LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Anna	Royalty	28-Jan-1693	17-Oct-1740	Tsarina of Russia, 1730-40
Hugh Bancroft	Publisher	13-Sep-1879	17-Oct-1933	President of Dow Jones, 1928-31
Joey Bishop	Comic	3-Feb-1918	17-Oct-2007	Rat Pack member
Teresa Brewer	Singer	7-May-1931	17-Oct-2007	Till I Waltz Again with You
Santiago Ramón y Cajal	Doctor	1-May-1852	17-Oct-1934	Structure of the nervous system
Frederic Chopin	Composer	22-Feb-1810	17-Oct-1849	Classical composer fond of the piano
Harry Crookshank	Politician	27-May-1893	17-Oct-1961	Leader, House of Commons, 1951-55
Tennessee Ernie Ford	Country Musician	13-Feb-1919	17-Oct-1991	Sixteen Tons
Christopher Glenn	Journalist	23-Mar-1938	17-Oct-2006	Longtime CBS radio correspondent
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard	Mathematician	8-Dec-1865	17-Oct-1963	Prime number theorem
John Halliday	Actor	14-Sep-1880	17-Oct-1947	The Philadelphia Story
Edward Hawke	Military	21-Feb-1710	17-Oct-1781	British admiral, Seven Years' War
Joan Hickson	Actor	5-Aug-1906	17-Oct-1998	Miss Marple
Betty Hill	Hoaxer	28-Jun-1919	17-Oct-2004	Self-proclaimed UFO abductee
Julia Ward Howe	Activist	27-May-1819	17-Oct-1910	Battle Hymn of the Republic
Cal Hubbard	Football	31-Oct-1900	17-Oct-1977	NFL Hall of Famer, Baseball umpire
Alberta Hunter	Singer	1-Apr-1895	17-Oct-1984	Downhearted Blues
Arthur M. Hyde	Politician	12-Jul-1877	17-Oct-1947	Governor of Missouri, 1921-25
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff	Physicist	12-Mar-1824	17-Oct-1887	Theory of spectrum analysis
William Vaughn Moody	Playwright	8-Jul-1869	17-Oct-1910	The Great Divide
Andreas Osiander	Religion	19-Dec-1498	17-Oct-1552	German Lutheran theologian
James Parton	Author	9-Feb-1822	17-Oct-1891	American biographer
S. J. Perelman	Author	1-Feb-1904	17-Oct-1979	New Yorker humorist
John S. Plaskett	Astronomer	17-Nov-1865	17-Oct-1941	Plaskett's star
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur	Biologist	28-Feb-1683	17-Oct-1757	L'Histoire des Insectes
James W. Riddleberger	Diplomat	21-Sep-1904	17-Oct-1982	Chief of Central European Affairs, 1944-47
Janice Rule	Actor	15-Aug-1931	17-Oct-2003	3 Women
Sir Philip Sidney	Author	30-Nov-1554	17-Oct-1586	The Defence of Poesie
Robert A. Young III	Politician	27-Nov-1923	17-Oct-2007	Congressman from Missouri, 1977-87

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