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Today's Anniversary – Friday, January 16


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Births

* 1980 Albert Pujols Better known as Albert Pujols, is a professional baseball player who has played his entire career in Major League Baseball for the St Louis Cardinals.
* 1974 Kate Moss Known as Kate Moss, is an iconic English supermodel and fashion designer who was once the "Face of Calvin Klein.
* 1933 Susan Sontag American essayist, literary critic, cultural theorist, and political activist.
* 1920 Jean-Pierre Vigier French physicist and assistant to Louis de Broglie.
* 1918 Stirling Silliphant Prolific American screenwriter and producer.
* 1910 Walter Schellenberg German Nazi who rose through the SS to become, following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944, head of foreign intelligence.
* 1909 Clement Greenberg American art critic best known as a champion of Abstract Expressionism.
* 1908 Ethel Merman Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning star of stage and film musicals.
* 1901 Laura Riding Controversial modernist American poet and literary critic, associated initially with the Fugitives and later with Robert Graves.
* 1874 Robert Service Canadian poet.
* 1872 Edward Gordon Craig Sometimes known as Gordon Craig, was a English modernist theatre practitioner; he worked as an actor, producer, director and scenic designer, as well as developing an influential body of theoretical writings.
* 1749 Vittorio Alfieri Italian dramatist, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy".
* 1741 Hester Thrale British literary salonni?re, and a friend and biographer of Dr Johnson.

Deaths

† 2009 John Mortimer English barrister and writer, most famous for his Rumpole of the Bailey series of books.
† 2001 Auberon Waugh English author and journalist, son of Evelyn Waugh.
† 1942 Carole Lombard Born Jane Alice Peters, was an American actress.
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