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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Max Abramovitz
Architect
23-May-1908 12-Sep-2004 Designed UN Headquarters
Tommy Armour
Golf
24-Sep-1894 12-Sep-1968 Winner of 3 Majors
Alan H. Bible
Politician
20-Nov-1909 12-Sep-1988 US Senator from Nevada, 1954-74
Steve Biko
Activist
18-Dec-1946 12-Sep-1977 Father of Black Consciousness
Norman Borlaug
Scientist
25-Mar-1914 12-Sep-2009 Engineered disease-resistant wheat
William Boyd
Actor
5-Jun-1895 12-Sep-1972 Hopalong Cassidy
Jeremy Brett
Actor
3-Nov-1933 12-Sep-1995 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Raymond Burr
Actor
21-May-1917 12-Sep-1993 Perry Mason
Johnny Cash
Country Musician
26-Feb-1932 12-Sep-2003 The Man in Black
Claude Chabrol
Film Director
24-Jun-1930 12-Sep-2010 La Cérémonie
Frank Corder
Aviator
26-May-1956 12-Sep-1994 Crashed a Cessna into White House lawn
François Couperin
Composer
10-Nov-1668 12-Sep-1733 L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin
Phil M. Donnelly
Politician
16-Mar-1891 12-Sep-1961 Twice Governor of Missouri
Tom Ewell
Actor
29-Apr-1909 12-Sep-1994 The Seven Year Itch
Frank Ferguson
Actor
25-Dec-1899 12-Sep-1978 Eli Carson on Peyton Place
Alfred Gottschalk
Educator
7-Mar-1930 12-Sep-2009 President, Hebrew Union College, 1971-95
Roger Hargreaves
Author
9-May-1935 12-Sep-1988 Creator of Mr. Men juvenile books
Tom Helmore
Actor
4-Jan-1904 12-Sep-1995 Vertigo
Pope Innocent VI
Religion
? 12-Sep-1362 Roman Catholic Pope, 1352-62
Jack Kramer
Tennis
1-Aug-1921 12-Sep-2009 Winner of 10 Grand Slam titles
Charles Lamont
Film Director
5-May-1895 12-Sep-1993 Director, Abbott & Costello
Frederick W. Lehmann
Attorney
28-Feb-1853 12-Sep-1931 US Solicitor General, 1910-12
Robert Lowell
Poet
1-Mar-1917 12-Sep-1977 Lord Weary's Castle
James S. McDonald
Business
26-Jan-1953 12-Sep-2009 CEO of Rockefeller & Co.
Clarence W. Meadows
Politician
11-Feb-1904 12-Sep-1961 Governor of West Virginia, 1945-49
Eugenio Montale
Poet
12-Oct-1896 12-Sep-1981 Ossi di seppia
Frank Nelson
Actor
6-May-1911 12-Sep-1986 Foil to Jack Benny
Ruth Nelson
Actor
2-Aug-1905 12-Sep-1992 Awakenings
Lauris Norstad
Military
24-Mar-1907 12-Sep-1988 Supreme Allied Commander, 1956-63
Anthony Perkins
Actor
4-Apr-1932 12-Sep-1992 Psycho
John Qualen
Actor
8-Dec-1899 12-Sep-1987 The Grapes of Wrath
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Composer
25-Sep-1683 12-Sep-1764 Hippolyte et Aricie
Edmund Randolph
Politician
10-Aug-1753 12-Sep-1813 First Attorney General of the US
Lillian Randolph
Actor
14-Dec-1898 12-Sep-1980 Birdie on The Great Gildersleeve
George Reid
Head of State
25-Feb-1845 12-Sep-1918 Prime Minister of Australia, 1904-05
Peter Mark Roget
Author
18-Jan-1779 12-Sep-1869 Roget's Thesaurus
Henry Spira
Activist
19-Jun-1927 12-Sep-1998 Animal rights activist
Lewis Stone
Actor
15-Nov-1879 12-Sep-1953 Judge James Hardy
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Military
16-Dec-1742 12-Sep-1819 Defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
William Walker
Military
8-May-1824 12-Sep-1860 American "filibuster"
David Foster Wallace
Novelist
21-Feb-1962 12-Sep-2008 Infinite Jest
Victor Wong
Actor
31-Jul-1927 12-Sep-2001 Egg Shen




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