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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Mathematician
16-May-1718 9-Jan-1799 Instituzioni Analitiche
Aventinus
Historian
4-Jul-1477 9-Jan-1534 Annals of Bavaria
Emily Greene Balch
Activist
8-Jan-1867 9-Jan-1961 Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient
Herman Bing
Actor
30-Mar-1889 9-Jan-1947 1930s character actor
Norberto Bobbio
Philosopher
18-Oct-1909 9-Jan-2004 Philosopher of politics and the law
Edward Bok
Author
9-Oct-1863 9-Jan-1930 Editor of Ladies' Home Journal
Steve Brodie
Actor
21-Nov-1919 9-Jan-1992 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Lyndon Brook
Actor
10-Apr-1926 9-Jan-2004 Reach for the Sky
Marguerite Churchill
Actor
25-Dec-1910 9-Jan-2000 The Big Trail
R. G. Collingwood
Historian
22-Feb-1889 9-Jan-1943 The Idea of History
Peter Cook
Comic
19-Nov-1937 9-Jan-1995 Bedazzled
Cleveland Cram
Spy
21-Dec-1917 9-Jan-1999 History of the Counterintelligence Staff
Countee Cullen
Poet
30-May-1903 9-Jan-1946 Harlem Renaissance poet
Victor Emmanuel II
Royalty
14-Mar-1820 9-Jan-1878 King of Italy, Sardinia
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Author
11-Feb-1657 9-Jan-1757 Nouveaux Dialogues des Morts
Charles Foster
Politician
12-Apr-1828 9-Jan-1904 Ohio Governor, US Treasury Secretary
Waldo Frank
Author
25-Aug-1889 9-Jan-1967 American cultural critic and social historian
Kenichi Fukui
Chemist
4-Oct-1918 9-Jan-1998 Frontier orbitals
Philip Geyelin
Journalist
27-Feb-1923 9-Jan-2004 Former editor, The Washington Post
John Gilbert
Actor
10-Jul-1899 9-Jan-1936 La Boheme
Henry W. Halleck
Military
16-Jan-1815 9-Jan-1872 Commander of US Army, 1862-64
John Harvey-Jones
Business
16-Apr-1924 9-Jan-2008 Chairman of ICI, 1982-87
Caroline Herschel
Astronomer
16-Mar-1750 9-Jan-1848 Astronomer, sister of William
Samuel Gridley Howe
Educator
10-Nov-1801 9-Jan-1876 Founder of Perkins Institution
Anson Jones
Politician
20-Jan-1798 9-Jan-1858 President of Texas, committed suicide
William D. Kelley
Government
12-Apr-1814 9-Jan-1890 Powerful 19th century Congressman
Arthur Lake
Actor
17-Apr-1905 9-Jan-1987 Dagwood Bumstead
Karl Mannheim
Sociologist
27-Mar-1893 9-Jan-1947 Ideology and Utopia
Katherine Mansfield
Author
14-Oct-1888 9-Jan-1923 Bliss
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Novelist
23-Jan-1923 9-Jan-1996 A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter Monckton
Politician
17-Jan-1891 9-Jan-1965 UK Minister of Defence, 1955-56
Robert D. Murphy
Diplomat
28-Oct-1894 9-Jan-1978 Envoy in French North Africa, 1940-42
Napoleon III
Royalty
20-Apr-1808 9-Jan-1873 Emperor of France, 1852-70
Pier Luigi Nervi
Architect
21-Jun-1891 9-Jan-1979 Experimented with reinforced concrete
Hugh Sanders
Actor
13-Mar-1911 9-Jan-1966 Character actor
Cleon Skousen
Activist
20-Jan-1913 9-Jan-2006 The Naked Communist
Mike Synar
Politician
17-Oct-1950 9-Jan-1996 Congressman from Oklahoma, 1979-95
Jesse White
Actor
3-Jan-1917 9-Jan-1997 The Maytag Repairman, 1967-88
Peter Yates
Film Director
24-Jul-1929 9-Jan-2011 Breaking Away




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