| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Roy Acuff |
Country Musician |
15-Sep-1903 |
23-Nov-1992 |
Country music pioneer |
| Joan Vollmer Adams |
Victim |
1924 |
6-Sep-1951 |
Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs |
| Antonin Artaud |
Playwright |
4-Sep-1896 |
4-Mar-1948 |
Theater of Cruelty |
| Mary Astor |
Actor |
3-May-1906 |
25-Sep-1987 |
The Maltese Falcon |
| Delia Bacon |
Author |
2-Feb-1811 |
2-Sep-1859 |
Shakespeare-Bacon conspiracist |
| Syd Barrett |
Musician |
6-Jan-1946 |
7-Jul-2006 |
Pink Floyd |
| John Barrymore |
Actor |
14-Feb-1882 |
29-May-1942 |
Romeo and Juliet |
| Clara Barton |
Activist |
25-Dec-1821 |
12-Apr-1912 |
Co-Founder of the American Red Cross |
| Jeff Beck |
Guitarist |
24-Jun-1944 |
|
Exceptional rock guitarist |
| Honor Blackman |
Actor |
12-Dec-1926 |
|
Cathy Gale on The Avengers |
| Clara Bow |
Actor |
29-Jul-1905 |
26-Sep-1965 |
Schizophrenic actress, Wings |
| Emanuel Bronner |
Business |
1-Feb-1908 |
7-Mar-1997 |
Soap label philosopher |
| Anton Bruckner |
Composer |
4-Sep-1824 |
11-Oct-1896 |
Mass in D Minor |
| Bebe Buell |
Model |
14-Jul-1953 |
|
Liv Tyler's mom |
| Juanita Bynum |
Religion |
16-Jan-1959 |
|
Pentecostal televangelist |
| Pat Califia |
Author |
8-Mar-1954 |
|
FTM transgendered sex writer |
| Maria Callas |
Singer |
4-Dec-1923 |
16-Sep-1977 |
Diva soprano of the 1950s |
| Neve Campbell |
Actor |
3-Oct-1973 |
|
Phantom of the Opera |
| Georg Cantor |
Mathematician |
3-Mar-1845 |
6-Jan-1918 |
Founder of set theory |
| Mariah Carey |
Singer/Songwriter |
27-Mar-1969 |
|
Diva with seventeen #1 hits |
| Leonora Carrington |
Painter |
6-Apr-1917 |
|
Last living Surrealist |
| Enrico Caruso |
Singer |
27-Feb-1873 |
2-Aug-1921 |
Operatic tenor nonpareil |
| Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh |
Politician |
18-Jun-1769 |
12-Aug-1822 |
Architected Napoleon's defeat |
| G. K. Chesterton |
Author |
29-May-1874 |
14-Jun-1936 |
The Man Who Was Thursday |
| Kate Chopin |
Novelist |
8-Feb-1851 |
22-Aug-1904 |
The Awakening |
| Agatha Christie |
Novelist |
15-Sep-1890 |
12-Jan-1976 |
Mystery novelist |
| Rosemary Clooney |
Singer |
23-May-1928 |
29-Jun-2002 |
Come On-a My House |
| Ty Cobb |
Baseball |
18-Dec-1886 |
17-Jul-1961 |
Legendary Detroit Tigers hitter |
| Jarvis Cocker |
Singer/Songwriter |
19-Sep-1963 |
|
Frontman, Pulp |
| Paula Cole |
Musician |
5-Apr-1968 |
|
Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? |
| Noel Coward |
Playwright |
16-Dec-1899 |
26-Mar-1973 |
Prolific English popular playwright |
| Leon Czolgosz |
Assassin |
1873 |
29-Oct-1901 |
President McKinley's assassin |
| Evan Dando |
Musician |
4-Mar-1967 |
|
Lemonheads frontman |
| Doris Day |
Actor |
3-Apr-1924 |
|
The Man Who Knew Too Much |
| Daniel Day-Lewis |
Actor |
29-Apr-1957 |
|
My Left Foot |
| Eamon de Valera |
Head of State |
14-Oct-1882 |
29-Aug-1975 |
President of Ireland, 1959-73 |
| Joan Didion |
Author |
5-Dec-1934 |
|
Slouching Toward Bethlehem |
| Rudolf Diesel |
Inventor |
18-Mar-1858 |
30-Sep-1913 |
Inventor of the Diesel Engine |
| Nick Drake |
Singer/Songwriter |
19-Jun-1948 |
25-Nov-1974 |
Pink Moon |
| Theodore Dreiser |
Novelist |
27-Aug-1871 |
28-Dec-1945 |
An American Tragedy |
| Thomas Eagleton |
Politician |
4-Sep-1929 |
4-Mar-2007 |
US Senator from Missouri, 1969-87 |
| Sergei Eisenstein |
Film Director |
23-Jan-1898 |
11-Feb-1948 |
Alexander Nevsky |
