| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for | 
|---|
| Joss Ackland | Actor | 29-Feb-1928 |  | White Mischief | 
| Art Acord | Actor | 17-Apr-1890 | 4-Jan-1931 | Cowboy actor | 
| Joan Vollmer Adams | Victim | 1924 | 6-Sep-1951 | Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs | 
| Ryan Adams | Singer/Songwriter | 5-Nov-1974 |  | Heartbreaker | 
| Stuart Adamson | Musician | 11-Apr-1958 | 16-Dec-2001 | Guitarist for The Skids and Big Country | 
| Hasil Adkins | Musician | 29-Apr-1937 | 26-Apr-2005 | Rockabilly one man band | 
| Ben Affleck | Actor | 15-Aug-1972 |  | Good Will Hunting | 
| Phil Agee | Spy | 19-Jul-1935 | 7-Jan-2008 | Inside the Company: CIA Diary | 
| Edward Albee | Playwright | 12-Mar-1928 |  | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 
| Chris Albrecht | Business | c. 1951 |  | Former HBO Chairman and CEO | 
| Buzz Aldrin | Astronaut | 20-Jan-1930 |  | Second man on the Moon | 
| Grover Cleveland Alexander | Baseball | 26-Feb-1887 | 4-Nov-1950 | Pitcher, 373 career wins | 
| Sherman Alexie | Novelist | 7-Oct-1966 |  | The Business of Fancydancing | 
| Rick Allen | Drummer | 1-Nov-1963 |  | Def Leppard's one-armed drummer | 
| Tim Allen | Actor | 13-Jun-1953 |  | Home Improvement | 
| G. G. Allin | Musician | 29-Aug-1956 | 28-Jun-1993 | Hated | 
| Gregg Allman | Musician | 8-Dec-1947 |  | The Allman Brothers | 
| Aldrich Ames | Spy | 26-Mar-1941 |  | CIA agent, divulged names to the Soviets | 
| Kingsley Amis | Novelist | 16-Apr-1922 | 22-Oct-1995 | Lucky Jim | 
| Lynn Anderson | Singer | 26-Sep-1947 |  | Rose Garden | 
| Robert B. Anderson | Government | 4-Jun-1910 | 14-Aug-1989 | US Secretary of the Treasury, 1957-61 | 
| Dana Andrews | Actor | 1-Jan-1909 | 17-Dec-1992 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 
| Ann-Margret | Actor | 28-Apr-1941 |  | Carnal Knowledge | 
| Eddie Antar | Business | 18-Dec-1947 |  | Crazy Eddie | 
| Fatty Arbuckle | Actor | 24-Mar-1887 | 29-Jun-1933 | Keystone Cop | 
| Desi Arnaz | Actor | 2-Mar-1917 | 2-Dec-1986 | Ricky Ricardo on I Love Lucy | 
| Malcolm Arnold | Composer | 21-Oct-1921 | 23-Sep-2006 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 
| Tom Arnold | Actor | 6-Mar-1959 |  | Ex-Husband of Roseanne Barr | 
| Mary Astor | Actor | 3-May-1906 | 25-Sep-1987 | The Maltese Falcon | 
| Kemal Ataturk | Head of State | 12-Mar-1881 | 10-Nov-1938 | President of Turkey, 1923-38 | 
| Tai Babilonia | Figure Skating | 9-Sep-1959 |  | Five-time US pairs figure skating champion | 
| Barbara Bach | Actor | 27-Aug-1947 |  | Atook zug zug Lana | 
| Francis Bacon | Painter | 28-Oct-1909 | 28-Apr-1992 | The Screaming Popes | 
| F. Lee Bailey | Attorney | 10-Jun-1933 |  | Criminal defense attorney | 
| Jerry Bailey | Jockey | 29-Aug-1957 |  | Two-time Kentucky Derby winner | 
| Oksana Baiul | Figure Skating | 16-Nov-1977 |  | Olympic figure skater | 
| Tom Baker | Actor | 20-Jan-1934 |  | The Fourth Doctor Who | 
| John Balance | Electronic Musician | 16-Feb-1962 | 13-Nov-2004 | Coil | 
| Florence Ballard | Singer | 30-Jun-1943 | 22-Feb-1976 | The Supremes | 
| Tallulah Bankhead | Actor | 31-Jan-1902 | 12-Dec-1968 | Lifeboat | 
| Benjamin Banneker | Astronomer | 9-Nov-1731 | 25-Oct-1806 | First African-American astronomer | 
| Djuna Barnes | Novelist | 12-Jun-1892 | 18-Jun-1982 | Modernist poet, Nightwood | 
| Marion Barry | Politician | 6-Mar-1936 |  | Twice Mayor of Washington, DC | 
| Drew Barrymore | Actor | 22-Feb-1975 |  | E.T., The Wedding Singer | 
| John Barrymore | Actor | 15-Feb-1882 | 29-May-1942 | Romeo and Juliet | 
| John Drew Barrymore | Actor | 4-Jun-1932 | 29-Nov-2004 | High School Confidential! | 
| Ol' Dirty Bastard | Rapper | 15-Nov-1968 | 13-Nov-2004 | Profoundly deranged rapper, Wu-Tang Clan | 
| Charles Baudelaire | Poet | 9-Apr-1821 | 31-Aug-1867 | Les Fleurs du Mal | 
| Laura Baugh | Golf | 31-May-1955 |  | Out of the Rough | 
| Bayezid I | Royalty | 1360 | 1403 | Ottoman Sultan, 1389-1402 | 
| Pierre Beaumarchais | Author | 24-Jan-1732 | 18-May-1799 | The Barber of Seville | 
| Simone de Beauvoir | Activist | 9-Jan-1908 | 14-Apr-1986 | The Second Sex | 
| Glenn Beck | TV Personality | 10-Feb-1964 |  | Conservative TV and talk radio host | 
| Bob Beckel | Pundit | c. 1948 |  | Fox News Analyst | 
| Boris Becker | Tennis | 22-Nov-1967 |  | Wimbledon winner at 17 | 
| Scotty Beckett | Actor | 4-Oct-1929 | 10-May-1968 | Child star train wreck | 
| Alfonso Bedoya | Actor | 16-Apr-1904 | 15-Dec-1957 | Doesn't need no stinking badges | 
| Wallace Beery | Actor | 1-Apr-1885 | 15-Apr-1949 | Grand Hotel | 
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Composer | 17-Dec-1770 | 26-Mar-1827 | Prominent composer | 
| Brendan Behan | Playwright | 9-Feb-1923 | 20-Mar-1964 | The Hostage | 
| Bix Beiderbecke | Jazz Musician | 10-Mar-1903 | 6-Aug-1931 | Celebrated jazz cornetist | 
| Jordan Belfort | Business | 9-Jul-1962 |  | The Wolf of Wall Street | 
| John Belushi | Actor | 24-Jan-1949 | 5-Mar-1982 | Animal House | 
| Michael Bennett | Dancer | 8-Apr-1943 | 2-Jul-1987 | A Chorus Line | 
| Anita Berber | Actor | 10-Jun-1899 | 10-Nov-1928 | Scarlet whore of Berlin | 
| Alan Berg | Radio Personality | Jan-1934 | 18-Jun-1984 | Murdered radio host | 
| Helmut Berger | Actor | 29-May-1944 |  | Ludwig | 
| Bunny Berigan | Jazz Musician | 2-Nov-1908 | 2-Jun-1942 | Jazz trumpeter great | 
| Busby Berkeley | Film Director | 29-Nov-1895 | 14-Mar-1976 | Strike Up the Band | 
| Steven Jesse Bernstein | Poet | 4-Dec-1950 | 22-Oct-1991 | Grunge poet and punk rocker | 
| Fred Berry | Actor | 13-Mar-1951 | 21-Oct-2003 | Rerun on What's Happening!! | 
| John Berryman | Poet | 25-Oct-1914 | 7-Jan-1972 | Homage to Mistress Bradstreet | 
| George Best | Soccer | 22-May-1946 | 25-Nov-2005 | Manchester United | 
| Peter Black | Politician | 14-Jun-1943 |  | Boorish Australian legislator | 
| Bobby Bland | Singer | 27-Jan-1930 |  | Turn on Your Lovelight | 
| Steen Steensen Blicher | Author | 11-Oct-1782 | 26-Mar-1848 | Fragments from the Diary of a Parish Clerk | 
| Alexander Blok | Poet | 16-Nov-1880 | 7-Aug-1921 | Russian Silver Age poet | 
| Vida Blue | Baseball | 28-Jul-1949 |  | Cy Young Award winning pitcher | 
| Buddy Bolden | Jazz Musician | 6-Sep-1877 | 4-Nov-1931 | Ragtime, pre-Jazz cornetist | 
| Don Bolles | Musician | 30-Jul-1956 |  | The Germs | 
| Danny Bonaduce | Actor | 13-Aug-1959 |  | The Partridge Family | 
| John Bonham | Drummer | 31-May-1948 | 24-Sep-1980 | Drummer for Led Zeppelin, 1968-80 | 
| Edwin Booth | Actor | 13-Nov-1833 | 7-Jun-1893 | Renowned 19th century American actor | 
| James Booth | Actor | 19-Dec-1927 | 11-Aug-2005 | Zulu | 
| James Boswell | Author | 29-Oct-1740 | 19-May-1795 | The Life of Samuel Johnson | 
| Edgar Bowers | Poet | 2-Mar-1924 | 4-Feb-2000 | For Louis Pasteur | 
| Jane Bowles | Novelist | 22-Feb-1917 | 4-May-1973 | Two Serious Ladies | 
| Pattie Boyd | Model | 17-Mar-1944 |  | Ex-Wife of George Harrison, Eric Clapton | 
| Mathew Brady | Photographer | 15-Jan-1823 | 15-Jan-1896 | Civil War photographer | 
| Russell Brand | Actor | 4-Jun-1975 |  | Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know | 
| Jonathan Brandis | Actor | 13-Apr-1976 | 12-Nov-2003 | Lucas Wolenczak on SeaQuest | 
| Richard Brautigan | Author | 30-Jan-1935 | 14-Oct-1984 | So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away | 
| Nicholas Brendon | Actor | 12-Apr-1971 |  | Xander Harris on Buffy | 
| Eileen Brennan | Actor | 3-Sep-1932 |  | Capt. Lewis on Private Benjamin | 
| Daniel Brewster | Politician | 23-Nov-1923 | 19-Aug-2007 | US Senator from Maryland, 1963-69 | 
| Isaac Brock | Singer/Songwriter | 9-Jul-1975 |  | Frontman for Modest Mouse | 
| Branwell Brontë | Poet | 26-Jun-1817 | 24-Sep-1848 | The Brontë sisters' brother | 
| Foster Brooks | Comic | 11-May-1912 | 20-Dec-2001 | Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts | 
| Louise Brooks | Actor | 14-Nov-1906 | 8-Aug-1985 | Pandora's Box | 
| Bobby Brown | Singer | 5-Feb-1969 |  | My Prerogative | 
| George Brown | Politician | 2-Sep-1914 | 2-Jun-1985 | UK Foreign Secretary, 1966-68 | 
| James Brown | Singer | 3-May-1933 | 25-Dec-2006 | Godfather of Soul | 
| Tod Browning | Film Director | 12-Jul-1882 | 6-Oct-1962 | Freaks | 
| Elbridge Bryant | Singer | 28-Sep-1939 | 26-Oct-1975 | The Temptations | 
