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| Dwayne Andreas |
Business |
4-Mar-1918 |
|
Archer Daniels Midland CEO, 1970-97 |
| Isaac Asimov |
Author |
2-Jan-1920 |
6-Apr-1992 |
Foundation |
| Charles Bukowski |
Author |
16-Aug-1920 |
9-Mar-1994 |
Love is a Dog from Hell |
| Ralph Bunche |
Diplomat |
4-Aug-1904 |
9-Dec-1971 |
UN Mediator in Palestine 1948 |
| Roy Campanella |
Baseball |
19-Nov-1921 |
26-Jun-1993 |
National League MVP 1951, 1953, and 1955 |
| Harold Camping |
Religion |
19-Jul-1921 |
15-Dec-2013 |
Predicted the end of world, three times |
| Owen Chamberlain |
Physicist |
10-Jul-1920 |
28-Feb-2006 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
| Orvil Dryfoos |
Publisher |
8-Nov-1912 |
26-May-1963 |
New York Times Publisher, 1961-63 |
| Leo Durocher |
Baseball |
27-Jul-1905 |
7-Oct-1991 |
Leo the Lip |
| Bob Feller |
Baseball |
3-Nov-1918 |
15-Dec-2010 |
Pitched three no-hitters for Cleveland |
| Errol Flynn |
Actor |
20-Jun-1909 |
14-Oct-1959 |
Robin Hood |
| John Garfield |
Actor |
4-Mar-1913 |
21-May-1952 |
Gentleman's Agreement |
| Ed Gein |
Criminal |
27-Aug-1906 |
26-Jul-1984 |
Serial killer and cannibal |
| Benny Goodman |
Jazz Musician |
30-May-1909 |
13-Jun-1986 |
Bespectacled jazz clarinetist |
| Gordon Gould |
Physicist |
17-Jul-1920 |
16-Sep-2005 |
Invented the laser, arguably |
| Hank Greenberg |
Baseball |
1-Jan-1911 |
4-Sep-1986 |
Two-time American League MVP |
| Harvey Haddix |
Baseball |
18-Sep-1925 |
8-Jan-1994 |
MLB pitcher |
| Moss Hart |
Playwright |
24-Oct-1904 |
20-Dec-1961 |
You Can't Take It With You |
| Dick Haymes |
Singer |
13-Sep-1916 |
28-Mar-1980 |
State Fair |
| Woody Herman |
Jazz Musician |
16-May-1913 |
29-Oct-1987 |
1940s Big Band leader, jazz clarinetist |
| Stanley Hiller, Jr. |
Inventor |
15-Nov-1924 |
20-Apr-2006 |
Helicopter designer |
| Jimmy Hoffa |
Labor Leader |
14-Feb-1913 |
30-Jul-1975 |
International Brotherhood of Teamsters |
| Hubert Humphrey |
Politician |
27-May-1911 |
13-Jan-1978 |
US Vice President, 1965-69 |
| Lee Iacocca |
Business |
15-Oct-1924 |
|
Former chairman, Chrysler Corporation |
| Van Johnson |
Actor |
25-Aug-1916 |
12-Dec-2008 |
The Caine Mutiny |
| B. B. King |
Musician |
16-Sep-1925 |
14-May-2015 |
King of the Blues |
| Thomas Kuhn |
Author |
18-Jul-1922 |
17-Jun-1996 |
Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
| Timothy Leary |
Activist |
22-Oct-1920 |
31-May-1996 |
Tune in, turn on, drop out |
| Vince Lombardi |
Football |
11-Jun-1913 |
3-Sep-1970 |
Winning isn't everything, It's the only thing |
| Lester Maddox |
Politician |
30-Sep-1915 |
25-Jun-2003 |
Governor of Georgia, 1967-71 |
| Malcolm X |
Activist |
19-May-1925 |
21-Feb-1965 |
Nation of Islam |
| Eugene McCarthy |
Politician |
29-Mar-1916 |
10-Dec-2005 |
US Senator from Minnesota, 1959-71 |
| Gregory Peck |
Actor |
5-Apr-1916 |
12-Jun-2003 |
To Kill A Mockingbird |
| Jackson Pollock |
Painter |
28-Jan-1912 |
11-Aug-1956 |
Abstract expressionist |
| James H. Quillen |
Politician |
11-Jan-1916 |
2-Nov-2003 |
Congressman from Tennessee, 1963-97 |
| Sun Ra |
Jazz Musician |
22-May-1914 |
30-May-1993 |
Jazz musician from Saturn |
| Walter Reuther |
Labor Leader |
1-Sep-1907 |
9-May-1970 |
UAW and CIO labor leader |
| Phil Rizzuto |
Baseball |
25-Sep-1916 |
14-Aug-2007 |
American League MVP, 1950 |
| Jerome Robbins |
Choreographer |
11-Oct-1918 |
29-Jul-1998 |
West Side Story |
| Mickey Rooney |
Actor |
23-Sep-1920 |
6-Apr-2014 |
Actor in Andy Hardy comedies, musicals |
| Julius Rosenberg |
Spy |
12-May-1918 |
19-Jun-1953 |
Leaked atomic bomb secrets to USSR |
| Jack Ruby |
Assassin |
25-Mar-1911 |
3-Jan-1967 |
Killed Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Bayard Rustin |
Activist |
17-Mar-1910 |
24-Aug-1987 |
Organized the 1963 March on Washington |
| Daniel Schorr |
Journalist |
31-Aug-1916 |
23-Jul-2010 |
Veteran journalist, Nixon enemy |
| Claude Shannon |
Scientist |
30-Apr-1916 |
24-Feb-2001 |
Pioneer in information theory |
| Frank Sinatra |
Singer |
12-Dec-1915 |
14-May-1998 |
It's Frank's world, we just live in it |
| Eddie Slovik |
Military |
18-Feb-1920 |
31-Jan-1945 |
US soldier executed for desertion |
| Jimmy Stewart |
Actor |
20-May-1908 |
2-Jul-1997 |
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| Alfred Tarski |
Mathematician |
14-Jan-1902 |
26-Oct-1983 |
Tarski's indefinability theorem |
| A. E. van Vogt |
Novelist |
26-Apr-1912 |
26-Jan-2000 |
Science fiction writer |
| James Watson |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1928 |
|
Co-Discoverer of DNA |
| John Wayne |
Actor |
26-May-1907 |
11-Jun-1979 |
The Duke |
| Orson Welles |
Actor |
6-May-1915 |
10-Oct-1985 |
Citizen Kane |
| Ted Williams |
Baseball |
30-Aug-1918 |
5-Jul-2002 |
Cryonically preserved .400 hitter |
| Tennessee Williams |
Playwright |
26-Mar-1911 |
25-Feb-1983 |
The Glass Menagerie |
