| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| Joan Vollmer Adams |
Victim |
1924 |
6-Sep-1951 |
Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs |
| Harold Adamson |
Songwriter |
10-Dec-1906 |
17-Aug-1980 |
Time on My Hands |
| Alan Alda |
Actor |
28-Jan-1936 |
|
Capt. Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H |
| Robin Askwith |
Actor |
12-Oct-1950 |
|
Confessions of a Window Cleaner |
| Charles E. Bennett |
Politician |
2-Dec-1910 |
6-Sep-2003 |
Congressman from Florida, 1949-93 |
| Steven Jesse Bernstein |
Poet |
4-Dec-1950 |
22-Oct-1991 |
Grunge poet and punk rocker |
| Joh Bjelke-Petersen |
Politician |
13-Jan-1911 |
23-Apr-2005 |
Former Premier of Queensland, Australia |
| Mari Blanchard |
Actor |
13-Apr-1927 |
10-May-1970 |
She-Devil |
| Ben Bradlee |
Journalist |
26-Aug-1921 |
|
Editor of The Washington Post, 1965-91 |
| Joe Bob Briggs |
Critic |
27-Jan-1953 |
|
B-movie film reviewer |
| Philip W. Buchen |
Government |
17-Feb-1916 |
21-May-2001 |
White House Counsel, 1974-77 |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
Novelist |
16-Dec-1917 |
19-Mar-2008 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Stanley Cohen |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1922 |
|
Nerve and skin cell growth factors |
| Steve Cohen |
Politician |
24-May-1949 |
|
Congressman, Tennessee 9th |
| John F. Collins |
Politician |
20-Jul-1919 |
23-Nov-1995 |
Mayor of Boston, 1960-68 |
| Judy Collins |
Singer/Songwriter |
1-May-1939 |
|
Folk singer |
| Charles Coody |
Golf |
13-Jul-1937 |
|
Winner, 1971 Masters Tournament |
| Francis Ford Coppola |
Film Director |
7-Apr-1939 |
|
The Godfather |
| Bill Cullen |
Game Show Host |
18-Feb-1920 |
7-Jul-1990 |
Host of The Price is Right |
| Justin Dart, Jr. |
Activist |
29-Aug-1930 |
22-Jun-2002 |
Father of the Americans with Disabilities Act |
| Marion Davies |
Actor |
3-Jan-1897 |
22-Sep-1961 |
When Knighthood Was in Flower |
| Pete Dawkins |
Football |
8-Mar-1938 |
|
Winner, 1958 Heisman Trophy |
| Jay Dickey |
Politician |
14-Dec-1939 |
|
Congressman from Arkansas, 1993-2001 |
| Donovan |
Singer/Songwriter |
10-May-1946 |
|
Mad about saffron |
| William O. Douglas |
Judge |
16-Oct-1898 |
19-Jan-1980 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-75 |
| Avery Cardinal Dulles |
Religion |
24-Aug-1918 |
12-Dec-2008 |
Fordham Professor, Roman Catholic Cardinal |
| Allen B. DuMont |
Inventor |
29-Jan-1901 |
14-Nov-1965 |
TV picture tube and TV network |
| Ian Dury |
Musician |
12-May-1942 |
27-Mar-2000 |
Ian Dury and the Blockheads |
| John Porter East |
Politician |
5-May-1931 |
29-Jun-1986 |
US Senator, committed suicide |
| Mia Farrow |
Actor |
9-Feb-1945 |
|
Rosemary's Baby |
| Mel Ferrer |
Actor |
25-Aug-1917 |
2-Jun-2008 |
War and Peace |
| Arthur S. Flemming |
Government |
12-Jun-1905 |
7-Sep-1996 |
HEW Secretary, 1958-61 |
| John Folinsbee |
Painter |
14-Mar-1892 |
10-May-1972 |
Impressionist painter |
| Pierre Fournier |
Cellist |
24-Jun-1906 |
8-Jan-1986 |
French cello virtuoso |
| Matthew Fox |
Religion |
21-Dec-1940 |
|
Creation Spirituality |
| Joseph Goebbels |
Government |
29-Oct-1897 |
1-May-1945 |
Reich Minister of Propaganda |
| Charlie Haden |
Jazz Musician |
6-Aug-1937 |
|
Jazz bassist |
| John H. Hager |
