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Famous People Who Died on January 8
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Galileo
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- Famous Aquarians
- Famous Astronomers
- Famous Scientists
Galileo
Astronomer / 1564 - 1642
Galileo was an Italian scientist who led the Scientific Revolution, proposing the then controversial idea of Copernicanism, the idea that earth orbits the sun.
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Eli Whitney
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- Famous Sagittarians
- Famous Inventors
- Famous People Born in Massachusetts
Eli Whitney
Inventor / 1765 - 1825
Eli Whitney invented not only the cotton gin, which increased the production (and wealth) of the South, but also the concept of mass production.
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Marco Polo
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- Famous Explorers
- Famous Italians
- Famous People Who Died on January 8
Marco Polo
Explorer, Journalist / 1254 - 1324
Venetian merchant and adventurer Marco Polo traveled from Europe to Asia in 1271-95. His wrote Il milione, known in English as the Travels of Marco Polo. -
Yvonne DeCarlo
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- TV Moms: 1960s
- Creepy Actors
- Famous Virgoans
Yvonne DeCarlo
Film Actress, Television Actress, Pin-up / 1922 - 2007
Actress Yvonne DeCarlo was Moses' wife in DeMille's The Ten Commandments, but is better known for playing the matriarch on TV's The Munsters.
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Dave Thomas
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- Celebrity Enlistees
- Famous Cancerians
- Famous Chefs
Dave Thomas
Entrepreneur, Chef, Television Personality / 1932 - 2002
Dave Thomas is the founder of the hamburger chain Wendy's and was their TV spokesman starting in 1989. -
Robert Baden-Powell
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- Famous Pisceans
- Famous Illustrators
- Famous Painters
Robert Baden-Powell
Illustrator, Painter, Military Leader, Journalist / 1857 - 1941
Robert Baden-Powell was a British military leader who is best known as the founder of the Boy Scouts and the Girl Guides Movement (later the Girl Scouts).
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profile name: Galileo profile occupation: Astronomer
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profile name: Marco Polo profile occupation: Explorer, Journalist
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profile name: Yvonne DeCarlo profile occupation: Film Actress, Television Actress, Pin-up
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profile name: Eli Whitney profile occupation: Inventor
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profile name: Dave Thomas profile occupation: Entrepreneur, Chef, Television Personality
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profile name: Robert Baden-Powell profile occupation: Illustrator, Painter, Military Leader, Journalist
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