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2001 deaths
- AaliyahAaliyah Dana Haughton was born on the 16th of January 1979, in Brooklyn, New York. Her family moved to Detroit when she was five years old.
- Poul AndersonPoul William Anderson arrived in the world on the 25th of November 1926. He was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania to parents who had emigrated from Denmark.
- George HarrisonOn the 25th of February 1943, George Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool. He grew up as the youngest of four children to Harold and…
- Claude ShannonClaude Elwood Shannon was born on the 30th of April 1916 in a hospital near Petoskey, Michigan. His family lived in the small town of Gaylord where he spent…
- Herbert A. SimonHerbert Alexander Simon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the 15th of June 1916. His father Arthur Simon arrived from Germany in 1903 after earning an…
- Abe SilversteinAbraham Silverstein entered the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1925. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering by 1929.