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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Harry Barnes
Diplomat
5-Jun-1926 9-Aug-2012 US Ambassador to Chile, 1985-88
Henry E. Bliss
Curator
29-Jan-1870 9-Aug-1955 Bliss Classification System
Hieronymus Bosch
Painter
1453 9-Aug-1516 Painter of the grotesque
Hugo Boss
Fashion Designer
8-Jul-1885 9-Aug-1948 Designed Nazi uniforms
Frank A. Briggs
Politician
15-Sep-1858 9-Aug-1898 Governor of North Dakota, 1897-98
Jackie Cochran
Aviator
11-May-1906 9-Aug-1980 First woman to break the sound barrier
James Gould Cozzens
Novelist
19-Aug-1903 9-Aug-1978 Guard of Honor
Pope Damasus II
Religion
? 9-Aug-1048 Roman Catholic Pope, 1048
Harry Davenport
Actor
19-Jan-1866 9-Aug-1949 Gone with the Wind
William F. Durand
Engineer
5-Mar-1859 9-Aug-1958 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Jerry Garcia
Musician
1-Aug-1942 9-Aug-1995 Grateful Dead
Ernst Haeckel
Zoologist
16-Feb-1834 9-Aug-1919 Proponent of evolution
John C. Harsanyi
Economist
29-May-1920 9-Aug-2000 Game theory
Hermann Hesse
Author
2-Jul-1877 9-Aug-1962 Siddhartha
Gregory Hines
Dancer
14-Feb-1946 9-Aug-2003 Tap dancer
Leon H. Keyserling
Economist
22-Jan-1908 9-Aug-1987 Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-53
John W. King
Politician
10-Oct-1918 9-Aug-1996 Governor of New Hampshire, 1963-69
James Armistead Lafayette
Spy
10-Dec-1748 9-Aug-1830 American spy during the Revolution
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Composer
8-Mar-1857 9-Aug-1919 Pagliacci
Bernie Mac
Comic
5-Oct-1957 9-Aug-2008 The Bernie Mac Show
Vito Marcantonio
Politician
10-Dec-1902 9-Aug-1954 American Labor Party
George Preston Marshall
Football
11-Oct-1896 9-Aug-1969 Redskins owner, halftime show pioneer
Matthew McGrory
Actor
17-May-1973 9-Aug-2005 Big Fish
Paul Milstein
Business
12-May-1922 9-Aug-2010 Manhattan real estate developer
Elliott Nugent
Film Director
20-Sep-1896 9-Aug-1980 My Favorite Brunette
Joe Orton
Playwright
1-Jan-1933 9-Aug-1967 Prick Up Your Ears
Cecil Powell
Physicist
5-Dec-1903 9-Aug-1969 Discovered the pi-meson
John Quade
Actor
1-Apr-1938 9-Aug-2009 Every Which Way But Loose
David Rakoff
Author
27-Nov-1964 9-Aug-2012 Don't Get Too Comfortable
Judith Rossner
Novelist
31-Mar-1935 9-Aug-2005 Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Nerine Shatner
Relative
c. 1959 9-Aug-1999 William Shatner's drowned wife
Dmitri Shostakovich
Composer
25-Sep-1906 9-Aug-1975 Symphony No. 7
Walter Bedell Smith
Government
5-Oct-1895 9-Aug-1961 CIA Director, 1950-53
Lincoln Steffens
Journalist
6-Apr-1866 9-Aug-1936 Early muckraking journalist
Mel Stuart
Film Director
2-Sep-1928 9-Aug-2012 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Trajan
Royalty
15-Sep-53 AD 9-Aug-117 AD Roman Emperor, 98-117 AD
James Van Allen
Astronomer
7-Sep-1914 9-Aug-2006 Discovered the Van Allen Belt
Anton Walbrook
Actor
19-Nov-1896 9-Aug-1967 The Red Shoes




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