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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ian Abercrombie
Actor
11-Sep-1934 26-Jan-2012 Alfred Pennyworth on Birds of Prey
David Rice Atchison
Politician
11-Aug-1807 26-Jan-1886 US Senator from Missouri, 1843-55
Louis Auchincloss
Author
27-Sep-1917 26-Jan-2010 Portrait in Brownstone
Christian Brando
Relative
11-May-1958 26-Jan-2008 Son of Marlon Brando
Harold Brodkey
Novelist
25-Oct-1930 26-Jan-1996 Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
Bear Bryant
Football
11-Sep-1913 26-Jan-1983 Legendary Alabama head coach
Don Budge
Tennis
13-Jun-1915 26-Jan-2000 First ever to win Grand Slam
Geoffrey Burbidge
Astronomer
24-Sep-1925 26-Jan-2010 Quasi-steady state cosmology
Kenny Clarke
Drummer
9-Jan-1914 26-Jan-1985 Droppin' Bombs
Justin Dart
Business
17-Aug-1907 26-Jan-1984 Drug store magnate
Samuel H. Day
Activist
5-Oct-1926 26-Jan-2001 Antinuke crusader
Abner Doubleday
Military
26-Jun-1819 26-Jan-1893 Didn't invent baseball
William Eythe
Actor
7-Apr-1918 26-Jan-1957 The House on 92nd Street
Jose Ferrer
Actor
8-Jan-1909 26-Jan-1992 The Caine Mutiny
Lyman J. Gage
Business
28-Jun-1836 26-Jan-1927 US Treasury Secretary, 1897-1902
Leo Genn
Actor
9-Aug-1905 26-Jan-1978 Quo Vadis
Théodore Géricault
Painter
26-Sep-1791 26-Jan-1824 French Romanticist painter
George Habash
Activist
2-Aug-1926 26-Jan-2008 Founder of the PFLP
Margaret Hayes
Actor
5-Dec-1916 26-Jan-1977 Blackboard Jungle
Robert Hegyes
Actor
7-May-1951 26-Jan-2012 Epstein on Welcome Back, Kotter
Pierre-Daniel Huet
Religion
8-Feb-1630 26-Jan-1721 Bishop of Avranches
Alaric Jacob
Journalist
8-Jun-1909 26-Jan-1995 A Window in Moscow
Edward Jenner
Doctor
17-May-1749 26-Jan-1823 Smallpox Vaccination
Henry Lewis
Conductor
16-Oct-1932 26-Jan-1996 Music Director, NJ Symphony, 1968-76
Lucky Luciano
Criminal
24-Nov-1897 26-Jan-1962 Founder of Murder, Inc.
Grace Moore
Singer
5-Dec-1898 26-Jan-1947 One Night of Love
Lewis Mumford
Historian
19-Oct-1895 26-Jan-1990 Technics and Civilization
Gérard de Nerval
Poet
22-May-1808 26-Jan-1855 Unbalanced French romantic poet
Gordon Oliver
Actor
27-Apr-1910 26-Jan-1995 The Spiral Staircase
Nikolaus Otto
Engineer
14-Jun-1832 26-Jan-1891 Four-stroke internal-combustion engine
Lynn Patrick
Hockey
3-Feb-1912 26-Jan-1980 Bruins, St. Louis Blues GM
Tom Pendergast
Politician
22-Jul-1873 26-Jan-1945 Missouri political boss
Tim Prusmack
Artist
1962 26-Jan-2004 Recreated currency notes by hand
Edward G. Robinson
Actor
12-Dec-1893 26-Jan-1973 Key Largo
Nelson Rockefeller
Politician
8-Jul-1908 26-Jan-1979 Ford's Vice President
George Ticknor
Educator
1-Aug-1791 26-Jan-1871 History of Spanish Literature
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Historian
15-Jan-1914 26-Jan-2003 Historian fooled by fake Hitler diaries
A. E. van Vogt
Novelist
26-Apr-1912 26-Jan-2000 Science fiction writer
George W. Wickersham
Government
19-Sep-1858 26-Jan-1936 US Attorney General, 1909-13
Raymond Williams
Critic
31-Aug-1921 26-Jan-1988 Culture and Society
William Wrigley, Jr.
Business
30-Sep-1861 26-Jan-1932 Chewing gum magnate
George Younger
Politician
22-Sep-1931 26-Jan-2003 UK Minister of Defence, 1986-89




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