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People Who Died in January

Can you name these famous people who kicked the bucket in January?
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Inspired Count Dracula
January 1st
Vlad the Impaler
Appeared in Forbidden Planet
January 2nd
Anne Francis
Founded the New Age Movement
January 3rd
Edgar Cayce
Entrepreneur who built his fortune on railroads
January 4th
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Came up with over 100 uses for peanuts
January 5th
George Washington Carver
26th president of the United States
January 6th
Theodore Roosevelt
Perfected Alternating Current (AC)
January 7th
Nikola Tesla
Discovered 4 of Jupiter's moons through the telescope
January 8th
Galileo Galilei
Traveled from Italy to China, often overexaggerating his journey
January 9th
Marco Polo
Rock singer who created 'Space Oddity' and ' Starman'
January 10th
David Bowie
Wrote the Star-Spangled Banner
January 11th
Francis Scott Key
Brother of Andy and Robin and a member of the Bee Gees
January 12th
Maurice Gibb
Vice president of Lyndon B. Johnson. Lost election to Richard Nixon
January 13th
Hubert H. Humphrey
Founder of a car company that produced cars such as the Charger
January 14th
John Francis Dodge
Has the title of 'Father of Photojournalism'
January 15th
Mathew Brady
Commanded the last Apollo flights
January 16th
Eugene Cernan
19th president of the United States
January 17th
Rutherford B. Hayes
Hall of Fame pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers
January 18th
Don Sutton
Played in Ecstasy in 1933
January 19th
Hedy Lamarr
British King and the first ruler of the House of Windsor
January 20th
George V
Overthrew the Tzar and became ruler of the USSR in 1917
January 21st
Vladimir Lenin
Had the second longest reign of any monarch
January 22nd
Queen Victoria
Russian Ballerina who created The Dying Swan
January 23rd
Anna Pavlova
British Prime Minister during WWII
January 24th
Winston Churchill
American gangster during the Prohibition period
January 25th
Al Capone
Basketball player who played for the Los Angeles Lakers
January 26th
Kobe Bryant
The privateer who commanded the fleet against the Spanish Armada
January 27th
Sir Francis Drake
Commanding officer of the Space Shuttle Challenger that exploded
January 28th
Francis Scobee
First European who stepped foot in the Americas
January 29th
Leif Erikson
Helped India gain independence from Great Britain
January 30th
Mahatma Gandhi
Created Winnie-the-Pooh
January 31st
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