| Charles Bukowski | Author | 16-Aug-1920 | 9-Mar-1994 | Love is a Dog from Hell | 
| Jim J. Bullock | Actor | 9-Feb-1955 |  | Monroe on Too Close for Comfort | 
| R. L. Burnside | Musician | 23-Nov-1926 | 1-Sep-2005 | A Ass Pocket of Whiskey | 
| William S. Burroughs, Jr. | Relative | 21-Jul-1947 | 3-Mar-1981 | Son of William S. Burroughs | 
| Richard Burton | Actor | 10-Nov-1925 | 5-Aug-1984 | Nineteen Eighty Four | 
| George W. Bush | Head of State | 6-Jul-1946 |  | 43rd US President, 2001-09 | 
| Noelle Bush | Relative | 26-Jul-1977 |  | Niece of George W. Bush | 
| Brett Butler | Comic | 20-Jan-1958 |  | Comedian with southern drawl | 
| Yancy Butler | Actor | 2-Jul-1970 |  | Witchblade | 
| Paul Butterfield | Musician | 17-Dec-1942 | 4-May-1987 | Paul Butterfield Blues Band | 
| Edd Byrnes | Actor | 30-Jul-1933 |  | Kookie on 77 Sunset Strip | 
| Crazy Cabbie | Radio Personality | 10-Dec-1968 |  | Part of the Howard Stern menagerie | 
| Sid Caesar | Comic | 8-Sep-1922 |  | Your Show of Shows | 
| James M. Cain | Novelist | 1-Jul-1892 | 27-Oct-1977 | The Postman Always Rings Twice | 
| Maria Callas | Singer | 2-Dec-1923 | 16-Sep-1977 | Operatic Soprano | 
| Ken Caminiti | Baseball | 21-Apr-1963 | 10-Oct-2004 | Former National League MVP | 
| Glen Campbell | Country Musician | 22-Apr-1936 |  | Rhinestone Cowboy | 
| Truman Capote | Novelist | 30-Sep-1924 | 25-Aug-1984 | In Cold Blood | 
| Macdonald Carey | Actor | 15-Mar-1913 | 21-Mar-1994 | Tom Horton on Days of Our Lives | 
| Mary Carey | Pornstar | 15-Jun-1980 |  | Porn star, ran for California Governor | 
| George Carlin | Comic | 12-May-1937 | 22-Jun-2008 | Seven Dirty Words | 
| Belinda Carlisle | Singer | 17-Aug-1958 |  | Lead vocalist for The Go-Go's | 
| Art Carney | Actor | 4-Nov-1918 | 9-Nov-2003 | Ed Norton on The Honeymooners | 
| Paul Carr | Author | 7-Dec-1979 |  | Bringing Nothing to the Party | 
| David Carradine | Actor | 8-Dec-1936 | 3-Jun-2009 | Grasshopper | 
| Asia Carrera | Pornstar | 6-Aug-1973 |  | Mensa member, pornstar | 
| Hayden Carruth | Poet | 3-Aug-1921 | 29-Sep-2008 | Brothers, I Loved You All | 
| Jean Carson | Actor | 28-Feb-1923 | 2-Nov-2005 | Fun girl Daphne | 
| Johnny Carson | Talk Show Host | 23-Oct-1925 | 23-Jan-2005 | Longtime host of Tonight Show | 
| Cris Carter | Football | 25-Nov-1965 |  | Former NFL wide receiver | 
| Emily Carter | Author | 1960 |  | Glory Goes and Gets Some | 
| Hurricane Carter | Boxing | 6-May-1937 |  | Boxer twice convicted of triple-murder | 
| Kevin Carter | Photographer | 13-Sep-1960 | 27-Jul-1994 | Wanting A Meal | 
| Lynda Carter | Actor | 24-Jul-1951 |  | Wonder Woman | 
| Nell Carter | Actor | 13-Sep-1948 | 23-Jan-2003 | Housekeeper on Gimme A Break | 
| Raymond Carver | Author | 25-May-1938 | 2-Aug-1988 | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? | 
| Johnny Cash | Country Musician | 26-Feb-1932 | 12-Sep-2003 | The Man in Black | 
| Pat Cash | Tennis | 27-May-1965 |  | Winner, 1987 Wimbledon | 
| Peggie Castle | Actor | 22-Dec-1927 | 11-Aug-1973 | Lily Merrill on Lawman | 
| Raymond Chandler | Author | 23-Jul-1888 | 26-Mar-1959 | Invented hard-boiled detective novel | 
| Lon Chaney, Jr. | Actor | 10-Feb-1906 | 12-Jul-1973 | The Wolf Man | 
| Graham Chapman | Comic | 8-Jan-1941 | 4-Oct-1989 | Monty Python's King Arthur | 
| Chevy Chase | Comic | 8-Oct-1943 |  | He is, you're not | 
| Vic Chesnutt | Singer/Songwriter | 12-Nov-1964 | 25-Dec-2009 | Wheelchair-bound folk singer | 
| Alex Chilton | Singer/Songwriter | 28-Dec-1950 | 17-Mar-2010 | Big Star | 
| Margaret Cho | Comic | 5-Dec-1968 |  | Loud-mouthed standup comic | 
| Lord Randolph Churchill | Politician | 13-Feb-1849 | 24-Jan-1895 | Father of Winston Churchill | 
| Randolph Churchill | Journalist | 28-May-1911 | 6-Jun-1968 | Son of Winston Churchill | 
| Chyna | Wrestling | 27-Dec-1969 |  | Former pro wrestler | 
| Eric Clapton | Guitarist | 30-Mar-1945 |  | Slowhand | 
| Gene Clark | Singer/Songwriter | 17-Nov-1944 | 24-May-1991 | The Byrds, No Other | 
| George Rogers Clark | Military | 19-Nov-1752 | 13-Feb-1818 | Kentucky frontier military leader | 
| Adam Clayton | Bassist | 13-Mar-1960 |  | Bassist for U2 | 
| Montgomery Clift | Actor | 17-Oct-1920 | 23-Jul-1966 | From Here to Eternity | 
| Roger Clinton | Relative | 25-Jul-1956 |  | Black sheep in Clinton family | 
| Colin Clive | Actor | 20-Jan-1900 | 25-Jun-1937 | Frankenstein | 
| Brian Clough | Soccer | 21-Mar-1935 | 20-Sep-2004 | Renowned British soccer manager | 
| Kurt Cobain | Musician | 20-Feb-1967 | 5-Apr-1994 | Lead singer of Nirvana | 
| Joe Cocker | Singer/Songwriter | 20-May-1944 |  | Singer-slash-contortionist | 
| Natalie Cole | Singer | 6-Feb-1950 |  | Singer-daughter of Nat King Cole | 
| Judy Collins | Singer/Songwriter | 1-May-1939 |  | Folk singer | 
| Lynn Collins | Actor | 16-May-1977 |  | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | 
| John Coltrane | Jazz Musician | 23-Sep-1926 | 17-Jul-1967 | Jazz tenor saxophonist | 
| Lionel Conacher | Hockey | 24-May-1900 | 26-May-1954 | Canadian All-Around Athlete | 
| Jeff Conaway | Actor | 5-Oct-1950 | 27-May-2011 | Grease | 
| Chris Connor | Singer | 8-Nov-1927 | 29-Aug-2009 | Jazz singer, I Miss You | 
| Robert Conrad | Actor | 1-Mar-1929 |  | Wild Wild West | 
| Tom Conway | Actor | 15-Sep-1904 | 22-Apr-1967 | I Walked with a Zombie | 
| Barbara Cook | Singer | 25-Oct-1927 |  | Broadway, TV and cabaret singer and actress | 
| Peter Cook | Comic | 19-Nov-1937 | 9-Jan-1995 | Bedazzled | 
| Alice Cooper | Musician | 4-Feb-1948 |  | No More Mr. Nice Guy | 
| Frank Corder | Aviator | 26-May-1956 | 12-Sep-1994 | Crashed a Cessna into White House lawn | 
| Wendell Corey | Actor | 20-Mar-1914 | 8-Nov-1968 | Desert Fury | 
| Patricia Cornwell | Novelist | 9-Jun-1956 |  | Crime novelist, Postmortem | 
| Hart Crane | Poet | 21-Jul-1899 | 27-Apr-1932 | Industrial and urban poet | 
| Phil Crane | Politician | 3-Nov-1930 |  | Congressman from Illinois, 1969-2005 | 
| Harry Crews | Novelist | 7-Jun-1935 | 28-Mar-2012 | The Gospel Singer | 
| Peter Criss | Drummer | 20-Dec-1945 |  | One of the original KISS quartet | 
| Bing Crosby | Singer | 3-May-1903 | 14-Oct-1977 | White Christmas | 
| Dennis Crosby | Singer | 13-Jul-1934 | 7-May-1991 | Bing Crosby's son, suicide with shotgun | 
| Philip Crosby | Singer | 13-Jul-1934 | 13-Jan-2004 | Son of Bing Crosby | 
| Leslie Crowther | TV Personality | 6-Feb-1933 | 29-Sep-1996 | The Price Is Right | 
| Tony Curtis | Actor | 3-Jun-1925 | 29-Sep-2010 | Some Like It Hot | 
| D.M.C. | Rapper | 31-May-1964 |  | Run-D.M.C. | 
| Jeffrey Dahmer | Criminal | 21-May-1960 | 28-Nov-1994 | Homosexual serial killer cannibal | 
| John Daly | Golf | 28-Apr-1966 |  | Alcoholic golfer | 
| Dorothy Dandridge | Actor | 9-Nov-1922 | 8-Sep-1965 | Carmen Jones | 
| Linda Darnell | Actor | 16-Oct-1923 | 10-Apr-1965 | Star Dust | 
| Clement Davies | Politician | 19-Feb-1884 | 23-Mar-1962 | Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1945-56 | 
| Marion Davies | Actor | 3-Jan-1897 | 22-Sep-1961 | When Knighthood Was in Flower | 
| Bette Davis | Actor | 5-Apr-1908 | 6-Oct-1989 | All About Eve | 
| Brandon Davis | Socialite | 1979 |  | Oil heir, pal of Paris Hilton | 
| Kristin Davis | Actor | 23-Feb-1965 |  | Good girl Charlotte on Sex and the City | 
| Miles Davis | Jazz Musician | 26-May-1926 | 28-Sep-1991 | Jazz trumpeter, Kind of Blue | 
| Richard Allen Davis | Criminal | 2-Jun-1954 |  | Murderer of Polly Klaas | 
| Pat Day | Jockey | 13-Oct-1953 |  | Winner of 9 triple crown races | 
| Mark Dayton | Politician | 26-Jan-1947 |  | Governor of Minnesota | 
| Kim Deal | Bassist | 10-Jun-1961 |  | Pixies, Breeders bassist | 
| Howard Dean | Politician | 17-Nov-1948 |  | Chairman of the Democratic Party | 
| Darwin Deason | Business | c. 1940 |  | Founder of Affiliated Computer Systems | 
| Michael Deaver | Government | 11-Apr-1938 | 18-Aug-2007 | Reagan Deputy Chief of Staff | 
| Sandra Dee | Actor | 23-Apr-1942 | 20-Feb-2005 | Gidget | 
| Tom DeLay | Politician | 8-Apr-1947 |  | Former House Majority Leader, convicted felon | 
| John Denver | Country Musician | 31-Dec-1943 | 12-Oct-1997 | Rocky Mountain High | 
| Gerard Depardieu | Actor | 27-Dec-1948 |  | Cyrano de Bergerac | 
| Delia Derbyshire | Electronic Musician | 5-May-1937 | 3-Jul-2001 | Constructed the Doctor Who theme | 
