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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Renée Adorée
Actor
30-Sep-1898 5-Oct-1933 The Big Parade
J. D. Roy Atchison
Government
28-Aug-1954 5-Oct-2007 Assistant US Attorney
Augustus III
Royalty
17-Oct-1696 5-Oct-1763 Elector of Saxony, King of Poland
Roy Ward Baker
Film Director
19-Dec-1916 5-Oct-2010 A Night to Remember
Sidney Blackmer
Actor
13-Jul-1895 5-Oct-1973 Played Theodore Roosevelt 12 times
Louis D. Brandeis
Judge
13-Nov-1856 5-Oct-1941 US Supreme Court Justice, 1916-39
Charles the Bald
Royalty
13-Jun-823 AD 5-Oct-877 AD King of France, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles Cornwallis
Military
31-Dec-1738 5-Oct-1805 Surrendered at Yorktown
Seymour Cray
Inventor
28-Sep-1925 5-Oct-1996 Inventor of Cray supercomputers
Wilbur L. Cross
Politician
10-Apr-1862 5-Oct-1948 Governor of Connecticut, 1931-39
António Diniz da Cruz e Silva
Poet
1731 5-Oct-1799 Hyssope
Rodney Dangerfield
Comic
22-Nov-1921 5-Oct-2004 Never did get no respect
Henry Dreyfuss
Inventor
2-Mar-1904 5-Oct-1972 Product designer, human factors engineer
James S. Duesenberry
Economist
18-Jul-1918 5-Oct-2009 Council of Economic Advisers, 1966-68
Richard S. Emmet
Attorney
8-Apr-1897 5-Oct-1969 Counsel to the Bank of New York
Friedrich Karl Flick
Business
3-Feb-1927 5-Oct-2006 Richest man in Austria
Wally George
TV Personality
4-Dec-1931 5-Oct-2003 Abusive conservative spectacle
Gloria Grahame
Actor
28-Nov-1923 5-Oct-1981 The Bad and the Beautiful
Walter Hagen
Golf
21-Dec-1892 5-Oct-1969 Won 11 major championships
James Harlan
Politician
26-Aug-1820 5-Oct-1899 US Senator from Iowa, 1855-73
Bert Jansch
Singer/Songwriter
3-Nov-1943 5-Oct-2011 Pentangle
Megs Jenkins
Actor
21-Apr-1917 5-Oct-1998 The History of Mr. Polly
Steve Jobs
Business
24-Feb-1955 5-Oct-2011 Co-Founder of Apple Computer
Andrew Keir
Actor
3-Apr-1926 5-Oct-1997 Quatermass and the Pit
Eddie Kendricks
Singer
17-Dec-1939 5-Oct-1992 The Temptations
Alfred Kroeber
Anthropologist
11-Jun-1876 5-Oct-1960 Pioneer in American Anthropology
Mike Mansfield
Politician
16-Mar-1903 5-Oct-2001 US Senator from Montana, 1953-77
Dave Marr
Golf
27-Dec-1933 5-Oct-1997 Winner, 1965 PGA Championship
Karen McCarthy
Politician
18-Mar-1947 5-Oct-2010 Congresswoman from Missouri, 1995-2005
Dwight Morrow
Politician
11-Jan-1873 5-Oct-1931 US Ambassador to Mexico, 1927-30
Charles Napier
Actor
12-Apr-1936 5-Oct-2011 Duke Phillips on The Critic
Barbara Nichols
Actor
30-Dec-1929 5-Oct-1976 Sweet Smell of Success
Jacques Offenbach
Composer
20-Jun-1819 5-Oct-1880 Inventor of the the opérette
Lars Onsager
Chemist
27-Nov-1903 5-Oct-1976 Fourth Law of Thermodynamics
Philippe III
Royalty
3-Apr-1245 5-Oct-1285 King of France 1270-85
Denis Quilley
Actor
26-Dec-1927 5-Oct-2003 Privates on Parade
Leonard Rossiter
Actor
21-Oct-1926 5-Oct-1984 The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Zalman Shazar
Head of State
6-Oct-1889 5-Oct-1974 President of Israel, 1963-73
Tecumseh
Royalty
1768 5-Oct-1813 Shawnee Indian Chief
Timothy Treadwell
Naturalist
29-Apr-1957 5-Oct-2003 Consumed by bears
Earl Tupper
Business
28-Jul-1907 5-Oct-1983 Inventor of Tupperware
Jean Vigo
Film Director
26-Apr-1905 5-Oct-1934 L'Atalante
Hal B. Wallis
Film/TV Producer
14-Sep-1899 5-Oct-1986 Casablanca
Maurice Wilkins
Biologist
15-Dec-1916 5-Oct-2004 Took X-ray pictures of DNA
Sidney Yates
Politician
27-Aug-1909 5-Oct-2000 Congressman from Illinois, 1949-99




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