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
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		Islands of the Mind
Phyllis Kirk	Actor	18-Sep-1927	19-Oct-2006	House of Wax
Gerry Laybourne	Business	19-May-1947		CEO of Oxygen Media, 1998-2007
Mary McCormack	Actor	8-Feb-1969		Kate Harper on The West Wing
Kasim Reed	Politician	10-Jun-1969		Mayor of Atlanta
Jane Rule	Author	28-Mar-1931	27-Nov-2007	Desert of the Heart
Robert Shapiro	Attorney	2-Sep-1942		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		7th Circuit Court of Appeals

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
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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