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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
T. M. Aluko
Novelist
14-Jun-1918 1-May-2010 One Man, One Wife
Buzzie Bavasi
Baseball
12-Dec-1914 1-May-2008 MLB General Manager
Pierre Bérégovoy
Head of State
23-Dec-1925 1-May-1993 Prime Minister of France, 1992-93
Herbert Brownell, Jr.
Government
20-Feb-1904 1-May-1996 US Attorney General, 1953-57
Sunset Carson
Actor
12-Nov-1920 1-May-1990 B-Movie cowboy
Kenneth B. Clark
Psychologist
14-Jul-1914 1-May-2005 Studied the effects of prejudice on children
Eldridge Cleaver
Activist
31-Aug-1935 1-May-1998 Black Panther turned Republican
Jacques Delille
Poet
22-Jun-1738 1-May-1813 French translator of Virgil
John Dryden
Poet
19-Aug-1631 1-May-1700 Absalom and Achitophel
Antonin Dvorak
Composer
8-Sep-1841 1-May-1904 From the New World
Charles Elton
Scientist
29-Mar-1900 1-May-1991 Animal Ecology
Glenda Farrell
Actor
30-Jun-1904 1-May-1971 Torchy Blane
Joseph Goebbels
Government
29-Oct-1897 1-May-1945 Reich Minister of Propaganda
Magda Goebbels
Relative
11-Nov-1901 1-May-1945 Wife of Joseph Goebbels
Howard Johnson
Songwriter
2-Jun-1887 1-May-1941 We All Scream for Ice Cream
Spike Jones
Musician
14-Dec-1911 1-May-1965 Cocktails for Two
David M. Kennedy
Government
21-Jul-1905 1-May-1996 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1969-71
Aram Khachaturian
Composer
24-May-1903 1-May-1978 Gayane
Warren P. Knowles
Politician
19-Aug-1908 1-May-1993 Governor of Wisconsin, 1965-71
Osama bin Laden
Terrorist
10-Mar-1957 1-May-2011 Head of al Qaeda terrorist organization
Henry Levin
Film Director
5-Jun-1909 1-May-1980 The Lonely Man
Chandra Levy
Victim
14-Apr-1977 1-May-2001 Gary Condit's dead intern
David Livingstone
Explorer
19-Mar-1813 1-May-1873 Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
George E. MacKinnon
Judge
22-Apr-1906 1-May-1995 DC Appeals Court Judge, 1969-95
Grant Mitchell
Actor
17-Jun-1874 1-May-1957 Father Is a Prince
John Newton
Military
24-Aug-1823 1-May-1895 Union Army General and engineer
Deborah Jeane Palfrey
Criminal
18-Mar-1956 1-May-2008 The DC Madam
Pope Pius V
Religion
17-Jan-1504 1-May-1572 Roman Catholic Pope, 1566-72
Steve Reeves
Actor
21-Jan-1926 1-May-2000 Hercules
Rene Rivkin
Business
6-Jun-1944 1-May-2005 Disgraced Australian stockbroker
Henry Roberts
Politician
22-Jun-1853 1-May-1929 Governor of Connecticut, 1905-07
Marc Rocco
Film Director
7-Jun-1965 1-May-2009 Murder in the First
Ayrton Senna
Auto Racing
21-Mar-1960 1-May-1994 Three-time Formula 1 champion
Alfred Stevens
Sculptor
28-Jan-1818 1-May-1875 Monument to Wellington
Nora Swinburne
Actor
24-Jul-1902 1-May-2000 British character actress
Richard Thorpe
Film Director
24-Feb-1896 1-May-1991 Jailhouse Rock
John Walker
Chemist
29-May-1781 1-May-1859 Invented the friction match
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Author
6-Dec-1893 1-May-1978 Lolly Willowes
Lewis Waterman
Inventor
20-Nov-1836 1-May-1901 Fountain pen
John Orr Young
Business
25-Jun-1886 1-May-1976 Co-Founder, Young and Rubicam




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