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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Sam Adams
Politician
3-Sep-1963   Mayor of Portland
Carl David Anderson
Physicist
3-Sep-1905 11-Jan-1991 Discovered the positron, mu-meson
Maria Bamford
Comic
3-Sep-1970   Comedians of Comedy
Michael D. Barnes
Politician
3-Sep-1943   Congressman from Maryland, 1979-87
Noah Baumbach
Film Director
3-Sep-1969   Greenberg
Glen Bell
Business
3-Sep-1923 17-Jan-2010 Taco Bell founder
Lorenzo Bellini
Doctor
3-Sep-1643 8-Jan-1704 Discovered kidney's Bellini Ducts
Henry Bellmon
Politician
3-Sep-1921 29-Sep-2009 Governor and Senator from Oklahoma
Kjell Magne Bondevik
Head of State
3-Sep-1947   Twice Norwegian prime minister
Matthew Boulton
Business
3-Sep-1728 17-Aug-1809 Financed the early steam engine
Eileen Brennan
Actor
3-Sep-1932   Capt. Lewis on Private Benjamin
Whitey Bulger
Criminal
3-Sep-1929   Accused Boston crimelord
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Scientist
3-Sep-1899 31-Aug-1985 Acquired immunological tolerance
Merritt Butrick
Actor
3-Sep-1959 17-Mar-1989 Johnny Slash on Square Pegs
Kitty Carlisle
Singer
3-Sep-1910 18-Apr-2007 A Night at the Opera
Caryl Churchill
Playwright
3-Sep-1938   Having a Wonderful Time
Pauline Collins
Actor
3-Sep-1940   Shirley Valentine
Adam Curry
TV Personality
3-Sep-1964   Former MTV veejay
Albert DeSalvo
Criminal
3-Sep-1931 25-Nov-1973 Rapist, confessed Boston Strangler
Diane de Poitiers
Aristocrat
3-Sep-1499 22-Apr-1566 Mistress of Henri II
Mario Draghi
Business
3-Sep-1947   President, European Central Bank
Frank H. Easterbrook
Judge
3-Sep-1948   7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Loren Eiseley
Anthropologist
3-Sep-1907 9-Jul-1977 The Firmament of Time
Donald Fisher
Business
3-Sep-1928 27-Sep-2009 Co-Founder of The Gap
Mary Parker Follett
Business
3-Sep-1868 18-Dec-1933 Community centers and conflict resolution
William L. Frierson
Government
3-Sep-1868 25-May-1953 US Solicitor General, 1920-21
Malcolm Gladwell
Columnist
3-Sep-1963   The Tipping Point
Alan C. Greenberg
Business
3-Sep-1927   CEO of Bear Stearns, 1978-93
Andy Griffiths
Author
3-Sep-1961   The Day My Bum Went Psycho
George Hearst
Business
3-Sep-1820 28-Feb-1891 Patriarch of Hearst family fortune
Garrett Hedlund
Actor
3-Sep-1984   Four Brothers
Nichole Hiltz
Actor
3-Sep-1978   Brandi Shannon on In Plain Sight
Joseph Hoeffel
Politician
3-Sep-1950   Congressman from Pensylvania, 1999-2005
Genta Hawkins Holmes
Diplomat
3-Sep-1940   US Ambassador to Australia, 1997-2000
Paz de la Huerta
Actor
3-Sep-1984   Lucy Danziger on Boardwalk Empire
Michael Huffington
Government
3-Sep-1947   Congressman from California, 1993-95
Anne Jackson
Actor
3-Sep-1926   Folks!
