| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Howard Ahmanson, Jr. |
Philanthropist |
3-Feb-1950 |
|
Reclusive fundamentalist-Christian philanthropist |
| V. C. Andrews |
Author |
6-Jun-1923 |
19-Dec-1986 |
Flowers in the Attic |
| Earl Anthony |
Bowling |
27-Apr-1938 |
14-Aug-2001 |
Professional bowler |
| Lionel Barrymore |
Actor |
28-Apr-1878 |
15-Nov-1954 |
Young Dr. Kildare |
| Warner Baxter |
Actor |
29-Mar-1889 |
7-May-1951 |
In Old Arizona |
| Henri Bergson |
Philosopher |
18-Oct-1859 |
4-Jan-1941 |
L'Évolution Créatrice |
| Bruno Bettelheim |
Psychologist |
28-Aug-1903 |
13-Mar-1990 |
Fraudulent child psychologist |
| E. Power Biggs |
Organist |
29-Mar-1906 |
10-Mar-1977 |
Anglo-American organist |
| Clara Blandick |
Actor |
4-Jun-1880 |
15-Apr-1962 |
Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz |
| Artur Bodanzky |
Conductor |
16-Dec-1877 |
23-Nov-1939 |
Opera Conductor at the NY Met, 1915-39 |
| Barry Bonds |
Baseball |
24-Jul-1964 |
|
Holds all-time home run record |
| Lou Boudreau |
Baseball |
17-Jul-1917 |
10-Aug-2001 |
MLB Shortstop, Hall of Famer |
| Johnny Bower |
Hockey |
8-Nov-1924 |
|
The China Wall |
| Louise Brooks |
Actor |
14-Nov-1906 |
8-Aug-1985 |
Pandora's Box |
| Pamela Brown |
Actor |
8-Jul-1917 |
18-Sep-1975 |
Lust for Life |
| Jack Buchanan |
Actor |
2-Apr-1891 |
20-Oct-1957 |
The Band Wagon |
| George H.W. Bush |
Head of State |
12-Jun-1924 |
|
41st US President, 1989-93 |
| Neve Campbell |
Actor |
3-Oct-1973 |
|
Phantom of the Opera |
| John Carradine |
Actor |
5-Feb-1906 |
27-Nov-1988 |
In over 200 B movies |
| Colette |
Novelist |
28-Jan-1873 |
3-Aug-1954 |
Gigi |
| Alistair Cooke |
Journalist |
20-Nov-1908 |
29-Mar-2004 |
Alistair Cooke's America |
| Lloyd Corrigan |
Actor |
16-Oct-1900 |
5-Nov-1969 |
Arthur Manleder in Boston Blackie films |
| William J. Crowe, Jr. |
Government |
2-Jan-1925 |
18-Oct-2007 |
US Navy Admiral |
| Captain Crunch |
Hacker |
1943 |
|
Toothless hacker |
| Duke Cunningham |
Politician |
8-Dec-1941 |
|
Congressman from California, 1991-2005 |
| Roald Dahl |
Author |
13-Sep-1916 |
23-Nov-1990 |
James and the Giant Peach |
| Jack Dangers |
Electronic Musician |
1967 |
|
Meat Beat Manifesto |
| Miles Davis |
Jazz Musician |
26-May-1926 |
28-Sep-1991 |
Jazz trumpeter, Kind of Blue |
| Clarence Day |
Author |
18-Nov-1874 |
28-Dec-1935 |
Life with Father |
| Jack Dempsey |
Boxing |
24-Jun-1895 |
31-May-1983 |
Heavyweight champ |
| Dolly the sheep |
Oddity |
5-Jul-1996 |
14-Feb-2003 |
World's first cloned mammal |
| Stephen A. Douglas |
Politician |
23-Apr-1813 |
3-Jun-1861 |
US Senator, debated Lincoln |
| Hugh Downs |
Journalist |
14-Feb-1921 |
|
20/20 |
| Michael Dunn |
Actor |
20-Oct-1934 |
30-Aug-1973 |
Dr. Miguelito Loveless |
| Gerald Durrell |
Naturalist |
7-Jan-1925 |
30-Jan-1995 |
My Family and Other Animals |
| Andrea Dworkin |
Activist |
26-Sep-1946 |
9-Apr-2005 |
Anti-pornography activist |
| George Eastman |
Inventor |
12-Jul-1854 |
14-Mar-1932 |
Inventor of the Kodak camera |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Head of State |
14-Oct-1890 |
28-Mar-1969 |
34th US President, 1953-61 |
| Erik Estrada |
Actor |
16-Mar-1949 |
|
Officer Francis Poncharello on CHiPs |
