Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Roger Allin |
Politician |
18-Dec-1848 |
1-Jan-1936 |
Governor of North Dakota, 1895-97 |
Ron Asheton |
Guitarist |
17-Jul-1948 |
1-Jan-2009 |
Guitarist for the Stooges |
Vincent Auriol |
Head of State |
27-Aug-1884 |
1-Jan-1966 |
President of France, 1947-54 |
Joachim du Bellay |
Poet |
c. 1522 |
1-Jan-1560 |
French Pléiade poet |
Johann Bernoulli |
Mathematician |
27-Jul-1667 |
1-Jan-1748 |
L'Hôpital's rule |
Beulah Bondi |
Actor |
3-May-1888 |
1-Jan-1981 |
Make Way for Tomorrow |
Chauncey H. Browning, Jr. |
Attorney |
21-Nov-1934 |
1-Jan-2010 |
Attorney General of West Virginia, 1969-85 |
Victor Buono |
Actor |
3-Feb-1938 |
1-Jan-1982 |
King Tut on Batman |
Lord David Cecil |
Author |
9-Apr-1902 |
1-Jan-1986 |
Melbourne |
Maurice Chevalier |
Actor |
12-Sep-1888 |
1-Jan-1972 |
Love Me Tonight |
Shirley Chisholm |
Politician |
30-Nov-1924 |
1-Jan-2005 |
First black woman elected to US House |
Domenico Cimarosa |
Composer |
17-Dec-1749 |
1-Jan-1801 |
Il Matrimonio segreto |
June Clayworth |
Actor |
9-Jun-1912 |
1-Jan-1993 |
At Sword's Point |
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton |
Naturalist |
29-May-1716 |
1-Jan-1800 |
French comparative anatomist |
Ignatius Donnelly |
Author |
3-Nov-1831 |
1-Jan-1901 |
Atlantis, the Antediluvian World |
Joe Foss |
Military |
17-Apr-1915 |
1-Jan-2003 |
WWII ace, Governor of South Dakota |
Margot Grahame |
Actor |
20-Feb-1911 |
1-Jan-1982 |
The Informer |
Francesco Guardi |
Painter |
5-Oct-1712 |
1-Jan-1793 |
Venetian School Painter, Story of Tobit |
Lloyd Haynes |
Actor |
19-Sep-1934 |
1-Jan-1987 |
Pete Dixon on Room 222 |
Heinrich Hertz |
Physicist |
22-Feb-1857 |
1-Jan-1894 |
Discoverer of electromagnetic radiation |
Grace Murray Hopper |
Computer Programmer |
9-Dec-1906 |
1-Jan-1992 |
Computer programming pioneer |
Ed Jenkins |
Politician |
4-Jan-1933 |
1-Jan-2012 |
Congressman from Georgia, 1977-93 |
Robert S. Kerr |
Politician |
11-Sep-1896 |
1-Jan-1963 |
Governor and Senator from Oklahoma |
Martin Heinrich Klaproth |
Chemist |
1-Dec-1743 |
1-Jan-1817 |
Discovered uranium, zirconium, titanium |
Alexis Korner |
Musician |
19-Apr-1928 |
1-Jan-1984 |
Pivotal British blues performer |
Louis XII |
Royalty |
27-Jun-1462 |
1-Jan-1515 |
King of France, 1498-1515 |
Edwin Lutyens |
Architect |
29-Mar-1869 |
1-Jan-1944 |
Laid the plan for New Delhi |
Barton MacLane |
Actor |
25-Dec-1902 |
1-Jan-1969 |
Gen. Peterson on I Dream of Jeannie |
Robert Matsui |
Politician |
17-Sep-1941 |
1-Jan-2005 |
Congressman from California, 1993-2005 |
Odo |
Royalty |
c. 860 AD |
1-Jan-898 AD |
King of France 888-898 |
Tillie Olsen |
Author |
14-Jan-1913 |
1-Jan-2007 |
Tell Me a Riddle |
Claiborne Pell |
Politician |
22-Nov-1918 |
1-Jan-2009 |
US Senator from Rhode Island, 1961-97 |
Charles O. Porter |
Politician |
4-Apr-1919 |
1-Jan-2006 |
Congressman from Oregon, 1957-61 |
Edmund Purdom |
Actor |
19-Dec-1924 |
1-Jan-2009 |
The King's Thief |
Cesar Romero |
Actor |
15-Feb-1907 |
1-Jan-1994 |
The Joker on Batman |
Willard W. Scott, Jr. |
Military |
18-Feb-1926 |
1-Jan-2009 |
Superintendent of West Point, 1981-86 |
Frank Soskice |
Politician |
23-Jul-1902 |
1-Jan-1979 |
UK Home Secretary, 1964-65 |
Margaret Sullavan |
Actor |
16-May-1911 |
1-Jan-1960 |
The Shop Around the Corner |
Townes Van Zandt |
Singer/Songwriter |
7-Mar-1944 |
1-Jan-1997 |
For the Sake of the Song |
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg |
Head of State |
29-Nov-1856 |
1-Jan-1921 |
German Chancellor 1909-17 |
Ray Walston |
Actor |
2-Dec-1914 |
1-Jan-2001 |
My Favorite Martian |
Eugene Wigner |
Physicist |
17-Nov-1902 |
1-Jan-1995 |
Law of conservation of parity |
John S. Wilder |
Politician |
3-Jun-1921 |
1-Jan-2010 |
Lt. Governor of Tennessee, 1971-2007 |
Darrent Williams |
Football |
27-Sep-1982 |
1-Jan-2007 |
Murdered Denver Broncos cornerback |
Hank Williams, Sr. |
Country Musician |
17-Sep-1923 |
1-Jan-1953 |
Take These Chains From My Heart |
William Wycherley |
Playwright |
1640 |
1-Jan-1716 |
The Plain Dealer |
Meg Wyllie |
Actor |
15-Feb-1917 |
1-Jan-2002 |
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters |