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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Niels Henrik Abel
Mathematician
5-Aug-1802 6-Apr-1829 Studied elliptics and hyperelliptics
Vicente Aleixandre
Poet
26-Apr-1898 14-Dec-1984 Spanish surrealist poet
Clinton P. Anderson
Politician
23-Oct-1895 11-Nov-1975 US Senator from New Mexico, 1949-73
Fernando Arrabal
Playwright
11-Aug-1932   Viva la muerte
Roger Babson
Economist
6-Jul-1875 5-Mar-1967 Founder of Babson College
Georges Bataille
Philosopher
10-Sep-1897 8-Jul-1962 Histoire de l'oeil
William E. Borah
Politician
29-Jun-1865 19-Jan-1940 US Senator from Idaho, 1907-40
Jim Bowie
Military
10-Apr-1796 6-Mar-1836 Knife fighter, Alamo combatant
Jane Bowles
Novelist
22-Feb-1917 4-May-1973 Two Serious Ladies
Joseph P. Bradley
Judge
14-Mar-1813 22-Jan-1892 US Supreme Court Justice, 1870-92
George Mackay Brown
Poet
17-Oct-1921 13-Apr-1996 Time in a Red Coat
Ellen Burstyn
Actor
7-Dec-1932   Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
John Calvin
Religion
10-Jul-1509 27-May-1564 French Protestant Reformation
Albert Camus
Novelist
7-Nov-1913 4-Jan-1960 French author and Nobel laureate
Camilo José Cela
Author
11-May-1916 17-Jan-2002 Spanish novelist and Nobel laureate
Colin Clive
Actor
20-Jan-1900 25-Jun-1937 Frankenstein
Judy Collins
Singer/Songwriter
1-May-1939   Folk singer
Roy O. Disney
Business
24-Jun-1893 20-Dec-1971 Walt Disney's brother
Steve Ditko
Cartoonist
2-Nov-1927   Drew Spider-Man like nobody else has or can
John Langdon Down
Doctor
18-Nov-1828 7-Oct-1896 Down's syndrome
Ernest Dowson
Poet
2-Aug-1867 23-Feb-1900 English Decadent poet
Paul Ehrlich
Doctor
14-Mar-1854 20-Aug-1915 Father of chemotherapy
Paul Éluard
Poet
14-Dec-1895 18-Nov-1952 La Capitale de la Douleur
Charlie Finley
Baseball
22-Feb-1918 19-Feb-1996 Owner of the Oakland A's 1960-80
Hans Fischer
Chemist
27-Jul-1881 31-Mar-1945 Synthesized hemin
Irving Fisher
Economist
27-Feb-1867 29-Apr-1947 The Theory of Interest
Tom Fogerty
Guitarist
9-Nov-1941 6-Sep-1990 Creedence Clearwater Revival
Abe Fortas
Judge
19-Jun-1910 5-Apr-1982 US Supreme Court Justice, 1965-69
Sam Francis
Painter
25-Jun-1923 4-Nov-1994 Abstract expressionist
John Nance Garner
Politician
22-Nov-1868 7-Nov-1967 US Vice President, 1933-41
Théodore Géricault
Painter
26-Sep-1791 26-Jan-1824 French Romanticist painter
Khalil Gibran
Poet
6-Jan-1883 10-Apr-1931 The Prophet
André Gide
Author
22-Nov-1869 19-Feb-1951 Le Voyage d'Urien
Robert Goddard
Scientist
5-Oct-1882 10-Aug-1945 Father of modern rocketry
Maxim Gorky
Playwright
28-Mar-1868 17-Jun-1936 The Lower Depths
Lawrence Gowing
Historian
21-Apr-1918 5-Feb-1991 Art historian, biographer of Vermeer
Dashiell Hammett
Author
27-May-1894 10-Jan-1961 The Maltese Falcon
Richard Harris
Actor
1-Oct-1930 25-Oct-2002 English Bob in Unforgiven
Robert A. Heinlein
Author
7-Jul-1907 8-May-1988 Starship Troopers
W. E. Henley
Poet
23-Aug-1849 11-Jul-1903 Invictus
Hans Hofmann
Painter
21-Mar-1880 17-Feb-1966 Abstract expressionist, art teacher
Doc Holliday
Doctor
14-Aug-1851 8-Nov-1887 Wyatt Earp's reliable friend
Engelbert Humperdinck
Singer
2-May-1936   The Last Waltz
Charles R. Jackson
Novelist
6-Apr-1903 21-Sep-1968 The Lost Weekend
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer
18-Sep-1709 13-Dec-1784 A Dictionary of the English Language
Irène Joliot-Curie
Physicist
12-Sep-1897 17-Mar-1956 Artificial radioactivity
Franz Kafka
Novelist
3-Jul-1883 3-Jun-1924 Metamorphosis
John Keegan
Historian
15-May-1934 2-Aug-2012 The Face of Battle
Jules Laforgue
Poet
16-Aug-1860 20-Aug-1887 Pessimistic poet who inspired T. S. Eliot
Sidney Lanier
Poet
3-Feb-1842 7-Sep-1881 Important Southern lyrical poet
