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Explorer William Clark born 1770
Novelist Herman Melville born 1819
Astronomer Maria Mitchell born 1818
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Author James Baldwin born 1924
 
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National Kids Day
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Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong born 1901
Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley born 1792
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Astronaut Neil Armstrong born 1930
Architect Raoul Wallenberg born 1912
Historian and feminist Mary Ritter Beard born 1876
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Discoverer of penicillin Sir Alexander Fleming born 1881
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Champion marathon runner Alberto Salazar born 1957
Anthropologist Louis Leakey born 1903
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International Day of the World's Indigenous People
Arctic explorer Matthew Henson born 1866
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Psychologist Jean Piaget born 1896
 
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1846—Congress establishes the Smithsonian Institution
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Ballerina Allegra Kent born 1937
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UN International Youth Day
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Women's rights activist Lucy Stone born 1818
Cuban president Fidel Castro born 1926
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Cartoonist Gary Larson born 1950
Novelist and dramatist John Galsworthy born 1867
Basketball star/philanthropist Earvin "Magic" Johnson born 1959
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French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte born 1769
India Independence Day
Poet Sir Walter Scott born 1771
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Archaeologist and writer T. E. Lawrence born 1888
 
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Frontiersman Davy Crockett born 1786
Film pioneer Samuel Goldwyn born 1882
Former First Lady/Philanthropist Rosalynn Carter born 1927
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19th Ammendment ratified giving women right to vote, 1920
Explorer Meriwether Lewis born 1774
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Pioneer aviator Orville Wright born 1871
Humorous poet Ogden Nash born 1902
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Naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry born 1785
Staples Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition seeks to identify the most innovative solutions that young people are using to make the world better and make life easier for others.
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Basketball player Wilt Chamberlain born 1936
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Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury born 1920
Composer Claude Debussy born 1862
Astronomer, physicist and aviation pioneer Samuel Pierpont Langley born 1834
Military leader H. Norman Schwarzkopf born 1934
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Poet and author Edgar Lee Masters born 1869
 
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Short-story writer, poet and essayist Jorge Luis Borges born 1900
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Journalist and poet Bret Harte born 1836
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Polio vaccine developer Albert Sabin born 1906
Inventor Lee De Forest born 1973
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Mother Teresa born 1910
Philosopher Georg W. F. Hegel born 1770
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Martin Luther King Jr. delivered "I Have a Dream Speech" in 1963
Educator and first American-born saint Elizabeth Ann Seton born 1774
Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born 1749
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Philosopher John Locke born 1632
Jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker born 1920
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Neoclassicist Painter Jacques-Louis David born 1748
Novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley born 1797
Triathlete/leukemia survivor Louie Bonpua born 1964
 
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Violinist Itzhak Perlman born 1945
Educator Maria Montessori born 1870
American Civil Rights activist Josephine Ruffin born 1842
 		            
 
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