1823 Sir William Siemens - German born British metallurgist and inventor. Inventions by his Siemens Brothers firm include a cable-laying steamship, water-meter and pyrometer

I don't know if it's the same company or not but I almost went to work for Siemens some 30 years ago. They offered me the job and it wasn't bad money but I decided to stay self employed doing furniture making and refinishing. I liked what I was doing and working for myself. So I turned them down.







1906 John Cameron Swayze - US newsman for NBC-TV, and the Timex spokesman

"It takes a licking and keeps on ticking."







1965 Robert Downey Jr. - Actor (Iron Man, Tropic Thunder, Weird Science, Less Than Zero, Air America, Soapdish, Natural Born Killers, Richard III, US Marshals, Ally McBeal) He portrays Sherlock Holmes in the new series of movies He also starred in Chaplin, with John Thaw

He certainly turned his life around after nearly losing everything because of his drug addiction. Good for him.