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On This Day January 8
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Celebrity Birthdays
1926 – Comedian Soupy Sales, born Milton Supman (d. 2009)
1933 – Retired CBS News host, anchor and commentator Charles Osgood
1937 – Singer Shirley Bassey, whose numerous hits include three James Bond theme songs
1938 – “The Newlywed Game” host Bob Eubanks
1942 – Physicist, cosmologist, and author Stephen Hawking (“A Brief History of Time”) (d. 2018)
1947 – Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David Bowie (“Space Oddity,” “Fame”) (d. 2016)
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