Famous People Born in 1878

• Berry, Albert

  The first man to parachute out of an airplane

• Cohan, George M. (July 3)

  "Mr. Broadway" and the composer of "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

• Fosdick, Harry Emerson (May 24)

  Liberal Protestant preacher who wrote, "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?"

• Gilbreth, Lillian (May 24)

  The engineer and efficiency expert and mom of 'Cheaper by the Dozen'

• Sandburg, Carl (January 6)

  Author of the poem Chicago

• Sinclair, Upton (September 20)

  Socialist author of 1906's The Jungle

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