| Brian Eno |
Music Producer |
15-May-1948 |
|
Ambient music pioneer |
| Philo Farnsworth |
Inventor |
19-Aug-1906 |
11-Mar-1971 |
Inventor of electronic television |
| Enzo Ferrari |
Business |
18-Feb-1898 |
14-Aug-1988 |
Legendary automobile maker |
| Marshall Field IV |
Business |
15-Jun-1916 |
18-Sep-1965 |
Owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, 1956-65 |
| Betty Friedan |
Activist |
4-Feb-1921 |
4-Feb-2006 |
Rights for women spokesperson |
| William Friedman |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1891 |
12-Nov-1969 |
Cryptography pioneer |
| Judy Garland |
Singer |
10-Jun-1922 |
22-Jun-1969 |
Dorothy in Wizard of Oz |
| Eric Gill |
Typographer |
22-Feb-1882 |
17-Nov-1940 |
Typographer, Gill Sans |
| Kurt Gödel |
Mathematician |
28-Apr-1906 |
14-Jan-1978 |
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems |
| Philip L. Graham |
Publisher |
18-Jul-1915 |
3-Aug-1963 |
Washington Post publisher, 1947-63 |
| Graham Greene |
Novelist |
2-Oct-1904 |
3-Apr-1991 |
The Third Man |
| Edwin Hall |
Physicist |
7-Nov-1855 |
20-Nov-1938 |
Discovered the Hall Effect |
| Warren G. Harding |
Head of State |
2-Nov-1865 |
2-Aug-1923 |
29th US President, 1921-23 |
| Moss Hart |
Playwright |
24-Oct-1904 |
20-Dec-1961 |
You Can't Take It With You |
| H. D. |
Poet |
10-Sep-1886 |
27-Sep-1961 |
Imagist poet, Sea Garden |
| Anthony Hecht |
Poet |
16-Jan-1923 |
20-Oct-2004 |
The Hard Hours |
| Martin Heidegger |
Philosopher |
26-Sep-1886 |
26-May-1976 |
Being and Time |
| David Helfgott |
Musician |
19-May-1947 |
|
Subject of the biopic Shine |
| King Henry VI |
Royalty |
6-Dec-1421 |
21-May-1471 |
King of England 1422-61 |
| Hergé |
Cartoonist |
23-May-1907 |
3-Mar-1983 |
Tintin |
| John Herschel |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1792 |
11-May-1871 |
Discovered many moons of Saturn |
| Hermann Hesse |
Author |
2-Jul-1877 |
9-Aug-1962 |
Siddhartha |
| Bob Hoskins |
Actor |
26-Oct-1942 |
|
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? |
| Howard Hughes |
Business |
24-Sep-1905 |
5-Apr-1976 |
Insane billionaire |
| David Hume |
Philosopher |
7-May-1711 |
25-Aug-1776 |
Empiricist nonpareil |
| Betty Hutton |
Actor |
26-Feb-1921 |
11-Mar-2007 |
Incendiary Blonde |
| Walter W. Jenkins |
Government |
23-Mar-1918 |
23-Nov-1985 |
LBJ assistant, outed in gay sex scandal |
| Daniel Johnston |
Singer/Songwriter |
22-Jan-1961 |
|
Hi How Are You? |
| Margot Kidder |
Actor |
17-Oct-1948 |
|
Lois Lane in the Superman movie |
| Jani Lane |
Singer |
1-Feb-1964 |
|
Lead singer of Warrant |
| Benjamin Latrobe |
Architect |
1-May-1764 |
3-Sep-1820 |
Designed the US Capitol |
| Yves Saint Laurent |
Fashion Designer |
1-Aug-1936 |
1-Jun-2008 |
Christian Dior protege |
| Larry Lea |
Religion |
1951 |
|
Disgraced televangelist |
| Vivien Leigh |
Actor |
5-Nov-1913 |
8-Jul-1967 |
Gone With The Wind |
| Annie Lennox |
Singer/Songwriter |
25-Dec-1954 |
|
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of These) |
| Abraham Lincoln |
Head of State |
12-Feb-1809 |
15-Apr-1865 |
16th US President, 1861-65 |
| Mary Todd Lincoln |
First Lady |
13-Dec-1818 |
16-Jul-1882 |
Wife of US President Abraham Lincoln |
| Emily Lloyd |
Actor |
29-Sep-1970 |
|
Wish You Were Here |
| H. P. Lovecraft |
Author |
20-Aug-1890 |
15-Mar-1937 |
Necronomicon and Cthulhu mythos author |
| Clare Boothe Luce |
Politician |
10-Apr-1903 |
9-Oct-1987 |
