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1769 Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy.
1830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), hellraiser
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1729 Catherine the Great
1837 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order"
1903 Bing Crosby
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1284 King Edward II
1469 Niccolo Machiavelli
1874 Francois Coty, perfumemaker.
1898 Golda Meir
1906 Mary Astor
1919 Pete Seeger, folk singer.
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1932 Tammy Wynette
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 570 Mohammed
1818 Karl Marx
1867 Nellie Bly, name became a synonym for female star reporter.
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     Daniel Gerber, beloved by babies at mealtime
1818 Karl Marx
1856 Sigmund Freud
1870 A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America.
1895 Rudolph Valentino
1915 Orson Wells
1931 Willy Mays
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1833 Johannes Brahms
1840 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
1901 Gary Cooper, actor in 'High Noon' and 'The Plainsman'.
1909 Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid)
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1737 Edward Gibbon, historian, "The History of the Decline & Fall
     of the Roman Empire"
1786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
1828 Henri Dunant, founded Red Cross, YMCA.
1829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
1884 Harry S. Truman, 32nd President
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1800 John Brown, abolitionist
1873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen
1882 Henry J. Kaiser,  built Liberty Ships, Jeeps
1918 Mike Wallace
1928 Pancho Gonzales
1949 Billy Joel
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1602 William Lilly
1788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics.
1899 Fred Astaire, tapdancer
1902 David O. Selznick, film producer.
1912 Phil Silvers
1946 Dave Mason
1957 Sid Vicious
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1838 John Wilkes Booth
1888 Irving Berlin
1899 Fred Astaire
1904 Salvador Dali
1941 Eric Burdon (the Animal)
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 467 BC Socrates
1820 Florence Nightingale
1845 Gabriel Faure, composer
1925 Yogi Barra, catcher
1928 Burt Bacharach
1937 George Carlin
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1842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame.
1856 Peter Henry Emerson, first photographer to promote
     photography as an independent art.
1914 Joe Louis, heavyweight
1926 Beatrice Arthur
1933 Jim Jones
1950 Stevie Wonder
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1727 Thomas Gainsborough
1928 Billy Martin, local boy who made good in baseball.
1936 Bobby Darin
1944 George Lucas, skywalker
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1859 Pierre Curie, physicist
1902 Richard Daley
1918 Eddie Arnold
1936 Wavy Gravy
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1801 William H. Seward, bought Alaska at $0.02/acre.
1905 Henry Fonda
1912 Studs Terkel
1919 Liberace, candelabrist
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1866 Erik Satie, composer
1900 Ayatollah Khomeini
1912 Archibald Cox
1936 Dennis Hopper
1942 Taj Mahal
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1850 Oliver Heaviside, physicist who predicted the existance of
     the ionosphere, used to reflect radio waves.
1872 Bertrand Russell
1897 Frank Capra
1913 Perry Como
1918 Pope John Paul II
1937 Brooks Robinson
1947 Reggie Jackson
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1890 Ho Chi Minh
1918 Mike Wallace
1925 Malcom X
1928 Pol Pot
1945 Peter Townshend (The Who).
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1750 Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during the War of 1812
1799 Honore de Balzac, novelist
1818 William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo & Co.
1913 William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co.
1915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general & politician
1944 Joe Cocker
1946 Cher
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 427 BC Plato
1471 Albrecht Durer, painter & printmaker, greatest German
     Renaissance artist.
1688 Alexander Pope
1828 Albrecht Grafe (founder of modern ophthalmology).
1860 Willam Einthoven (inventor of the electrocardiograph).
1878 Glenn Curtis (aircraft pioneer).
1916 Harold Robbins
1921 Andri Sakharov
1925 Peggy Cass
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1828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmology
1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought Sherlock Holmes to life (twice)
1907 Sir Laurence Olivier
1914 Vance Packard
1920 Thomas Gold, astronomer, established the steady-state theory
     of the universe.
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1717 Linnaeus
1883 Douglas Fairbanks, 1st & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers.
1910 Artie Shaw, band leader and husband
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1544 William Gilbert
1686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, invented the thermometer
1744 Jean Paul Marat
1941 Bob Dylan
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1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher
1889 Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter
1892 Marshall Tito
1918 Claude Akins
1926 Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz
1929 Beverly Sills, soprano
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1877 Isadora Duncan
1886 Al Jolson, jazz singer
1907 John Wayne (Hi Yaaaaah Pillllgriiim...)
1909 Aldo Gucci
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1818 Amelia Bloomer, suffragist known for her pantaloons
1837 Wild Bill Hickock
1878 Isadora Duncan
1894 Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective
1907 Rachel Carson, ecologist
1911 Hubert Humphrey
1923 Henry Kissenger
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1738 Joseph Guillotin (lot a people lost their head over it).
1759 William Pitt
1886 Jim Thorpe
1908 Ian Fleming, gave James Bond a job.
1934 Dionne quintuplets
1944 Gladys Knight
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1903 Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, famous profile
1917 John F. Kennedy, 35th President (1960-1963)
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1901 Cornellia Otis Skinner
1908 Mel Blanc
1909 Benny Goodman
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1819 Walt Whitman, poet
1908 Don Ameche
1931 Clint Eastwood (Make My Day...).
1943 Joe Namath
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