LISTS

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

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