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Frederic Chopin, composer
William Dean Howells, novelist
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece
Lytton Strachey, critic
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa)
David Niven, Britian (Around the World in 80 Days)
Dinah Shore, Winchester,Tenn, singer
Robert Lowell, poet, pacifist (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean)
Richard Wilbur, poet (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep)
Terrence 'Cardinal' Cooke, NY
Donald (Deke) Slayton, astronaut
Pete Rozelle, NFL commissioner
Harry Belafonte, singer, Actor
Joan Hackett, NY
Lana Wood, Santa Monica Cal
Catherine Bach, Warren, Oh, oh those legs
Ron Howard, Actor (American Graffiti, Happy Days)
Sam Houston, Tx pres (1836-38, 1841-44)
Leo XIII, 256th pope (1878-1903)
Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau)
Carl Schurz, Civil War gen
Pius XII, 260th pope (1939-58)
Dr. Seuss, Author (Horton Hears a Who!)
Mel Ott, 1st NLer to hit 500 HRs
Desi Arnaz, Cuba (Ricky Ricardo)
Jennifer Jones, Okla
Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader
Tom Wolfe, journalist (Right Stuff)
Karen Carpenter, Ct, drummer
William Godwin, political writer (Caleb Williams)
George M. Pullman, invented sleeping car
Georg Cantor, discovered transfinite numbers (or 1918)
Alexander Graham Bell, telephone inventor
Shalom Alekhem, Russian author
Norman Bethune, Canadian Dr, Spain, China
Gen Matthew Ridgeway, milt leader
Jean Harlow, 30s' Sex Goddess
Joe Stydahar, Chicago Bears tackle
Princess Lee Radziwell, NYC
Gia Scala, Italy
Vladimir V. Kovalyonok, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 29, T-4)
Herschel Walker, NJ Generals, Dal Cowboys running back
Prince Henry,the Navigator, sponsors Portuguese voyages
Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso
Casimir Pulaski, Amer Rev War gen
Knute Rockne, football player/coach
George Gamow, nuclear physicist, cosmologist
Lili Kr…us, Hungarian pianist
Joan Greenwood, London
Patrick Moore, English astronomer
Alan Sillitoe, Br. writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner)
Miriam Makeba, S African singer
Jane Goodall, Archeologist
Barbara McNair, Chic Ill, Singer/Actress
Paula Prentiss, San Antonio Tx, Actress
Susan Clark, Ontario Canada
Louis I (the Great), king of Hungary (1342-82), Poland (1370-82)
Gerhardus Mercator, geographer & map maker (or 1583)
James Merritt Ives, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
Heitor Villa-Lobos, composer
Rex Harrison, Actor
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Samantha Eggar, London
Randy Matson, shot putter
Andy Gibb, singer, Australia
Michelangelo Buonarroti, artist (David)
Cyrano de Bergerac, famous nose
Aaron Burr, dualist
Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist, studied sun's spectrum
Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking
Gen Philip H Sheridan, milt leader
Jimmy Conzelman, NFL QB, coach, team owner
Julius Rudel, conductor
Ed McMahon, TV host (Tonight Show, Star Search)
Sarah Caldwell Conductor, Maryville Mo
William H. Webster, headed FBI & CIA
Alan Greenspan, economist
Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., astronaut (Faith 7, Gemini 5)
Gabriel Garc¡a M rquez, Colombian novelist (Nobel 1982)
Merle Haggard, country singer
Valentina Tereshkova, Russia, 1st woman in space (Vostok 6)
Joanna Miles, Nice France
Ben Murphy
Kiri Te Kanawa, operatic soprano
Mary Wilson,(Supremes)
Rob Reiner, Actor (All in the Family)
Kiki Dee, Yorkshire Engl
Stephen Hopkins, RI gov, signed Decl of Ind
John Herschel, William Herschel's son, Slough, Eng
Luther Burbank, Horticulturist, Lancaster, Mass
Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austria, psychiatrist (Nobel 1927)
Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie)
Maurice Ravel, composer (Bolero), Cibourne, France
Anna Magnani, Italy
Kobo Abe, Japan, playwright (Woman, the Dunes)
Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon, photographer
Janet Guthrie, race car driver
Daniel J Travanti, (Hill St Blues, Capt Furillo)
Viktor P. Savinykh, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-4)
John Heard
Peter Wolf, Rock singer
Donna Loren, Boston Mass
Franco Harris, NFL fullback (Pitts Steelers)
Lynn Swann, Football player
Ivan Lendl, Tennis player, Czech
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach
Hannah Hoes Van Buren, 1st lady
Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create plastic surgery
