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January 10

Happy Birthday Frank Sinatra Jr-68 Rod Stewart-67 Donald Fagen-64 William Sanderson-64 George Foreman-63 Pat Benatar-59 ; 1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.

January 9

Happy Birthday Judith Krantz-84 Joan Baez-71 Crystal Gayle-61 J. K. Simmons-57 Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge-30 ; 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.

January 8

Happy Birthday Charles Osgood-79 Bob Eubanks-74 Stephen Hawking-70 David Bowie-65 Michelle Forbes-47 Sean Paul-39 Sarah Polley-33 ; 1982 AT&T settled the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies.

January 7

Happy Birthday William Peter Blatty-84 Kenny Loggins-64 Erin Gray-62 David Caruso-56 Katie Couric-55 Nicolas Cage-48 Dustin Diamond-35

January 6

Happy Birthday Bonnie Franklin-68 Rowan Atkinson-57 Scott Bryce-54  Danny Pintauro-36 Eddie Redmayne-30  RIP Danny Thomas (1914,1991) ; 1912 New Mexico became the 47th state.

January 5

Happy Birthday Walter Mondale-84 Robert Duvall-81 Diane Keaton-66 Ted Lange-64 Pamela Sue Martin-59 Marilyn Manson-43 ; 1914, Henry Ford, introduced a minimum wage scale of $5 per day.

January 4

Happy Birthday Barbara Rush-85 Dyan Cannon-75 Bernard Sumner-58 Ann Magnuson-55 Matt Frewer-53 Michael Stipe-52 Dave Foley-49 Julia Ormond-47 August Diehl-36 Aaron Schwartz-31

January 3

Happy Birthday Robert Loggia-82 Dabney Coleman-80 Stephen Stills-66 Victoria Principal-62 Mel Gibson-56 ; 1959, President Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state.

January 02

Happy Birthday Cuba Gooding Jr.-44 Patrick Huard-43 Dax Shepard-37 Kate Bosworth-29 ; 1974 President Richard Nixon signed legislation requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 mph.

January 1

Happy Birthday Frank Langella-73 Dedee Pfeiffer-47 Verne Troyer-42 RIP J. Edgar Hoover(1895-1972) ; 1892 The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York opened ; 1983 APRANET officially uses TCPIP, creating Internet.