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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Howard Ahmanson, Jr.
Philanthropist
3-Feb-1950   Reclusive fundamentalist-Christian philanthropist
V. C. Andrews
Author
6-Jun-1923 19-Dec-1986 Flowers in the Attic
Earl Anthony
Bowling
27-Apr-1938 14-Aug-2001 Professional bowler
Lionel Barrymore
Actor
28-Apr-1878 15-Nov-1954 Young Dr. Kildare
Warner Baxter
Actor
29-Mar-1889 7-May-1951 In Old Arizona
Henri Bergson
Philosopher
18-Oct-1859 4-Jan-1941 L'Évolution Créatrice
Bruno Bettelheim
Psychologist
28-Aug-1903 13-Mar-1990 Fraudulent child psychologist
E. Power Biggs
Organist
29-Mar-1906 10-Mar-1977 Anglo-American organist
Clara Blandick
Actor
4-Jun-1880 15-Apr-1962 Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz
Artur Bodanzky
Conductor
16-Dec-1877 23-Nov-1939 Opera Conductor at the NY Met, 1915-39
Barry Bonds
Baseball
24-Jul-1964   Holds all-time home run record
Lou Boudreau
Baseball
17-Jul-1917 10-Aug-2001 MLB Shortstop, Hall of Famer
Johnny Bower
Hockey
8-Nov-1924   The China Wall
Louise Brooks
Actor
14-Nov-1906 8-Aug-1985 Pandora's Box
Pamela Brown
Actor
8-Jul-1917 18-Sep-1975 Lust for Life
Jack Buchanan
Actor
2-Apr-1891 20-Oct-1957 The Band Wagon
George H.W. Bush
Head of State
12-Jun-1924   41st US President, 1989-93
Neve Campbell
Actor
3-Oct-1973   Phantom of the Opera
John Carradine
Actor
5-Feb-1906 27-Nov-1988 In over 200 B movies
Colette
Novelist
28-Jan-1873 3-Aug-1954 Gigi
Alistair Cooke
Journalist
20-Nov-1908 29-Mar-2004 Alistair Cooke's America
Lloyd Corrigan
Actor
16-Oct-1900 5-Nov-1969 Arthur Manleder in Boston Blackie films
William J. Crowe, Jr.
Government
2-Jan-1925 18-Oct-2007 US Navy Admiral
Captain Crunch
Hacker
1943   Toothless hacker
Duke Cunningham
Politician
8-Dec-1941   Congressman from California, 1991-2005
Roald Dahl
Author
13-Sep-1916 23-Nov-1990 James and the Giant Peach
Jack Dangers
Electronic Musician
1967   Meat Beat Manifesto
Miles Davis
Jazz Musician
26-May-1926 28-Sep-1991 Jazz trumpeter, Kind of Blue
Clarence Day
Author
18-Nov-1874 28-Dec-1935 Life with Father
Jack Dempsey
Boxing
24-Jun-1895 31-May-1983 Heavyweight champ
Dolly the sheep
Oddity
5-Jul-1996 14-Feb-2003 World's first cloned mammal
Stephen A. Douglas
Politician
23-Apr-1813 3-Jun-1861 US Senator, debated Lincoln
Hugh Downs
Journalist
14-Feb-1921   20/20
Michael Dunn
Actor
20-Oct-1934 30-Aug-1973 Dr. Miguelito Loveless
Gerald Durrell
Naturalist
7-Jan-1925 30-Jan-1995 My Family and Other Animals
Andrea Dworkin
Activist
26-Sep-1946 9-Apr-2005 Anti-pornography activist
George Eastman
Inventor
12-Jul-1854 14-Mar-1932 Inventor of the Kodak camera
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Head of State
14-Oct-1890 28-Mar-1969 34th US President, 1953-61
Erik Estrada
Actor
16-Mar-1949   Officer Francis Poncharello on CHiPs
Suzanne Farrell
Dancer
16-Aug-1945   Ballerina, NYC Ballet
Betty Ford
First Lady
8-Apr-1918 8-Jul-2011 Former First Lady, founded Betty Ford Center
Arthur Freed
Film/TV Producer
9-Sep-1894 12-Apr-1973 MGM producer, big budget musicals
William F. Giauque
Chemist
12-May-1895 28-Mar-1982 Adiabatic demagnetization
Barry Gibb
Musician
1-Sep-1946   Guitarist and vocalist for the Bee Gees
Althea Gibson
Tennis
25-Aug-1927 28-Sep-2003 First black woman to win Wimbledon
Hermann Goering
Military
12-Jan-1893 15-Oct-1946 Founder of the Gestapo
Barry M. Gosin
Business
c. 1951   CEO of Newmark Knight Frank
Jack Guynn
Business
1942   CEO of FRB Atlanta, 1996-2006
Peter Paul Halajian
Business
1850 1927 Candy maker
Alfred Hitchcock
Film Director
13-Aug-1899 29-Apr-1980 Master of Suspense
Raymond Hood
Architect
29-Mar-1881 14-Aug-1934 Chicago Tribune Tower
Shirley Horn
Musician
1-May-1934 20-Oct-2005 Here's To Life
L. Ron Hubbard
Religion
13-Mar-1911 24-Jan-1986 Perpetrated Dianetics, Scientology
Trina Schart Hyman
Artist
8-Apr-1939 19-Nov-2004 Children's book illustrator
David Icke
Author
29-Apr-1952   Uncovered global cabal of reptilian ET's
Shirley Jackson
Novelist
14-Dec-1916 8-Aug-1965 The Lottery
Etta James
Singer
25-Jan-1938 20-Jan-2012 Soul Diva
Pope John Paul I
Religion
17-Oct-1912 28-Sep-1978 Pope for 33 days, in summer 1978
Pope John Paul II
Religion
