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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Arletty
Actor
15-May-1898 23-Jul-1992 Les Enfants du paradis
Donald Barthelme
Author
7-Apr-1931 23-Jul-1989 Come Back, Dr. Caligari
Ernest S. Brown
Attorney
25-Sep-1903 23-Jul-1965 US Senator from Nevada, 1954
Peter Campbell Brown
Attorney
12-Aug-1913 23-Jul-1994 Corporation Counsel of NYC, 1955-58
Montgomery Clift
Actor
17-Oct-1920 23-Jul-1966 From Here to Eternity
Andrew Cunanan
Criminal
31-Aug-1969 23-Jul-1997 Murdered Gianni Versace
Glenn Curtiss
Aviator
21-May-1878 23-Jul-1930 American aviation pioneer
Esther Dale
Actor
10-Nov-1885 23-Jul-1961 Curly Top
Henry Dale
Scientist
9-Jun-1875 23-Jul-1968 Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter
Floyd Dell
Journalist
28-Jun-1887 23-Jul-1969 Moon-Calf
Ernst Otto Fischer
Chemist
10-Nov-1918 23-Jul-2007 Organometallic "sandwich" compounds
Hamilton Fish IV
Politician
3-Jun-1926 23-Jul-1996 Congressman from New York, 1969-95
Robert J. Flaherty
Film Director
16-Feb-1884 23-Jul-1951 Nanook of the North
Myron Floren
Musician
5-Nov-1919 23-Jul-2005 Accordionist for Lawrence Welk
Lloyd Gough
Actor
21-Sep-1907 23-Jul-1984 Blacklisted character actor
Ulysses S. Grant
Head of State
27-Apr-1822 23-Jul-1885 Eighteenth President of the United States
Claude Harmon
Golf
14-Jul-1916 23-Jul-1989 Winner, 1948 Masters Tournament
E. Lynn Harris
Novelist
20-Jun-1955 23-Jul-2009 Invisible Life
Van Heflin
Actor
13-Dec-1910 23-Jul-1971 Till the Clouds Roll By
Cordell Hull
Government
2-Oct-1871 23-Jul-1955 US Secretary of State, 1933-44
Frank M. Johnson
Judge
30-Oct-1918 23-Jul-1999 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1981-99
Kay Kyser
Musician
18-Jun-1897 23-Jul-1985 The Ol' Professor, eleven #1 records
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Author
23-Dec-1896 23-Jul-1957 Il gattopardo
Olivia Manning
Novelist
2-Mar-1908 23-Jul-1980 Fortunes of War
George Perkins Marsh
Author
15-Mar-1801 23-Jul-1882 Ecologist and camel enthusiast
Leo McKern
Actor
16-Mar-1920 23-Jul-2002 Travelling North, Rumpole of the Bailey
Jessica Mitford
Journalist
11-Sep-1917 23-Jul-1996 The American Way of Death
Joseph Morgan
Business
4-Jan-1780 23-Jul-1847 Patriarch of the Morgan family of millionaires
Vic Morrow
Actor
14-Feb-1929 23-Jul-1982 Sgt. Chip Saunders on Combat
Philippe Pétain
Head of State
24-Apr-1856 23-Jul-1951 Leader of Vichy France
William Pierce
Author
11-Sep-1933 23-Jul-2002 The Turner Diaries
Chaim Potok
Novelist
17-Feb-1929 23-Jul-2002 The Chosen
Sir William Ramsay
Chemist
2-Oct-1852 23-Jul-1916 Discovered noble gases
Eddie Rickenbacker
Aviator
8-Oct-1890 23-Jul-1973 Flying ace shot down 22 planes in WWI
Sally Ride
Astronaut
26-May-1951 23-Jul-2012 First American woman in space
Domenico Scarlatti
Composer
26-Oct-1685 23-Jul-1757 Composed 555 sonatas
Daniel Schorr
Journalist
31-Aug-1916 23-Jul-2010 Veteran journalist, Nixon enemy
Thomas N. Schroth
Journalist
21-Dec-1920 23-Jul-2009 Editor of Congressional Quarterly, 1955-69
Mohammed Zahir Shah
Royalty
16-Oct-1914 23-Jul-2007 King of Afghanistan, 1933-73
John Shalikashvili
Military
27-Jun-1936 23-Jul-2011 Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1993-97
Mickey Shaughnessy
Actor
5-Aug-1920 23-Jul-1985 Jailhouse Rock
Roger Sherman
Politician
19-Apr-1721 23-Jul-1793 Architect of the Connecticut Compromise
Isaac Merritt Singer
Business
26-Oct-1811 23-Jul-1875 Built a better sewing machine
Carl von Cosel
Criminal
8-Feb-1877 23-Jul-1952 Florida's favorite necrophile
Eudora Welty
Author
13-Apr-1909 23-Jul-2001 The Optimist's Daughter
Amy Winehouse
Singer
14-Sep-1983 23-Jul-2011 Rehab




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