| Suzanne Farrell |
Dancer |
16-Aug-1945 |
|
Ballerina, NYC Ballet |
| Betty Ford |
First Lady |
8-Apr-1918 |
8-Jul-2011 |
Former First Lady, founded Betty Ford Center |
| Arthur Freed |
Film/TV Producer |
9-Sep-1894 |
12-Apr-1973 |
MGM producer, big budget musicals |
| William F. Giauque |
Chemist |
12-May-1895 |
28-Mar-1982 |
Adiabatic demagnetization |
| Barry Gibb |
Musician |
1-Sep-1946 |
|
Guitarist and vocalist for the Bee Gees |
| Althea Gibson |
Tennis |
25-Aug-1927 |
28-Sep-2003 |
First black woman to win Wimbledon |
| Hermann Goering |
Military |
12-Jan-1893 |
15-Oct-1946 |
Founder of the Gestapo |
| Barry M. Gosin |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of Newmark Knight Frank |
| Jack Guynn |
Business |
1942 |
|
CEO of FRB Atlanta, 1996-2006 |
| Peter Paul Halajian |
Business |
1850 |
1927 |
Candy maker |
| Alfred Hitchcock |
Film Director |
13-Aug-1899 |
29-Apr-1980 |
Master of Suspense |
| Raymond Hood |
Architect |
29-Mar-1881 |
14-Aug-1934 |
Chicago Tribune Tower |
| Shirley Horn |
Musician |
1-May-1934 |
20-Oct-2005 |
Here's To Life |
| L. Ron Hubbard |
Religion |
13-Mar-1911 |
24-Jan-1986 |
Perpetrated Dianetics, Scientology |
| Trina Schart Hyman |
Artist |
8-Apr-1939 |
19-Nov-2004 |
Children's book illustrator |
| David Icke |
Author |
29-Apr-1952 |
|
Uncovered global cabal of reptilian ET's |
| Shirley Jackson |
Novelist |
14-Dec-1916 |
8-Aug-1965 |
The Lottery |
| Etta James |
Singer |
25-Jan-1938 |
20-Jan-2012 |
Soul Diva |
| Pope John Paul I |
Religion |
17-Oct-1912 |
28-Sep-1978 |
Pope for 33 days, in summer 1978 |
| Pope John Paul II |
Religion |
18-May-1920 |
2-Apr-2005 |
Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1978-2005 |
| Daniel Johns |
Musician |
22-Apr-1979 |
|
Frontman of Silverchair |
| Terry Jones |
Comic |
1-Feb-1942 |
|
Monty Python |
| Jack Kevorkian |
Doctor |
26-May-1928 |
3-Jun-2011 |
Euthanasia enthusiast |
| Sandy Koufax |
Baseball |
30-Dec-1935 |
|
Three-time Cy Young Award winner |
| Jack Kramer |
Tennis |
1-Aug-1921 |
12-Sep-2009 |
Winner of 10 Grand Slam titles |
| Vladimir Kramnik |
Chess Player |
25-Jun-1975 |
|
World Chess Champion |
| Ray Kroc |
Business |
5-Oct-1902 |
14-Jan-1984 |
McDonald's fast food tycoon |
| Beverly LaHaye |
Activist |
30-Apr-1929 |
|
Tim LaHaye's wife |
| Tommy Lasorda |
Baseball |
22-Sep-1927 |
|
Manager of the LA Dodgers, 1977-96 |
| Richard Henry Lee |
Politician |
20-Jan-1732 |
19-Jun-1794 |
Author of the 10th Amendment |
| Mary Todd Lincoln |
First Lady |
13-Dec-1818 |
16-Jul-1882 |
Wife of US President Abraham Lincoln |
| Viveca Lindfors |
Actor |
29-Dec-1920 |
25-Oct-1995 |
Night Unto Night |
| Mildred Loving |
Activist |
22-Jun-1939 |
2-May-2008 |
Interracial marriage |
| James Madison |
Head of State |
16-Mar-1751 |
28-Jun-1836 |
4th US President, 1809-17 |
| Aristide Maillol |
Sculptor |
8-Apr-1861 |
27-Sep-1944 |
Sculptor of the female nude |
| Imelda Marcos |
First Lady |
2-Jul-1929 |
|
Former First Lady of the Philippines |
| Juan Marichal |
Baseball |
20-Oct-1937 |
|
Nine-time All-Star SF Giants pitcher |
| Bill Mauldin |
Cartoonist |
29-Oct-1921 |
22-Jan-2003 |
WWII cartoonist, Willie and Joe |
| Anne McCaffrey |
Author |
1-Apr-1926 |
21-Nov-2011 |
