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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Abraham
Religion
c. 1813 BC c. 1638 BC Father of the Abrahamic religions
Alexander the Great
Royalty
Jul-356 BC 10-Jun-323 BC World conqueror
Muhammad Ali
Boxing
17-Jan-1942   Floated like butterfly, stung like bee
Woody Allen
Film Director
1-Dec-1935   Annie Hall
Idi Amin
Head of State
17-May-1928 16-Aug-2003 Former dictator of Uganda
Susan B. Anthony
Activist
15-Feb-1820 13-Mar-1906 Women's rights advocate
Mark Antony
Military
c. 83 BC 30 BC Julius Caesar's protege
Yasser Arafat
Politician
24-Aug-1929 10-Nov-2004 Palestinian leader, former terrorist
Archimedes
Mathematician
c. 290 BC 211 BC Greatest of the ancient mathematicians
Aristotle
Philosopher
384 BC 322 BC Politics
Louis Armstrong
Jazz Musician
4-Aug-1901 6-Jul-1971 Jazz trumpeter
Neil Armstrong
Astronaut
5-Aug-1930   First man on the Moon
Charles Atlas
Fitness Guru
30-Oct-1892 23-Dec-1972 Former 97-pound weakling
Attila the Hun
Royalty
c. 406 AD 453 AD Scourge of God
St. Augustine
Religion
13-Nov-354 AD 28-Aug-430 AD Confessions
Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer
21-Mar-1685 28-Jul-1750 Baroque composer
Lucille Ball
Actor
6-Aug-1911 26-Apr-1989 I Love Lucy
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
17-Dec-1770 26-Mar-1827 Prominent composer
Milton Berle
Comic
12-Jul-1908 27-Mar-2002 Mr. Television
Humphrey Bogart
Actor
25-Dec-1899 14-Jan-1957 Casablanca
Simón Bolívar
Military
24-Jul-1783 17-Dec-1830 El Libertador
Napoleon Bonaparte
Head of State
15-Aug-1769 5-May-1821 Emperor of France
Daniel Boone
Military
22-Oct-1734 26-Sep-1820 Legendary frontiersman
David Bowie
Singer/Songwriter
8-Jan-1947   Ziggy Stardust
Marlon Brando
Actor
3-Apr-1924 1-Jul-2004 A Streetcar Named Desire
James Brown
Singer
3-May-1933 25-Dec-2006 Godfather of Soul
Buddha
Religion
563 BC 477 BC Enlightened One
George Burns
Comic
20-Jan-1896 9-Mar-1996 Oh, God!
William S. Burroughs
Author
5-Feb-1914 2-Aug-1997 Naked Lunch
George W. Bush
Head of State
6-Jul-1946   43rd US President, 2001-09
Julius Caesar
Head of State
13-Jul-100 BC 15-Mar-44 BC Roman Dictator 45 BC until 44 BC
Johnny Carson
Talk Show Host
23-Oct-1925 23-Jan-2005 Longtime host of Tonight Show
George Washington Carver
Botanist
c. 1860 5-Jan-1943 Crop rotation and peanut butter
Giacomo Casanova
Author
2-Apr-1725 4-Jun-1798 World-renowned paramour
Fidel Castro
Head of State
13-Aug-1926   Dictator of Cuba for almost fifty years
Charlie Chaplin
Actor
16-Apr-1889 25-Dec-1977 Silent film comedian
Charlemagne
Royalty
c. 747 AD 28-Jan-814 AD Holy Roman Emperor
Ray Charles
Musician
23-Sep-1930 10-Jun-2004 Georgia On My Mind
Cher
Singer
20-May-1946   Sonny and Cher
Julia Child
Chef
15-Aug-1912 13-Aug-2004 Haute cuisine with a unique voice
Winston Churchill
Head of State
30-Nov-1874 24-Jan-1965 WWII Prime Minister of England
Dick Clark
TV Personality
30-Nov-1929 18-Apr-2012 American Bandstand
Cleopatra
Royalty
69 BC 30-Aug-30 BC Queen of Egypt
Bill Clinton
Head of State
19-Aug-1946   42nd US President, 1993-2001
Christopher Columbus
Explorer
1451 20-May-1506 Rediscovered the New World
Confucius
Religion
551 BC 479 BC Analects
Constantine the Great
Royalty
27-Feb-272 AD 22-May-337 AD Roman Emperor, 306-37
Nicolaus Copernicus
Astronomer
19-Feb-1473 24-May-1543 Heliocentrist, De revolutionibus
Bill Cosby
Comic
