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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Georges d'Amboise
Religion
1460 25-May-1510 Prime Minister under Louis XII
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Playwright
17-Jan-1600 25-May-1681 La Vida es Sueño
Venerable Bede
Religion
c. 672 AD 25-May-735 AD Ecclesiastical History
Perry Belmont
Politician
28-Dec-1851 25-May-1947 Congressman from New York, 1881-88
Rosa Bonheur
Painter
16-Mar-1822 25-May-1899 Horse Fair
Chester Bowles
Politician
5-Apr-1901 25-May-1986 Governor of Connecticut, 1949-51
Hillary Brooke
Actor
8-Sep-1914 25-May-1999 The Woman in Green
Winthrop G. Brown
Diplomat
12-Jul-1907 25-May-1987 US Ambassador to South Korea, 1964-67
Robert Capa
Photographer
22-Oct-1913 25-May-1954 War photographer
Leonora Carrington
Painter
6-Apr-1917 25-May-2011 Last surviving Surrealist
Pat Coombs
Actor
27-Aug-1926 25-May-2002 British character actress
Donald Crisp
Actor
27-Jul-1880 25-May-1974 Silent film actor, survived into talkies
Desmond Dekker
Singer/Songwriter
16-Jul-1941 25-May-2006 Israelites
Edmund Dulac
Artist
22-Oct-1882 25-May-1953 Children's book illustrator
Sunil Dutt
Actor
6-Jun-1930 25-May-2005 Mother India
Frank W. Dyson
Astronomer
8-Jan-1868 25-May-1939 Six pips on the BBC
Moses Farmer
Inventor
9-Feb-1820 25-May-1893 Invented the fire alarm, electric trolley
Marie-Madeleine de la Fayette
Novelist
1634 25-May-1693 La Princesse de Clèves
Emanuel Feuermann
Cellist
22-Nov-1902 25-May-1942 Cellist
William L. Frierson
Government
3-Sep-1868 25-May-1953 US Solicitor General, 1920-21
Finis J. Garrett
Politician
26-Aug-1875 25-May-1956 Congressman from Tennessee, 1905-29
William T. Granahan
Politician
26-Jul-1895 25-May-1956 Congressman from Pennsylvania
Wardell Gray
Jazz Musician
13-Feb-1921 25-May-1955 Tenor sax bop-jazzman
Pope Gregory VII
Religion
c. 1020 25-May-1085 Lost power struggle with Henry IV
Joseph Grew
Diplomat
27-May-1880 25-May-1965 US Ambassador to Japan, 1932-41
William Hanley
Playwright
22-Oct-1931 25-May-2012 Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
Jay Hebert
Golf
14-Feb-1923 25-May-1997 Winner, 1960 PGA Championship
Gustav Holst
Composer
21-Sep-1874 25-May-1934 The Planets
Daniel Ernst Jablonski
Religion
20-Nov-1660 25-May-1741 Worked to unite protestantism
Michael H. Jordan
Business
13-Jun-1936 25-May-2010 CEO of EDS, 2003-07
Francis Lederer
Actor
6-Nov-1899 25-May-2000 Pandora's Box
Ismail Merchant
Film/TV Producer
25-Dec-1936 25-May-2005 Co-Founder, Merchant Ivory Productions
Brad Nowell
Musician
22-Feb-1968 25-May-1996 Lead singer of Sublime
William Paley
Religion
1743 25-May-1805 Moral and Political Philosophy
Nathaniel Pitcher
Politician
1777 25-May-1836 Twice Congressman from New York
Rosa Ponselle
Singer
22-Jan-1897 25-May-1981 Operatic soprano, NY Metropolitan Opera
Horace Porter
Diplomat
15-Apr-1837 25-May-1921 US Ambassador to France, 1897-1905
Charles Nelson Reilly
Actor
13-Jan-1931 25-May-2007 Flamboyant Match Game panelist
Dan Seymour
Actor
22-Feb-1915 25-May-1993 Return of the Fly
J. R. Simplot
Business
9-Jan-1909 25-May-2008 Fabulously wealthy Idaho potato farmer
Vic Tayback
Actor
6-Jan-1930 25-May-1990 Character actor, Papillon, etc
Harold R. Tyler, Jr.
Attorney
14-May-1922 25-May-2005 Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler
William B. Wilson
Government
2-Apr-1862 25-May-1934 US Secretary of Labor, 1913-21




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