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Eldon Rathburn
4/21/1916 - Canadian film composer
(NN&C FunFact: Rathburn wrote over 100 film scores between 1947 and 1976
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K. H. Ting (nee Ting Kuang-hsun)
9/20/1915 - Chinese Anglican bishop
(NN&C FunFact: Ting is president emeritus of the China Christian
Council, the government-approved Protestant church in China.)
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Svend Asmussen
2/28/1916 - Danish jazz violinist, "The Fiddling Viking".
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Abbe’ Pierre
8/5/1912- French humanitarian – founder of Emmaus movement that focuses
on helping the poor.
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Jean-Pierre Vernant
1/4/1914 - French historian and anthropologist.
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Millvina Dean
2/2/1912 British Titanic Survivor.
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House Peters, Jr.
1/12/1916 - American character actor (NN&C FunFact: Peters was the first
live-action Mr. Clean in a series of television commercials starting in
1958.)
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Marguerite Patten
11/4/1915 - British home economist, food writer, and broadcaster (NN&C
FunFact: Patten, whose first televised cooking show aired in 1947, was
awarded the OBE in 1991 for "services to the art of cookery".)
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Pietro Ingrao
3/30/1915 - Italian politician (NN&C FunFact: Ingrao is considered to be
the elder statesman of the Italian left.)
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Khushwant Singh
2/2/1915 - Indian author (NN&C FunFact: Singh writes exclusively in English.)
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Corinne "Lindy" Boggs
3/13/1916 - American politician, Louisiana congresswoman (1973-1991) and
ambassador to the Vatican (1997-2001) (NN&C FunFact: Boggs is the mother
of journalist Cokie Roberts.)
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Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland
(nee Lilian May Davies)
8/30/1915 - Welsh-born Swedish royal.
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Rafael Caldera
1/24/1916 - Venezuelan president (1969-1974 and 1994-1999) |
