| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Robert Baden-Powell |
Military |
22-Feb-1857 |
8-Jan-1941 |
Founder of the Boy Scout movement |
| Matthew "Stymie" Beard |
Actor |
1-Jan-1925 |
8-Jan-1981 |
Stymie in Our Gang |
| Lorenzo Bellini |
Doctor |
3-Sep-1643 |
8-Jan-1704 |
Discovered kidney's Bellini Ducts |
| George Bellows |
Painter |
12-Aug-1882 |
8-Jan-1925 |
American realist painter |
| Andrei Bely |
Author |
26-Oct-1880 |
8-Jan-1934 |
Petersburg |
| Giotto di Bondone |
Painter |
1267 |
8-Jan-1337 |
Preeminent 14th c. Italian Painter |
| Pat Buttram |
Actor |
19-Jun-1915 |
8-Jan-1994 |
Mr. Haney on Green Acres |
| Melvin Calvin |
Chemist |
8-Apr-1911 |
8-Jan-1997 |
Deciphered photosynthesis |
| Pope Celestine III |
Religion |
c. 1106 |
8-Jan-1198 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1191-98 |
| Art Clokey |
Cartoonist |
12-Oct-1921 |
8-Jan-2010 |
Creator of Gumby |
| Arcangelo Corelli |
Violinist |
17-Feb-1653 |
8-Jan-1713 |
Concerti Grossi |
| Yvonne De Carlo |
Actor |
1-Sep-1922 |
8-Jan-2007 |
Lily on The Munsters |
| Walter Diemer |
Business |
8-Jan-1905 |
8-Jan-1998 |
Invented bubble gum |
| Lee Dixon |
Actor |
22-Jan-1914 |
8-Jan-1953 |
Ready, Willing and Able |
| Jim Dooley |
Football |
8-Feb-1930 |
8-Jan-2008 |
Chicago Bears Head Coach, 1968-71 |
| Zhou Enlai |
Head of State |
5-Mar-1898 |
8-Jan-1976 |
Mao's right-hand man |
| Pierre Fournier |
Cellist |
24-Jun-1906 |
8-Jan-1986 |
French cello virtuoso |
| Galileo Galilei |
Astronomer |
15-Feb-1564 |
8-Jan-1642 |
Copernican observational astronomer |
| Don Galloway |
Actor |
27-Jul-1937 |
8-Jan-2009 |
Det. Sgt. Ed Brown on Ironside |
| John Gregson |
Actor |
15-Mar-1919 |
8-Jan-1975 |
Genevieve |
| Harvey Haddix |
Baseball |
18-Sep-1925 |
8-Jan-1994 |
MLB pitcher |
| Samuel A. Kendall |
Politician |
1-Nov-1859 |
8-Jan-1933 |
Congressman, committed suicide |
| Tom Kindness |
Politician |
26-Aug-1929 |
8-Jan-2004 |
Congressman from Ohio, 1975-87 |
| John William Mauchly |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1907 |
8-Jan-1980 |
ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers |
| Antonia Maury |
Astronomer |
21-Mar-1866 |
8-Jan-1952 |
Stellar classification |
| Tom McCall |
Politician |
22-Mar-1913 |
8-Jan-1983 |
Governor of Oregon, 1967-75 |
| Sarah McClendon |
Journalist |
8-Jul-1910 |
8-Jan-2003 |
White House Reporter FDR to GWB |
| Kenneth McMillan |
Actor |
2-Jul-1932 |
8-Jan-1989 |
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen |
| Charles E. Merriam |
Scholar |
15-Nov-1874 |
8-Jan-1953 |
American Political Ideas |
| François Mitterrand |
Head of State |
26-Oct-1916 |
8-Jan-1996 |
President of France, 1981-95 |
| Richard John Neuhaus |
Religion |
14-May-1936 |
8-Jan-2009 |
Catholic priest |
| Emperor Norton |
Royalty |
14-Feb-1819 |
8-Jan-1880 |
Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico |
| Gale Page |
Actor |
23-Jul-1913 |
8-Jan-1983 |
Four Daughters |
| Kenneth Patchen |
Poet |
13-Dec-1911 |
8-Jan-1972 |
Journal of Albion Moonlight |
| Marco Polo |
Explorer |
c. 1254 |
8-Jan-1324 |
Travels of Marco Polo |
| Aleksandr M. Prokhorov |
Physicist |
11-Jul-1916 |
8-Jan-2002 |
Invention of the maser and laser |
| Julius Raab |
Head of State |
29-Nov-1891 |
8-Jan-1964 |
Chancellor of Austria, 1953-61 |
| John M. Roll |
Judge |
8-Feb-1947 |
8-Jan-2011 |
US District Court Judge, murdered |
| Wesley Ruggles |
Film Director |
11-Jun-1889 |
8-Jan-1972 |
Cimarron |
| Joseph Schumpeter |
Economist |
8-Feb-1883 |
8-Jan-1950 |
Creative Destruction |
| Kurt Schwitters |
Artist |
20-Jun-1887 |
8-Jan-1948 |
Collagist, Merz |
| Lewis Seiler |
Film Director |
30-Sep-1890 |
8-Jan-1964 |
Guadalcanal Diary |
| Reta Shaw |
Actor |
13-Sep-1912 |
8-Jan-1982 |
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
| Terry-Thomas |
Actor |
14-Jul-1911 |
8-Jan-1990 |
Private's Progress |
| Dave Thomas |
Business |
2-Jul-1932 |
8-Jan-2002 |
Founder of Wendy's Hamburgers |
| Richard Tucker |
Singer |
28-Aug-1913 |
8-Jan-1975 |
Operatic tenor, NY Metropolitan Opera |
| Paul Verlaine |
Poet |
30-Mar-1844 |
8-Jan-1896 |
Leader of symbolist poetry movement |
| Harold Vermilyea |
Actor |
10-Oct-1889 |
8-Jan-1958 |
Sorry, Wrong Number |
| Fletcher Warren |
Diplomat |
3-Mar-1896 |
8-Jan-1992 |
US Ambassador to Turkey, 1956-60 |
| Eli Whitney |
Inventor |
8-Dec-1765 |
8-Jan-1825 |
Inventor of the cotton gin |
