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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Joe Albertson
Business
17-Oct-1906 20-Jan-1993 Founder of Albertson's
Gilbert M. Anderson
Actor
21-Mar-1880 20-Jan-1971 Broncho Billy
Parveen Babi
Actor
4-Apr-1955 20-Jan-2005 Sophisticated Seventies Bollywood Babe
Edmund Blunden
Poet
1-Nov-1896 20-Jan-1974 Undertones of War
Albert H. Bowker
Educator
8-Sep-1919 20-Jan-2008 Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1971-80
James McKeen Cattell
Psychologist
24-May-1860 20-Jan-1944 Academic freedom
Charles IV
Royalty
11-Nov-1748 20-Jan-1819 King of Spain, 1788-1808
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Poet
18-Mar-1892 20-Jan-1955 Strange Holiness
George Docking
Politician
23-Feb-1904 20-Jan-1964 Governor of Kansas, 1957-61
Jimmy Durante
Comic
10-Feb-1893 20-Jan-1980 Everybody wants ta get inta da act
Anthony Eisley
Actor
19-Jan-1925 20-Jan-2003 Tracy Steele on Hawaiian Eye
Curt Flood
Baseball
18-Jan-1938 20-Jan-1997 Tried to topple MLB's antitrust exemption
Alan Freed
Disc Jockey
15-Dec-1922 20-Jan-1965 Legendary rock-and-roll DJ
David Garrick
Actor
19-Feb-1717 20-Jan-1779 Manager of Drury Lane Theatre
King George V
Royalty
3-Jun-1865 20-Jan-1936 King of England, 1910-1936
Josh Gibson
Baseball
21-Dec-1911 20-Jan-1947 Negro Leagues hall of fame hitter
John Golding
Politician
9-Mar-1931 20-Jan-1999 MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1969-96
Derick Heathcoat-Amory
Politician
26-Dec-1899 20-Jan-1981 Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1958-60
Audrey Hepburn
Actor
4-May-1929 20-Jan-1993 My Fair Lady
Al Hirschfeld
Artist
21-Jun-1903 20-Jan-2003 Pen and ink caricaturist
John Howard
Activist
2-Sep-1726 20-Jan-1790 The State of Prisons
George M. Humphrey
Government
8-Mar-1890 20-Jan-1970 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1953-57
Etta James
Singer
25-Jan-1938 20-Jan-2012 Soul Diva
Robinson Jeffers
Poet
10-Jan-1887 20-Jan-1962 Tamar and Other Poems
Sidney Korshak
Attorney
6-Jun-1907 20-Jan-1996 The Mob's man in Hollywood
Dante Lavelli
Football
23-Feb-1923 20-Jan-2009 Cleveland Browns Hall-of-Famer
Beatrice Lillie
Actor
29-May-1894 20-Jan-1989 Too True To Be Good
Damien Marchessault
Politician
1-Apr-1818 20-Jan-1868 Los Angeles mayor, committed suicide
David Edward Maust
Criminal
5-Apr-1954 20-Jan-2006 Serial killer of boys
Matt Moore
Actor
8-Jan-1888 20-Jan-1960 Irish-American character actor
Gerry Mulligan
Jazz Musician
6-Apr-1927 20-Jan-1996 Greatest jazz baritonist of all time
José Guadalupe Posada
Engraver
2-Feb-1851 20-Jan-1913 Mexican printmaker
Reynolds Price
Author
1-Feb-1933 20-Jan-2011 A Long and Happy Life
John Ruskin
Critic
8-Feb-1819 20-Jan-1900 Greatest Victorian art critic
Don W. Samuelson
Politician
27-Jul-1913 20-Jan-2000 Governor of Idaho, 1967-71
Robert Fortune Sanchez
Religion
20-Mar-1934 20-Jan-2012 Catholic Archbishop of Santa Fe, 1974-93
George Smathers
Politician
14-Nov-1913 20-Jan-2007 US Senator from Florida, 1951-69
James LeVoy Sorenson
Business
30-Jul-1921 20-Jan-2008 Utah billionaire
Barbara Stanwyck
Actor
16-Jul-1907 20-Jan-1990 Double Indemnity
James D. Theberge
Diplomat
28-Dec-1930 20-Jan-1988 US Ambassador to Chile, 1982-85
Andrew Volstead
Politician
31-Oct-1860 20-Jan-1947 Legislated enforcement of Prohibition
Johnny Weissmuller
Actor
2-Jun-1904 20-Jan-1984 Gold Medalist became Tarzan
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Journalist
20-Jan-1806 20-Jan-1867 Pencillings by the Way




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