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- Jocko HendersonDouglas Henderson was born on the 8th of March 1918 in Baltimore. He grew up there with both parents working as teachers.
- Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr.A bell rang at Chicago's WJJD radio station in 1943, marking the moment Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr. began his career under Al Benson.
- John GielgudOn the 14th of April 1904, Sir Arthur John Gielgud was born in a house on Cromwell Road in South Kensington. He entered the world as the third child of Frank…
- Pierre TrudeauPierre Trudeau was born at home in Outremont, Quebec, on the 18th of October 1919. His father Charles-Émile Trudeau owned a gas station chain and the…
- Bruno KoschmiderBruno Koschmider entered the world in 1926 within the Free City of Danzig. This port city now bears the name Gdańsk and sits on the Baltic Sea coast.
- Robert R. GilruthRobert Rowe Gilruth was born on the 8th of October 1913 in Nashwauk, Minnesota. He moved to Duluth when he was nine years old and graduated from Duluth…
- Alec GuinnessAlec Guinness de Cuffe entered the world at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South in Maida Vale, London, on the 2nd of April 1914.
- L. Sprague de CampLyon Sprague de Camp was born on the 27th of November 1907 in New York City. He grew up as one of three sons to Lyon de Camp, a businessman dealing in real…
- Rayner UnwinIn 1936, a ten-year-old boy named Rayner Unwin sat at his father's desk in Hampstead, London. He held a manuscript titled The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.