January 8th, 1947

January 8th, 1947...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "The Old Lamp-Lighter" by Sammy Kaye

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: James F. Byrnes, Man of the Year

(TIME Cover: January the 6th, 1947)

Famous people born on the 8th of January:

1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
1923 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born computer scientist
1934 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
1934 - Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician (The Doors)
1947 - David Bowie, English musician

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947

André Paul Guillaume Gide
1869-1951

for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight

France

Photo: nobelprize.org

Oscar of the best picture in 1947

Gentleman's Agreement
directed by Elia Kazan
with Gregory Peck (Phil Green) and Dorothy McGuire (Kathy)

Designed in 1947

The Daybed
by Richard Stein

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