Today's Famous Birthdays

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Elizabeth Virginia Truman
(February 13, 1885 – October 18, 1982)

was the wife of President Harry S. Truman and the first lady of the United States
from 1945 to 1953. She also served as the second lady of the United States from
January to April 1945.








William Bradford Shockley Jr.
(February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989)

was an American physicist and inventor. He was the manager of a research group
at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists
were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for "their researches on
semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect".









Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager
(February 13, 1923 – December 7, 2020)

was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October
1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.

Yeager was raised in Hamlin, West Virginia. His career began in World War II as a private in
the United States Army, assigned to the Army Air Forces in 1941.[a] After serving as an
aircraft mechanic, in September 1942, he entered enlisted pilot training and upon graduation
was promoted to the rank of flight officer (the World War II Army Air Force version of the Army's
warrant officer), later achieving most of his aerial victories as a P-51 Mustang fighter pilot on the
Western Front, where he was credited with shooting down 11.5 enemy aircraft (the half credit is
from a second pilot assisting him in a single shootdown). On October 12, 1944, he attained
"ace in a day" status, shooting down five enemy aircraft in one mission.










Michael Joseph Jackson Jr,
( born on February 13, 1997)

commonly known as Prince, is the eldest son of Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe.
Jackson was named after both his paternal great-grandfather and great-great grandfather,
who were also called Prince. He has one sister, Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson and
one half-brother, Prince Michael "Blanket" Jackson. Prince was raised by his father,
who received full custody rights following his divorce from Rowe in 1999.