| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Omar al-Bashir |
Politician |
1-Jan-1944 |
|
President of Sudan |
| Pope Alexander VI |
Religion |
1-Jan-1431 |
18-Aug-1503 |
Divided the New World for Portugal, Spain |
| Richard V. Allen |
Government |
1-Jan-1936 |
|
Reagan National Security Advisor |
| Dana Andrews |
Actor |
1-Jan-1909 |
17-Dec-1992 |
The Best Years of Our Lives |
| Dennis Archer |
Politician |
1-Jan-1942 |
|
Mayor of Detroit, 1994-2001 |
| Victor Ashe |
Diplomat |
1-Jan-1945 |
|
US Ambassador to Poland |
| Barbara Baxley |
Actor |
1-Jan-1923 |
7-Jun-1990 |
Period of Adjustment |
| Matthew "Stymie" Beard |
Actor |
1-Jan-1925 |
8-Jan-1981 |
Stymie in Our Gang |
| Maurice Béjart |
Choreographer |
1-Jan-1927 |
22-Nov-2007 |
Innovative ballet choreographer |
| Charles Bickford |
Actor |
1-Jan-1891 |
9-Nov-1967 |
The Song of Bernadette |
| Satyendra Nath Bose |
Physicist |
1-Jan-1894 |
4-Feb-1974 |
Bose-Einstein condensates |
| Lakhdar Brahimi |
Government |
1-Jan-1934 |
|
UN Envoy to Iraq, 2004-05 |
| Rodger Bumpass |
Actor |
1-Jan-1951 |
|
Voice of Squidward Tentacles |
| Edmund Burke |
Philosopher |
1-Jan-1729 |
9-Jul-1797 |
Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Wilhelm Canaris |
Military |
1-Jan-1887 |
9-Apr-1945 |
Nazi spymaster, tried to kill Hitler |
| Jule Charney |
Scientist |
1-Jan-1917 |
16-Jun-1981 |
Quasi-gesotrophic theory |
| Morris Chestnut |
Actor |
1-Jan-1969 |
|
Two Can Play That Game |
| George E. Christian |
Government |
1-Jan-1927 |
27-Nov-2002 |
LBJ's press secretary |
| Larry Clark |
Film Director |
1-Jan-1943 |
|
Kids |
| Valentina Cortese |
Actor |
1-Jan-1925 |
|
La Nuit Américaine |
| Jon Corzine |
Politician |
1-Jan-1947 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 2006-10 |
| Xavier Cugat |
Musician |
1-Jan-1900 |
27-Oct-1990 |
The Rumba King |
| Brody Dalle |
Musician |
1-Jan-1979 |
|
The Distillers frontwoman |
| Basil Dearden |
Film Director |
1-Jan-1911 |
23-Mar-1971 |
Khartoum |
| Dixon Denham |
Explorer |
1-Jan-1786 |
8-May-1828 |
English explorer of Central Africa |
| Antoinette Deshoulières |
Poet |
1-Jan-1638 |
17-Feb-1694 |
French poet-socialite |
| DJ Shadow |
Disc Jockey |
1-Jan-1973 |
|
Favorite DJ savior |
| Wild Bill Donovan |
Government |
1-Jan-1883 |
8-Feb-1959 |
Founded the OSS |
| Tom Dugan |
Actor |
1-Jan-1889 |
7-Mar-1955 |
To Be or Not to Be |
| Maria Edgeworth |
Author |
1-Jan-1767 |
22-May-1849 |
Castle Rackrent |
| Richard Edson |
Actor |
1-Jan-1954 |
|
Original drummer for Sonic Youth |
| Bill Emerson |
Politician |
1-Jan-1938 |
22-Jun-1996 |
Congressman from Missouri, 1981-96 |
| Martin Evans |
Scientist |
1-Jan-1941 |
|
Embryonic stem cells |
| E. M. Forster |
Author |
1-Jan-1879 |
7-Jun-1970 |
Howards End |
| William Fox |
Film/TV Producer |
1-Jan-1879 |
8-May-1952 |
Founder of 20th Century Fox |
| Sir James Frazer |
Anthropologist |
1-Jan-1854 |
7-May-1941 |
The Golden Bough |
| Martin Frost |
Politician |
1-Jan-1942 |
|
Congressman from Texas, 1979-2005 |
| John C. Garand |
Inventor |
