Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi
(25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937)
Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known
for his creation of a practical radio wave–based wireless telegraph system.This led to Marconi being credited as the inventor of radio,
and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand
Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand is a singer and actress. With
a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success
in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few
performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.
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Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr.
(16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977)
On April 16, 1889, future Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin
was born Charles Spencer Chaplin in London, England.
Chaplin, one of the most financially successful stars of early
Hollywood, was introduced to the stage when he was five.
The son of London music hall entertainers, young Chaplin
was watching a show starring his mother when her voice
cracked. He was quickly shuffled onto the stage to finish
the act.
Singer Loretta Lynn greatly expanded the opportunities
for women in the male-dominated world of country-
western music, was born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky
on April 14, 1932. She is 89 years young today.
Unlike some country-western stars that sang about a
rural working class life but lived an urban middle class
existence, Loretta Lynn’s country roots were authentic.
Born Loretta Webb in a log cabin in the backwoods hills
of Kentucky, she was the daughter of a coal miner who
worked long hours to keep his family fed and clothed.
