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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Edward G. Acheson
Inventor
9-Mar-1856 6-Jul-1931 Discovered silicon carbide
Roger Adams
Chemist
2-Jan-1889 6-Jul-1971 Organic chemist at Illinois
Ludovico Ariosto
Poet
8-Sep-1474 6-Jul-1533 Orlando Furioso
Louis Armstrong
Jazz Musician
4-Aug-1901 6-Jul-1971 Jazz trumpeter
John G. Bolton
Astronomer
5-Jun-1922 6-Jul-1993 First Director of Parkes Observatory
Joe E. Brown
Actor
28-Jul-1892 6-Jul-1973 Some Like It Hot
Emilio Daddario
Politician
24-Sep-1918 6-Jul-2010 Congressman from Connecticut, 1959-71
Brandon De Wilde
Actor
9-Apr-1942 6-Jul-1972 Shane! Come back!
Buddy Ebsen
Actor
2-Apr-1908 6-Jul-2003 Jed Clampett
King Edward VI
Royalty
12-Oct-1537 6-Jul-1553 King of England, 1547-53
William Faulkner
Author
25-Sep-1897 6-Jul-1962 Novels set in the American South
John Frankenheimer
Film Director
19-Feb-1930 6-Jul-2002 Seven Days in May
Kenneth Grahame
Novelist
8-Mar-1859 6-Jul-1932 The Wind in the Willows
L. Patrick Gray
Government
18-Jul-1916 6-Jul-2005 Acting FBI Director, 1972-73
George Grosz
Artist
26-Jul-1893 6-Jul-1959 German social caricaturist
Gary Heidnik
Criminal
22-Nov-1943 6-Jul-1999 Sex torturer, murderer
King Henry II
Royalty
5-Mar-1133 6-Jul-1189 King of England, 1154-89
Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst
Head of State
31-Mar-1819 6-Jul-1901 German Chancellor, 1894-1900
Jan Hus
Religion
c. 1373 6-Jul-1415 Czech reformer and martyr
Otto Klemperer
Conductor
14-May-1885 6-Jul-1973 Prominent German conductor
Thomas Klestil
Head of State
4-Nov-1932 6-Jul-2004 President of Austria, 1992-2004
Kenneth Koch
Poet
27-Feb-1925 6-Jul-2002 On the Great Atlantic Rainway
Samuel Lover
Novelist
24-Feb-1797 6-Jul-1868 Handy Andy, an Irish Tale
John Mackey
Football
24-Sep-1941 6-Jul-2011 NFL Hall of Famer
Franklin MacVeagh
Government
22-Nov-1837 6-Jul-1934 US Treasury Secretary, 1909-13
John Marshall
Judge
24-Sep-1755 6-Jul-1835 US Chief Justice, 1801-35
Guy de Maupassant
Author
5-Aug-1850 6-Jul-1893 French short story writer
Van McCoy
Musician
6-Jan-1940 6-Jul-1979 The Hustle
Robert McNamara
Government
9-Jun-1916 6-Jul-2009 US Secretary of Defense, 1961-68
Cameron Mitchell
Actor
4-Nov-1918 6-Jul-1994 The High Chaparral
Sir Thomas More
Philosopher
7-Feb-1477 6-Jul-1535 Utopia
Anne Nagel
Actor
29-Sep-1915 6-Jul-1966 The Green Hornet
Georg Simon Ohm
Physicist
16-Mar-1789 6-Jul-1854 Ohm's Law
Gail Patrick
Actor
20-Jun-1911 6-Jul-1980 Love Crazy
Heinz C. Prechter
Business
19-Jan-1942 6-Jul-2001 The sunroof king
Kathleen Raine
Poet
14-Jun-1908 6-Jul-2003 Cambridge poet, scholar of Blake
Marjorie Rambeau
Actor
15-Jul-1889 6-Jul-1970 The Primrose Path
Odilon Redon
Artist
22-Apr-1840 6-Jul-1916 Symbolist charcoal artist
Kasey Rogers
Actor
15-Dec-1925 6-Jul-2006 Louise Tate on Bewitched
Roy Rogers
Actor
5-Nov-1911 6-Jul-1998 Cowboy movie actor, rode Trigger
Granville Sharp
Activist
21-Nov-1735 6-Jul-1813 English abolitionist
Claude Simon
Novelist
10-Oct-1913 6-Jul-2005 Le Tricheur




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