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Today's Anniversary – Thursday, January 22


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Births

* 1981 Ben Moody Two Grammy Awards winner, a former guitarist of Evanescence, the worldwide known band he co-founded with Amy Lee in the mid-1990s, and now a solo artist.
* 1971 Stan Collymore Professional English soccer player in the mid-to-late 1990's He is known as much for his footballing talents as his controversial off-the-field activites.
* 1964 Nigel Benn English former boxer who held world titles at both Middleweight and Super Middleweight.
* 1948 Northern Calloway Played David on Sesame Street from 1971 through 1989, and also voiced Muppet characters such as Same Sound Brown.
* 1938 Peter Beard American photographer.
* 1932 Piper Laurie American actress.
* 1931 Sam Cooke Better known under the stage name Sam Cooke, was an American gospel, R&B, soul, and pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur.
* 1931 Claire Rayner English nurse, journalist, broadcaster and novelist, best known for her role for many years as an agony aunt.
* 1920 Irving Kristol American columnist, journalist, and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism.
* 1909 U Thant Burmese diplomat, who served as the third Secretary-General of the United Nations (1961–1971).
* 1908 Lev Davidovich Landau Soviet physicist, who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.
* 1906 Robert E. Howard American writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories, published primarily in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s.
* 1903 Fritz Houtermans Dutch-Austrian-German atomic and nuclear physicist who made important contributions to geochemistry and cosmochemistry.
* 1897 Leslie Sarony Born Leslie Legge Frye, was a British entertainer, singer and songwriter.
* 1886 Isabel Paterson Best-selling writer, influential literary critic, and libertarian philosopher.
* 1877 Hjalmar Schacht Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic, and President of the Reichsbank under the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1939.
* 1874 Leonard Eugene Dickson Often called "L E Dickson", was an American mathematician.
* 1788 Lord Byron Generally known as Lord Byron, was an Anglo-Scottish poet and leading figure in Romanticism.
* 1729 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era.
* 1654 Richard Blackmore English poet, religious writer and physician.
* 1561 Francis Bacon English philosopher, statesman and essayist.

Deaths

† 2010 Jean Simmons English actress.
† 2003 Marvin Bower American business leader, considered by the Harvard Business School as "the father of modern management consulting.
† 2003 Bill Mauldin Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from the United States, who became famous for his "Willie and Joe" cartoons during World War II.
† 1990 Roman Vishniac Renowned Russian-American photographer of poor Jews in Eastern European ghettos in the 1930s.
† 1980 Peter (artist) Schmidt British artist, painter, pioneering multimedia exhibitor, and an influential teacher.
† 1973 Lyndon B. Johnson Often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician.
† 1957 Ralph Barton Perry American philosopher.
† 1945 Arthur Symons British poet and critic.
† 1922 Pope Benedict XV Born Giacomo della Chiesa, reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from September 3, 1914 to January 22, 1922.
† 1915 Anna Bartlett Warner American writer, the author of several books, and of poems set to music as hymns and religious songs for children.
† 1901 Victoria of the United Kingdom Queen of the United Kingdom from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1876 until her death.
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