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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Pope Alexander VIII
Religion
22-Apr-1610 1-Feb-1691 Roman Catholic Pope, 1689-91
Augustus II
Royalty
12-May-1670 1-Feb-1733 King of Poland, Elector of Saxony
Carlie Brucia
Victim
16-Mar-1992 1-Feb-2004 Little girl kidnapped and killed
Herb Caen
Columnist
3-Apr-1916 1-Feb-1997 Long running San Francisco columnist
Charles IV
Royalty
1294 1-Feb-1328 King of France, 1322-28
Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix
Explorer
29-Oct-1682 1-Feb-1761 Jesuit explorer of America
Don Cornelius
TV Personality
27-Sep-1936 1-Feb-2012 Soul Train
George Cruikshank
Artist
27-Sep-1792 1-Feb-1878 English caricaturist
Clinton Davisson
Physicist
22-Oct-1881 1-Feb-1958 Diffraction of electrons
Donald W. Douglas
Business
6-Apr-1892 1-Feb-1981 Founder of Douglas Aircraft Co.
Angelo Dundee
Boxing
30-Aug-1921 1-Feb-2012 Always in Muhammad Ali's corner
Lukas Foss
Conductor
15-Aug-1922 1-Feb-2009 Director, Buffalo Philharmonic, 1963-71
Sam Goddard
Politician
8-Aug-1919 1-Feb-2006 Governor of Arizona, 1965-67
Werner Heisenberg
Physicist
5-Dec-1901 1-Feb-1976 Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Wanda Hendrix
Actor
3-Nov-1928 1-Feb-1981 Actress-wife of Audie Murphy
Hedda Hopper
Actor
2-May-1885 1-Feb-1966 Queen of the Quickies
Buster Keaton
Actor
4-Oct-1895 1-Feb-1966 The General
William R. Kintner
Scholar
21-Apr-1915 1-Feb-1997 Peace and the Strategy Conflict
Hildegard Knef
Actor
28-Dec-1925 1-Feb-2002 The Murderers Are Among Us
Richard E. Lyng
Business
29-Jun-1918 1-Feb-2003 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1986-89
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Military
14-Jan-1806 1-Feb-1873 Father of modern oceanography
William G. McAdoo
Politician
31-Oct-1863 1-Feb-1941 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1913-18
Paul Mellon
Philanthropist
11-Jun-1907 1-Feb-1999 Yale Center for British Art benefactor
Gian-Carlo Menotti
Composer
7-Jul-1911 1-Feb-2007 The Saint of Bleecker Street
Piet Mondrian
Painter
7-Mar-1872 1-Feb-1944 Dutch abstract painter
Alva Myrdal
Politician
31-Jan-1902 1-Feb-1986 Swedish diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient
Heather O'Rourke
Actor
27-Dec-1975 1-Feb-1988 Carol Anne in Poltergeist
Friedrich Paulus
Military
23-Sep-1890 1-Feb-1957 Surrendered to Russians at Stalingrad
David Peaston
Singer
13-Mar-1957 1-Feb-2012 Two Wrongs Don't Make It Right
Maurice Prendergast
Painter
10-Oct-1859 1-Feb-1924 American Post-Impressionist watercolorist
Marjorie Reynolds
Actor
12-Aug-1917 1-Feb-1997 Holiday Inn
Mongo Santamaria
Drummer
7-Apr-1922 1-Feb-2003 Influential latin percussionist
Mary Shelley
Novelist
30-Aug-1797 1-Feb-1851 Frankenstein
George Gabriel Stokes
Physicist
13-Aug-1819 1-Feb-1903 Fluid dynamicist, optic waves
Wislawa Szymborska
Poet
2-Jul-1923 1-Feb-2012 Polish poet
William Desmond Taylor
Film Director
26-Apr-1872 1-Feb-1922 Early Hollywood director, murdered
Romolo Valli
Actor
7-Feb-1925 1-Feb-1980 Il Gattopardo
John Vernon
Actor
24-Feb-1932 1-Feb-2005 Dean Wormer in Animal House
Richard Wattis
Actor
25-Feb-1912 1-Feb-1975 English comic actor




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