| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Niels Henrik Abel |
Mathematician |
5-Aug-1802 |
6-Apr-1829 |
Studied elliptics and hyperelliptics |
| Vicente Aleixandre |
Poet |
26-Apr-1898 |
14-Dec-1984 |
Spanish surrealist poet |
| Clinton P. Anderson |
Politician |
23-Oct-1895 |
11-Nov-1975 |
US Senator from New Mexico, 1949-73 |
| Fernando Arrabal |
Playwright |
11-Aug-1932 |
|
Viva la muerte |
| Roger Babson |
Economist |
6-Jul-1875 |
5-Mar-1967 |
Founder of Babson College |
| Georges Bataille |
Philosopher |
10-Sep-1897 |
8-Jul-1962 |
Histoire de l'oeil |
| William E. Borah |
Politician |
29-Jun-1865 |
19-Jan-1940 |
US Senator from Idaho, 1907-40 |
| Jim Bowie |
Military |
10-Apr-1796 |
6-Mar-1836 |
Knife fighter, Alamo combatant |
| Jane Bowles |
Novelist |
22-Feb-1917 |
4-May-1973 |
Two Serious Ladies |
| Joseph P. Bradley |
Judge |
14-Mar-1813 |
22-Jan-1892 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1870-92 |
| George Mackay Brown |
Poet |
17-Oct-1921 |
13-Apr-1996 |
Time in a Red Coat |
| Ellen Burstyn |
Actor |
7-Dec-1932 |
|
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
| John Calvin |
Religion |
10-Jul-1509 |
27-May-1564 |
French Protestant Reformation |
| Albert Camus |
Novelist |
7-Nov-1913 |
4-Jan-1960 |
French author and Nobel laureate |
| Camilo José Cela |
Author |
11-May-1916 |
17-Jan-2002 |
Spanish novelist and Nobel laureate |
| Colin Clive |
Actor |
20-Jan-1900 |
25-Jun-1937 |
Frankenstein |
| Judy Collins |
Singer/Songwriter |
1-May-1939 |
|
Folk singer |
| Roy O. Disney |
Business |
24-Jun-1893 |
20-Dec-1971 |
Walt Disney's brother |
| Steve Ditko |
Cartoonist |
2-Nov-1927 |
|
Drew Spider-Man like nobody else has or can |
| John Langdon Down |
Doctor |
18-Nov-1828 |
7-Oct-1896 |
Down's syndrome |
| Ernest Dowson |
Poet |
2-Aug-1867 |
23-Feb-1900 |
English Decadent poet |
| Paul Ehrlich |
Doctor |
14-Mar-1854 |
20-Aug-1915 |
Father of chemotherapy |
| Paul Éluard |
Poet |
14-Dec-1895 |
18-Nov-1952 |
La Capitale de la Douleur |
| Charlie Finley |
Baseball |
22-Feb-1918 |
19-Feb-1996 |
Owner of the Oakland A's 1960-80 |
| Hans Fischer |
Chemist |
27-Jul-1881 |
31-Mar-1945 |
Synthesized hemin |
| Irving Fisher |
Economist |
27-Feb-1867 |
29-Apr-1947 |
The Theory of Interest |
| Tom Fogerty |
Guitarist |
9-Nov-1941 |
6-Sep-1990 |
Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| Abe Fortas |
Judge |
19-Jun-1910 |
5-Apr-1982 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1965-69 |
| Sam Francis |
Painter |
25-Jun-1923 |
4-Nov-1994 |
Abstract expressionist |
| John Nance Garner |
Politician |
22-Nov-1868 |
7-Nov-1967 |
US Vice President, 1933-41 |
| Théodore Géricault |
Painter |
26-Sep-1791 |
26-Jan-1824 |
French Romanticist painter |
| Khalil Gibran |
Poet |
6-Jan-1883 |
10-Apr-1931 |
The Prophet |
