| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Luther Allison |
Musician |
17-Aug-1939 |
12-Aug-1997 |
Electric blues player |
| Paul C. Barth |
Politician |
1858 |
12-Aug-1907 |
Mayor of Louisville, 1905-07 |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat |
Painter |
22-Dec-1960 |
12-Aug-1988 |
NYC graffiti artist |
| William Blake |
Poet |
28-Nov-1757 |
12-Aug-1827 |
English romantic poet and artist |
| John Cage |
Composer |
5-Sep-1912 |
12-Aug-1992 |
Experimental composer |
| Lynne Carver |
Actor |
13-Sep-1909 |
12-Aug-1955 |
American character actress |
| Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh |
Politician |
18-Jun-1769 |
12-Aug-1822 |
Architected Napoleon's defeat |
| Ernst B. Chain |
Scientist |
19-Jun-1906 |
12-Aug-1979 |
Isolated penicillin |
| Philippe de Champaigne |
Painter |
26-May-1602 |
12-Aug-1674 |
Prolific French Baroque painter |
| Charles Chree |
Astronomer |
5-May-1860 |
12-Aug-1928 |
Geomagnetic phenomena |
| Kent H. Courtney |
Activist |
23-Oct-1918 |
12-Aug-1997 |
Ultraconservative activist |
| Francesco Crispi |
Head of State |
4-Oct-1819 |
12-Aug-1901 |
Sicilian patriot, Italian premier |
| Ross Elliott |
Actor |
18-Jun-1917 |
12-Aug-1999 |
Sheriff Abbott on The Virginian |
| Ian Fleming |
Novelist |
28-May-1908 |
12-Aug-1964 |
Author of the James Bond series |
| Henry Fonda |
Actor |
16-May-1905 |
12-Aug-1982 |
12 Angry Men |
| Ruth Ford |
Actor |
7-Jul-1915 |
12-Aug-2009 |
American stage actress |
| Giovanni Gabrieli |
Composer |
1557 |
12-Aug-1612 |
Italian composer at St. Mark's |
| Albert Gallatin |
Politician |
29-Jan-1761 |
12-Aug-1849 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1801-14 |
| Merv Griffin |
Talk Show Host |
6-Jul-1925 |
12-Aug-2007 |
The Merv Griffin Show and Jeopardy |
| Walter Hess |
Scientist |
17-Mar-1881 |
12-Aug-1973 |
Brain mapping, neurophysiological methods |
| Phillips Holmes |
Actor |
22-Jul-1907 |
12-Aug-1942 |
The Criminal Code |
| William Jackson Hooker |
Botanist |
6-Jul-1785 |
12-Aug-1865 |
British Jungermanniae |
| Godfrey N. Hounsfield |
Engineer |
28-Aug-1919 |
12-Aug-2004 |
Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans) |
| Pope Innocent XI |
Religion |
16-May-1611 |
12-Aug-1689 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1676-89 |
| Jozef Israëls |
Painter |
27-Jan-1824 |
12-Aug-1911 |
Dutch scene painter |
| Helen Hunt Jackson |
Poet |
15-Oct-1830 |
12-Aug-1885 |
Ramona |
| Leo Janácek |
Composer |
3-Jul-1854 |
12-Aug-1928 |
Her Foster Daughter |
| James E. Keeler |
Astronomer |
10-Sep-1857 |
12-Aug-1900 |
Composition of Saturn's rings |
| Arthur Bliss Lane |
Diplomat |
16-Jun-1894 |
12-Aug-1956 |
US Ambassador to Poland, 1945-47 |
| James Russell Lowell |
Author |
22-Feb-1819 |
12-Aug-1891 |
The Biglow Papers |
| Dorothy Mackaill |
Actor |
4-Mar-1903 |
12-Aug-1990 |
Love Affair |
| James Mackay |
Historian |
21-Nov-1936 |
12-Aug-2007 |
Plagiarising historian |
| Thomas Mann |
Novelist |
6-Jun-1875 |
12-Aug-1955 |
Buddenbrooks |
| Jacopo Peri |
Composer |
20-Aug-1561 |
12-Aug-1633 |
Dafne, the first opera |
| Eliphalet Remington |
Business |
28-Oct-1793 |
12-Aug-1861 |
Founder of Remington Arms |
| William Shockley |
Physicist |
13-Feb-1910 |
12-Aug-1989 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| Pope Sixtus IV |
Religion |
21-Jul-1414 |
12-Aug-1484 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1471-84 |
| A. Owsley Stanley |
Politician |
21-May-1867 |
12-Aug-1958 |
US Senator from Kentucky, 1919-25 |
| George Stephenson |
Engineer |
9-Jun-1781 |
12-Aug-1848 |
Early railroad builder |
| James B. Sumner |
Chemist |
19-Nov-1887 |
12-Aug-1955 |
Crystallized enzymes |
| Tim Whelan |
Film Director |
2-Nov-1892 |
12-Aug-1957 |
The Divorce of Lady X |
| Loretta Young |
Actor |
6-Jan-1913 |
12-Aug-2000 |
Platinum Blonde |
| Karl Ziegler |
Chemist |
26-Nov-1898 |
12-Aug-1973 |
Researcher in plastics |
