Top 10 January 29 Birthdays
Honorable Mention: January 29, 1754: Moses Cleaveland. An officer in the War of the American Revolution, he became a General in the Connecticut militia, and in 1796 he founded the Ohio city that almost bears his name. A few years after his death, a newspaper was founded, but they couldn't get its entire name on the masthead for the printing press, so the 1st A was dropped: The paper became the Cleveland Advertiser , and the city became "Cleveland." Honorable Mention: January 29, 1937: Bobby Scott. Like Sam Cooke, he was a singer, a songwriter, a music producer, and a man who had a hit song titled "Chain Gang." His was in 1956, 4 years before Sam's, and it wasn't as good, but it did hit Number 13 on the pop charts. (Sam's made it to Number 2.) He won a Grammy Award for writing "A Taste of Honey," and he should have won another for co-writing "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother." Dishonorable Mention: January 29, 1970: Paul ...