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Chalker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Dec-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-2005</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>SF author, wrote <i>Well World</i> series</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/055/000049905/"><font size=-1>De Witt Clinton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Mar-1769</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1828</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Twice Governor of New York</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/525/000051372/"><font size=-1>Lee J. Cobb</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Dec-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Left Hand of God</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/111/000104796/"><font size=-1>Thomas Cole</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Painter</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1801</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1848</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>American landscape painter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/232/000086971/"><font size=-1>James B. Conant</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Educator</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1978</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President of Harvard, 1933-53</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/684/000042558/"><font size=-1>William Conrad</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Sep-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Jake and the Fatman</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000166825/"><font size=-1>Kiki Cuyler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Baseball</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>MLB Hall of Famer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/004/000135596/"><font size=-1>Ray Danton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1992</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/988/000091715/"><font size=-1>Honoré Daumier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Artist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Feb-1808</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1879</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Caricaturist and satirist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/074/000084819/"><font size=-1>René Descartes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1596</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1650</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Discours de la Méthode</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/453/000205835/"><font size=-1>Al Dubin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Songwriter</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1891</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Lullaby of Broadway</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/596/000045461/"><font size=-1>Sergei Eisenstein</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Film Director</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jan-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Alexander Nevsky</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/537/000179997/"><font size=-1>Paul K. Feyerabend</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jan-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Against Method</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/606/000086348/"><font size=-1>Léon Foucault</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1819</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Measured the speed of light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/112/000094827/"><font size=-1>Pope Gregory II</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Religion</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>669 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-731 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Roman Catholic Pope, 715-731</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/428/000041305/"><font size=-1>Henry Hathaway</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Film Director</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Mar-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Sons of Katie Elder</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/717/000023648/"><font size=-1>Frank Herbert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Dune</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/370/000159890/"><font size=-1>Kenneth C. Hogate</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Publisher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President of Dow Jones, 1931-45</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/316/000129926/"><font size=-1>Robert W. Holley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jan-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>RNA's role in protein synthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/114/000023045/"><font size=-1>Whitney Houston</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Singer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Aug-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Diva and cautionary tale</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/848/000099551/"><font size=-1>J. Hans D. Jensen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jun-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Shell nuclear model</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/636/000205021/"><font size=-1>Willem Johan Kolff</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Artificial kidney, artificial heart</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/324/000024252/"><font size=-1>Tom Lantos</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Congressman from California, 1981-2008</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/548/000031455/"><font size=-1>Jozef Lenart</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Apr-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Czech Prime Minister, 1963-68</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/612/000092336/"><font size=-1>Howard Lindsay</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Mar-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Sound of Music</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/145/000115797/"><font size=-1>Jacques Loeb</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Apr-1859</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Investigator of artificial parthenogenesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/996/000159519/"><font size=-1>Harry Martinson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-May-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1978</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/651/000346610/"><font size=-1>Ona Munson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Belle Watling in <i>Gone with the Wind</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/613/000096325/"><font size=-1>Pope Paschal I</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Religion</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>?</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-824 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Roman Catholic Pope, 817-24</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/004/000047860/"><font size=-1>Sylvia Plath</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Oct-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Daddy</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/747/000090477/"><font size=-1>Don Porter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prof. Lawrence on <i>Gidget</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/469/000102163/"><font size=-1>Eleanor Powell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Dancer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Nov-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1982</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Lady Be Good</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/506/000095221/"><font size=-1>William Shenstone</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1714</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1763</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Schoolmistress</i></td> 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