Congresswoman, wife of Henry R. Luce |
| Ida Lupino |
Actor |
4-Feb-1914 |
3-Aug-1995 |
The Man I Love |
| Edward MacDowell |
Composer |
18-Dec-1860 |
23-Jan-1908 |
American piano composer |
| Imelda Marcos |
First Lady |
2-Jul-1929 |
|
Former First Lady of the Philippines |
| F. O. Matthiessen |
Critic |
19-Feb-1902 |
1-Apr-1950 |
American Renaissance |
| Brian May |
Guitarist |
19-Jul-1947 |
|
Guitarist for Queen |
| Carson McCullers |
Author |
19-Feb-1917 |
29-Sep-1967 |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
| Michael McDermott |
Criminal |
4-Sep-1958 |
|
Mucko killed seven coworkers |
| John McGeoch |
Musician |
28-May-1955 |
4-Mar-2004 |
Siouxsie and the Banshees guitarist |
| Kristy McNichol |
Actor |
11-Sep-1962 |
|
1970s girl teen idol |
| Aimee Semple McPherson |
Religion |
9-Oct-1890 |
27-Sep-1944 |
Evangelist, faith healer |
| Bette Midler |
Singer |
1-Dec-1945 |
|
Ol' Red Hair |
| John Stuart Mill |
Philosopher |
20-May-1806 |
8-May-1873 |
Liberal philosopher and essayist |
| Spike Milligan |
Comic |
16-Apr-1918 |
27-Feb-2002 |
The Goon Show |
| Carmen Miranda |
Dancer |
9-Feb-1909 |
5-Aug-1955 |
The lady in the tutti-frutti hat |
| Joan Miró |
Painter |
20-Apr-1893 |
25-Dec-1983 |
The most surrealist of them all |
| Marilyn Monroe |
Actor |
1-Jun-1926 |
5-Aug-1962 |
Some Like It Hot |
| Edvard Munch |
Painter |
12-Dec-1863 |
23-Jan-1944 |
Scream |
| Carrie Nation |
Activist |
25-Nov-1846 |
9-Jun-1911 |
Temperance crusader |
| Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of modern physics |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
Philosopher |
15-Oct-1844 |
25-Aug-1900 |
God is dead |
| Florence Nightingale |
Activist |
12-May-1820 |
13-Aug-1910 |
Established nursing as a profession |
| Oliver North |
Military |
7-Oct-1943 |
|
Perjuring Iran-Contra figure |
| Emperor Norton |
Royalty |
14-Feb-1819 |
8-Jan-1880 |
Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico |
| John Humphrey Noyes |
Religion |
3-Sep-1811 |
13-Apr-1886 |
Oneida Community founder |
| Johnny O'Keefe |
Musician |
6-Jan-1935 |
6-Oct-1978 |
King of Australian rock and roll |
| Deborah Jeane Palfrey |
Criminal |
18-Mar-1956 |
1-May-2008 |
The DC Madam |
| Charlie Parker |
Jazz Musician |
29-Aug-1920 |
12-Mar-1955 |
Be-bop jazz musician |
| Colonel Tom Parker |
Business |
26-Jun-1909 |
21-Jan-1997 |
Elvis Presley's manager |
| Maxfield Parrish |
Artist |
25-Jul-1870 |
10-Mar-1966 |
American book and magazine illustrator |
| Andy Partridge |
Musician |
11-Nov-1953 |
|
XTC singer/songwriter |
| Mervyn Peake |
Novelist |
9-Jul-1911 |
17-Nov-1968 |
Titus Groan |
| Dave Pirner |
Musician |
16-Apr-1964 |
|
Frontman for Soul Asylum |
| Robert Pirsig |
Author |
6-Sep-1928 |
|
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| Sylvia Plath |
Poet |
27-Oct-1932 |
11-Feb-1963 |
Ariel and Collected Poems |
| Jackson Pollock |
Painter |
28-Jan-1912 |
11-Aug-1956 |
Abstract expressionist |
| C. W. Post |
Business |
26-Oct-1854 |
9-May-1914 |
Invented Postum and Grape-Nuts |
| Sergei Rachmaninov |
Composer |
20-Mar-1873 |
28-Mar-1943 |
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini |
| Charles Richter |
Scientist |
26-Apr-1900 |
30-Sep-1985 |
Groundbreaking seismologist |
| Julia Roberts |
Actor |
28-Oct-1967 |
|
Pretty Woman |
| Aesop Rock |
Rapper |
1976 |
|
Labor Days |
| Theodore Roethke |
Poet |
25-May-1908 |
1-Aug-1963 |
The Waking |
