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Clark Howell Woodward (1877-1968) served the United States Navy in five wars: the Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, the Chinese Boxer Rebellion, and both World Wars. A staunch promoter of an advanced U.S. Navy, he influenced priorities...
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| x William Dyer | Mar 11, 1881 | Actor |
William Dyer (11 March 1881 – 22 December 1933) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 83 films between 1915 and 1933.
He was born in Atlanta, Georgia and died in Hollywood, California.
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| x Alfred Cunningham |
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Mar 8, 1882 |
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Austell Cunningham, (March 8, 1882 - May 27, 1939) was a United States Marine Corps officer who became the first Marine Corps aviator and the first Director of Marine Corps Aviation. His military career included service in...
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| x Gladys Hanson | Sep 5, 1884 |
Gladys Hanson (1884–1973) was an actress of the silent era.
Her first appearance was in 1907 with the Charles Frohman Company. In 1914 she began working in film for Famous Players and later worked for Universal and Essanay. Her last film appearance...
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| x Gypsy Abbott | Jan 31, 1887 | Actor |
Gypsy Abbott (January 31, 1896 – July 25, 1952) was an American actress who starred in movies during the silent film era. She was married to Henry King. She sometimes was credited as Gypsie Abbott.
She was buried in the Grotto Section at Holy Cross...
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| x Al Loeb |
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Mar 11, 1890 | American football player |
Al Loeb (March 11, 1890 in Atlanta, Georgia – October 13, 1987) was a standout college football player for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, where he was nicknamed "The Yiddish Wildcat".
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| x Marie Woolfolk Taylor |
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Dec 18, 1893 | Social work |
Marie Woolfolk Taylor (December 18, 1893 - October 21, 1960) was one of the sixteen founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, the first sorority founded by African American women. The legacy she created in establishing the sorority has...
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| x Eugene R. Black | May 1, 1898 | Banker |
Eugene Robert Black (January 7, 1873–December 19, 1934) was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve from May 9, 1933 to August 15, 1934. His namesake, Eugene "Gene" Robert Black, Sr., was the first in the family to use the "Sr." designation; Gene's son...
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| x Ann Ree Colton | Aug 17, 1898 | Writer |
Ann Ree Colton (1898 – 1984) founded the system of Niscience. Niscience is a word she coined meaning to know beyond academic knowledge. While the number of people who practice the techniques she taught and identify themselves as Niscienes is small,...
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| x Bill Terry |
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Oct 30, 1898 | Baseball player |
William Harold Terry (October 30, 1898 - January 9, 1989) was a Major League Baseball first baseman and manager. Considered one of the greatest players of all time, Terry was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954. In 1999, he ranked number...
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| x Lamar Trotti |
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Oct 18, 1900 | Screenwriter |
Lamar Jefferson Trotti (October 18, 1900 - August 28, 1952) was an American screenwriter, producer, and motion picture executive.
Trotti was born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He became the first graduate of the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and...
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| x Margaret Mitchell |
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Nov 8, 1900 | Writer |
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 30 million copies...
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| x Ben Lyon |
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Feb 6, 1901 | Actor |
Ben Lyon (February 6, 1901 – March 22, 1979) was an American film actor and a 20th Century Fox studio executive.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on Broadway opposite Jeanne Eagels. He attracted...
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| x Bobby Jones |
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Mar 17, 1902 | Lawyer |
Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. (March 17, 1902 – December 18, 1971) was one of the greatest golfers to compete on a national and international level. He participated only as an amateur, primarily on a part-time basis, and chose to retire from...
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| x Thomas Hoyt "Slim" Bryant | Dec 7, 1908 | Singer |
Thomas Hoyt "Slim" Bryant (born December 7, 1908) is a country music singer/songwriter and guitarist born in Atlanta, Georgia. After spending nearly 18 years working with Georgia fiddler Clayton McMichen as part of his band the Georgia Wildcats,...
