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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Charles Baudelaire
Poet
9-Apr-1821 31-Aug-1867 Les Fleurs du Mal
Vance Bourjaily
Novelist
17-Sep-1922 31-Aug-2010 The End of My Life
Georges Braque
Painter
13-May-1882 31-Aug-1963 Co-Founded Cubism
Gay Brewer
Golf
19-Mar-1932 31-Aug-2007 Winner, 1967 Masters Tournament
John Bunyan
Author
Nov-1628 31-Aug-1688 Pilgrim's Progress
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Scientist
3-Sep-1899 31-Aug-1985 Acquired immunological tolerance
Ken Campbell
Actor
10-Dec-1941 31-Aug-2008 British experimental theatre
Marguerite Chapman
Actor
9-Mar-1918 31-Aug-1999 Coroner Creek
Joseph M. Devine
Politician
15-Mar-1861 31-Aug-1938 Governor of North Dakota, 1898-99
Lady Diana
Royalty
1-Jul-1961 31-Aug-1997 Princess of Wales
David Farrar
Actor
21-Aug-1908 31-Aug-1995 Black Narcissus
Dodi al-Fayed
Business
15-Apr-1955 31-Aug-1997 Princess Diana's last boyfriend
John Ford
Film Director
1-Feb-1894 31-Aug-1973 How Green Was My Valley
Ed Guthman
Journalist
11-Aug-1919 31-Aug-2008 Nixon enemy, Pulitzer Prize winner
Lionel Hampton
Jazz Musician
20-Apr-1908 31-Aug-2002 Jazz vibrophonist and bandleader
King Henry V
Royalty
9-Aug-1387 31-Aug-1422 King of England, 1413-22
Norman Kirk
Head of State
6-Jan-1923 31-Aug-1974 Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1972-74
Percy MacKaye
Playwright
16-Mar-1875 31-Aug-1956 The Canterbury Pilgrims
Rocky Marciano
Boxing
1-Sep-1924 31-Aug-1969 Undefeated heavyweight
Charles Merz
Journalist
23-Feb-1893 31-Aug-1977 Editor of the New York Times, 1938-61
Henry Moore
Sculptor
30-Jul-1898 31-Aug-1986 20th c. English humanist sculptor
Frederick H. Mueller
Government
22-Nov-1893 31-Aug-1976 US Commerce Secretary, 1959-61
Dennis O'Keefe
Actor
29-Mar-1908 31-Aug-1968 Brewster's Millions
Patricia Owens
Actor
17-Jan-1925 31-Aug-2000 The Fly
George Porter
Chemist
6-Dec-1920 31-Aug-2002 Rapid chemical and biological processes
H. C. Potter
Film Director
13-Nov-1904 31-Aug-1977 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Joseph Rotblat
Physicist
4-Nov-1908 31-Aug-2005 Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist
Michael Sheard
Actor
18-Jun-1938 31-Aug-2005 Mr. Bronson on Grange Hill
E. E. "Doc" Smith
Novelist
2-May-1890 31-Aug-1965 Lensman series
William F. Whiting
Business
20-Jul-1864 31-Aug-1936 US Commerce Secretary, 1928-29
Wilhelm Wundt
Psychologist
16-Aug-1832 31-Aug-1920 Father of Experimental Psychology




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