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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Saif Ali Khan
Actor
16-Aug-1970   Dil Chahta Hai
Scott Asheton
Drummer
16-Aug-1949   Drummer for the Stooges
Kevin Ayers
Musician
16-Aug-1944   Eccentric British guitarist/songwriter
Bob Balaban
Film Director
16-Aug-1945   Parents
Massoud Barzani
Head of State
16-Aug-1946   President of Iraqi Kurdistan
Angela Bassett
Actor
16-Aug-1958   Got her groove back
Menachem Begin
Head of State
16-Aug-1913 9-Mar-1992 Prime Minister of Israel, 1977-82
Bruce Beresford
Film Director
16-Aug-1940   Driving Miss Daisy
Rick Berg
Politician
16-Aug-1959   Congressman, North Dakota
Earl Blumenauer
Politician
16-Aug-1948   Congressman, Oregon 3rd
Ann Blyth
Actor
16-Aug-1928   Mildred Pierce
Josh Bolten
Government
16-Aug-1955   White House Chief of Staff, 2006-09
Jack O. Bovender, Jr.
Business
16-Aug-1945   CEO of HCA, 2002-09
Carol Moseley Braun
Politician
16-Aug-1947   First black female US Senator
Agnes Bruckner
Actor
16-Aug-1985   Soap star, movie star
Jean de La Bruyère
Author
16-Aug-1645 10-May-1696 Les Caractères de Théophraste
Charles Bukowski
Author
16-Aug-1920 9-Mar-1994 Love is a Dog from Hell
Frances Buss
Educator
16-Aug-1827 24-Dec-1894 Girls' school reformer
James Cameron
Film Director
16-Aug-1954   Terminator, Titanic, and Avatar
Steve Carell
Comic
16-Aug-1962   Office manager at Dunder-Mifflin
Vanessa Carlton
Musician
16-Aug-1980   Ordinary Day
Mae Clarke
Actor
16-Aug-1910 29-Apr-1992 Waterloo Bridge
Carol A. Corrigan
Judge
16-Aug-1948   Justice, California Supreme Court
Robert Culp
Actor
16-Aug-1930 24-Mar-2010 I Spy
Henry Winter Davis
Politician
16-Aug-1817 30-Dec-1865 Congressman from Maryland, 1855-65
Stockwell Day
Politician
16-Aug-1950   Canadian Minister of Public Safety
Gregg L. Engles
Business
16-Aug-1957   CEO of Dean Foods
Bill Evans
Jazz Musician
16-Aug-1929 15-Sep-1980 Jazz pianist
Suzanne Farrell
Dancer
16-Aug-1945   Ballerina, NYC Ballet
George Galloway
Government
16-Aug-1954   MP for Bethnal Green and Bow
Lorraine Gary
Actor
16-Aug-1937   Jaws
Hugo Gernsback
Author
16-Aug-1884 19-Aug-1967 Founded Amazing Stories in 1926
Frank Gifford
Football
16-Aug-1930   Monday Night Football
Kathie Lee Gifford
Talk Show Host
16-Aug-1953   Half of Regis and Kathie Lee
Cam Gigandet
Actor
16-Aug-1982   The Roommate
Anita Gillette
Actor
16-Aug-1936   Dr. Emily Hanover on Quincy
Eydie Gorme
Musician
16-Aug-1931   Blame it on the Bossa Nova
Roman Hruska
Politician
16-Aug-1904 25-Apr-1999 US Senator from Nebraska, 1954-76
Ted Hughes
Poet
16-Aug-1930 28-Oct-1998 Crow
Carol W. Hunstein
Judge
16-Aug-1944   Justice, Georgia Supreme Court
Timothy Hutton
Actor
16-Aug-1960   Ordinary People
Laura Innes
Actor
16-Aug-1959   Dr. Kerry Weaver on ER
Juliette Kayyem
Government
16-Aug-1969   Counterterrorism wonk
Amos Kendall
Government
16-Aug-1789 12-Nov-1869 Key advisor to Andrew Jackson
Jules Laforgue
Poet
16-Aug-1860 20-Aug-1887 Pessimistic poet who inspired T. S. Eliot
Mitch Landrieu
Politician
16-Aug-1960   Mayor of New Orleans
T. E. Lawrence
Author
16-Aug-1888 19-May-1935 Lawrence of Arabia
Donovan Leitch, Jr.
