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Top 10 March 7 Birthdays

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Honorable Mention: March 7, 1671: Rob Roy MacGregor.  The legendary Scottish outlaw of the early 18th Century was a real person. Honorable Mention: March 7, 1998: Amanda Gorman.  She was just 22 and looked even younger when she read her poem "The Hill We Climb" at President Joe Biden's Inauguration in 2021. Somewhat Honorable Mention: March 7, 1964: Bret Easton Ellis.  The author of  Less Than Zero  and  American Psycho  is one of those cases where we have to ask whether the artist has gone so far that no amount of talent can excuse it. Dishonorable Mention: March 7, 1963: E.L. James.  No, the author of the  Fifty Shades  trilogy doesn't go as far as Ellis. But she's not as good, either. Dishonorable Mention: March 7, 1904: Reinhard Heydrich.  Military governor of Czechoslovakia during World War II, he was assassinated by Resistance fighters. In alternate history stories where the Nazis won the war, he usually ends up being in the i...