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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
John Abbott
Actor
5-Jun-1905 24-May-1996 The Woman in White
Barry Atwater
Actor
16-May-1918 24-May-1978 The Night Stalker
Jim Barnes
Golf
8-Apr-1886 24-May-1966 Winner of 4 Majors
Laura Dewey Bridgman
Oddity
21-Dec-1829 24-May-1889 Blind deaf mute
Yakima Canutt
Actor
29-Nov-1895 24-May-1986 Legendary stuntman
Gene Clark
Singer/Songwriter
17-Nov-1944 24-May-1991 The Byrds, No Other
Nicolaus Copernicus
Astronomer
19-Feb-1473 24-May-1543 Heliocentrist, De revolutionibus
Clyde Cowan
Physicist
6-Dec-1919 24-May-1974 Co-Discover of the neutrino
Frank Dalby Davison
Author
23-Jun-1893 24-May-1970 Dusty
Thomas J. Dodd
Politician
15-May-1907 24-May-1971 US Senator from Connecticut, 1958-71
John Foster Dulles
Government
25-Feb-1888 24-May-1959 Eisenhower's Secretary of State
Edward F. Dunne
Politician
12-Oct-1853 24-May-1937 Governor of Illinois, 1913-17
Duke Ellington
Jazz Musician
29-Apr-1899 24-May-1974 It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
Jacques Feyder
Film Director
21-Jul-1885 24-May-1948 Carnival in Flanders
William Lloyd Garrison
Activist
10-Dec-1805 24-May-1879 Anti-slavery editor of the Liberator
Robert Giaimo
Politician
15-Oct-1919 24-May-2006 Congressman from Connecticut, 1959-81
Hermione Gingold
Actor
9-Dec-1897 24-May-1987 Madame Alvarez in Gigi
Paul Dedrick Gray
Bassist
8-Apr-1972 24-May-2010 Bassist for Slipknot
Philip C. Habib
Diplomat
25-Feb-1920 24-May-1992 US Ambassador to South Korea, 1971-74
Victor Herbert
Composer
1-Feb-1859 24-May-1924 Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life
David I
Royalty
c. 1084 24-May-1153 King of Scotland, 1124-53
George Jessel
Actor
3-Apr-1898 24-May-1981 Toastmaster General of the United States
George Johnstone
Military
1730 24-May-1787 British MP, Governor of West Florida
Philip M. Kaiser
Diplomat
12-Jul-1913 24-May-2007 US Ambassador to Austria, 1980-81
Rachel Kempson
Actor
28-May-1910 24-May-2003 Matriarch of Redgrave dynasty
Guy Kibbee
Actor
6-Mar-1882 24-May-1956 Captain January
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
Poet
12-Jan-1751 24-May-1792 Sturm und Drang movement
Willy Ley
Author
2-Oct-1906 24-May-1969 The Conquest of Space
Dick Martin
Comic
30-Jan-1922 24-May-2008 Laugh-In
Hugh McCulloch
Government
7-Dec-1808 24-May-1895 Twice US Treasury Secretary
Vince McMahon, Sr.
Wrestling
6-Jul-1914 24-May-1984 World Wrestling Entertainment founder
John Bach McMaster
Historian
29-Jun-1852 24-May-1932 History of the People of the United States
William O. Mills
Politician
12-Aug-1924 24-May-1973 Congressman, committed suicide
Joseph Mitchell
Author
27-Jul-1908 24-May-1996 The New Yorker
Edward Mulhare
Actor
8-Apr-1923 24-May-1997 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Amado Nervo
Poet
27-Aug-1870 24-May-1919 Modernismo poet, La Revista Moderna
Samuel Palmer
Painter
27-Jan-1805 24-May-1881 English landscape painter
George W. Pepper
Politician
16-Mar-1867 24-May-1961 US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1922-27
Papa Pilgrim
Criminal
c. 1941 24-May-2008 Hillbilly Heaven
John Randolph of Roanoke
Politician
2-Jun-1773 24-May-1833 US Senator from Virginia, 1825-27
Ruth A. Schmidt
Educator
16-Sep-1930 24-May-2010 President of Agnes Scott College, 1982-94
Archibald Wavell
Military
5-May-1883 24-May-1950 British Field Marshal in WWII
Brand Whitlock
Diplomat
4-Mar-1869 24-May-1934 US Ambassador to Belgium, 1914-21
Harold Wilson
Head of State
11-Mar-1916 24-May-1995 Two-time Prime Minister of Britain
Harold Bell Wright
Novelist
4-May-1872 24-May-1944 The Winning of Barbara Worth


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