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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Terence Alexander
Actor
11-Mar-1923 28-May-2009 Charlie Hungerford in Bergerac
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
17-Dec-1770 26-Mar-1827 Prominent composer
Henry E. Bliss
Curator
29-Jan-1870 9-Aug-1955 Bliss Classification System
Laura Dewey Bridgman
Oddity
21-Dec-1829 24-May-1889 Blind deaf mute
Foxy Brown
Rapper
6-Sep-1978   Ill Na Na
Annie Jump Cannon
Astronomer
11-Dec-1863 13-Apr-1941 Census-taker of the sky
George Catlin
Painter
26-Jul-1796 23-Dec-1872 Portraitist painted Native Americans
Vint Cerf
Scientist
23-Jun-1943   Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol
Stephen Colbert
Comic
13-May-1964   The Colbert Report
John Cornforth
Chemist
7-Sep-1917   Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts
Kim Dae-Jung
Head of State
3-Dec-1925 18-Aug-2009 South Korean President, 1998-2003
Gabriel Duvall
Judge
6-Dec-1752 6-Mar-1844 US Supreme Court Justice, 1811-34
Thomas Edison
Inventor
11-Feb-1847 18-Oct-1931 Invented the light bulb
Lou Ferrigno
Actor
9-Nov-1951   The Incredible Hulk
Jack Fletcher
Photographer
1917 31-Dec-2003 National Geographic photographer
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Physicist
28-Jun-1906 20-Feb-1972 Shell nuclear model
Billy Graham
Religion
7-Nov-1918   Televangelist
Oliver Heaviside
Engineer
18-May-1850 3-Feb-1925 Kennelly-Heaviside layer
Karen Ignagni
Business
c. 1953   America's Health Insurance Plans PAC
Helen Keller
Activist
27-Jun-1880 1-Jun-1968 Deaf and blind activist
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Astronomer
4-Jul-1868 12-Dec-1921 Cepheid variable
Juliette Gordon Low
Activist
31-Oct-1860 18-Jan-1927 Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA
Albert Lutuli
Activist
c. 1898 21-Jul-1967 ANC president, Nobel Prize recipient
Harriet Martineau
Author
12-Jun-1802 27-Jun-1876 Maid of All Work
Marlee Matlin
Actor
24-Aug-1965   Deaf actress on The West Wing
Peter Mitchell
Chemist
29-Sep-1920 10-Apr-1992 ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondia
Alan Moore
Author
18-Nov-1953   Created The Watchmen
Alexander Muirhead
Physicist
26-May-1848 13-Dec-1920 Submarine cable telegraphy
John H. Northrop
Chemist
5-Jul-1891 27-May-1987 Bacteriophages
Ted Nugent
Musician
13-Dec-1948   Rock star, bowhunting enthusiast
Charles H. Percy
Politician
27-Sep-1919 17-Sep-2011 US Senator from Illinois, 1967-85
Frank Serpico
Activist
14-Apr-1936   The most dangerous man alive - An honest cop
Bobby Sherman
Singer
22-Jul-1943   "Julie, Julie, Julie, Do You Love Me?"
David Shoenberg
Physicist
4-Jan-1911 10-Mar-2004 Physicist at Cambridge
Shoshannah Stern
Actor
3-Jul-1980   Deaf actress
James Stockdale
Military
23-Dec-1923 5-Jul-2005 H. Ross Perot's would-be Vice President
Helen B. Taussig
Doctor
24-May-1898 20-May-1986 Mother of pediatric cardiology
George Washington
Head of State
22-Feb-1732 14-Dec-1799 1st US President, 1789-97



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