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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Tsar Alexis
Royalty
19-Mar-1629 8-Feb-1676 Tsar of Russia, 1645-76
William Bateson
Biologist
8-Aug-1861 8-Feb-1926 Founder of genetics
Walther Bothe
Physicist
8-Jan-1891 8-Feb-1957 Coincidence method
Phil Bruns
Actor
2-May-1931 8-Feb-2012 George Shumway on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Samuel P. Bush
Relative
4-Oct-1863 8-Feb-1948 Father of Senator Prescott Bush
Cetshwayo
Royalty
c. 1826 8-Feb-1884 Zulu king
Oscar L. Chapman
Government
22-Oct-1896 8-Feb-1978 US Secretary of the Interior, 1949-53
Silvio O. Conte
Politician
9-Nov-1921 8-Feb-1991 Congressman from Massachusetts, 1959-91
Charles Curtis
Politician
25-Jan-1860 8-Feb-1936 US Vice President, 1929-33
William T. Dillard
Business
2-Sep-1914 8-Feb-2002 Founder of Dillard's
Wild Bill Donovan
Government
1-Jan-1883 8-Feb-1959 Founded the OSS
Edward R. Dudley
Diplomat
11-Mar-1911 8-Feb-2005 First Black US Ambassador
William Duncan
Actor
16-Dec-1879 8-Feb-1961 Silent film actor
Meredith Edwards
Actor
10-Jun-1917 8-Feb-1999 Dunkirk
Dennis Gabor
Physicist
5-Jun-1900 8-Feb-1979 Inventor of holography
John White Geary
Politician
30-Dec-1819 8-Feb-1873 Governor of Kansas and Pennsylvania
Victor Gollancz
Publisher
9-Apr-1893 8-Feb-1967 Founder of Victor Gollancz, Ltd.
Aaron Hill
Playwright
10-Feb-1685 8-Feb-1750 The Progress of Wit
Felix Hoffmann
Chemist
21-Jan-1868 8-Feb-1946 Aspirin and heroin
Francis Horner
Economist
12-Aug-1778 8-Feb-1817 Bullion Report
Robert Jastrow
Astronomer
7-Sep-1925 8-Feb-2008 Red Giants and White Dwarfs
Keith Knudsen
Drummer
18-Feb-1948 8-Feb-2005 Drummer for the Doobie Brothers
Peter Kropotkin
Anarchist
21-Dec-1842 8-Feb-1921 Libertarian anarchist revolutionary
Halldór Laxness
Author
23-Apr-1902 8-Feb-1998 Iceland's Bell
Morris E. Leeds
Business
6-Mar-1869 8-Feb-1952 Leeds & Northrup Co.
Harriet MacGibbon
Actor
5-Oct-1905 8-Feb-1987 Mrs. Drysdale on Beverly Hillbillies
Connie Mack
Baseball
22-Dec-1862 8-Feb-1956 Manager of the Philadelphia Athletics
Mary I of Scotland
Royalty
8-Dec-1542 8-Feb-1587 Mary, Queen of Scots
Wesley L. McDonald
Military
6-Jul-1924 8-Feb-2008 Led 1983 invasion of Grenada
Marvin Miller
Actor
18-Jul-1913 8-Feb-1985 Michael Anthony on The Millionaire
May Miller
Playwright
26-Jan-1899 8-Feb-1995 The Bog Guide
Henry S. Morgan
Business
24-Oct-1900 8-Feb-1982 Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley
Iris Murdoch
Novelist
15-Jul-1919 8-Feb-1999 The Sea, the Sea
Jack Murtha
Politician
17-Jun-1932 8-Feb-2010 Pennsylvania Congressman, 1974-2010
Peter the Great
Royalty
9-Jun-1672 8-Feb-1725 Tsar of Russia, 1689-1725
Enoch Powell
Politician
16-Jun-1912 8-Feb-1998 British demagogue
Louis Renault
Government
21-May-1843 8-Feb-1918 International arbitrator, Nobel recipient
Sir Robert Robinson
Chemist
13-Sep-1886 8-Feb-1975 Researcher of alkaloids
Vesta Roy
Politician
26-Mar-1925 8-Feb-2002 Governor of New Hampshire, 1982-83
Eldon Dean Rudd
Politician
15-Jul-1920 8-Feb-2002 Congressman from Arizona, 1977-87
R. J. Rushdoony
Religion
25-Apr-1916 8-Feb-2001 Institutes of Biblical Law
Julius Schwartz
Cartoonist
19-Jun-1915 8-Feb-2004 Silver Age comics pioneer
Raymond Scott
Musician
10-Sep-1908 8-Feb-1994 Powerhouse, invented the sequencer
Del Shannon
Singer/Songwriter
30-Dec-1934 8-Feb-1990 1960s songwriter, Runaway
Anna Nicole Smith
Model
28-Nov-1967 8-Feb-2007 Addled golddigger
Jimmy Smith
Jazz Musician
8-Dec-1925 8-Feb-2005 Master of the Hammond B3 organ
David Friedrich Strauss
Religion
27-Jan-1808 8-Feb-1874 Leben Jesu
Derrick Thomas
Football
1-Jan-1967 8-Feb-2000 Hall of Fame Linebacker, Kansas City Chiefs
Fritz Todt
Government
4-Sep-1891 8-Feb-1942 Nazi engineer, finished the Autobahn
Willis Van Devanter
Judge
17-Apr-1859 8-Feb-1941 US Supreme Court Justice, 1911-37
John von Neumann
Mathematician
28-Dec-1903 8-Feb-1957 Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory
Alfred Wallenstein
Cellist
7-Oct-1898 8-Feb-1983 Music Director, LA Philharmonic, 1943-56
John Hay Whitney
Business
17-Aug-1904 8-Feb-1982 New York Herald Tribune
Fritz Zwicky
Astronomer
14-Feb-1898 8-Feb-1974 Astrophysicist at CalTech




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