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| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known 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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