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Martin Cooper (December 26, 1928)

While working for Motorola, he created the first personal cell phone, citing Captain Kirk’s communicator on Star Trek as an inspiration. His first call on the 28-oz. cordless cell phone (dubbed “the brick”) was to his rival at Bell Labs Research.

Melvil Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931)

Dewey was an American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification.

As a young adult he advocated spelling reform; he changed his name from the usual “Melville” to “Melvil”, without redundant letters, and for a time changed his surname to “Dui”

John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne (December 3, 1948)

Osbourne is an British heavy metal vocalist and songwriter. He rose to prominence as lead singer of the band Black Sabbath, whose dark and hard sound helped spawn the heavy metal genre. Due to Sabbath’s style, Osbourne became known as the “Prince of Darkness”. Osbourne is also known as the “Godfather of Heavy Metal“.

Ozzie has bitten the heads off of a bat and a dove, but I’m sure he would never bite the head off of a budgie.

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Jackie Cooper  (September 15, 1922 – May 3, 2011)

Jackie Cooper was an American actor, television director, producer and executive.

Cooper was the first child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination (for the film Skippy). He played “Jackie” in the Our Gang short films. Other movies he starred in as a child included Treasure Island and The Champ. He starred in many projects as an adult – one of the most well known was as editor Perry White in the Superman films.

He also worked behind the camera – and won two Emmys for directing.

He served in the United States Navy during World War II and remained active in the reserves for the next several decades, reaching the rank of Captain.

Cooper participated in several automobile racing events, including the record-breaking class D cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

 

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American actor Chris Cooper (July 9, 1959)

Spent his youth on his father’s vast cattle farm in Missouri.

Served in the Coast Guard after high school.

Studied ballet at Stephens College and majored in agriculture and acting at the University of Missouri.

Has appeared in such movies as: American Beauty, Sea Biscuit, Syriana, October Sky and Adaptation (for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor).

Cooper’s favorite Chris Cooper performance is as Douglas in Where the Wild Things Are.