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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Josef Albers
Artist
19-Mar-1888 25-Mar-1976 Homage to the Square
R. V. Cassill
Novelist
17-May-1919 25-Mar-2002 Dr. Cobb's Game
Big Sid Catlett
Jazz Musician
10-Jan-1910 25-Mar-1951 Jazz/swing drummer
James S. Coleman
Sociologist
12-May-1926 25-Mar-1995 Foundations of Social Theory
Eddie Collins
Baseball
2-May-1887 25-Mar-1951 Second baseman, 1914 MVP
Howard M. Dean
Business
27-Jun-1937 25-Mar-2012 CEO of Dean Foods, 1987-2001
Claude Debussy
Composer
22-Aug-1862 25-Mar-1918 French Impressionist composer
Max Eastman
Author
12-Jan-1883 25-Mar-1969 Socialist writer, later embraced McCarthyism
King Faisal
Royalty
1904 25-Mar-1975 King of Saudi Arabia, 1964-75
John Hope Franklin
Historian
2-Jan-1915 25-Mar-2009 From Slavery to Freedom
Thomas S. Gates
Government
10-Apr-1906 25-Mar-1983 US Secretary of Defense, 1959-61
Nehemiah Grew
Botanist
26-Sep-1641 25-Mar-1712 Anatomy of Plants
Nicholas Hawksmoor
Architect
c. 1661 25-Mar-1736 Worked with Wren and Vanbrugh
James J. Howard
Politician
24-Jul-1927 25-Mar-1988 Congressman from New Jersey, 1965-88
Vernon W. Hughes
Physicist
28-May-1921 25-Mar-2003 Muons
William G. Hyland
Government
18-Jan-1929 25-Mar-2008 Editor of Foreign Affairs, 1984-93
Ishi
Oddity
c. 1860 25-Mar-1916 Last of an extinct tribe
Nunnally Johnson
Screenwriter
5-Dec-1897 25-Mar-1977 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Reginald Le Borg
Film Director
11-Dec-1902 25-Mar-1989 The Mummy's Ghost
Abby Mann
Screenwriter
1-Dec-1927 25-Mar-2008 Judgment at Nuremberg
Helen Martin
Actor
23-Jul-1909 25-Mar-2000 Pearl Shay on 227
Daniel Massey
Actor
10-Oct-1933 25-Mar-1998 Star!
M. Blane Michael
Judge
17-Feb-1943 25-Mar-2011 4th Circuit Court of Appeals
Oscar Micheaux
Film/TV Producer
2-Jan-1884 25-Mar-1951 Within Our Gates
Frédéric Mistral
Poet
8-Sep-1830 25-Mar-1914 Provençal poet and ethnographer
Alan Mowbray
Actor
18-Aug-1896 25-Mar-1969 Founding member, Screen Actors Guild
Robert Newton
Actor
1-Jun-1905 25-Mar-1956 Long John Silver
Max Ophüls
Film Director
6-May-1902 25-Mar-1957 Letter from an Unknown Woman
Buck Owens
TV Personality
12-Aug-1929 25-Mar-2006 Hee Haw
James A. Ryder
Business
28-Jul-1913 25-Mar-1997 Founder of Ryder System
Steve Schiff
Politician
18-Mar-1947 25-Mar-1998 Congressman from New Mexico, 1989-98
Dan Seals
Country Musician
8-Feb-1948 25-Mar-2009 England Dan and John Ford Coley
Chet Simmons
Business
11-Jul-1928 25-Mar-2010 President of ESPN, 1979-82
Edward Steichen
Photographer
27-Mar-1879 25-Mar-1973 Photo-Secessionist
Walter Susskind
Conductor
1-May-1913 25-Mar-1980 Director, Toronto Symphony, 1956-65
Antonio Tabucchi
Novelist
24-Sep-1943 25-Mar-2012 The Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa
Nancy Walker
Actor
10-May-1922 25-Mar-1992 Rhoda's mother
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Activist
16-Jul-1862 25-Mar-1931 Civil rights advocate
John Bell Williams
Politician
4-Dec-1918 25-Mar-1983 Governor of Mississippi, 1968-72
James Wright
Poet
13-Dec-1927 25-Mar-1980 The Branch Will Not Break




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