LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Luther Allison	Musician	17-Aug-1939	12-Aug-1997	Electric blues player
Paul C. Barth	Politician	1858	12-Aug-1907	Mayor of Louisville, 1905-07
Jean-Michel Basquiat	Painter	22-Dec-1960	12-Aug-1988	NYC graffiti artist
William Blake	Poet	28-Nov-1757	12-Aug-1827	English romantic poet and artist
John Cage	Composer	5-Sep-1912	12-Aug-1992	Experimental composer
Lynne Carver	Actor	13-Sep-1909	12-Aug-1955	American character actress
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh	Politician	18-Jun-1769	12-Aug-1822	Architected Napoleon's defeat
Ernst B. Chain	Scientist	19-Jun-1906	12-Aug-1979	Isolated penicillin
Philippe de Champaigne	Painter	26-May-1602	12-Aug-1674	Prolific French Baroque painter
Charles Chree	Astronomer	5-May-1860	12-Aug-1928	Geomagnetic phenomena
Kent H. Courtney	Activist	23-Oct-1918	12-Aug-1997	Ultraconservative activist
Francesco Crispi	Head of State	4-Oct-1819	12-Aug-1901	Sicilian patriot, Italian premier
Ross Elliott	Actor	18-Jun-1917	12-Aug-1999	Sheriff Abbott on The Virginian
Ian Fleming	Novelist	28-May-1908	12-Aug-1964	Author of the James Bond series
Henry Fonda	Actor	16-May-1905	12-Aug-1982	12 Angry Men
Ruth Ford	Actor	7-Jul-1915	12-Aug-2009	American stage actress
Giovanni Gabrieli	Composer	1557	12-Aug-1612	Italian composer at St. Mark's
Albert Gallatin	Politician	29-Jan-1761	12-Aug-1849	US Secretary of the Treasury, 1801-14
Merv Griffin	Talk Show Host	6-Jul-1925	12-Aug-2007	The Merv Griffin Show and Jeopardy
Walter Hess	Scientist	17-Mar-1881	12-Aug-1973	Brain mapping, neurophysiological methods
Phillips Holmes	Actor	22-Jul-1907	12-Aug-1942	The Criminal Code
William Jackson Hooker	Botanist	6-Jul-1785	12-Aug-1865	British Jungermanniae
Godfrey N. Hounsfield	Engineer	28-Aug-1919	12-Aug-2004	Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans)
Pope Innocent XI	Religion	16-May-1611	12-Aug-1689	Roman Catholic Pope, 1676-89
Jozef Israëls	Painter	27-Jan-1824	12-Aug-1911	Dutch scene painter
Helen Hunt Jackson	Poet	15-Oct-1830	12-Aug-1885	Ramona
Leoš Janácek	Composer	3-Jul-1854	12-Aug-1928	Her Foster Daughter
James E. Keeler	Astronomer	10-Sep-1857	12-Aug-1900	Composition of Saturn's rings
Arthur Bliss Lane	Diplomat	16-Jun-1894	12-Aug-1956	US Ambassador to Poland, 1945-47
James Russell Lowell	Author	22-Feb-1819	12-Aug-1891	The Biglow Papers
Dorothy Mackaill	Actor	4-Mar-1903	12-Aug-1990	Love Affair
James Mackay	Historian	21-Nov-1936	12-Aug-2007	Plagiarising historian
Thomas Mann	Novelist	6-Jun-1875	12-Aug-1955	Buddenbrooks
Jacopo Peri	Composer	20-Aug-1561	12-Aug-1633	Dafne, the first opera
Eliphalet Remington	Business	28-Oct-1793	12-Aug-1861	Founder of Remington Arms
William Shockley	Physicist	13-Feb-1910	12-Aug-1989	Co-Inventor of the transistor
Pope Sixtus IV	Religion	21-Jul-1414	12-Aug-1484	Roman Catholic Pope, 1471-84
A. Owsley Stanley	Politician	21-May-1867	12-Aug-1958	US Senator from Kentucky, 1919-25
George Stephenson	Engineer	9-Jun-1781	12-Aug-1848	Early railroad builder
James B. Sumner	Chemist	19-Nov-1887	12-Aug-1955	Crystallized enzymes
Tim Whelan	Film Director	2-Nov-1892	12-Aug-1957	The Divorce of Lady X
Loretta Young	Actor	6-Jan-1913	12-Aug-2000	Platinum Blonde
Karl Ziegler	Chemist	26-Nov-1898	12-Aug-1973	Researcher in plastics

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