Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Samuel Adams |
Politician |
27-Sep-1722 |
2-Oct-1803 |
Brewer led the Boston Tea Party |
François Arago |
Physicist |
26-Feb-1786 |
2-Oct-1853 |
Investigated earth magnetics |
Svante Arrhenius |
Chemist |
19-Feb-1859 |
2-Oct-1927 |
Explored electrolytic conductivity |
Gene Autry |
Country Musician |
29-Sep-1907 |
2-Oct-1998 |
Singing cowboy |
George Bancroft |
Actor |
30-Sep-1882 |
2-Oct-1956 |
Thunderbolt |
Clarence W. Barron |
Publisher |
2-Jul-1855 |
2-Oct-1928 |
Wall Street Journal proprietor, 1903-28 |
Peter J. Brennan |
Government |
24-May-1918 |
2-Oct-1996 |
US Secretary of Labor, 1973-75 |
Norman O. Brown |
Historian |
25-Sep-1913 |
2-Oct-2002 |
Life Against Death |
Max Bruch |
Composer |
6-Jan-1838 |
2-Oct-1920 |
Kol Nidrei |
Hamilton Camp |
Actor |
30-Oct-1934 |
2-Oct-2005 |
Voice of GizmoDuck |
Madeleine Carroll |
Actor |
26-Feb-1906 |
2-Oct-1987 |
The 39 Steps |
Helen Chenoweth-Hage |
Politician |
27-Jan-1938 |
2-Oct-2006 |
Congresswoman from Idaho, 1995-2001 |
Francesco Colonna |
Author |
1433 |
2-Oct-1527 |
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili |
W. Murray Crane |
Politician |
23-Apr-1853 |
2-Oct-1920 |
Governor and Senator from Massachusetts |
George Creel |
Journalist |
1-Dec-1876 |
2-Oct-1953 |
Head of the Committee on Public Information |
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot |
Inventor |
26-Sep-1725 |
2-Oct-1804 |
Steam-powered automobile |
Marcel Duchamp |
Artist |
28-Jul-1887 |
2-Oct-1968 |
Lead proponent of Dadaism |
John T. Dunlop |
Government |
5-Jul-1914 |
2-Oct-2003 |
US Secretary of Labor, 1975-76 |
Max Geldray |
Jazz Musician |
12-Feb-1916 |
2-Oct-2004 |
Conks of The Goon Show |
George Grizzard |
Actor |
1-Apr-1928 |
2-Oct-2007 |
Advise and Consent |
Paul Hartman |
Actor |
1-Mar-1904 |
2-Oct-1973 |
Emmett Clark on Mayberry R.F.D. |
José María de Heredia |
Poet |
22-Nov-1842 |
2-Oct-1905 |
Les Trophées |
Harriet Hilliard |
Actor |
18-Jul-1909 |
2-Oct-1994 |
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet |
Rock Hudson |
Actor |
17-Nov-1925 |
2-Oct-1985 |
Ice Station Zebra |
Alec Issigonis |
Engineer |
18-Nov-1906 |
2-Oct-1988 |
Designer of the Mini Cooper |
Benjamin Kidd |
Sociologist |
9-Sep-1858 |
2-Oct-1916 |
Social Evolution |
Frank Lovejoy |
Actor |
28-Mar-1912 |
2-Oct-1962 |
The Hitch-Hiker |
Lee Lozano |
Painter |
5-Nov-1930 |
2-Oct-1999 |
Misogyny as art form |
José Agostinho de Macedo |
Poet |
11-Sep-1761 |
2-Oct-1831 |
Os Burros |
Peter Medawar |
Biologist |
28-Feb-1915 |
2-Oct-1987 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
James W. Michaels |
Journalist |
17-Jun-1921 |
2-Oct-2007 |
Longtime Forbes editor |
George Cardinal Mundelein |
Religion |
2-Jul-1872 |
2-Oct-1939 |
Archbishop of Chicago, 1915-39 |
Isaac Oliver |
Painter |
c. 1556 |
2-Oct-1617 |
English miniature painter |
Peter D. Ouspensky |
Philosopher |
5-Mar-1878 |
2-Oct-1947 |
Esoteric philosopher, Tertium Organum |
Korla Pandit |
Musician |
16-Sep-1921 |
2-Oct-1998 |
Hynoptic exotic |
Generoso Pope, Jr. |
Business |
13-Jan-1927 |
2-Oct-1988 |
National Enquirer and Weekly World News |
William B. Ross |
Politician |
4-Dec-1873 |
2-Oct-1924 |
Governor of Wyoming, 1923-24 |
Russell Rouse |
Screenwriter |
20-Nov-1913 |
2-Oct-1987 |
Pillow Talk |
Nipsey Russell |
Comic |
13-Oct-1924 |
2-Oct-2005 |
Tinman in The Wiz |
Granville Ryrie |
Military |
1-Jul-1865 |
2-Oct-1937 |
Soldier, High Commissioner to the UK |
Marie Stopes |
Scientist |
15-Oct-1880 |
2-Oct-1958 |
Scientist and birth control advocate |
Philip F. Thomas |
Politician |
12-Sep-1810 |
2-Oct-1890 |
Maryland Governor, US Treasury Secretary |
Frank Turner |
Architect |
1908 |
2-Oct-1999 |
Designer, Interstate Highway System |
Pope Urban IV |
Religion |
c. 1200 |
2-Oct-1264 |
Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1261-64 |
Frank B. Weeks |
Politician |
20-Jan-1854 |
2-Oct-1935 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1909-11 |
August Wilson |
Playwright |
27-Apr-1945 |
2-Oct-2005 |
The Piano Lesson |