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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Rick Allen
Drummer
1-Nov-1963   Def Leppard's one-armed drummer
Arthur Askey
Comic
6-Jun-1900 16-Nov-1982 Horn-rimmed British comic
Susan Atkins
Criminal
7-May-1948 24-Sep-2009 Manson Family
Artur Axmann
Government
18-Feb-1913 24-Oct-1996 Hitler Youth leader
Frances Bay
Actor
23-Jan-1919 15-Sep-2011 Happy Gilmore
Sarah Bernhardt
Actor
22-Oct-1844 26-Mar-1923 French theatre actress
John Wayne Bobbitt
Victim
23-Mar-1967   Penectomy survivor
Carl Brashear
Military
19-Jan-1931 25-Jul-2006 Navy diver
Douglas H. Brooks
Business
12-Aug-1952   CEO of Brinker International
Art Buchwald
Columnist
20-Oct-1925 17-Jan-2007 Syndicated columnist and humorist
William S. Burroughs
Author
5-Feb-1914 2-Aug-1997 Naked Lunch
Al Capp
Cartoonist
28-Sep-1909 5-Nov-1979 Creator of L'il Abner
Ronald D. Castille
Judge
16-Mar-1944   Pennsylvania Chief Justice
John Jay Chapman
Essayist
2-Mar-1862 4-Nov-1933 Essayist, founder of The Nursery
George Rogers Clark
Military
19-Nov-1752 13-Feb-1818 Kentucky frontier military leader
Max Cleland
Politician
24-Aug-1942   US Senator from Georgia, 1997-2003
Nathan Clifford
Politician
18-Aug-1803 25-Jul-1881 Congressman, Attorney General, Supreme Court
Alex Comfort
Doctor
10-Feb-1920 26-Mar-2000 The Joy of Sex
Eric A. Cornell
Physicist
19-Dec-1961   Atomic physicist, Nobel laureate
Bo Diddley
Guitarist
30-Dec-1928 2-Jun-2008 Blues diddler and rectangular guitarist
James Doohan
Actor
3-Mar-1920 20-Jul-2005 Scotty on Star Trek
Tammy Duckworth
Military
12-Mar-1968   Blackhawk pilot, wounded in Iraq
Rahm Emanuel
Politician
29-Nov-1959   Mayor of Chicago
John Fante
Author
8-Apr-1909 8-May-1983 Bukowski's idol
Totie Fields
Comic
7-May-1930 2-Aug-1978 Weight-conscious comedienne
Ranulph Fiennes
Explorer
7-Mar-1944   World explorer
Ella Fitzgerald
Singer
25-Apr-1917 15-Jun-1996 The First Lady of Jazz
Jay C. Flippen
Actor
6-Mar-1899 3-Feb-1971 The Killing
Samuel Foote
Actor
1720 21-Oct-1777 Diversions
Frederick M. Franks, Jr.
Military
c. 1935   Retired US Army General
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Actor
6-Feb-1917   Cop-slapping Gabor sister
Jerry Garcia
Musician
1-Aug-1942 9-Aug-1995 Grateful Dead
James Gleick
Author
1-Aug-1954   Chaos: Making a New Science
Robert David Hall
Actor
9-Nov-1947   Dr. Al Robbins on CSI
Virginia Hall
Spy
6-Apr-1906 14-Jul-1982 American spy
W. E. Henley
Poet
23-Aug-1849 11-Jul-1903 Invictus
Pete Henry
Football
31-Oct-1897 7-Feb-1952 NFL Hall-of-Famer
Pat Hingle
Actor
19-Jul-1924 3-Jan-2009 Commissioner Gordon in Batman films
Shirley Horn
Musician
1-May-1934 20-Oct-2005 Here's To Life
Oliver O. Howard
Military
8-Nov-1830 26-Oct-1909 Headed the Freedmen's Bureau
Carol W. Hunstein
Judge
16-Aug-1944   Justice, Georgia Supreme Court
Daniel Inouye
Politician
7-Sep-1924   US Senator from Hawaii
Tony Iommi
Guitarist
19-Feb-1948   Guitar player for Black Sabbath
Stonewall Jackson
Military
21-Jan-1824 10-May-1863 Robert E. Lee's "right arm"
Robert Jenkins
Business
fl. 1731-45 fl. 1731-45 War of Jenkins' Ear
Frida Kahlo
Painter
6-Jul-1907 13-Jul-1954 Unibrowed Mexican painter
Buster Keaton
Actor
4-Oct-1895 1-Feb-1966 The General
Edward Kelley
Paranormal
1-Aug-1555 1-Nov-1597 Notorious forger and alchemist
Walt Kelly
Cartoonist
25-Aug-1913 18-Oct-1973 Creator of Pogo
Joyce L. Kennard
Judge
6-May-1941   Justice, California Supreme Court
Bob Kerrey
Politician
27-Aug-1943   Governor and Senator from Nebraska
Mabel King
Actor
25-Dec-1932 9-Nov-1999 What's Happening!