12-Jul-1937   Comedy fixture, pudding industry shill
Howard Cosell
Sports Journalist
25-Mar-1918 23-Apr-1995 Straight-shooting, toupee-wearing commentator
Crazy Horse
Military
c. 1842 5-Sep-1877 Bayonetted in the back
Davy Crockett
Military
17-Aug-1786 6-Mar-1836 King of the Wild Frontier
Walter Cronkite
Journalist
4-Nov-1916 17-Jul-2009 America's most trusted newscaster
Bing Crosby
Singer
3-May-1903 14-Oct-1977 White Christmas
Leonardo Da Vinci
Artist
15-Apr-1452 2-May-1519 Mona Lisa, The Last Supper
Dalai Lama
Religion
6-Jul-1935   14th incarnation of the Dalai Lama
Salvador Dali
Painter
11-May-1904 23-Jan-1989 Surrealist painter
Dante
Poet
1265 14-Sep-1321 La Divina Commedia
Charles Darwin
Naturalist
12-Feb-1809 19-Apr-1882 Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Singer
8-Dec-1925 16-May-1990 Coolest hepcat in the Rat Pack
Marquis de Sade
Author
2-Jun-1740 2-Dec-1814 120 Days of Sodom
James Dean
Actor
8-Feb-1931 30-Sep-1955 Lived fast, died young
René Descartes
Philosopher
31-Mar-1596 11-Feb-1650 Discours de la Méthode
Lady Diana
Royalty
1-Jul-1961 31-Aug-1997 Princess of Wales
Joe DiMaggio
Baseball
25-Nov-1914 8-Mar-1999 Where have you gone
Walt Disney
Business
5-Dec-1901 15-Dec-1966 Founder of Disney empire
Bob Dylan
Musician
24-May-1941   The Times They Are A-Changin'
Amelia Earhart
Aviator
24-Jul-1897 2-Jul-1937 Misplaced aviatrix
Thomas Edison
Inventor
11-Feb-1847 18-Oct-1931 Invented the light bulb
Albert Einstein
Physicist
14-Mar-1879 18-Apr-1955 Theory of relativity
Queen Elizabeth I
Royalty
7-Sep-1533 24-Mar-1603 The Virgin Queen
Queen Elizabeth II
Royalty
21-Apr-1926   Queen of England
Euclid
Mathematician
c. 365 BC c. 275 BC Father of geometry
Federico Fellini
Film Director
20-Jan-1920 30-Oct-1993 La Dolce Vita
St. Francis of Assisi
Religion
1181 3-Oct-1226 Founder of the Franciscan order
Aretha Franklin
Singer
25-Mar-1942   R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Benjamin Franklin
Diplomat
17-Jan-1706 17-Apr-1790 American founding father
Sigmund Freud
Psychiatrist
6-May-1856 23-Sep-1939 Die Traumdeutung
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer
15-Feb-1564 8-Jan-1642 Copernican observational astronomer
Mahatma Gandhi
Activist
2-Oct-1869 30-Jan-1948 Proselytizer of nonviolence
Greta Garbo
Actor
18-Sep-1905 15-Apr-1990 Vanted to be alone
Judy Garland
Singer
10-Jun-1922 22-Jun-1969 Dorothy in Wizard of Oz
Bill Gates
Business
28-Oct-1955   Co-Founder of Microsoft
Charles de Gaulle
Head of State
22-Nov-1890 9-Nov-1970 President of France, 1958-69
Geronimo
Military
16-Jun-1829 17-Feb-1909 The last Indian to surrender
John Glenn
Astronaut
18-Jul-1921   First American to orbit earth
Hermann Goering
Military
12-Jan-1893 15-Oct-1946 Founder of the Gestapo
John Gotti
Criminal
27-Oct-1940 10-Jun-2002 The Teflon Don
Che Guevara
Activist
14-Jun-1928 9-Oct-1967 Revolutionary icon
Johannes Gutenberg
Inventor
1398 3-Feb-1468 Inventor of movable type
Alexander Hamilton
Government
11-Jan-1757 12-Jul-1804 Primary author of The Federalist Papers
Hammurabi
Royalty
c. 1810 BC c. 1750 BC First to codify law
Ernest Hemingway
Author
21-Jul-1899 2-Jul-1961 The Old Man And The Sea
Jimi Hendrix
Guitarist
27-Nov-1942 18-Sep-1970 Purple Haze
King Henry VIII
Royalty
28-Jun-1491 28-Jan-1547 King of England, 1509-47
Benny Hill
Comic
21-Jan-1924 19-Apr-1992 The Benny Hill Show
Heinrich Himmler
Government
