| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Philip Danforth Armour |
Business |
16-May-1832 |
6-Jan-1901 |
Founder of Armour & Co. |
| Louis Braille |
Inventor |
4-Jan-1809 |
6-Jan-1852 |
Reading system for the blind |
| Fanny Burney |
Novelist |
13-Jun-1752 |
6-Jan-1840 |
Camilla |
| Emma Calvé |
Singer |
15-Aug-1858 |
6-Jan-1942 |
Operatic soprano, Carmen |
| Georg Cantor |
Mathematician |
3-Mar-1845 |
6-Jan-1918 |
Founder of set theory |
| Ian Charleson |
Actor |
11-Aug-1949 |
6-Jan-1990 |
Chariots of Fire |
| Pavel A. Cherenkov |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1904 |
6-Jan-1990 |
Cherenkov radiation |
| Richard Henry Dana |
Author |
1-Aug-1815 |
6-Jan-1882 |
Two Years Before the Mast |
| John Dennis |
Critic |
1657 |
6-Jan-1734 |
The Usefulness of the Stage |
| William J. Dyess |
Diplomat |
1-Aug-1929 |
6-Jan-1996 |
US Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1982-83 |
| Johann Augustus Eberhard |
Philosopher |
31-Aug-1739 |
6-Jan-1809 |
Neue Apologie des Socrates |
| Jim Fisk |
Business |
1-Apr-1834 |
6-Jan-1872 |
Business partner of Jay Gould |
| Victor Fleming |
Film Director |
23-Feb-1883 |
6-Jan-1949 |
Gone With the Wind |
| Philip Henslowe |
Business |
c. 1550 |
6-Jan-1616 |
Elizabethan theatrical manager |
| A. Lawrence Lowell |
Educator |
1-Jan-1856 |
6-Jan-1943 |
President, Harvard University, 1909-33 |
| John D. MacArthur |
Philanthropist |
6-Mar-1897 |
6-Jan-1978 |
Philanthropist, MacArthur Foundation |
| Niall MacGinnis |
Actor |
29-Mar-1913 |
6-Jan-1977 |
49th Parallel |
| Noel Madison |
Actor |
30-Apr-1897 |
6-Jan-1975 |
American character actor |
| Don Martin |
Artist |
18-May-1931 |
6-Jan-2000 |
Mad Magazine artist |
| Gregor Mendel |
Scientist |
22-Jul-1822 |
6-Jan-1884 |
Discovered the laws of inheritance |
| Burt Munro |
Engineer |
25-Mar-1899 |
6-Jan-1978 |
Subject of biopic The World's Fastest Indian |
| Rudolf Nureyev |
Dancer |
17-Mar-1938 |
6-Jan-1993 |
Defected to France from Kirov Ballet |
| Bernard van Orley |
Painter |
1492 |
6-Jan-1542 |
Flemish Renaissance painter |
| Vladimir de Pachmann |
Pianist |
27-Jul-1848 |
6-Jan-1933 |
Histrionic Russian pianist, known for Chopin |
| Baldassarre Peruzzi |
Architect |
7-Mar-1481 |
6-Jan-1536 |
Sienese architect, quadratura painter |
| Wesley Powell |
Politician |
13-Oct-1915 |
6-Jan-1981 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1959-63 |
| Lou Rawls |
Singer |
1-Dec-1935 |
6-Jan-2006 |
Silky-voiced jazz/soul singer |
| John W. Reynolds |
Politician |
4-Apr-1921 |
6-Jan-2002 |
Governor of Wisconsin, 1963-65 |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
Head of State |
27-Oct-1858 |
6-Jan-1919 |
26th US President, 1901-09 |
| Julius Rosenwald |
Business |
12-Aug-1862 |
6-Jan-1932 |
Sears executive and Good Samaritan |
| Charlotte von Stein |
Author |
25-Dec-1742 |
6-Jan-1827 |
Friend of Goethe and Schiller |
| Slim Summerville |
Actor |
10-Jul-1892 |
6-Jan-1949 |
The Front Page |
| Ida M. Tarbell |
Journalist |
5-Nov-1857 |
6-Jan-1944 |
History of the Standard Oil Company |
| Hugh Thompson |
Military |
15-Apr-1943 |
6-Jan-2006 |
Stopped the My Lai massacre |
| Frank Tuttle |
Film Director |
6-Aug-1892 |
6-Jan-1963 |
This Gun for Hire |
| Don Tyson |
Business |
21-Apr-1930 |
6-Jan-2011 |
Tyson Foods |
| James E. Van Zandt |
Politician |
18-Dec-1898 |
6-Jan-1986 |
Congressman from Pennsylvania |
| Robert Welch |
Activist |
1-Dec-1899 |
6-Jan-1985 |
Founder, John Birch Society |
| Stark Young |
Critic |
11-Oct-1881 |
6-Jan-1963 |
So Red the Rose |