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| x David Welford Williams | Mar 20, 1910 |
David Welford Williams (March 20, 1910 – May 6, 2000) was a United States federal judge.
Williams was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He received an A.B. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1934. He received an LL.B. from the University of...
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| x Alexander Bonnyman, Jr. |
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May 2, 1910 |
Alexander "Sandy" Bonnyman, Jr. (May 2, 1910 – November 22, 1943) was a United States Marine Corps officer who was killed in action at Betio, Tarawa during World War II. A combat engineer, he received the Medal of Honor, Purple Heart, Presidential...
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| x Jack Weller |
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Jan 6, 1913 | American football player |
John "Jac" Weller (January 6, 1913 - August 18, 1994) was an American football player, firearms expert and military historian. He was a consensus All-American in 1935 at the guard position. He played for Fritz Crisler's Princeton teams that went 25...
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| x Clyde A. Thomason |
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May 23, 1914 |
Sergeant Clyde A. Thomason (May 23, 1914-August 17, 1942) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism at the cost of his life while leading an assault on Makin Island on August 17, 1942. Thomason was the...
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| x Kathryn Johnston |
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Jun 26, 1914 |
Kathryn Johnston (June 26, 1914 - November 21, 2006) was an elderly Atlanta, Georgia woman who was shot by undercover police officers in her home on Neal Street in northwest Atlanta on November 21, 2006, where she had lived for 17 years. Three...
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| x Bert Parks | Dec 30, 1914 | Singer |
Bert Parks (December 30, 1914 – February 2, 1992) was an American actor, singer, and radio and television announcer and host, best known as the longtime host (1955-1979) of the annual Miss America telecast.
Parks was born Bertram Jacobson in Atlanta...
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| x Lester Maddox |
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Sep 30, 1915 |
Lester Garfield Maddox (September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003) was an American Democratic Party politician who was governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.
Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist and maintained, to his...
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| x Cherry Logan Emerson | Sep 30, 1916 | Entrepreneur |
Cherry Logan Emerson, Jr. (September 30, 1916 – April 29, 2007) was an American chemist, businessman, and philanthropist.
Cherry Logan Emerson, Jr. was born in 1916 and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the son of Cherry Logan Emerson, Sr., the...
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| x Charles Allen Moye Jr. | 1918 |
Charles Allen Moye Jr. (born 1918) is a United States federal judge.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Moye received an A.B. from Emory University in 1939 and a J.D. from Emory University School of Law in 1943. He was in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia...
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| x Nipsey Russell |
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Sep 15, 1918 | Comedian |
Julius "Nipsey" Russell (September 15, 1918 – October 2, 2005) was an American comedian, best known today for his appearances as a guest panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, especially Match Game, Password, Hollywood Squares, To...
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| x DeForest Kelley |
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Jan 20, 1920 |
Jackson DeForest Kelley (January 20, 1920 – June 11, 1999) was an American actor known for his iconic roles in Westerns and Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek.
Kelley was born in Toccoa,...
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| x Charles W. Conn |
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Jan 20, 1920 |
Dr. Charles William Conn (January 20, 1920 - March 18, 2008) was an American influential figure in the Church of God (Cleveland) whose responsibilities spanned a wide spectrum of positions throughout his ministerial career. He was a native of...
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| x Thomas Alonzo Clark | Dec 20, 1920 |
Thomas Alonzo Clark (December 20, 1920 – September 4, 2005) was a United States federal judge.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Clark received a B.S. from Washington and Lee University in 1942 and was in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II, from...
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| x Bill Paschal | May 28, 1921 | American football player |
William Avner Paschal, Jr. (May 28, 1921 – May 25, 2003) was an American football running back in the National Football League for the New York Giants and the Boston Yanks.
Paschal was born in Atlanta, Georgia and attended Tech High School, where he...
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| x Calder Willingham |
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Dec 23, 1922 | Novelist |
Calder Baynard Willingham, Jr. (December 23, 1922 - February 19, 1995) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He cowrote several notable screenplays, including Paths of Glory (1957) and One-Eyed Jacks (1961).
