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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Mary Anning
Paleontologist
21-May-1799 9-Mar-1847 Self-taught paleontologist
W. H. Auden
Poet
21-Feb-1907 29-Sep-1973 The Age of Anxiety
Joseph Brant
Military
1742 24-Nov-1807 Mohawk Indian Chief
James F. Byrnes
Politician
2-May-1882 9-Apr-1972 US Secretary of State, 1945-47
Cab Calloway
Jazz Musician
25-Dec-1907 18-Nov-1994 King of Hi-De-Ho
Willa Cather
Novelist
7-Dec-1873 24-Apr-1947 O Pioneers!
Samuel Crowther
Religion
c. 1809 31-Dec-1891 African missionary bishop
John Donne
Poet
1572 31-Mar-1631 Anniversaries
T. S. Eliot
Poet
26-Sep-1888 4-Jan-1965 Author of "The Waste Land"
Matthew Fox
Religion
21-Dec-1940   Creation Spirituality
Edward Gibbon
Historian
8-May-1737 16-Jan-1794 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Anne Hathaway
Actor
12-Nov-1982   The Princess Diaries
King Henry VIII
Royalty
28-Jun-1491 28-Jan-1547 King of England, 1509-47
James McGreevey
Politician
6-Aug-1957   Governor of New Jersey, 2002-04
Levi P. Morton
Politician
16-May-1824 16-May-1920 Vice President under Benjamin Harrison
Florence Nightingale
Activist
12-May-1820 13-Aug-1910 Established nursing as a profession
Prince Philip
Royalty
10-Jun-1921   Duke of Edinburgh
Enoch Powell
Politician
16-Jun-1912 8-Feb-1998 British demagogue
Hormuzd Rassam
Archaeologist
1826 16-Sep-1910 Discovered Epic of Gilgamesh
David Ricardo
Economist
18-Apr-1772 11-Sep-1823 Principles of Political Economy
Katharine Jefferts Schori
Religion
26-Mar-1954   Presiding Episcopal Bishop
J. Parnell Thomas
Government
16-Jan-1895 19-Nov-1970 HUAC chairman, took the Fifth
Kenneth Tomlinson
Business
3-Aug-1944 1-May-2014 Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Bess Truman
First Lady
13-Feb-1885 18-Oct-1982 First Lady under Harry S. Truman
Mordechai Vanunu
Activist
13-Oct-1954   Blew whistle on Israel's nukes
George W. Wickersham
Government
19-Sep-1858 26-Jan-1936 US Attorney General, 1909-13
John Wilmot
Poet
1-Apr-1647 26-Jul-1680 Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery


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