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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Quinn Allman
Guitarist
18-Jan-1982   Guitarist for The Used
Phil Alvarado
Boxing
18-Jan-1919 25-Dec-2003 Greatest amateur boxer ever
Brady Anderson
Baseball
18-Jan-1964   Ex-Baltimore Orioles hitter
Alison Arngrim
Actor
18-Jan-1962   Nellie on Little House on the Prairie
Dave Attell
Comic
18-Jan-1965   Insomniac
Edmund Barton
Head of State
18-Jan-1849 7-Jan-1920 First Prime Minister of Australia
Dave Batista
Wrestling
18-Jan-1969   Deacon Batista, WWE star
Michael Behe
Biologist
18-Jan-1952   Darwin's Black Box
Maxime Bernier
Politician
18-Jan-1963   Canadian Foreign Minister
Joe Bonanno
Criminal
18-Jan-1905 12-May-2002 Bonanno crime family
John Boorman
Film Director
18-Jan-1933   Hope and Glory
Kenneth E. Boulding
Economist
18-Jan-1910 18-Mar-1993 The Image: Knowledge of Life in Society
James H. Carter
Judge
18-Jan-1935   Justice, Iowa Supreme Court, 1982-2006
John Casey
Novelist
18-Jan-1939   Spartina
António Feliciano de Castilho
Poet
18-Jan-1800 18-Jun-1875 A noite de Castello
Russell Chew
Government
18-Jan-1953   Runs the US Air Traffic Control system
Seung-Hui Cho
Criminal
18-Jan-1984 16-Apr-2007 Virginia Tech Massacre
Jay Chou
Singer
18-Jan-1979   Taiwanese popstar, Kato in The Green Hornet
Eric L. Clay
Judge
18-Jan-1948   6th Circuit Court of Appeals
Kevin Costner
Actor
18-Jan-1955   Dances with Wolves
Elijah Cummings
Politician
18-Jan-1951   Congressman, Maryland 7th
Dominic D'Alessandro
Business
18-Jan-1947   CEO of Manulife Financial
Rubén Darío
Poet
18-Jan-1867 6-Feb-1916 Cantos de vida y esperanza
Jonathan Davis
Musician
18-Jan-1971   Korn frontman
Ray Milton Dolby
Inventor
18-Jan-1933   Inventor of Dolby stereo
Estelle
Singer/Songwriter
18-Jan-1980   American Boy
John V. Evans
Politician
18-Jan-1925   Governor of Idaho, 1977-87
Curt Flood
Baseball
18-Jan-1938 20-Jan-1997 Tried to topple MLB's antitrust exemption
Paul Freeman
Actor
18-Jan-1943   Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ivan Getting
Inventor
18-Jan-1912 11-Oct-2003 Global Positioning System
Bobby Goldsboro
Singer/Songwriter
18-Jan-1941   Honey
Kay Granger
Politician
18-Jan-1943   Congresswoman, Texas 12th
Cary Grant
Actor
18-Jan-1904 29-Nov-1986 North by Northwest
Dave Greenslade
Musician
18-Jan-1943   Jazz/prog keyboard player
Bo Gritz
Military
18-Jan-1939   Former Green Beret
Oliver Hardy
Actor
18-Jan-1892 7-Aug-1957 Laurel and Hardy
R. Glenn Hilliard
Business
18-Jan-1943   CEO of ING Americas, 1999-2003
Jane Horrocks
Actor
18-Jan-1964   Deadly Advice
David Howell
Politician
18-Jan-1936   Former MP, Guildford
Webb Hubbell
Criminal
18-Jan-1948   Whitewater casualty
John Hume
Politician
18-Jan-1937   Northern Ireland pol, Nobel recipient
Chun Doo Hwan
Head of State
18-Jan-1931   President of South Korea, 1980-88
William G. Hyland
Government
18-Jan-1929 25-Mar-2008 Editor of Foreign Affairs, 1984-93
Margaret Irving
Actor
18-Jan-1898 5-Mar-1988 Animal Crackers
Danny Kaye
Actor
18-Jan-1913 3-Mar-1987 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Paul Keating
Head of State
18-Jan-1944   Prime Minister of Australia, 1991-96
Paul G. Kirk, Jr.
