Happy Birthday Laura Ingalls Wilder!

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It's February 7th. Happy Birthday to...

1478 – Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535)

1804 – John Deere, American manufacturer (Deere & Company) (d. 1886)

1812 – Charles Dickens, English novelist (d. 1870)

1867 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (d. 1957)

1870 – Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (d. 1937)

1885 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1951)

1887 – Eubie Blake, American musician and composer (d. 1983)

1908 – Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (d. 1983)

1932 – Gay Talese, American author

1945 – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor

1953 – Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (d. 1998)

1960 – James Spader, American actor

1962 – Garth Brooks, American singer

1965 – Chris Rock, American comedian and actor

1973 – Irina Björklund, Finnish actress

1990 – Anna Abreu, Finnish singer

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Loved the books that Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote. I read all of them many, many times when I was growing up. They were simple stories, simply told, but they rang true and for young girls they were a source of inspiration and love of history.