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Gale Eugene Sayers, the Kansas Comet, was one of the best players in the National Football League. Injuries limited him to only a few years, and he retired with many records. He was born in Wichita, Kansas, on this day in 1943.

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Countee Leroy Porter Cullen was a poet, novelist essayist, and another chronicler of the Harlem Renaissance. He was born on this day in 1903.