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  • Martin Luther, protestant reformer
  • Spencer Perceval, (Tory), British PM (1809-12)
  • Viscount Goderich, (Tory), British PM (1827-28)
  • Sir Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer, Dublin mayor
  • Jose Santos Zelaya, (L), ruler of Nicaragua (1893-1910)
  • Stephen Crane, poet (Red Badge of Courage)
  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936)
  • Sholem Asch, Yiddish novelist, playwright (Three Cities)
  • Hermann Broch, Austrian novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment)
  • Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman, disarmament advocate (Nobel '59)
  • Alexander Alekhine, of Russia, world chess champion (1927-46)
  • Betsy Palmer, in E Chicago Illinois, Actress
  • Gary Player, South African golfer
  • Barbara Bossom, in Penn (Hill St Blues)
  • Larry Flint, publisher (Hustler)
  • Fernando Valenzuela, pitcher (LA Dodgers)


  • Daniel Boone, frontiersman, explorer
  • Marie-Antoinette, let them eat cake
  • James Knox Polk, 11th Pres (1845-1849)
  • George Boole, mathematician
  • Warren Gamaliel Harding, (R), 28th pres (1921-23)
  • Harlow Shapley, US astronomer
  • Odysseus Elytis, Greek poet (Nobel 1979)
  • Burt Lancaster, Actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry)
  • Ann Rutherford, Actress
  • Rose Bird, Calif Supreme Court Judge
  • Patrick Buchanan, political columnist
  • David Hemmings, English Actor
  • Shere Hite, sex therapist


  • John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same
  • William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis)
  • Karl Baedeker, German publisher of travel books
  • Andre Malraux, French novelist and art historian
  • Bronko Nagurski, NFL fullback (Chicago Bears)
  • James Reston, columnist (NY Times)
  • Bob Feller, pitcher
  • Russell B. Long, (D-Sen-La)
  • Charles Bronson, Actor
  • William H. Dana, X-15 pilot
  • Ken Berry, Actor, dancer, TV personality
  • Michael S. Dukakis, (D-Gov-Mass)
  • Monica Vitti, in Rome Italy
  • Paula Wayne
  • Lulu, in Glasgow Scotland - To Sir With Love
  • Larry Holmes, boxer
  • Adam Ant, punk rocker
  • Dolph Lundgren, (Rocky IV)


  • Eden Phillpotts, English novelist, poet, playwright
  • Will Rogers, humorist, never met Hitler
  • Bob Considine, sports columnist
  • Ciro Alegr¡a, Peruvian novelist (Golden Serpent)
  • Walter Cronkite, newsman ("and that's the way it is")
  • Art Carney, Actor (Honeymooners, Harold and Maude)
  • Martin Balsam, Actor
  • Doris Roberts, in St Louis
  • Kate Reid, in London England
  • Loretta Swift, in Passaic NJ - Hot Lips on M*A*S*H


  • Eugene V. Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
  • Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy)
  • Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor
  • Will Durant, writer, historian (Story of Civilization)
  • Earle (Greasy) Neale, NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles)
  • Joel McCrea, Actor
  • Roy Rogers, cowboy (Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger)
  • Vivien Leigh, Frankly my dear I don't give a damn
  • Ike Turner, AKA Mr. Tina Turner!
  • Art Garfunkel, singer
  • Patricia Hardy
  • Paul Simon, singer, songwriter (Bridge Over Troubled Waters)
  • Elke Sommer, in Berlin Germany
  • Sam Shepard, American playwright
  • Patricia K. Kuhl, speech and hearing scientist
  • Bill Walton, NBA star (Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics)
  • Tatum O'Neal, in LA aka Mrs John Macenroe (Paper Moon)
  • Andrea McArdle, in Phila - Sun will come out tommorrow


  • Charles II, last Habsburg king of Spain (1665-1700)
  • Colley Cibber, English dramatist, poet laureate (Love's Last Shift)
  • Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography
  • Adolphe Sax, Belgian musician, saxophone inventor
  • Charles H Dow, co-founder of Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St Journal
  • John Phillip Souza, march king (Stars and Stripes Forever)
  • Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish composer, pianist, patriot
  • James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball
  • Marie Curie, discoverer of radium
  • Walter Johnson, Hall of Fame pitcher (Wash. Senators 1907-27)
  • Fibber McGee, early radio comedian
  • Heinrich Himmler, Nazi SS leader
  • Francis Lederer, Actor
  • Albert Camus, French novelist
  • James Jones, author
  • Al Hirt, Jazz trumpeter
  • Joan Sutherland, Australian opera star
  • Mike Nichols, stage and film director
  • Johnny Rivers
  • Joni Mitchell
  • Sally Field, in Pasadena Cal - we really like her (Flying Nun)
  • Maria Shriver, (Newscaster)
  • Lori Singer


  • Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian, jurist, writer of Islamic Spain
  • Francisco de Zurbar n, Spanish Baroque painter
  • Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie, discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911)
  • Leon Trotsky, Russian Communist theorist, Bolshevik
  • Konrad Lorenz, zoologist, ethologist, writer (Nobel 1973)
  • Albert Camus, French novelist, playwright (Plauge) (Nobel 1957)
  • Billy Graham, evangelist
  • Al Hirt, trumpet player
  • Joan Sutherland, in Sydney Australia
  • Joni Mitchell, in Alberta Canada, singer (Clouds)
  • Judith Frost, in British Columbia
  • Joe Niekro
  • Kathy McMillan, track star
  • Dana Plato, in Maywood California


  • Sir Edmond Halley, astronomer, 1st to calculate a comet's orbit
  • Gottlob Frege, German mathematician, logician, philosopher
  • Margaret Mitchell, (Gone With the Wind)
  • Katherine Hepburn, in Conn (African Queen, On Golden Pond)
  • Peter Weiss, German dramatist, novelist (Marat/Sade)
  • Dr. Christiaan Barnard, performed 1st human heart transplantation
  • Patti Page, in Claremont Oklahoma
  • Morley Safer, TV newscaster (60 Minutes)
  • Esther Rolle, in Pompano Florida (Good Times)
  • Edward G. Gibson, astronaut (Skylab 4)
  • Minnie Ripperton, in Chic
  • Bonnie Raitt, in LA, singer
  • Christie Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner
  • Rickie Lee Jones, in Chicago


  • Elijah P. Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher, abolitionist
  • Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, poet, playwright (Fathers & Sons)
  • Charles Baudelaire, Poet
  • Eadweard Muybridge, Pioneer Photographer
  • Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
  • Lewis Lewin, German toxicologist, father of psychopharmacology
  • Paul Robeson, Actor and Singer
  • Gregory Pincus, birth control pill inventor
  • Ward Bond
  • James William Fulbright, (Sen-Mo)
  • Sargent Shriver, (Peace Corp)
  • Hedy Lamarr
  • Florence Chadwick, swimmer
  • Spiro Agnew, (R), 39th VP (1973-77), crook
  • Hugh Hefner, Publisher
  • Carl Perkins
  • Jean-Paul Belmondo
  • Carl Sagan, astronomer, author (Cosmos, Broca's Brain)
  • Mary Travers, in Louisville Ky, (Peter Paul & Mary)
  • Mikhail N. Tal, of USSR, world chess champion (1960-61)
  • Michael Learned
  • Lou Ferrigno, Actor (Incredible Hulk)


  • Martin Luther, in Eisleben, Germany, founder of Protestantism
  • Fran‡ois Couperin, composer
  • George II, king of England (1727-60)
  • William Hogarth, English satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress)
  • Oliver Goldsmith, Irish novelist, dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer)
  • Frederich von Schiller, in Germany, poet
  • Jared Kirtland, American physician, naturalist
  • Adm. Matthew Perry
  • Cyrus West Field, financier, success of 1st transatlantic cable
  • Lewis Wallace ('Ben Hur'), Soldier diploman and novelist
  • William Booth, founded Salvation Army
  • Sir John S.D. Thompson, (C), 4th prime minister of Canada (1892-94)
  • Joseph Pulitzer, Journalist and publisher
  • Frances Perkins, 1st woman Cabinet member
  • Kahlil Gibran
  • John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer
  • Clare Booth Luce, Journalist and Diplomat
  • Clyde (Bulldog) Turner, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
  • Chuck Connors
  • Richard Burton, Welsh Actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)
  • Max von Sydow
  • Omar Sharif
  • Ronald E. Evans, astronaut (Apollo 17)
  • John Madden
  • David Stockman, ex-budget director
  • Donna Fargo, in North Carolina
  • Ann Reinking, in Seattle Washington
  • MacKenzie Phillips, in Alexandra Va (One Day at a Time)


