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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Don Adams
Actor
13-Apr-1926 25-Sep-2005 Maxwell Smart on Get Smart
Alexander the Great
Royalty
Jul-356 BC 10-Jun-323 BC World conqueror
Pope Alexander VI
Religion
1-Jan-1431 18-Aug-1503 Divided the New World for Portugal, Spain
Chester A. Arthur
Head of State
5-Oct-1829 18-Nov-1886 21st US President, 1881-85
Nathaniel Bacon
Politician
2-Jan-1647 26-Oct-1676 Bacon's Rebellion
John Birch
Religion
28-May-1918 25-Aug-1945 Missionary to China killed during WW2
James G. Blaine
Politician
31-Jan-1830 27-Jan-1893 Twice US Secretary of State
Joe E. Brown
Actor
28-Jul-1892 6-Jul-1973 Some Like It Hot
William S. Burroughs
Author
5-Feb-1914 2-Aug-1997 Naked Lunch
Sir Richard Burton
Explorer
19-Mar-1821 20-Oct-1890 Translated The Arabian Nights
Lord Byron
Poet
22-Jan-1788 19-Apr-1824 English romantic poet
George W. Cable
Author
12-Oct-1844 31-Jan-1925 Old Creole Days
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Religion
15-Jul-1850 22-Dec-1917 Missionaries of the Sacred Heart
Michael Caine
Actor
14-Mar-1933   Get Carter
Girolamo Cardano
Doctor
24-Sep-1501 21-Sep-1576 De Subtilitate
Roberto Clemente
Baseball
18-Aug-1934 31-Dec-1972 Puerto Rican baseball star
George Clooney
Actor
6-May-1961   E.R.
Anderson Cooper
Journalist
3-Jun-1967   Anderson Cooper 360
Davy Crockett
Military
17-Aug-1786 6-Mar-1836 King of the Wild Frontier
Oliver Cromwell
Government
25-Apr-1599 3-Sep-1658 Lord Protector of England 1653-58
Vasco da Gama
Explorer
c. 1469 24-Dec-1524 Portuguese explorer, conqueror, privateer
Jefferson Davis
Head of State
3-Jun-1808 6-Dec-1889 President of the Confederacy
John Donne
Poet
1572 31-Mar-1631 Anniversaries
Katherine Dunham
Dancer
22-Jun-1910 21-May-2006 Dunham School of Dance
Danny Elfman
Musician
29-May-1953   Oingo Boingo, movie composer
Rowland Evans
Columnist
28-Apr-1921 23-Mar-2001 Evans and Novak
George Finch
Chemist
4-Aug-1888 22-Nov-1970 Oxygen for mountain climbing
Errol Flynn
Actor
20-Jun-1909 14-Oct-1959 Robin Hood
Charles Fort
Scientist
6-Aug-1874 3-May-1932 Prophet of the Unexplained
Mahatma Gandhi
Activist
2-Oct-1869 30-Jan-1948 Proselytizer of nonviolence
Jane Goodall
Naturalist
3-Apr-1934   Primate researcher
F. A. Hayek
Economist
8-May-1899 23-Mar-1992 Austrian economist
Rudolf Hess
Government
26-Apr-1894 17-Jul-1987 Deputy Fuhrer flew unauthorized to Scotland
Tony Hillerman
Novelist
27-May-1925 26-Oct-2008 Mystery novels set at Navajo reservation
Gil Hodges
Baseball
4-Apr-1924 2-Apr-1972 Eight-time All-Star
Arthur Holmes
Geologist
14-Jan-1890 20-Sep-1965 Father of the geological timescale
Mike Holovak
Football
19-Sep-1919 27-Jan-2008 NFL Head Coach, General Manager
L. Ron Hubbard
Religion
13-Mar-1911 24-Jan-1986 Perpetrated Dianetics, Scientology
Andrew Jackson
Head of State
15-Mar-1767 8-Jun-1845 7th US President, 1829-37
Al Jolson
Singer
26-May-1886 23-Oct-1950 The Jazz Singer
John F. Kennedy
Head of State
29-May-1917 22-Nov-1963 35th US President, 1961-63
J. Krishnamurti
Religion
12-May-1895 18-Feb-1986 Theosophist guru
Barney Kroger
Business
24-Jan-1860 21-Jul-1938 Founder of Kroger grocery empire
Carole Landis
Actor
1-Jan-1919 5-Jul-1948 A Scandal in Paris
D. H. Lawrence
Novelist
11-Sep-1885 2-Mar-1930 Lady Chatterley's Lover
Louis Leakey
Anthropologist
7-Aug-1903 1-Oct-1972 Discovered Homo Habilis
Pope Leo X
Religion
11-Dec-1475 1-Dec-1521 Excommunicated Martin Luther
Meriwether Lewis
Explorer
18-Aug-1774 11-Oct-1809 Lewis and Clark expedition
David Livingstone
Explorer
19-Mar-1813 1-May-1873 Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
Jack London
Novelist
12-Jan-1876 22-Nov-1916 Call of the Wild
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet
27-Feb-1807 24-Mar-1882 Evangeline
Louis IX
Royalty
25-Apr-1214 25-Aug-1270 King of France, 1229-70
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Religion
1491 31-Jul-1556 Founder of the Jesuit order
George Mallory
Explorer
18-Jun-1886 8-Jun-1924 Frozen for 75 years on Mt. Everest
Aimee Semple McPherson
Religion
9-Oct-1890 27-Sep-1944 Evangelist, faith healer
Ho Chi Minh
Activist
19-May-1890 2-Sep-1969 Uncle Ho
James Monroe
Head of State
28-Apr-1758 4-Jul-1831 5th President of the U.S.