| Michael Des Barres | Actor | 24-Jan-1948 |  | Murdoc on MacGyver | 
| C.C. DeVille | Guitarist | 14-May-1962 |  | Guitarist for Poison | 
| Laurie Dhue | TV Personality | 10-Feb-1969 |  | Fox News presenter, 2000-08 | 
| Andy Dick | Comic | 21-Dec-1965 |  | Matthew from NewsRadio | 
| Janice Dickinson | Model | 15-Feb-1955 |  | 1970s supermodel | 
| Dion | Musician | 18-Jul-1939 |  | Runaround Sue | 
| Lee Dixon | Actor | 22-Jan-1914 | 8-Jan-1953 | Ready, Willing and Able | 
| Thomas J. Dodd | Politician | 15-May-1907 | 24-May-1971 | US Senator from Connecticut, 1958-71 | 
| Troy Donahue | Actor | 27-Jan-1936 | 2-Sep-2001 | A Summer Place | 
| Michael Douglas | Actor | 25-Sep-1944 |  | Wall Street | 
| Robert Downey, Jr. | Actor | 4-Apr-1965 |  | The Gingerbread Man | 
| Richard Dreyfuss | Actor | 29-Oct-1947 |  | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 
| Peter Duel | Actor | 24-Feb-1940 | 31-Dec-1971 | Alias Smith and Jones | 
| Kitty Dukakis | First Lady | 26-Dec-1936 |  | Wife of Michael Dukakis | 
| Olympia Dukakis | Actor | 20-Jun-1931 |  | Tales of the City | 
| Patty Duke | Actor | 14-Dec-1946 |  | The Patty Duke Show | 
| James Dunn | Actor | 2-Nov-1901 | 1-Sep-1967 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | 
| Michael Dunn | Actor | 20-Oct-1934 | 30-Aug-1973 | Dr. Miguelito Loveless | 
| Dominick Dunne | Novelist | 29-Oct-1925 | 26-Aug-2009 | High society novelist, true crime writer | 
| Marguerite Duras | Novelist | 4-Apr-1914 | 3-Mar-1996 | Hiroshima mon Amour | 
| Isabelle Eberhardt | Author | 17-Feb-1877 | 21-Oct-1904 | Transvestite Muslim author | 
| Roger Ebert | Critic | 18-Jun-1942 |  | Siskel and Ebert | 
| Mark Eitzel | Musician | 30-Jan-1959 |  | Frontman for American Music Club | 
| Erika Eleniak | Actor | 29-Sep-1969 |  | Shauni on Baywatch | 
| Linda Ellerbee | Journalist | 15-Aug-1944 |  | "And so it goes." | 
| Dock Ellis | Baseball | 11-Mar-1945 | 19-Dec-2008 | Pitched a no-hitter on LSD | 
| Ruth Ellis | Criminal | 9-Oct-1925 | 13-Jul-1955 | Last woman hanged in England | 
| James Ellroy | Novelist | 4-Mar-1948 |  | L.A. Confidential | 
| Eve Ensler | Playwright | 25-May-1953 |  | The Vagina Monologues | 
| Peg Entwistle | Actor | 1-Jul-1908 | 18-Sep-1932 | Starlet, suicided off Hollywood sign | 
| Pee Wee Erwin | Jazz Musician | 30-May-1913 | 20-Jun-1981 | Jazz trumpeter | 
| Joe Eszterhas | Screenwriter | 23-Nov-1944 |  | Showgirls, Basic Instinct | 
| George Etherege | Playwright | c. 1635 | 10-May-1692 | Love in a Tub | 
| Chad Everett | Actor | 11-Jun-1936 | 24-Jul-2012 | Dr. Joe Gannon on Medical Center | 
| William Eythe | Actor | 7-Apr-1918 | 26-Jan-1957 | The House on 92nd Street | 
| Stanley Fafara | Actor | 20-Sep-1949 | 20-Sep-2003 | Whitey on Leave It to Beaver | 
| Marianne Faithfull | Singer/Songwriter | 29-Dec-1946 |  | Sister Morphine | 
| Edie Falco | Actor | 5-Jul-1963 |  | The Sopranos, Nurse Jackie | 
| John Fante | Author | 8-Apr-1909 | 8-May-1983 | Bukowski's idol | 
| James Farentino | Actor | 24-Feb-1938 | 24-Jan-2012 | The Final Countdown | 
| Chris Farley | Comic | 15-Feb-1964 | 17-Dec-1997 | Saturday Night Live | 
| Frances Farmer | Actor | 19-Sep-1913 | 1-Aug-1970 | Hollywood actress, institutionalized | 
| Philo Farnsworth | Inventor | 19-Aug-1906 | 11-Mar-1971 | Inventor of electronic television | 
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Film Director | 31-May-1945 | 10-Jun-1982 | The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | 
| William Faulkner | Author | 25-Sep-1897 | 6-Jul-1962 | Novels set in the American South | 
| Brett Favre | Football | 10-Oct-1969 |  | Minnesota Vikings QB | 
| Kenneth Fearing | Novelist | 28-Jul-1902 | 26-Jun-1961 | The Big Clock | 
| Freddy Fender | Musician | 4-Jun-1937 | 14-Oct-2006 | Before the Next Teardrop Falls | 
| Craig Ferguson | Talk Show Host | 17-May-1962 |  | "It's a great day for America" | 
| Lolo Ferrari | Pornstar | 9-Feb-1970 | 5-Mar-2000 | Double Airbags | 
| Henry Fielding | Novelist | 22-Apr-1707 | 8-Oct-1754 | Tom Jones | 
| W. C. Fields | Comic | 29-Jan-1880 | 25-Dec-1946 | The Bank Dick | 
| Carrie Fisher | Actor | 21-Oct-1956 |  | Princess Leia in Star Wars | 
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Author | 24-Sep-1896 | 21-Dec-1940 | The Great Gatsby | 
| Errol Flynn | Actor | 20-Jun-1909 | 14-Oct-1959 | Robin Hood | 
| Mark Foley | Politician | 8-Sep-1954 |  | Congressman from Florida, 1995-2006 | 
| Red Foley | Country Musician | 17-Jun-1910 | 19-Sep-1968 | Country crooner, wrote Old Shep | 
| Betty Ford | First Lady | 8-Apr-1918 | 8-Jul-2011 | Former First Lady, founded Betty Ford Center | 
| John Ford | Film Director | 1-Feb-1894 | 31-Aug-1973 | How Green Was My Valley | 
| Stephen Collins Foster | Songwriter | 4-Jul-1826 | 13-Jan-1864 | My Old Kentucky Home | 
| Charles James Fox | Politician | 24-Jan-1749 | 13-Sep-1806 | U.K.'s first Foreign Secretary | 
| Michael J. Fox | Actor | 9-Jun-1961 |  | Back to the Future | 
| wiL Francis | Singer | 8-Jan-1982 |  | Lead singer of Aiden | 
| William Frawley | Actor | 26-Feb-1887 | 3-Mar-1966 | Fred on I Love Lucy | 
| Lynne Frederick | Actor | 25-Jul-1954 | 27-Apr-1994 | The Prisoner of Zenda | 
| Morgan Freeman | Actor | 1-Jun-1937 |  | Unforgiven | 
| James Frey | Author | 12-Sep-1969 |  | Addiction memoirist, A Million Little Pieces | 
| Kinky Friedman | Musician | 31-Oct-1944 |  | Texas Jewboy | 
| R. Buckminster Fuller | Architect | 12-Jul-1895 | 1-Jul-1983 | Futurist, invented the geodesic dome | 
| Edward Furlong | Actor | 2-Aug-1977 |  | Terminator 2 and Pecker | 
| Eddie Gaedel | Baseball | 8-Jun-1925 | 18-Jun-1961 | Dwarf MLB player | 
| Leopoldo Galtieri | Head of State | 15-Jul-1926 | 12-Jan-2003 | Invaded Falklands, ran death squads | 
| James Gandolfini | Actor | 18-Sep-1961 |  | Tony Soprano wants his money | 
| Luis Alfredo Garavito | Criminal | 25-Jan-1957 |  | Colombian serial killer, murdered 140+ boys | 
| Ava Gardner | Actor | 24-Dec-1922 | 25-Jan-1990 | The Barefoot Contessa | 
| Judy Garland | Singer | 10-Jun-1922 | 22-Jun-1969 | Dorothy in Wizard of Oz | 
| Janeane Garofalo | Comic | 28-Sep-1964 |  | Actor, Comedian, Author, Activist | 
| Brad Garrett | Actor | 14-Apr-1960 |  | Robert on Everybody Loves Raymond | 
| Leif Garrett | Musician | 8-Nov-1961 |  | 1970s teen idol | 
| Larry Gatlin | Country Musician | 2-May-1948 |  | One of the Gatlin Brothers | 
| Paul Gauguin | Painter | 7-Jun-1848 | 8-May-1903 | French post-impressionist painter | 
| Gil Gerard | Actor | 23-Jan-1943 |  | Buck Rogers | 
| Geronimo | Military | 16-Jun-1829 | 17-Feb-1909 | The last Indian to surrender | 
| J. Paul Getty, Jr. | Business | 7-Sep-1932 | 17-Apr-2003 | Heir to the Getty Oil fortune | 
| Stan Getz | Jazz Musician | 2-Feb-1927 | 6-Jun-1991 | Jazz tenor saxophonist | 
| Andy Gibb | Musician | 5-Mar-1958 | 10-Mar-1988 | I Just Want To Be Your Everything | 
| Maurice Gibb | Bassist | 22-Dec-1949 | 12-Jan-2003 | Bassist and vocalist of Bee Gees | 
| Ben Gibbard | Musician | 11-Aug-1976 |  | Death Cab for Cutie | 
| Khalil Gibran | Poet | 6-Jan-1883 | 10-Apr-1931 | The Prophet | 
| Mel Gibson | Actor | 3-Jan-1956 |  | Mad Max | 
| Gary Gilmore | Criminal | 4-Dec-1940 | 17-Jan-1977 | Executed by firing squad in Utah | 
| Greg Giraldo | Comic | 10-Dec-1965 | 29-Sep-2010 | Friday Night Stand-Up | 
| Jackie Gleason | Actor | 26-Feb-1916 | 24-Jun-1987 | Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners | 
| Sharon Gless | Actor | 31-May-1943 |  | Cagney on Cagney and Lacey | 
| Gary Glitter | Musician | 8-May-1944 |  | Rock and Roll Part 2 | 
| Alexander Godunov | Dancer | 28-Nov-1949 | 18-May-1995 | Bolshoi, ABT ballet dancer | 
| Bobcat Goldthwait | Comic | 26-May-1962 |  | Shakes the Clown | 
| Dwight Gooden | Baseball | 16-Nov-1964 |  | Pitcher, New York Mets | 
| Robert Goulet | Singer | 26-Nov-1933 | 30-Oct-2007 | Baritone star of stage and screen | 
| Margot Grahame | Actor | 20-Feb-1911 | 1-Jan-1982 | The Informer | 
| Kelsey Grammer | Actor | 21-Feb-1955 |  | Frasier | 
| Ulysses S. Grant | Head of State | 27-Apr-1822 | 23-Jul-1885 | Eighteenth President of the United States | 
| Paul Dedrick Gray | Bassist | 8-Apr-1972 | 24-May-2010 | Bassist for Slipknot | 
| Richard Grieco | Actor | 23-Mar-1965 |  | Officer Dennis Booker on 21 Jump Street | 
