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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Mario Adorf
Actor
8-Sep-1930   The Tin Drum
Ludovico Ariosto
Poet
8-Sep-1474 6-Jul-1533 Orlando Furioso
David Arquette
Actor
8-Sep-1971   Muppets From Space
Halldór Ásgrímsson
Head of State
8-Sep-1947   Prime Minister of Iceland, 2004-06
Charles Montgomery Barnes
Business
8-Sep-1833 19-May-1907 Founder of Barnes & Noble
Lem Barney
Football
8-Sep-1945   NFL Hall of Famer, Baptist minister
Jean-Louis Barrault
Actor
8-Sep-1910 22-Jan-1994 Les Enfants du Paradis
Derek Barton
Chemist
8-Sep-1918 16-Mar-1998 Conformational analysis
Ann Beattie
Author
8-Sep-1947   Chilly Scenes of Winter
Duane Benton
Judge
8-Sep-1950   8th Circuit Court of Appeals
Albert H. Bowker
Educator
8-Sep-1919 20-Jan-2008 Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1971-80
Hillary Brooke
Actor
8-Sep-1914 25-May-1999 The Woman in Green
Brooke Burke
TV Personality
8-Sep-1971   Co-Host, Dancing with the Stars
Frank Cady
Actor
8-Sep-1915 8-Jun-2012 Sam Drucker on Green Acres
Sid Caesar
Comic
8-Sep-1922   Your Show of Shows
David Carr
Journalist
8-Sep-1956   The New York Times
Neko Case
Singer/Songwriter
8-Sep-1970   New Pornographers
Maurice Cheeks
Basketball
8-Sep-1956   Head Coach, Philadelphia 76ers
Patsy Cline
Country Musician
8-Sep-1932 5-Mar-1963 I Fall To Pieces
Christopher Connelly
Actor
8-Sep-1941 7-Dec-1988 Norman Harrington on Peyton Place
Nathan Corddry
Actor
8-Sep-1977   Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Adrian Cronauer
Radio Personality
8-Sep-1938   Subject of biopic Good Morning Vietnam
Richard Danzig
Government
8-Sep-1944   US Secretary of the Navy, 1998-2001
Denise Darcel
Actor
8-Sep-1925 23-Dec-2011 Vera Cruz
Duffy Daugherty
Football
8-Sep-1915 25-Sep-1987 MSU Head Coach, 1954-72
Carol G. Dawson
Government
8-Sep-1937   Conservative activist
George H. Dern
Government
8-Sep-1872 27-Aug-1936 Governor of Utah, 1925-33
Howard Dietz
Songwriter
8-Sep-1896 30-Jul-1983 MGM songwriter, publicity chief
Antonin Dvorak
Composer
8-Sep-1841 1-May-1904 From the New World
Mark Foley
Politician
8-Sep-1954   Congressman from Florida, 1995-2006
Wendell H. Ford
Politician
8-Sep-1924   US Senator from Kentucky, 1974-99
Martin Freeman
Actor
8-Sep-1971   Tim on The Office
Joseph A. Grundfest
Attorney
8-Sep-1951   Stanford law professor
Charles Guiteau
Assassin
8-Sep-1841 30-Jun-1882 Assassin of President Garfield
Nidal Malik Hasan
Military
8-Sep-1970   Fort Hood shooting
Kenneth J. Hendricks
Business
8-Sep-1941 21-Dec-2007 Billionaire, ABC Supply
Allan Hubbard
Economist
8-Sep-1947   George W. Bush economist
W. W. Jacobs
Author
8-Sep-1863 1-Sep-1943 The Monkey's Paw
Alfred Jarry
Playwright
8-Sep-1873 1-Nov-1907 Ubu roi
Michael Johns
Government
8-Sep-1964   Conservative activist, healthcare exec
Michelle Johnson
Actor
8-Sep-1965   Blame It on Rio
Edward C. Kendall
Scientist
8-Sep-1886 4-May-1972 Adrenocortical hormones
Kerry Kennedy
Activist
8-Sep-1959   Human rights activist
Wiz Khalifa
Rapper
8-Sep-1987   Black and Yellow
Thomas Kretschmann
Actor
8-Sep-1962   Immortel
Lyndon LaRouche
Economist
8-Sep-1922   Eccentric economist politician
Denys Lasdun
Architect
8-Sep-1914 11-Jan-2001 British modernist architect
Rita Lavelle
Government
8-Sep-1947   EPA official
Virna Lisi
Actor
8-Sep-1937   La Reine Margot
Alexander Mackendrick
Film Director
8-Sep-1912 22-Dec-1993 The Sweet Smell of Success
Aimee Mann
Musician
8-Sep-1960   'Til Tuesday
James Mattis
Military
