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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Fred E. Ahlert
Composer
19-Sep-1892 20-Oct-1953 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
Lawrence Bell
Business
5-Apr-1894 20-Oct-1956 Founder of Bell Helicopter
Bertrand R. Brinley
Author
19-Jun-1917 20-Oct-1994 The Mad Scientists' Club
Jack Buchanan
Actor
2-Apr-1891 20-Oct-1957 The Band Wagon
Sir Richard Burton
Explorer
19-Mar-1821 20-Oct-1890 Translated The Arabian Nights
Harry F. Byrd
Politician
10-Jun-1887 20-Oct-1966 US Senator from Virginia, 1933-65
Carl Cori
Scientist
5-Dec-1896 20-Oct-1984 Catalytic conversion of glycogen
Grace Darling
unspecified
24-Nov-1815 20-Oct-1842 Rescuer of wreck Forfarshire
Eugene V. Debs
Labor Leader
5-Nov-1855 20-Oct-1926 Labor leader ran for President five times
Jacopo Della Quercia
Sculptor
c. 1374 20-Oct-1438 Influential early Renaissance sculptor
Paul Dirac
Physicist
8-Aug-1902 20-Oct-1984 The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Jack Elam
Actor
13-Nov-1918 20-Oct-2003 The Sundowners
Bob Guccione
Business
17-Dec-1930 20-Oct-2010 Founder, Penthouse magazine
Frederick A. Halsey
Engineer
12-Jul-1856 20-Oct-1935 Kept America safe from the metric system
Clifford Hansen
Politician
16-Oct-1912 20-Oct-2009 US Senator from Wyoming, 1967-78
Anthony Hecht
Poet
16-Jan-1923 20-Oct-2004 The Hard Hours
Arthur Henderson
Politician
13-Sep-1863 20-Oct-1935 Disarmament proponent, Nobel Prize winner
Herbert Hoover
Head of State
10-Aug-1874 20-Oct-1964 31st US President, 1929-33
Shirley Horn
Musician
1-May-1934 20-Oct-2005 Here's To Life
Edward J. Kelly
Politician
1-May-1876 20-Oct-1950 Mayor of Chicago, 1933-47
Werner Krauss
Actor
23-Jun-1884 20-Oct-1959 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Burt Lancaster
Actor
2-Nov-1913 20-Oct-1994 Elmer Gantry
J. Bracken Lee
Politician
7-Jan-1899 20-Oct-1996 Governor of Utah, 1949-57
Thomas Linacre
Doctor
c. 1460 20-Oct-1524 Established the Royal Academy of Physicians
Jack Lynch
Head of State
15-Aug-1917 20-Oct-1999 Twice Prime Minister of Ireland
Joel McCrea
Actor
5-Nov-1905 20-Oct-1990 Ride the High Country
Max McGee
Football
16-Jul-1932 20-Oct-2007 Former WR, Green Bay Packers
D. D. Palmer
Doctor
7-Mar-1845 20-Oct-1913 Founder of chiropractic medicine
Muammar Qaddafi
Head of State
1942 20-Oct-2011 Dictator of Libya
Anthony Quayle
Actor
7-Sep-1913 20-Oct-1989 Ice-Cold in Alex
Paul Raven
Bassist
16-Jan-1961 20-Oct-2007 Bassist for Killing Joke, Ministry
May Robson
Actor
19-Apr-1858 20-Oct-1942 Lady for a Day
Harlow Shapley
Astronomer
2-Nov-1885 20-Oct-1972 Organizer of Heaven
Francis Steegmuller
Author
3-Jul-1906 20-Oct-1994 Cocteau: A Biography
Henry L. Stimson
Government
21-Sep-1867 20-Oct-1950 US Secretary of War 1911-13, 1940-45
Anne Sullivan
Educator
14-Apr-1866 20-Oct-1936 The Miracle Worker
Merle Travis
Country Musician
29-Nov-1917 20-Oct-1983 Influential fingerpicking country guitarist
Ari Up
Singer
1-Jan-1962 20-Oct-2010 The Slits
Ronnie Van Zant
Musician
15-Jan-1948 20-Oct-1977 Frontman of Lynyrd Skynyrd
Felix M. Warburg
Business
14-Jan-1871 20-Oct-1937 Kuhn, Loeb and Co.
Charles Dudley Warner
Author
12-Sep-1829 20-Oct-1900 Harper's editorialist
Jane Wyatt
Actor
12-Aug-1910 20-Oct-2006 Father Knows Best
Patrick Wymark
Actor
11-Jul-1920 20-Oct-1970 Where Eagles Dare
Shigeru Yoshida
Head of State
22-Sep-1878 20-Oct-1967 Prime Minister of Japan, 1948-54


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