| Melanie Griffith | Actor | 9-Aug-1957 |  | Mom from Lolita redux | 
| George Grosz | Artist | 26-Jul-1893 | 6-Jul-1959 | German social caricaturist | 
| Guru | Rapper | 17-Jul-1962 | 19-Apr-2010 | Rapper from Gang Starr | 
| Bobby Hackett | Jazz Musician | 31-Jan-1915 | 7-Jun-1976 | Played with Glenn Miller, Jackie Gleason | 
| Jean Hagen | Actor | 3-Aug-1923 | 29-Aug-1977 | Singin' in the Rain | 
| Merle Haggard | Country Musician | 6-Apr-1937 |  | Okie From Muskogee | 
| Marvin Hagler | Boxing | 23-May-1954 |  | Retired boxing champ, lives in Italy | 
| Larry Hagman | Actor | 21-Sep-1931 |  | J.R. Ewing on Dallas | 
| Corey Haim | Actor | 23-Dec-1971 | 10-Mar-2010 | The Lost Boys | 
| Anthony Michael Hall | Actor | 14-Apr-1968 |  | Sixteen Candles | 
| Billy Halop | Actor | 11-Feb-1920 | 9-Nov-1976 | Dead End Kid | 
| Pete Hamill | Journalist | 24-Jun-1935 |  | The New York Post | 
| Sir William Rowan Hamilton | Mathematician | 3-Aug-1805 | 2-Sep-1865 | Inventor of Quaternions | 
| Dashiell Hammett | Author | 27-May-1894 | 10-Jan-1961 | The Maltese Falcon | 
| Edward A. Hannegan | Politician | 25-Jun-1807 | 25-Feb-1859 | US Senator, committed suicide | 
| Tom Hardy | Actor | 15-Sep-1977 |  | Layer Cake | 
| William F. Harrah | Business | 2-Sep-1911 | 30-Jun-1978 | Founder of Harrah's Casino | 
| Lorenz Hart | Songwriter | 2-May-1895 | 22-Nov-1943 | Lyricist, Rodgers and Hart | 
| Domino Harvey | Relative | 7-Aug-1969 | 27-Jun-2005 | Laurence Harvey's daughter | 
| Doug Harvey | Hockey | 19-Dec-1924 | 26-Dec-1989 | NHL Hall of Famer | 
| Jaroslav Hasek | Author | 30-Apr-1883 | 3-Jan-1923 | The Good Soldier Svejk | 
| David Hasselhoff | Actor | 17-Jul-1952 |  | Knight Rider, Baywatch | 
| Robert Hawke | Head of State | 9-Dec-1929 |  | Prime Minister of Australia, 1983-91 | 
| Coleman Hawkins | Jazz Musician | 21-Nov-1904 | 19-May-1969 | Jazz tenor saxophonist | 
| Screamin' Jay Hawkins | Musician | 18-Jul-1929 | 12-Feb-2000 | I Put a Spell on You | 
| Charles Hawtrey | Actor | 30-Nov-1914 | 27-Oct-1988 | Carry On... | 
| Dick Haymes | Singer | 13-Sep-1916 | 28-Mar-1980 | State Fair | 
| Susan Hayward | Actor | 30-Jun-1918 | 14-Mar-1975 | I Want to Live! | 
| Ted Healy | Actor | 1-Oct-1896 | 21-Dec-1937 | Creator of The Three Stooges | 
| Sadeq Hedayat | Author | 17-Feb-1903 | 9-Apr-1951 | The Blind Owl | 
| Ernest Hemingway | Author | 21-Jul-1899 | 2-Jul-1961 | The Old Man And The Sea | 
| Margaux Hemingway | Actor | 16-Feb-1955 | 2-Jul-1996 | Troubled actress OD'd on klonopin | 
| Jimi Hendrix | Guitarist | 27-Nov-1942 | 18-Sep-1970 | Purple Haze | 
| Ian Hendry | Actor | 13-Jan-1931 | 24-Dec-1984 | Get Carter | 
| O. Henry | Author | 11-Sep-1862 | 5-Jun-1910 | The Gift of the Magi | 
| James Hetfield | Musician | 3-Aug-1963 |  | Metallica | 
| James Hewitt | Relative | 1958 |  | Princess Diana's adulterous lover | 
| Wild Bill Hickok | Actor | 27-May-1837 | 2-Aug-1876 | Buffalo Bill's Wild West show | 
| Bill Hicks | Comic | 16-Dec-1961 | 26-Feb-1994 | Visionary comedian, met untimely death | 
| J. C. Higginbotham | Jazz Musician | 11-May-1906 | 26-May-1973 | Jazz trombonist | 
| Patricia Highsmith | Novelist | 19-Jan-1921 | 4-Feb-1995 | Strangers on a Train | 
| Henry Hill | Criminal | 11-Jun-1943 | 12-Jun-2012 | Mobster inspired Goodfellas | 
| Damien Hirst | Artist | 1965 |  | Animal slices in formalin as art | 
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | Actor | 23-Jul-1967 |  | Character actor | 
| William Holden | Actor | 17-Apr-1918 | 16-Nov-1981 | Stalag 17 | 
| Billie Holiday | Singer | 7-Apr-1915 | 17-Jul-1959 | Lady Sings the Blues | 
| Doc Holliday | Doctor | 14-Aug-1851 | 8-Nov-1887 | Wyatt Earp's reliable friend | 
| John Holmes | Pornstar | 8-Aug-1944 | 13-Mar-1988 | Life-support system for a 10-inch penis | 
| Anthony Hopkins | Actor | 31-Dec-1937 |  | Hannibal Lecter | 
| Avery Hopwood | Playwright | 28-May-1882 | 1-Jul-1928 | The Bat | 
| Curly Howard | Actor | 22-Oct-1903 | 18-Jan-1952 | Highest pitched Stooge | 
| Steve Howe | Baseball | 10-Mar-1958 | 28-Apr-2006 | MLB pitcher | 
| Victoriano Huerta | Head of State | 23-Mar-1854 | 13-Jan-1916 | El chacal President of Mexico, 1913-14 | 
| Harold Hughes | Politician | 10-Feb-1922 | 23-Oct-1996 | Governor and Senator from Iowa | 
| Mark R. Hughes | Business | 1956 | 21-May-2000 | Herbalife founder | 
| William Hurt | Actor | 20-Mar-1950 |  | Altered States, Broadcast News | 
| Ferlin Husky | Singer | 3-Dec-1925 | 17-Mar-2011 | On the Wings of a Dove | 
| Barbara Hutton | Socialite | 14-Nov-1912 | 11-May-1979 | The Poor Little Rich Girl | 
| Betty Hutton | Actor | 26-Feb-1921 | 11-Mar-2007 | Incendiary Blonde | 
| Karl Hyde | Electronic Musician | 1961 |  | Underworld vocalist | 
| Don Imus | Radio Personality | 23-Jul-1940 |  | Imus in the Morning | 
| Bruce Ivins | Biologist | 22-Apr-1946 | 29-Jul-2008 | Anthrax researcher and suspect | 
| Joshua Jackson | Actor | 11-Jun-1978 |  | Pacey on Dawson's Creek | 
| Samuel L. Jackson | Actor | 21-Dec-1948 |  | Pulp Fiction | 
| Max Jacob | Poet | 12-Jul-1876 | 5-Mar-1944 | Le Cornet à dés | 
| Etta James | Singer | 25-Jan-1938 | 20-Jan-2012 | Soul Diva | 
| Calamity Jane | Performance Artist | 1-May-1852 | 1-Aug-1903 | Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show | 
| David Janssen | Actor | 27-Mar-1931 | 13-Feb-1980 | The Fugitive | 
| Alfred Jarry | Playwright | 8-Sep-1873 | 1-Nov-1907 | Ubu roi | 
| Michael Jeter | Actor | 26-Aug-1952 | 30-Mar-2003 | Evening Shade | 
| Billy Joel | Pianist | 9-May-1949 |  | Didn't start the fire | 
| Elton John | Singer/Songwriter | 25-Mar-1947 |  | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | 
| Little Willie John | Singer | 15-Oct-1937 | 26-May-1968 | Fever | 
| Denis Johnson | Novelist | 1-Jul-1949 |  | Jesus' Son | 
| Don Johnson | Actor | 15-Dec-1949 |  | Miami Vice, Nash Bridges | 
| Rita Johnson | Actor | 13-Aug-1913 | 31-Oct-1965 | Here Comes Mr. Jordan | 
| Ben Jones | Actor | 30-Aug-1941 |  | Cooter from Dukes of Hazzard | 
| Brian Jones | Guitarist | 28-Feb-1942 | 3-Jul-1969 | Guitarist for the Rolling Stones | 
| George Jones | Country Musician | 12-Sep-1931 |  | Country singer, White Lightning | 
| Jim Jones | Rapper | 15-Jul-1976 |  | We Fly High, Dipset | 
| Janis Joplin | Singer | 19-Jan-1943 | 4-Oct-1970 | Ball and Chain (Piece of My Heart) | 
| Al Jourgensen | Musician | 9-Oct-1958 |  | Lead for industrial band Ministry | 
| Edward Judd | Actor | 4-Oct-1932 | 24-Feb-2009 | First Men in the Moon | 
| Frida Kahlo | Painter | 6-Jul-1907 | 13-Jul-1954 | Unibrowed Mexican painter | 
| Ernst Kaltenbrunner | Military | 4-Oct-1903 | 16-Oct-1946 | Commanded the Reich Central Security Office | 
| Ingvar Kamprad | Business | 30-Mar-1926 |  | IKEA founder | 
| Arthur Kane | Bassist | 3-Feb-1949 | 13-Jul-2004 | Former New York Dolls bassist | 
| Alvin Karpis | Criminal | 10-Aug-1907 | 26-Aug-1979 | Former Public Enemy #1 | 
| Mary Karr | Author | 16-Jan-1955 |  | The Liars' Club | 
| Phil Katz | Computer Programmer | 3-Nov-1962 | 14-Apr-2000 | Creator of PKZIP | 
| Howard Keel | Actor | 13-Apr-1919 | 7-Nov-2004 | Clayton Farlow on Dallas | 
| Lisa Robin Kelly | Actor | 5-Mar-1970 |  | Laurie on That '70s Show | 
| Nancee Kelly | Pornstar | 5-Jun-1958 | 17-Nov-1991 | Wife of Jack Nance | 
| Walt Kelly | Cartoonist | 25-Aug-1913 | 18-Oct-1973 | Creator of Pogo | 
| William Kemmler | Criminal | 9-May-1860 | 6-Aug-1890 | First man executed by electric chair | 
| Charles Kennedy | Politician | 25-Nov-1959 |  | Leader of Liberal Democrats, 1999-2006 | 
| Joan Kennedy | Relative | 9-Sep-1936 |  | First wife of Ted Kennedy | 
| Patrick Joseph Kennedy | Politician | 14-Jul-1967 |  | Congressman from Rhode Island, 1995-2011 | 
| Ted Kennedy | Politician | 22-Feb-1932 | 25-Aug-2009 | US Senator from Massachusetts, 1962-2009 | 
| Robert Kent | Actor | 3-Dec-1908 | 4-May-1955 | The Phantom Creeps | 
| Stan Kenton | Jazz Musician | 15-Dec-1911 | 25-Aug-1979 | Jazz bandleader | 
| Jack Kerouac | Novelist | 12-Mar-1922 | 21-Oct-1969 | On The Road | 
| Margot Kidder | Actor | 17-Oct-1948 |  | Lois Lane in Superman | 
| Richard Kiel | Actor | 13-Sep-1939 |  | "Jaws" in Moonraker | 
| Gary Kildall | Business | 19-May-1942 | 11-Jul-1994 | Founder of Digital Research, Inc. | 
| Jaime King | Actor | 23-Apr-1979 |  | White Chicks | 