7-Oct-1900 23-May-1945 Leader of the SS
Hippocrates
Doctor
c. 460 BC c. 377 BC Father of Medicine
Emperor Hirohito
Royalty
29-Apr-1901 7-Jan-1989 Emperor of Japan 1926-89
Alfred Hitchcock
Film Director
13-Aug-1899 29-Apr-1980 Master of Suspense
Adolf Hitler
Head of State
20-Apr-1889 30-Apr-1945 Chancellor of Germany, 1933-45
Homer
Poet
fl. 8th c. BC fl. 8th c. BC Iliad and the Odyssey
J. Edgar Hoover
Government
1-Jan-1895 2-May-1972 Director of the FBI, 1924-72
Bob Hope
Comic
29-May-1903 27-Jul-2003 Centenarian comic
Howard Hughes
Business
24-Sep-1905 5-Apr-1976 Insane billionaire
Saddam Hussein
Head of State
28-Apr-1937 30-Dec-2006 President of Iraq, 1979-2003
Ivan the Terrible
Royalty
25-Aug-1530 18-Mar-1584 Russian Tsar, 1533-84
Michael Jackson
Singer
29-Aug-1958 25-Jun-2009 King of Pop
Mick Jagger
Singer/Songwriter
26-Jul-1943   Lead singer of the Rolling Stones
Thomas Jefferson
Head of State
13-Apr-1743 4-Jul-1826 3rd US President, 1801-09
Jesus Christ
Religion
c. 4 BC 7-Apr-30 AD Carpenter, evangelist
Joan of Arc
Religion
6-Jan-1412 30-May-1431 Maid of Orleans, burned at the stake
Steve Jobs
Business
24-Feb-1955 5-Oct-2011 Co-Founder of Apple Computer
St. John
Religion
c. 6 AD c. 100 AD Author of the fourth Gospel
Pope John Paul II
Religion
18-May-1920 2-Apr-2005 Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1978-2005
John the Baptist
Religion
? c. 28 AD Precursor to Jesus Christ
Elton John
Singer/Songwriter
25-Mar-1947   Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Magic Johnson
Basketball
14-Aug-1959   Lakers star, AIDS spokesman
Michael Jordan
Basketball
17-Feb-1963   God's gift to basketball, clearly
Benito Juárez
Head of State
21-Mar-1806 18-Jul-1872 President of Mexico, 1861-72
Helen Keller
Activist
27-Jun-1880 1-Jun-1968 Deaf and blind activist
John F. Kennedy
Head of State
29-May-1917 22-Nov-1963 35th US President, 1961-63
Genghis Khan
Royalty
c. 1162 AD 18-Aug-1227 World's most successful conqueror
Ayatollah Khomeini
Religion
24-Sep-1902 3-Jun-1989 Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran
B. B. King
Musician
16-Sep-1925   King of the Blues
Martin Luther King
Activist
15-Jan-1929 4-Apr-1968 Pacifist civil rights activist
Osama bin Laden
Terrorist
10-Mar-1957 1-May-2011 Head of al Qaeda terrorist organization
Timothy Leary
Activist
22-Oct-1920 31-May-1996 Tune in, turn on, drop out
Bruce Lee
Actor
27-Nov-1940 20-Jul-1973 Enter the Dragon
Robert E. Lee
Military
19-Jan-1807 12-Oct-1870 Confederate General
Vladimir Lenin
Head of State
22-Apr-1870 21-Jan-1924 Revolutionary leader of Soviet Union
John Lennon
Musician
9-Oct-1940 8-Dec-1980 Beatle
Liberace
Pianist
16-May-1919 4-Feb-1987 Rhinestoned pianist
Abraham Lincoln
Head of State
12-Feb-1809 15-Apr-1865 16th US President, 1861-65
Charles Lindbergh
Aviator
4-Feb-1902 26-Aug-1974 Transatlantic soloist
Joe Louis
Boxing
13-May-1914 12-Apr-1981 The Champ
Martin Luther
Religion
10-Nov-1483 18-Feb-1546 Created Protestant movement
Douglas MacArthur
Military
26-Jan-1880 5-Apr-1964 General of the Army
Madonna
Singer/Songwriter
16-Aug-1958   Like a Virgin
Ferdinand Magellan
Explorer
1480 27-Apr-1521 Circumnavigated the globe
Malcolm X
Activist
19-May-1925 21-Feb-1965 Nation of Islam
Nelson Mandela
Head of State
18-Jul-1918   Former President of South Africa
Charles Manson
Criminal
12-Nov-1934   Helter Skelter
Mao
Head of State
26-Dec-1893 9-Sep-1976 Great Leap Forward!
