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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Jessica Alba
Actor
28-Apr-1981   Dark Angel
Joshua Alba
Actor
8-Jul-1982   Actor, brother of Jessica Alba
Ove Arup
Engineer
16-Apr-1895 5-Feb-1988 Danish civil engineer
Prince of Asturias
Royalty
30-Jan-1968   Heir to the throne of Spain
Green Bar Bill
Author
6-Aug-1900 9-Nov-1992 Prominent Scouter
Brebis Bleaney
Physicist
6-Jun-1915 4-Nov-2006 Electron paramagnetic resonance
Niels Bohr
Physicist
7-Oct-1885 18-Nov-1962 Father of Quantum Theory
Gutzon Borglum
Sculptor
25-Mar-1867 6-Mar-1941 Mount Rushmore
Rudolph Boysen
Botanist
14-Jul-1895 25-Nov-1950 Created the boysenberry
Claus von Bulow
Socialite
11-Aug-1926   Allegedly tried to kill wife Sunny
Elisabeth Bumiller
Journalist
c. 1955   New York Times Washington correspondent
Georg Cantor
Mathematician
3-Mar-1845 6-Jan-1918 Founder of set theory
Julian Casablancas
Musician
23-Aug-1978   The Strokes frontman
King Charles XII
Royalty
17-Jun-1682 30-Nov-1718 King of Sweden, 1697-1718
Frank Conroy
Author
15-Jan-1936 6-Apr-2005 Stop-Time
Dennis Daugaard
Politician
11-Jun-1953   Governor of South Dakota
Joel Dorius
Educator
4-Jan-1919 14-Feb-2006 Professor fired for gay porn arrest
Johannes Fibiger
Scientist
23-Apr-1867 30-Jan-1928 Caused cancer in lab rats
Lars Frederiksen
Musician
23-May-1969   Rancid and The Bastards
Lucretia Garfield
First Lady
19-Apr-1832 14-Mar-1918 Wife of US President James Garfield
King George V
Royalty
3-Jun-1865 20-Jan-1936 King of England, 1910-1936
H. Rider Haggard
Novelist
22-Jun-1856 14-May-1925 King Solomon's Mines
Otto Harbach
Songwriter
18-Aug-1873 24-Jan-1963 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Gordon Hessler
Film Director
12-Dec-1930   The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Niels K. Jerne
Scientist
23-Dec-1911 7-Oct-1994 Immune theory (anti-antibody)
Scarlett Johansson
Actor
22-Nov-1984   Ghost World, Lost in Translation
Christine Jorgensen
Photographer
30-May-1926 3-May-1989 First successful surgical transsexual
August Krogh
Scientist
15-Nov-1874 13-Sep-1949 Discovered how capillaries regulate oxygen
Nella Larsen
Novelist
13-Apr-1891 30-Mar-1964 Quicksand
Eva Le Gallienne
Actor
11-Jan-1899 3-Jun-1991 New York Civic Repertory Theater
Virginia Madsen
Actor
11-Sep-1961   Dune to Sideways
Irene Mathyssen
Politician
16-Aug-1951   Canadian MP, London--Fanshawe
Viggo Mortensen
Actor
20-Oct-1958   Aragorn in Lord of the Rings
Brigitte Nielsen
Actor
15-Jul-1963   Red Sonja
Leslie Nielsen
Actor
11-Feb-1926 28-Nov-2010 Airplane!
Anaïs Nin
Author
21-Feb-1903 14-Jan-1977 Diary of Anaïs Nin
Boyd K. Packer
Religion
10-Sep-1924   Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Iggy Pop
Singer/Songwriter
21-Apr-1947   Iggy and the Stooges
Norris Poulson
Politician
23-Jul-1895 25-Sep-1982 Mayor of Los Angeles, 1953-61
René Redzepi
Chef
16-Dec-1977   Noma, Copenhagen
Hjalmar Schacht
Government
22-Jan-1877 3-Jun-1970 Reich Minister of Economics
Edward T. Schafer
Politician
8-Aug-1946   US Secretary of Agriculture, 2008-09
Nels H. Smith
Politician
27-Aug-1884 5-Jul-1976 Governor of Wyoming, 1939-43
Gale Sondergaard
Actor
15-Feb-1899 14-Aug-1985 Anthony Adverse
Bjarne Stroustrup
Computer Programmer
1950   Inventor of C++ programming language
Helmuth von Moltke
Military
26-Oct-1800 24-Apr-1891 German military strategist


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