| Rodney King | Victim | 2-Apr-1965 | 17-Jun-2012 | Subject of filmed LAPD beatdown | 
| Stephen King | Novelist | 21-Sep-1947 |  | The Shining | 
| Sam Kinison | Comic | 8-Dec-1953 | 10-Apr-1992 | Caustic stand-up comic | 
| Thomas Kinkade | Painter | 19-Jan-1958 | 6-Apr-2012 | Self-proclaimed "Painter of Light" | 
| Calvin Klein | Fashion Designer | 19-Nov-1942 |  | Fashion designer | 
| Chris Klein | Actor | 14-Mar-1979 |  | "Oz" Ostreicher in American Pie | 
| Evel Knievel | Daredevil | 17-Oct-1938 | 30-Nov-2007 | Daredevil and one-time action figure | 
| Etheridge Knight | Poet | 19-Apr-1931 | 10-Mar-1991 | Poems from Prison | 
| Mort Kondracke | Columnist | 28-Apr-1939 |  | Tolerated by Fox, McLaughlin | 
| Ronnie Kray | Criminal | 24-Oct-1933 | 17-Mar-1995 | Kray brothers | 
| Sylvia Kristel | Actor | 28-Sep-1952 |  | Emmanuelle | 
| Kris Kristofferson | Actor | 22-Jun-1936 |  | Me and Bobby McGee | 
| Ray Kroc | Business | 5-Oct-1902 | 14-Jan-1984 | McDonald's fast food tycoon | 
| Lawrence Kudlow | Economist | 20-Aug-1947 |  | Kudlow & Cramer | 
| Randy Kuhl | Politician | 19-Apr-1943 |  | Congressman from New York, 2005-09 | 
| Veronica Lake | Actor | 14-Nov-1922 | 7-Jul-1973 | Sullivan's Travels | 
| Maurice LaMarche | Actor | 30-Mar-1958 |  | Kif on Futurama | 
| Anne Lamott | Author | 10-Apr-1954 |  | Operating Instructions | 
| Jani Lane | Singer | 1-Feb-1964 | 11-Aug-2011 | Lead singer of Warrant | 
| Nathan Lane | Actor | 3-Feb-1956 |  | The Producers | 
| Artie Lange | Comic | 11-Oct-1967 |  | MADtv, Howard Stern | 
| Chris Langham | Actor | 14-Apr-1949 |  | The Thick of It | 
| Ring Lardner | Journalist | 6-Mar-1885 | 25-Sep-1933 | Gullible's Travels | 
| John Larroquette | Actor | 25-Nov-1947 |  | Night Court | 
| Lash La Rue | Actor | 15-Jun-1917 | 21-May-1996 | B-Western star | 
| Patricia Kennedy Lawford | Socialite | 6-May-1924 | 17-Sep-2006 | Kennedy sister, wife of Peter Lawford | 
| John Le Mesurier | Actor | 5-Apr-1912 | 15-Nov-1983 | Dad's Army | 
| Fran Lebowitz | Author | 27-Oct-1950 |  | Social satirist, Metropolitan Life | 
| Dixie Lee | Singer | 4-Nov-1911 | 1-Nov-1952 | Singer and wife of Bing Crosby | 
| Nathaniel Lee | Playwright | c. 1653 | 6-May-1692 | The Rival Queens | 
| Tommy Lee | Drummer | 3-Oct-1962 |  | Mötley Crüe drummer | 
| Jack Lemmon | Actor | 8-Feb-1925 | 27-Jun-2001 | The Odd Couple | 
| Lemmy | Singer | 24-Dec-1945 |  | Bassist for Motorhead | 
| Elmore Leonard | Novelist | 11-Oct-1925 |  | Crime novelist, including Swag | 
| Sugar Ray Leonard | Boxing | 17-May-1956 |  | Retired six times | 
| Mark Lester | Actor | 11-Jul-1958 |  | Oliver! | 
| Drew Lewis | Government | 3-Nov-1931 |  | US Secretary of Transportation, 1981-83 | 
| Jerry Lee Lewis | Musician | 29-Sep-1935 |  | Goodness gracious, great balls of fire | 
| Juliette Lewis | Actor | 21-Jun-1973 |  | Natural Born Killers | 
| Meriwether Lewis | Explorer | 18-Aug-1774 | 11-Oct-1809 | Lewis and Clark expedition | 
| Robert Ley | Military | 15-Feb-1890 | 25-Oct-1945 | Nazi union buster, slave master | 
| Patrick Lichfield | Photographer | 25-Apr-1939 | 11-Nov-2005 | Prominent British photographer | 
| Gordon Lightfoot | Musician | 17-Nov-1938 |  | Canadian balladeer | 
| Leonard Little | Football | 19-Oct-1974 |  | Rams defensive end with a drinking problem | 
| Horace Liveright | Publisher | 10-Dec-1886 | 24-Sep-1933 | Publisher of the Modern Library series | 
| Lindsay Lohan | Actor | 2-Jul-1986 |  | Mean Girls | 
| Jack London | Novelist | 12-Jan-1876 | 22-Nov-1916 | Call of the Wild | 
| Russell Long | Politician | 3-Nov-1918 | 9-May-2003 | US Senator from Louisiana, 1948-87 | 
| John Longden | Actor | 11-Nov-1900 | 26-May-1971 | Quatermass 2 | 
| Mike Lookinland | Actor | 19-Dec-1960 |  | Bobby on The Brady Bunch | 
| Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes | Singer | 27-May-1971 | 25-Apr-2002 | Member of TLC | 
| Traci Lords | Pornstar | 7-May-1968 |  | We Love You, Traci | 
| Jared Loughner | Assassin | 10-Sep-1988 |  | Tucson Safeway shooter | 
| Courtney Love | Singer | 9-Jul-1964 |  | Kurt Cobain's widow, Hole | 
| Ada Lovelace | Mathematician | 10-Dec-1815 | 27-Nov-1852 | Programmed the (theoretical) difference engine | 
| Patty Loveless | Country Musician | 4-Jan-1957 |  | "New traditionalist" country singer | 
| Rob Lowe | Actor | 17-Mar-1964 |  | Brat-packer, Sam on The West Wing | 
| Malcolm Lowry | Novelist | 28-Jul-1909 | 27-Jun-1957 | Under the Volcano | 
| Henry Lee Lucas | Criminal | 23-Aug-1936 | 12-Mar-2001 | Serial killer, served a life sentence in Texas | 
| Bela Lugosi | Actor | 20-Oct-1882 | 16-Aug-1956 | Dracula | 
| Paul Lynde | Comic | 13-Jun-1926 | 10-Jan-1982 | Hollywood Square | 
| Amber Lynn | Pornstar | 3-Sep-1963 |  | Lifestyles of the Blonde and Dirty | 
| Ginger Lynn | Pornstar | 14-Dec-1962 |  | Come Hither Cum Ginger | 
| John A. Macdonald | Head of State | 11-Jan-1815 | 6-Jun-1891 | Canadian Prime Minister, founding father | 
| Gwendolyn MacEwen | Poet | 1-Sep-1941 | 29-Nov-1987 | A Breakfast for Barbarians | 
| Shane MacGowan | Musician | 25-Dec-1957 |  | The Pogues | 
| Alistair MacLean | Novelist | 28-Apr-1922 | 2-Feb-1987 | The Guns of Navarone | 
| Gavin MacLeod | Actor | 28-Feb-1931 |  | Capt. Stubing on Love Boat | 
| Louis MacNeice | Poet | 12-Sep-1907 | 3-Sep-1963 | Autumn Journal | 
| Gordon MacRae | Actor | 12-Mar-1921 | 24-Jan-1986 | Oklahoma | 
| Tobey Maguire | Actor | 27-Jun-1975 |  | Spider-Man | 
| James Clarence Mangan | Poet | 1-May-1803 | 20-Jun-1849 | O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire | 
| Dexter Manley | Football | 2-Feb-1959 |  | Redskins "Secretary of Defense" | 
| Mickey Mantle | Baseball | 20-Oct-1931 | 13-Aug-1995 | Twelve times in the World Series | 
| Richard Manuel | Musician | 3-Apr-1943 | 4-Mar-1986 | The Band | 
| Diego Maradona | Soccer | 30-Oct-1960 |  | Led Argentina to 1986 World Cup Final | 
| Beryl Markham | Aviator | 26-Oct-1902 | 3-Aug-1986 | West with the Night | 
| William C. Marland | Politician | 26-Mar-1918 | 26-Nov-1965 | Governor of West Virginia, 1953-57 | 
| Mick Mars | Guitarist | 3-Apr-1956 |  | Guitarist for Motley Crue | 
| James Marshall | Explorer | 8-Oct-1810 | 10-Aug-1885 | Discovered gold at Sutter's Mill | 
| Thomas R. Marshall | Politician | 14-Mar-1854 | 1-Jun-1925 | Vice President under Wilson | 
| Kiel Martin | Actor | 26-Jul-1944 | 28-Dec-1990 | J. D. LaRue on Hill Street Blues | 
| Kim Mathers | Relative | 9-Jan-1975 |  | Eminem's two-time ex-wife | 
| Reginald Maudling | Politician | 7-Mar-1917 | 14-Feb-1979 | UK Home Secretary, 1970-72 | 
| Mercedes McCambridge | Actor | 17-Mar-1916 | 2-Mar-2004 | All the King's Men | 
| Andrew McCarthy | Actor | 29-Nov-1962 |  | St. Elmo's Fire | 
| Joseph McCarthy | Politician | 14-Nov-1908 | 2-May-1957 | US Senator from Wisconsin, 1947-57 | 
| Karen McCarthy | Politician | 18-Mar-1947 | 5-Oct-2010 | Congresswoman from Missouri, 1995-2005 | 
| John L. McClellan | Politician | 25-Feb-1896 | 28-Nov-1977 | US Senator from Arkansas, 1943-77 | 
| Red McCombs | Business | 19-Oct-1927 |  | Car dealer, Co-Founder of Clear Channel | 
| Norma McCorvey | Activist | 22-Sep-1947 |  | Jane Roe, of Roe v. Wade | 
| Carson McCullers | Author | 19-Feb-1917 | 29-Sep-1967 | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | 
| Dylan McDermott | Actor | 26-Oct-1961 |  | Bobby Donnell on The Practice | 
| Country Joe McDonald | Musician | 1-Jan-1942 |  | Country Joe and the Fish | 
| Malcolm McDowell | Actor | 13-Jun-1943 |  | A Clockwork Orange | 
| John McGeoch | Musician | 28-May-1955 | 4-Mar-2004 | Siouxsie and the Banshees guitarist | 
| Ewan McGregor | Actor | 31-Mar-1971 |  | Trainspotting | 
| Ron McKernan | Musician | 8-Sep-1945 | 8-Mar-1973 | Keyboards for Grateful Dead | 
| A. J. McLean | Musician | 9-Jan-1978 |  | The Backstreet Boys | 
| Ed McMahon | Talk Show Host | 6-Mar-1923 | 23-Jun-2009 | The Tonight Show | 
| Terry McMillan | Novelist | 18-Oct-1951 |  | Waiting to Exhale | 
| Ian McShane | Actor | 29-Sep-1942 |  | Lovejoy | 
| Timothy McSweeney | Relative | 1943 | 24-Jan-2010 | Namesake of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern | 
| John McVie | Bassist | 26-Nov-1945 |  | Bassist for Fleetwood Mac | 
| Anne Meara | Comic | 20-Sep-1929 |  | Stiller and Meara | 
| Verne Meisner | Musician | 4-Dec-1938 | 10-Jun-2005 | Wisconsin's Polka King | 