  • Henry IV, Holy Roman emperor (1036-1106)
  • Yen Jo-chu, Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty
  • Abigail Smith Adams, 2nd 1st lady
  • Charles IV, king of Spain (1788-1808)
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian author (Crime and Punishment)
  • Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American author, editor (Story of a Bad Boy)
  • Alfred Hermann Fried, German pacifist (Nobel 1911)
  • Gen George S Patton
  • Pat O'Brien, U.S. Actor (Knute Rockne, Angels with Dirty Faces)
  • Sam Spiegel, film producer
  • Alger Hiss, hid papers in a pumpkin
  • Sam Spiegel, film producer
  • Howard Fast, screenwriter
  • William Proxmire, (D-Wis-Sen), (Golden Fleece Awards)
  • Gene Tierney, in Bkln
  • Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan)
  • Jonathan Winters, comedian
  • Bibi Andersson, in Sweden
  • Susan Kohner
  • Denise Alexander, in NYC
  • Daniel Ortega Saavedra, president of Nicaragua (1984-, )
  • Fuzzy Zoeller, Golfer
  • Jigme Singye Wangchuk, king of Bhutan (1972-, )
  • Demi Moore
  • Philip McKeon, Actor


  • Letitia Christian Tyler, 1st wife of President Tyler
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown, NY, suffragist
  • Baha'Ullah (Mirza Husayn Ali), founded Bah '¡ faith
  • Aleksandr Borodin, Russian composer
  • Auguste Rodin, sculptor (Kiss)
  • Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC)
  • Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court justice
  • Alphonse (Tuffy) Leemans, NFL fullback (NY Giants)
  • Kim Hunter, Actress
  • Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco in Phila
  • Ina Ballin
  • Richard H. Truly, U.S. astronaut (STS-2, 8)
  • Stefanie Powers, in Hollywood Cal (Hart to Hart)
  • Neil Young, Canadian singer, songwriter
  • Nadia Comaneci, in Romania, Olympic gymnast


  • St. Augustine, of Hippo in Numidia, Algeria
  • Edward III, king of England (1327-77)
  • Augustine
  • Edward John Trelawney, English traveler, author
  • Edwin Booth, American Actor
  • Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (Treasure Island)
  • Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
  • Hermione Baddeley, Actress
  • Jack Elam, American Actor
  • Oskar Werner, film Actor, director
  • Madeleine Sherwood, Actress
  • Linda Christian, in Mexico
  • Richard Mulligan, Actor
  • Monica Vitti
  • Garry Marshall, Producer
  • Jean Seberg, in Marshaltown
  • Dack Rambo, Actor
  • Beth Brickell, in Arkansas


  • William Pitt the Elder, (Whig), British PM (1756-61, 1766-68)
  • Robert Fulton, built 1st coml steamboat
  • Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis
  • Sir Charles Lyell, geologist
  • Claude Monet, French Impressionist
  • Frederick Jackson Turner, historian, educator
  • Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Indian PM (1947-64)
  • Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 1st lady
  • Aaron Copland, American composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring)
  • Marya Mannes, writer
  • Louise Brooks, silent screen star (American Venus, Pandora's Box)
  • Harrison E. Salisbury, journalist, writer
  • Rosemary DeCamp, in Az
  • Barbara Hutton
  • Veronica Lake
  • Brian Keith, Actor
  • Leonie Rysanek, dramatic soprano
  • McLean Stevenson, Actor (TV's M*A*S*H)
  • Edward H. White II, astronaut (Gemini 4)
  • Fred Haise, astronaut (Apollo 13)
  • Hussein I, king of Jordan (1953-, )
  • Don Stewart
  • Prince Charles, of Britain


  • Sir William Herschel, astronomer discovered Uranus
  • Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer (Before Dawn) (Nobel 1912)
  • Georgia O'Keeffe, in Sun Prairie, Wis, painter
  • Marianne Moore, poet in St. Louis
  • Erwin Rommel, German field marshall
  • W. Averell Harriman, governor, cabinet member
  • Joseph Albert Wapner, La (People's Court)
  • Carol Bruce, in Great Neck
  • Howard Baker, senator from Tennessee, presidential chief of staff
  • Ed Asner, Actor (Lou Grant)
  • Petula Clark, in England
  • Joanna Barnes, Actress
  • Sam Waterston, Actor
  • Anni-Frid, in Lyngsdtad Sweden (ABBA)
  • Janet Lennon, (Lennon Sisters)


