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Five famous Americans born February 11

  Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio in 1847. He was an inventor, a scientist and a businessman. Many of the devices he invented have greatly influenced our lives, the phonograph, motion picture camera, and bulb. Edison was also a businessman who allowed him to apply the principles of mass production and teamwork to the process of invention, and is credited with setting up the "industrial research laboratory first. " He is a prolific inventors addition, he holds U.S. patents in 1083 and also the name of its patents in the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Many of his inventions have contributed to mass communication - particularly telecommunications. The invention that has really made famous was the phonograph in 1877. Apparently, this invention has been so unexpected that people out there "appears" magical.'s Where he became known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park. (ae  1931)

  MAXIMILIAN Adelbert Baer was born in 1909 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was an American boxer during the 1930s, and a time Heavyweight Champion of the World. Baer has also been an actor, artist, professional wrestler and referee. Ring Magazine lists him # 22 in their list of the greatest punchers of all time. (ae  1959)

  BURTON LEON Reynolds Jr. was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1936. Mr. Reynolds is an actor who had roles in films such as Deliverance, White Lightning, The Longest Yard, Smokey and the Bandit and Cannonball Run. He attended Florida State University on a football scholarship to the college where he was a half-star everything.   However, he tore cartilage in the first game, and during the Christmas holidays that year, he was in a car accident that ended his football career. He then attend Palm Beach Junior College, where he was involved in productions of play and won the 1956 Florida State Drama Award. The award included a scholarship to Hyde Park Playhouse, a summer stock theater in New York. He went on tour, performing in Tea and Sympathy. On his return, he enrolled in drama classes. He made his Broadway debut in the eye, we've been through. Riverboat (1960-1961) was his entry into television. He also appeared in The Blue Angels and the Brothers Brannagan. He then appear in a number of other shows. His screen debut was in 1961 Angel Baby. Reynolds earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1978.

  JOHN ELLIS "JEB" Bush was born in Midland, Texas in 1953. His alma mater is the University of Texas at Austin. He is a politician who was governor of Florida 43rd (1999-2007) He is a member of prominent Bush family - the younger brother of President George W. Bush and the second son of former President George HW Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush.

JOANNA JENNIFER Aniston was born in 1969 in Sherman Oaks, California. She is an actress, producer and director. Her acting career began with the role of Rachel Green in the television series Friends (1994-2004). For this role, she won an Emmy, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She also starred in such films as Bruce Almighty, Office Space, Rumor Has It, Along Came Polly and The Break-Up. Aniston is involved in several charities - Friends of El Faro, nonprofit which helps raise money for an orphanage Mexico. She has made television commercials for Jude Children's Research Hospital St., "we do Wa.