In 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens - better known as Mark Twain, the autor of such classics as "Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" - was born in Florida, Mo.
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Actress Virginia Mayo (1920)
Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (1923)
Former New York Rep. Shirly Chisholm (1924)
Actor Richard Crenna (1927)
Sen. Chic Hech, [R-Nev.] (1928)
TV host-producer Dick Clark (1929)
Convicted Watergate defendant G. Gordon Liddy (1930)
Political activist Abbie Hoffman (1936)
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"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."