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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ma Barker
Criminal
1872 16-Jan-1935 Matriarch of the Barker-Karpis Gang
Charlie Bell
Business
7-Nov-1960 16-Jan-2005 CEO of McDonalds, 2004
Michael A. Bilandic
Politician
13-Feb-1923 16-Jan-2002 Mayor of Chicago, 1976-79
R. Hanbury Brown
Astronomer
31-Aug-1916 16-Jan-2002 Optical intensity interferometer
Ron Carey
Actor
11-Dec-1935 16-Jan-2007 Officer Levitt on Barney Miller
Ted Cassidy
Actor
31-Jul-1932 16-Jan-1979 Lurch on The Addams Family
Jimmy Castor
Musician
23-Jun-1947 16-Jan-2012 Troglodyte
Glenn Corbett
Actor
17-Aug-1930 16-Jan-1993 Lincoln Case on Route 66
Alexander J. Dallas
Government
21-Jun-1759 16-Jan-1817 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1814-16
Reginald De Koven
Composer
3-Apr-1859 16-Jan-1920 Oh, Promise Me
Léo Delibes
Composer
21-Feb-1836 16-Jan-1891 Lakmé
George Dewey
Military
26-Dec-1837 16-Jan-1917 Sank the Spanish fleet at Manila
Vernon Duke
Composer
10-Oct-1903 16-Jan-1969 April in Paris
Marshall Field
Business
18-Aug-1834 16-Jan-1906 Founder of Marshall Field's
Albert Fish
Criminal
19-May-1870 16-Jan-1936 Serial killer and cannibal
Edward Gibbon
Historian
8-May-1737 16-Jan-1794 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Georg Heym
Poet
30-Oct-1887 16-Jan-1912 Der ewige Tag
Gustav Krupp
Business
7-Aug-1870 16-Jan-1950 Industrialist, Nazi war criminal
Bernard Lee
Actor
10-Jan-1908 16-Jan-1981 James Bond's M
Carole Lombard
Actor
6-Oct-1908 16-Jan-1942 My Man Godfrey
Pope Marcellus I
Religion
? 16-Jan-309 AD Roman Catholic Pope, 309
John Mortimer
Playwright
21-Apr-1923 16-Jan-2009 Rumpole of the Bailey
Virginia O'Brien
Actor
18-Apr-1919 16-Jan-2001 The Big Store
Harvey Parnell
Politician
28-Feb-1880 16-Jan-1936 Governor of Arkansas, 1928-33
Amilcare Ponchielli
Composer
31-Aug-1834 16-Jan-1886 La Gioconda
Phineas P. Quimby
Hoaxer
16-Feb-1802 16-Jan-1866 Father of New Thought movement
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Politician
27-Sep-1822 16-Jan-1901 US Senator from Mississippi, 1870-71
Thomas C. Riggs
Politician
17-Oct-1873 16-Jan-1945 Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1918-21
Fred A. Seaton
Politician
11-Dec-1909 16-Jan-1974 US Secretary of the Interior, 1956-61
Carl Smith
Country Musician
15-Mar-1927 16-Jan-2010 Mr. Country
R. H. Tawney
Scholar
30-Nov-1880 16-Jan-1962 The Acquisitive Society
Arturo Toscanini
Conductor
25-Mar-1867 16-Jan-1957 20th Century virtuoso conductor
Romo Vincent
Actor
23-Dec-1908 16-Jan-1989 American comic character actor
Auberon Waugh
Columnist
17-Nov-1939 16-Jan-2001 Columnist for Private Eye
Leonard Woodcock
Labor Leader
15-Feb-1911 16-Jan-2001 5th UAW President, 1970-77
Andrew Wyeth
Painter
12-Jul-1917 16-Jan-2009 American painter, Christina's World
Zhao Ziyang
Politician
17-Oct-1919 16-Jan-2005 6th Chinese Premier sought reforms




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