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Plainfield, NJ
CITY
Official Website:
http://www.plainfield.com/
Chamber of Commerce:
http://www.positivelyplainfield.org/ Population:
47829 (2000 census) County:
Union County
BIRTHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Van Wyck Brooks |
Critic |
16-Feb-1886 |
2-May-1963 |
Finders & Makers |
| Milt Campbell |
Track and Field |
9-Dec-1933 |
2-Nov-2012 |
Olympic decathlete |
| Paolo E. Coletta |
Historian |
3-Feb-1916 |
22-May-2007 |
William Jennings Bryan |
| Archibald Cox |
Government |
17-May-1912 |
29-May-2004 |
Target of Watergate Saturday Night Massacre |
| William Archibald Dunning |
Historian |
12-May-1857 |
25-Aug-1922 |
Reconstruction, Political and Economic, 1865-1877 |
| Bill Evans |
Jazz Musician |
16-Aug-1929 |
15-Sep-1980 |
Jazz pianist |
| John R. Gillis |
Historian |
13-Jan-1939 |
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Islands of the Mind |
| Phyllis Kirk |
Actor |
18-Sep-1927 |
19-Oct-2006 |
House of Wax |
| Gerry Laybourne |
Business |
19-May-1947 |
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CEO of Oxygen Media, 1998-2007 |
| Mary McCormack |
Actor |
8-Feb-1969 |
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Kate Harper on The West Wing |
| Kasim Reed |
Politician |
10-Jun-1969 |
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Mayor of Atlanta |
| Jane Rule |
Author |
28-Mar-1931 |
27-Nov-2007 |
Desert of the Heart |
| Robert Shapiro |
Attorney |
2-Sep-1942 |
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One of OJ Simpson's attorneys |
| Pete Williams |
Politician |
10-Dec-1919 |
17-Nov-2001 |
US Senator snagged in ABSCAM |
| Diane P. Wood |
Judge |
4-Jul-1950 |
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7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
DEATHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Henry E. Bliss |
Curator |
29-Jan-1870 |
9-Aug-1955 |
Bliss Classification System |
| Elizebeth Friedman |
Scientist |
26-Aug-1892 |
31-Oct-1980 |
America's first female cryptanalyst |
| Dudley Moore |
Comic |
19-Apr-1935 |
27-Mar-2002 |
Arthur |
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