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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Pope Alexander VII
Religion
13-Feb-1599 22-May-1667 Roman Catholic Pope, 1655-67
Robert Asprin
Author
28-Jun-1946 22-May-2008 Thieves World
Edward Bellamy
Author
26-Mar-1850 22-May-1898 Looking Backward
Richard Biggs
Actor
18-Mar-1961 22-May-2004 Dr. Stephen Franklin on Babylon 5
W. H. Canaway
Novelist
12-Jun-1925 22-May-1988 Sammy Going South
Janet Carroll
Actor
24-Dec-1940 22-May-2012 Risky Business
Albert Claude
Scientist
23-Aug-1899 22-May-1983 Microstructure of the cell
Edward F. Cline
Film Director
4-Nov-1891 22-May-1961 The Bank Dick
Harrison Cockrill
Politician
18-Jun-1826 22-May-1876 Kentucky State Senator, committed suicide
Constantine the Great
Royalty
27-Feb-272 AD 22-May-337 AD Roman Emperor, 306-37
Joan Davis
Actor
29-Jun-1907 22-May-1961 I Married Joan
Cecil Day-Lewis
Poet
27-Apr-1904 22-May-1972 UK Poet Laureate, 1968-72
John Derek
Film Director
12-Aug-1926 22-May-1998 Tarzan, the Ape Man
Jane Dulo
Actor
13-Oct-1917 22-May-1994 Liz Murray on Hey, Jeannie!
Maria Edgeworth
Author
1-Jan-1767 22-May-1849 Castle Rackrent
James V. Forrestal
Government
15-Feb-1892 22-May-1949 US Secretary of Defense, 1947-49
Martin Gabel
Actor
19-Jun-1912 22-May-1986 The First Deadly Sin
Martin Gardner
Mathematician
21-Oct-1914 22-May-2010 Mathematical games, Scientific American
Rocky Graziano
Boxing
1-Jan-1919 22-May-1990 Middleweight boxing champ
Augusta, Lady Gregory
Playwright
4-Mar-1852 22-May-1932 The Golden Apple
Lefty Grove
Baseball
6-Mar-1900 22-May-1975 Perhaps the best MLB pitcher in history
Alfred D. Hershey
Scientist
4-Dec-1908 22-May-1997 Molecular structure of viral genes
Mieczyslaw Horszowski
Pianist
23-Jun-1892 22-May-1993 Polish-American pianist
Langston Hughes
Poet
1-Feb-1902 22-May-1967 The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Lee Jong-Wook
Administrator
12-Apr-1945 22-May-2006 Director-General of WHO, 2003-06
Goodwin Knight
Politician
9-Dec-1896 22-May-1970 Governor of California, 1953-59
Joseph Wood Krutch
Naturalist
25-Nov-1893 22-May-1970 The Modern Temper
Buz Lukens
Politician
11-Feb-1931 22-May-2010 Congressman from Ohio, 1987-90
Alessandro Manzoni
Poet
7-Mar-1785 22-May-1873 I Promessi Sposi
John Marley
Actor
17-Oct-1907 22-May-1984 Godfather horsehead recipient
Connie Marshall
Actor
28-Apr-1933 22-May-2001 Dragonwyck
Whitman Mayo
Actor
15-Nov-1930 22-May-2001 Grady on Sanford and Son
Claude McKay
Novelist
15-Sep-1890 22-May-1948 Home to Harlem
DeLesseps S. Morrison
Politician
18-Jan-1912 22-May-1964 Mayor of New Orleans, 1946-61
Julius Plücker
Mathematician
16-Jul-1801 22-May-1868 Analytical geometry
Thurl Ravenscroft
Actor
6-Feb-1914 22-May-2005 Voice of Tony The Tiger
Wolfgang Reitherman
Film Director
26-Jun-1909 22-May-1985 Jungle Book
Margaret Rutherford
Actor
11-May-1892 22-May-1972 The V.I.P.s
Boris Sagal
Film Director
18-Oct-1917 22-May-1981 The Omega Man
Helen Taft
First Lady
2-Jun-1861 22-May-1943 Wife of US President William Howard Taft
Ernst Toller
Playwright
1-Dec-1893 22-May-1939 Transformation
Martha Washington
First Lady
2-Jun-1731 22-May-1802 Wife of US President George Washington
Jack Watling
Actor
13-Jan-1923 22-May-2001 We Dive at Dawn




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