| Jo Dee Messina | Country Musician | 25-Aug-1970 |  | Country singer, Stand Beside Me | 
| Grace Metalious | Novelist | 8-Sep-1924 | 25-Feb-1964 | Peyton Place | 
| Emmett Miller | Singer | 02-Feb-1900 | 29-Mar-1962 | Minstrel show yodeller | 
| Wilbur Mills | Politician | 24-May-1909 | 2-May-1992 | Congressman from Arkansas, 1939-77 | 
| Liza Minnelli | Singer | 12-Mar-1946 |  | Cabaret | 
| Artie Mitchell | Film Director | 12-Dec-1945 | 27-Feb-1991 | Pornographer; shot and killed by brother Jim | 
| Robert Mitchum | Actor | 6-Aug-1917 | 1-Jul-1997 | Cape Fear | 
| Amedeo Modigliani | Sculptor | 12-Jul-1884 | 24-Jan-1920 | Cubist Italian sculptor and painter | 
| Jay Mohr | Comic | 23-Aug-1970 |  | Gary Unmarried | 
| Eddie Money | Singer/Songwriter | 21-Mar-1949 |  | Take Me Home Tonight | 
| Ronnie Montrose | Guitarist | 29-Nov-1947 | 3-Mar-2012 | Montrose and Gamma | 
| Keith Moon | Drummer | 23-Aug-1946 | 7-Sep-1978 | Drummer for The Who | 
| Joanna Moore | Actor | 10-Nov-1934 | 22-Nov-1997 | Walk on the Wild Side | 
| Mary Tyler Moore | Actor | 29-Dec-1936 |  | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | 
| Helen Morgan | Actor | 2-Aug-1900 | 9-Oct-1941 | Show Boat | 
| Sir Henry Morgan | Military | 1635 | 25-Aug-1688 | Knighted pirate of the Caribbean | 
| Michael Moriarty | Actor | 5-Apr-1941 |  | ADA on Law & Order | 
| Jim Morrison | Singer/Songwriter | 8-Dec-1943 | 3-Jul-1971 | Lead singer and songwriter, The Doors | 
| Kate Moss | Model | 16-Jan-1974 |  | Extremely thin supermodel | 
| Modest Mussorgsky | Composer | 9-Mar-1839 | 16-Mar-1881 | Boris Godunov | 
| Dave Mustaine | Guitarist | 13-Sep-1961 |  | Megadeth | 
| Joe Namath | Football | 31-May-1943 |  | Football player and pantyhose wearer | 
| Jack Nance | Actor | 21-Dec-1943 | 30-Dec-1996 | Eraserhead | 
| Pola Negri | Actor | 31-Dec-1894 | 1-Aug-1987 | Sultry silent film diva | 
| Vince Neil | Singer | 8-Feb-1961 |  | Mötley Crüe vocalist | 
| Eliot Ness | Government | 19-Apr-1903 | 16-May-1957 | Treasury Agent, The Untouchables | 
| Mike Ness | Musician | 3-Apr-1962 |  | Social Distortion frontman | 
| Don Newcombe | Baseball | 14-Jun-1926 |  | First African-American pitcher in MLB | 
| Gavin Newsom | Politician | 10-Oct-1967 |  | Lt. Governor of California | 
| Huey Newton | Activist | 17-Feb-1942 | 22-Aug-1989 | Black Panther | 
| Robert Newton | Actor | 1-Jun-1905 | 25-Mar-1956 | Long John Silver | 
| Bob Ney | Politician | 5-Jul-1954 |  | Congressman from Ohio, 1995-2006 | 
| Jack Nicholson | Actor | 22-Apr-1937 |  | Chinatown | 
| Brigitte Nielsen | Actor | 15-Jul-1963 |  | Red Sonja | 
| Harry Nilsson | Singer/Songwriter | 15-Jun-1941 | 15-Jan-1994 | Me and My Arrow | 
| Leonard Nimoy | Actor | 26-Mar-1931 |  | Commander Spock on Star Trek | 
| Nick Nolte | Actor | 8-Feb-1941 |  | 48 Hours | 
| Charles Nordhoff | Novelist | 1-Feb-1887 | 10-Apr-1947 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 
| Mabel Normand | Actor | 16-Nov-1892 | 22-Feb-1930 | Tillie's Punctured Romance | 
| Ramon Novarro | Actor | 6-Feb-1899 | 30-Oct-1968 | Ben-Hur | 
| Elliott Nugent | Film Director | 20-Sep-1896 | 9-Aug-1980 | My Favorite Brunette | 
| Pat O'Brien | Journalist | 14-Feb-1948 |  | The Insider | 
| Anita O'Day | Singer/Songwriter | 18-Oct-1919 | 23-Nov-2006 | Feminine master of scat | 
| Lani O'Grady | Actor | 2-Oct-1954 | 25-Sep-2001 | Mary Bradford on Eight Is Enough | 
| Tatum O'Neal | Actor | 5-Nov-1963 |  | Paper Moon | 
| Peter O'Toole | Actor | 2-Aug-1932 |  | Lawrence of Arabia | 
| Titus Oates | Criminal | 15-Sep-1649 | 12-Jul-1705 | Popish Plot | 
| Barack Obama, Sr. | Relative | 18-Jun-1936 | 24-Nov-1982 | Father of President Barack Obama | 
| Warner Oland | Actor | 3-Oct-1879 | 6-Aug-1938 | Charlie Chan | 
| Gary Oldman | Actor | 21-Mar-1958 |  | Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy | 
| Clifford Olson | Criminal | 1-Jan-1940 | 30-Sep-2011 | Killed 11 youths in British Columbia | 
| Jack Osbourne | Relative | 8-Nov-1985 |  | Son of Ozzy Osbourne | 
| Ozzy Osbourne | Singer | 3-Dec-1948 |  | Black Sabbath | 
| Richard F. Outcault | Cartoonist | 14-Jan-1863 | 25-Sep-1928 | Yellow Kid | 
| Al Pacino | Actor | 25-Apr-1940 |  | Michael Corleone in The Godfather | 
| Bob Packwood | Politician | 11-Sep-1932 |  | Oregon Senator, sexual harrasser | 
| Jose Padilla | Terrorist | 18-Oct-1970 |  | Alleged Terrorist | 
| Carl Panzram | Criminal | 28-Jun-1891 | 5-Sep-1930 | Relentless sociopath, serial killer | 
| Bernie Parent | Hockey | 3-Apr-1945 |  | Goalie, NHL Hall of Famer | 
| Charlie Parker | Jazz Musician | 29-Aug-1920 | 12-Mar-1955 | Be-bop jazz musician | 
| Dorothy Parker | Author | 22-Aug-1893 | 7-Jun-1967 | Constant Reader known for acerbic quips | 
| Harry Partch | Composer | 24-Jun-1901 | 3-Sep-1974 | Hobo composer, built his own instruments | 
| Jaco Pastorius | Jazz Musician | 1-Dec-1951 | 21-Sep-1987 | Bassist for Weather Report | 
| Butch Patrick | Actor | 2-Aug-1953 |  | Eddie on The Munsters | 
| Cissy Patterson | Business | 7-Nov-1881 | 24-Jul-1948 | First female newspaper publisher | 
| Joseph Medill Patterson | Business | 6-Jan-1879 | 26-May-1946 | Founder of New York Daily News | 
| Wolfgang Pauli | Physicist | 25-Apr-1900 | 15-Dec-1958 | Pauli Exclusion Principle | 
| Johnny Paycheck | Country Musician | 31-May-1938 | 18-Feb-2003 | Take This Job and Shove It | 
| Barbara Payton | Actor | 16-Nov-1927 | 8-May-1967 | Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye | 
| Sam Peckinpah | Film Director | 21-Feb-1925 | 28-Dec-1984 | Breakthrough director of ultraviolent film | 
| Chris Penn | Actor | 10-Oct-1965 | 24-Jan-2006 | Nice Guy Eddie in Reservoir Dogs | 
| George Peppard | Actor | 1-Oct-1928 | 8-May-1994 | The A Team | 
| Art Pepper | Jazz Musician | 1-Sep-1925 | 15-Jun-1982 | Alto saxophonist | 
| Carl Perkins | Jazz Musician | 9-Apr-1932 | 19-Jan-1998 | Blue Suede Shoes | 
| Joe Perry | Guitarist | 10-Sep-1950 |  | Lead guitarist for Aerosmith | 
| Matthew Perry | Actor | 19-Aug-1969 |  | Chandler on Friends | 
| Oscar Pettiford | Jazz Musician | 30-Sep-1922 | 8-Sep-1960 | Jazz double bassist | 
| Kim Philby | Spy | 1-Jan-1912 | 11-May-1988 | One of the Cambridge Five in MI6 | 
| John Phillips | Musician | 30-Aug-1935 | 18-Mar-2001 | The Mamas and the Papas | 
| Mackenzie Phillips | Actor | 10-Nov-1959 |  | Julie on One Day at a Time | 
| Joaquin Phoenix | Actor | 28-Oct-1974 |  | Gladiator | 
| Edith Piaf | Singer | 19-Dec-1915 | 11-Oct-1963 | Internationally-renowned French chanteuse | 
| Wilson Pickett | Singer/Songwriter | 18-Mar-1941 | 19-Jan-2006 | In the Midnight Hour | 
| Franklin Pierce | Head of State | 23-Nov-1804 | 8-Oct-1869 | 14th President of the U.S. | 
| James Pike | Religion | 14-Feb-1913 | Sep-1969 | 5th Episcopal Bishop of California | 
| Rob Pilatus | Dancer | 8-Jun-1965 | 2-Apr-1998 | Troubled half of Milli Vanilli | 
| Pink | Singer | 8-Sep-1979 |  | Can't Take Me Home | 
| William Pitt the Younger | Head of State | 28-May-1759 | 23-Jan-1806 | UK Prime Minister | 
| Christopher Plummer | Actor | 13-Dec-1929 |  | A Beautiful Mind | 
| Edgar Allan Poe | Author | 19-Jan-1809 | 7-Oct-1849 | The Raven | 
| Tony Poe | Military | 18-Sep-1924 | 27-Jul-2003 | CIA ear collection operative in Southeast Asia | 
| June Pointer | Musician | 30-Nov-1953 | 11-Apr-2006 | The Pointer Sisters | 
| Ruth Pointer | Musician | 19-Mar-1946 |  | The Pointer Sisters | 
| Jackson Pollock | Painter | 28-Jan-1912 | 11-Aug-1956 | Abstract expressionist | 
| Iggy Pop | Singer/Songwriter | 21-Apr-1947 |  | Iggy and the Stooges | 
| Cole Porter | Composer | 9-Jun-1891 | 15-Oct-1964 | I've Got You Under My Skin | 
| Paula Poundstone | Comic | 29-Dec-1959 |  | Asexual comic | 
| Bud Powell | Pianist | 27-Sep-1924 | 31-Jul-1966 | Seminal bop pianist and composer | 
| Billy Preston | Singer/Songwriter | 9-Sep-1946 | 6-Jun-2006 | You Are So Beautiful | 
| Charley Pride | Country Musician | 18-Mar-1938 |  | First black country music star | 
| Jason Priestley | Actor | 28-Aug-1969 |  | Brandon Walsh on Beverly Hills 90210 | 
| Bob Probert | Hockey | 5-Jun-1965 | 5-Jul-2010 | Red Wings and Blackhawks bad boy | 
| Daniel Radcliffe | Actor | 23-Jul-1989 |  | Harry Potter | 
| Charlotte Rae | Actor | 22-Apr-1926 |  | Mrs. Garrett on The Facts of Life | 