| Philip Roth |
Novelist |
19-Mar-1933 |
|
Portnoy's Complaint |
| J. D. Salinger |
Novelist |
1-Jan-1919 |
|
Catcher in the Rye |
| Jessica Savitch |
Journalist |
1-Feb-1947 |
24-Oct-1983 |
Newscaster drowned with VP of NY Post |
| Robert Schumann |
Composer |
8-Jun-1810 |
29-Jul-1856 |
Toccata |
| Ignaz Semmelweis |
Doctor |
1-Jul-1818 |
13-Aug-1865 |
Pioneer of antiseptics |
| Anne Sexton |
Poet |
9-Nov-1928 |
4-Oct-1974 |
Live or Die |
| Craig Sheffer |
Actor |
23-Apr-1960 |
|
A River Runs Through It |
| Mary Shelley |
Author |
30-Aug-1797 |
1-Feb-1851 |
Frankenstein |
| William T. Sherman |
Military |
8-Feb-1820 |
14-Jan-1891 |
Marched to the Sea |
| Dave Sim |
Cartoonist |
17-May-1956 |
|
Cerebus |
| Jeffrey Skilling |
Business |
25-Nov-1953 |
|
Disgraced CEO of Enron |
| Betty Smith |
Novelist |
15-Dec-1896 |
17-Jan-1972 |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| David Hyrum Smith |
Relative |
17-Nov-1844 |
29-Aug-1904 |
Son of Joseph Smith |
| Phoebe Snow |
Jazz Musician |
17-Jul-1952 |
|
Jazz vocalist |
| Oswald Spengler |
Historian |
29-May-1880 |
8-May-1936 |
The Decline of the West |
| Art Spiegelman |
Cartoonist |
15-Feb-1948 |
|
Underground cartoonist wrote Maus |
| Dusty Springfield |
Singer |
16-Apr-1939 |
2-Mar-1999 |
Son of a Preacher Man |
| Jean Stafford |
Novelist |
1-Jul-1915 |
26-Mar-1979 |
The Catherine Wheel |
| Cary Stayner |
Criminal |
12-Aug-1961 |
|
Yosemite killer |
| Karrine Steffans |
Model |
24-Aug-1978 |
|
Confessions of a Video Vixen |
| Nikola Tesla |
Inventor |
9-Jul-1856 |
7-Jan-1943 |
Invented alternating current |
| Jim Thompson |
Novelist |
27-Sep-1906 |
7-Apr-1977 |
Heed the Thunder |
| Pete Townshend |
Guitarist |
19-May-1945 |
|
Lead guitarist for The Who |
| François Truffaut |
Film Director |
6-Feb-1932 |
21-Oct-1984 |
Last Metro |
| Mona Van Duyn |
Poet |
9-May-1921 |
1-Dec-2004 |
To See, To Take |
| Vincent van Gogh |
Painter |
30-Mar-1853 |
29-Jul-1890 |
Troubled and brilliant painter |
| Vivian Vance |
Actor |
26-Jul-1909 |
17-Aug-1979 |
Ethel on I Love Lucy |
| Daniel Vasella |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Novartis |
| Andy Warhol |
Artist |
6-Aug-1928 |
22-Feb-1987 |
Outrageously successful pop artist |
| Ruth Warrick |
Actor |
29-Jun-1915 |
15-Jan-2005 |
Phoebe Tyler on All My Children |
| Max Weber |
Sociologist |
21-Apr-1864 |
14-Jun-1920 |
The Protestant Ethic |
| Denise Welch |
Actor |
22-May-1958 |
|
British TV soap actress |
| Tuesday Weld |
Actor |
27-Aug-1943 |
|
Looking for Mr. Goodbar |
| Roland West |
Film Director |
20-Feb-1885 |
31-Mar-1952 |
The Bat Whispers |
| Pearl White |
Actor |
4-Mar-1889 |
4-Aug-1938 |
Heroine of silent serial films |
| Rev. Cecil Williams |
Religion |
22-Sep-1929 |
|
Glide Memorial Church |
| Tennessee Williams |
Playwright |
26-Mar-1911 |
25-Feb-1983 |
The Glass Menagerie |
| Angus Wilson |
Novelist |
11-Aug-1913 |
31-May-1991 |
Hemlock and After |
| Brian Wilson |
Musician |
20-Jun-1942 |
|
Troubled Beach Boy |
| Howlin' Wolf |
Singer/Songwriter |
10-Jun-1910 |
10-Jan-1976 |
Blues guitarist |
| Virginia Woolf |
Novelist |
25-Jan-1882 |
28-Mar-1941 |
Suicidal English novelist |
| James Wright |
Poet |
13-Dec-1927 |
25-Mar-1980 |
The Branch Will Not Break |
| Francis Parker Yockey |
Author |
18-Sep-1917 |
16-Jun-1960 |
Imperium |
| Marion Zioncheck |
Politician |
5-Dec-1901 |
7-Aug-1936 |
Congressman, committed suicide |
