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Tuesday 19 January 2016

Born on January 18





1882 A.A. [Alan Alexander] Milne, novelist, humorist and journalist (Winnie the Pooh).
1892 Oliver Hardy, film comedian, one half of Laurel and Hardy.
1904 Cary Grant, U.S. film actor (Gunga Din, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, North by Northwest).

Born on January 19
1736 James Watt, Scottish inventor.
1807 Robert E. Lee, Confederate general during the American Civil War.
1809 Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet (“Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Raven,” “Annabel Lee.”)
1839 Paul Cézanne, French post-Impressionist painter (Card Players, L’Oeuvre).

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1919 John H. Johnson, editor and publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines.