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Evita Peron
(Actress, First Lady of Argentina (1946-52))
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: May 7, 1919
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Los Toldos, Argentina
Died: July 26
Height: 5'5" (165 cm)
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George VI
(King of the United Kingdom (1936-52))
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Listed In: Historical Personalities
Birthdate: December 14, 1895
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Sandringham, Norfolk, England
Died: February 6
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
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Curly Howard
(Comedian, Actor and Member of the Comedy Trio ‘The Three Stooges’)
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Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: October 22, 1903
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Bensonhurst, New York, United States
Died: January 18
Height: 5'5" (165 cm)
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Hattie McDaniel
(Actress)
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Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: June 10, 1893
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Wichita, Kansas, United States
Died: October 26
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John Dewey
(Philosopher)
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Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: October 20, 1859
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Burlington, Vermont, United States
Died: June 1
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
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Maria Montessori
(Italian Educator and Founder of the 'Montessori Method of Education')
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: August 1, 1870
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Chiaravalle, Italy
Died: April 30
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Jack Parsons
(Researcher)
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Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: October 2, 1914
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States
Died: June 17
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John Garfield
(Actor)
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Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: March 4, 1913
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: New York City
Died: May 21
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
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Paramahansa Yogananda
(Guru)
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Listed In: Spiritual & Religious Leaders
Birthdate: January 5, 1893
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died: March 7
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George Santayana
(Regarded as One of the Most Important Thinkers of the First Half of the 20th Century)
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Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: December 16, 1863
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Madrid, Spain
Died: September 26
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Francis Pegahmagabow
(Marksman)
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: March 8, 1889
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Parry Sound, Ontario
Died: August 5
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Elizabeth Kenny
(Nurse & Health Administrator)
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: September 20, 1880
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Warialda, New South Wales
Died: November 30
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Karen Horney
(German Psychoanalyst Best Known for Founding Feminist Psychology in Response to Freud’s Theory of Penis Envy)
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Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: September 16, 1885
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Blankenese, Hamburg, Germany
Died: December 4
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D. S. Senanayake
(First Prime Minister of Sri Lanka)
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Knut Hamsun
(One of the Most Influential Norwegian Writers & Winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature.)
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: August 4, 1859
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Lom Municipality, Norway
Died: February 19
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Margaret Wise Brown
(Writer)
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: May 23, 1910
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died: November 13
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Susan Peters
(Actress)
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Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: July 3, 1921
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Spokane, Washington, United States
Died: October 23
Height: 5'4" (163 cm)
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Paul Éluard
(Poet)
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: December 14, 1895
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Saint-Denis, France
Died: November 18
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Edward S. Curtis
(Former photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American people)
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Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: February 19, 1868
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States
Died: October 19
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Krystyna Skarbek
(Britain's First and Longest-Serving Female Secret Agent)
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Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: May 1, 1908
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Trzepnica, Poland
Died: June 15
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Charles Maurras
(Author)
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: April 20, 1868
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Martigues, France
Died: November 16
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Elena of Montenegro
(Princess)
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Birthdate: January 8, 1873
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Cetinje, Montenegro
Died: November 28
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Horloogiyn Choybalsan
(Political figure)
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Chaim Weizmann
(Former President of Israel)
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: November 27, 1874
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Motal
Died: November 9
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Charles Scott Sherrington
(English Neurophysiologist Who Won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
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Birthdate: November 27, 1857
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Islington, London, England
Died: March 4
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Harold Innis
(Economist, Historian, Philosopher, University teacher, Sociologist)
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Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: November 5, 1894
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Otterville, Ontario
Died: November 8
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Keith Murdoch
(War correspondent)
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Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: August 12, 1885
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Melbourne
Died: October 5
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Alexandra Kollontai
(Russian Revolutionary and Diplomat & First Woman in History to Become an Official Member of a Governing Cabinet)
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Birthdate: March 31, 1872
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: March 9
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Josephine Tey
(Author Known for Her Novel ‘The Daughter of Time')
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: July 25, 1896
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Inverness, Scotland
Died: February 13
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Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
(Governor-General of India)
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Birthdate: September 24, 1887
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Queensferry, Scotland
Died: January 5
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Benedetto Croce
(Philosopher, Politician, Art historian, Writer, Literary critic)
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Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: February 25, 1866
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Pescasseroli
Died: November 20
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Fletcher Henderson
(Former pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and swing music)
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Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: December 18, 1897
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Cuthbert, Georgia, United States
Died: December 29
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
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Jürgen Stroop
(German SS Commander During the Nazi Era)
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: September 26, 1895
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Detmold, Germany
Died: March 6
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Billy Hughes
(Prime Minister)
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Birthdate: September 25, 1862
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: London, England
Died: October 28
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Emilie Louise Flöge
(Fashion designer)
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Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
(Former Prime Minister of Italy (1917 - 1919))
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Uncle Dave Macon
(American Old-Time Banjo Player, Singer & Comedian)
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Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: October 7, 1870
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Smartt Station, Tennessee, United States
Died: March 22
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George Remus
(Lawyer, Businesspeople)
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Birthdate: November 13, 1878
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: January 20
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Henri Bourassa
(Former Member of the Canadian Parliament for Labelle (1896 - 1907))
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Birthdate: September 1, 1868
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Montreal, Canada
Died: August 31
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Ferenc Molnár
( Hungary’s Most Celebrated and Controversial Novelist and Playwright Known for His Novel 'The Paul Street Boys')
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Birthdate: January 12, 1878
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
Died: April 1
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Sven Hedin
(Geographer)
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Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: February 19, 1865
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Died: November 26
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Paul Nemenyi
(Physicist)
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Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria
(Archduke)
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Birthdate: April 13, 1895
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: January 19
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Clark L. Hull
(Psychologist)
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Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: May 24, 1884
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: New York
Died: May 10
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Dick Curtis
(Actor)
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Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: May 11, 1902
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Newport, Kentucky, United States
Died: January 3
Height: 6'3" (190 cm)
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Maire O Neill
(Actress)
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Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: January 11, 1886
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Died: November 2
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Wop May
(Military personnel)
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Boardman Robinson
(Caricaturist and painter)
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Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: September 6, 1876
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Somerset, Canada
Died: September 5
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Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
(1st President of Finland)
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Birthdate: January 28, 1865
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Suomussalmi, Finland
Died: September 22
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
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Norman Douglas
(Writer)
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: December 8, 1868
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Thuringen, Austria
Died: February 7
