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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Humphrey Atkins
Politician
12-Aug-1922 4-Oct-1996 Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1979-81
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Head of State
1-Jul-1914 4-Oct-1982 President of Iraq, 1968-79
Raymond E. Baldwin
Politician
31-Aug-1893 4-Oct-1986 Governor and Senator from Connecticut
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
Sculptor
2-Aug-1834 4-Oct-1904 Statue of Liberty
Tom Bell
Actor
2-Aug-1933 4-Oct-2006 Prime Suspect
Jill Bennett
Actor
24-Dec-1931 4-Oct-1990 The Sheltering Sky
Francis Biddle
Government
9-May-1886 4-Oct-1968 US Attorney General, 1941-45
Graham Chapman
Comic
8-Jan-1941 4-Oct-1989 Monty Python's King Arthur
Gordon Cooper
Astronaut
6-Mar-1927 4-Oct-2004 Mercury 7 and Gemini 5 astronaut
Richard T. Ely
Economist
13-Apr-1854 4-Oct-1943 Introduction to Political Economy
Glenn Gould
Pianist
25-Sep-1932 4-Oct-1982 Canadian pianist, Bach soloist
Benozzo Gozzoli
Painter
1420 4-Oct-1497 Murals of the Campo Santo at Pisa
Leroy Grumman
Business
4-Jan-1895 4-Oct-1982 Co-Founder, Grumman Aircraft
Stanley K. Hathaway
Politician
19-Jul-1924 4-Oct-2005 Governor of Wyoming, 1967-75
Geoffrey Household
Novelist
30-Nov-1900 4-Oct-1988 Rogue Male
Jacques Jasmin
Poet
6-Mar-1798 4-Oct-1864 Provençal poet
Janis Joplin
Singer
19-Jan-1943 4-Oct-1970 Ball and Chain (Piece of My Heart)
Henrietta Lacks
Oddity
1-Aug-1920 4-Oct-1951 Immortal human cells
Janet Leigh
Actor
6-Jul-1927 4-Oct-2004 Psycho
Sid McMath
Politician
14-Jun-1912 4-Oct-2003 Governor of Arkansas, 1949-53
Max Planck
Physicist
23-Apr-1858 4-Oct-1947 Originator of quantum theory
Rembrandt
Painter
15-Jul-1606 4-Oct-1669 Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
Secretariat
Racehorse
29-Mar-1970 4-Oct-1989 Greatest race horse of all time
Anne Sexton
Poet
9-Nov-1928 4-Oct-1974 Live or Die
Leonard Shoen
Business
29-Feb-1916 4-Oct-1999 Founder of U-Haul
Alfred E. Smith
Government
30-Dec-1873 4-Oct-1944 Twice Governor of New York
Michael Smith
Chemist
26-Apr-1932 4-Oct-2000 Oligonucleotide-based mutagenesis
Teresa of Avila
Religion
28-Mar-1515 4-Oct-1582 Mystic, Carmelite nun
Norman Wisdom
Actor
4-Feb-1915 4-Oct-2010 The Great British Clown




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