1-Jan-1888 |
16-Feb-1974 |
M-1 semiautomatic rifle |
| James Glassman |
Publisher |
1-Jan-1947 |
|
Roll Call editor |
| Barry Goldwater |
Politician |
1-Jan-1909 |
29-May-1998 |
US Senator from Arizona, 1953-65, 1969-87 |
| Carlos Gomez |
Actor |
1-Jan-1962 |
|
Carlos Sanchez on The Glades |
| Grandmaster Flash |
Musician |
1-Jan-1958 |
|
One of hip-hop's founding fathers |
| Rocky Graziano |
Boxing |
1-Jan-1919 |
22-May-1990 |
Middleweight boxing champ |
| Walter Greaza |
Actor |
1-Jan-1897 |
1-Jun-1973 |
The Chief on Treasury Men in Action |
| Hank Greenberg |
Baseball |
1-Jan-1911 |
4-Sep-1986 |
Two-time American League MVP |
| Reed Hadley |
Actor |
1-Jan-1911 |
11-Dec-1974 |
Radio star of Red Ryder |
| Ludovic Halévy |
Author |
1-Jan-1834 |
8-May-1908 |
French vaudevillain author |
| Ty Hardin |
Actor |
1-Jan-1930 |
|
Bronco |
| William Harsha, Jr. |
Politician |
1-Jan-1921 |
12-Oct-2010 |
Congressman from Ohio, 1961-81 |
| Jimmy Hart |
Wrestling |
1-Jan-1944 |
|
The Mouth of the South |
| Fritz Hollings |
Politician |
1-Jan-1922 |
|
US Senator from South Carolina, 1967-2005 |
| J. Edgar Hoover |
Government |
1-Jan-1895 |
2-May-1972 |
Director of the FBI, 1924-72 |
| James C. Hormel |
Diplomat |
1-Jan-1933 |
|
US Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1999-2001 |
| Al Hunt |
Journalist |
1-Jan-1942 |
|
Wall Street Journal editor |
| Rick Hurst |
Actor |
1-Jan-1946 |
|
Cletus Hogg on Dukes |
| Milt Jackson |
Jazz Musician |
1-Jan-1923 |
9-Oct-1999 |
Vibrophonist, The Modern Jazz Quartet |
| Gary Johnson |
Politician |
1-Jan-1953 |
|
Governor of New Mexico, 1995-2003 |
| Stanley Kamel |
Actor |
1-Jan-1943 |
8-Apr-2008 |
Dr. Kroger on Monk |
| Leon Isaac Kennedy |
Disc Jockey |
1-Jan-1949 |
|
Too Sweet |
| Noor Inayat Khan |
Spy |
1-Jan-1914 |
13-Sep-1944 |
British spy, children's author, captured by Nazis |
| Tony Knowles |
Politician |
1-Jan-1943 |
|
Governor of Alaska, 1994-2002 |
| Frank Knox |
Politician |
1-Jan-1874 |
28-Apr-1944 |
US Secretary of the Navy, 1940-44 |
| Christine Lagarde |
Politician |
1-Jan-1956 |
|
Managing Director, IMF |
| Carole Landis |
Actor |
1-Jan-1919 |
5-Jul-1948 |
A Scandal in Paris |
| Frank Langella |
Actor |
1-Jan-1938 |
|
Dracula and Dave |
| Paul Lawrie |
Golf |
1-Jan-1969 |
|
Winner, 1999 British Open |
| Jacques Le Goff |
Historian |
1-Jan-1924 |
|
Historian of the Middle Ages |
| Kate Levering |
Actor |
1-Jan-1979 |
|
Kim Kaswell on Drop Dead Diva |
| A. Lawrence Lowell |
Educator |
1-Jan-1856 |
6-Jan-1943 |
President, Harvard University, 1909-33 |
| Duane Martin |
Actor |
1-Jan-1970 |
|
All of Us |
| Catherine McCormack |
Actor |
1-Jan-1972 |
|
A Sound of Thunder |
| Country Joe McDonald |
Musician |
1-Jan-1942 |
|
Country Joe and the Fish |
| Lorenzo de Medici |
Government |
1-Jan-1449 |
8-Apr-1492 |
Ruler of Florence, patron of the arts |
| Deepa Mehta |
Film Director |
1-Jan-1950 |
|
Elements Trilogy |
| Bob Menendez |
Politician |
1-Jan-1954 |
|
US Senator from New Jersey |
| Michèle Mercier |
Actor |
1-Jan-1939 |
|
Angélique, Marquise des Anges |
