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Born today:
Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur) 1364 Dolly Madison 1768 Honore de Balzac 1799 John Stuart Mill 1806 Henri Rousseau 1844 John Jacob Astor 1886 Adela Rogers St. Johns 1894 Jimmy Stewart 1908 Moshe Dayan 1915 Lord Harlech 1918 George Gobel 1919 Constance Towers 1933 Joe Cocker 1944 Cher 1945 Ronald Prescott Reagan 1958 Bronson Pinchot 1959
Died today:
Christopher Columbus 1506 Sir Max Beerbohm 1956 Gilda Radner 1989
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