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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Louise Allbritton
Actor
3-Jul-1920 16-Feb-1979 Son of Dracula
Anne Bancroft
Actor
17-Sep-1931 6-Jun-2005 Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate
Theda Bara
Actor
29-Jul-1885 7-Apr-1955 A Fool There Was
Theodore Bilbo
Government
13-Oct-1877 21-Aug-1947 Archangel of white supremacy
Houari Boumédienne
Head of State
23-Aug-1932 27-Dec-1978 Algerian Dictator, 1965-78
Stan Brakhage
Film Director
14-Jan-1933 9-Mar-2003 Experimental filmmaker
Ernest W. Brown
Astronomer
29-Nov-1866 22-Jul-1938 Tables of the Motion of the Moon
Jack Buchanan
Actor
2-Apr-1891 20-Oct-1957 The Band Wagon
Charlie Byrd
Jazz Musician
16-Sep-1925 30-Nov-1999 Brought the Bossa Nova to America
Alma Cogan
Singer
19-May-1932 26-Oct-1966 The Girl With the Giggle In Her Voice
Michael Conrad
Actor
16-Oct-1925 22-Nov-1983 Sgt. Esterhaus on Hill Street Blues
Eldon Dedini
Cartoonist
29-Jun-1921 12-Jan-2006 Playboy, New Yorker cartoonist
Stanley Ann Dunham
Relative
29-Nov-1942 7-Nov-1995 Mother of President Barack Obama
Dominick Dunne
Novelist
29-Oct-1925 26-Aug-2009 High society novelist, true crime writer
Jaime Escalante
Educator
31-Dec-1930 30-Mar-2010 Celebrated high school calculus teacher
Farrah Fawcett
Actor
2-Feb-1947 25-Jun-2009 Original blonde on Charlie's Angels
Daryl Gates
Government
30-Aug-1926 16-Apr-2010 Chief of LAPD 1978-92
Susan Gordon
Actor
27-Jul-1949 11-Dec-2011 The Five Pennies
Stephen Jay Gould
Biologist
10-Sep-1941 20-May-2002 Evolutionary scientist
Alan Hale, Jr.
Actor
8-Mar-1921 2-Jan-1990 The Skipper on Gilligan's Island
Bobby Hamilton
Auto Racing
29-May-1957 7-Jan-2007 NASCAR driver, 1988-2006
Emperor Hirohito
Royalty
29-Apr-1901 7-Jan-1989 Emperor of Japan 1926-89
John Houseman
Actor
22-Sep-1902 31-Oct-1988 The Paper Chase
Basil Cardinal Hume
Religion
2-Mar-1923 17-Jun-1999 Archbishop of Westminster, 1976-99
Hubert Humphrey
Politician
27-May-1911 13-Jan-1978 US Vice President, 1965-69
Aldous Huxley
Author
26-Jul-1894 22-Nov-1963 Brave New World
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Author
5-Feb-1848 12-May-1907 Decadent author, À Rebours
Evelyn Keyes
Actor
20-Nov-1916 4-Jul-2008 Gone with the Wind
Harmon Killebrew
Baseball
29-Jun-1936 17-May-2011 Minnesota Twins
Henrietta Lacks
Oddity
1-Aug-1920 4-Oct-1951 Immortal human cells
Gertrude Lawrence
Actor
4-Jul-1898 6-Sep-1952 British and Broadway theatre star
Shari Lewis
Performance Artist
17-Jan-1933 2-Aug-1998 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
Little Eva
Singer
29-Jun-1943 9-Apr-2003 Original performer of The Loco-Motion
Lee Lozano
Painter
5-Nov-1930 2-Oct-1999 Misogyny as art form
Alfred Lunt
Actor
12-Aug-1892 3-Aug-1977 American stage actor
Hugh MacDiarmid
Poet
11-Aug-1892 9-Sep-1978 A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
Gordon MacRae
Actor
12-Mar-1921 24-Jan-1986 Oklahoma
Norris Church Mailer
Novelist
31-Jan-1949 21-Nov-2010 Norman Mailer's painter/novelist wife
Theodore Maiman
Physicist
11-Jul-1927 5-May-2007 Built the first working laser
MCA
Rapper
5-Aug-1967 4-May-2012 Beastie Boys
Frank McCloskey
Politician
12-Jun-1939 2-Nov-2003 Congressman from Indiana, 1983-95
Kay Medford
Actor
14-Sep-1914 10-Apr-1980 Bye Bye Birdie
Nancy Mitford
Novelist
28-Nov-1904 30-Jan-1973 The Pursuit of Love
Anita Mui
Singer
10-Oct-1963 30-Dec-2003 Madonna of Asia
Jerry Nachman
Journalist
24-Feb-1946 19-Jan-2004 MSNBC reporter
Peter Norbeck
Politician
20-Aug-1870 20-Dec-1936 US Senator from South Dakota, 1921-36
Walter Payton
Football
25-Jul-1954 1-Nov-1999 Sweetness
Evita Peron
First Lady
7-May-1919 26-Jul-1952 Don't cry for her
Brian Piccolo
Football
31-Oct-1943 16-Jun-1970 Bears FB, subject of Brians Song
Sir William Ramsay
Chemist
2-Oct-1852 23-Jul-1916 Discovered noble gases
William Rehnquist
Judge
1-Oct-1924 3-Sep-2005 US Chief Justice, 1986-2005
Maurice Richard
Hockey
4-Aug-1921 27-May-2000 NHL Hall of Famer
Ron Santo
Baseball
25-Feb-1940 2-Dec-2010 Third baseman, Chicago Cubs
Dr. Seuss
Author
2-Mar-1904 24-Sep-1991 The Cat in the Hat
Albert Shanker
Labor Leader
14-Sep-1928 22-Feb-1997 American Federation of Teachers
Ron Silver
Actor
2-Jul-1946 15-Mar-2009 Wiseguy
Kim Stanley
Actor
11-Feb-1925 20-Aug-2001 Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Lewis Thomas
Doctor
25-Nov-1913 3-Dec-1993 The Lives of a Cell
George Tobias
Actor
14-Jul-1901 27-Feb-1980 Abner Kravitz on Bewitched
Sidney Toler
Actor
28-Apr-1874 12-Feb-1947 Charlie Chan
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
Physicist
31-Mar-1906 8-Jul-1979 Quantum electrodynamics
Marvin S. Traub
Business
14-Apr-1925 11-Jul-2012 CEO of Bloomingdale's, 1978-92
Jack Wild
Actor
30-Sep-1952 1-Mar-2006 Oliver!
Yvette Wilson
Actor
6-Mar-1964 14-Jun-2012 Andell Wilkerson on Moesha





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