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Jim Thorpe
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- Famous Baseball Players
- Famous Basketball Players
Jim Thorpe
Baseball Player, Basketball Player, Boxer, Football Player, Hockey Player, Track and Field Athlete / 1888 - 1953
Jim Thorpe was a Native American professional football and baseball player, known for his all-around athleticism. He was a gold-medal runner at the 1912 Olympics.
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T.S. Eliot
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- Famous Nobel Prize Winners
- Famous People Born in 1888
T.S. Eliot
Writer / 1888 - 1965
T.S. Eliot was an American-born English poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century.
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Dale Carnegie
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- Famous Fiction Authors
- Famous People Born in 1888
Dale Carnegie
Entrepreneur, Author / 1888 - 1955
Dale Carnegie is the author of How To Win Friends and Influence People, one of the bestselling self-help books of all time.
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John Logie Baird
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- Famous Scottish People
- Famous Leos
- Famous Inventors
John Logie Baird
Engineer, Inventor / 1888 - 1946
Scottish engineer John Logie Baird was the first man to televise pictures of objects in motion. He also demonstrated color television, in 1928.
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Irving Berlin
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- Best Song Oscar Winners
- The Ed Sullivan Show Guests
Irving Berlin
Songwriter / 1888 - 1989
Irving Berlin was one of the most prolific and popular songwriters of the 20th century, counting among his many hits "White Christmas" and "Cheek to Cheek."
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Joseph P. Kennedy
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- The Kennedy Family
- Famous Virgoans
- Famous People Named Joseph
Joseph P. Kennedy
Business Leader, Diplomat / 1888 - 1969
Joseph P. Kennedy is best known as the father of three political leaders: President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Representative Ted Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, who served as a U.S. senator and attorney general.
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