LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Robert Baden-Powell	Military	22-Feb-1857	8-Jan-1941	Founder of the Boy Scout movement
Matthew "Stymie" Beard	Actor	1-Jan-1925	8-Jan-1981	Stymie in Our Gang
Lorenzo Bellini	Doctor	3-Sep-1643	8-Jan-1704	Discovered kidney's Bellini Ducts
George Bellows	Painter	12-Aug-1882	8-Jan-1925	American realist painter
Andrei Bely	Author	26-Oct-1880	8-Jan-1934	Petersburg
Giotto di Bondone	Painter	1267	8-Jan-1337	Preeminent 14th c. Italian Painter
Pat Buttram	Actor	19-Jun-1915	8-Jan-1994	Mr. Haney on Green Acres
Melvin Calvin	Chemist	8-Apr-1911	8-Jan-1997	Deciphered photosynthesis
Pope Celestine III	Religion	c. 1106	8-Jan-1198	Roman Catholic Pope, 1191-98
Art Clokey	Cartoonist	12-Oct-1921	8-Jan-2010	Creator of Gumby
Arcangelo Corelli	Violinist	17-Feb-1653	8-Jan-1713	Concerti Grossi
Yvonne De Carlo	Actor	1-Sep-1922	8-Jan-2007	Lily on The Munsters
Walter Diemer	Business	8-Jan-1905	8-Jan-1998	Invented bubble gum
Lee Dixon	Actor	22-Jan-1914	8-Jan-1953	Ready, Willing and Able
Jim Dooley	Football	8-Feb-1930	8-Jan-2008	Chicago Bears Head Coach, 1968-71
Zhou Enlai	Head of State	5-Mar-1898	8-Jan-1976	Mao's right-hand man
Pierre Fournier	Cellist	24-Jun-1906	8-Jan-1986	French cello virtuoso
Galileo Galilei	Astronomer	15-Feb-1564	8-Jan-1642	Copernican observational astronomer
Don Galloway	Actor	27-Jul-1937	8-Jan-2009	Det. Sgt. Ed Brown on Ironside
John Gregson	Actor	15-Mar-1919	8-Jan-1975	Genevieve
Harvey Haddix	Baseball	18-Sep-1925	8-Jan-1994	MLB pitcher
Samuel A. Kendall	Politician	1-Nov-1859	8-Jan-1933	Congressman, committed suicide
Tom Kindness	Politician	26-Aug-1929	8-Jan-2004	Congressman from Ohio, 1975-87
John William Mauchly	Physicist	30-Aug-1907	8-Jan-1980	ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers
Antonia Maury	Astronomer	21-Mar-1866	8-Jan-1952	Stellar classification
Tom McCall	Politician	22-Mar-1913	8-Jan-1983	Governor of Oregon, 1967-75
Sarah McClendon	Journalist	8-Jul-1910	8-Jan-2003	White House Reporter FDR to GWB
Kenneth McMillan	Actor	2-Jul-1932	8-Jan-1989	Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
Charles E. Merriam	Scholar	15-Nov-1874	8-Jan-1953	American Political Ideas
François Mitterrand	Head of State	26-Oct-1916	8-Jan-1996	President of France, 1981-95
Richard John Neuhaus	Religion	14-May-1936	8-Jan-2009	Catholic priest
Emperor Norton	Royalty	14-Feb-1819	8-Jan-1880	Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico
Gale Page	Actor	23-Jul-1913	8-Jan-1983	Four Daughters
Kenneth Patchen	Poet	13-Dec-1911	8-Jan-1972	Journal of Albion Moonlight
Marco Polo	Explorer	c. 1254	8-Jan-1324	Travels of Marco Polo
Aleksandr M. Prokhorov	Physicist	11-Jul-1916	8-Jan-2002	Invention of the maser and laser
Julius Raab	Head of State	29-Nov-1891	8-Jan-1964	Chancellor of Austria, 1953-61
John M. Roll	Judge	8-Feb-1947	8-Jan-2011	US District Court Judge, murdered
Wesley Ruggles	Film Director	11-Jun-1889	8-Jan-1972	Cimarron
Joseph Schumpeter	Economist	8-Feb-1883	8-Jan-1950	Creative Destruction
Kurt Schwitters	Artist	20-Jun-1887	8-Jan-1948	Collagist, Merz
Lewis Seiler	Film Director	30-Sep-1890	8-Jan-1964	Guadalcanal Diary
Reta Shaw	Actor	13-Sep-1912	8-Jan-1982	The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Terry-Thomas	Actor	14-Jul-1911	8-Jan-1990	Private's Progress
Dave Thomas	Business	2-Jul-1932	8-Jan-2002	Founder of Wendy's Hamburgers
Richard Tucker	Singer	28-Aug-1913	8-Jan-1975	Operatic tenor, NY Metropolitan Opera
Paul Verlaine	Poet	30-Mar-1844	8-Jan-1896	Leader of symbolist poetry movement
Harold Vermilyea	Actor	10-Oct-1889	8-Jan-1958	Sorry, Wrong Number
Fletcher Warren	Diplomat	3-Mar-1896	8-Jan-1992	US Ambassador to Turkey, 1956-60
Eli Whitney	Inventor	8-Dec-1765	8-Jan-1825	Inventor of the cotton gin

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