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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
James Truslow Adams
Author
18-Oct-1878 18-May-1949 The Epic of America
Isaac Albéniz
Composer
29-May-1860 18-May-1909 Iberia
Leroy Anderson
Composer
29-Jun-1908 18-May-1975 The Syncopated Clock
Pierre Beaumarchais
Author
24-Jan-1732 18-May-1799 The Barber of Seville
Arnold Beckman
Inventor
10-Apr-1900 18-May-2004 Philanthropist who invented pH meter
Mary McLeod Bethune
Educator
10-Jul-1875 18-May-1955 Black activist and educator
Andy Clyde
Actor
25-Mar-1892 18-May-1967 Cully Wilson on Lassie
Eli Cohen
Spy
26-Dec-1924 18-May-1965 Israel's greatest spy
Elisha Cook, Jr.
Actor
26-Dec-1903 18-May-1995 The Maltese Falcon
Prentice Cooper
Government
28-Sep-1895 18-May-1969 Governor of Tennessee, 1939-45
Ian Curtis
Singer
15-Jul-1956 18-May-1980 Lead singer of Joy Division
Ernie Davis
Football
14-Dec-1939 18-May-1963 Winner, 1961 Heisman Trophy
Sidney Franklin
Film Director
21-Mar-1893 18-May-1972 The Good Earth
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Physicist
24-Oct-1932 18-May-2007 Molecular structure of polymers
Alexander Godunov
Dancer
28-Nov-1949 18-May-1995 Bolshoi, ABT ballet dancer
Bill Haywood
Labor Leader
4-Feb-1869 18-May-1928 Industrial Workers of the World
Jill Ireland
Actor
24-Apr-1936 18-May-1990 Love and Bullets
Pope John I
Religion
? 18-May-526 AD Roman Catholic Pope, 523-26
Elvin Jones
Drummer
9-Sep-1927 18-May-2004 Different Drummer
Andrew Kehoe
Criminal
1-Feb-1872 18-May-1927 Bath School Bomber
Franklin K. Lane
Government
15-Jul-1864 18-May-1921 US Secretary of the Interior, 1913-20
Alphonse Laveran
Doctor
18-Jun-1845 18-May-1922 Found the parasite that causes malaria
Selwyn Lloyd
Politician
28-Jul-1904 18-May-1978 Speaker, House of Commons, 1971-76
Gustav Mahler
Composer
7-Jul-1860 18-May-1911 Das Lied von der Erde
George Meredith
Novelist
12-Feb-1828 18-May-1909 The Egoist
Elizabeth Montgomery
Actor
15-Apr-1933 18-May-1995 Samantha on Bewitched
Joergen Nash
Artist
1929 18-May-2004 Beheaded Copenhagen's Little Mermaid
Arthur O'Connell
Actor
29-Mar-1908 18-May-1981 Anatomy of a Murder
Henry O'Neill
Actor
10-Aug-1891 18-May-1961 Anchors Aweigh
Joseph Pevney
Film Director
15-Sep-1911 18-May-2008 Man of a Thousand Faces
Tony Randall
Actor
26-Feb-1920 18-May-2004 Felix Unger in The Odd Couple
C. J. Rogers
Politician
20-Dec-1897 18-May-1962 Governor of Wyoming, 1953-55
William Saroyan
Author
31-Aug-1908 18-May-1981 The Time of Your Life
John C. Spencer
Politician
8-Jan-1788 18-May-1855 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1843-44
Skip Stephenson
Comic
18-Apr-1940 18-May-1992 Real People
Alexander Suvorov
Military
24-Nov-1729 18-May-1800 Russian general, fought Turks, French
Marshall Thompson
Actor
27-Nov-1925 18-May-1992 To Hell and Back
Robert F. Woodward
Diplomat
1-Oct-1908 18-May-2001 US Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1954-58




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