Actor
16-Aug-1968   Glory
Gabriel Lippmann
Physicist
16-Aug-1845 13-Jul-1921 Photographic color plate
Lucien Littlefield
Actor
16-Aug-1895 4-Jun-1960 American character actor
Evanna Lynch
Actor
16-Aug-1991   Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
A. D. David Mackay
Business
16-Aug-1955   CEO of Kellogg
John Mackenzie
Film Director
16-Aug-1932 8-Jun-2011 The Long Good Friday
Madonna
Singer/Songwriter
16-Aug-1958   Like a Virgin
Tim Mahoney
Government
16-Aug-1956   Congressman from Florida, 2007-09
Jeannette Marks
Poet
16-Aug-1875 1964 The Merry Merry Cuckoo
Irene Mathyssen
Politician
16-Aug-1951   Canadian MP, London--Fanshawe
William Maxwell
Novelist
16-Aug-1908 31-Jul-2000 The Folded Leaf
George Meany
Labor Leader
16-Aug-1894 10-Jan-1980 AFL-CIO President, 1955-79
Rick Metsger
Politician
16-Aug-1951   Oregon State Senator
Cameron Monaghan
Actor
16-Aug-1993   Ian Gallagher on Shameless
Martha Moxley
Victim
16-Aug-1960 30-Oct-1975 Murdered by Michael Skakel
Francis P. Murphy
Politician
16-Aug-1877 19-Dec-1958 Governor of New Hampshire, 1937-41
Julie Newmar
Actor
16-Aug-1933   The first Catwoman
Fess Parker
Actor
16-Aug-1925 18-Mar-2010 Daniel Boone
Chris Pedersen
Drummer
16-Aug-1960   Camper Van Beethoven drummer
Shimon Peres
Head of State
16-Aug-1923   President of Israel
Jeff Perry
Actor
16-Aug-1955   Inspector Leek on Nash Bridges
Ramesh Ponnuru
Columnist
16-Aug-1974   Senior Editor, National Review
Anthony Price
Novelist
16-Aug-1928   Other Paths to Glory
Shawn Pyfrom
Actor
16-Aug-1986   Desperate Housewives
Jack Quinn
Attorney
16-Aug-1949   White House Counsel, 1995-96
Taylor Rain
Pornstar
16-Aug-1981   Filthy Whore
Pierre Richard
Actor
16-Aug-1934   La chèvre
John Schnatter
Business
16-Aug-1962   Founder of Papa John's
Cynthia P. Schneider
Scholar
16-Aug-1953   US Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1998-2001
Billy Joe Shaver
Country Musician
16-Aug-1939   Old Five and Dimers Like Me
Amos Alonzo Stagg
Football
16-Aug-1862 17-Mar-1965 Mr. Football
John Standing
Actor
16-Aug-1934   British stage and film actor
Wendell M. Stanley
Chemist
16-Aug-1904 15-Jun-1971 First to crystallize a virus
Harry Steenbock
Biologist
16-Aug-1886 25-Dec-1967 Cured rickets with synthesized Vitamin D
Glenn Strange
Actor
16-Aug-1899 20-Sep-1973 Frankenstein's Monster
George Stults
Actor
16-Aug-1975   Kevin Kinkirk on 7th Heaven
Wallace Thurman
Author
16-Aug-1902 22-Dec-1934 The Blacker the Berry
Wolfgang Tillmans
Photographer
16-Aug-1968   If One Thing Matters, Everything Matters
Barbara D. Underwood
Attorney
16-Aug-1944   Solicitor General of New York
Reginald VelJohnson
Actor
16-Aug-1952   Carl Winslow on Family Matters
Walther von Reichenau
Military
16-Aug-1884 17-Jan-1942 Nazi general, encouraged atrocities
Lesley Ann Warren
Actor
16-Aug-1946   The Limey
Franz Welser-Möst
Conductor
16-Aug-1960   Music Director, Cleveland Orchestra
James Wieghart
Journalist
16-Aug-1933 21-Feb-2010 Editor, NY Daily News, 1982-84
Ann C. Williams
Judge
16-Aug-1949   7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Rumer Willis
Actor
16-Aug-1988   Daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore
James Wilson
Government
16-Aug-1835 26-Aug-1920 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1897-1913
Wilhelm Wundt
Psychologist
16-Aug-1832 31-Aug-1920 Father of Experimental Psychology
Richard Zimmer
Politician
16-Aug-1944   Congressman from New Jersey, 1991-97


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