Pern series |
| Charles McGraw |
Actor |
10-May-1914 |
30-Jul-1980 |
Armored Car Robbery |
| Paul W. Merrill |
Astronomer |
15-Aug-1887 |
19-Jul-1961 |
S-process of nucleosynthesis |
| Phil Mickelson |
Golf |
16-Jun-1970 |
|
Winner of 4 Majors |
| George Miller |
Politician |
17-May-1945 |
|
Congressman, California 7th |
| Donna Mills |
Actor |
11-Dec-1940 |
|
Play Misty for Me |
| William H. Moody |
Judge |
23-Feb-1853 |
2-Jul-1917 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1906-10 |
| Michael Moorcock |
Author |
18-Dec-1939 |
|
Wrote the Elric series |
| Patrick Moore |
TV Personality |
4-Mar-1923 |
|
BBC's The Sky At Night |
| Grandma Moses |
Painter |
7-Sep-1860 |
13-Dec-1961 |
Painter began at age 77 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Composer |
27-Jan-1756 |
5-Dec-1791 |
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik |
| Nostradamus |
Paranormal |
14-Dec-1503 |
1-Jul-1566 |
Notoriously ambiguous prophet |
| George M. O'Brien |
Politician |
17-Jun-1917 |
18-Jul-1986 |
Congressman from Illinois, 1973-86 |
| Shaquille O'Neal |
Basketball |
6-Mar-1972 |
|
Shaq Attack |
| Ace Parker |
Football |
17-May-1912 |
|
NFL Hall of Fame QB |
| Colonel Tom Parker |
Business |
26-Jun-1909 |
21-Jan-1997 |
Elvis Presley's manager |
| Les Paul |
Guitarist |
9-Jun-1915 |
13-Aug-2009 |
Electric guitar/multitrack recording pioneer |
| Augusto Pinochet |
Head of State |
25-Nov-1915 |
10-Dec-2006 |
Overthrew Chile with CIA's help |
| Annie Potts |
Actor |
28-Oct-1952 |
|
Mary Jo Shively on Designing Women |
| William H. Prescott |
Historian |
4-May-1796 |
28-Jan-1859 |
The Conquest of Mexico |
| David Prowse |
Actor |
1-Jul-1935 |
|
Darth Vader, Green Cross Code Man |
| Ramses II |
Royalty |
22-Feb-1303 BC |
c. 1213 BC |
Pharaoh, fought the Hittites |
| Ronald Reagan |
Head of State |
6-Feb-1911 |
5-Jun-2004 |
40th US President, 1981-89 |
| Auguste Renoir |
Painter |
25-Feb-1841 |
3-Dec-1919 |
Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette |
| Adrienne Rich |
Poet |
16-May-1929 |
27-Mar-2012 |
An Atlas of the Difficult World |
| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
Architect |
27-Mar-1886 |
17-Aug-1969 |
The Glass Skyscraper |
| Henry Roth |
Author |
8-Feb-1906 |
13-Oct-1995 |
Call It Sleep |
| Jane Rule |
Author |
28-Mar-1931 |
27-Nov-2007 |
Desert of the Heart |
| Rosalind Russell |
Actor |
4-Jun-1907 |
28-Nov-1976 |
Auntie Mame |
| Harold C. Simmons |
Business |
1931 |
|
Drugstore billionaire |
| Walter Slezak |
Actor |
3-May-1902 |
21-Apr-1983 |
Hitchcock's Lifeboat |
| Mickey Spillane |
Author |
9-Mar-1918 |
17-Jul-2006 |
Mike Hammer novels |
| Joan Sutherland |
Singer |
7-Nov-1926 |
10-Oct-2010 |
"La Stupenda" opera soprano |
| Norma Talmadge |
Actor |
26-May-1893 |
24-Dec-1957 |
Du Barry, Woman of Passion |
| Kathleen Turner |
Actor |
19-Jun-1954 |
|
Romancing the Stone |
| Aida Turturro |
Actor |
25-Sep-1962 |
|
Janice Soprano |
| Silas Warner |
Computer Programmer |
18-Aug-1949 |
26-Feb-2004 |
Castle Wolfenstein |
| Sarah Winchester |
Relative |
Sep-1839 |
5-Sep-1922 |
Winchester Mystery House |
| Ian Woosnam |
Golf |
2-Mar-1958 |
|
Winner, 1991 Masters |
| Jane Wyman |
Actor |
5-Jan-1917 |
10-Sep-2007 |
Falcon Crest |
