Birthday: Arthur Blank

Arthur Morris Blank is an Atlanta businessman and a co-founder of The Home Depot. Today he is known for his ownership of the Atlanta Falcons in the National Football League, and Atlanta United in Major League Soccer, and for the establishment of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation in 1985. In 2010, Blank signed The Giving Pledge, specifying that the majority of his wealth would be gifted to charity. He was born Sept. 27, 1942 in Sunnyside, N.Y.

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