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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Army Archerd
Columnist
13-Jan-1922 8-Sep-2009 Variety's gossip columnist
Ray Barrett
Actor
2-May-1927 8-Sep-2009 Peter Thornton on The Troubleshooters
Aage N. Bohr
Physicist
19-Jun-1922 8-Sep-2009 Determined shapes of nuclei
Quentin N. Burdick
Politician
19-Jun-1908 8-Sep-1992 US Senator from North Dakota, 1960-92
Richard G. Butler
Activist
23-Feb-1918 8-Sep-2004 Founder of the Aryan Nations
Eileen Chang
Author
30-Sep-1920 8-Sep-1995 Lust, Caution
Frederic L. Chapin
Diplomat
13-Jul-1929 8-Sep-1989 US Ambassador to Guatemala, 1981-84
Bud Collyer
Game Show Host
18-Jun-1908 8-Sep-1969 To Tell the Truth
William R. Cotter
Politician
18-Jul-1926 8-Sep-1981 Congressman from Connecticut, 1971-81
Dorothy Dandridge
Actor
9-Nov-1922 8-Sep-1965 Carmen Jones
Brad Davis
Actor
6-Nov-1949 8-Sep-1991 Midnight Express
André Derain
Painter
10-Jun-1880 8-Sep-1954 Fauvist
John F. Enders
Scientist
10-Feb-1897 8-Sep-1985 Cultured the polio virus
Faisal I
Royalty
20-May-1883 8-Sep-1933 King of Iraq, 1921-33
William P. Fessenden
Politician
16-Oct-1806 8-Sep-1869 Senator from Maine, Treasury Secretary
Robert Fludd
Scientist
1574 8-Sep-1637 Cosmologist and hermetic philosopher
Carlo Gesualdo
Composer
c. 1560 8-Sep-1613 Composer of madrigals, murdered his wife
Nathan Green Gordon
Politician
4-Sep-1916 8-Sep-2008 Lt. Governor of Arkansas, 1947-67
Thomas Guinzburg
Publisher
30-Mar-1926 8-Sep-2010 Former owner, Viking Press
Joseph Hall
Author
1-Jul-1574 8-Sep-1656 Virgidemiarum
Martha Jefferson
First Lady
19-Oct-1748 8-Sep-1782 Wife of US President Thomas Jefferson
Thomas L. Judge
Politician
12-Oct-1934 8-Sep-2006 Governor of Montana, 1973-81
Ann Lee
Religion
29-Feb-1736 8-Sep-1784 Mother Ann, Founder of the Shakers
Willard F. Libby
Chemist
17-Dec-1908 8-Sep-1980 Carbon-14 dating technique
Ana Mendieta
Performance Artist
18-Nov-1948 8-Sep-1985 Feminist performance artist
Robert B. Monier
Politician
5-Mar-1922 8-Sep-1986 Acting Governor of New Hampshire, 1982
Zero Mostel
Actor
28-Feb-1915 8-Sep-1977 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Oscar Pettiford
Jazz Musician
30-Sep-1922 8-Sep-1960 Jazz double bassist
Lew Platt
Business
11-Apr-1941 8-Sep-2005 CEO of Hewlett-Packard, 1992-99
Leni Riefenstahl
Film Director
22-Aug-1902 8-Sep-2003 Triumph of the Will
Raul Roulien
Actor
8-Oct-1905 8-Sep-2000 Flying Down to Rio
Jean Seberg
Actor
13-Nov-1938 8-Sep-1979 Saint Joan
Pope Sergius I
Religion
? 8-Sep-701 AD Roman Catholic Pope, 687-701
Percy Spencer
Scientist
19-Jul-1894 8-Sep-1970 Invented the microwave oven
Hermann Staudinger
Chemist
23-Mar-1881 8-Sep-1965 Macromolecular chemistry
Herbert Stein
Economist
27-Aug-1916 8-Sep-1999 Economic adviser for Nixon
Richard Strauss
Composer
11-Jun-1864 8-Sep-1949 Also sprach Zarathustra
Fred Vinson
Judge
22-Jan-1890 8-Sep-1953 US Chief Justice, 1946-53
Hermann von Helmholtz
Physicist
31-Aug-1821 8-Sep-1894 Law of Conservation of Energy
George A. Wilson
Politician
1-Apr-1884 8-Sep-1953 Governor of Iowa, 1939-43
Hideki Yukawa
Physicist
23-Jan-1907 8-Sep-1981 Predicted existence of mesons
Hector Zazou
Composer
11-Jul-1948 8-Sep-2008 Electronic and World music composer




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