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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Bud Abbott
Actor
2-Oct-1895 24-Apr-1974 Half of Abbott and Costello
Neil Abercrombie
Politician
26-Jun-1938   Governor of Hawaii
Grover Cleveland Alexander
Baseball
26-Feb-1887 4-Nov-1950 Pitcher, 373 career wins
Hector Berlioz
Composer
11-Dec-1803 8-Mar-1869 French romantic composer
John Berryman
Poet
25-Oct-1914 7-Jan-1972 Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Ronnie Biggs
Criminal
8-Aug-1929   UK Great Train Robber
Ward Bond
Actor
9-Apr-1903 5-Nov-1960 Wagon Train
Bart Braverman
Actor
1-Feb-1946   Binzer on Vega$
Lindsey Buckingham
Musician
3-Oct-1949   Fleetwood Mac
Richard Burton
Actor
10-Nov-1925 5-Aug-1984 Nineteen Eighty Four
Lord Byron
Poet
22-Jan-1788 19-Apr-1824 English romantic poet
Julius Caesar
Head of State
13-Jul-100 BC 15-Mar-44 BC Roman Dictator 45 BC until 44 BC
Truman Capote
Novelist
30-Sep-1924 25-Aug-1984 In Cold Blood
Lewis Carroll
Author
27-Jan-1832 14-Jan-1898 Alice in Wonderland
Charles the Fat
Royalty
c. 832 AD 13-Jan-888 AD King of France, Italy, Bavaria
Agatha Christie
Novelist
15-Sep-1890 12-Jan-1976 Mystery novelist
Manning Clark
Historian
3-Mar-1915 23-May-1991 A History of Australia
Tony Coelho
Politician
15-Jun-1942   Congressman from California, 1979-89
Ian Curtis
Singer
15-Jul-1956 18-May-1980 Lead singer of Joy Division
Charles Dickens
Novelist
7-Feb-1812 9-Jun-1870 Oliver Twist
Emilie Dionne
Victim
28-May-1934 6-Aug-1954 Canadian quintuplets put on display
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist
30-Oct-1821 28-Jan-1881 Crime and Punishment
Gustave Flaubert
Novelist
12-Dec-1821 8-May-1880 Realist novelist, Madame Bovary
John Gilmore
Activist
Aug-1955   Cofounder: EFF, Cypherpunks
Danny Glover
Actor
22-Jul-1946   Lethal Weapon
Margaux Hemingway
Actor
16-Feb-1955 2-Jul-1996 Troubled actress OD'd on klonopin
John III Ducas Vatatzes
Royalty
1193 3-Nov-1254 Byzantine Emperor, 1222-54
Chloe Jones
Pornstar
17-Jun-1975 2-Jun-2005 Where the Boys Aren't 17
Florence Griffith Joyner
Track and Field
21-Dec-1959 21-Sep-1998 Olympic sprinter
Tony Lazzeri
Baseball
6-Dec-1903 6-Aug-1946 Yankees second baseman, Hall-of-Famer
Edward Lear
Poet
12-May-1812 29-Jan-1888 The Owl and the Pussycat
Vladimir Lenin
Head of State
22-Apr-1870 21-Jan-1924 Revolutionary leader of Soviet Union
Vachel Lindsay
Poet
10-Nov-1879 5-Dec-1931 The Congo and Other Poems
Machado de Assis
Novelist
21-Jun-1839 29-Sep-1908 Dom Casmurro
Rik Mayall
Actor
7-Mar-1958   Rick on The Young Ones
Gregor Mendel
Scientist
22-Jul-1822 6-Jan-1884 Discovered the laws of inheritance
Stephin Merritt
Singer/Songwriter
1966   The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths
Lambdin P. Milligan
Criminal
24-Mar-1812 21-Dec-1899 Ex Parte Milligan
Alfred Nobel
Inventor
21-Oct-1833 10-Dec-1896 Dynamite inventor, established Nobel Prize
Alferd Packer
Criminal
21-Nov-1842 23-Apr-1907 Celebrated cannibal killer
Pope Pius IX
Religion
13-May-1792 7-Feb-1878 Declared himself infallible
Edgar Allan Poe
Author
19-Jan-1809 7-Oct-1849 The Raven
Prince
Musician
7-Jun-1958   Purple Rain
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Religion
8-Apr-1939 15-Oct-2009 Church Universal and Triumphant
Richard Ramirez
Criminal
29-Feb-1960   Serial killer, on death row in California
Jimmy Reed
Singer
6-Sep-1925 29-Aug-1976 Blues singer/guitarist, Big Boss Man
John G. Roberts, Jr.
Judge
27-Jan-1955   US Chief Justice
Kurt Schwitters
Artist
20-Jun-1887 8-Jan-1948 Collagist, Merz
Ruth Snyder
Criminal
1895 12-Jan-1928 Electrocuted for murdering husband
Vincent van Gogh
Painter
30-Mar-1853 29-Jul-1890 Troubled and brilliant painter
Hugo Weaving
Actor
4-Apr-1960   Agent Smith in The Matrix
Michael Wilding
Actor
23-Jul-1912 8-Jul-1979 Torch Song
Neil Young
Singer/Songwriter
12-Nov-1945   Harvest



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