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Supreme Court Justice
Kenneth Grahame, author (The Wind, Willows)
Otto Hahn, co-discovered nuclear fission
Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950)
Sam Jaffe, Actor (Gunga Din, Dr. Zorba on Ben Casey)
Claire Trevor, Actress
Cyd Charisse, dancer, Amarillo Tx
George Reed, astronomy writer & cartoonist
Jim Bouton, Yankee pitcher (Ball Four)
Mike Lowry, (D-Wash.), Rep
Lynn Redgrave, London, Actress (Georgie Girl)
Carole Bayer Sager, NY - Mrs Burt Bachrach
Amerigo Vespucci, This could be Vespucciland
Leland Stanford, Gov, Sen, found Stanford U
V.M. Molotov, Soviet foreign minister
Edward Durell, Stone, architect (US Embassy, New Delhi)
Samuel Barber, composer
Mickey Spillane, mystery writer (I, the Jury)
James Buckley, (R), former NY sen
Joyce Van Patten
Yuri Gagarin, 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1)
Keely Smith, Norfolk Va
Bobby Fischer, world chess champion (1972-75)
Trish Van Devere, Actress
Emmanuel Lewis, TV (Webster)
Alexander III, Russian tsar (1881-94)
Lillian D. Wald, US, sociologist
Sergey Diaghilev, ballet producer
Arthur Honegger, composer
Pamela Mason, Actress, London
Ron Mix, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders)
David Rabe, playwright
Katherine Houghton
Linda Jezek, CalIifornia
Prince Edward, England
Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet
Robert Treat Paine, judge, signed Decl of Ind
Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, co-discovered Neptune
Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min
Dorothy Gish, silent film Actress (Orphans of the Storm)
Dorothy Schiff, (NY Post)
Lawrence Welk, conductor (champagne bubbles)
Ralph Ellison, writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act)
Sir Harold Wilson, (Labour), British PM (1964-70, 1974-76)
Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader
Rupert Murdoch, publisher, Australia
George Stamatoyannopoulos, geneticist
Sam Donaldson, ABC correspondent
Tina Louise, marooned with Gilligan, professor & Mary Ann
Antonin Scalia, Trenton NJ, Supreme Court Justice
George Berkeley, Irish philosopher & Bishop of Cloyne
Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady
Sir John Abbott, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92)
Clement Studebakerk, automobile pioneer
Charles Boycottk, estate manager, Ireland, caused boycotts
Gordon MacRaek, singer
Jack Kerouack, Beat writer (Dharma Bums, On the Road)
Lane Kirklandk, AFL-CIO head
Wally M. Schirra, Jr., astronaut (Sigma 7, Gemini 6, Apollo 7)
Rep Wil G Whitehurst, R-Va
George R Ariyoshi, Hawaii Gov
Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist, conductor
Raul Alfonsin, Presidnet of Argentina
Edward Albee, playwright
Andrew Young, (D), Atlanta mayor
Lloyd Dobyns, NBC newsman
Millie Perkins
Barbara Feldon, Pitts Pa (Agent 99-Get Smart)
Bert Campaneris, baseball player
Liza Minnelli, singer/Actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret), LA
Jill O'Hara, Warren Penn
James Taylor, singer
Sara Lane, NYC
Darryl Strawberry, NY Met
Joseph Priestly, Engl, clergyman, discovered oxygen
Charles, Earl Grey, (Whig), British PM (1830-34)
Daniel Lambert, English giant (weighed 334 kg at death)
Johann Wyss, Switz, Author
Abigail Powers Fillmore, 1st lady
Percival Lowell, predicted discovery of Pluto
L. Ron Hubbard, scientologist
William J. Casey, headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal
Sammy Kaye, Bandleader
George McAfee, NFL halfback (Chicago Bears)
Ra£l Alfons¡n, Argentine pres (1983-, )
Rosalind Elias, Opera singer
Neil Sedaka, singer, Bkln
Steve Kanaly
Deborah Raffin, LA
Georg Philipp Telemann, German late baroque composer
Johann Strauss, composer
Jens Worsaae, Denmark, archeologist
Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st American woman dentist
Giovanni Schiaparelli, discovered Martian canals
Thomas Riley Marshall, (D), 28th VP (1913-21)
Casey Jones, RR engineer
Albert Einstein, relative, E = mcı (Nobel 1921), Ulm, Germany
Les Brown, Bandleader
Max Shulman, novelist
Cartoonist Hank Ketcham, (Dennis the Menace)
Colin Fletcher
Frank Borman, astronaut (Gemini 7, Apollo 8), Eastern Airline pres
Michael Caine, Engl Actor (Blame it on Rio)
Quincy Jones, composer, singer (We are the World)
Eugene A. Cernan, astronaut (Gemini 9, Apollo 10, 17)
Rita Tushingham, Actress, Liverpool
Billy Crystal, comedian (SNL)
Prince Albert, Monaco
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
Andrew Jackson, (D), 7th pres (1928-37)