| André Gide |
Author |
22-Nov-1869 |
19-Feb-1951 |
Le Voyage d'Urien |
| Robert Goddard |
Scientist |
5-Oct-1882 |
10-Aug-1945 |
Father of modern rocketry |
| Maxim Gorky |
Playwright |
28-Mar-1868 |
17-Jun-1936 |
The Lower Depths |
| Lawrence Gowing |
Historian |
21-Apr-1918 |
5-Feb-1991 |
Art historian, biographer of Vermeer |
| Dashiell Hammett |
Author |
27-May-1894 |
10-Jan-1961 |
The Maltese Falcon |
| Richard Harris |
Actor |
1-Oct-1930 |
25-Oct-2002 |
English Bob in Unforgiven |
| Robert A. Heinlein |
Author |
7-Jul-1907 |
8-May-1988 |
Starship Troopers |
| W. E. Henley |
Poet |
23-Aug-1849 |
11-Jul-1903 |
Invictus |
| Hans Hofmann |
Painter |
21-Mar-1880 |
17-Feb-1966 |
Abstract expressionist, art teacher |
| Doc Holliday |
Doctor |
14-Aug-1851 |
8-Nov-1887 |
Wyatt Earp's reliable friend |
| Engelbert Humperdinck |
Singer |
2-May-1936 |
|
The Last Waltz |
| Charles R. Jackson |
Novelist |
6-Apr-1903 |
21-Sep-1968 |
The Lost Weekend |
| Samuel Johnson |
Lexicographer |
18-Sep-1709 |
13-Dec-1784 |
A Dictionary of the English Language |
| Irène Joliot-Curie |
Physicist |
12-Sep-1897 |
17-Mar-1956 |
Artificial radioactivity |
| Franz Kafka |
Novelist |
3-Jul-1883 |
3-Jun-1924 |
Metamorphosis |
| John Keegan |
Historian |
15-May-1934 |
2-Aug-2012 |
The Face of Battle |
| Jules Laforgue |
Poet |
16-Aug-1860 |
20-Aug-1887 |
Pessimistic poet who inspired T. S. Eliot |
| Sidney Lanier |
Poet |
3-Feb-1842 |
7-Sep-1881 |
Important Southern lyrical poet |
| Alice Marble |
Tennis |
28-Sep-1913 |
13-Dec-1990 |
Winner of 18 Grand Slam titles |
| Rollo May |
Psychologist |
21-Apr-1909 |
22-Oct-1994 |
Love and Will |
| Dmitri Mendeleev |
Chemist |
8-Feb-1834 |
2-Feb-1907 |
Periodic Table of the Elements |
| Ho Chi Minh |
Activist |
19-May-1890 |
2-Sep-1969 |
Uncle Ho |
| Molière |
Playwright |
15-Jan-1622 |
17-Feb-1673 |
Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope |
| Alberto Moravia |
Novelist |
28-Nov-1907 |
26-Sep-1990 |
Il Conformista |
| Karen Morley |
Actor |
12-Dec-1909 |
8-Mar-2003 |
Gabriel Over the White House |
| Barry Morse |
Actor |
10-Jun-1918 |
2-Feb-2008 |
Lt. Gerard on The Fugitive |
| Lewis Mumford |
Historian |
19-Oct-1895 |
26-Jan-1990 |
Technics and Civilization |
| Pola Negri |
Actor |
31-Dec-1894 |
1-Aug-1987 |
Sultry silent film diva |
| Eugene O'Neill |
Playwright |
16-Oct-1888 |
27-Nov-1953 |
Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Louella Parsons |
Columnist |
6-Aug-1881 |
9-Dec-1972 |
Hollywood queen of gossip |
| J. C. Penney |
Business |
16-Sep-1875 |
12-Feb-1971 |
Founder of J. C. Penney Company |
| Oscar Peterson |
Jazz Musician |
15-Aug-1925 |
24-Dec-2007 |
Maharajah of the keyboard |
| Franklin Pierce |
Head of State |
23-Nov-1804 |
8-Oct-1869 |
14th President of the U.S. |
| Katherine Anne Porter |