Marie Antoinette
Royalty
2-Nov-1755 16-Oct-1793 Cake proponent
St. Mark
Religion
fl. 1st c. AD fl. 1st c. AD Author of the second Gospel
Groucho Marx
Comic
2-Oct-1890 19-Aug-1977 You Bet Your Life
Karl Marx
Economist
5-May-1818 14-Mar-1883 Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto
Virgin Mary
Religion
c. 20 BC c. 45 AD Virgin mother of Jesus Christ
St. Matthew
Religion
fl. 1st c. AD fl. 1st. c. AD Author of the first Gospel
Michelangelo
Sculptor
6-Mar-1475 18-Feb-1564 Renaissance sculptor and painter
Ho Chi Minh
Activist
19-May-1890 2-Sep-1969 Uncle Ho
Marilyn Monroe
Actor
1-Jun-1926 5-Aug-1962 Some Like It Hot
Montezuma II
Head of State
1466 30-Jun-1520 Aztec leader, capitulated to the Spanish
Mary Tyler Moore
Actor
29-Dec-1936   The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Jim Morrison
Singer/Songwriter
8-Dec-1943 3-Jul-1971 Lead singer and songwriter, The Doors
Moses
Religion
c. 1392 BC c. 1272 BC Ten Commandments
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer
27-Jan-1756 5-Dec-1791 Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Prophet Muhammad
Religion
c. 570 AD 8-Jun-632 AD Muslim prophet
Benito Mussolini
Head of State
29-Jul-1883 28-Apr-1945 Fascist Dictator of Italy
Nero
Royalty
15-Dec-37 AD 9-Jun-68 AD Roman Emperor, 54-68 AD
Isaac Newton
Physicist
4-Jan-1643 31-Mar-1727 Father of the clockwork universe
Jack Nicholson
Actor
22-Apr-1937   Chinatown
Florence Nightingale
Activist
12-May-1820 13-Aug-1910 Established nursing as a profession
Leonard Nimoy
Actor
26-Mar-1931   Commander Spock on Star Trek
Richard M. Nixon
Head of State
9-Jan-1913 22-Apr-1994 37th US President, 1969-74
Nostradamus
Paranormal
14-Dec-1503 1-Jul-1566 Notoriously ambiguous prophet
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
First Lady
28-Jul-1929 19-May-1994 Wife of John F. Kennedy
Ozzy Osbourne
Singer
3-Dec-1948   Black Sabbath
Jesse Owens
Track and Field
12-Sep-1913 31-Mar-1980 Four track and field medals in 1936 Olympics
Bettie Page
Model
22-Apr-1923 11-Dec-2008 Black-haired bondage pin-up queen
St. Patrick
Religion
387 AD 17-Mar-493 AD Patron saint of Ireland
George S. Patton
Military
11-Nov-1885 21-Dec-1945 American WWII Army commander
St. Paul
Religion
c. 10 AD 29-Jun-65 AD First Christian evangelist
Luciano Pavarotti
Singer
12-Oct-1935 6-Sep-2007 Operatic tenor
Pelé
Soccer
23-Oct-1940   Brazil's greatest soccer player
St. Peter
Religion
? 67 AD First Bishop of Rome
Pablo Picasso
Painter
25-Oct-1881 8-Apr-1973 Abstract painter and sculptor
Plato
Philosopher
c. 427 BC c. 347 BC The Republic
Edgar Allan Poe
Author
19-Jan-1809 7-Oct-1849 The Raven
Marco Polo
Explorer
c. 1254 8-Jan-1324 Travels of Marco Polo
Pol Pot
Head of State
19-May-1925 15-Apr-1998 Leader of the Khmer Rouge
Elvis Presley
Singer
8-Jan-1935 16-Aug-1977 Rock and roll icon
Rasputin
Religion
23-Jan-1871 30-Dec-1916 Russia's Greatest Love Machine
Ronald Reagan
