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Rachel Carson

5/27/1907 - 4/14/1964
American biologist and writer

82 Cornelius Vanderbilt
5/27/1794 - 1/4/1877
American shipping and railroad magnate

76 Amelia Bloomer
5/27/1818 - 12/30/1894
American reformer; campaigned for temperance and women's rights

91 Julia Ward Howe
5/27/1819 - 10/17/1910
American author and reformer; wrote "Battle Hymn of the Republic"

56 Jay Gould
5/27/1836 - 12/2/1892
American railroad executive and financier

39 Wild Bill Hickok
5/27/1837 - 8/2/1876
American frontiersman, army scout, marksman and gambler

86 Georges Rouault
5/27/1871 - 2/13/1958
French painter, printmaker, ceramist and maker of stained glass

66 Dashiell Hammett
5/27/1894 - 1/10/1961
American novelist

39 William Hansen
5/27/1909 - 5/23/1949
American physicist; pioneered use of microwave technology

66 Hubert Humphrey
5/27/1911 - 1/13/1978
American politician; senator and 38th vice-president of the U. S.

70 John Cheever
5/27/1912 - 6/18/1982
American short-story writer and novelist

38 Caryl Chessman
5/27/1921 - 5/2/1960
American criminal; wrote four books while on death row