| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Carl E. Bailey |
Politician |
8-Oct-1894 |
23-Oct-1948 |
Governor of Arkansas, 1937-41 |
| Charles Glover Barkla |
Physicist |
7-Jun-1877 |
23-Oct-1944 |
X-ray scattering |
| Franz Bopp |
Linguist |
14-Sep-1791 |
23-Oct-1867 |
Comparative Grammar |
| Olympia Brown |
Activist |
5-Jan-1835 |
23-Oct-1926 |
Lady preacher and suffragette |
| Millard F. Caldwell |
Politician |
6-Feb-1897 |
23-Oct-1984 |
Governor of Florida, 1945-49 |
| John Robert Clynes |
Politician |
27-Mar-1869 |
23-Oct-1949 |
UK Home Secretary, 1929-31 |
| George B. Cortelyou |
Politician |
26-Jul-1862 |
23-Oct-1940 |
US Treasury Secretary, 1907-09 |
| Charles Demuth |
Painter |
8-Nov-1883 |
23-Oct-1935 |
I Saw the Figure Five in Gold |
| Christian Dior |
Fashion Designer |
21-Jan-1905 |
23-Oct-1957 |
The 1947 New Look |
| William N. Doak |
Government |
12-Dec-1882 |
23-Oct-1933 |
US Secretary of Labor, 1930-33 |
| Edward A. Doisy |
Scientist |
3-Nov-1893 |
23-Oct-1986 |
Chemical structure of Vitamin K |
| Adolph Green |
Songwriter |
2-Dec-1914 |
23-Oct-2002 |
Singin' in the Rain |
| Zane Grey |
Novelist |
31-Jan-1872 |
23-Oct-1939 |
Riders of the Purple Sage |
| Herbert A. Hauptman |
Mathematician |
14-Feb-1917 |
23-Oct-2011 |
X-ray diffraction studies |
| Harold Hughes |
Politician |
10-Feb-1922 |
23-Oct-1996 |
Governor and Senator from Iowa |
| Lou Jacobi |
Actor |
28-Dec-1913 |
23-Oct-2009 |
Avalon |
| Al Jolson |
Singer |
26-May-1886 |
23-Oct-1950 |
The Jazz Singer |
| Nathan Juran |
Film Director |
1-Sep-1907 |
23-Oct-2002 |
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad |
| Madame Chiang Kai-Shek |
First Lady |
5-Mar-1898 |
23-Oct-2003 |
The Dragon Lady |
| Paul Kammerer |
Biologist |
17-Aug-1880 |
23-Oct-1926 |
Proponent of Lamarckian inheritance |
| Robert Lansing |
Actor |
5-Jun-1928 |
23-Oct-1994 |
Empire of the Ants |
| Alfred Lerner |
Business |
8-May-1933 |
23-Oct-2002 |
CEO of MBNA, 1982-2002 |
| Goh Tong Lim |
Business |
c. 1917 |
23-Oct-2007 |
Malaysian casino billionaire |
| George Barr McCutcheon |
Novelist |
26-Jul-1866 |
23-Oct-1928 |
Brewster's Millions |
| Robert Merrill |
Singer |
4-Jun-1917 |
23-Oct-2004 |
Operatic baritone, NY Metropolitan Opera |
| John S. Monagan |
Politician |
23-Dec-1911 |
23-Oct-2005 |
Congressman from Connecticut, 1959-73 |
| Anne Oldfield |
Actor |
1683 |
23-Oct-1730 |
18th century English actress |
| Emin Pasha |
Explorer |
28-Mar-1840 |
23-Oct-1892 |
German colonial traveller in Africa |
| Susan Peters |
Actor |
3-Jul-1921 |
23-Oct-1952 |
Random Harvest |
| Ralph Rainger |
Composer |
7-Oct-1901 |
23-Oct-1942 |
Thanks For The Memory |
| Peyton Randolph |
Politician |
1721 |
23-Oct-1775 |
First President of the Continental Congress |
| Luther Simjian |
Inventor |
28-Jan-1905 |
23-Oct-1997 |
Invented automated teller machine |
| Linden Travers |
Actor |
27-May-1913 |
23-Oct-2001 |
No Orchids for Miss Blandish |
| Diana Trilling |
Critic |
21-Jul-1905 |
23-Oct-1996 |
Literary critic, The Nation |
| Oskar Werner |
Actor |
13-Nov-1922 |
23-Oct-1984 |
Jules et Jim |
| Daniel Wildenstein |
Business |
11-Sep-1917 |
23-Oct-2001 |
Wildenstein & Company |