| Annie Moore |
unspecified |
1-Jan-1877 |
1924 |
First arrival at Ellis Island |
| Colin Morgan |
Actor |
1-Jan-1986 |
|
Merlin |
| Charles T. Munger |
Business |
1-Jan-1924 |
|
Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway |
| Don Novello |
Comic |
1-Jan-1943 |
|
Comic priest Father Guido Sarducci |
| Sophie Okonedo |
Actor |
1-Jan-1969 |
|
Hotel Rwanda |
| Clifford Olson |
Criminal |
1-Jan-1940 |
30-Sep-2011 |
Killed 11 youths in British Columbia |
| Joe Orton |
Playwright |
1-Jan-1933 |
9-Aug-1967 |
Prick Up Your Ears |
| Ouida |
Novelist |
1-Jan-1839 |
25-Jan-1908 |
Under Two Flags |
| Ron Perelman |
Business |
1-Jan-1943 |
|
Billionaire, owns 60% of Revlon |
| Dedee Pfeiffer |
Actor |
1-Jan-1964 |
|
The Sky Is Falling |
| Kim Philby |
Spy |
1-Jan-1912 |
11-May-1988 |
One of the Cambridge Five in MI6 |
| Katharine Philips |
Poet |
1-Jan-1631 |
22-Jun-1664 |
Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus |
| Charles-Bernard Renouvier |
Philosopher |
1-Jan-1815 |
1-Sep-1903 |
Neocritical idealist |
| Paul Revere |
Military |
1-Jan-1735 |
10-May-1818 |
One if by land, two if by sea... |
| Willard Robertson |
Actor |
1-Jan-1886 |
5-Apr-1948 |
Remember the Night |
| Betsy Ross |
Business |
1-Jan-1752 |
30-Jan-1836 |
Legendary American flagmaker |
| Manuel Roxas |
Head of State |
1-Jan-1892 |
15-Apr-1948 |
5th President of the Philippines |
| Richard Roxburgh |
Actor |
1-Jan-1962 |
|
Doing Time for Patsy Cline |
| Zelda Rubinstein |
Actor |
1-Jan-1933 |
27-Jan-2010 |
Tangina in Poltergeist |
| J. D. Salinger |
Novelist |
1-Jan-1919 |
27-Jan-2010 |
The Catcher in the Rye |
| Terri Sewell |
Politician |
1-Jan-1965 |
|
Congresswoman, Alabama 7th |
| James D. Sinegal |
Business |
1-Jan-1936 |
|
CEO of Costco |
| Alexander Smallens |
Conductor |
1-Jan-1889 |
24-Nov-1972 |
Russian-born American conductor |
| Vernon L. Smith |
Economist |
1-Jan-1927 |
|
Experimental economics |
| Fred Sommers |
Philosopher |
1-Jan-1923 |
|
The Logic of Natural Language |
| Fredro Starr |
Rapper |
1-Jan-1970 |
|
Onyx |
| Shelby Steele |
Activist |
1-Jan-1946 |
|
The Content of Our Character |
| Alfred Stieglitz |
Photographer |
1-Jan-1864 |
13-Jul-1946 |
Photo-Secessionist |
| Chiune Sugihara |
Diplomat |
1-Jan-1900 |
31-Jul-1986 |
Helped Jews escape Lithuania |
| John Sullivan |
Politician |
1-Jan-1965 |
|
Congressman, Oklahoma 1st |
| Tank |
Singer |
1-Jan-1976 |
|
Force of Nature |
| Derrick Thomas |
Football |
1-Jan-1967 |
8-Feb-2000 |
Hall of Fame Linebacker, Kansas City Chiefs |
| Verne Troyer |
Actor |
1-Jan-1969 |
|
Mini-Me |
| Ari Up |
Singer |
1-Jan-1962 |
20-Oct-2010 |
The Slits |
| Doak Walker |
Football |
1-Jan-1927 |
27-Sep-1998 |
Detroit Lions, Hall of Famer |
| Anthony Wayne |
Military |
1-Jan-1745 |
15-Dec-1796 |
Revolutionary War general |
| Frederick Wiseman |
Film Director |
1-Jan-1930 |
|
Titicut Follies |
| Mark Zachares |
Government |
1-Jan-1958 |
|
Abramoff confederate |
| Huldrych Zwingli |
Religion |
1-Jan-1484 |
11-Oct-1531 |
Swiss-Protestant Reformation |
