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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Anwar al-Awlaki
Religion
22-Apr-1971 30-Sep-2011 Yemeni video cleric, AQAP
Joseph G. Baldwin
Author
Jan-1815 30-Sep-1864 Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi
Lina Basquette
Actor
19-Apr-1907 30-Sep-1994 The Godless Girl
Edgar Bergen
Actor
16-Feb-1903 30-Sep-1978 Radio's greatest ventriloquist
Alfred Bester
Novelist
18-Dec-1913 30-Sep-1987 The Stars My Destination
St. Francis Borgia
Religion
28-Oct-1510 30-Sep-1572 The canonized Borgia
Georges Boulanger
Military
29-Apr-1837 30-Sep-1891 French general-turned-politician
Ellsworth Bunker
Diplomat
11-May-1894 30-Sep-1984 US Ambassador to South Vietnam, 1967-73
Stephen J. Cannell
Film/TV Producer
2-May-1941 30-Sep-2010 Creator of The Rockford Files
John Evander Couey
Criminal
19-Sep-1958 30-Sep-2009 Sex offender, killed Jessica Lunsford
James Dean
Actor
8-Feb-1931 30-Sep-1955 Lived fast, died young
Rudolf Diesel
Inventor
18-Mar-1858 30-Sep-1913 Inventor of the diesel engine
Mary Ford
Singer
7-Jul-1924 30-Sep-1977 Les Paul & Mary Ford
Richard H. Gallagher
Engineer
17-Nov-1927 30-Sep-1997 Finite element method
Bill George
Football
27-Oct-1929 30-Sep-1982 Linebacker, NFL Hall of Famer
Marius Goring
Actor
23-May-1912 30-Sep-1998 The Red Shoes
Fulke Greville
Poet
3-Oct-1554 30-Sep-1628 Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney
Ross Granville Harrison
Zoologist
13-Jan-1870 30-Sep-1959 Embryology and tissue culture techniques
George F. Hoar
Politician
29-Aug-1826 30-Sep-1904 US Senator from Massachusetts, 1877-1904
Taylor Holmes
Actor
16-May-1878 30-Sep-1959 Nightmare Alley
Winslow Homer
Painter
24-Feb-1836 30-Sep-1910 Maritime painter, Eight Bells
St. Jerome
Religion
c. 340 AD 30-Sep-420 AD Church Father, translated Vulgate
Nicholas Kaldor
Economist
12-May-1908 30-Sep-1986 An Expenditure Tax
Robert Kardashian
Attorney
22-Feb-1944 30-Sep-2003 O. J. Simpson's attorney
Michel Leiris
Author
20-Apr-1901 30-Sep-1990 Surrealist, ethnographer, autobiographer
John C. Lilly
Scientist
6-Jan-1915 30-Sep-2001 Human-dolphin communication
André Lwoff
Scientist
8-May-1902 30-Sep-1994 Operon theory of genetic control
Clifford Olson
Criminal
1-Jan-1940 30-Sep-2011 Killed 11 youths in British Columbia
Thomas Percy
Author
13-Apr-1729 30-Sep-1811 Percy Reliques
St. John Philby
Government
3-Apr-1885 30-Sep-1960 Sheikh Abdullah, Arabist
Sid Richardson
Business
25-Apr-1891 30-Sep-1959 Oilman, Bass family benefactor
Charles Richter
Scientist
26-Apr-1900 30-Sep-1985 Groundbreaking seismologist
Edith Roosevelt
First Lady
6-Aug-1861 30-Sep-1948 Wife of US President Theodore Roosevelt
Simone Signoret
Actor
25-Mar-1921 30-Sep-1985 Ship of Fools
Ralph M. Steinman
Biologist
14-Jan-1943 30-Sep-2011 Dendritic cells
Robert Lewis Taylor
Novelist
24-Sep-1912 30-Sep-1998 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Virgil Thomson
Composer
25-Nov-1896 30-Sep-1989 Four Saints in Three Acts
John K. Turner
Business
8-Jul-1931 30-Sep-2004 Founder of Taco John's
Edgar G. Ulmer
Film Director
17-Sep-1904 30-Sep-1972 Detour
Patrick White
Novelist
28-May-1912 30-Sep-1990 Riders in the Chariot
George Whitefield
Religion
27-Dec-1714 30-Sep-1770 Evangelist, early Methodist




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