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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Maxene Andrews
Singer
3-Jan-1916 21-Oct-1995 The Andrews Sisters
Pietro Aretino
Author
20-Apr-1492 21-Oct-1556 Sonetti lussuriosi
Henry Armetta
Actor
4-Jul-1888 21-Oct-1945 A Bell For Adano
Hans Asperger
Doctor
18-Feb-1906 21-Oct-1980 Asperger's Syndrome
Robert E. Badham
Politician
9-Jun-1929 21-Oct-2005 Congressman from California, 1977-89
John Ball
Naturalist
20-Aug-1818 21-Oct-1889 Irish Alpinist
Fred Berry
Actor
13-Mar-1951 21-Oct-2003 Rerun on What's Happening!!
Dolph Camilli
Baseball
23-Apr-1907 21-Oct-1997 National League MVP, 1941
Tom Carvel
Business
14-Jul-1906 21-Oct-1990 Fudgie The Whale, Cookie Puss
Charles VI
Royalty
3-Dec-1368 21-Oct-1422 King of France, 1380-1422
Isabelle Eberhardt
Author
17-Feb-1877 21-Oct-1904 Transvestite Muslim author
Samuel Foote
Actor
1720 21-Oct-1777 Diversions
John Forsyth
Politician
22-Oct-1780 21-Oct-1841 US Secretary of State, 1834-41
Jim Garrison
Attorney
20-Nov-1921 21-Oct-1992 New Orleans DA investigated JFK's assassination
Jesse L. Greenstein
Astronomer
15-Oct-1909 21-Oct-2002 Co-Discoverer of quasars
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Astronomer
8-Oct-1873 21-Oct-1967 Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
Shannon Hoon
Musician
26-Sep-1967 21-Oct-1995 Frontman for Blind Melon
Nicholas Kemmer
Physicist
7-Dec-1911 21-Oct-1998 Nuclear weapons and reactors
Jack Kerouac
Novelist
12-Mar-1922 21-Oct-1969 On The Road
Elissa Landi
Actor
6-Dec-1904 21-Oct-1948 The Count of Monte Cristo
Anastas Mikoyan
Politician
25-Nov-1895 21-Oct-1978 Knew where the shrimps stay in winter
Jack Nelson
Journalist
11-Oct-1929 21-Oct-2009 The Los Angeles Times
Lord Nelson
Military
29-Sep-1758 21-Oct-1805 Most celebrated British admiral
Charles Eliot Norton
Scholar
16-Nov-1827 21-Oct-1908 American man of letters
J. H. Plumb
Historian
20-Aug-1911 21-Oct-2001 England in the Eighteenth Century
Francis W. Sargent
Politician
29-Jul-1915 21-Oct-1998 Governor of Massachusetts, 1969-75
Arthur Schnitzler
Playwright
15-May-1862 21-Oct-1931 Reigen
John T. Scopes
Educator
3-Aug-1900 21-Oct-1970 Defendant in the Scopes Monkey Trial
Waclaw Sierpinski
Mathematician
14-Mar-1882 21-Oct-1969 Sierpinski's gasket
Elliott Smith
Guitarist
6-Aug-1969 21-Oct-2003 Indie guitarist stabbed himself to death
François Truffaut
Film Director
6-Feb-1932 21-Oct-1984 Last Metro
Edmund Waller
Poet
3-Mar-1606 21-Oct-1687 Go, Lovely Rose
Dan White
Assassin
2-Sep-1946 21-Oct-1985 Assassinated George Moscone and Harvey Milk




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