LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Joan Vollmer Adams	Victim	1924	6-Sep-1951	Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs
Tai Babilonia	Figure Skating	9-Sep-1959		Five-time US pairs figure skating champion
Ginger Baker	Drummer	19-Aug-1939		Drummer for Cream
Simone de Beauvoir	Activist	9-Jan-1908	14-Apr-1986	The Second Sex
Lenny Bruce	Comic	13-Oct-1925	3-Aug-1966	Multiply obscene comic
William S. Burroughs, Jr.	Relative	21-Jul-1947	3-Mar-1981	Son of William S. Burroughs
Maria Callas	Singer	2-Dec-1923	16-Sep-1977	Operatic Soprano
Lisa Carver	Author	c. 1968		Rollerderby, Suckdog
Johnny Cash	Country Musician	26-Feb-1932	12-Sep-2003	The Man in Black
Sandra Dee	Actor	23-Apr-1942	20-Feb-2005	Gidget
Philip K. Dick	Novelist	16-Dec-1928	2-Mar-1982	Blade Runner
Bobby Driscoll	Actor	3-Mar-1937	30-Mar-1968	Child actor, succumbed to drugs
Kitty Dukakis	First Lady	26-Dec-1936		Wife of Michael Dukakis
Anthony Eden	Head of State	12-Jun-1897	14-Jan-1977	UK Prime Minister, 1955-57
Dock Ellis	Baseball	11-Mar-1945	19-Dec-2008	Pitched a no-hitter on LSD
Paul Erdos	Mathematician	26-Mar-1913	20-Sep-1996	Loved only numbers
Frances Farmer	Actor	19-Sep-1913	1-Aug-1970	Hollywood actress, institutionalized
Craig Ferguson	Talk Show Host	17-May-1962		"It's a great day for America"
Bob Fosse	Choreographer	23-Jun-1927	23-Sep-1987	Choreographer
Judy Garland	Singer	10-Jun-1922	22-Jun-1969	Dorothy in Wizard of Oz
Dale Hawkins	Singer/Songwriter	22-Aug-1936	13-Feb-2010	Susie-Q
Adolf Hitler	Head of State	20-Apr-1889	30-Apr-1945	Chancellor of Germany, 1933-45
Shirley Jackson	Novelist	14-Dec-1916	8-Aug-1965	The Lottery
Jim Jones	Religion	13-May-1931	18-Nov-1978	Led mass People's Temple suicide
Janis Joplin	Singer	19-Jan-1943	4-Oct-1970	Ball and Chain (Piece of My Heart)
Tommy Kirk	Actor	10-Dec-1941		The Mickey Mouse Club
Lemmy	Singer	24-Dec-1945		Bassist for Motorhead
Alan Jay Lerner	Playwright	31-Aug-1918	14-Jun-1986	An American in Paris
Lindsay Lohan	Actor	2-Jul-1986		Mean Girls
Camryn Manheim	Actor	8-Mar-1961		Ellenor Frutt on The Practice
Keith Moon	Drummer	23-Aug-1946	7-Sep-1978	Drummer for The Who
Randy Newman	Songwriter	28-Nov-1943		I Love L.A., Short People
Charlie Parker	Jazz Musician	29-Aug-1920	12-Mar-1955	Be-bop jazz musician
John Phillips	Musician	30-Aug-1935	18-Mar-2001	The Mamas and the Papas
Lou Reed	Musician	2-Mar-1942		The Velvet Underground
Oliver Sacks	Doctor	9-Jul-1933		Awakenings
Edie Sedgwick	Socialite	20-Apr-1943	16-Nov-1971	Warhol factory girl
Mark E. Smith	Singer/Songwriter	5-Mar-1957		The Fall
Alfred Tarski	Mathematician	14-Jan-1902	26-Oct-1983	Tarski's indefinability theorem
Stevie Ray Vaughan	Guitarist	3-Oct-1954	27-Aug-1990	Blues guitarist
Grace Lee Whitney	Actor	1-Apr-1930		Yeoman Rand on Star Trek

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