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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Bronson Alcott
Educator
29-Nov-1799 4-Mar-1888 Founder of Boston's Temple School
Néstor Almendros
Cinematographer
30-Oct-1930 4-Mar-1992 Mauvaise Conduite
Antonin Artaud
Playwright
4-Sep-1896 4-Mar-1948 Theater of Cruelty
Art Babbitt
Cartoonist
8-Oct-1907 4-Mar-1992 Disney animator, created Goofy
Harry Blackmun
Judge
12-Nov-1908 4-Mar-1999 US Supreme Court Justice, 1970-94
Wesley Bolin
Politician
1-Jul-1909 4-Mar-1978 Governor of Arizona, 1977-78
Charles W. Bryan
Politician
10-Feb-1867 4-Mar-1945 Twice Governor of Nebraska
Ernest Buckler
Novelist
19-Jul-1908 4-Mar-1984 The Mountain and the Valley
John Candy
Actor
31-Oct-1950 4-Mar-1994 Uncle Buck
Jean-François Champollion
Historian
23-Dec-1790 4-Mar-1832 Deciphered the Rosetta Stone
Del Close
Actor
9-Mar-1934 4-Mar-1999 The Funniest One in the Room
Robert H. Dicke
Physicist
6-May-1916 4-Mar-1997 Dicke radiometer
Thomas Eagleton
Politician
4-Sep-1929 4-Mar-2007 US Senator from Missouri, 1969-87
Horton Foote
Playwright
14-Mar-1916 4-Mar-2009 To Kill a Mockingbird
Hamlin Garland
Author
14-Sep-1860 4-Mar-1940 A Son of the Middle Border
Gary Gygax
Inventor
27-Jul-1938 4-Mar-2008 Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons
E. Y. Harburg
Songwriter
8-Apr-1896 4-Mar-1981 The Wizard of Oz
Johannes Carsten Hauch
Poet
12-May-1790 4-Mar-1872 Valdemar Seir
Charles Jarrott
Film Director
16-Jun-1927 4-Mar-2011 Anne of the Thousand Days
Tadao Kashio
Business
1917 4-Mar-1993 President of Casio, 1960-84
Thomas Starr King
Religion
17-Dec-1824 4-Mar-1864 Saved California to the Union
Louis Lepke
Criminal
6-Feb-1897 4-Mar-1944 Head of Murder, Inc.
Richard Manuel
Musician
3-Apr-1943 4-Mar-1986 The Band
Nan Martin
Actor
15-Jul-1927 4-Mar-2010 The Drew Carey Show
José Martínez Ruiz
Author
8-Jun-1873 4-Mar-1967 Generation of '98
George McAfee
Football
13-Mar-1918 4-Mar-2009 Chicago Bears HB, Hall of Famer
John McGeoch
Musician
28-May-1955 4-Mar-2004 Siouxsie and the Banshees guitarist
Willard Motley
Author
14-Jul-1909 4-Mar-1965 The original Bud Billiken
Herbert O'Conor
Politician
17-Nov-1896 4-Mar-1960 Governor and Senator from Maryland
George Pake
Scientist
1-Apr-1924 4-Mar-2004 First director of Xerox PARC
Minnie Pearl
Singer
25-Oct-1912 4-Mar-1996 Her hat cost $1.98
Pope Pelagius I
Religion
? 4-Mar-561 AD Roman Catholic Pope, 555-61
Matthew Perry
Military
10-Apr-1794 4-Mar-1858 Opened Japan to the west
Ludwig Quidde
Activist
23-Mar-1858 4-Mar-1941 German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
James A. Rhodes
Politician
13-Sep-1909 4-Mar-2001 Twice Governor of Ohio
Nicholas Ridley
Politician
17-Feb-1929 4-Mar-1993 Thatcherite MP and Minister
Saladin
Royalty
c. 1137 4-Mar-1193 Retook Jerusalem in 1187
Richard Sale
Screenwriter
17-Dec-1911 4-Mar-1993 A Ticket to Tomahawk
Mark Sandrich
Film Director
26-Aug-1900 4-Mar-1945 Top Hat
John McAllister Schofield
Military
29-Sep-1831 4-Mar-1906 Union General later Secretary of War
Walter Schottky
Physicist
23-Jul-1886 4-Mar-1976 Solid-state physics and electronics
Charles Sherrington
Doctor
27-Nov-1857 4-Mar-1952 Neurons and synapses
Joseph Henry Shorthouse
Novelist
9-Sep-1834 4-Mar-1903 John Inglesant
Harold Stassen
Politician
13-Apr-1907 4-Mar-2001 Perennial presidential candidate
Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Politician
11-Feb-1812 4-Mar-1883 Confederate Vice President
Torin Thatcher
Actor
15-Jan-1905 4-Mar-1981 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Simon van der Meer
Physicist
24-Nov-1925 4-Mar-2011 Co-Discovered W and Z particles
Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk
Head of State
22-Aug-1887 4-Mar-1977 German Chancellor, 1945
Leonard Warren
Singer
21-Apr-1911 4-Mar-1960 Operatic baritone, NY Metropolitan Opera
William Carlos Williams
Poet
17-Sep-1883 4-Mar-1963 Pictures from Brueghel




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