Aretha Louise Franklin is 74 today.
Carlotta Bradley
Sir Sidney Poitier is celebrating his 89th birthday today.
Poitier spent time working as a dishwasher while his friends assisted
him in learning how to read the newspaper and speak without a
Bahamian accent. The American Film Institute called him one of
the 25 Greatest Male Stars of All Time in 1999.
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Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906)
Susan B. Anthony began collecting petitions to ban slavery when she was 17.
