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Grace Brown, prior to 1906.

• Murder of Grace Brown (March 20, 1886 – July 11, 1906) was the murder of a New York-raised American skirt factory worker and became the basis of Roberta Alden, a character from the novel An American Tragedy.
• Billy Collins (March 22, 1941) is an American poet who has previously been recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library and New York State Poet for 2004.
• Arent S. Crowninshield (March 14, 1843 - 1908) was an admiral of the United States Navy.
• Herbert Henry Lehman (March 28, 1878 – December 5, 1963) was a Democratic Party politician from New York who served as the Governor of New York from 1933 until 1942.