Author |
15-May-1890 |
18-Sep-1980 |
Ship of Fools |
| Bud Powell |
Pianist |
27-Sep-1924 |
31-Jul-1966 |
Seminal bop pianist and composer |
| Yordan Radichkov |
Author |
24-Oct-1929 |
21-Jan-2004 |
Bulgarian writer |
| Srinivasa Ramanujan |
Mathematician |
22-Dec-1887 |
26-Apr-1920 |
Self-educated mathematician |
| Elizabeth Madox Roberts |
Author |
30-Oct-1881 |
13-Mar-1941 |
The Great Meadow |
| Oral Roberts |
Religion |
24-Jan-1918 |
15-Dec-2009 |
Televangelist, faith healer |
| Jimmie Rodgers |
Country Musician |
8-Sep-1897 |
26-May-1933 |
Pioneering country singer/songwriter/yodeler |
| Peter Mark Roget |
Author |
18-Jan-1779 |
12-Sep-1869 |
Roget's Thesaurus |
| Guy Rolfe |
Actor |
27-Dec-1911 |
19-Oct-2003 |
Mr. Sardonicus |
| Peyton Rous |
Scientist |
5-Oct-1879 |
16-Feb-1970 |
Blood banks and carcinogenic viruses |
| Walter Seifert |
Criminal |
11-Jun-1922 |
12-Jun-1964 |
Cologne flamethrower massacre |
| Hubert Selby |
Author |
23-Jul-1928 |
26-Apr-2004 |
Requiem for a Dream |
| Fulton J. Sheen |
Religion |
8-May-1895 |
9-Dec-1979 |
America's first televangelist |
| Alan Sillitoe |
Novelist |
4-Mar-1928 |
25-Apr-2010 |
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner |
| Michel Simon |
Actor |
9-Apr-1895 |
30-May-1975 |
L'Atalante |
| Joe Smith |
Jazz Musician |
28-Jun-1902 |
2-Dec-1937 |
Cool jazz trumpeter |
| Laurence Sterne |
Novelist |
24-Nov-1713 |
18-Mar-1768 |
Tristram Shandy |
| Allen Tate |
Poet |
19-Nov-1899 |
9-Feb-1979 |
Mr. Pope and Other Poems |
| June Taylor |
Dancer |
14-Dec-1917 |
17-May-2004 |
June Taylor Dancers choreographer |
| Frederick Terman |
Scientist |
7-Jun-1900 |
19-Dec-1982 |
Stanford Research Park |
| Shintaro Tsuji |
Business |
7-Dec-1927 |
|
Sanrio founder |
| Tina Turner |
Singer |
26-Nov-1939 |
|
What's Love Got to Do With It |
| Edward Tylor |
Anthropologist |
2-Oct-1832 |
2-Jan-1917 |
Founder of cultural anthropology |
| Harry Vardon |
Golf |
9-May-1870 |
20-Mar-1937 |
Early golf superstar |
| Joachim von Ribbentrop |
Diplomat |
30-Apr-1893 |
16-Oct-1946 |
Reich Foreign Minister |
| Wilfrid Voynich |
Activist |
31-Oct-1865 |
19-Mar-1930 |
Voynich manuscript |
| George Washington |
Head of State |
22-Feb-1732 |
14-Dec-1799 |
1st US President, 1789-97 |
| Chick Webb |
Jazz Musician |
10-Feb-1905 |
16-Jun-1939 |
The Chick Webb Orchestra |
| Simone Weil |
Philosopher |
3-Feb-1909 |
24-Aug-1943 |
The Iliad, or the Poem of Force |
| Jessamyn West |
Author |
18-Jul-1902 |
23-Feb-1984 |
The Friendly Persuasion |
| Eugene Wigner |
Physicist |
17-Nov-1902 |
1-Jan-1995 |
Law of conservation of parity |
| Douglas Wilmer |
Actor |
8-Jan-1920 |
|
Sherlock Holmes |
| Yvor Winters |
Poet |
17-Oct-1900 |
25-Jan-1968 |
Primitivism & Decadence |
| Link Wray |
Guitarist |
2-May-1929 |
5-Nov-2005 |
Rumble |