Willingham and Buck Henry...
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| x Harry Dowda | Dec 29, 1922 | American football player |
Harry Clinton Dowda (December 29, 1922 – June 24, 1996) was an American football defensive back in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at Wake Forest University. He served...
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| x Howell W. Melton | 1923 | Judge |
Howell Webster Melton, Sr. (born 1923) is an American lawyer and judge. He currently serves on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Melton was born in Atlanta. He graduated from the University of Florida in 1943 with...
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| x Howell Webster Sr. Melton | 1923 |
Howell Webster Melton, Sr. (born 1923) is an American lawyer and United States federal judge. He currently serves on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Melton graduated from the University...
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| x James Dickey |
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Feb 2, 1923 | Critic |
James Lafayette Dickey (2 February 1923 – 19 January 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966.
Dickey was born to lawyer, Eugene Dickey, and...
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| x J. Mack Robinson | May 7, 1923 | Philanthropist |
J. Mack Robinson (born May 7, 1923) is a Georgia businessman. He has led several of Atlanta's major corporations. Robinson is also a notable philanthropist, having donated millions of dollars to his home state.
Mack Robinson was born in Atlanta on...
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| x Louise Suggs | Sep 7, 1923 | Golfer |
Mae Louise Suggs (born September 7, 1923) is a veteran American professional golfer and one of the founders of the LPGA Tour and thus modern ladies' golf.
Suggs was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She had a very successful amateur career. She was Georgia...
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| x Clint Castleberry | Oct 10, 1923 | American football player |
Lt. Clinton Dillard Castleberry, Jr. (October 10, 1923 in Atlanta, Georgia - November 7, 1944) was a football player in the 1940s.
Castleberry showed extraordinary ability as a Georgia Tech "pony" back, standing at only 5'9" and weighing only 155...
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| x Richard Kelly | Jul 31, 1924 |
Richard Kelly (July 31, 1924 – August 22, 2005) was an American politician from Florida. He was the only Republican convicted of taking bribes in the 1980 Abscam scandal.
Kelly was born July 31, 1924, in Atlanta, Georgia, and attended high school in...
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| x Jane Withers |
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Apr 12, 1926 | Actor |
Jane Withers (born April 12, 1926 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American actress best known for being one of the most popular child film stars of the 1930s and early 1940s, as well as for her portrayal of "Josephine the Plumber" in a series of TV...
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| x Richard Cameron Freeman | Dec 14, 1926 |
Richard Cameron Freeman (December 14, 1926 – August 22, 1999) was a United States federal judge.
Freeman was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He received an A.B. from Emory University in 1950. He received an LL.B. from Emory University School of Law in...
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| x Brock Adams |
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Jan 13, 1927 | Sailor |
Brockman "Brock" Adams (January 13, 1927 – September 10, 2004) was an American politician and member of Congress. Adams was a Democrat from Washington and served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, and United States Secretary of Transportation before...
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| x Alfred M. Gray, Jr. |
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Jun 22, 1928 |
Alfred M. Gray, Jr. (born June 22, 1928), is a retired United States Marine Corps general who served as the twenty-ninth Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1987-91. He retired from the Corps in 1991 after 41 years of service.
Alfred M. Gray, Jr....
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| x Jane Barbe |
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Jul 29, 1928 | Singer |
Jane Barbe (July 29, 1928(1928-07-29) – July 18, 2003) was an American voice actress known as the “Time Lady” .for the recordings she made for the Bell System and other phone companies.
Barbe, a Florida native who grew up in Atlanta, Georgia,...
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| x Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Jan 15, 1929 | Writer |
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he...
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| x Charles Beckwith |
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Jan 22, 1929 |
Colonel Charles Alvin Beckwith (January 22, 1929 – June 13, 1994), known as "Chargin' Charlie", was a career United States Army soldier and Vietnam veteran, credited with the creation of Delta Force, a branch of the U.S. Army. Although he is held in...
