ROSS SIMPSON

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr. is 86 today.

Eastwood worked as a lifeguard, a caddy, and a grocery clerk
while growing up in California.

SANDY KOXEL

Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron turned 82 on February 5.

Ross Simpson

Oprah Gail Winfrey is 62 today.

Winfrey was crowned Miss Black Tennessee while in college and began
co-anchoring the evening news when she was nineteen. She became
the world’s first female black billionaire and the richest self-made
American woman. She had a net worth of $2.9 billion in 2013.

Camille Bohannon

Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean is 70 today.

Dolly Parton grew up alongside eleven brothers and sisters in a one-
room cabin in Appalachia, Tennessee; she learned to sing while
attending the Pentecostal Church of God. 

She was given the nickname The Queen of Country Music, after
releasing more #1 hits than any other country singer in U.S. history.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, born in Amherst, Massachusetts. 
(December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886)

American poet Emily Dickinson known for her reclusive lifestyle and
her brilliant, posthumously-published poems. Her numerous poems
include "A great Hope fell," "A Clock stopped," and "Alone, I cannot
be." She wrote close to eighteen hundred poems during her relatively
short lifetime. Many of these, including "Because I could not stop for
Death," deal with the theme of mortality.