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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Philip Danforth Armour
Business
16-May-1832 6-Jan-1901 Founder of Armour & Co.
Louis Braille
Inventor
4-Jan-1809 6-Jan-1852 Reading system for the blind
Fanny Burney
Novelist
13-Jun-1752 6-Jan-1840 Camilla
Emma Calvé
Singer
15-Aug-1858 6-Jan-1942 Operatic soprano, Carmen
Georg Cantor
Mathematician
3-Mar-1845 6-Jan-1918 Founder of set theory
Ian Charleson
Actor
11-Aug-1949 6-Jan-1990 Chariots of Fire
Pavel A. Cherenkov
Physicist
15-Jul-1904 6-Jan-1990 Cherenkov radiation
Richard Henry Dana
Author
1-Aug-1815 6-Jan-1882 Two Years Before the Mast
John Dennis
Critic
1657 6-Jan-1734 The Usefulness of the Stage
William J. Dyess
Diplomat
1-Aug-1929 6-Jan-1996 US Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1982-83
Johann Augustus Eberhard
Philosopher
31-Aug-1739 6-Jan-1809 Neue Apologie des Socrates
Jim Fisk
Business
1-Apr-1834 6-Jan-1872 Business partner of Jay Gould
Victor Fleming
Film Director
23-Feb-1883 6-Jan-1949 Gone With the Wind
Philip Henslowe
Business
c. 1550 6-Jan-1616 Elizabethan theatrical manager
A. Lawrence Lowell
Educator
1-Jan-1856 6-Jan-1943 President, Harvard University, 1909-33
John D. MacArthur
Philanthropist
6-Mar-1897 6-Jan-1978 Philanthropist, MacArthur Foundation
Niall MacGinnis
Actor
29-Mar-1913 6-Jan-1977 49th Parallel
Noel Madison
Actor
30-Apr-1897 6-Jan-1975 American character actor
Don Martin
Artist
18-May-1931 6-Jan-2000 Mad Magazine artist
Gregor Mendel
Scientist
22-Jul-1822 6-Jan-1884 Discovered the laws of inheritance
Burt Munro
Engineer
25-Mar-1899 6-Jan-1978 Subject of biopic The World's Fastest Indian
Rudolf Nureyev
Dancer
17-Mar-1938 6-Jan-1993 Defected to France from Kirov Ballet
Bernard van Orley
Painter
1492 6-Jan-1542 Flemish Renaissance painter
Vladimir de Pachmann
Pianist
27-Jul-1848 6-Jan-1933 Histrionic Russian pianist, known for Chopin
Baldassarre Peruzzi
Architect
7-Mar-1481 6-Jan-1536 Sienese architect, quadratura painter
Wesley Powell
Politician
13-Oct-1915 6-Jan-1981 Governor of New Hampshire, 1959-63
Lou Rawls
Singer
1-Dec-1935 6-Jan-2006 Silky-voiced jazz/soul singer
John W. Reynolds
Politician
4-Apr-1921 6-Jan-2002 Governor of Wisconsin, 1963-65
Theodore Roosevelt
Head of State
27-Oct-1858 6-Jan-1919 26th US President, 1901-09
Julius Rosenwald
Business
12-Aug-1862 6-Jan-1932 Sears executive and Good Samaritan
Charlotte von Stein
Author
25-Dec-1742 6-Jan-1827 Friend of Goethe and Schiller
Slim Summerville
Actor
10-Jul-1892 6-Jan-1949 The Front Page
Ida M. Tarbell
Journalist
5-Nov-1857 6-Jan-1944 History of the Standard Oil Company
Hugh Thompson
Military
15-Apr-1943 6-Jan-2006 Stopped the My Lai massacre
Frank Tuttle
Film Director
6-Aug-1892 6-Jan-1963 This Gun for Hire
Don Tyson
Business
21-Apr-1930 6-Jan-2011 Tyson Foods
James E. Van Zandt
Politician
18-Dec-1898 6-Jan-1986 Congressman from Pennsylvania
Robert Welch
Activist
1-Dec-1899 6-Jan-1985 Founder, John Birch Society
Stark Young
Critic
11-Oct-1881 6-Jan-1963 So Red the Rose


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