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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
George Akerson
Government
5-Sep-1888 ? First White House Press Secretary
Kristian Alfonso
Actor
5-Sep-1964   Days of Our Lives
Otto Bauer
Politician
5-Sep-1881 4-Jul-1938 Austrian Marxist
Jack Buetel
Actor
5-Sep-1915 27-Jun-1989 Deputy Taggert on Judge Roy Bean
John Cage
Composer
5-Sep-1912 12-Aug-1992 Experimental composer
Tommaso Campanella
Philosopher
5-Sep-1568 21-May-1639 La città del Sole
John G. Carlisle
Politician
5-Sep-1834 31-Jul-1910 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1893-97
Morris Carnovsky
Actor
5-Sep-1897 1-Sep-1992 Dead Reckoning
Don Chandler
Football
5-Sep-1934 11-Aug-2011 Former NFL placekicker
Francis Cherry
Politician
5-Sep-1908 15-Jul-1965 Governor of Arkansas, 1953-55
Mel Collins
Musician
5-Sep-1947   Active session and ex-Crimson blower
Paddy Considine
Actor
5-Sep-1974   Dead Man's Shoes
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Country Musician
5-Sep-1947   Unique outsider country performer
John Danforth
Politician
5-Sep-1936   US Ambassador to the UN, 2004
Jack Daniel
Business
5-Sep-1846 10-Oct-1911 Moonshine magnate
Bruce Davidson
Photographer
5-Sep-1933   East 100th Street
William Devane
Actor
5-Sep-1937   Greg Sumner on Knots Landing
Paul Dietzel
Football
5-Sep-1924   South Carolina Head Coach, 1966-74
Herbert D. Doan
Business
5-Sep-1922 16-May-2006 CEO of Dow Chemical, 1962-71
Dennis Dugan
Actor
5-Sep-1946   Happy Gilmore
Allyson K. Duncan
Judge
5-Sep-1951   4th Circuit Court of Appeals
Werner Erhard
Religion
5-Sep-1935   Erhard Seminar Training ("est")
Henry H. Fowler
Government
5-Sep-1908 3-Jan-2000 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1965-68
Caspar David Friedrich
Painter
5-Sep-1774 7-May-1840 German Romantic painter
Eugen Goldstein
Physicist
5-Sep-1850 25-Dec-1930 Cathode rays
Kat Graham
Actor
5-Sep-1989   Bonnie Bennett on The Vampire Diaries
Cathy Guisewite
Cartoonist
5-Sep-1950   Cathy
Victor Davis Hanson
Historian
5-Sep-1953   Carnage and Culture
Alcee Hastings
Politician
5-Sep-1936   Congressman, Florida 23rd
Werner Herzog
Film Director
5-Sep-1942   Fitzcarraldo
Gloria Holden
Actor
5-Sep-1908 22-Mar-1991 Dracula's Daughter
Jesse James
Criminal
5-Sep-1847 3-Apr-1882 Bank robber, with James Gang
Justin Kaplan
Author
5-Sep-1925   Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain
Thomas H. Kean, Jr.
Politician
5-Sep-1968   New Jersey State Senator
Ric Keller
Politician
5-Sep-1964   Congressman from Florida, 2001-09
Doris Kenyon
Actor
5-Sep-1897 1-Sep-1979 Counsellor at Law
Jonathan Kozol
Educator
5-Sep-1936   Death at an Early Age
Nap Lajoie
Baseball
5-Sep-1874 7-Feb-1959 MLB Hall of Famer
Carol Lawrence
Actor
5-Sep-1932   Theater actress, ex of Robert Goulet
George Lazenby
Actor
5-Sep-1939   On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Louis VIII
Royalty
5-Sep-1187 8-Nov-1226 King of France, 1223-26
Louis XIV
Royalty
5-Sep-1638 1-Sep-1715 Le Roi Soleil
Eduardo Mata
Conductor
5-Sep-1942 4-Jan-1995 Music Director, Dallas Symphony, 1977-93
Bill Mazeroski
Baseball
5-Sep-1936   Maz
Rose McGowan
Actor
5-Sep-1973   Paige Matthews on Charmed
Freddie Mercury
Singer/Songwriter
5-Sep-1946 24-Nov-1991 Lead singer, Queen
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Composer
5-Sep-1791 2-May-1864 Robert le Diable
Chris Morris
Comic
5-Sep-1965   Brass Eye
Harry Myers
Actor
5-Sep-1882 25-Dec-1938 City Lights
Bob Newhart
Comic
5-Sep-1929   The Bob Newhart Show
Arthur C. Nielsen
Business
5-Sep-1897 1-Jun-1980 Founder of A.C. Nielsen ratings company
Andrian Nikolayev
Astronaut
5-Sep-1929 3-Jul-2004 Third Russian cosmonaut in space
Philip J. Purcell
Business
5-Sep-1943   CEO of Morgan Stanley, 1997-2005
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Politician
5-Sep-1888 17-Apr-1975 Philosopher-President of India, 1962-67
Holly Randall
Photographer
5-Sep-1978   Porn photographer/director
Frank Riggs
Politician
5-Sep-1950   Congressman from California, 1991-99
Charles R. Robertson
Politician
5-Sep-1889 19-Feb-1951 Congressman from North Dakota, 1940s
Matthias Sammer
Soccer
5-Sep-1967   East German footballer
Victorien Sardou
Playwright
5-Sep-1831 8-Nov-1908 Les Pattes de Mouche
Christopher A. Sinclair
Business
5-Sep-1950   Former Pepsi executive
Dolores K. Sloviter
Judge
5-Sep-1932   3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
Al Stewart
Singer/Songwriter
5-Sep-1945   Year of the Cat
Carl Gustaf, Count Tessin
Aristocrat
5-Sep-1695 7-Jan-1770 Head of Swedish Chancellory
John H. Tyson
Business
5-Sep-1953   Chairman, Tyson Foods
Jack Valenti
Business
5-Sep-1921 26-Apr-2007 Presidential advisor, headed the MPAA
Paul Volcker
Economist
5-Sep-1927   Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979-87
Raquel Welch
Actor
5-Sep-1940   Cocktail waitress turned 60s sexpot
Peter Wingfield
Actor
5-Sep-1962   Dan Clifford on Holby City
Frank Yerby
Novelist
5-Sep-1916 29-Nov-1991 The Dahomean
Darryl F. Zanuck
Film/TV Producer
5-Sep-1902 22-Dec-1979 Ran 20th Century Fox, 1935-71
Dweezil Zappa
Guitarist
5-Sep-1969   Son of Frank Zappa




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