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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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


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