Alice Marble
Tennis
28-Sep-1913 13-Dec-1990 Winner of 18 Grand Slam titles
Rollo May
Psychologist
21-Apr-1909 22-Oct-1994 Love and Will
Dmitri Mendeleev
Chemist
8-Feb-1834 2-Feb-1907 Periodic Table of the Elements
Ho Chi Minh
Activist
19-May-1890 2-Sep-1969 Uncle Ho
Molière
Playwright
15-Jan-1622 17-Feb-1673 Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope
Alberto Moravia
Novelist
28-Nov-1907 26-Sep-1990 Il Conformista
Karen Morley
Actor
12-Dec-1909 8-Mar-2003 Gabriel Over the White House
Barry Morse
Actor
10-Jun-1918 2-Feb-2008 Lt. Gerard on The Fugitive
Lewis Mumford
Historian
19-Oct-1895 26-Jan-1990 Technics and Civilization
Pola Negri
Actor
31-Dec-1894 1-Aug-1987 Sultry silent film diva
Eugene O'Neill
Playwright
16-Oct-1888 27-Nov-1953 Long Day's Journey Into Night
Louella Parsons
Columnist
6-Aug-1881 9-Dec-1972 Hollywood queen of gossip
J. C. Penney
Business
16-Sep-1875 12-Feb-1971 Founder of J. C. Penney Company
Oscar Peterson
Jazz Musician
15-Aug-1925 24-Dec-2007 Maharajah of the keyboard
Franklin Pierce
Head of State
23-Nov-1804 8-Oct-1869 14th President of the U.S.
Katherine Anne Porter
Author
15-May-1890 18-Sep-1980 Ship of Fools
Bud Powell
Pianist
27-Sep-1924 31-Jul-1966 Seminal bop pianist and composer
Yordan Radichkov
Author
24-Oct-1929 21-Jan-2004 Bulgarian writer
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Mathematician
22-Dec-1887 26-Apr-1920 Self-educated mathematician
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Author
30-Oct-1881 13-Mar-1941 The Great Meadow
Oral Roberts
Religion
24-Jan-1918 15-Dec-2009 Televangelist, faith healer
Jimmie Rodgers
Country Musician
8-Sep-1897 26-May-1933 Pioneering country singer/songwriter/yodeler
Peter Mark Roget
Author
18-Jan-1779 12-Sep-1869 Roget's Thesaurus
Guy Rolfe
Actor
27-Dec-1911 19-Oct-2003 Mr. Sardonicus
Peyton Rous
Scientist
5-Oct-1879 16-Feb-1970 Blood banks and carcinogenic viruses
Walter Seifert
Criminal
11-Jun-1922 12-Jun-1964 Cologne flamethrower massacre
Hubert Selby
Author
23-Jul-1928 26-Apr-2004 Requiem for a Dream
Fulton J. Sheen
Religion
8-May-1895 9-Dec-1979 America's first televangelist
Alan Sillitoe
Novelist
4-Mar-1928 25-Apr-2010 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Michel Simon
Actor
9-Apr-1895 30-May-1975 L'Atalante
Joe Smith
Jazz Musician
28-Jun-1902 2-Dec-1937 Cool jazz trumpeter
Laurence Sterne
Novelist
24-Nov-1713 18-Mar-1768 Tristram Shandy
Allen Tate
Poet
19-Nov-1899 9-Feb-1979 Mr. Pope and Other Poems
June Taylor
Dancer
14-Dec-1917 17-May-2004 June Taylor Dancers choreographer
Frederick Terman
Scientist
7-Jun-1900 19-Dec-1982 Stanford Research Park
Shintaro Tsuji
Business
7-Dec-1927   Sanrio founder
Tina Turner
Singer
26-Nov-1939   What's Love Got to Do With It
Edward Tylor
Anthropologist
2-Oct-1832 2-Jan-1917 Founder of cultural anthropology
Harry Vardon
Golf
9-May-1870 20-Mar-1937 Early golf superstar
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Diplomat
30-Apr-1893 16-Oct-1946 Reich Foreign Minister
Wilfrid Voynich
Activist
31-Oct-1865 19-Mar-1930 Voynich manuscript
George Washington
Head of State
22-Feb-1732 14-Dec-1799 1st US President, 1789-97
Chick Webb
Jazz Musician
10-Feb-1905 16-Jun-1939 The Chick Webb Orchestra
Simone Weil
Philosopher
3-Feb-1909 24-Aug-1943 The Iliad, or the Poem of Force
Jessamyn West
Author
18-Jul-1902 23-Feb-1984 The Friendly Persuasion
Eugene Wigner
Physicist
17-Nov-1902 1-Jan-1995 Law of conservation of parity
Douglas Wilmer
Actor
8-Jan-1920   Sherlock Holmes
Yvor Winters
Poet
17-Oct-1900 25-Jan-1968 Primitivism & Decadence
Link Wray
Guitarist
2-May-1929 5-Nov-2005 Rumble



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