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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Thomas F. Bayard
Government
29-Oct-1828 28-Sep-1898 US Secretary of State, 1885-89
Simon Le Bon
Musician
27-Oct-1958   Frontman of Duran Duran
Paul D. Boyer
Chemist
31-Jul-1918   ATP process
Frank B. Brandegee
Politician
8-Jul-1864 14-Oct-1924 US Senator, committed suicide
Warren Buffett
Business
30-Aug-1930   Billionaire in Omaha
William Christopher
Actor
20-Oct-1932   Father Mulcahy on M*A*S*H
Winston Churchill
Head of State
30-Nov-1874 24-Jan-1965 WWII Prime Minister of England
Joan Crawford
Actor
23-Mar-1905 10-May-1977 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Davy Crockett
Military
17-Aug-1786 6-Mar-1836 King of the Wild Frontier
Augustus De Morgan
Mathematician
27-Jun-1806 18-Mar-1871 De Morgan's Laws
W. E. B. Du Bois
Sociologist
23-Feb-1868 27-Aug-1963 Civil rights activist
William F. Durand
Engineer
5-Mar-1859 9-Aug-1958 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
James Pollard Espy
Scientist
9-May-1785 24-Jan-1860 The Philosophy of Storms
Paul J. Flory
Chemist
19-Jun-1910 9-Sep-1985 Studied polymers
Judy Garland
Singer
10-Jun-1922 22-Jun-1969 Dorothy in Wizard of Oz
Jean-Luc Godard
Film Director
3-Dec-1930   Vivre sa Vie
Al Gore
Politician
31-Mar-1948   US Vice President under Clinton
Alexander Hamilton
Government
11-Jan-1757 12-Jul-1804 Primary author of The Federalist Papers
Henri IV
Royalty
13-Dec-1553 14-May-1610 King of France, 1589-1610
George W. Hill
Astronomer
3-Mar-1838 16-Apr-1914 A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn
Eddie Izzard
Comic
7-Feb-1962   Bloke in a dress going on and on
Henry Laurens
Politician
24-Feb-1724 8-Dec-1792 Captured negotiating treaty with Holland
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Journalist
1-May-1847 28-Sep-1903 Radical reporter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet
27-Feb-1807 24-Mar-1882 Evangeline
Jan Masaryk
Government
14-Sep-1886 10-Mar-1948 Czech Foreign Minister
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Military
14-Jan-1806 1-Feb-1873 Father of modern oceanography
Samuel S. Montague
Engineer
6-Jul-1830 24-Sep-1883 American Transcontinental Railroad
Gouverneur Morris
Politician
31-Jan-1752 6-Nov-1816 American financier, Revolutionary politician
Laurence Olivier
Actor
22-May-1907 11-Jul-1989 Shakespearean actor
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont
Business
24-Jun-1771 31-Oct-1834 Founder of DuPont
Cecil Powell
Physicist
5-Dec-1903 9-Aug-1969 Discovered the pi-meson
Tyrone Power
Actor
5-May-1913 15-Nov-1958 Witness for the Prosecution
Frederic Remington
Sculptor
4-Oct-1861 26-Dec-1909 The Bronco Buster
Jesse W. Reno
Inventor
4-Aug-1861 2-Jun-1947 Invented the escalator
Paul Revere
Military
1-Jan-1735 10-May-1818 One if by land, two if by sea...
Henry M. Robert
Administrator
2-May-1837 11-May-1923 Robert's Rules of Order
John D. Rockefeller
Business
8-Jul-1839 23-May-1937 Founder of Standard Oil
Peter Mark Roget
Author
18-Jan-1779 12-Sep-1869 Roget's Thesaurus
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Head of State
30-Jan-1882 12-Apr-1945 US President during WWII
Charlize Theron
Actor
7-Aug-1975   Monster
Henry David Thoreau
Author
12-Jul-1817 6-May-1862 Walden


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