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BIRTHS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Louisa May Alcott
Author
29-Nov-1832 6-Mar-1888 Little Women
Jim Cramer
TV Personality
10-Feb-1955   Mad Money
Henry van Dyke
Author
10-Nov-1852 10-Apr-1933 The Unknown Quantity
Thomas S. Gates
Government
10-Apr-1906 25-Mar-1983 US Secretary of Defense, 1959-61
Henry Gibson
Actor
21-Sep-1935 14-Sep-2009 Laugh-In
Ross Granville Harrison
Zoologist
13-Jan-1870 30-Sep-1959 Embryology and tissue culture techniques
E. Newton Harvey
Zoologist
25-Nov-1887 21-Jul-1959 Light-emitting organisms
J. Howard Marshall II
Business
24-Jan-1905 4-Aug-1995 Oilman, married Anna Nicole Smith
Theodore W. Richards
Chemist
31-Jan-1868 2-Apr-1928 Atomic weights
David Rittenhouse
Astronomer
8-Apr-1732 26-Jun-1796 Early Pennsylvania scientist and statesman
Francis Schaeffer
Religion
30-Jan-1912 15-May-1984 Founder, L'Abri Community

DEATHS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Anna T. Jeanes
Philanthropist
7-Apr-1822 24-Sep-1907 Negro Rural School Fund
Florence Kelley
Activist
12-Sep-1859 17-Feb-1932 Founder of National Consumers League





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