, and editor of minor but historical distinction.
* 1819 Arthur Hugh Clough English poet, and the brother of Anne Clough.
* 1803 Richard Henry Horne English poet and critic.
* 1768 Maria Edgeworth Popular and influential Anglo-Irish novelist, short-story writer and educationalist.
* 1766 Antoine-Vincent Arnault French dramatist.
* 1745 Anthony Wayne United States Army general and statesman.
* 0 Leonid Brezhnev Effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, at first in partnership with others.

Deaths

† 2012 Kiro Gligorov First democraticaly elected president of the Republic of Macedonia.
† 2005 Eugene J. Martin African American visual artist.
† 2005 Shirley Chisholm American politician, educator and author.
† 2005 Asher Peres Israeli physicist, considered a pioneer in quantum information theory.
† 1997 Townes Van Zandt Country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet.
† 1995 E. P. Wigner Hungarian physicist and mathematician.
† 1992 Grace Hopper U S Naval officer, and an early computer programmer.
† 1982 Margot Grahame English actress.
† 1970 Howard Scott Founder of the Technocracy movement.
† 1960 Margaret Sullavan American stage and film actress.
† 1956 Frank Hague Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey.
† 1953 Hank Williams American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, who has become an icon of country music, Rock 'n' Roll and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
† 1932 C. P. Scott British journalist, publisher and politician.
† 1894 Heinrich Hertz German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell.
† 1716 William Wycherley English dramatist of the Restoration period.
† 1697 Filippo Baldinucci Italian art historian and biographer.
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