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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Felix Adler
Educator
13-Aug-1851 24-Apr-1933 Ethical Culture
Giovanni Agnelli
Business
13-Aug-1866 16-Dec-1945 Founder of Fiat
Jeff Altman
Comic
13-Aug-1951   Pink Lady and Jeff
Anders Jonas Ångström
Physicist
13-Aug-1814 21-Jun-1874 Founder of spectroscopy
John Logie Baird
Inventor
13-Aug-1888 14-Jun-1946 Television
Kathleen Battle
Singer
13-Aug-1948   Operatic soprano
John Beal
Actor
13-Aug-1909 26-Apr-1997 The Little Minister
Moritz Bleibtreu
Actor
13-Aug-1971   Run Lola Run
Danny Bonaduce
Actor
13-Aug-1959   The Partridge Family
Fletcher Bowron
Politician
13-Aug-1887 11-Sep-1968 Mayor of Los Angeles, 1938-53
Neville Brand
Actor
13-Aug-1920 16-Apr-1992 Birdman of Alcatraz
Howard Homan Buffett
Business
13-Aug-1903 30-Apr-1964 Congressman, father of Warren Buffett
Fidel Castro
Head of State
13-Aug-1926   Dictator of Cuba for almost fifty years
Sam Champion
TV Personality
13-Aug-1961   WABC-TV Weatherman
Alonzo M. Clark
Politician
13-Aug-1868 12-Oct-1952 Governor of Wyoming, 1931-33
Bobby Clarke
Hockey
13-Aug-1949   Philadelphia Flyers, 1969-84
Bert T. Combs
Politician
13-Aug-1911 4-Dec-1991 Governor of Kentucky, 1959-63
Gretchen Corbett
Actor
13-Aug-1947   Beth Davenport on The Rockford Files
Quinn Cummings
Actor
13-Aug-1967   The Goodbye Girl
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
Politician
13-Aug-1954   Congressman from Florida, 1993-2011
Gloria Dickson
Actor
13-Aug-1916 10-Apr-1945 They Won't Forget
Joycelyn Elders
Government
13-Aug-1933   Highly opinionated Surgeon General
Dan Fogelberg
Musician
13-Aug-1951 16-Dec-2007 Leader Of The Band
Melvin Frank
Screenwriter
13-Aug-1913 13-Oct-1988 A Touch of Class
Assar Gabrielsson
Business
13-Aug-1891 28-May-1962 Co-Founder of Volvo
James Gillray
Artist
13-Aug-1756 1-Jun-1815 English caricaturist
Wilton Graff
Actor
13-Aug-1903 13-Jan-1969 Bloodlust!
Paul Greengrass
Film Director
13-Aug-1955   The Bourne Supremacy
Lanny Griffith
Lobbyist
13-Aug-1951   Lobbyist, Barbour Griffith & Rogers
Pat Harrington
Actor
13-Aug-1929   Duane Schneider on One Day at a Time
Alfred Hitchcock
Film Director
13-Aug-1899 29-Apr-1980 Master of Suspense
Don Ho
Singer
13-Aug-1930 14-Apr-2007 Hawaiian crooner, Tiny Bubbles
Ben Hogan
Golf
13-Aug-1912 25-Jul-1997 Won 63 golf tournaments
Hume Alexander Horan
Diplomat
13-Aug-1934 22-Jul-2004 US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1988
Freeman A. Hrabowski
Educator
13-Aug-1950   President, University of Maryland Baltimore
Rex Humbard
Religion
13-Aug-1919 21-Sep-2007 Televangelist
John Ireland
Composer
13-Aug-1879 12-Jun-1962 The Holy Boy
Rita Johnson
Actor
13-Aug-1913 31-Oct-1965 Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Kurt Kasznar
Actor
13-Aug-1913 6-Aug-1979 Fitzhugh on Land of the Giants
Charles B. Knapp
Educator
13-Aug-1946   President, University of Georgia, 1987-97
Koji Kondo
Electronic Musician
13-Aug-1960   Theme to Super Mario Brothers
Alfried Krupp
Business
13-Aug-1907 30-Jul-1967 Nazi munitions maker, convicted war criminal
Bert Lahr
Actor
13-Aug-1895 4-Dec-1967 Lion in The Wizard of Oz
William Lemke
Politician
13-Aug-1878 30-May-1950 Congressman from North Dakota, 1933-50
Dawnn Lewis
Actor
13-Aug-1961   A Different World
Salvador Luria
Biologist
13-Aug-1912 6-Feb-1991 Natural selection in bacteria
Heike Makatsch
Actor
13-Aug-1971   Love Actually
Bill Musselman
Basketball
13-Aug-1940 5-May-2000 Timberwolves Head Coach, 1989-91
Annie Oakley
Performance Artist
13-Aug-1860 3-Nov-1926 Little Sure Shot
Camillo Olivetti
Business
13-Aug-1868 4-Dec-1943 Founder of Olivetti SpA
Russell E. Palmer
Business
13-Aug-1934   Dean of the Wharton School, 1983-90
Philippe Petit
Performance Artist
13-Aug-1949   High-wire walker
Gene Raymond
Actor
13-Aug-1908 2-May-1998 Red Dust
Lee Raymond
Business
13-Aug-1938   CEO of ExxonMobil, 1999-2005
Kira Roessler
Bassist
13-Aug-1962   Black Flag bassist
Buddy Rogers
Actor
13-Aug-1904 21-Apr-1999 With Mary Pickford in My Best Girl
Frederick Sanger
Chemist
13-Aug-1918   Two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry
Alan Shearer
Soccer
13-Aug-1970   Newcastle United forward
George Shearing
Jazz Musician
13-Aug-1919 14-Feb-2011 George Shearing Quintet
Michael Sinterniklaas
Actor
13-Aug-1972   Dean on The Venture Bros.
John Slattery
Actor
13-Aug-1962   Roger on Mad Men
Goldwin Smith
Historian
13-Aug-1823 7-Jun-1910 Controversialist
Orin R. Smith
Business
13-Aug-1935   CEO of Engelhard, 1984-2001
Sridevi
Actor
13-Aug-1963   Lamhe
Sebastian Stan
Actor
13-Aug-1983   Captain America: The First Avenger
George Gabriel Stokes
Physicist
13-Aug-1819 1-Feb-1903 Fluid dynamicist, optic waves
Lucy Stone
Activist
13-Aug-1818 18-Oct-1893 American Women's Suffrage Association
Sam Taylor
Film Director
13-Aug-1895 6-Mar-1958 Safety Last!
Kevin Tighe
Actor
13-Aug-1944   Roy DeSoto on Emergency!
Regis Toomey
Actor
13-Aug-1898 12-Oct-1991 Burke's Law
Herbert Hall Turner
Astronomer
13-Aug-1861 20-Aug-1930 Stellar positions
Peter Visclosky
Politician
13-Aug-1949   Congressman, Indiana 1st
Anna Walentynowicz
Activist
13-Aug-1929 10-Apr-2010 Catalyst for the Solidarnosc union
Wendy Whoppers
Pornstar
13-Aug-1968   80HHH-21-34, 38E-21-34 post reduction
Richard Willstätter
Chemist
13-Aug-1872 3-Aug-1942 Plant pigments
Janet L. Yellen
Economist
13-Aug-1946   President and CEO, San Francisco Fed


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