Today's Famous Birthdays

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Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
(18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827)

was an Italian physicist and chemist who was a pioneer of electricity and power who is
credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane. He invented
the voltaic pile in 1799, and reported the results of his experiments in 1800 in a two-part
letter to the president of the Royal Society. With this invention Volta proved that
electricity could be generated chemically and debunked the prevalent theory that electricity
was generated solely by living beings. Volta's invention sparked a great amount of scientific
excitement and led others to conduct similar experiments, which eventually led to the
development of the field of electrochemistry.









Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI
(20 February 1898 – 14 August 1988)

was an Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand
Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque. He was widely known
as "il Commendatore" or "il Drake". In his final years he was often referred to as "l'Ingegnere"
(the Engineer) or "il Grande Vecchio (the Great Old Man)"










Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
(February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019),

known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published
in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won
the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987);
she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993