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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Charles Follen Adams
Poet
21-Apr-1842 8-Mar-1918 Leedle Yawcob Strauss
Sherwood Anderson
Author
13-Sep-1876 8-Mar-1941 The Triumph of the Egg
Edward Andrews
Actor
9-Oct-1914 8-Mar-1985 Sixteen Candles
Thomas Beecham
Conductor
29-Apr-1879 8-Mar-1961 Founder, London and Royal Philharmonics
Henry Ward Beecher
Religion
24-Jun-1813 8-Mar-1887 American Congregationalist preacher
Hector Berlioz
Composer
11-Dec-1803 8-Mar-1869 French romantic composer
Bill The Butcher
Boxing
Jul-1821 8-Mar-1855 Inspired Gangs of New York
Rab Butler
Politician
9-Dec-1902 8-Mar-1982 UK Foreign Secretary, 1963-64
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Author
15-Sep-1914 8-Mar-1999 La invención de Morel
Peggy Cass
Actor
21-May-1924 8-Mar-1999 Auntie Mame
Pope Celestine II
Religion
? 8-Mar-1144 Roman Catholic Pope, 1143-44
Sir William Chambers
Architect
1723 8-Mar-1796 Treatise of Civil Architecture
Joe DiMaggio
Baseball
25-Nov-1914 8-Mar-1999 Where have you gone
Billy Eckstine
Singer
8-Jul-1914 8-Mar-1993 First African-American singing idol
John Ericsson
Inventor
31-Jul-1803 8-Mar-1889 Built the ironclad USS Monitor
Adam Faith
Singer
23-Jun-1940 8-Mar-2003 What Do You Want
Millard Fillmore
Head of State
7-Jan-1800 8-Mar-1874 13th President of the US, 1850-53
Paul Horgan
Author
1-Aug-1903 8-Mar-1995 Great River: The Rio Grande
Henry Hull
Actor
3-Oct-1890 8-Mar-1977 Werewolf of London
John Inman
Actor
28-Jun-1935 8-Mar-2007 Are You Being Served?
David Kimche
Spy
1928 8-Mar-2010 Israeli spy, masterminded Iran-Contra
Walter Leaf
Scholar
28-Nov-1852 8-Mar-1927 Classicist, translated Iliad
Harold Lloyd
Actor
20-Apr-1893 8-Mar-1971 Prolific silent film actor
Donald C. MacDonald
Politician
7-Dec-1913 8-Mar-2008 Leader of Ontario CCF and NDP, 1953-70
Ron McKernan
Musician
8-Sep-1945 8-Mar-1973 Keyboards for Grateful Dead
Max Miedinger
Typographer
24-Dec-1910 8-Mar-1980 Designed the Helvetica typeface
Brigitte Mira
Actor
20-Apr-1910 8-Mar-2005 Fassbinder actress
Howie Morenz
Hockey
21-Jun-1902 8-Mar-1937 Montreal Canadiens, Hall of Famer
Karen Morley
Actor
12-Dec-1909 8-Mar-2003 Gabriel Over the White House
Ray Nitschke
Football
29-Dec-1936 8-Mar-1998 Green Bay Packer, Hall of Famer
William of Orange
Royalty
14-Nov-1650 8-Mar-1702 Conquered England, Scotland, Ireland
Robert Pastorelli
Actor
21-Jun-1954 8-Mar-2004 Housepainter on Murphy Brown
Edward Terry Sanford
Judge
23-Jul-1865 8-Mar-1930 US Supreme Court Justice, 1923-30
Forrest Smith
Politician
14-Feb-1886 8-Mar-1962 Governor of Missouri, 1949-53
Mike Starr
Bassist
4-Oct-1966 8-Mar-2011 Bassist for Alice In Chains
George Stevens
Film Director
18-Dec-1904 8-Mar-1975 A Place in the Sun
William Howard Taft
Head of State
15-Sep-1857 8-Mar-1930 27th US President, 1909-13
Bessie Potter Vonnoh
Sculptor
17-Aug-1872 8-Mar-1955 American sculptor in bronze
William Walton
Composer
29-Mar-1902 8-Mar-1983 Troilus and Cressida
Edward Winter
Actor
3-Jun-1937 8-Mar-2001 Col. Flagg on M*A*S*H
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Business
8-Jul-1838 8-Mar-1917 Builder of rigid airships


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