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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Bart Jan Bok
Astronomer
28-Apr-1906 5-Aug-1983 Bok globules
Paul Brown
Football
7-Sep-1908 5-Aug-1991 Coach and namesake, Cleveland Browns
H. Ralph Burton
Government
1882 5-Aug-1971 Red-baiting Senate staffer
Richard Burton
Actor
10-Nov-1925 5-Aug-1984 Nineteen Eighty Four
Judy Canova
Actor
20-Nov-1913 5-Aug-1983 Comic actress, vaudevillian
William Cecil
Government
13-Sep-1520 5-Aug-1598 Closest advisor to Elizabeth I
Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
Business
c. 1916 5-Aug-2001 Former CEO of American Motors
John Charnley
Doctor
29-Aug-1912 5-Aug-1982 Hip replacement surgery
Dutch Clark
Football
11-Oct-1906 5-Aug-1978 NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback, Tailback
Friedrich Engels
Economist
28-Nov-1820 5-Aug-1895 Communist Manifesto
Peter Fraser
Head of State
28-Aug-1884 5-Aug-1950 Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1940-49
Edgar Guest
Poet
20-Aug-1881 5-Aug-1959 A Heap o' Livin'
Alec Guinness
Actor
2-Apr-1914 5-Aug-2000 Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars
Chick Hearn
Journalist
27-Nov-1916 5-Aug-2002 Legendary basketball announcer
Herbert of Cherbury
Philosopher
3-Mar-1583 5-Aug-1648 De Veritate
Sidney Holland
Head of State
18-Oct-1893 5-Aug-1961 Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1949-57
Soichiro Honda
Business
17-Nov-1906 5-Aug-1991 Founder of Honda Motor Company
Richard Howe
Military
8-Mar-1726 5-Aug-1799 First Lord of the Admiralty
Cornelius Janssen
Painter
14-Oct-1593 5-Aug-1661 Flemish-English painter
Jack Kamen
Cartoonist
29-May-1920 5-Aug-2008 EC Comics artist
Clarence M. Kelley
Government
24-Oct-1911 5-Aug-1997 FBI Director, 1973-78
Roland Kibbee
Screenwriter
15-Feb-1914 5-Aug-1984 A Night in Casablanca
Murray Krieger
Critic
27-Nov-1923 5-Aug-2000 The Play and Place of Criticism
Louis III
Royalty
863 AD 5-Aug-882 AD King of France, 879-82
Isaac ben Solomon Luria
Religion
1534 5-Aug-1572 Jewish mystic
Jean-Marie Lustiger
Religion
17-Sep-1926 5-Aug-2007 Archbishop of Paris, 1981-2005
Wilhelm Marx
Head of State
15-Jan-1863 5-Aug-1946 German Chancellor 1923-25, 1926-28
Ralph Meeker
Actor
21-Nov-1920 5-Aug-1988 Kiss Me Deadly
Arthur Meighen
Head of State
16-Jun-1874 5-Aug-1960 Twice Canadian Prime Minister
Carmen Miranda
Dancer
9-Feb-1909 5-Aug-1955 The lady in the tutti-frutti hat
Marilyn Monroe
Actor
1-Jun-1926 5-Aug-1962 Some Like It Hot
Robert Muldoon
Head of State
25-Sep-1921 5-Aug-1992 Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1975-84
Talbot Mundy
Novelist
23-Apr-1879 5-Aug-1940 King of the Khyber Rifles
Thomas Newcomen
Inventor
28-Feb-1663 5-Aug-1729 Atmospheric steam engine
St. Oswald
Royalty
c. 605 AD 5-Aug-642 AD King of Northumbria, 633-42
Francesco Quinn
Actor
22-Mar-1963 5-Aug-2011 Platoon
Art Ross
Hockey
13-Jan-1886 5-Aug-1964 Longtime Bruins GM and Head Coach
Budd Schulberg
Novelist
27-Mar-1914 5-Aug-2009 What Makes Sammy Run?
Philip Henry Sheridan
Military
6-Mar-1831 5-Aug-1888 Union Army General
Chavela Vargas
Singer
17-Apr-1919 5-Aug-2012 Ranchera singer
Amos Whitney
Business
8-Oct-1832 5-Aug-1928 Co-Founder of Pratt & Whitney
Heinrich Wieland
Chemist
4-Jun-1877 5-Aug-1957 Studied acids of bile
Todor Zhivkov
Head of State
7-Sep-1911 5-Aug-1998 Leader of Bulgaria, 1954-89


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