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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Composer
29-Jan-1782 12-May-1871 La Muette de Portici
Elisabeth Bergner
Actor
22-Aug-1897 12-May-1986 Escape Me Never
Joe Bonanno
Criminal
18-Jan-1905 12-May-2002 Bonanno crime family
Louis Calhern
Actor
19-Feb-1895 12-May-1956 Duck Soup
Clarence Cannon
Politician
11-Apr-1879 12-May-1964 Congressman from Missouri, 1923-64
Perry Como
Singer
18-May-1912 12-May-2001 It's Impossible
John E. Davis
Politician
18-Apr-1913 12-May-1990 Governor of North Dakota, 1957-61
Engelbert of Admont
Religion
c. 1250 12-May-1331 Abbot of Admont
Erik Erikson
Psychologist
15-Jun-1902 12-May-1994 Eight Stages of Development
Bette Nesmith Graham
Inventor
23-Mar-1924 12-May-1980 Correction fluid
Syd Hoff
Author
4-Sep-1912 12-May-2004 Danny and the Dinosaur
William Huggins
Astronomer
7-Feb-1824 12-May-1910 Spectrographic astronomy pioneer
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Author
5-Feb-1848 12-May-1907 Decadent author, À Rebours
Tor Johnson
Wrestling
19-Oct-1903 12-May-1971 Plan 9 from Outer Space
Aly Khan
Royalty
13-Jun-1911 12-May-1960 Jet-set Ismaili playboy prince
Amy Lowell
Poet
9-Feb-1874 12-May-1925 What's O'Clock
Arthur Lubin
Film Director
25-Jul-1898 12-May-1995 Phantom of the Opera
Edmund C. Lynch
Business
19-May-1885 12-May-1938 The Lynch of Merrill-Lynch
Heinie Manush
Baseball
20-Jul-1901 12-May-1971 MLB Hall of Famer
Edme Mariotte
Scientist
c. 1620 12-May-1684 Discovered eye's blind spot
John Masefield
Poet
1-Jun-1878 12-May-1967 Poet Laureate of England, 1930-67
Sonny Montgomery
Politician
5-Aug-1920 12-May-2006 Congressman from Mississippi, 1967-97
Józef Pilsudski
Military
5-Dec-1867 12-May-1935 Military dictator of Poland, 1926-35
Roy Plunkett
Chemist
26-Jun-1910 12-May-1994 Accidentally discovered Teflon
Robert Reed
Actor
19-Oct-1932 12-May-1992 Mike (dad) on The Brady Bunch
Comte de Rochambeau
Military
1-Jul-1725 12-May-1807 French hero of American Revolution
Lillian Roth
Actor
13-Dec-1910 12-May-1980 I'll Cry Tomorrow
Nelly Sachs
Poet
10-Dec-1891 12-May-1970 O the Chimneys
Everett Sanders
Politician
8-Mar-1882 12-May-1950 Congressman from Indiana, 1917-25
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Scholar
8-Sep-1767 12-May-1845 Über dramatisch Kunst und Literatur
Bedrich Smetana
Composer
2-Mar-1824 12-May-1884 My Country
Richard Henry Stoddard
Novelist
2-Jul-1825 12-May-1903 Abraham Lincoln, An Horatian Ode
Erich von Stroheim
Actor
22-Sep-1885 12-May-1957 Swanson's servant in Sunset Blvd.
Jeb Stuart
Military
6-Feb-1833 12-May-1864 Confederate cavalry officer
Louis Zukofsky
Poet
23-Jan-1904 12-May-1978 Co-Founded Objectivist poetry movement


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