| Rags Ragland | Actor | 23-Aug-1905 | 20-Aug-1946 | Panama Hattie | 
| Bonnie Raitt | Singer | 8-Nov-1949 |  | Redhaired blueswoman | 
| Jim Ramstad | Politician | 6-May-1946 |  | Congressman from Minnesota, 1991-2009 | 
| Holly Randall | Photographer | 5-Sep-1978 |  | Porn photographer/director | 
| Martha Raye | Actor | 27-Aug-1916 | 19-Oct-1994 | Monsieur Verdoux | 
| Jimmy Reed | Singer | 6-Sep-1925 | 29-Aug-1976 | Blues singer/guitarist, Big Boss Man | 
| Oliver Reed | Actor | 13-Feb-1938 | 2-May-1999 | Lion of the Desert | 
| Harry Reems | Pornstar | 27-Aug-1947 |  | Deep Throat | 
| John Reid | Politician | 8-May-1947 |  | British MP, Airdrie and Shotts | 
| Wallace Reid | Actor | 15-Apr-1891 | 18-Jan-1923 | Silent film actor and director | 
| Lee Remick | Actor | 14-Dec-1935 | 2-Jul-1991 | Days of Wine and Roses | 
| Brad Renfro | Actor | 25-Jul-1982 | 15-Jan-2008 | The Client | 
| Trent Reznor | Electronic Musician | 17-May-1965 |  | Nine Inch Nails | 
| Jean Rhys | Novelist | 24-Aug-1890 | 14-May-1979 | Wide Sargasso Sea | 
| Jonathan Rhys-Meyers | Actor | 27-Jul-1977 |  | Velvet Goldmine | 
| Anne Rice | Novelist | 4-Oct-1941 |  | Vampire novelist | 
| Adam Rich | Actor | 12-Oct-1968 |  | Nicholas Bradford on Eight is Enough | 
| Little Richard | Musician | 5-Dec-1932 |  | Tutti Frutti | 
| Ann Richards | Politician | 1-Sep-1933 | 13-Sep-2006 | Governor of Texas, 1991-95 | 
| Keith Richards | Guitarist | 18-Dec-1943 |  | The Rolling Stones | 
| Kim Richards | Actor | 19-Sep-1964 |  | Escape to Witch Mountain | 
| Johnny Ringo | Criminal | 3-May-1850 | 13-Jul-1882 | Old West gunslinger | 
| Malachi Ritscher | Jazz Musician | 13-Jan-1954 | 3-Nov-2006 | Musician who self immolated for peace | 
| Jason Robards | Actor | 26-Jul-1922 | 26-Dec-2000 | All The President's Men | 
| Barret Robbins | Football | 26-Aug-1973 |  | Superbowl XXXVII no-show | 
| Edward G. Robinson, Jr. | Relative | 19-Mar-1933 | 26-Feb-1974 | Edward G. Robinson's troubled son | 
| Jack Roche | Terrorist | 31-Oct-1953 |  | al Qaeda's man in Australia | 
| Sabato Rodia | Artist | 12-Feb-1879 | 19-Jul-1965 | Watts Towers | 
| Michelle Rodriguez | Actor | 12-Jul-1978 |  | Girlfight, Resident Evil | 
| Karl F. Rolvaag | Politician | 18-Jul-1913 | 20-Dec-1990 | Governor of Minnesota, 1963-67 | 
| Archie Roosevelt | Relative | 9-Apr-1894 | 13-Oct-1979 | Conservative leader against New Deal | 
| Kermit Roosevelt | Relative | 10-Oct-1889 | 4-Jun-1943 | Theodore Roosevelt's son | 
| Lillian Roth | Actor | 13-Dec-1910 | 12-May-1980 | I'll Cry Tomorrow | 
| Mark Rothko | Painter | 25-Sep-1903 | 25-Feb-1970 | Painter of fuzzy rectangles | 
| Phil Rudd | Drummer | 19-May-1954 |  | Drummer for AC/DC | 
| Gail Russell | Actor | 21-Sep-1924 | 26-Aug-1961 | Angel and the Badman | 
| Jane Russell | Actor | 21-Jun-1921 | 28-Feb-2011 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | 
| Pee Wee Russell | Jazz Musician | 27-Mar-1906 | 15-Feb-1969 | Jazz clarinet virtuoso | 
| Babe Ruth | Baseball | 6-Feb-1895 | 16-Aug-1948 | The Bambino | 
| Winona Ryder | Actor | 29-Oct-1971 |  | Edward Scissorhands | 
| Katey Sagal | Actor | 19-Jan-1954 |  | Peg Bundy on Married With Children | 
| Yves Saint Laurent | Fashion Designer | 1-Aug-1936 | 1-Jun-2008 | Christian Dior protege | 
| Savannah | Pornstar | 9-Oct-1970 | 11-Jul-1994 | Saturday Night Beaver | 
| Jessica Savitch | Journalist | 1-Feb-1947 | 24-Oct-1983 | Newscaster drowned with VP of NY Post | 
| Terry Sawchuk | Hockey | 28-Dec-1929 | 31-May-1970 | Goalie, NHL Hall of Famer | 
| Richard Scaife | Activist | 3-Jul-1932 |  | The Republican George Soros | 
| Gia Scala | Actor | 3-Mar-1934 | 30-Apr-1972 | The Guns of Navarone | 
| Oskar Schindler | Activist | 28-Apr-1908 | 9-Oct-1974 | Saved over 1000 from Nazis | 
| Romy Schneider | Actor | 23-Sep-1938 | 29-May-1982 | La Passante du Sans-Souci | 
| Joel Schumacher | Film Director | 29-Aug-1939 |  | The Lost Boys | 
| Bon Scott | Musician | 9-Jul-1946 | 19-Feb-1980 | Lead Singer for AC/DC | 
| Debralee Scott | Actor | 2-Apr-1953 | 5-Apr-2005 | Feathered hair in Police Academy | 
| Paul Scott | Novelist | 25-Mar-1920 | 1-Mar-1978 | The Jewel in the Crown | 
| Willard Scott | TV Personality | 7-Mar-1934 |  | Today Show weatherman | 
| E. W. Scripps | Publisher | 18-Jun-1854 | 12-Mar-1926 | Founder of UPI | 
| William Seabrook | Author | 22-Feb-1886 | 20-Sep-1945 | Thoroughly sodden traveling author | 
| Selim II | Royalty | 28-May-1524 | 15-Dec-1574 | Ottoman Sultan, 1566-74 | 
| Wilfrid Sellars | Philosopher | 20-May-1912 | 2-Jul-1989 | Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind | 
| Del Shannon | Singer/Songwriter | 30-Dec-1934 | 8-Feb-1990 | 1960s songwriter, Runaway | 
| Ray Sharkey | Actor | 14-Nov-1952 | 11-Jun-1993 | Sonny Steelgrave on Wiseguy | 
| Nerine Shatner | Relative | c. 1959 | 9-Aug-1999 | William Shatner's drowned wife | 
| Wilfrid Sheed | Author | 27-Dec-1930 | 19-Jan-2011 | Office Politics | 
| Charlie Sheen | Actor | 3-Sep-1965 |  | The prodigal Sheen | 
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Playwright | 30-Oct-1751 | 7-Jul-1816 | The School for Scandal | 
| Michelle Shocked | Musician | 24-Feb-1962 |  | Short Sharp Shocked | 
| Frans Eemil Sillanpää | Author | 16-Sep-1888 | 3-Jun-1964 | The Loveliness and Wretchedness of Human Life | 
| Jean Simmons | Actor | 31-Jan-1929 | 22-Jan-2010 | Guys and Dolls | 
| Joan Sims | Actor | 9-May-1930 | 28-Jun-2001 | Carry On... | 
| Michael Skakel | Criminal | 19-Sep-1960 |  | Convicted of murdering Martha Moxley | 
| Slash | Guitarist | 23-Jul-1965 |  | Former lead guitarist, Guns n' Roses | 
| Christian Slater | Actor | 18-Aug-1969 |  | Kuffs, True Romance | 
| Grace Slick | Singer | 30-Oct-1939 |  | Jefferson Airplane and Starship | 
| Elliott Smith | Guitarist | 6-Aug-1969 | 21-Oct-2003 | Indie guitarist stabbed himself to death | 
| Mark E. Smith | Singer/Songwriter | 5-Mar-1957 |  | The Fall | 
| Dick Smothers | Comic | 20-Nov-1939 |  | A Smothers Brother | 
| Richard Sorge | Spy | 4-Oct-1895 | 7-Nov-1944 | Warned Stalin of Operation Barbarossa | 
| David Soul | Actor | 28-Aug-1943 |  | Hutch on Starsky and Hutch | 
| Richard Speck | Criminal | 6-Dec-1941 | 5-Dec-1991 | Killed eight student nurses | 
| Phil Spector | Music Producer | 26-Dec-1940 |  | Creator of the Wall of Sound | 
| Ronnie Spector | Singer | 10-Aug-1943 |  | Be her baby | 
| Georgina Spelvin | Pornstar | 3-Jan-1936 |  | Devil in Miss Jones | 
| Skip Spence | Musician | 18-Apr-1946 | 16-Apr-1999 | Moby Grape guitarist, Oar | 
| John Spencer | Actor | 20-Dec-1946 | 16-Dec-2005 | Leo McGarry on The West Wing | 
| Joe Spinell | Actor | 28-Oct-1936 | 13-Jan-1989 | Frank Zito in Maniac | 
| 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 | 
| A. Jack Stanley | Business | c. 1943 |  | CEO of Kellogg, Brown & Root, 1998-2001 | 
| Kim Stanley | Actor | 11-Feb-1925 | 20-Aug-2001 | Seance on a Wet Afternoon | 
| Maureen Stapleton | Actor | 21-Jun-1925 | 13-Mar-2006 | Won an Oscar for playing Emma Goldman | 
| Scott Stapp | Musician | 8-Aug-1973 |  | Singer for Creed | 
| Marylin Star | Pornstar | 12-Apr-1969 |  | Ex-Pornstar, insider trader | 
| Ringo Starr | Drummer | 7-Jul-1940 |  | Beatle | 
| Jack Starrett | Film Director | 2-Nov-1936 | 27-Mar-1989 | Cleopatra Jones | 
| Peter Steele | Musician | 4-Jan-1962 | 14-Apr-2010 | Frontman for Type O Negative | 
| Karrine Steffans | Model | 24-Aug-1978 |  | Confessions of a Video Vixen | 
| Kaye Stevens | Singer | 21-Jul-1932 | 28-Dec-2011 | Ruckus at the Riviera | 
| Oliver Stone | Film Director | 15-Sep-1946 |  | JFK | 
| Gale Storm | Actor | 5-Apr-1922 | 27-Jun-2009 | The Gale Storm Show | 
| Darryl Strawberry | Baseball | 12-Mar-1962 |  | Troubled former baseball player | 
| Billy Strayhorn | Composer | 29-Nov-1915 | 31-May-1967 | Take the A Train | 
| John Sullivan | Politician | 1-Jan-1965 |  | Congressman, Oklahoma 1st | 
| Pat Summerall | Sports Journalist | 10-May-1930 |  | Sportscaster | 
| Kiefer Sutherland | Actor | 21-Dec-1966 |  | 24 | 
| Dudley Sutton | Actor | 6-Apr-1933 |  | Tinker Dill on Lovejoy | 
| Eddie Sutton | Basketball | 12-Mar-1936 |  | OSU Head Coach, 1990-2006 | 
| Kristy Swanson | Actor | 19-Dec-1969 |  | Original Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 
| Patrick Swayze | Actor | 18-Aug-1952 | 14-Sep-2009 | Dirty Dancing | 
