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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Lord Acton
Historian
10-Jan-1834 19-Jun-1902 British historian
Ethan Allen
Military
10-Jan-1739 12-Feb-1789 Fighter with the Green Mountain Boys
Trini Alvarado
Actor
10-Jan-1967   Little Women
Stephen E. Ambrose
Author
10-Jan-1936 13-Oct-2002 Band of Brothers
James A. Baker
Attorney
10-Jan-1857 2-Aug-1941 Baker Botts
Richard A. Bartle
Computer Programmer
10-Jan-1960   MUD
Pat Benatar
Singer
10-Jan-1953   Love is a Battlefield
Sune K. Bergström
Scientist
10-Jan-1916 15-Aug-2004 Prostaglandins
Frederick M. Bernthal
Administrator
10-Jan-1943   President, Universities Research Association
Jeremiah S. Black
Attorney
10-Jan-1810 19-Aug-1883 US Attorney General, 1857-60
Roy Blunt
Politician
10-Jan-1950   US Senator from Missouri
Ray Bolger
Actor
10-Jan-1904 15-Jan-1987 The Wizard of Oz Scarecrow
Leonard Boswell
Politician
10-Jan-1934   Congressman, Iowa 3rd
Francis X. Bushman
Actor
10-Jan-1883 23-Aug-1966 Ben-Hur
Harry P. Cain
Politician
10-Jan-1906 3-Mar-1979 US Senator from Washington, 1946-53
Lois Capps
Politician
10-Jan-1938   Congresswoman, California 23rd
Big Sid Catlett
Jazz Musician
10-Jan-1910 25-Mar-1951 Jazz/swing drummer
Eddie Cheever
Auto Racing
10-Jan-1958   Winner, 1998 Indianapolis 500
Arthur Chung
Head of State
10-Jan-1918 23-Jun-2008 President of Guyana, 1970-80
Jemaine Clement
Musician
10-Jan-1974   Flight of the Conchords
Shawn Colvin
Singer/Songwriter
10-Jan-1956   Sunny Came Home
Frederick G. Cottrell
Inventor
10-Jan-1877 16-Nov-1948 Smokestack filters to fight pollution
Brian Cowen
Head of State
10-Jan-1960   Prime Minister of Ireland, 2008-11
Daniel Crane
Politician
10-Jan-1936   Congressman from Illinois, 1979-85
Jim Croce
Singer/Songwriter
10-Jan-1943 20-Sep-1973 Time in a Bottle
Kemal Derviş
Government
10-Jan-1949   Head of the UNDP
Roy E. Disney
Business
10-Jan-1930 16-Dec-2009 Walt Disney's nephew
Aynsley Dunbar
Drummer
10-Jan-1946   Prolific drummer, ex-Zappa, Bowie, Journey
Scott English
Songwriter
10-Jan-1943   70's pop songwriter, Brandy
Donald Fagen
Musician
10-Jan-1948   Keyboards and vocals for Steely Dan
George Foreman
Boxing
10-Jan-1949   Champ knocks out the fat
Walter S. Gifford
Business
10-Jan-1885 7-May-1966 President of AT&T, 1925-48
Al Goldstein
Business
10-Jan-1936   Founder of Screw magazine
Teresa Graves
Actor
10-Jan-1948 10-Oct-2002 Laugh-In
Bob Hamilton
Golf
10-Jan-1916 6-Dec-1990 Winner, 1944 PGA Championship
Evan Handler
Actor
10-Jan-1961   Taps, Ransom
Norman G. Heatley
Scientist
10-Jan-1911 5-Jan-2004 Isolated penicillin
Paul Henreid
Actor
10-Jan-1908 29-Mar-1992 Casablanca
Barbara Hepworth
Sculptor
10-Jan-1903 20-May-1975 British abstract sculptor
Douglas Hickox
Film Director
10-Jan-1929 25-Jul-1988 The Hound of the Baskervilles
Walter Hill
Film Director
10-Jan-1942   48 Hrs.
