William Seward Burroughs I
(January 28, 1855 – September 15, 1898)
Burroughs was an inventor born in Rochester, New York
who invented a "calculating machine" designed to ease
the monotony of clerical work. He was a founder of the
American Arithmometer Company (1886), which later
became the Burroughs Adding Machine Company
(1904), then the Burroughs Corporation (1953)
and in 1986, merged with Sperry Corporation to
form Unisys.
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Robert Anthony Plant is 68 today.
Plant quit his training as a chartered accountant and became
deeply involved in the England Midlands blues scene. After
Led Zeppelin broke up in 1980, he began working as a solo
artist. In 2007, he released a critically acclaimed duet album
with bluegrass singer Alison Krauss called Raising Sand.
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Groucho Marx (Julius Henry Marx)
(October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977)
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Robert Anthony De Niro is 73 today.
De Niro played the Cowardly Lion in a production of The
Wizard of Oz when he was ten. He earned his first movie
role when Brian De Palma cast him in his 1963 film The
Wedding Party. The film was shot when De Niro was 20
years old, then released six years later, in 1969.
Robert De Niro as Jake La Motta in the 1980 film Raging Bull.
