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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Cleveland Abbe
Physicist
3-Dec-1838 28-Oct-1916 America's first weatherman
Abigail Adams
First Lady
11-Nov-1744 28-Oct-1818 Wife of US President John Adams
John M. Allison
Diplomat
7-Apr-1905 28-Oct-1978 US Ambassador to Japan, 1953-57
Robert Anderson
Business
2-Nov-1920 28-Oct-2006 Chairman of Rockwell, 1979-88
Red Auerbach
Basketball
20-Sep-1917 28-Oct-2006 Boston Celtics coach
Margaret Booth
Editor
14-Jan-1898 28-Oct-2002 Mutiny on the Bounty
Edward Bouchet
Physicist
15-Sep-1852 28-Oct-1918 First African-American PhD
Alice Brady
Actor
2-Nov-1892 28-Oct-1939 In Old Chicago
John Braine
Novelist
13-Apr-1922 28-Oct-1986 Room at the Top
Harold H. Burton
Judge
22-Jun-1888 28-Oct-1964 US Supreme Court Justice, 1945-58
Walter Capps
Politician
5-May-1934 28-Oct-1997 Congressman from California, 1997
Jean Desmarets
Playwright
1595 28-Oct-1676 Les Visionnaires
Doris Duke
Philanthropist
22-Nov-1912 28-Oct-1993 Heiress to Duke fortune
Joseph Fletcher
Sociologist
10-Apr-1905 28-Oct-1991 Situation ethics
Friedrich von Hagedorn
Poet
23-Apr-1708 28-Oct-1754 German Anacreontic poet
Luke Hansard
Publisher
5-Jul-1752 28-Oct-1828 English printer
Baby Huey
Musician
1946 28-Oct-1970 Hard Times
Billy Hughes
Head of State
25-Sep-1862 28-Oct-1952 Prime Minister of Australia, 1915-23
Ted Hughes
Poet
16-Aug-1930 28-Oct-1998 Crow
Fred Kohler
Actor
20-Apr-1888 28-Oct-1938 The Iron Horse
Mitchell Leisen
Film Director
6-Oct-1898 28-Oct-1972 Death Takes a Holiday
John Locke
Philosopher
29-Aug-1632 28-Oct-1704 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
James MacArthur
Actor
8-Dec-1937 28-Oct-2010 Dano from Hawaii 5-O
Margrethe I
Royalty
1353 28-Oct-1412 Queen of Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Inventor
11-May-1854 28-Oct-1899 Automated typesetting
Liam Redmond
Actor
27-Jul-1913 28-Oct-1989 Irish stage and film actor
Theodor Reuss
Religion
28-Jun-1855 28-Oct-1923 Founded the Ordo Templi Orientis
Richard E. Smalley
Chemist
6-Jun-1943 28-Oct-2005 Co-Discovered fullerines
Bernhard von Bulow
Head of State
3-May-1849 28-Oct-1929 German Chancellor, 1900-09
Porter Wagoner
Country Musician
12-Aug-1927 28-Oct-2007 The Thin Man from West Plains
John Wallis
Mathematician
23-Nov-1616 28-Oct-1703 Arithmetica Infinitorum
Artemas Ward
Military
26-Nov-1727 28-Oct-1800 Major General of the Continental Army


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