  • Rodolphe Kreutzer, French composer, virtuoso violinist
  • William Handy, blues musician
  • Paul Hindemith, in Germany, composer
  • Jim Jordan, radio comic (Fibber McGee of Fibber McGee & Molly)
  • George Gallup, what's your opinion?
  • Burgess Meredith, Actor
  • Donna McKechnie, in Pontiac Michigan
  • Martine van Hamel, Belgian ballerina
  • Lisa Bonet in SF, Cal (Cosby Show)
  • Donald Wolf, computer game creator


  • Il Bronzino, Florentine painter
  • Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet, dramatist
  • Jean d'Alembert, French mathematician, scientist, philosopher
  • Louis XVIII, 1st post-revolutionary king of France (1814-24)
  • August Ferdinand Mobius, mathematician, inventor of Mobius strip
  • Titian Ramsey Peale, American artist, naturalist
  • Viscount Montgomery, Field Marshal of Alamein in Moville, Ireland
  • Jack Cusack, pioneer in pro football, with Canton Bulldogs
  • Isamu Noguchi, sculptor
  • Rock Hudson, in Winnetka, Ill, (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms)
  • Bob Mathias, Olympian-turned-politician
  • Peter Cook, British Actor, comedian
  • Gordon Lightfoot, folksinger
  • Martin Scorsese, director (Mean Streets, NY, NY)
  • Lauren Hutton, in SC, model, Actress (American Gigolo, Lassiter)
  • Tom Seaver, (NY Met Pitcher)
  • Danny DeVito, Actor (Taxi, Ruthless People)
  • Elvin Hayes, NBA star
  • Merette Von Kemp, in Denmark


  • Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography
  • Sir WS Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame)
  • Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian operatic soprano
  • Eugene Ormandy, conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra)
  • George H. Gallop, what's your opinion?
  • Imogene Coca, in Phila, Actress (Your Show of Shows)
  • Alan B. Shepard Jr., 1st American in space (Freedom 7, Apollo 14)
  • Dorothy Collins, in Ontario Canada
  • Mickey Mouse, cartoon character
  • William (Pete) Knight, X-15 pilot
  • Brenda Vaccaro Bkln, (Midnight Cowboy, Airport '77)
  • Linda Evans, (Dynasty)
  • Susan Sullivan, in NYC
  • Linda Evans


  • Charles I, king of England (1625-49); executed by Parliament
  • George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War
  • Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat, built Suez Canal
  • James A Garfield, 20th Pres (March 4-Sept 19, 1881)
  • Jose Ra£l Capablanca, of Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27)
  • Tommy Dorsey, band leader
  • Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister (1966-77, 1980-84)
  • Alan Young, English Actor
  • Roy Campanella, baseball player
  • Jeane Kirkpatrick, US ambassador to UN
  • Larry King, radio talk show host
  • Dick Cavett, TV talk show host
  • Ted Turner, broadcasting mogul
  • Dan Haggerty, Actor (Grizzly Adams)
  • Calvin Klein, clothes designer
  • Ahmad Rashad (Bobby Moore), NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings)
  • Kathleen Quinlan, in Mill Valley Cal, (Rose Garden, Twilight Zone)
  • Glynnis O'Connor, in NYC
  • Jodie Foster, LA (Bugsy Malone) - Pulls Hinckley's string


  • Otto von Guericke, invented air pump
  • Peregrine White, son of William & Susanna White, born aboard Mayflower
  • Oliver Wolcott, governor of Conn., signer of Declaration of Indep
  • Andres Bello, Venezuelan diplomat, author, humanist
  • Sir Wilfrid Laurier, (L), 7th Canadian prime minister (1896-1911)
  • Selma Lagerlof, Swedish novelist (Tales of a Manor) (Nobel 1909)
  • Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge, 1st commissioner of baseball
  • Karl von Frisch, zoologist, bee expert (Nobel 1973)
  • Edwin Hubble, US astronomer, discoverer of galaxies, red shift
  • Chester Gould, cartoonist (gave Dick Tracy a job)
  • Alistair Cooke, raconteur (Masterpiece Theatre)
  • Emilio Pucci, fashion designer
  • Robert A. Bruce, pioneer in exercise cardiology
  • Judy Canova, in Fla
  • Robert Byrd, (D-Sen-WV) majority leader
  • Evelyn Keyes, Actress
  • Gene Tierney, Actress (Laura, Razor's Edge)
  • Phyllis Thaxter, in Portland Maine
  • Nadine Gordimer, South African writer (Lying Days)
  • Maya Plisetkaya, prima ballerina
  • Robert Kennedy, in Brookline, Mass (D-Sen-NY) AG; assassinated
  • Kaye Ballard, in Ohio Actress-comedian
  • Estelle Parsons, Actress (Rachel, Rachel, Bonnie and Clyde)
  • Richard Dawson, (Family Feud, Hogan's Heroes)
  • Dick Smothers, comedian
  • Joseph R. Biden Jr., (D-Sen-Del)
  • Veronica Hamill, Phila (Hill Street Blues)
  • Judy Woodruff, newscaster
  • Ahmad Rashad, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota), sportscaster
  • Bo Derek, Long Beach Cal (10, Tarzan, Ape Man)