Politician
18-Jan-1938   US Senator from Massachusetts
Takeshi Kitano
Film Director
18-Jan-1947   Zatoichi
Ted Lewis
Novelist
18-Jan-1940 15-May-1982 Jack's Return Home
Jesse L. Martin
Actor
18-Jan-1969   Det. Green on Law & Order
Thomas E. Martin
Politician
18-Jan-1893 27-Jun-1971 US Senator from Iowa, 1955-61
Daniel T. McCarty
Politician
18-Jan-1912 28-Sep-1953 Governor of Florida, 1953
Michael Michaud
Politician
18-Jan-1955   Congressman, Maine 2nd
A. A. Milne
Author
18-Jan-1882 31-Jan-1956 Winnie the Pooh
Sharon Mitchell
Pornstar
18-Jan-1952   Starship Intercourse
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Philosopher
18-Jan-1689 10-Feb-1755 De l'Esprit des Lois
Constance Moore
Actor
18-Jan-1920 16-Sep-2005 Show Business
R. Stevie Moore
Singer/Songwriter
18-Jan-1952   Prolific DIY pop musician
DeLesseps S. Morrison
Politician
18-Jan-1912 22-May-1964 Mayor of New Orleans, 1946-61
Samantha Mumba
Singer
18-Jan-1983   Always Come Back to Your Love
Yoichiro Nambu
Physicist
18-Jan-1921   Spontaneous broken symmetry
Joanna Newsom
Musician
18-Jan-1982   The Milk-Eyed Mender
Martin O'Malley
Politician
18-Jan-1963   Governor of Maryland
Jim O'Rourke
Musician
18-Jan-1969   Rock/avant-garde composer and producer
Maulik Pancholy
Actor
18-Jan-1974   Jonathan on 30 Rock
DJ Quik
Rapper
18-Jan-1970   Rap artist
Peter Mark Roget
Author
18-Jan-1779 12-Sep-1869 Roget's Thesaurus
David Ruffin
Singer
18-Jan-1941 1-Jun-1991 The Temptations
Robert Scoble
Blogger
18-Jan-1965   Scobleizer
Jason Segel
Actor
18-Jan-1980   How I Met Your Mother
"Legs" Larry Smith
Musician
18-Jan-1944   Hello Sausage
Henry C. Stuart
Politician
18-Jan-1855 24-Jul-1933 Governor of Virginia, 1914-18
Pat Sullivan
Football
18-Jan-1950   Winner, 1971 Heisman Trophy
Myron C. Taylor
Business
18-Jan-1874 6-May-1959 CEO of US Steel, 1932-38
Sheldon B. Vance
Diplomat
18-Jan-1917 12-Nov-1995 US Ambassador to Congo, 1969-74
Veerappan
Criminal
18-Jan-1952 18-Oct-2004 India's greatest Sandalwood smuggler
Binyavanga Wainaina
Author
18-Jan-1971   One Day I Will Write About This Place
Ted Waitt
Business
18-Jan-1963   Co-Founder of Gateway
Y. C. Wang
Business
18-Jan-1917 15-Oct-2008 Taiwanese plastics billionaire
Thomas A. Watson
Engineer
18-Jan-1854 13-Dec-1934 Assistant to Alexander Graham Bell
Matthew Webb
Swimmer
18-Jan-1848 24-Jul-1883 First to swim the English Channel
Daniel Webster
Politician
18-Jan-1782 24-Oct-1852 The completest man
Don Wildmon
Activist
18-Jan-1938   Moral crusader
Charlie Wilson
Politician
18-Jan-1943   Congressman from Ohio, 2007-11
Robert Anton Wilson
Author
18-Jan-1932 11-Jan-2007 Illuminatus Trilogy
Alexander Woollcott
Critic
18-Jan-1887 23-Jan-1943 The Man Who Came to Dinner
Jeff Yagher
Actor
18-Jan-1961   Kyle Bates on V




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