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1996 Amschel Mayor James Rothschild, banker, joined family banking firm N M Rothschild & Sons, chief executive of Rothschild Asset Management dies

1995 Ronnie Kray, English gangster (The Firm), dies at 61

1992 Josef Neckermann, German founder mail-order firm/travel bureau, dies

1990 Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54

1964 Michelle Obama, born in Chicago, Illinois, maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, first African-American First Lady of the United States, husband to Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, employed by Sidley Austin law firm and University of Chicago Medical Center

1963 Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization

1959 De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond

1955 Amschel Mayor James Rothschild, born in Paris, France, banker, joined family banking firm N M Rothschild & Sons, chief executive of Rothschild Asset Management

1955 John Grisham, writer, Client, Firm, Pelican Brief

1949 Paul Rodgers, Engl, rocker, Bad Company-Feel Like Makin Love, Firm

1942 Thom Mayne, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, architect, awarded Pritzker Prize, 2005, principal, Morphosis, famous architecture firm in Santa Monica, California, founder, Southern California Institute of Architecture

1941 Tadao Ando, born in Osaka, Japan, Japanese architect, employs critical regionalism style of architecture, 1969, established firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates, winner, Pritzker Architecture Prize 1995

1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded

1900 Josephine Holt Bay, 1st woman to head a firm on New York stock exchange

1885 Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa

1768 Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel


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