  • Voltaire of France, thinker
  • William Beaumont, surgeon, studied digestion
  • Sir Samuel Cunard, founded 1st regular Atlantic steamship line
  • Benedict XV, 258th Roman Catholic pope (1914-22)
  • Rene Magritte, painter (This is Not a Pipe)
  • Coleman Hawkins, virtually created tenor saxophone for jazz
  • Jim Bishop, author
  • Eleanor Powell, in Springfield Mass
  • Sid Luckman, NFL quarterback (Chicago Bears)
  • Ralph Meeker, Actor (Anderson Tapes, Night Stalker)
  • Stan Musial, baseball player
  • Vivian Blaine, Actress (Guys and Dolls)
  • Jim Ringo, NFL center (Green Bay, Philadelphia)
  • Henry W. (Hank) Hartsfield, U.S. astronaut (STS-4, 41D, 61A)
  • Marlo Thomas, in Detroit Michigan aka Mrs Phil Donahue
  • Natalia Maskarova, in Lenningrad ballerina
  • Juliet Mills, in London England
  • Marlo Thomas, Actress (That Girl!, Jenny)
  • Larry Mahan, rodeo champ
  • Goldie Hawn, Wash DC (Butterflies Are Free, Foul Play)
  • Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress (Halloween, Trading Places)


  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach
  • George Eliot, in England, novelist (Silas Marner)
  • John Nance Garner, (D), 32nd VP (1933-41)
  • Andre Gide, French novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures) (Nobel 1947)
  • Charles de Gaulle, pres of France (1958-69)
  • Wiley Post, American aviator, parachutist
  • Hoagie Carmichael, American Actor, songwriter (Stardust, Lazybones)
  • Benjamin Britten, English composer
  • Geraldine Page, Kirksville Mo (Interiors, Trip to Bountiful)
  • Owen K. Garriott, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-9)
  • Robert Vaughn, Actor (Napoleon Solo of I Spy)
  • Billie Jean King, tennis pro Cal
  • Jamie Lee Curtis, in LA, Cal - Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh's daughter
  • Mariel Hemingway, in Ketchum Idaho (Manhattan, Personal Best)


  • Otto I (the Great), German king, Holy Roman emperor (962-73)
  • Alfonso X (the Wise), king of Castile and Leon (1252)
  • Gov. Edward Rutledge, of S.C., signer of Declaration of Independence
  • Franklin Pierce, 14th Pres (1853-1857)
  • Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney), criminal
  • Karl Branting, Swedish statesman, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921)
  • Boris Karloff, bogeyman (Frankenstein, Isle of the Dead)
  • William Brock, Sen
  • Vera Miles, in Okla
  • Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer (Hiroshima Threnody)
  • Vladislav N. Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11)
  • Francie Larrieu, Track runner


  • Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
  • Benjamin Spinoza
  • Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in Cal
  • Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist, satirist (Tristram Shandy)
  • Zachary Taylor, (Whig), 12th Pres (Mar 5 1849-July 9 1850)
  • Henre de Toulouse-Lautrec, in France, painter
  • Scott Joplin, American musician, composer
  • Alben W. Barkley, (D), 35th U.S. vice-president (1949-53)
  • Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
  • Eric Severide
  • John V. Lindsay, (R-NY-mayor)
  • William F. Buckley Jr., right-wing curmudgeon
  • Dante Lavelli, AAFC, NFL end (Cleveland Browns)
  • Oscar Robertson (Big O), basketball player


