CELEBRITIES NAMED ROBINS & ROBBINS Irving Robbins, co-founder of Baskin & Robbins Ice Cream. He was born 1918 in Tacoma, WA. His partner Burt Baskin was his brother-in-law. John Robbins, author & son of Irving Robbins of Baskin & Robbins was born on 10-26-1947 in CA. Author of "Diet for a New America" & "Healthy at 100." He believes in eating a completely plant based diet so no Baskin-Robbins products on his diet unless someone has discovered how to make them out of plants. Brigadier General Augustine Warner Robins was born 1882 in VA to Civil War Confederate Colonel William Todd Robins & his wife Sally Nelson. He was the great,great grandson of the Rev. War hero of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson. General Robins graduated from West Point in 1907 & served with General John Pershing in New Mexico in 1916 in an expedition against Pancho Villa. He was one of the first logistics specialists & generals of the Army Air Corps. He died in 1940 & is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Robins Air Force Base was named in honor of him.