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Berry GORDY
American record producer, and songwriter, best known as the founder of the Motown record label
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Kobe BRYANT born Kobe Bean BRYANT
A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Bryant won five NBA championships, and was an 18-time All-Star, a[...]
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Levi MANNING born Levi Howell MANNING
Levi H. Manning was born second in a family of four brothers and four sisters in Halifax County, North Carolina to Vannoy Hartrog Manning, a U.S. Representative from Mississippi and an officer in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during[...]
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Franklin D. RICHARDS born Franklin Dewey RICHARDS
He served as the quorum's president from 1898 until his death. He was the nephew of apostle Willard Richards, one of two men who survived the mob attack at Carthage Jail that took the life of LDS Church founder, Joseph Smith.
His[...]
Industrialist, Businessman - American Civil War, Mexican-American War, War of 1812
Edmund Kirby SMITH
Smith was a career United States Army officer who fought in the Mexican–American War. He later joined the Confederate States Army in the Civil War, and was promoted to general in the first months of the war. He was notable for his command of[...]
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Edgar BUCHANAN born William Edgar BUCHANAN
He is most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s.
The son of Dr. and Mrs. William Edgar Buchanan, he was born in Humansville,[...]
Madge KENNEDY
Her career began as a stage actress in 1912 and flourished in motion pictures during the silent film era. In 1921, journalist Heywood Broun described her as "the best farce actress in New York".
Kennedy was born in Chicago. Her[...]