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| x David H. Gambrell |
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Dec 20, 1929 |
David Henry Gambrell is a Georgia attorney who represented his state in the United States Senate from 1971 through 1972.
Gambrell was born in Atlanta, GA, on December 20, 1929. He graduated from Davidson College in 1949, and received his JD, with...
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| x William Clark O'Kelley | 1930 |
William Clark O'Kelley (born 1930) is a United States federal judge.
O'Kelley was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He received an A.B. from Emory University in 1951. He received an LL.B. from Emory University School of Law in 1953. He was a U.S. Air Force...
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| x Johnny Carson | Jan 31, 1930 | American football player |
Johnny Richard Carson, Sr. (January 31, 1930 – April 1, 2009) was a professional American football tight end for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League from 1953 to 1959. He also played for the Houston Oilers of the American...
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| x Elliott H. Levitas | Dec 26, 1930 |
Elliott Harris Levitas (born December 26, 1930) is a former U.S. Representative from Georgia's 4th Congressional District. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Levitas graduated from Grady High School in 1948. He attended Emory University, where he was a...
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| x George Ernest Tidwell | 1931 |
George Ernest Tidwell (born 1931) is a United States federal judge.
Tidwell was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He received an LL.B. from Emory University School of Law in 1954. He was in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia from 1954 to 1966. He was a...
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| x Billy Wright | May 21, 1932 | Musician |
Billy Wright (May 21, 1932 — October 27, 1991) was an American jump blues singer.
Billy Wright was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Throughout his career, he was known as the "Prince of the Blues." He was a key figure in Atlanta blues after World War II...
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| x William Luther Pierce |
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Sep 11, 1933 | Physicist |
William Luther Pierce III (September 11, 1933 – July 23, 2002) was the leader of the white separatist National Alliance organization, and a principal ideologue of the white nationalist movement. First educated as a physicist, he later worked with...
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| x Louis Wade Sullivan |
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Nov 3, 1933 | Physician |
Louis Wade Sullivan (born November 3, 1933) is an American physician and businessman. He served as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under President George H. W. Bush and founded the Morehouse School of Medicine....
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| x Larry Morris | Dec 10, 1933 |
Larry Morris (born December 10, 1933 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a retired American football linebacker.
Morris attended Georgia Tech. After college, he played professionally in the National Football League with the Chicago bears, Los Angeles Rams and...
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| x Hank Reinhardt | Jan 18, 1934 |
Julius Henry ("Hank") Reinhardt (January 18, 1934-October 30, 2007) was an American author, editor, science fiction fan, and noted armorer and authority on medieval weaponry. He wrote as Hank Reinhardt, the nickname by which he was widely known. He...
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| x Larry McDonald |
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Apr 1, 1935 | Physician |
Lawrence Patton McDonald, M.D. (April 1, 1935 – September 1, 1983) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the seventh congressional district of Georgia as a Democrat. He was a passenger on...
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| x Carl Epting Mundy Jr. |
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Jul 16, 1935 |
Carl Epting Mundy, Jr. (born July 16, 1935) is a retired United States Marine Corps general who was the thirtieth Commandant of the United States Marine Corps and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from July 1, 1991 until his retirement on June 30,...
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| x Jerry Green | Apr 16, 1936 | American football player |
Jerry Green (born April 16, 1936, in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former American football player in the National Football League. He played for the Boston Patriots. He played collegiately for the Georgia Tech football team.
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| x Jerry Reed |
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Mar 20, 1937 | Singer |
Jerry Reed Hubbard (March 20, 1937 – September 1, 2008), known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, country guitarist, session musician, songwriter, and actor who appeared in over a dozen films. As a singer, he may be...
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| x Tom Redmond | Sep 21, 1937 |
Tom Redmond (born September 21, 1937 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former professional American football defensive lineman in the National Football League for six seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals.
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