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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ann Ayars
Actor
23-Jul-1918 27-Feb-1995 The Youngest Profession
Syd Barrett
Musician
6-Jan-1946 7-Jul-2006 Pink Floyd
Richard Bartlett
Film Director
8-Nov-1922 11-Jun-1994 Joe Dakota
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor
3-Mar-1847 2-Aug-1922 Inventor of the telephone
David Broder
Journalist
11-Sep-1929 9-Mar-2011 Washington Post reporter
Danny Joe Brown
Singer/Songwriter
24-Aug-1951 10-Mar-2005 Singer for Molly Hatchet
Mordecai Brown
Baseball
19-Oct-1876 14-Feb-1948 Three Finger Brown
Blanche K. Bruce
Politician
1-Mar-1841 17-Mar-1898 US Senator, former slave
Daniel H. Burnham
Architect
4-Sep-1846 1-Jun-1912 Built skyscrapers and planned cities
Don Callander
Novelist
23-Mar-1930 26-Jul-2008 Pyromancer
Nell Carter
Actor
13-Sep-1948 23-Jan-2003 Housekeeper on Gimme A Break
Johnny Cash
Country Musician
26-Feb-1932 12-Sep-2003 The Man in Black
Hal Clement
Novelist
20-May-1922 29-Oct-2003 Mission of Gravity
Bettino Craxi
Head of State
24-Feb-1934 19-Jan-2000 Prime Minister of Italy, 1983-87
Charles Demuth
Painter
8-Nov-1883 23-Oct-1935 I Saw the Figure Five in Gold
Eric Dolphy
Jazz Musician
20-Jun-1928 29-Jun-1964 Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist
Thomas Edison
Inventor
11-Feb-1847 18-Oct-1931 Invented the light bulb
John Ehrlichman
Government
20-Mar-1925 14-Feb-1999 Watergate criminal, served time
John Fante
Author
8-Apr-1909 8-May-1983 Bukowski's idol
Totie Fields
Comic
7-May-1930 2-Aug-1978 Weight-conscious comedienne
Ella Fitzgerald
Singer
25-Apr-1917 15-Jun-1996 The First Lady of Jazz
Mary Ford
Singer
7-Jul-1924 30-Sep-1977 Les Paul & Mary Ford
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Military
13-Jul-1821 29-Oct-1877 Confederate Cavalry General
Lucio Fulci
Film Director
17-Jun-1927 13-Mar-1996 The Beyond
Sydney Greenstreet
Actor
27-Dec-1879 18-Jan-1954 Kaspar Gutman in The Maltese Falcon
John Howard Griffin
Author
16-Jul-1920 9-Sep-1980 Black Like Me
Buddy Hackett
Comic
31-Aug-1924 30-Jun-2003 Abrasive old school comic
Gus Hall
Activist
8-Oct-1910 13-Oct-2000 Leader, Communist Party USA
H. Tracy Hall
Chemist
20-Oct-1919 25-Jul-2008 Synthetic diamonds
Smith Hempstone, Jr.
Diplomat
1-Feb-1929 19-Nov-2006 US Ambassador to Kenya, 1989-93
Pete Henry
Football
31-Oct-1897 7-Feb-1952 NFL Hall-of-Famer
Christopher Hewett
Actor
5-Apr-1922 3-Aug-2001 Mr. Belvedere
Dana Hill
Actor
6-May-1964 15-Jul-1996 Audrey Griswold in European Vacation
Shirley Horn
Musician
1-May-1934 20-Oct-2005 Here's To Life
Waylon Jennings
Country Musician
15-Jun-1937 13-Feb-2002 Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys
Richard Jewell
Victim
17-Nov-1962 29-Aug-2007 Innocent security guard blamed for bombing
Nancy Kelly
Actor
25-Mar-1921 2-Jan-1995 The Bad Seed
Walt Kelly
Cartoonist
25-Aug-1913 18-Oct-1973 Creator of Pogo
Mabel King
Actor
25-Dec-1932 9-Nov-1999 What's Happening!
Rose Wilder Lane
Author
5-Dec-1886 30-Oct-1968 The Discovery of Freedom
Rosemary Lane
Actor
4-Apr-1914 25-Nov-1974 Four Daughters
Curtis Mayfield
Musician
3-Jun-1942 26-Dec-1999 Superfly soundtrack
Edwin M. McMillan
Physicist
18-Sep-1907 7-Sep-1991 Discovered neptunium and plutonium
George Mikan
Basketball
18-Jun-1924 1-Jun-2005 Minneapolis Lakers center
Rudy Ray Moore
Actor
17-Mar-1937 19-Oct-2008 Dolemite
Talbot Mundy
Novelist
23-Apr-1879 5-Aug-1940 King of the Khyber Rifles
John Osborne
Playwright
12-Dec-1929 24-Dec-1994 Look Back in Anger
LaWanda Page
Actor
19-Oct-1920 14-Sep-2002 Aunt Esther on Sanford and Son
David Peaston
Singer
13-Mar-1957 1-Feb-2012 Two Wrongs Don't Make It Right
Zoogz Rift
Musician
10-Jul-1953 22-Mar-2011 Island of Living Puke
Esther Rolle
Actor
8-Nov-1920 17-Nov-1998 Florida Evans on Good Times
Artie Shaw
Musician
23-May-1910 30-Dec-2004 Clarinetist, big band leader
Joseph J. Sisco
Diplomat
31-Oct-1919 23-Nov-2004 Kissinger's Mideast Deputy
Kate Smith
Singer
1-May-1907 17-Jun-1986 God Bless America
Duke Snider
Baseball
19-Sep-1926 27-Feb-2011 Dodgers Hall of Famer
Guy Stockwell
Actor
16-Nov-1934 6-Feb-2002 Beau Geste
Hank Stram
Football
3-Jan-1923 4-Jul-2005 Hall-of-fame NFL coach, KC Chiefs
Michael Vale
TV Personality
28-Jun-1922 24-Dec-2005 Time to make the donuts
Ismael Valenzuela
Jockey
25-Dec-1934 2-Sep-2009 Winner, 1958 and 1968 Kentucky Derby
Jules Verne
Author
8-Feb-1828 24-Mar-1905 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Novelist
7-Feb-1867 10-Feb-1957 Little House on the Prairie
Carroll D. Wright
Sociologist
25-Jul-1840 20-Feb-1909 The Industrial Evolution of the United States
Zulu
Actor
17-Oct-1937 3-May-2004 Kono on Hawaii 5-O



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