Al Jardine
Musician
3-Sep-1942   Beach Boy
Jean Jaurès
Politician
3-Sep-1859 31-Jul-1914 French socialist leader
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Film Director
3-Sep-1953   Alien: Resurrection
Sarah Orne Jewett
Author
3-Sep-1849 24-Jun-1909 The Country of the Pointed Firs
Steve Jones
Guitarist
3-Sep-1955   The Sex Pistols
Burt Kennedy
Film Director
3-Sep-1922 15-Feb-2001 Support Your Local Sheriff
Freddie King
Guitarist
3-Sep-1934 28-Dec-1976 Blues guitarist, The Texas Cannonball
Catherine Baker Knoll
Politician
3-Sep-1930 12-Nov-2008 Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania, 2003-08
Arthur Koestler
Author
3-Sep-1905 3-Mar-1983 Darkness at Noon
Joseph P. Kolter
Politician
3-Sep-1926   Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1983-93
Alan Ladd
Actor
3-Sep-1913 29-Jan-1964 Shane
Alison Lurie
Novelist
3-Sep-1926   Foreign Affairs
Amber Lynn
Pornstar
3-Sep-1963   Lifestyles of the Blonde and Dirty
Costas Mandylor
Actor
3-Sep-1965   Triumph of the Spirit
Dorothy Maynor
Singer
3-Sep-1910 19-Feb-1996 Soprano, founder of Harlem School of the Arts
Gerald S. McGowan
Attorney
3-Sep-1946   US Ambassador to Portugal, 1998-2001
Mantan Moreland
Actor
3-Sep-1902 28-Sep-1973 Birmingham Brown
Raheem Morris
Football
3-Sep-1976   Head Coach, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
T. Michael Moseley
Military
3-Sep-1949   USAF Chief of Staff, 2005-08
Levy Mwanawasa
Head of State
3-Sep-1948 19-Aug-2008 President of Zambia, 2002-08
John Humphrey Noyes
Religion
3-Sep-1811 13-Apr-1886 Oneida Community founder
Ryoji Noyori
Chemist
3-Sep-1938   Chiral catalysts
Vivek Oberoi
Actor
3-Sep-1976   Kisna: The Warrior Poet
John Olver
Politician
3-Sep-1936   Congressman, Massachusetts 1st
Irene Papas
Actor
3-Sep-1926   The Trojan Women
Maurice Papon
Criminal
3-Sep-1910 17-Feb-2007 Vichy war criminal
Cecil Parker
Actor
3-Sep-1897 20-Apr-1971 The Ladykillers
Valerie Perrine
Actor
3-Sep-1943   Slaughterhouse Five
Shirley D. Peterson
Attorney
3-Sep-1941   Attorney, Steptoe & Johnson
Ferdinand Porsche
Engineer
3-Sep-1875 30-Jan-1951 Designer of the Volkswagen Beetle
Fritz Pregl
Chemist
3-Sep-1869 13-Dec-1930 Microanalysis of organic compounds
Dave Ramsey
Radio Personality
3-Sep-1960   The Dave Ramsey Show
Dixy Lee Ray
Politician
3-Sep-1914 2-Jan-1994 Governor of Washington, 1977-81
Thomas Reynolds
Politician
3-Sep-1950   Congressman from New York, 1999-2009
Eugene Sawyer
Politician
3-Sep-1934 19-Jan-2008 Mayor of Chicago, 1987-89
Steve Schirripa
Actor
3-Sep-1957   Bobby Baccalieri on The Sopranos
Jonathan Segel
Musician
3-Sep-1963   Camper Van Beethoven multi-instrumentalist
Charlie Sheen
Actor
3-Sep-1965   The prodigal Sheen
Hugh Sidey
Journalist
3-Sep-1927 21-Nov-2005 Time magazine
Louis Sullivan
Architect
3-Sep-1856 14-Apr-1924 Early skyscraper architect
James Joseph Sylvester
Mathematician
3-Sep-1814 15-Mar-1897 Studied finite analysis
Hank Thompson
Country Musician
3-Sep-1925 6-Nov-2007 Honky Tonk Swing musician
Gaston Thorn
Head of State
3-Sep-1928 26-Aug-2007 Prime Minister of Luxembourg, 1974-79
Mort Walker
Cartoonist
3-Sep-1923   Beetle Bailey
Dominic West
Actor
3-Sep-1969   Det. McNulty on The Wire
Shaun White
Sports Figure
3-Sep-1986   The Flying Tomato
Terry Wilson
Actor
3-Sep-1923 30-Mar-1999 Bill Hawks on Wagon Train




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