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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Hugh J. Addonizio
Politician
31-Jan-1914 2-Feb-1981 Mayor of Newark, 1962-70
John Agar
Actor
31-Jan-1921 7-Apr-2002 Sands of Iwo Jima
William Apess
Author
31-Jan-1798 Apr-1839 A Son of the Forest
Tallulah Bankhead
Actor
31-Jan-1902 12-Dec-1968 Lifeboat
Ernie Banks
Baseball
31-Jan-1931   National League MVP 1958 and 1959
Jonathan Banks
Actor
31-Jan-1947   Frank McPike on Wiseguy
Queen Beatrix I
Royalty
31-Jan-1938   Queen of the Netherlands
James G. Blaine
Politician
31-Jan-1830 27-Jan-1893 Twice US Secretary of State
Marvin D. Brailsford
Business
31-Jan-1939   Retired US Army Lt. General
Larry Buchanan
Film Director
31-Jan-1923 2-Dec-2004 Mars Needs Women
Eddie Byrne
Actor
31-Jan-1911 21-Aug-1981 The Mummy
Eddie Cantor
Singer
31-Jan-1892 10-Oct-1964 Banjo Eyes
Robert Cantwell
Novelist
31-Jan-1908 8-Dec-1978 Laugh and Lie Down
Olive Carey
Actor
31-Jan-1896 13-Mar-1988 Billy the Kid versus Dracula
William Caton
Business
31-Jan-1951   CFO of Navistar International
Carol Channing
Singer
31-Jan-1921   All-Singing All-Dancing
Charles V
Royalty
31-Jan-1338 16-Sep-1380 King of France, 1364-80
Dov Charney
Business
31-Jan-1969   American Apparel CEO
Holmes Conrad
Attorney
31-Jan-1840 4-Sep-1915 US Solicitor General, 1895-97
Persi Diaconis
Mathematician
31-Jan-1945   Science of random numbers
Minnie Driver
Actor
31-Jan-1970   Good Will Hunting
Joanne Dru
Actor
31-Jan-1922 10-Sep-1996 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
John Dye
Actor
31-Jan-1963 10-Jan-2011 Andrew on Touched by an Angel
Thomas J. Engibous
Business
31-Jan-1953   CEO of Texas Instruments, 1996-2004
John D. Finnegan
Business
31-Jan-1949   CEO of Chubb
Dexter Fletcher
Actor
31-Jan-1966   Hotel Babylon
Robert Ford
Criminal
31-Jan-1862 8-Jun-1892 Shot and killed Jesse James
James Franciscus
Actor
31-Jan-1934 8-Jul-1991 Mr. Novak
Dick Gephardt
Politician
31-Jan-1941   Congressman from Missouri, 1977-2005
Philip Glass
Composer
31-Jan-1937   Einstein on the Beach
Albert Goldbarth
Poet
31-Jan-1948   The most prolific modern poet
Zane Grey
Novelist
31-Jan-1872 23-Oct-1939 Riders of the Purple Sage
Bobby Hackett
Jazz Musician
31-Jan-1915 7-Jun-1976 Played with Glenn Miller, Jackie Gleason
Lloyd N. Hand
Attorney
31-Jan-1929   Chief of Protocol for Johnson
Jeff Hanneman
Guitarist
31-Jan-1964   Slayer lead guitarist
Percy Helton
Actor
31-Jan-1894 11-Sep-1971 Character actor
Theodor Heuss
Head of State
31-Jan-1884 12-Dec-1963 President of Germany, 1949-59
H. Allen Holmes
Diplomat
31-Jan-1933   US Ambassador to Portugal, 1982-85
Benjamin Hooks
Activist
31-Jan-1925 15-Apr-2010 NAACP Director, 1977-92
Bill Huizenga
Politician
31-Jan-1969   Congressman, Michigan 2nd
Ian Huntley
Criminal
31-Jan-1974   Jailed for double murder
Don Hutson
Football
31-Jan-1913 24-Jun-1997 Packers WR, Hall of Famer
Derek Jarman
Film Director
31-Jan-1942 19-Feb-1994 The Last of England
Matt King
Actor
31-Jan-1968   Super Hans on Peep Show
Larry Kissell
Politician
31-Jan-1951   Congressman, North Carolina 8th
Irving Langmuir
Chemist