William Lamb, (Whig), Viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834, 1835-41)
Paul von Heysek, German writer (Nobel 1910)
Harry Jamesk, trumpeter
Norm Van Brocklink, NFL QB, coach (LA Rams)
Alan Lavern Beank, astronaut (Apollo 12, Skylab 3)
Judd Hirsch, Actor (Alex Reiger-Taxi)
George Clymer, signed Decl of Ind, Constitution
Caroline Lucretia Herchel, 1st mod woman astronomer, Hanover, Germany
James Madison, (D-R), 4th pres (1809-17)
Georg Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law
Andrew S Hallidie, cable car inventor
Sully Prudhomme, French poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
Mike Mansfield, (D-Mont.), Sen majority whip
Henny Youngman, comedian
Pat Nixon, 1st lady, Ely Nev
Lloyd McBride, United Steelworkers pres
Jerry Lewis, entertainer, fund raiser, loved in France
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, (D), NY sen
Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1, Soyuz 1)
R Walter Cunningham, astronaut (Apollo 7)
Erik Estrada, Actor (CHiPs)
Kate Nelligan, London Ontario
Nancy Wilson, SF, rocker (Heart)
Edmund Kean, England, tragic Actor
James Bridger, scout, fur trader
Gottlieb Daimler, auto pioneer
Margaret Bondfield, Brit union leader, 1st woman cabinet member
Bobby Jones, 1st pro golfer to win 4 grand slams
Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
Sammy Baugh, NFL QB (Wash Redskins)
Mercedes McCambridge, Actress
Nat King Cole, singer
James B. Irwin, astronaut (Apollo 15)
Thomas K. Mattingly, astronaut (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
Rudolf Nureyev, ballet dancer, Russia
Paul Kantner, (Jefferson Starship)
John Sebastian, American composer
Robert Braunwart, added dates to TODAY
Patrick Duffy, (Dallas)
Kurt Russell, Actor
Leslie-Anne Down, London
John C Calhoun, statesman
Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th Pres (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
Sir Randal Cremer, British trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
Stephane Mallarme, French poet
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (Scheherazade)
Rudolf Diesel, engine inventor
Neville Chamberlain, (C), British PM (1937-40)
Kurt Koffka, German Gestalt psychologist
Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet
Wilfred Owen, English anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth)
Mollie Parnis, fashion designer
Peter Graves, Actor (Mission Impossible)
George Plimpton, sports writer (Paper Lion)
John Kander, Composer
John Updike, poet & novelist (Rabbit Run)
Kevin Dobson
Charley Pride, country singer
Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish Alpine skiier
Irene Cara, NY (Fame)
Vanessa Williams, Millwood NY - 1st black Miss America
William Bradford, gov of Plymouth Colony (baptized)
David Livingstone, found by Stanley in Africa
Sir Richard Burton, explorer, translator (The Arabian Nights)
Roque S enz Pe¤a, pres of Argentina (1910-14)
William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner', orator-statesman
Earl Warren, Supreme Court chief justice
John J Sirica, Watergate Judge
Patricia Morison, (Peyton Place)
Irving Wallace, Author (People's Almanac)
Patrick McGoohan, Actor (Secret Agent, Prisoner)
Philip Roth, novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint)
Phyllis Newman, Jersey City NJ
Ursula Andress, Actress (She), Switzerland
Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, LBJ's daughter
Glenn Close, Greenwich Conn
Bruce Willis, (Moonlighting)
Napoleon II, king of Rome
Henrik Ibsen, dramatist (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler), Norway
Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management
B.F. Skinner, Behaviorist
Abraham Beame, NYC mayor
Frank Stanton, broadcasting exec
Sir Michael Redgrave, Actor (Browning Version, The Lady Vanishes)
Sviatosiav Richter, pianist
Carl Reiner, comedian
Jack Kruschen
Ray Goulding, comedian (Bob & Ray)
John Ehrlichman, Watergate conspirator
Fred Rogers, lovely day in the neighborhood
Hal Linden, Actor (Barney Miller)
Ted Bessell, (That Girl)
Jerry Reed, Singer
Brian Mulroney, (P-C), 18th PM of Canada (1984-, )
Bobby Orr, hockey hall-of-famer (Boston Bruins)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Eisenach, Germany, Composer
Francis Lewis, signed Decl of Ind
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist
Benito Juarez, pres of Mexico (1858-72)
James Jesse Strang, king of Mormons on Beaver Is, MI (1850-56)
Modest Mussorgsky, composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mtn.)
Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury, astronomer
Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame
John D. Rockefeller, III, billionaire
Mort Lindsey, band leader
James Coco, Actor
Al Freeman Jr
Kathleen Widdoe
Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor
Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter
Randolph Caldecott, England, Illustrater
James Gavin, genl
Maurice Stans, sec of commerce
Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (The Tin Flute)
Nicholas Monsarrat, English writer
Karl Malden, don't leave home without it (St of SF)
Werner Klemperer, Hogan's Heroes Col Klink
Marcel Marceau, mime, France
Stephen Sondheim, US composer
William Shatner, Mont, (Capt. Kirk, T J Hooker)
Orrin Hatch, (R), Utah sen
May Britt, German Actress & former wife of Sammy Davis Jr
Barbara Parkins, Engl (Peyton Place)
George Benson, singer-guitarist
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer
John Bartram, naturalist, explorer, botanist
Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician, astronomer, physicist
Schuyler Colfax, (R), 17th VP (1869-73)
Fannie Farmer
Sir Muirhead Bone, etcher, engraver
Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist, dramatist (Nobel 1937)
Daniel Bovet, Swiss pharmacologist (Nobel 1957)
Joan Crawford, No wire hangers, ever! (Mildred Pierce)
Akira Kurosawa, film director
Wernher von Braun, Wirsitz, Germany, rocket expert
Marty Allen, Comedian (Allen & Rossi)
Arnie Weinmeister, AAFC, NFL def tackle (NY Yankees, Giants)
Martha Wright, Seattle Wash
Teofilo Stevenson, Cuba, Olympic boxer
Chaka Khan, Great Lakes Ill rocker
Moses Malone, Basketball player
Rufus King, (F), framer of US constitution, sen
John Wesley Powell, geologist
William Morris, Engl, artist
Andrew W. Mellon, financier
Harry Houdini, escape artist
Peter Debye, Dutch physical chemist (Nobel 1936)
Thomas E Dewey, Oh, Pres candidate
Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer
Norman Fell, (Mr Roper - 3s Company)
Roger Bannister, English runner; 1st 4-min mile
Steve McQueen, Actor
Larry Wilson, NFL back (Cardinals)
Bob Mackie, designer
Robert Carradine
Renaldo Nehemiah, track star
Arturo Toscanini, Italy, conductor
Gutzon Borglum, sculpted Mt. Rushmore
Bela Bart¢k, Hungary - composer - pianist
Bella Spewack, Hungary - playwright
Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte, Brit theater & hotel director
David Lean, director (Dr. Zhivago & Ryan's Daughter)
Howard Cosell, sportscaster
Nancy Kelly, Lowell Mass
Simone Signoret, (Casque d'Or & Room at the Top)--Weisbaden Germany
James A. Lovell Jr, astronaut (Gemini 7 & 12 & Apollo 8 & 13)
Gloria Steinhem, feminist - Toledo Oh
Anita Bryant, Oklahoma Miss America candidate
Aretha Franklin, Memphis Tenn Soul Sister #1
Elton John, singer - England
Bonnie Bedelia, NY
Mary Gross, Chicago Ill (SNL)
Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician & astronomer & author
Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward)
Jane Delano, nurse & teacher
A.E. Housman, England - poet (Shropshire Lad)
Robert Frost, poet (Mending Wall & Road Not Taken) SF
James B. Connant, Yale pres
Tennessee Williams, (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Columbus Miss
William Westmoreland, army general
Bob Elliott, Comedian (Bob & Ray)
Pierre Boulez, France, composer
Gregory Corso, Beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man)
Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman Supreme Court justice
Leonard Nimoy, (Spock)
Alan Arkin, Actor
Gino Cappelletti, AFL running back
James Caan, Actor (Brian's Song)
Erica Jong, NYC. author (Fear of Flying)
Robert Woodward, reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes)
