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People from the Upper West Side
- Lady GagaStefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on the 28th of March 1986, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. Her parents were Cynthia Louise and Joseph…
- Jack KerouacOn the 17th of May 1928, a six-year-old boy named Jack Kerouac knelt in a church pew in Lowell, Massachusetts. He made his first Confession that day and…
- Miles DavisMiles Dewey Davis III arrived in the world on the 26th of May 1926, born into an affluent African-American family in Alton, Illinois.
- Aaron CoplandAaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, on the 14th of November 1900. He grew up above his family's store at 628 Washington Avenue.
- Sergei RachmaninoffSergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff entered the world on the 28th of March 1873 in a family estate located near Staraya Russa.
- Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov arrived in the United States on the 3rd of February 1923, aboard the RMS Baltic at age three. His family traveled from Petrovichi, Russian SFSR…
- Charles RosenCharles Rosen was born in New York City on the 5th of May 1927. His father Irwin Rosen worked as an architect while his mother Anita Rosen acted and played…