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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Joan Vollmer Adams
Victim
1924 6-Sep-1951 Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs
Harold Adamson
Songwriter
10-Dec-1906 17-Aug-1980 Time on My Hands
Alan Alda
Actor
28-Jan-1936   Capt. Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H
Robin Askwith
Actor
12-Oct-1950   Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Charles E. Bennett
Politician
2-Dec-1910 6-Sep-2003 Congressman from Florida, 1949-93
Steven Jesse Bernstein
Poet
4-Dec-1950 22-Oct-1991 Grunge poet and punk rocker
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Politician
13-Jan-1911 23-Apr-2005 Former Premier of Queensland, Australia
Mari Blanchard
Actor
13-Apr-1927 10-May-1970 She-Devil
Ben Bradlee
Journalist
26-Aug-1921   Editor of The Washington Post, 1965-91
Joe Bob Briggs
Critic
27-Jan-1953   B-movie film reviewer
Philip W. Buchen
Government
17-Feb-1916 21-May-2001 White House Counsel, 1974-77
Arthur C. Clarke
Novelist
16-Dec-1917 19-Mar-2008 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Cohen
Scientist
17-Nov-1922   Nerve and skin cell growth factors
Steve Cohen
Politician
24-May-1949   Congressman, Tennessee 9th
John F. Collins
Politician
20-Jul-1919 23-Nov-1995 Mayor of Boston, 1960-68
Judy Collins
Singer/Songwriter
1-May-1939   Folk singer
Charles Coody
Golf
13-Jul-1937   Winner, 1971 Masters Tournament
Francis Ford Coppola
Film Director
7-Apr-1939   The Godfather
Bill Cullen
Game Show Host
18-Feb-1920 7-Jul-1990 Host of The Price is Right
Justin Dart, Jr.
Activist
29-Aug-1930 22-Jun-2002 Father of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Marion Davies
Actor
3-Jan-1897 22-Sep-1961 When Knighthood Was in Flower
Pete Dawkins
Football
8-Mar-1938   Winner, 1958 Heisman Trophy
Jay Dickey
Politician
14-Dec-1939   Congressman from Arkansas, 1993-2001
Donovan
Singer/Songwriter
10-May-1946   Mad about saffron
William O. Douglas
Judge
16-Oct-1898 19-Jan-1980 US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-75
Avery Cardinal Dulles
Religion
24-Aug-1918 12-Dec-2008 Fordham Professor, Roman Catholic Cardinal
Allen B. DuMont
Inventor
29-Jan-1901 14-Nov-1965 TV picture tube and TV network
Ian Dury
Musician
12-May-1942 27-Mar-2000 Ian Dury and the Blockheads
John Porter East
Politician
5-May-1931 29-Jun-1986 US Senator, committed suicide
Mia Farrow
Actor
9-Feb-1945   Rosemary's Baby
Mel Ferrer
Actor
25-Aug-1917 2-Jun-2008 War and Peace
Arthur S. Flemming
Government
12-Jun-1905 7-Sep-1996 HEW Secretary, 1958-61
John Folinsbee
Painter
14-Mar-1892 10-May-1972 Impressionist painter
Pierre Fournier
Cellist
24-Jun-1906 8-Jan-1986 French cello virtuoso
Matthew Fox
Religion
21-Dec-1940   Creation Spirituality
Joseph Goebbels
Government
29-Oct-1897 1-May-1945 Reich Minister of Propaganda
Charlie Haden
Jazz Musician
6-Aug-1937   Jazz bassist
John H. Hager
Politician
28-Aug-1936   Lt. Governor of Virginia, 1998-2002
Frida Kahlo
Painter
6-Jul-1907 13-Jul-1954 Unibrowed Mexican painter
Phyllis Kirk
Actor
18-Sep-1927 19-Oct-2006 House of Wax
Masatoshi Koshiba
Physicist
19-Sep-1926   Detected cosmic neutrinos
Dorothea Lange
Photographer
26-May-1895 11-Oct-1965 Depression-era photographer
Frank Mars
Business
24-Sep-1883 8-Apr-1934 Invented Milky Way and Snickers bars
Connie Marshall
Actor
28-Apr-1933 22-May-2001 Dragonwyck
Mitch McConnell
Politician
20-Feb-1942   US Senator from Kentucky
Robert McNamara
Government
9-Jun-1916 6-Jul-2009 US Secretary of Defense, 1961-68
Michael McNulty
Politician
16-Sep-1947   Congressman from New York, 1989-2009
Don Meredith
Football
10-Apr-1938 5-Dec-2010 Dallas Cowboys, Monday Night Foorball
Thomas Midgley
Chemist
18-May-1889 2-Nov-1944 Ethyl gasoline, Freon
Martin Milner
Actor
28-Dec-1931   LAPD officer Pete Malloy on Adam-12
Joni Mitchell
Singer/Songwriter
7-Nov-1943   Big Yellow Taxi
Boyd K. Packer
Religion
10-Sep-1924   Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Kerry Packer
Business
17-Dec-1937 26-Dec-2005 Richest man in Australia
Carl Perkins
Jazz Musician
9-Apr-1932 19-Jan-1998 Blue Suede Shoes
Itzhak Perlman
Violinist
31-Aug-1945   Israeli violinist
Peg Phillips
Actor
20-Sep-1918 7-Nov-2002 Ruth-Anne Miller on Northern Exposure
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Head of State
30-Jan-1882 12-Apr-1945 US President during WWII
John H. Rousselot
Politician
1-Nov-1927 11-May-2003 Congressman from California, 1961-63 & 1970-83
Wilma Rudolph
Track and Field
23-Jun-1940 12-Nov-1994 Three track Olympic Gold Medals in 1960
Gianni Russo
Actor
12-Dec-1943   The Godfather
David Sanborn
Musician
30-Jul-1945   Saxophone player
James H. Scheuer
Politician
6-Feb-1920 30-Aug-2005 Congressman from New York, 1965-93
Sir Walter Scott
Author
15-Aug-1771 21-Sep-1832 Ivanhoe
Wilfrid Sheed
Author
27-Dec-1930 19-Jan-2011 Office Politics
Dinah Shore
Singer
29-Feb-1916 24-Feb-1994 See the U-S-A in a Chev-ro-let
Gene Simmons
Bassist
25-Aug-1949   Blood-spouting KISS bassist
Ike Skelton
Politician
20-Dec-1931   Congressman from Missouri, 1977-2011
Georgina Spelvin
Pornstar
3-Jan-1936   Devil in Miss Jones
Donald Sutherland
Actor
17-Jul-1935   The Dirty Dozen
Phyllis Thaxter
Actor
20-Nov-1921 14-Aug-2012 The World of Henry Orient
Emmett Till
Victim
25-Jul-1941 28-Aug-1955 Black boy, murdered brutally in Mississippi
Desmond Tutu
Religion
7-Oct-1931   Archbishop of Cape Town
Fred Whipple
Astronomer
5-Nov-1906 30-Aug-2004 Comet Guy
Dick Anthony Williams
Actor
9-Aug-1938 16-Feb-2012 What the Wine Sellers Buy
Paul Winchell
Actor
21-Dec-1922 24-Jun-2005 Ventriloquist and inventor
Neil Young
Singer/Songwriter
12-Nov-1945   Harvest





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