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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Harun al-Rashid
Royalty
763 AD 24-Mar-809 AD Abbasid caliph
Walter Bagehot
Economist
3-Feb-1826 24-Mar-1877 Editor of The Economist, 1860-77
Robert Culp
Actor
16-Aug-1930 24-Mar-2010 I Spy
John W. Davis
Attorney
13-Apr-1873 24-Mar-1955 US Solicitor General, 1913-18
Queen Elizabeth I
Royalty
7-Sep-1533 24-Mar-1603 The Virgin Queen
Richard Fleischer
Film Director
8-Dec-1916 24-Mar-2006 Soylent Green
James Rudolph Garfield
Politician
17-Oct-1865 24-Mar-1950 US Secretary of the Interior, 1907-09
Ray Goulding
Comic
20-Mar-1922 24-Mar-1990 Half of Bob & Ray
Enrique Granados
Composer
27-Jul-1867 24-Mar-1916 Goyescas
Alice Guy
Film Director
1-Jul-1873 24-Mar-1968 First female film director
John Harrison
Inventor
Mar-1693 24-Mar-1776 Inventor of a marine clock
Jacques René Hébert
Activist
15-Nov-1757 24-Mar-1794 Revolutionary of the Paris Commune
Loy W. Henderson
Diplomat
28-Jun-1892 24-Mar-1986 US Ambassador to Iran, 1951-54
John Hersey
Novelist
17-Jun-1914 24-Mar-1993 A Bell for Adano
Ward Hunt
Judge
14-Jun-1810 24-Mar-1886 US Supreme Court Justice, 1873-82
Sam Jaffe
Actor
10-Mar-1891 24-Mar-1984 Gunga Din
U. Alexis Johnson
Diplomat
17-Oct-1908 24-Mar-1997 Career US Ambassador
George Kell
Baseball
23-Aug-1922 24-Mar-2009 3rd Baseman, MLB Hall of Famer
Harold Laski
Economist
30-Jun-1893 24-Mar-1950 A Grammar of Politics
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet
27-Feb-1807 24-Mar-1882 Evangeline
Mary of Teck
Royalty
26-May-1867 24-Mar-1953 Queen Mary, Consort of George V
Harold W. McGraw, Jr.
Business
10-Jan-1918 24-Mar-2010 Chairman of McGraw-Hill, 1968-88
Paul V. McNutt
Politician
19-Jul-1891 24-Mar-1955 Governor of Indiana, 1933-37
César Milstein
Scientist
8-Oct-1927 24-Mar-2002 Hybridoma technique (monoclonal antibodies)
Yvonne Mitchell
Actor
7-Jul-1925 24-Mar-1979 The Queen of Spades
Leon of Modena
Religion
23-Apr-1571 24-Mar-1648 Riti Ebraici
Bernard Montgomery
Military
17-Nov-1887 24-Mar-1976 Won Battle of El Alamein during WWII
Joseph Needham
Historian
9-Dec-1900 24-Mar-1995 Science and Civilization in China
Tsar Paul I
Royalty
1-Oct-1754 24-Mar-1801 Tsar of Russia, 1796-1801
Auguste Piccard
Physicist
28-Jan-1884 24-Mar-1962 First man in the stratosphere
Olive Higgins Prouty
Novelist
10-Jan-1882 24-Mar-1974 Stella Dallas
William Shirley
Government
2-Dec-1694 24-Mar-1771 Colonial Governor of Massachusetts
John Millington Synge
Playwright
16-Apr-1871 24-Mar-1909 The Playboy of the Western World
Marie Amélie Thérèse
Royalty
26-Apr-1782 24-Mar-1866 Queen Consort of Louis-Philippe
Jules Verne
Author
8-Feb-1828 24-Mar-1905 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Richard Widmark
Actor
26-Dec-1914 24-Mar-2008 Kiss of Death
Lanford Wilson
Playwright
13-Apr-1937 24-Mar-2011 The Hot L Baltimore
Philip Yordan
Screenwriter
1-Apr-1914 24-Mar-2003 The Battle of the Bulge




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