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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Mary Anning	Paleontologist	21-May-1799	9-Mar-1847	Self-taught paleontologist
W. H. Auden	Poet	21-Feb-1907	29-Sep-1973	The Age of Anxiety
Joseph Brant	Military	1742	24-Nov-1807	Mohawk Indian Chief
James F. Byrnes	Politician	2-May-1882	9-Apr-1972	US Secretary of State, 1945-47
Cab Calloway	Jazz Musician	25-Dec-1907	18-Nov-1994	King of Hi-De-Ho
Willa Cather	Novelist	7-Dec-1873	24-Apr-1947	O Pioneers!
Samuel Crowther	Religion	c. 1809	31-Dec-1891	African missionary bishop
John Donne	Poet	1572	31-Mar-1631	Anniversaries
T. S. Eliot	Poet	26-Sep-1888	4-Jan-1965	Author of "The Waste Land"
Matthew Fox	Religion	21-Dec-1940		Creation Spirituality
Edward Gibbon	Historian	8-May-1737	16-Jan-1794	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Anne Hathaway	Actor	12-Nov-1982		The Princess Diaries
King Henry VIII	Royalty	28-Jun-1491	28-Jan-1547	King of England, 1509-47
James McGreevey	Politician	6-Aug-1957		Governor of New Jersey, 2002-04
Levi P. Morton	Politician	16-May-1824	16-May-1920	Vice President under Benjamin Harrison
Florence Nightingale	Activist	12-May-1820	13-Aug-1910	Established nursing as a profession
Prince Philip	Royalty	10-Jun-1921		Duke of Edinburgh
Enoch Powell	Politician	16-Jun-1912	8-Feb-1998	British demagogue
Hormuzd Rassam	Archaeologist	1826	16-Sep-1910	Discovered Epic of Gilgamesh
David Ricardo	Economist	18-Apr-1772	11-Sep-1823	Principles of Political Economy
Katharine Jefferts Schori	Religion	26-Mar-1954		Presiding Episcopal Bishop
J. Parnell Thomas	Government	16-Jan-1895	19-Nov-1970	HUAC chairman, took the Fifth
Kenneth Tomlinson	Business	3-Aug-1944	1-May-2014	Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Bess Truman	First Lady	13-Feb-1885	18-Oct-1982	First Lady under Harry S. Truman
Mordechai Vanunu	Activist	13-Oct-1954		Blew whistle on Israel's nukes
George W. Wickersham	Government	19-Sep-1858	26-Jan-1936	US Attorney General, 1909-13
John Wilmot	Poet	1-Apr-1647	26-Jul-1680	Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery

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