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Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include John C. Calhoun, the first U.S. vice president to resign from that office, in 1782; Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th president of the United States, in 1837; Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1844; German engineer Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the engine that bears his name, in 1858; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1869; clairvoyant and therapist Edgar Cayce in 1877; actor Edward Everett Horton in 1886; race car driver Andy Granatelli in 1923 (age 83); actor Peter Graves in 1926 (age 80); authors George Plimpton in 1927 and John Updike in 1932 (age 74); former South African President F.W. de Klerk in 1936 (age 70); country singer Charley Pride in 1938 (age 68); singer/songwriter Wilson Pickett in 1941; singer Irene Cara in 1959 (age 47); actress/singer Vanessa Williams in 1963 (age 45); Olympic skater Bonnie Blair in 1964 (age 42); and rapper/actress Queen Latifah in 1970 (age 36).
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What I once considered boring, I now consider paradise.
Faust
"If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.... If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed." -- Thomas Jefferson to Col. Yancey, 1816
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