Politician |
28-Aug-1936 |
|
Lt. Governor of Virginia, 1998-2002 |
| Frida Kahlo |
Painter |
6-Jul-1907 |
13-Jul-1954 |
Unibrowed Mexican painter |
| Phyllis Kirk |
Actor |
18-Sep-1927 |
19-Oct-2006 |
House of Wax |
| Masatoshi Koshiba |
Physicist |
19-Sep-1926 |
|
Detected cosmic neutrinos |
| Dorothea Lange |
Photographer |
26-May-1895 |
11-Oct-1965 |
Depression-era photographer |
| Frank Mars |
Business |
24-Sep-1883 |
8-Apr-1934 |
Invented Milky Way and Snickers bars |
| Connie Marshall |
Actor |
28-Apr-1933 |
22-May-2001 |
Dragonwyck |
| Mitch McConnell |
Politician |
20-Feb-1942 |
|
US Senator from Kentucky |
| Robert McNamara |
Government |
9-Jun-1916 |
6-Jul-2009 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1961-68 |
| Michael McNulty |
Politician |
16-Sep-1947 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1989-2009 |
| Don Meredith |
Football |
10-Apr-1938 |
5-Dec-2010 |
Dallas Cowboys, Monday Night Foorball |
| Thomas Midgley |
Chemist |
18-May-1889 |
2-Nov-1944 |
Ethyl gasoline, Freon |
| Martin Milner |
Actor |
28-Dec-1931 |
|
LAPD officer Pete Malloy on Adam-12 |
| Joni Mitchell |
Singer/Songwriter |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
Big Yellow Taxi |
| Boyd K. Packer |
Religion |
10-Sep-1924 |
|
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles |
| Kerry Packer |
Business |
17-Dec-1937 |
26-Dec-2005 |
Richest man in Australia |
| Carl Perkins |
Jazz Musician |
9-Apr-1932 |
19-Jan-1998 |
Blue Suede Shoes |
| Itzhak Perlman |
Violinist |
31-Aug-1945 |
|
Israeli violinist |
| Peg Phillips |
Actor |
20-Sep-1918 |
7-Nov-2002 |
Ruth-Anne Miller on Northern Exposure |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Head of State |
30-Jan-1882 |
12-Apr-1945 |
US President during WWII |
| John H. Rousselot |
Politician |
1-Nov-1927 |
11-May-2003 |
Congressman from California, 1961-63 & 1970-83 |
| Wilma Rudolph |
Track and Field |
23-Jun-1940 |
12-Nov-1994 |
Three track Olympic Gold Medals in 1960 |
| Gianni Russo |
Actor |
12-Dec-1943 |
|
The Godfather |
| David Sanborn |
Musician |
30-Jul-1945 |
|
Saxophone player |
| James H. Scheuer |
Politician |
6-Feb-1920 |
30-Aug-2005 |
Congressman from New York, 1965-93 |
| Sir Walter Scott |
Author |
15-Aug-1771 |
21-Sep-1832 |
Ivanhoe |
| Wilfrid Sheed |
Author |
27-Dec-1930 |
19-Jan-2011 |
Office Politics |
| Dinah Shore |
Singer |
29-Feb-1916 |
24-Feb-1994 |
See the U-S-A in a Chev-ro-let |
| Gene Simmons |
Bassist |
25-Aug-1949 |
|
Blood-spouting KISS bassist |
| Ike Skelton |
Politician |
20-Dec-1931 |
|
Congressman from Missouri, 1977-2011 |
| Georgina Spelvin |
Pornstar |
3-Jan-1936 |
|
Devil in Miss Jones |
| Donald Sutherland |
Actor |
17-Jul-1935 |
|
The Dirty Dozen |
| Phyllis Thaxter |
Actor |
20-Nov-1921 |
14-Aug-2012 |
The World of Henry Orient |
| Emmett Till |
Victim |
25-Jul-1941 |
28-Aug-1955 |
Black boy, murdered brutally in Mississippi |
| Desmond Tutu |
Religion |
7-Oct-1931 |
|
Archbishop of Cape Town |
| Fred Whipple |
Astronomer |
5-Nov-1906 |
30-Aug-2004 |
Comet Guy |
| Dick Anthony Williams |
Actor |
9-Aug-1938 |
16-Feb-2012 |
What the Wine Sellers Buy |
| Paul Winchell |
Actor |
21-Dec-1922 |
24-Jun-2005 |
Ventriloquist and inventor |
| Neil Young |
Singer/Songwriter |
12-Nov-1945 |
|
Harvest |