18-May-1920 2-Apr-2005 Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1978-2005
Daniel Johns
Musician
22-Apr-1979   Frontman of Silverchair
Terry Jones
Comic
1-Feb-1942   Monty Python
Jack Kevorkian
Doctor
26-May-1928 3-Jun-2011 Euthanasia enthusiast
Sandy Koufax
Baseball
30-Dec-1935   Three-time Cy Young Award winner
Jack Kramer
Tennis
1-Aug-1921 12-Sep-2009 Winner of 10 Grand Slam titles
Vladimir Kramnik
Chess Player
25-Jun-1975   World Chess Champion
Ray Kroc
Business
5-Oct-1902 14-Jan-1984 McDonald's fast food tycoon
Beverly LaHaye
Activist
30-Apr-1929   Tim LaHaye's wife
Tommy Lasorda
Baseball
22-Sep-1927   Manager of the LA Dodgers, 1977-96
Richard Henry Lee
Politician
20-Jan-1732 19-Jun-1794 Author of the 10th Amendment
Mary Todd Lincoln
First Lady
13-Dec-1818 16-Jul-1882 Wife of US President Abraham Lincoln
Viveca Lindfors
Actor
29-Dec-1920 25-Oct-1995 Night Unto Night
Mildred Loving
Activist
22-Jun-1939 2-May-2008 Interracial marriage
James Madison
Head of State
16-Mar-1751 28-Jun-1836 4th US President, 1809-17
Aristide Maillol
Sculptor
8-Apr-1861 27-Sep-1944 Sculptor of the female nude
Imelda Marcos
First Lady
2-Jul-1929   Former First Lady of the Philippines
Juan Marichal
Baseball
20-Oct-1937   Nine-time All-Star SF Giants pitcher
Bill Mauldin
Cartoonist
29-Oct-1921 22-Jan-2003 WWII cartoonist, Willie and Joe
Anne McCaffrey
Author
1-Apr-1926 21-Nov-2011 Pern series
Charles McGraw
Actor
10-May-1914 30-Jul-1980 Armored Car Robbery
Paul W. Merrill
Astronomer
15-Aug-1887 19-Jul-1961 S-process of nucleosynthesis
Phil Mickelson
Golf
16-Jun-1970   Winner of 4 Majors
George Miller
Politician
17-May-1945   Congressman, California 7th
Donna Mills
Actor
11-Dec-1940   Play Misty for Me
William H. Moody
Judge
23-Feb-1853 2-Jul-1917 US Supreme Court Justice, 1906-10
Michael Moorcock
Author
18-Dec-1939   Wrote the Elric series
Patrick Moore
TV Personality
4-Mar-1923   BBC's The Sky At Night
Grandma Moses
Painter
7-Sep-1860 13-Dec-1961 Painter began at age 77
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer
27-Jan-1756 5-Dec-1791 Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Nostradamus
Paranormal
14-Dec-1503 1-Jul-1566 Notoriously ambiguous prophet
George M. O'Brien
Politician
17-Jun-1917 18-Jul-1986 Congressman from Illinois, 1973-86
Shaquille O'Neal
Basketball
6-Mar-1972   Shaq Attack
Ace Parker
Football
17-May-1912   NFL Hall of Fame QB
Colonel Tom Parker
Business
26-Jun-1909 21-Jan-1997 Elvis Presley's manager
Les Paul
Guitarist
9-Jun-1915 13-Aug-2009 Electric guitar/multitrack recording pioneer
Augusto Pinochet
Head of State
25-Nov-1915 10-Dec-2006 Overthrew Chile with CIA's help
Annie Potts
Actor
28-Oct-1952   Mary Jo Shively on Designing Women
William H. Prescott
Historian
4-May-1796 28-Jan-1859 The Conquest of Mexico
David Prowse
Actor
1-Jul-1935   Darth Vader, Green Cross Code Man
Ramses II
Royalty
22-Feb-1303 BC c. 1213 BC Pharaoh, fought the Hittites
Ronald Reagan
Head of State
6-Feb-1911 5-Jun-2004 40th US President, 1981-89
Auguste Renoir
Painter
25-Feb-1841 3-Dec-1919 Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette
Adrienne Rich
Poet
16-May-1929 27-Mar-2012 An Atlas of the Difficult World
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architect
27-Mar-1886 17-Aug-1969 The Glass Skyscraper
Henry Roth
Author
8-Feb-1906 13-Oct-1995 Call It Sleep
Jane Rule
Author
28-Mar-1931 27-Nov-2007 Desert of the Heart
Rosalind Russell
Actor
4-Jun-1907 28-Nov-1976 Auntie Mame
Harold C. Simmons
Business
1931   Drugstore billionaire
Walter Slezak
Actor
3-May-1902 21-Apr-1983 Hitchcock's Lifeboat
Mickey Spillane
Author
9-Mar-1918 17-Jul-2006 Mike Hammer novels
Joan Sutherland
Singer
7-Nov-1926 10-Oct-2010 "La Stupenda" opera soprano
Norma Talmadge
Actor
26-May-1893 24-Dec-1957 Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Kathleen Turner
Actor
19-Jun-1954   Romancing the Stone
Aida Turturro
Actor
25-Sep-1962   Janice Soprano
Silas Warner
Computer Programmer
18-Aug-1949 26-Feb-2004 Castle Wolfenstein
Sarah Winchester
Relative
Sep-1839 5-Sep-1922 Winchester Mystery House
Ian Woosnam
Golf
2-Mar-1958   Winner, 1991 Masters
Jane Wyman
Actor
5-Jan-1917 10-Sep-2007 Falcon Crest



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