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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Robert Baden-Powell
Military
22-Feb-1857 8-Jan-1941 Founder of the Boy Scout movement
Matthew "Stymie" Beard
Actor
1-Jan-1925 8-Jan-1981 Stymie in Our Gang
Lorenzo Bellini
Doctor
3-Sep-1643 8-Jan-1704 Discovered kidney's Bellini Ducts
George Bellows
Painter
12-Aug-1882 8-Jan-1925 American realist painter
Andrei Bely
Author
26-Oct-1880 8-Jan-1934 Petersburg
Giotto di Bondone
Painter
1267 8-Jan-1337 Preeminent 14th c. Italian Painter
Pat Buttram
Actor
19-Jun-1915 8-Jan-1994 Mr. Haney on Green Acres
Melvin Calvin
Chemist
8-Apr-1911 8-Jan-1997 Deciphered photosynthesis
Pope Celestine III
Religion
c. 1106 8-Jan-1198 Roman Catholic Pope, 1191-98
Art Clokey
Cartoonist
12-Oct-1921 8-Jan-2010 Creator of Gumby
Arcangelo Corelli
Violinist
17-Feb-1653 8-Jan-1713 Concerti Grossi
Yvonne De Carlo
Actor
1-Sep-1922 8-Jan-2007 Lily on The Munsters
Walter Diemer
Business
8-Jan-1905 8-Jan-1998 Invented bubble gum
Lee Dixon
Actor
22-Jan-1914 8-Jan-1953 Ready, Willing and Able
Jim Dooley
Football
8-Feb-1930 8-Jan-2008 Chicago Bears Head Coach, 1968-71
Zhou Enlai
Head of State
5-Mar-1898 8-Jan-1976 Mao's right-hand man
Pierre Fournier
Cellist
24-Jun-1906 8-Jan-1986 French cello virtuoso
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer
15-Feb-1564 8-Jan-1642 Copernican observational astronomer
Don Galloway
Actor
27-Jul-1937 8-Jan-2009 Det. Sgt. Ed Brown on Ironside
John Gregson
Actor
15-Mar-1919 8-Jan-1975 Genevieve
Harvey Haddix
Baseball
18-Sep-1925 8-Jan-1994 MLB pitcher
Samuel A. Kendall
Politician
1-Nov-1859 8-Jan-1933 Congressman, committed suicide
Tom Kindness
Politician
26-Aug-1929 8-Jan-2004 Congressman from Ohio, 1975-87
John William Mauchly
Physicist
30-Aug-1907 8-Jan-1980 ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers
Antonia Maury
Astronomer
21-Mar-1866 8-Jan-1952 Stellar classification
Tom McCall
Politician
22-Mar-1913 8-Jan-1983 Governor of Oregon, 1967-75
Sarah McClendon
Journalist
8-Jul-1910 8-Jan-2003 White House Reporter FDR to GWB
Kenneth McMillan
Actor
2-Jul-1932 8-Jan-1989 Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
Charles E. Merriam
Scholar
15-Nov-1874 8-Jan-1953 American Political Ideas
François Mitterrand
Head of State
26-Oct-1916 8-Jan-1996 President of France, 1981-95
Richard John Neuhaus
Religion
14-May-1936 8-Jan-2009 Catholic priest
Emperor Norton
Royalty
14-Feb-1819 8-Jan-1880 Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico
Gale Page
Actor
23-Jul-1913 8-Jan-1983 Four Daughters
Kenneth Patchen
Poet
13-Dec-1911 8-Jan-1972 Journal of Albion Moonlight
Marco Polo
Explorer
c. 1254 8-Jan-1324 Travels of Marco Polo
Aleksandr M. Prokhorov
Physicist
11-Jul-1916 8-Jan-2002 Invention of the maser and laser
Julius Raab
Head of State
29-Nov-1891 8-Jan-1964 Chancellor of Austria, 1953-61
John M. Roll
Judge
8-Feb-1947 8-Jan-2011 US District Court Judge, murdered
Wesley Ruggles
Film Director
11-Jun-1889 8-Jan-1972 Cimarron
Joseph Schumpeter
Economist
8-Feb-1883 8-Jan-1950 Creative Destruction
Kurt Schwitters
Artist
20-Jun-1887 8-Jan-1948 Collagist, Merz
Lewis Seiler
Film Director
30-Sep-1890 8-Jan-1964 Guadalcanal Diary
Reta Shaw
Actor
13-Sep-1912 8-Jan-1982 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Terry-Thomas
Actor
14-Jul-1911 8-Jan-1990 Private's Progress
Dave Thomas
Business
2-Jul-1932 8-Jan-2002 Founder of Wendy's Hamburgers
Richard Tucker
Singer
28-Aug-1913 8-Jan-1975 Operatic tenor, NY Metropolitan Opera
Paul Verlaine
Poet
30-Mar-1844 8-Jan-1896 Leader of symbolist poetry movement
Harold Vermilyea
Actor
10-Oct-1889 8-Jan-1958 Sorry, Wrong Number
Fletcher Warren
Diplomat
3-Mar-1896 8-Jan-1992 US Ambassador to Turkey, 1956-60
Eli Whitney
Inventor
8-Dec-1765 8-Jan-1825 Inventor of the cotton gin


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