David Horowitz
Activist
10-Jan-1939   Conservative activist
Thomas Penfield Jackson
Judge
10-Jan-1937   Federal district court judge
Frank James
Criminal
10-Jan-1843 18-Feb-1915 Bank robber, with James Gang
Robinson Jeffers
Poet
10-Jan-1887 20-Jan-1962 Tamar and Other Poems
Louis A. Johnson
Government
10-Jan-1891 24-Apr-1966 US Secretary of Defense, 1949-50
Janet Jones
Actor
10-Jan-1961   Wife of Wayne Gretzky
Donald E. Knuth
Computer Programmer
10-Jan-1938   The Art of Computer Programming
Bernard Lee
Actor
10-Jan-1908 16-Jan-1981 James Bond's M
Keith Lehrer
Philosopher
10-Jan-1936   Metamind
Philip Levine
Poet
10-Jan-1928   What Work Is
Linda Lovelace
Pornstar
10-Jan-1949 22-Apr-2002 Pornstar turned anti-porn activist
Frank Mahovlich
Hockey
10-Jan-1938   NHL Hall of Famer, Canadian Senator
Dumas Malone
Historian
10-Jan-1892 27-Dec-1986 Jefferson and His Time
Margaret of Austria
Royalty
10-Jan-1480 1-Dec-1530 Duchess of Savoy, Dutch Regent
William Martini
Politician
10-Jan-1947   Congressman from New Jersey, 1995-97
Jean Martinon
Conductor
10-Jan-1910 1-Mar-1976 Music Director, Chicago Symphony, 1963-68
David Maysles
Film Director
10-Jan-1932 3-Jan-1987 Documentary filmmaker
Willie McCovey
Baseball
10-Jan-1938   521 homers, 18 grand slams
Harold W. McGraw, Jr.
Business
10-Jan-1918 24-Mar-2010 Chairman of McGraw-Hill, 1968-88
Scott McKenzie
Singer
10-Jan-1939 18-Aug-2012 San Francisco
John J. McMackin, Jr.
Business
10-Jan-1952   Partner, Williams & Jensen
Lyle Menendez
Criminal
10-Jan-1968   Killed parents with brother Erik
Sherrill Milnes
Singer
10-Jan-1935   Operatic baritone, Metropolitan Opera
Sal Mineo
Actor
10-Jan-1939 12-Feb-1976 Dies in Rebel Without A Cause
Michel Ney
Military
10-Jan-1769 7-Dec-1815 Napoleonic General
John J. O'Connor III
Relative
10-Jan-1930 11-Nov-2009 Sandra Day O'Connor's husband
Maggie Peterson
Actor
10-Jan-1941   Charlene Darling on Andy Griffith
Lee Philips
Film Director
10-Jan-1927 3-Mar-1999 TV movie director
Olive Higgins Prouty
Novelist
10-Jan-1882 24-Mar-1974 Stella Dallas
Mark Pryor
Politician
10-Jan-1963   US Senator from Arkansas
Bobby Rahal
Auto Racing
10-Jan-1953   Formula 1 and Indy car racer
Johnnie Ray
Musician
10-Jan-1927 24-Feb-1990 Cry/The Little White Cloud That Cried
Max Roach
Jazz Musician
10-Jan-1924 16-Aug-2007 Enduring jazz drummer
Sir Charles G. D. Roberts
Poet
10-Jan-1860 26-Nov-1943 Earth's Enigmas
Hrithik Roshan
Actor
10-Jan-1974   Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai
William Sanderson
Actor
10-Jan-1944   J.F. Sebastian in Blade Runner
Bill Sarpalius
Politician
10-Jan-1948   Congressman from Texas, 1989-95
Michael Schenker
Musician
10-Jan-1955   Michael Schenker Group
Jacob Schiff
Business
10-Jan-1847 25-Sep-1920 New York banker
Sarah Shahi
Actor
10-Jan-1980   Cheerleader turned actress
Bill Shuster
Politician
10-Jan-1961   Congressman, Pennsylvania 9th
Frank Sinatra, Jr.
Singer
10-Jan-1944   Son of Frank
Reed Smoot
Politician
10-Jan-1862 9-Feb-1941 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Nicolaus Steno
Geologist
10-Jan-1631 25-Nov-1686 De solido intra solidum
Rod Stewart
Singer/Songwriter
10-Jan-1945   Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
John M. Toups
Business
10-Jan-1926   Planning Research Corporation
Charles Trowbridge
Actor
10-Jan-1882 30-Oct-1967 The Great Lie
Chris Van Hollen
Politician
10-Jan-1959   Congressman, Maryland 8th
Vaughn Ververs
Journalist
10-Jan-1969   Editor of The Hotline 2002-05
Gunther von Hagens
Artist
10-Jan-1945   Popularized cadaver art
Greg Walden
Politician
10-Jan-1957   Congressman, Oregon 2nd
Howard B. Wentz, Jr.
Business
10-Jan-1930   CEO of Amstar Company, 1983-89
Robert Woodrow Wilson
Astronomer
10-Jan-1936   Detected primordial radiation




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