6word Portrait: Stanley Clarke

Bass player fused jazz and rock.



Born this day in 1951

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6word Portrait: Slim Pickens

Rodeo cowboy became film, TV actor



Born 100 years ago today. 

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6word Portrait: Gilda Radner

"Roseanne Rosannadanna," perceptively pioneering SNL comedienne.

Born this day in 1946 (d. 1982)

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6word Portrait: Helen Keller

Deaf-blind, became famous speaker and author.

Born this day in 1880 (d. 1968)

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6word Portrait: Abner Doubleday

Began Civil War, didn't invent baseball.

Born 200 years ago today (d. 1893)

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6word Portrait: Sonia Sotomayor

First Hispanic, Latina Supreme Court Justice



Born 65 years ago today. 

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6word Portrait: Jeff Beck

Brilliant, influential guitarist originally in Yardbirds. 



Born 75 years ago today. 

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6word Portrait: Alan Turing

British mathematician's inventions vital during WWII.

Born this day in 1912 (d. 1954)

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6word Portrait: Billy Wilder

Director "wildly" traversed genres with excellence. 



Born this day in 1906 (d. 2002)

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6word Portrait: Lana Wachowski

Made Matrix with brother; became sisters.


Born (as Laurence Wachowski) this day in 1965.

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