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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Auguste Beernaert
Diplomat
26-Jul-1829 6-Oct-1912 Belgian Prime Minister, Nobel recipient
Ted Bessell
Actor
20-Mar-1935 6-Oct-1996 That Guy in That Girl
Elizabeth Bishop
Poet
8-Feb-1911 6-Oct-1979 North & South
Pamela Blake
Actor
6-Aug-1915 6-Oct-2009 No Greater Sin
Ford Madox Brown
Painter
16-Apr-1821 6-Oct-1893 English historical painter
Tod Browning
Film Director
12-Jul-1882 6-Oct-1962 Freaks
William Bundy
Government
24-Sep-1917 6-Oct-2000 Cold War advisor to JFK, LBJ
William Lee Cazort
Politician
1888 6-Oct-1969 Twice Lt. Governor of Arkansas
Diane Cilento
Actor
5-Oct-1933 6-Oct-2011 The Agony and the Ecstasy
John T. Connor
Business
3-Nov-1914 6-Oct-2000 CEO of Allied Chemical, 1967-79
Terence Cardinal Cooke
Religion
1-Mar-1921 6-Oct-1983 Archbishop of New York, 1968-83
Bette Davis
Actor
5-Apr-1908 6-Oct-1989 All About Eve
Jo Ann Davis
Politician
29-Jun-1950 6-Oct-2007 Congresswoman from Virginia, 2001-07
Jules Dupré
Painter
5-Apr-1811 6-Oct-1889 Barbizon school
Denholm Elliott
Actor
31-May-1922 6-Oct-1992 A Room with a View
Richard Farnsworth
Actor
1-Sep-1920 6-Oct-2000 Comes a Horseman
John R. Freeman
Engineer
27-Jul-1855 6-Oct-1932 Charles River Dam
Porter Hall
Actor
19-Sep-1888 6-Oct-1953 Going My Way
Luther H. Hodges
Politician
9-Mar-1898 6-Oct-1974 Governor of North Carolina, 1954-61
Henry Horner
Politician
30-Nov-1878 6-Oct-1940 Governor of Illinois, 1933-40
Hattie Jacques
Actor
7-Feb-1922 6-Oct-1980 Carry on...
Will Keith Kellogg
Business
7-Apr-1860 6-Oct-1951 Corn flakes and Rice Krispies
Tom Kennedy
Actor
15-Jul-1885 6-Oct-1965 Character actor, 1910s to 1960s
George du Maurier
Artist
6-Mar-1834 6-Oct-1896 British caricaturist, Punch
K. Gunn McKay
Politician
23-Feb-1925 6-Oct-2000 Congressman from Utah, 1971-81
Samuel R. McKelvie
Politician
15-Apr-1881 6-Oct-1956 Governor of Nebraska, 1919-23
Charles E. Merrill
Business
19-Oct-1885 6-Oct-1956 Founder of Merrill Lynch
Otto Meyerhof
Scientist
12-Apr-1884 6-Oct-1951 Glycogen-lactic acid cycle
Johnny O'Keefe
Musician
6-Jan-1935 6-Oct-1978 King of Australian rock and roll
Charles Stewart Parnell
Politician
27-Jun-1846 6-Oct-1891 Irish Nationalist leader
Dennis Price
Actor
23-Jun-1915 6-Oct-1973 The World of Wooster
Nelson Riddle
Composer
1-Jun-1921 6-Oct-1985 Bandleader, orchestral arranger
Anwar Sadat
Head of State
25-Dec-1918 6-Oct-1981 President of Egypt, 1970-81
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet
6-Aug-1809 6-Oct-1892 The Charge of the Light Brigade
William Tyndale
Religion
1492 6-Oct-1536 Bible translator, burnt at the stake
Johnny Vander Meer
Baseball
2-Nov-1914 6-Oct-1997 Pitched two consecutive no-hitters
Joseph Welch
Attorney
22-Oct-1890 6-Oct-1960 Have you no sense of decency?
Sir Thomas Wyat
Poet
1503 6-Oct-1542 Introduced sonnet to England




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