January 21 Birthdays

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Author Profession: English comic actor
Born: 1925-01-21
Died: 1992-04-20

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Quotes: Benny Hill

Benny Hill

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

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Author Profession: English singer-songwriter, actress, and radio and television presenter.
Born: 1976-01-21
Died:

Emma Lee Bunton

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

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Author Profession: French fashion designer
Born: 1905-01-21
Died: 1957-10-24

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Quotes: Christian Dior

Christian Dior

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

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Author Profession: US actor
Born: 1957-01-21
Died: —

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Quotes: Geena Davis

Geena Davis

I've always looked up to him, even though he is shorter.

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Author Profession: US firearms designer who developed many varieties of military and civilian firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around the world.
Born: 1885-01-23
Died: 1926-11-26

John Moses Browning

Many people saw on the frontier that communion should be open to anyone.

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Author Profession: Spanish tenor, conductor and arts administrator.
Born: 1941-01-21
Died: —

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Quotes: Placido Domingo

Placido Domingo

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

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Author Profession: Russian peasant, mystical faith healer
Born: 1869-01-21
Died: 1916-12-30

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Quotes: Grigori Rasputin

Grigori Rasputin

God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Do not grieve. The Little One will not die. Do not allow the doctors to bother him too much.

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Author Profession: US singer and film, television, and character actor whose career spanned four decades of television.
Born: 1922-01-21
Died: 1994-01-22

Telly Savalas

I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst.

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Author Profession: US Athlete
Born: 1988-01-21
Died: —

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Quotes: Ashton Eaton

Ashton Eaton

I wont back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

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Author Profession: British Musician
Born: 1950-01-21
Died: —

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Quotes: Billy Ocean

Billy Ocean

And you realise youre doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. Its not scientific. Its spiritual - a good feeling. And although you dont know them personally, the audience are like your friends.

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Author Profession: Irish Athlete
Born: 1979-01-21
Died: —

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Quotes: Brian O'Driscoll

Brian O'Driscoll

When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.

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Author Profession: Spanish Designer
Born: 1895-01-21
Died: 1972-03-23

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Quotes: Cristobal Balenciaga

Cristobal Balenciaga

Elegance is elimination.

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Author Profession: US Revolutionary
Born: 1738-01-21
Died: 1789-02-12

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Quotes: Ethan Allen

Ethan Allen

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

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Author Profession: Nigerian Athlete
Born: 1963-01-21
Died: —

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Quotes: Hakeem Olajuwon

Hakeem Olajuwon

Allah says in the Quran not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. Its who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and Im a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. Hes better than me. Its about knowledge.

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Author Profession: US Author
Born: 1944-01-21
Died: 2002-02-10

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Quotes: Jack Henry Abbott

Jack Henry Abbott

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

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Author Profession: US Musician
Born: 1965-01-21
Died: 2002-10-30

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Quotes: Jam Master Jay

Jam Master Jay

Make sure to save for the future and keep making money!

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Author Profession: Irish Activist
Born: 1875-01-21
Died: 1947-01-30

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Quotes: James Larkin

James Larkin

Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.

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Author Profession: US Politician
Born: 1958-01-21
Died: —

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Quotes: Matt Salmon

Matt Salmon

I dont support gay marriage. Im just not there, as far as believing in my heart that we should change 2,000 years of social policy in favor of a redefinition of the family.

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Author Profession: US Businessman
Born: 1953-01-21
Died: —

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Quotes: Paul Allen

Paul Allen

Youve got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if youre involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.

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Author Profession: US Activist
Born: 1884-01-21
Died: 1981-08-26

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Quotes: Roger Nash Baldwin

Roger Nash Baldwin

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

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Author Profession: US Soldier
Born: 1824-01-21
Died: 1863-05-10

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Quotes: Stonewall Jackson

Stonewall Jackson

Never take counsel of your fears.

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Author Profession: US Entertainer
Born: 1938-01-21
Died: 1995-07-01

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Quotes: Wolfman Jack

Wolfman Jack

Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who knows how to party. The challenge of my life has been letting more and more of Bob Smith go, becoming the Wolfman on an almost full-time basis, while still taking care of business.

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Author Profession: Austro-Hungarian aerialist
Born: 1905-01-21
Died: 1978-03-22

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Quotes: Karl Wallenda

Karl Wallenda

Being on the tightrope is living, everything else is waiting.

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Author Profession: US singer, songwriter
Born: 1972-01-21
Died: —

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Quotes: Cat Power

Cat Power

I wanted to save the world. I still do. But half the time I'm still trying to save myself first.