| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| King Alfred the Great |
Royalty |
c. 849 AD |
26-Oct-899 AD |
King of England, 871-99 AD |
| Glenn Anders |
Actor |
1-Sep-1889 |
26-Oct-1981 |
The Lady from Shanghai |
| Hoyt Axton |
Country Musician |
25-Mar-1938 |
26-Oct-1999 |
Folk singer, songwriter, composer |
| Nathaniel Bacon |
Politician |
2-Jan-1647 |
26-Oct-1676 |
Bacon's Rebellion |
| Louise Beavers |
Actor |
8-Mar-1902 |
26-Oct-1962 |
She Done Him Wrong |
| Teel Bivins |
Politician |
22-Nov-1947 |
26-Oct-2009 |
US Ambassador to Sweden, 2004-06 |
| Molly Brown |
Activist |
18-Jul-1867 |
26-Oct-1932 |
Unsinkable |
| Elbridge Bryant |
Singer |
28-Sep-1939 |
26-Oct-1975 |
The Temptations |
| Albert Champion |
Business |
2-Apr-1878 |
26-Oct-1927 |
ACDelco and Champion spark plugs |
| Alma Cogan |
Singer |
19-May-1932 |
26-Oct-1966 |
The Girl With the Giggle In Her Voice |
| Gerty Cori |
Scientist |
15-Aug-1896 |
26-Oct-1957 |
Catalytic conversion of glycogen |
| Thomas Ewing |
Politician |
28-Dec-1789 |
26-Oct-1871 |
Ohio Senator, cabinet official |
| Wilbert Harrison |
Musician |
5-Jan-1929 |
26-Oct-1994 |
Let's Work Together |
| Park Chung Hee |
Head of State |
30-Sep-1917 |
26-Oct-1979 |
President of South Korea, 1961-79 |
| Thomas J. Herbert |
Politician |
28-Oct-1894 |
26-Oct-1974 |
Governor of Ohio, 1947-49 |
| Arthur Hill |
Actor |
1-Aug-1922 |
26-Oct-2006 |
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law |
| Tony Hillerman |
Novelist |
27-May-1925 |
26-Oct-2008 |
Mystery novels set at Navajo reservation |
| William Hogarth |
Engraver |
10-Nov-1697 |
26-Oct-1764 |
A Rake's Progress |
| Oliver O. Howard |
Military |
8-Nov-1830 |
26-Oct-1909 |
Headed the Freedmen's Bureau |
| Paul Iams |
Business |
11-Aug-1915 |
26-Oct-2004 |
Pet food manufacturer |
| Ito Hirobumi |
Government |
14-Oct-1841 |
26-Oct-1909 |
Began the modernization of Japan |
| Elizabeth Jennings |
Poet |
18-Jul-1926 |
26-Oct-2001 |
Song for a Birth or a Death |
| Nikos Kazantzakis |
Novelist |
18-Feb-1883 |
26-Oct-1957 |
Zorba the Greek |
| Arthur Kornberg |
Scientist |
3-Mar-1918 |
26-Oct-2007 |
Synthesized DNA |
| Hattie McDaniel |
Actor |
10-Jun-1893 |
26-Oct-1952 |
Mammy in Gone with the Wind |
| Frank McLaury |
Criminal |
3-Mar-1848 |
26-Oct-1881 |
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
| Tom McLaury |
Criminal |
30-Jun-1853 |
26-Oct-1881 |
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral |
| John Miller |
Politician |
29-Oct-1843 |
26-Oct-1908 |
Governor of North Dakota, 1889-91 |
| Marcel Minnaert |
Astronomer |
12-Feb-1893 |
26-Oct-1970 |
Solar spectrophotometry |
| William Niskanen |
Administrator |
13-Mar-1933 |
26-Oct-2011 |
Chairman of the Cato Institute |
| William S. Paley |
Business |
28-Sep-1901 |
26-Oct-1990 |
Chairman of CBS, 1946-83 |
| Charles J. Pedersen |
Chemist |
3-Oct-1904 |
26-Oct-1989 |
Synthesis of crown ethers |
| Gilles de Rais |
Criminal |
10-Nov-1404 |
26-Oct-1440 |
Fifteenth-century child killer |
| Sue Randall |
Actor |
8-Oct-1935 |
26-Oct-1984 |
Leave It to Beaver |
| Harold Rome |
Composer |
27-May-1908 |
26-Oct-1993 |
I Can Get It for You Wholesale |
| John J. Rooney |
Politician |
29-Nov-1903 |
26-Oct-1975 |
Congressman from New York, 1944-74 |
| Victor Schertzinger |
Film Director |
8-Apr-1890 |
26-Oct-1941 |
Road to Singapore |
| Igor Sikorsky |
Business |
25-May-1889 |
26-Oct-1972 |
Helicopter magnate |
| Troy N. Smith |
Business |
26-May-1922 |
26-Oct-2009 |
Founder of Sonic Drive-In |
| Gerald B. H. Solomon |
Politician |
14-Aug-1930 |
26-Oct-2001 |
Congressman from New York, 1979-99 |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Activist |
12-Nov-1815 |
26-Oct-1902 |
National Woman Suffrage Association |
| Alfred P. Swineford |
Politician |
14-Sep-1836 |
26-Oct-1909 |
Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1885-89 |
| Alfred Tarski |
Mathematician |
14-Jan-1902 |
26-Oct-1983 |
Tarski's indefinability theorem |
| William Temple |
Religion |
15-Oct-1881 |
26-Oct-1944 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1942-44 |
| William A. Vinson |
Judge |
22-Dec-1874 |
26-Oct-1951 |
Vinson & Elkins |
| Aby Warburg |
Scholar |
13-Jun-1866 |
26-Oct-1929 |
Founder of the Warburg Institute |