Otto Lambsdorff
Politician
20-Dec-1926 5-Dec-2009 German Economic Minister, 1977-84
Richard Leakey
Anthropologist
19-Dec-1944   Excavated Koobi Fora
Al Lewis
Actor
30-Apr-1923 3-Feb-2006 Grandpa on The Munsters
Peter B. Lewis
Business
11-Nov-1933   Chairman of Progressive
Harold Lloyd
Actor
20-Apr-1893 8-Mar-1971 Prolific silent film actor
Ronnie Lott
Football
8-May-1959   FOX NFL Sunday
Edouard Manet
Painter
23-Jan-1832 30-Apr-1883 French Realist/Impressionist painter
Abu Hamza al-Masri
Religion
15-Apr-1958   Imam of Finsbury Park Mosque
George Mikan
Basketball
18-Jun-1924 1-Jun-2005 Minneapolis Lakers center
Heather Mills
Activist
12-Jan-1968   Ex-wife of Paul McCartney
W. C. Minor
Scholar
Jun-1834 26-Mar-1920 Prolific OED contributor
Gouverneur Morris
Politician
31-Jan-1752 6-Nov-1816 American financier, Revolutionary politician
LeRoy Neiman
Painter
8-Jun-1921 20-Jun-2012 Painter of sports scenes
Lord Nelson
Military
29-Sep-1758 21-Oct-1805 Most celebrated British admiral
Haing S. Ngor
Victim
22-Mar-1940 25-Feb-1996 The Killing Fields
William F. Nichols
Politician
16-Oct-1918 13-Dec-1988 Congressman from Alabama, 1967-88
Mike O'Callaghan
Politician
10-Sep-1929 5-Mar-2004 Governor of Nevada, 1971-79
Carroll O'Connor
Actor
2-Aug-1924 21-Jun-2001 Archie Bunker in All in the Family
Barack Obama, Sr.
Relative
18-Jun-1936 24-Nov-1982 Father of President Barack Obama
Álvaro Obregón
Head of State
19-Feb-1880 17-Jul-1928 President of Mexico, 1920-24
Alferd Packer
Criminal
21-Nov-1842 23-Apr-1907 Celebrated cannibal killer
Okey L. Patteson
Politician
14-Sep-1898 3-Jul-1989 Governor of West Virginia, 1949-53
David Peaston
Singer
13-Mar-1957 1-Feb-2012 Two Wrongs Don't Make It Right
Tony Poe
Military
18-Sep-1924 27-Jul-2003 CIA ear collection operative in Southeast Asia
Cole Porter
Composer
9-Jun-1891 15-Oct-1964 I've Got You Under My Skin
John Wesley Powell
Geologist
24-Mar-1834 23-Sep-1902 Exploration of the Colorado River
Joe Pyne
TV Personality
22-Dec-1925 23-Mar-1970 Father of attack TV
Jessie Ralph
Actor
5-Nov-1864 30-May-1944 San Francisco
Martha Raye
Actor
27-Aug-1916 19-Oct-1994 Monsieur Verdoux
Chopper Read
Criminal
17-Nov-1954   Earless Australian killer, author
Arthur Rimbaud
Poet
20-Oct-1854 10-Nov-1891 Une Saison en Enfer
John Roebling
Engineer
12-Jun-1806 22-Jul-1869 Began construction of Brooklyn Bridge
Harold Russell
Actor
14-Jan-1914 29-Jan-2002 The Best Years of Our Lives
Antonio López de Santa Anna
Military
21-Feb-1794 21-Jun-1876 Hero of Tampico
Ron Santo
Baseball
25-Feb-1940 2-Dec-2010 Third baseman, Chicago Cubs
Sam Snead
Golf
27-May-1912 23-May-2002 Winner of 82 PGA tournaments
James Stacy
Actor
23-Dec-1936   Lancer
John C. Stennis
Politician
3-Aug-1901 23-Apr-1995 US Senator from Mississippi, 1947-89
Peter Stuyvesant
Government
c. 1592 Feb-1672 Dutch colonial governor
James B. Sumner
Chemist
19-Nov-1887 12-Aug-1955 Crystallized enzymes
Edward Teller
Physicist
15-Jan-1908 9-Sep-2003 Father of the Hydrogen Bomb
Jon Tester
Politician
21-Aug-1956   US Senator from Montana
Danny Thomas
Actor
6-Jan-1914 6-Feb-1991 Make Room For Daddy
Josip Broz Tito
Head of State
7-May-1892 4-May-1980 Communist dictator of Yugoslavia
Tom Tully
Actor
21-Aug-1908 27-Apr-1982 Insp. Matt Grebb on The Lineup
Susan Tyrrell
Actor
18-Mar-1945 16-Jun-2012 Fat City
Vincent van Gogh
Painter
30-Mar-1853 29-Jul-1890 Troubled and brilliant painter
Bill Veeck
Baseball
9-Feb-1914 2-Jan-1986 Chicago White Sox owner
Claus von Stauffenberg
Military
15-Nov-1907 20-Jul-1944 Tried to kill Hitler in 1944
Paul Weyrich
Columnist
7-Oct-1942 18-Dec-2008 Conservative activist
Slim Whitman
Country Musician
20-Jan-1924   Western singer, balladeer and yodeler
Cornell Woolrich
Novelist
4-Dec-1903 25-Sep-1968 The Bride Wore Black
Lev Yashin
Soccer
22-Oct-1929 20-Mar-1990 Soviet soccer star
Boris Yeltsin
Head of State
1-Feb-1931 23-Apr-2007 First president of post-Soviet Russia



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