Colonel Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980)
Sanders was a businessman, best known for founding Kentucky Fried Chicken
(KFC), and later acted as the company’s goodwill ambassador and symbol.
Sanders held a number of jobs in his early life, such as a fireman, insurance
salesman and running filling stations. He began selling fried chicken from his
roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky, during the Great Depression.
Tim Maguire
Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2014)
The comic strip Blondie was created by cartoonist Chic Young who drew
the strip until his death in 1973, when creative control passed to his son
Dean Young, who continues to write the strip.
The success of the strip, distributed by King Features Syndicate, led to
the long-running Blondie film series (1938–1950) and the popular Blondie
radio program (1939–1950).
Charles D. “Chic” Young
Dean Young
Patsy Cline (Born Virginia Patterson Hensley in Winchester, Virginia)
(September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963)
Patsy Cline was one of the most influential, successful and acclaimed female
vocalists of the 20th century. She died in a multiple fatality crash of her private
plane at the age of 30.
According to her 1973 Country Music Hall of Fame plaque, "Her heritage of
timeless recordings is testimony to her artistic capacity."
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971)
A 21 year-old Utah inventor Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting the
image of a line to a small screen through purely electronic means with a device
called an “image dissector” or simply, a video camera tube. Now we know it
better as… television. He was also the first person to demonstrate such a
system to the public.
Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera,
which he produced commercially in the firm of the Farnsworth Television and
Radio Corporation, from 1938 to 1951. He held 165 patents, mostly in radio
and television.
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