8-Sep-1950   Commander-in-Chief, CENTCOM
David O. McKay
Religion
8-Sep-1873 18-Jan-1970 President of the Mormon Church, 1951-70
Ron McKernan
Musician
8-Sep-1945 8-Mar-1973 Keyboards for Grateful Dead
Marin Mersenne
Mathematician
8-Sep-1588 1-Sep-1648 L'Harmonie universelle
Grace Metalious
Novelist
8-Sep-1924 25-Feb-1964 Peyton Place
Georg Michaelis
Head of State
8-Sep-1857 24-Jul-1936 German Chancellor 1917
Joaquin Miller
Poet
8-Sep-1837 17-Feb-1913 Songs of the Sierras
Robert H. Miller
Diplomat
8-Sep-1927   US Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, 1983-86
Barry Mills
Attorney
8-Sep-1950   President, Bowdoin College
Frédéric Mistral
Poet
8-Sep-1830 25-Mar-1914 Provençal poet and ethnographer
Lachlan Murdoch
Business
8-Sep-1971   Son of Rupert Murdoch
Sam Nunn
Politician
8-Sep-1938   US Senator from Georgia, 1972-97
Raymond T. Odierno
Military
8-Sep-1954   US Army Chief of Staff
Benjamin Orr
Bassist
8-Sep-1947 3-Oct-2000 Bassist for The Cars
Kimberly Peirce
Film Director
8-Sep-1967   Boys Don't Cry
Claude Pepper
Politician
8-Sep-1900 30-May-1989 Congressman from Florida, 1963-89
Samuel R. Pierce
Politician
8-Sep-1922 31-Oct-2000 US Secretary of HUD, 1981-89
Pink
Singer
8-Sep-1979   Can't Take Me Home
Léa Pool
Film Director
8-Sep-1950   Lost and Delirious
John J. Rhodes III
Politician
8-Sep-1943   Congressman from Arizona, 1987-93
King Richard the Lionheart
Head of State
8-Sep-1157 6-Apr-1199 King of England, 1189-99
Julian Richings
Actor
8-Sep-1955   Todd and the Book of Pure Evil
Jimmie Rodgers
Country Musician
8-Sep-1897 26-May-1933 Pioneering country singer/songwriter/yodeler
Bernie Sanders
Politician
8-Sep-1941   US Senator from Vermont
Siegfried Sassoon
Poet
8-Sep-1886 1-Sep-1967 War Poems
Gustav Schäfer
Drummer
8-Sep-1988   Drummer for Tokio Hotel
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Scholar
8-Sep-1767 12-May-1845 Über dramatisch Kunst und Literatur
Gene W. Schneider
Business
8-Sep-1926   United Cable Television Corp.
Harry Secombe
Actor
8-Sep-1921 11-Apr-2001 Neddie Seagoon on The Goon Show
John F. Seiberling
Politician
8-Sep-1918 2-Aug-2008 Congressman from Ohio, 1971-87
Peter Sellers
Actor
8-Sep-1925 24-Jul-1980 Inspector Clouseau
Michael Shermer
Journalist
8-Sep-1954   Skeptic Magazine
Brad Silberling
Film Director
8-Sep-1963   City of Angels
Mike Simpson
Politician
8-Sep-1950   Congressman, Idaho 2nd
Frank Solich
Football
8-Sep-1944   Head Coach, Ohio University
Latrell Sprewell
Basketball
8-Sep-1970   NBA player tried to choke his head coach
R. G. Springsteen
Film Director
8-Sep-1904 9-Dec-1989 Taggart
Howard Sutherland
Politician
8-Sep-1865 12-Mar-1950 US Senator from West Virginia, 1917-23
Robert A. Taft
Politician
8-Sep-1889 31-Jul-1953 US Senator from Ohio, 1939-53
Larenz Tate
Actor
8-Sep-1975   Dead Presidents
Heather Thomas
Actor
8-Sep-1957   Jody Banks on The Fall Guy
Henry Thomas
Actor
8-Sep-1971   E.T.: The Extraterrestrial
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Actor
8-Sep-1981   Randy on Home Improvement
Slim Thug
Rapper
8-Sep-1980   Already Platinum
Willie Tyler
Artist
8-Sep-1940   Ventriloquist
Christoph von Dohnányi
Conductor
8-Sep-1929   Conductor, Cleveland Orchestra, 1984-2002
Sam Waksal
Business
8-Sep-1947   CEO, ImClone
Leslie H. Wexner
Business
8-Sep-1937   CEO of Limited Brands
Henry Wilcoxon
Actor
8-Sep-1905 6-Mar-1984 Lionheart in Hollywood
Robert J. Wussler
Business
8-Sep-1936 5-Jun-2010 President of CBS Television, 1976-78




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