| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Morris Ankrum |
Actor |
27-Aug-1896 |
2-Sep-1964 |
Invaders from Mars |
| Felix Aylmer |
Actor |
21-Feb-1889 |
2-Sep-1979 |
Henry V |
| Delia Bacon |
Author |
2-Feb-1811 |
2-Sep-1859 |
Shakespeare-Bacon conspiracist |
| Christiaan Barnard |
Doctor |
8-Nov-1922 |
2-Sep-2001 |
Performed the first heart transplant |
| Rudolf Bing |
Business |
9-Jan-1902 |
2-Sep-1997 |
Manager of the NY Metropolitan Opera, 1950-72 |
| Anton J. Carlson |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1875 |
2-Sep-1956 |
The Machinery of the Body |
| Russ Columbo |
Singer |
14-Jan-1908 |
2-Sep-1934 |
You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love |
| Bob Denver |
Actor |
9-Jan-1935 |
2-Sep-2005 |
Gilligan on Gilligan's Island |
| Troy Donahue |
Actor |
27-Jan-1936 |
2-Sep-2001 |
A Summer Place |
| Allen Drury |
Novelist |
2-Sep-1918 |
2-Sep-1998 |
Advise and Consent |
| Alfonso García Robles |
Diplomat |
20-Mar-1911 |
2-Sep-1991 |
Diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Sir William Rowan Hamilton |
Mathematician |
3-Aug-1805 |
2-Sep-1865 |
Inventor of Quaternions |
| Ethel Browne Harvey |
Zoologist |
14-Dec-1885 |
2-Sep-1965 |
Embryology of sea urchins |
| W. G. Hefner |
Politician |
11-Apr-1930 |
2-Sep-2009 |
Congressman from North Carolina, 1975-99 |
| William Henry |
Chemist |
12-Dec-1775 |
2-Sep-1836 |
Henry's Law |
| Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim |
Historian |
27-Jan-1701 |
2-Sep-1790 |
Febronius |
| David F. Houston |
Government |
17-Feb-1866 |
2-Sep-1940 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1913-20 |
| Donald James Leslie |
Inventor |
13-Apr-1911 |
2-Sep-2004 |
Invented the Leslie Speaker |
| John Francis Lewis |
Politician |
1-Mar-1818 |
2-Sep-1895 |
US Senator from Virginia, 1870-75 |
| Bob Mathias |
Sports Figure |
17-Nov-1930 |
2-Sep-2006 |
Decathlon athlete turned Congressman |
| Barbara McClintock |
Scientist |
16-Jun-1902 |
2-Sep-1992 |
Discovered transposable genes |
| Jim Nance McCord |
Politician |
17-Mar-1879 |
2-Sep-1968 |
Governor of Tennessee, 1945-49 |
| Edward McGaffigan |
Government |
8-Dec-1948 |
2-Sep-2007 |
NRC Commissioner, 1996-2007 |
| J. Howard McGrath |
Government |
28-Nov-1903 |
2-Sep-1966 |
US Attorney General, 1949-52 |
| Bill Melendez |
Cartoonist |
15-Nov-1916 |
2-Sep-2008 |
A Charlie Brown Christmas |
| Roger Q. Mills |
Politician |
30-Mar-1832 |
2-Sep-1911 |
US Senator from Texas, 1892-99 |
| Ho Chi Minh |
Activist |
19-May-1890 |
2-Sep-1969 |
Uncle Ho |
| George W. Norris |
Politician |
11-Jul-1861 |
2-Sep-1944 |
US Senator from Nebraska, 1913-43 |
| Jay Novello |
Actor |
22-Aug-1904 |
2-Sep-1982 |
The Lost World |
| Ptolemy Reid |
Head of State |
8-May-1912 |
2-Sep-2003 |
Prime Minister of Guyana, 1980-84 |
| José de Ribera |
Painter |
12-Jan-1588 |
2-Sep-1652 |
Spanish-Neapolitan painter |
| Laura Riding |
Poet |
16-Jan-1901 |
2-Sep-1991 |
A Survey of Modernist Poetry |
| Henri Rousseau |
Painter |
21-May-1844 |
2-Sep-1910 |
French painter of the exotic |
| Thomas Telford |
Engineer |
9-Aug-1757 |
2-Sep-1834 |
Scottish canal, bridge, and road builder |
| J. R. R. Tolkien |
Author |
3-Jan-1892 |
2-Sep-1973 |
Lord of the Rings |
| Ismael Valenzuela |
Jockey |
25-Dec-1934 |
2-Sep-2009 |
Winner, 1958 and 1968 Kentucky Derby |
| Jonathan M. Wainwright |
Military |
23-Aug-1883 |
2-Sep-1953 |
Commander of the Philippines |
| Alvin York |
Military |
13-Dec-1887 |
2-Sep-1964 |
Highly decorated WWI veteran |
| Fazlollah Zahedi |
Head of State |
1897 |
2-Sep-1963 |
Prime Minister of Iran, 1953-55 |
