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United States Army soldiers
- Jimi HendrixJohnny Allen Hendrix arrived in Seattle on the 27th of November 1942. His father Al Hendrix was stationed in Alabama during the birth and could not visit due…
- Edgar Allan PoeOn the 27th of May 1827, a young man named Edgar A. Perry enlisted in the United States Army under an assumed name. He was actually eighteen years old and…
- Al GoreOn the 31st of March 1948, Albert Arnold Gore Jr. was born in Washington, D.C., the second child of a U.S. Representative and his wife Pauline LaFon Gore.
- Clint EastwoodClinton Eastwood Jr. arrived at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco on the 31st of May 1930. Nurses nicknamed him Samson because he weighed more…
- Buster KeatonJoseph Frank Keaton arrived in Piqua, Kansas on the 4th of October 1895. His father Joe ran a traveling medicine show called the Mohawk Indian Medicine…
- Edgar Rice BurroughsEdgar Rice Burroughs was born on the 1st of September 1875, in Chicago, Illinois. He was the fourth son of Major George Tyler Burroughs and his wife Mary…
- Jack KirbyJacob Kurtzberg arrived at 147 Essex Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on the 28th of August 1917. His parents Rose and Benjamin were…
- Steve DitkoStephen John Ditko was born on the 2nd of November 1927 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. His parents were second-generation Americans descended from Rusyn…
- Edmund WilsonEdmund Wilson Jr. entered the world on the 8th of May 1895 in Red Bank, New Jersey. His father Edmund Wilson Sr. served as the state Attorney General before…
- George LowGeorg Michael Löw was born near Vienna, Austria, on the 10th of June 1926. His parents Artur and Gertrude Löw ran a prosperous manufacturing business before…
- Timothy LearyTimothy Francis Leary was born on the 22nd of October 1920 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He grew up as an only child in a strict Irish Catholic household.
- Ice-TTracy Lauren Marrow arrived in the world on the 16th of February 1958. He was born in Newark, New Jersey to Solomon and Alice Marrow.
- Saul ZaentzSaul Zaentz was born on the 28th of February 1921 in Passaic, New Jersey. He grew up as the youngest of five children to Polish Jewish immigrants who had…
- John McCarthy (computer scientist)John McCarthy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 4th of September 1927. His father came from Cromane, a small fishing village in County Kerry, Ireland.
- Thomas P. StaffordThomas Patten Stafford was born on the 17th of September 1930, in Weatherford, Oklahoma. His father worked as a dentist and his mother had been a teacher…
- Earl LloydEarl Francis Lloyd was born in Alexandria, Virginia on the 3rd of April 1928. His father worked in the coal industry while his mother stayed home to raise…