Diana Ross, (Lady Sings the Blues), Detroit Mich, Supremes
Steve Tyler, Rock singer
Vicki Lawrence, California (Carol Burnette show, Mama's Family)
Teddy Pendergrass, singer
Louis XVII, pretender to the throne during French Rev
Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
Wilhelm Rontgen, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901)
Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910)
Sir Henry Royce, Rolls-Royce founder
Heinrich Mann, German novelist & essayist
Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
Ferde Grofe, composer
Gloria Swanson, Actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly)
Sato Eisaku, (Lib), Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
Walt Kiesling, NFL guard, coach
James Callaghan, (Labour), British PM (1976-79)
Budd Schulberg, author
Snooky Lanson
Cyrus R. Vance, Sec of State
Sarah Vaughn, Newark NJ, jazz singer
Anthony Lewis, Newspaper columnist
Arthur Mitchell, choreographer
Cale Yarborough, auto racer
Michael York, Actor (Cabaret)
Maria Schneider, Last Tango in Paris
Annemarie Proell, Alpine skier
Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
Fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter
Aristide Briand, French premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926)
Aleksey Peshikov, (pen name Maksim Gorky), Russia
Spencer W. Kimball, 12th prophet of Mormon church
Rudolf Serkin, pianist
Edmund S. Muskie, (D), Sec of State, Maine sen
Dirk Bogarde, Actor
Freddie Bartholomew, Actor
Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor
Sen Frank Murkowski, (R-Alaska)
Ken Howard, Actor
Rick Barry, NBA star (Golden State Warriors)
Reba McEntire, Country singer
John Tyler, 10th Pres (1841-1845)
Edward Stanley Earl Derby, (C), British PM (1852, 1858-59, 1866-68)
Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive oil well, US
Cy Young, winningest pitcher (509 wins, 1890-1911)
Lou Henry Hoover, 1st lady
James E. Casey, founded UPS
Sir William Walton, English composer
Eugene McCarthy, (D), Minn sen
Pearl Bailey, jazz singer
Eileen Heckart, Colombus Ohio
Emlen Tunnell, NFL safety (Giants, Packers)
Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong
Walt Frazier, NBA star (NY Knicks)
Karen Ann Quinlan
Earl Campbell, NFL running back (Houston, New Orleans)
Dianne Kay, Phoenix Az
Nichiren, Japanese Buddhist priest, saint
Sir John Hawkins, wrote 1st history of music, English
Francisco Jose de Goya, Spanish painter, etcher
Paul Verlaine, French lyric poet
Vincent Van Gogh, artist
Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright
Stanislaw Lesniewski, Polish logician, mathematician
Frankie Laine, singer
Richard Helms, former CIA head
McGeorge Bundy, Natl security adviser
John Astin, Actor
Peter Marshall, (Hollywood Squares)
Warren Beatty, Actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Reds)
Eric Clapton, musician
Rene Descartes, he thought, therefore he was
Andrew Marvell, English poet
Franz Josef Haydn, composer, helped develop Classical style
Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
Nikolai Gogol, father of 19th-century Russian realism (Dead Souls)
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, German chemist
Sir Dugald Clerk, invented 2-stroke motorcycle engine
John J. McCloy, lawyer, banker
Henry Morgan
Richard Kiley
Cesar Chavez, labor leader (United Farm Workers)
William Daniels, (St Elsewhere-Dr Mark Craig, 1776)
Gordie Howe, Redwings right wing
Shirley Jones, Penn, (Partridge Family)
Herb Alpert, band leader (Tijuana Brass), A&M music exec
Richard Chamberlain, TV (Dr. Kildare, Shogun, Thornbirds)
Sen Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont
Christopher Walken
Gabe Kaplan, (Welcome Back Kotter)
Rhea Perlman, Bkln (Taxi & Cheers)