31-Jan-1881 16-Aug-1957 Inventor of the high-vacuum tube
Mario Lanza
Singer
31-Jan-1921 7-Oct-1959 Voice of the Century
Anthony LaPaglia
Actor
31-Jan-1959   Murder One
Fritz Leiber
Actor
31-Jan-1882 14-Oct-1949 Shakespearean actor
Alan Lomax
Musicologist
31-Jan-1915 19-Jul-2002 Preserved thousands of folksongs
Kelly Lynch
Actor
31-Jan-1959   Drugstore Cowboy
Norman Mailer
Author
31-Jan-1923 10-Nov-2007 Armies of the Night
Norris Church Mailer
Novelist
31-Jan-1949 21-Nov-2010 Norman Mailer's painter/novelist wife
Stuart Margolin
Actor
31-Jan-1940   Angel Martin on The Rockford Files
Robert McClory
Politician
31-Jan-1908 24-Jul-1988 Congressman from Illinois, 1963-83
Paul McNulty
Government
31-Jan-1958   US Deputy Attorney General, 2005-07
Thomas Merton
Author
31-Jan-1915 10-Dec-1968 The Seven Storey Mountain
George S. Mickelson
Politician
31-Jan-1941 19-Apr-1993 Governor of South Dakota, 1987-93
Garry Moore
TV Personality
31-Jan-1915 28-Nov-1993 The Garry Moore Show
Gouverneur Morris
Politician
31-Jan-1752 6-Nov-1816 American financier, Revolutionary politician
Robert Morris
Politician
31-Jan-1734 7-May-1806 Financed the Revolutionary War
Rudolf Mössbauer
Physicist
31-Jan-1929 14-Sep-2011 Discovered Mössbauer effect
Alva Myrdal
Politician
31-Jan-1902 1-Feb-1986 Swedish diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient
John O'Hara
Author
31-Jan-1905 11-Apr-1970 Appointment in Samarra
Kenzaburo Oé
Author
31-Jan-1935   A Personal Matter
Suzanne Pleshette
Actor
31-Jan-1937 19-Jan-2008 The Birds
Coy Privette
Activist
31-Jan-1933   President, Christian Action League of North Carolina
Buddy Rice
Auto Racing
31-Jan-1976   Winner of 2004's Indy 500
Theodore W. Richards
Chemist
31-Jan-1868 2-Apr-1928 Atomic weights
Jackie Robinson
Baseball
31-Jan-1919 24-Oct-1972 First negro in the major leagues
Portia de Rossi
Actor
31-Jan-1973   Nelle Porter on Ally
Johnny Rotten
Musician
31-Jan-1956   Sex Pistols and Public Image, Ltd.
Dutch Ruppersberger
Politician
31-Jan-1946   Congressman, Maryland 2nd
Nolan Ryan
Baseball
31-Jan-1947   Pitched seven no-hitters
Paul Scheer
Actor
31-Jan-1976   Andre on The League, Human Giant
Franz Schubert
Composer
31-Jan-1797 19-Nov-1828 Symphony in C Major
Mark S. Schweiker
Politician
31-Jan-1953   Governor of Pennsylvania, 2001-03
Anna Silk
Actor
31-Jan-1974   Bo on Lost Girl
Jean Simmons
Actor
31-Jan-1929 22-Jan-2010 Guys and Dolls
Justin Timberlake
Singer
31-Jan-1981   *NSYNC
Rodolphe Töpffer
Cartoonist
31-Jan-1799 8-Jun-1848 The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck
Glynn Turman
Actor
31-Jan-1946   Col. Taylor on A Different World
Stewart Udall
Politician
31-Jan-1920 20-Mar-2010 US Secretary of the Interior, 1961-69
Patricia Velasquez
Model
31-Jan-1971   The Mummy
Jessica Walter
Actor
31-Jan-1941   Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development
Kerry Washington
Actor
31-Jan-1977   Save the Last Dance
James Watt
Government
31-Jan-1938   Reagan's Secretary of the Interior
Ken Wilber
Author
31-Jan-1949   Founder, Integral Institute
Preity Zinta
Actor
31-Jan-1975   Kal Ho Naa Ho




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