  • Andrew Carnegie, steel industrialist, library builder
  • Carry Nation, scourge of barkeepers and drinkers
  • John XXIII, 261st pope (1958-63), (Angelo Roncalli) near Bergamo, It
  • Virgil Thomson, Composer and music critic
  • Joe DiMaggio, Yankee Clipper
  • Ricardo Montalban, Welcome to Fantasy Island, Khan
  • Lenny Moore, NFL back (Baltimore Colts)
  • Kathryn Grant Crosby, in Houston
  • John Larroquette
  • Martin Feldstein, economist
  • Tina Turner, in Brownsville Tx
  • John F. Kennedy Jr
  • Stacy Lattislaw


  • John Harvard, English clergyman, scholar, founder of Harvard Univ
  • William Cowper, English poet
  • Sarah Moore Grimke, American antislavery, women's rights advocate
  • Louisa May Alcott, little woman
  • Mary Edwards Walker, American doctor, women's rights leader
  • Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist
  • Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment
  • Joe Guyon, NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I., etc.)
  • Norbert Wiener, inventor of cybernetics
  • Eric Sevareid, newscaster
  • Charles M Schultz, cartoonist (Peanuts)
  • Lois Hunt, in Morriston NJ
  • Robert Goulet, Singer in Canada
  • Marian Mercer, Actress-singer
  • Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (Voskhod 1)
  • Tina Turner, Singer
  • Rich Little, Impressionist in Canada
  • Jan Stenerud, NFL place kicker (Kansas City Chiefs)


  • Anders Celsius, invented centigrade temperature scale
  • Robert Livingston, delivered oath of office to George Washington
  • Sir Julius Benedict, composer
  • Fanny Kemble, English Actress
  • Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman
  • Charles A. Beard, American historian
  • John McNally, a.k.a. Johnny Blood, early NFL halfback
  • Mona Washbourne, Actress
  • David Merrick, Bdwy producer
  • Buffalo Bob Smith
  • Alexander Dubcek, head of Czech Communist Party (1968-69)
  • Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippine opposition leader; assassinated
  • Gail Sheehy, Writer
  • Eddie Rabbitt, singer
  • Jimi Hendrix, guitarist
  • Jayne Kennedy, in Wash DC
  • Caroline Kennedy


  • John Bunyan, English cleric, author (Pilgrim's Progress)
  • Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer, musician
  • William Blake, poet (Songs of Innocence and Experience)
  • Friedrich Engels, Marx's collaborator
  • Stefan Zweig, Austrian poet, essayist, dramatist, translator
  • Claude Levi-Strauss, Belgian social anthropologist
  • Gloria Grahame
  • Hope Lange, in London
  • Gary Hart, (D-Sen-Colo)
  • Paul Warfield, NFL, WFL wide receiver (Cleveland, Miami, Memphis)
  • Randy Newman, singer (Raindrops)
  • Alexander Godunov, composer


  • Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift)
  • Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage, antislavery, prison reformer
  • George Brown, (L), Canadian publisher (Toronto Globe), PM (1858)
  • Louisa May Alcott, American author (Little Women)
  • Sir Ambrose Fleming, invented diode
  • Ant¢nio Egas Moniz, Portuguese lobotomist (Nobel 1949)
  • William V.S. Tubman, (Whig), 17th Liberian president (1943-70)
  • Merle Travis, U.S. country singer (Sixteen Tons)
  • Vin Scully, Sportscaster
  • Paul Simon, (Sen-D-Ill), pres candidate
  • Diana Ladd
  • David Reuben, physician/Writer
  • John Mayall, blues singer
  • Chuck Mangione, jazz musician, composer
  • Suzy Chaffee, Skier
  • Howie Mandel, (St Elsewhere's-Dr Fiscus)
  • Cathy Moriarty, Actress


  • Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman, admiral
  • Philip Sidney, English poet, statesman, soldier (Arcadia)
  • Jonathan Swift, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal)
  • Johann Lukas Schonlein, helped establish scientific medicine
  • Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker
  • Theodor Mommsen, German historian, writer (Nobel 1902)
  • Samuel Clemens, AKA Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn)
  • Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain
  • Sir Winston Churchill, (C), Brit. PM (1940-45, 1951-55) (Nobel 1953)
  • Roy (Link) Lyman, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
  • Gordon Parks, film director
  • Henry Taube, chemist (Nobel 1983)
  • Virginia Mayo, in St Louis Mo
  • Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Actor (77 Sunset Strip)
  • Allan Sherman, comedian
  • Shirley Chisholm, (D-Rep), pres candidate
  • Richard Crenna
  • Dick Clark, oldest teenager (American Bandstand)
  • G Gordon Liddy
  • Abbie Hoffman, Yippie
  • Billy Idol, rocker (White Wedding)





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