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Today's Anniversary – Friday, January 09


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Births

* 1982 Duchess of Cambridge Catherine Often called Kate, is the wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, their marriage having occured on 29 April 2011.
* 1978 Chad Ocho Cinco American football wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League.
* 1971 Daniel Dumile American hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career - originally Zev Love X, most famously MF DOOM, and in side projects as King Geedorah, Metal Fingers and Viktor Vaughn.
* 1967 Dave Matthews South African-American musician, and actor.
* 1953 Javad Alizadeh Iranian professional cartoonist best known for his caricatures of politicians, comic actors, footballers, and a scientific philosophical humor on Relativity theory who has titled it 4D Humor.
* 1945 Levon Ter-Petrossian Sometimes transliterated Levon Ter-Petrosyan, was the President of Armenia from 1991 to 1998.
* 1941 Joan Baez American folk singer and songwriter, known for her distinctive vocal style as well as her outspoken political views.
* 1916 Vic Mizzy American songwriter for television and movies.
* 1913 Richard Nixon 37th U S President.
* 1908 Simone De Beauvoir French author and existentialist philosopher.
* 1900 Richard Halliburton American author.
* 1895 Lucian Truscott Successful U S Army General during World War II and CIA's Deputy Director for Coordination after the war.
* 1890 Kurt Tucholsky German journalist, satirist and lyricist.
* 1881 Lascelles Abercrombie Also known as the Georgian Laureate, was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets", a community which included Rupert Brooke and Robert Frost.
* 1728 Thomas Warton British Poet Laureate from 1785 until his death.

Deaths

† 1996 Walter M. (Jr.) Miller American science fiction writer, most famous for his novel A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for best novel.
† 1995 Peter Cook English satirist, writer and comedian who is widely regarded as the father of the British satire boom of the 1960s.
† 1990 Northern Calloway Played David on Sesame Street from 1971 through 1989, and also voiced Muppet characters such as Same Sound Brown.
† 1947 Karl Mannheim Hungarian-born social philosopher and sociologist, influential with his development of the sociology of knowledge.
† 1927 Houston Stewart Chamberlain British author, cultural critic, racial theorist, and philosopher of science.
† 1923 Katherine Mansfield Born Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp, was a New Zealand poet and writer of short fiction, who wrote under the name Katherine Mansfield.
† 1873 Napoleon III President of the French Republic (1849–1852) and Emperor of the French (1852–1870).
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