John Muir
Activist
21-Apr-1838 24-Dec-1914 Patron saint of Yosemite National Park
Audie Murphy
Actor
20-Jun-1924 28-May-1971 War hero turned cowboy actor
Dervla Murphy
Author
28-Nov-1931   Irish cyclist, travel writer
Ralph Nader
Activist
27-Feb-1934   Unsafe at Any Speed
Lord Nelson
Military
29-Sep-1758 21-Oct-1805 Most celebrated British admiral
Osceola
Military
c. 1804 30-Jan-1838 Seminole Indian chief
Mungo Park
Explorer
10-Sep-1771 1806 Scottish explorer of the Niger
John J. Pershing
Military
13-Sep-1860 15-Jul-1948 General of the Armies of the United States
Jeremy Piven
Actor
26-Jul-1965   Ari Gold on Entourage
Pol Pot
Head of State
19-May-1925 15-Apr-1998 Leader of the Khmer Rouge
Vladimir Prelog
Chemist
23-Jul-1906 7-Jan-1998 Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts
Manuel Quezon
Head of State
19-Aug-1878 1-Aug-1944 2nd President of the Philippines
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Doctor
1-May-1852 17-Oct-1934 Structure of the nervous system
Christopher Reeve
Actor
25-Sep-1952 10-Oct-2004 Superman
Steve Reeves
Actor
21-Jan-1926 1-May-2000 Hercules
Henry M. Robert
Administrator
2-May-1837 11-May-1923 Robert's Rules of Order
Archie Roosevelt
Relative
9-Apr-1894 13-Oct-1979 Conservative leader against New Deal
Kermit Roosevelt
Relative
10-Oct-1889 4-Jun-1943 Theodore Roosevelt's son
Theodore Roosevelt
Head of State
27-Oct-1858 6-Jan-1919 26th US President, 1901-09
Roberto Rossellini
Film Director
8-May-1906 3-Jun-1977 Stromboli
David Lee Roth
Singer
10-Oct-1954   Sometimes lead singer, Van Halen
John McAllister Schofield
Military
29-Sep-1831 4-Mar-1906 Union General later Secretary of War
Joseph J. Sisco
Diplomat
31-Oct-1919 23-Nov-2004 Kissinger's Mideast Deputy
Robert Smalls
Politician
5-Apr-1839 23-Feb-1915 Slave elected to Congress from South Carolina
Henry Morton Stanley
Explorer
28-Jan-1841 10-May-1904 Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
Jimmy Swaggart
Religion
15-Mar-1935   Televangelist with a whore problem
Zachary Taylor
Head of State
24-Nov-1784 9-Jul-1850 12th President of the United States
Mother Teresa
Religion
26-Aug-1910 5-Sep-1997 Missionaries of Charity
Nikola Tesla
Inventor
10-Jul-1856 7-Jan-1943 Invented alternating current
Mel Tillis
Country Musician
8-Aug-1932   I Ain't Never
Tutankhamun
Royalty
1341 BC 1323 BC Boy King of Egypt
Pope Urban VII
Religion
4-Aug-1521 27-Sep-1590 Roman Catholic Pope, 1590
Leon Uris
Novelist
3-Aug-1924 21-Jun-2003 Battle Cry
Thorstein Veblen
Economist
30-Jul-1857 3-Aug-1929 The Theory of the Leisure Class
Amerigo Vespucci
Explorer
9-Mar-1454 22-Feb-1512 American eponym
Charles Walgreen
Business
9-Oct-1873 11-Dec-1939 Founder of Walgreen Co.
Lew Wallace
Novelist
10-Apr-1827 15-Feb-1905 Civil War General, wrote Ben-Hur
George Washington
Head of State
22-Feb-1732 14-Dec-1799 1st US President, 1789-97
James Wilson
Judge
14-Sep-1742 28-Aug-1798 US Supreme Court Justice, 1789-98
St. Francis Xavier
Religion
7-Apr-1506 3-Dec-1552 Jesuit missionary



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