Today's Famous Birthdays

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Wilhelm Carl Grimm
(24 February 1786 – 16 December 1859)

was a German author and anthropologist, and the younger brother of Jacob Grimm,
of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm.
Wilhelm was born in February 1786 in Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel. In 1803, he started
studying law at the University of Marburg, one year after his brother Jacob started there.
The two brothers spent their entire lives close together. In their school days, they had
one bed and one table in common; as students, they had two beds and two tables in
the same room. They always lived under one roof and
had their books and property in common.











Chester William Nimitz
(February 24, 1885 – February 20, 1966)

was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of
World War II as Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet, and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas,
commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II.

Nimitz was the leading US Navy authority on submarines. Qualified in submarines during his
early years, he later oversaw the conversion of these vessels' propulsion from gasoline to diesel,
and then later was key in acquiring approval to build the world's first nuclear-powered submarine,
USS Nautilus, whose propulsion system later completely superseded diesel-powered submarines
in the US. He also, beginning in 1917, was the Navy's leading developer of underway replenishment
techniques, the tool which during the Pacific war would allow the US fleet to operate away from port
almost indefinitely. The chief of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation in 1939, Nimitz served as Chief
of Naval Operations from 1945 until 1947. He was the United States' last surviving officer who served
in the rank of fleet admiral. The USS Nimitz supercarrier, the lead ship of her class, is named after him.












Joseph Isadore Lieberman
(born February 24, 1942)

is an American politician, lobbyist, and attorney who served as a United States senator from
Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was its nominee
for Vice President of the United States in the 2000 U.S. presidential election. During his final
term in office, he was officially listed as an independent Democrat and caucused with and
chaired committees for the Democratic Party.












Steven Paul Jobs
(February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)

was an American entrepreneur, business magnate, industrial designer, media proprietor,
and investor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple; the chairman and majority
shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following
its acquisition of Pixar; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. He is widely recognized
as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with his
early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.














Amy
Sara
Abigail
Edward (Ted)
William (Gordon)

The quintuplets were the first American set of surviving quintuplets to be conceived through
the use of fertility drugs. They were born to parents who had previously conceived two other
children through the use of the fertility drug Pergonal. They were only the second set of surviving
quintuplets born in the U.S. so news of their birth at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in
New York City made international headlines. They were brought home to Liberty Corner,
New Jersey on April 27, 1970, two months after they were born. As babies and toddlers
they were featured on numerous talk shows and commercials and Good Housekeeping magazine
had an exclusive deal to publish four articles about them in their first two years.

Despite the commercials the family began having financial problems. Bill Kienast had struggled
in establishing two businesses, and in 1983 the family would have had their home foreclosed upon
if not for the intervention of a local industrialist. In 1984, Bill Kienast committed suicide by
carbon monoxide inhalation, which made national headlines.

In May 2001, the quintuplets, then 31, and their mother gave an interview to Good Housekeeping,
their last known national media appearance.