Top 10 January 13 Birthdays
No, Charles isn't Number 1 on this list, but you probably wouldn't recognize the man who is. Honorable Mention: January 13, 1945: Peter Simpson. Alongside team Captain Frank McLintock, he was the usual starting centreback, wearing the Number 6 shirt, on North London soccer team Arsenal when they won the Football League and FA Cup "Double" in 1971. Honorable Mention: January 13, 1972: Vitaly Scherbo. The native of Belarus won 6 Gold Medals in men's gymnastics, including the all-around, at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Somewhat Honorable Mention: January 13, 1832: Horatio Alger. Starting with Ragged Dick in 1868, he began publishing children's novels, based on a theme of virtue leading a poor boy "from rags to riches." But "the Horatio Alger Myth" is that the boy gets where he gets due to hard work. That never happened: It was always because the boy did something good that a wealthy person saw, and the wealthy person rewarded him....