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Today in History: Born on April 19

1666

Sarah Kemble Knight, diarist.

1721

Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

1832

Lucretia Rudolph, President James A. Garfield's first lady.

1877

Ole Evinrude, inventor of the first successful outboard motor.

1900

Richard Hughes, English novelist and playwright (A High Wind in Jamaica).

1903

Eliot Ness, Treasury agent during Prohibition.

1905

Tom Hopkinson, British writer.

1912

Glenn T. Seaborg, physicist.

1933

Etheridge Knight, poet.

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