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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Tom Arnold
Actor
6-Mar-1959   Ex-Husband of Roseanne Barr
Shaukat Aziz
Head of State
6-Mar-1949   Prime Minister of Pakistan
Marion Barry
Politician
6-Mar-1936   Twice Mayor of Washington, DC
Cyrano de Bergerac
Playwright
6-Mar-1619 28-Jul-1655 Voyage dans la Lune
Ivan Boesky
Business
6-Mar-1937   Investment banker did insider trades
Kit Bond
Politician
6-Mar-1939   US Senator from Missouri, 1987-2011
Connie Britton
Actor
6-Mar-1968   Nikki Faber on Spin City
Peter Brötzmann
Jazz Musician
6-Mar-1941   Free jazz saxophonist, Machine Gun
George E. Brown, Jr.
Politician
6-Mar-1920 15-Jul-1999 Congressman from California, 1973-99
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poet
6-Mar-1806 29-Jun-1861 Sonnets from the Portuguese
Sarah Caldwell
Conductor
6-Mar-1924 23-Mar-2006 Opera Company of Boston
Maxine K. Clark
Business
6-Mar-1949   CEO of Build-a-Bear Workshop
Robert Clouse
Film Director
6-Mar-1928 4-Feb-1997 Enter the Dragon
Gordon Cooper
Astronaut
6-Mar-1927 4-Oct-2004 Mercury 7 and Gemini 5 astronaut
Harry Coover
Chemist
6-Mar-1919 19-Mar-2011 Invented Super Glue
Alfred Cornu
Physicist
6-Mar-1841 11-Apr-1902 Optics and spectroscopy
Lou Costello
Actor
6-Mar-1906 3-Mar-1959 Half of Abbott and Costello
Jack Creley
Actor
6-Mar-1926 10-Mar-2004 Dr. Strangelove, Videodrome
Ann Curtis
Swimmer
6-Mar-1926 26-Jun-2012 Olympic swimmer
Donald Davidson
Philosopher
6-Mar-1917 30-Aug-2003 Actions, Reasons And Causes
Alan Davies
Actor
6-Mar-1966   Jonathan Creek
George Draper Dayton
Business
6-Mar-1857 18-Feb-1938 Founder of what is now Target Stores
Eddie Deezen
Actor
6-Mar-1957   Mr. Potato Head in Wargames
Edward Djerejian
Diplomat
6-Mar-1939   US Ambassador to Israel, 1994
Will Eisner
Cartoonist
6-Mar-1917 3-Jan-2005 Turned comic book authors into Sequential Artists
Richard Elfman
Musician
6-Mar-1949   Forbidden Zone
Andrea Elson
Actor
6-Mar-1969   Lynn Tanner on ALF
Jay C. Flippen
Actor
6-Mar-1899 3-Feb-1971 The Killing
Tom Foley
Politician
6-Mar-1929   Speaker of the House, 1989-95
Eddie Fontaine
Singer
6-Mar-1927 13-Apr-1992 Rock-a-billy singer and character actor
Dick Fosbury
Track and Field
6-Mar-1947   High jumper invented Fosbury Flop
Gabriel García Márquez
Author
6-Mar-1928   One Hundred Years of Solitude
Lisa Gaye
Actor
6-Mar-1935   Rock Around the Clock
Lewis Gilbert
Film Director
6-Mar-1920   The Spy Who Loved Me
Raymond V. Gilmartin
Business
6-Mar-1941   CEO of Merck, 1994-2005
David Gilmour
Guitarist
6-Mar-1946   Guitarist for Pink Floyd
Stedman Graham
Author
6-Mar-1951   Oprah's boyfriend, self-help author
Paul W. Green
Judge
6-Mar-1952   Justice, Texas Supreme Court
Alan Greenspan
Economist
6-Mar-1926   Federal Reserve Chairman, 1987-2006
Glenn Greenwald
Blogger
6-Mar-1967   Political blogger for The Guardian
Virginia Gregg
Actor
6-Mar-1916 15-Sep-1986 Radio actress
Virgil Griffith
Computer Programmer
6-Mar-1983   Author of WikiScanner
Lefty Grove
Baseball
6-Mar-1900 22-May-1975 Perhaps the best MLB pitcher in history
Allison Hayes
Actor
6-Mar-1930 27-Feb-1977 Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
Elwood Hillis
Politician
6-Mar-1926   Congressman from Indiana, 1971-87
Anna Maria Horsford
Actor
6-Mar-1948   Dee on The Wayans Bros.