Head of State
6-Feb-1911 5-Jun-2004 40th US President, 1981-89
Jackie Robinson
Baseball
31-Jan-1919 24-Oct-1972 First negro in the major leagues
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Head of State
30-Jan-1882 12-Apr-1945 US President during WWII
Babe Ruth
Baseball
6-Feb-1895 16-Aug-1948 The Bambino
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor
30-Jul-1947   Governor of California, 2003-11
Secretariat
Racehorse
29-Mar-1970 4-Oct-1989 Greatest race horse of all time
William Shakespeare
Playwright
23-Apr-1564 23-Apr-1616 Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth
William Shatner
Actor
22-Mar-1931   Captain Kirk on Star Trek
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
26-Jul-1856 2-Nov-1950 Irish dramatist and pamphleteer
O. J. Simpson
Football
9-Jul-1947   Searching tirelessly for the real killers
Frank Sinatra
Singer
12-Dec-1915 14-May-1998 It's Frank's world, we just live in it
Sitting Bull
Military
c. 1831 15-Dec-1890 Warrior Chief of the Sioux
Socrates
Philosopher
469 BC 399 BC Developer of the Socratic Method
Josef Stalin
Head of State
18-Dec-1878 5-Mar-1953 Brutal dictator, Soviet Union
Levi Strauss
Business
26-Feb-1829 26-Sep-1902 Blue jeans
Barbra Streisand
Singer
24-Apr-1942   You Don't Bring Me Flowers
Mr. T
Actor
21-May-1952   Long track record of pitying fools
Elizabeth Taylor
Actor
27-Feb-1932 23-Mar-2011 Cleopatra
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer
7-May-1840 6-Nov-1893 Russia's best known composer
Shirley Temple
Actor
23-Apr-1928   Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Mother Teresa
Religion
26-Aug-1910 5-Sep-1997 Missionaries of Charity
Margaret Thatcher
Head of State
13-Oct-1925   UK Prime Minister, 1979-90
Henry David Thoreau
Author
12-Jul-1817 6-May-1862 Walden
Tutankhamun
Royalty
1341 BC 1323 BC Boy King of Egypt
Mark Twain
Author
30-Nov-1835 21-Apr-1910 Huckleberry Finn
Sun Tzu
Author
c. 400 BC c. 320 BC The Art of War
Rudolph Valentino
Actor
6-May-1895 23-Aug-1926 Latin lover of the silent film era
Vincent van Gogh
Painter
30-Mar-1853 29-Jul-1890 Troubled and brilliant painter
Queen Victoria
Royalty
24-May-1819 22-Jan-1901 Longest-reigning British monarch
Virgil
Poet
15-Oct-70 BC 21-Sep-19 BC The Aeneid
Manfred von Richthofen
Military
2-May-1892 21-Apr-1918 The Red Baron
Andy Warhol
Artist
6-Aug-1928 22-Feb-1987 Pop Art movement
George Washington
Head of State
22-Feb-1732 14-Dec-1799 1st US President, 1789-97
John Wayne
Actor
26-May-1907 11-Jun-1979 The Duke
Mae West
Actor
17-Aug-1893 22-Nov-1980 Go up and see her sometime
Oprah Winfrey
Talk Show Host
29-Jan-1954   The Oprah Winfrey Show
Stevie Wonder
Singer/Songwriter
13-May-1950   Signed, Sealed, and Delivered
Chuck Yeager
Aviator
13-Feb-1923   Test pilot, first to break speed of sound
Zarathustra
Religion
c. 600 BC c. 550 BC Founder of Zoroastrianism



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