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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Louisa Adams
First Lady
12-Feb-1775 15-May-1852 Wife of US President John Quincy Adams
Mary Antin
Author
1881 15-May-1949 The Promised Land
Albert Bassermann
Actor
7-Sep-1867 15-May-1952 German actor
Alban Butler
Author
24-Oct-1710 15-May-1773 Lives of the Saints
June Carter Cash
Country Musician
23-Jun-1929 15-May-2003 Country singer, wife of Johnny Cash
Abiram Chamberlain
Politician
7-Dec-1837 15-May-1911 Governor of Connecticut, 1903-05
Ephraim Chambers
Encyclopaedist
c. 1680 15-May-1740 Chambers Cyclopaedia
Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant
Diplomat
22-Nov-1852 15-May-1924 Nobel Prize recipient
Royal Dano
Actor
16-Nov-1922 15-May-1994 The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Emily Dickinson
Poet
10-Dec-1830 15-May-1886 Perplexing American poet
Andrew Duggan
Actor
28-Dec-1923 15-May-1988 Bourbon Street Beat
Jerry Falwell
Religion
11-Aug-1933 15-May-2007 Television evangelist
Kathryn Forbes
Author
20-Mar-1908 15-May-1966 Mama's Bank Account
Carlos Fuentes
Novelist
11-Nov-1928 15-May-2012 La muerte de Artemio Cruz
Wynne Gibson
Actor
3-Jul-1905 15-May-1987 If I Had a Million
Albert W. Gilchrist
Politician
15-Jan-1858 15-May-1926 Governor of Florida, 1909-13
Goose Goslin
Baseball
16-Oct-1900 15-May-1971 MLB Hall of Famer
Johnny Green
Composer
10-Oct-1908 15-May-1989 Body and Soul
Nigel Green
Actor
15-Oct-1924 15-May-1972 The Ipcress File
Tyrone Guthrie
Theater Director
2-Jul-1900 15-May-1971 Influential Anglo-Irish theatre director
Robert Hare
Chemist
17-Jan-1781 15-May-1858 Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope
John Hawkes
Novelist
17-Aug-1925 15-May-1998 The Blood Oranges
Chic Hecht
Politician
30-Nov-1928 15-May-2006 US Senator from Nevada, 1983-89
Edward Hopper
Painter
22-Jul-1882 15-May-1967 American realist painter, Nighthawks
Edmund Kean
Actor
17-Mar-1789 15-May-1833 English tragic actor
Willis Lamb
Physicist
12-Jul-1913 15-May-2008 Detailed the hydrogen spectrum
Ted Lewis
Novelist
18-Jan-1940 15-May-1982 Jack's Return Home
Hall S. Lusk
Judge
21-Sep-1883 15-May-1983 Oregon State Supreme Court Justice, 1937-68
Kazimir Malevich
Painter
23-Feb-1878 15-May-1935 Founder of Suprematist school
Joe Malone
Hockey
28-Feb-1890 15-May-1969 NHL Hall of Famer
Pope Marinus I
Religion
? 15-May-884 AD Roman Catholic Pope, 882-84
Robert Menzies
Head of State
20-Dec-1894 15-May-1978 Twice Prime Minister of Australia
Livingston T. Merchant
Diplomat
23-Nov-1903 15-May-1976 Twice US Ambassador to Canada
Nelson A. Miles
Military
8-Aug-1839 15-May-1925 Army volunteer promoted to Commanding General
Col. Robert Morgan
Military
31-Jul-1918 15-May-2004 Pilot of The Memphis Belle
Samuel Eliot Morison
Historian
9-Jul-1887 15-May-1976 Rear Admiral and naval historian
Daniel O'Connell
Politician
6-Aug-1775 15-May-1847 Irish hero, called The Liberator
Matthew Parker
Religion
6-Aug-1504 15-May-1575 Archbishop of Canterbury, 1559-75
Eric Porter
Actor
8-Apr-1928 15-May-1995 The Forsyte Saga
Gilbert Roland
Actor
11-Dec-1905 15-May-1994 The Bad and the Beautiful
Clark Shaughnessy
Football
6-Mar-1892 15-May-1970 Invented football T-Formation
Barbara Stuart
Actor
3-Jan-1930 15-May-2011 Bunny on Gomer Pyle, USMC
Charles Tingwell
Actor
3-Jan-1923 15-May-2009 Breaker Morant
Josiah Walls
Politician
30-Dec-1842 15-May-1905 Congressman from Florida, 1871-76
Cadwallader Colden Washburn
Politician
22-Apr-1818 15-May-1882 Wisconsin Governor and Congressman
Theodore H. White
Historian
6-May-1915 15-May-1986 The Making of the President
Herbert Wilcox
Film/TV Producer
19-Apr-1892 15-May-1977 Forever and a Day
John Minor Wisdom
Judge
17-May-1905 15-May-1999 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1957-77




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