Frankie Howerd
Actor
6-Mar-1917 19-Apr-1992 Up Pompeii
D. L. Hughley
Comic
6-Mar-1963   The Original Kings of Comedy
Jacques Jasmin
Poet
6-Mar-1798 4-Oct-1864 Provençal poet
Kiri Te Kanawa
Singer
6-Mar-1944   Operatic soprano
Robert Keable
Novelist
6-Mar-1887 23-Dec-1927 Simon Called Peter
Moira Kelly
Actor
6-Mar-1968   Mandy on The West Wing
Guy Kibbee
Actor
6-Mar-1882 24-May-1956 Captain January
Victor Kilian
Actor
6-Mar-1891 11-Mar-1979 Raymond Larkin on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Martin Kove
Actor
6-Mar-1947   Det. Isbecki on Cagney & Lacey
Ring Lardner
Journalist
6-Mar-1885 25-Sep-1933 Gullible's Travels
Morris E. Leeds
Business
6-Mar-1869 8-Feb-1952 Leeds & Northrup Co.
Flynt Leverett
Government
6-Mar-1958   Former National Security Council staffer
Lexus Locklear
Pornstar
6-Mar-1976   Blonde scammed Video Team into free boobjob
Georg Luger
Inventor
6-Mar-1849 22-Dec-1923 Invented the Luger pistol
Lorin Maazel
Conductor
6-Mar-1930   Conductor, New York Philharmonic
John D. MacArthur
Philanthropist
6-Mar-1897 6-Jan-1978 Philanthropist, MacArthur Foundation
Lorna R. Marsden
Educator
6-Mar-1942   President of York University, 1997-2007
George du Maurier
Artist
6-Mar-1834 6-Oct-1896 British caricaturist, Punch
Alex McArthur
Actor
6-Mar-1957   Suspended Animation
Richard T. McCormack
Diplomat
6-Mar-1941   US Ambassador to the OAS, 1985-89
Ed McMahon
Talk Show Host
6-Mar-1923 23-Jun-2009 The Tonight Show
Michelangelo
Sculptor
6-Mar-1475 18-Feb-1564 Renaissance sculptor and painter
Wes Montgomery
Jazz Musician
6-Mar-1925 15-Jun-1968 Superb jazz guitarist
Ben Murphy
Actor
6-Mar-1942   Alias Smith and Jones
Ellen Muth
Actor
6-Mar-1981   Dead Like Me
Hal Needham
Film Director
6-Mar-1931   The Cannonball Run
Shaquille O'Neal
Basketball
6-Mar-1972   Shaq Attack
Adam Osborne
Business
6-Mar-1939 18-Mar-2003 Inventor of Osborne personal computer
Amy Pietz
Actor
6-Mar-1969   Caroline in the City
Marcel Proulx
Politician
6-Mar-1946   Canadian MP, Hull-Aylmer
Albert Reed
Model
6-Mar-1985   Dancing with the Stars
Rob Reiner
Actor
6-Mar-1947   Meathead
Reverend Al Ridenour
Artist
6-Mar-1961   L.A. Cacophony Society
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Composer
6-Mar-1844 8-Jun-1908 The Flight of the Bumblebee
Richard J. Schnieders
Business
6-Mar-1948   CEO of SYSCO
Talcott W. Seelye
Diplomat
6-Mar-1922 8-Jun-2006 US Ambassador to Syria, 1979-81
Clark Shaughnessy
Football
6-Mar-1892 15-May-1970 Invented football T-Formation
Philip Henry Sheridan
Military
6-Mar-1831 5-Aug-1888 Union Army General
Beanie Sigel
Rapper
6-Mar-1974   Rapper, Protege of Jay-Z
Gerrit Smith
Activist
6-Mar-1797 28-Dec-1874 Anti-slavery and temperance reformer
John Smith
Actor
6-Mar-1931 25-Jan-1995 Slim Sherman on Laramie
David Spielberg
Actor
6-Mar-1939   Dr. David Bedford on The Practice
Willie Stargell
Baseball
6-Mar-1940 9-Apr-2001 National League MVP 1979
Gary Stevens
Jockey
6-Mar-1963   Three-time Kentucky Derby winning jockey
John Stossel
Journalist
6-Mar-1947   Libertarian reporter
Tyler, The Creator
Rapper
6-Mar-1991   OFWGKTA rapper
Andrzej Wajda
Film Director
6-Mar-1926   The Promised Land
Nella Walker
Actor
6-Mar-1886 22-Mar-1971 Mack and Walker
Alberta Watson
Actor
6-Mar-1955   Madeline on La Femme Nikita
William Webster
Government
6-Mar-1924   FBI Director 1978-87, CIA Director 1987-91
Marina v.N. Whitman
Economist
6-Mar-1935   Council of Economic Advisers, 1972-73
Hugh Williams
Actor
6-Mar-1904 7-Dec-1969 One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Bob Wills
Musician
6-Mar-1905 13-May-1975 King of Western Swing
Mary Wilson
Singer
6-Mar-1944   The Supremes
Yvette Wilson
Actor
6-Mar-1964 14-Jun-2012 Andell Wilkerson on Moesha
Annette Kingsland Ziegler
Judge
6-Mar-1964   Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court




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