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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Richard Dean Anderson
Actor
23-Jan-1950   MacGyver
Joe Baca
Politician
23-Jan-1947   Congressman, California 43rd
Georg Baselitz
Painter
23-Jan-1938   Painter of upside-down motifs
Frances Bay
Actor
23-Jan-1919 15-Sep-2011 Happy Gilmore
Boris Berezovsky
Business
23-Jan-1946   Russian oligarch, now in Israel
Ewen Bremner
Actor
23-Jan-1972   Julien Donkey-Boy
John Browning
Inventor
23-Jan-1855 26-Nov-1926 Best gun designer of all time
Gary Burton
Jazz Musician
23-Jan-1943   Jazz vibraphonist
Frank Carlson
Politician
23-Jan-1893 30-May-1987 Governor and Senator from Kansas
Princess Caroline
Royalty
23-Jan-1957   Daughter of Prince Rainier
Thomas Carper
Politician
23-Jan-1947   US Senator from Delaware
John Cassell
Publisher
23-Jan-1817 2-Apr-1865 Cassell's Magazine
Alan Cheuse
Novelist
23-Jan-1940   The Bohemians
Sonny Chiba
Actor
23-Jan-1939   Martial arts movie icon
Michael T. Cowhig
Business
23-Jan-1947   Senior Gillette executive
Herbert Croly
Author
23-Jan-1869 17-May-1930 The Promise of American Life
Otto Diels
Chemist
23-Jan-1876 7-Mar-1954 Diels-Alder Reaction
Dan Duryea
Actor
23-Jan-1907 7-Jun-1968 The Little Foxes
Sergei Eisenstein
Film Director
23-Jan-1898 11-Feb-1948 Alexander Nevsky
Gertrude B. Elion
Scientist
23-Jan-1918 21-Feb-1999 Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS
Paul Peter Ewald
Physicist
23-Jan-1888 22-Aug-1985 X-Ray crystallographer
Gil Gerard
Actor
23-Jan-1943   Buck Rogers
Arlene Golonka
Actor
23-Jan-1939   Millie Swanson in Mayberry RFD
Antonio Gramsci
Activist
23-Jan-1891 27-Apr-1937 Founder of the Italian Communist Party
Pat Haden
Football
23-Jan-1953   LA Rams Quarterback, Investor
Florence Halop
Actor
23-Jan-1923 15-Jul-1986 Florence Kleiner on Night Court
John Hancock
Politician
23-Jan-1737 8-Oct-1793 First signer of the Declaration of Independence
Mariska Hargitay
Actor
23-Jan-1964   Law & Order: SVU
Mike Harris
Politician
23-Jan-1945   Premier of Ontario, 1995-2002
Rutger Hauer
Actor
23-Jan-1944   Blade Runner
David Hilbert
Mathematician
23-Jan-1862 14-Feb-1943 Hilbert Space
Bharrat Jagdeo
Head of State
23-Jan-1964   President of Guyana
Paul B. Johnson, Jr.
Politician
23-Jan-1916 14-Oct-1985 Governor of Mississippi, 1964-68
Edward Ka-Spel
Singer
23-Jan-1954   Legendary Pink Dots singer
David Patrick Kelly
Actor
23-Jan-1951   The Warriors
Petr Korda
Tennis
23-Jan-1968   Winner, 1998 Australian Open
Ernie Kovacs
Comic
23-Jan-1919 13-Jan-1962 Nairobi Trio
Jerry Kramer
Football
23-Jan-1936   Green Bay Packers, 1958-68
Paul Langevin
Physicist
23-Jan-1872 19-Dec-1946 Studied piezoelectricity
Frank Lautenberg
Politician
23-Jan-1924   US Senator from New Jersey
Arthur Lewis
Economist
23-Jan-1915 15-Jun-1991 Economics of developing nations
Edouard Manet
Painter
23-Jan-1832 30-Apr-1883 French Realist/Impressionist painter
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Novelist
23-Jan-1923 9-Jan-1996 A Canticle for Leibowitz
Jeanne Moreau
Actor
23-Jan-1928   Jules et Jim
Fred Morrison
Business
23-Jan-1920 9-Feb-2010 Invented the frisbee
Gail O'Grady
Actor
23-Jan-1963   American Dreams
Tito Ortiz
Sports Figure
23-Jan-1975   UFC / mixed martial arts fighter
Franklin Pangborn
Actor
23-Jan-1888 20-Jul-1958 Character actor, 1920s to 1950s
Susan M. Phillips
Educator
23-Jan-1944   Dean, GWU School of Business
Anita Pointer
Musician
23-Jan-1948   The Pointer Sisters
John C. Polanyi
Chemist
23-Jan-1929   Infrared chemiluminescence
Nicole Polizzi
TV Personality
23-Jan-1987   Snooki on Jersey Shore
Ernest Poole
Novelist
23-Jan-1880 10-Jan-1950 His Family
Robert C. Randall
Victim
23-Jan-1948 2-Jun-2001 First recipient of federal marijuana
Rasputin
Religion
23-Jan-1871 30-Dec-1916 Russia's Greatest Love Machine
Bruce Ratner
Business
23-Jan-1945   New York City developer
Django Reinhardt
Jazz Musician
23-Jan-1910 16-May-1953 Gypsy jazz guitarist
Nicholas A. Rey
Business
23-Jan-1938 14-Jan-2009 US Ambassador to Poland, 1993-97
Chita Rivera
Dancer
23-Jan-1933   Anita in West Side Story on Broadway
Marty Russo
Politician
23-Jan-1944   Congressman from Illinois, 1975-93
Bobby Schilling
Politician
23-Jan-1964   Congressman, Illinois 17th
Randolph Scott
Actor
23-Jan-1898 2-Mar-1987 Ride the High Country
Anya Seton
Author
23-Jan-1906 8-Nov-1990 Dragonwyck
John H. Shenefield
Attorney
23-Jan-1930   Morgan Lewis
Bud Shuster
Politician
23-Jan-1932   Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1972-2001
Bob Steele
Actor
23-Jan-1907 21-Dec-1988 Trooper Duffy on F Troop
Stendhal
Author
23-Jan-1793 23-Mar-1842 Le Rouge et le Noir
Potter Stewart
Judge
23-Jan-1915 7-Dec-1985 US Supreme Court Justice, 1958-81
Megawati Sukarnoputri
Head of State
23-Jan-1947   President of Indonesia, 2001-04
Chesley Sullenberger
Aviator
23-Jan-1951   Landed Flight 1549 on the Hudson River
Jean-Lambert Tallien
Politician
23-Jan-1767 16-Nov-1820 French Revolutionary
Charles Taylor
Politician
23-Jan-1941   Congressman from North Carolina, 1991-2007
Tiffani Amber Thiessen
Actor
23-Jan-1974   Kelly Kapowski, Saved by the Bell
Thomas Todd
Judge
23-Jan-1765 7-Feb-1826 US Supreme Court Justice, 1807-26
Antonio Villaraigosa
Government
23-Jan-1953   Mayor of Los Angeles
Derek Walcott
Poet
23-Jan-1930   In a Green Night
Natalie West
Actor
23-Jan-1956   Crystal Anderson-Conner on Roseanne
Johnny Winter
Guitarist
23-Jan-1944   Blues guitarist
Hideki Yukawa
Physicist
23-Jan-1907 8-Sep-1981 Predicted existence of mesons
Robin Zander
Musician
23-Jan-1953   Cheap Trick vocalist
Louis Zukofsky
Poet
23-Jan-1904 12-May-1978 Co-Founded Objectivist poetry movement




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