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | Poet | 5-Apr-1837 | 10-Apr-1909 | Masochist Victorian poet | 
| John Sylvester | Radio Personality | 1961 |  | Shock jock | 
| Herman Talmadge | Politician | 9-Aug-1913 | 21-Mar-2002 | Senator and Governor from Georgia | 
| Alfred Tarski | Mathematician | 14-Jan-1902 | 26-Oct-1983 | Tarski's indefinability theorem | 
| Elizabeth Taylor | Actor | 27-Feb-1932 | 23-Mar-2011 | Cleopatra | 
| Mick Taylor | Guitarist | 17-Jan-1948 |  | Ex-Guitarist for the Rolling Stones | 
| Jack Teagarden | Jazz Musician | 20-Aug-1905 | 15-Jan-1964 | Virtuoso trombonist and jazz bandleader | 
| John Thaw | Actor | 3-Jan-1942 | 21-Feb-2002 | Inspector Morse | 
| Dylan Thomas | Poet | 27-Oct-1914 | 9-Nov-1953 | Most influential Welsh poet | 
| Thurman Thomas | Football | 16-May-1966 |  | Buffalo Bills, Hall of Famer | 
| Hugh Thompson | Military | 15-Apr-1943 | 6-Jan-2006 | Stopped the My Lai massacre | 
| Jim Thompson | Novelist | 27-Sep-1906 | 7-Apr-1977 | Heed the Thunder | 
| James Thornton | Songwriter | 5-Dec-1861 | 27-Jul-1938 | When You Were Sweet Sixteen | 
| Wallace Thurman | Author | 16-Aug-1902 | 22-Dec-1934 | The Blacker the Berry | 
| Lawrence Tierney | Actor | 15-Mar-1919 | 26-Feb-2002 | Joe Cabot in Reservoir Dogs | 
| Leo Tolstoy | Author | 9-Sep-1828 | 20-Nov-1910 | Russian novelist | 
| Peter Tork | Musician | 13-Feb-1942 |  | Guitar and vocals for The Monkees | 
| Rip Torn | Actor | 6-Feb-1931 |  | Arthur on The Larry Sanders Show | 
| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | Painter | 24-Nov-1864 | 9-Sep-1901 | Dwarfish painter of France's Moulin Rouge | 
| John Tower | Politician | 25-Sep-1925 | 5-Apr-1991 | US Senator from Texas, 1961-85 | 
| Spencer Tracy | Actor | 5-Apr-1900 | 10-Jun-1967 | Two consecutive Best Actor Oscars | 
| Daniel J. Travanti | Actor | 7-Mar-1940 |  | Hill Street Blues | 
| Merle Travis | Country Musician | 29-Nov-1917 | 20-Oct-1983 | Influential fingerpicking country guitarist | 
| Timothy Treadwell | Naturalist | 29-Apr-1957 | 5-Oct-2003 | Consumed by bears | 
| Danny Trejo | Actor | 16-May-1944 |  | Ex-con turned character actor | 
| Verne Troyer | Actor | 1-Jan-1969 |  | Mini-Me | 
| Karla Faye Tucker | Criminal | 18-Nov-1959 | 3-Feb-1998 | First woman executed in Texas since 1863 | 
| Tanya Tucker | Country Musician | 10-Oct-1958 |  | Country music singer | 
| Sonny Tufts | Actor | 16-Jul-1911 | 4-Jun-1970 | Cat-Women of the Moon | 
| Kathleen Turner | Actor | 19-Jun-1954 |  | Romancing the Stone | 
| Steven Tyler | Singer | 26-Mar-1948 |  | Frontman for Aerosmith | 
| Kenneth Tynan | Critic | 2-Apr-1927 | 26-Jul-1980 | British theatre critic | 
| John H. Tyson | Business | 5-Sep-1953 |  | Chairman, Tyson Foods | 
| Al Unser, Jr. | Auto Racing | 19-Apr-1962 |  | Two-time Indy 500 winner | 
| Keith Urban | Country Musician | 26-Oct-1967 |  | Country crooner | 
| Jean-Claude Van Damme | Actor | 18-Oct-1960 |  | Timecop | 
| Dick Van Dyke | Actor | 13-Dec-1925 |  | The Dick Van Dyke Show | 
| Eddie Van Halen | Guitarist | 26-Jan-1955 |  | Guitarist for Van Halen | 
| Townes Van Zandt | Singer/Songwriter | 7-Mar-1944 | 1-Jan-1997 | For the Sake of the Song | 
| Chavela Vargas | Singer | 17-Apr-1919 | 5-Aug-2012 | Ranchera singer | 
| Stevie Ray Vaughan | Guitarist | 3-Oct-1954 | 27-Aug-1990 | Blues guitarist | 
| Sid Vicious | Bassist | 10-May-1957 | 2-Feb-1979 | Sex Pistols bassist | 
| Hervé Villechaize | Actor | 23-Apr-1943 | 4-Sep-1993 | Boss, the plane! The plane! | 
| Jacques Villeret | Actor | 6-Feb-1951 | 28-Jan-2005 | The Dinner Game | 
| Gene Vincent | Musician | 11-Feb-1935 | 12-Oct-1971 | Be-Bop-A-Lula | 
| Jan-Michael Vincent | Actor | 15-Jul-1944 |  | Airwolf | 
| Kurt Vonnegut | Novelist | 11-Nov-1922 | 11-Apr-2007 | Slaughterhouse Five | 
| Bill W. | Activist | 26-Nov-1895 | 24-Jan-1971 | Alcoholics Anonymous cofounder | 
| Tom Waits | Singer/Songwriter | 7-Dec-1949 |  | Heartattack and Vine | 
| Rick Wakeman | Pianist | 18-May-1949 |  | Keyboards, Yes | 
| Jess Walton | Actor | 18-Feb-1949 |  | The Young and the Restless | 
| Zach Wamp | Politician | 28-Oct-1957 |  | Congressman from Tennessee, 1995-2011 | 
| Bill Ward | Drummer | 5-May-1948 |  | Drummer for Black Sabbath | 
| Dinah Washington | Singer | 29-Aug-1924 | 14-Dec-1963 | Queen of the Blues | 
| Alan Watts | Philosopher | 6-Jan-1915 | 16-Nov-1973 | Zen beat counterculture sage | 
| Evelyn Waugh | Novelist | 28-Oct-1903 | 10-Apr-1966 | Brideshead Revisited | 
| Gerard Way | Musician | 9-Apr-1977 |  | My Chemical Romance | 
| Doodles Weaver | Radio Personality | 11-May-1911 | 17-Jan-1983 | Professor Feetlebaum | 
| Scott Weiland | Singer | 27-Oct-1967 |  | Frontman, Stone Temple Pilots | 
| Denise Welch | Actor | 22-May-1958 |  | British TV soap actress | 
| Tuesday Weld | Actor | 27-Aug-1943 |  | Looking for Mr. Goodbar | 
| Oskar Werner | Actor | 13-Nov-1922 | 23-Oct-1984 | Jules et Jim | 
| Billy West | Actor | 16-Apr-1952 |  | Futurama voices, Ren and Stimpy | 
| Paul Westerberg | Musician | 31-Dec-1960 |  | The Replacements | 
| Pearl White | Actor | 4-Mar-1889 | 4-Aug-1938 | Heroine of silent serial films | 
| Keith Whitley | Country Musician | 1-Jul-1955 | 9-May-1989 | Don't Close Your Eyes | 
| Grace Lee Whitney | Actor | 1-Apr-1930 |  | Yeoman Rand on Star Trek | 
| Jack Whittaker | unspecified | c. 1947 |  | Powerball winner, $111,681,349 after taxes | 
| Jeffrey Wigand | Scientist | 17-Dec-1942 |  | Tobacco industry whistleblower | 
| Robert Wilcox | Actor | 19-May-1910 | 11-Jun-1955 | The Man They Could Not Hang | 
| Jack Wild | Actor | 30-Sep-1952 | 1-Mar-2006 | Oliver! | 
| Hank Williams, Jr. | Country Musician | 26-May-1949 |  | Monday Night Football theme | 
| Hank Williams, Sr. | Country Musician | 17-Sep-1923 | 1-Jan-1953 | Take These Chains From My Heart | 
| Jayson Williams | Basketball | 22-Feb-1968 |  | Retired and imprisoned NBA player | 
| Paul Williams | Singer/Songwriter | 19-Sep-1940 |  | Just an Old Fashioned Love Song | 
| Paul Williams | Singer | 2-Jul-1939 | 17-Aug-1973 | The Temptations | 
| Pete Williams | Politician | 10-Dec-1919 | 17-Nov-2001 | US Senator snagged in ABSCAM | 
| Robbie Williams | Singer | 13-Feb-1974 |  | Former member of Take That | 
| Robin Williams | Comic | 21-Jul-1952 |  | Mork from Ork | 
| John Wilmot | Poet | 1-Apr-1647 | 26-Jul-1680 | Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery | 
| Carnie Wilson | Singer | 29-Apr-1968 |  | Wilson Phillips | 
| Charlie Wilson | Singer | 29-Jan-1953 |  | R&B singer, The Gap Band | 
| Charlie Wilson | Politician | 1-Jun-1933 | 10-Feb-2010 | Congressman from Texas, 1973-96 | 
| Dennis Wilson | Musician | 4-Dec-1944 | 28-Dec-1983 | Founding member, The Beach Boys | 
| Hack Wilson | Baseball | 26-Apr-1900 | 23-Nov-1948 | Hit 56 home runs and 191 RBI's in 1930 | 
| Amy Winehouse | Singer | 14-Sep-1983 | 23-Jul-2011 | Rehab | 
| Jonathan Winters | Comic | 11-Nov-1925 |  | Mearth, son of Mork | 
| Jah Wobble | Musician | 1958 |  | PiL co-founder, World music innovator | 
| Ed Wood | Film Director | 10-Oct-1924 | 10-Dec-1978 | Plan 9 From Outer Space | 
| Ron Wood | Guitarist | 1-Jun-1947 |  | Guitarist for The Rolling Stones | 
| Jim Woodring | Cartoonist | 11-Oct-1952 |  | Frank | 
| Cornell Woolrich | Novelist | 4-Dec-1903 | 25-Sep-1968 | The Bride Wore Black | 
| Max Wright | Actor | 2-Aug-1943 |  | The dad on ALF | 
| Aileen Wuornos | Criminal | 29-Feb-1956 | 9-Oct-2002 | Notorious serial killer | 
| Richard Yates | Novelist | 3-Feb-1926 | 7-Nov-1992 | Revolutionary Road | 
| Boris Yeltsin | Head of State | 1-Feb-1931 | 23-Apr-2007 | First president of post-Soviet Russia | 
| Faron Young | Musician | 25-Feb-1932 | 10-Dec-1996 | The Hillbilly Heartthrob | 
| Lester Young | Jazz Musician | 27-Aug-1909 | 15-Mar-1959 | Jazz tenor saxophoneist | 
| Malcolm Young | Guitarist | 6-Jan-1953 |  | Rhythm guitar for AC/DC | 
| Robert Young | Actor | 22-Feb-1907 | 21-Jul-1998 | Marcus Welby, M.D. | 
| Sean Young | Actor | 20-Nov-1959 |  | Replicant in Blade Runner | 
| Warren Zevon | Musician | 24-Jan-1947 | 7-Sep-2003 | Werewolves of London | 
| George Zimmer | Business | 21-Nov-1948 |  | Founder and CEO of Men's Wearhouse | 
| Marion Zioncheck | Politician | 5-Dec-1901 | 7-Aug-1936 | Congressman, committed suicide |