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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Pope Alexander VI
Religion
1-Jan-1431 18-Aug-1503 Divided the New World for Portugal, Spain
Susan Mary Alsop
Socialite
19-Jun-1918 18-Aug-2004 Washington DC Socialite
Honoré de Balzac
Novelist
20-May-1799 18-Aug-1850 Comédie Humaine
Hildegard Behrens
Singer
9-Feb-1937 18-Aug-2009 Operatic soprano
Elmer Bernstein
Composer
4-Apr-1922 18-Aug-2004 Scored The Magnificent Seven
Ralph Byrd
Actor
22-Apr-1909 18-Aug-1952 Dick Tracy
Walter P. Chrysler
Business
2-Apr-1875 18-Aug-1940 Founder of Chrysler Corporation
Kim Dae-Jung
Head of State
3-Dec-1925 18-Aug-2009 South Korean President, 1998-2003
Mildred Davis
Actor
22-Feb-1901 18-Aug-1969 Silent film actress
Michael Deaver
Government
11-Apr-1938 18-Aug-2007 Reagan Deputy Chief of Staff
E. R. Eddison
Novelist
24-Nov-1882 18-Aug-1945 The Worm Ouroboros
Hiram Fong
Politician
15-Oct-1906 18-Aug-2004 US Senator from Hawaii, 1959-77
Federico García Lorca
Poet
5-Jun-1898 18-Aug-1936 Lament for a Bullfighter
Learned Hand
Judge
27-Jan-1872 18-Aug-1961 Influential American justice
Outerbridge Horsey
Diplomat
1-Oct-1910 18-Aug-1983 US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1963-66
W. H. Hudson
Author
4-Aug-1841 18-Aug-1922 Green Mansions
John Pendleton Kennedy
Politician
25-Oct-1795 18-Aug-1870 Horse-Shoe Robinson
Genghis Khan
Royalty
c. 1162 AD 18-Aug-1227 World's most successful conqueror
Anita Loos
Novelist
26-Apr-1893 18-Aug-1981 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Andrew Marvell
Poet
31-Mar-1621 18-Aug-1678 English poet and member of Parliament
Christopher McCandless
Victim
12-Feb-1968 18-Aug-1992 Subject of Into the Wild
Scott McKenzie
Singer
10-Jan-1939 18-Aug-2012 San Francisco
Robert Novak
Columnist
26-Feb-1931 18-Aug-2009 Conservative ideologue, outed Valerie Plame
Rafaela Ottiano
Actor
4-Mar-1888 18-Aug-1942 Grand Hotel
George Washington Owen
Politician
20-Oct-1796 18-Aug-1837 Congressman from Alabama, 1823-29
Pope Paul IV
Religion
28-Jun-1476 18-Aug-1559 Roman Catholic Pope, 1555-59
Guido Reni
Painter
4-Nov-1575 18-Aug-1642 Painter of the Bolognese school
Jerome J. Shestack
Attorney
11-Feb-1923 18-Aug-2011 Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis
Morton Shulman
Politician
25-Apr-1925 18-Aug-2000 Ontario MPP, iconoclast
B. F. Skinner
Psychologist
20-Mar-1904 18-Aug-1990 Radical Behaviorism
John Sturges
Film Director
3-Jan-1911 18-Aug-1992 The Great Escape
Richard L. M. Synge
Chemist
28-Oct-1914 18-Aug-1994 Partition chromatography
Günther von Kluge
Military
30-Oct-1882 18-Aug-1944 Nazi general
Walafrid Strabo
Religion
c. 808 AD 18-Aug-849 AD Glosa ordinaria
Otto Wichterle
Chemist
27-Oct-1913 18-Aug-1998 Invented soft contact lenses




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