As of this writing, the major demographic breakdown in NNDB is 23462 living, 13553 dead, 30136 male and 6877 female.

Recent Deaths: 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012

NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead. Superficially, it seems much like a "Who's Who" where a noted person's curriculum vitae is available (the usual information such as date of birth, a biography, and other essential facts.)

But it mostly exists to document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious. A person's otherwise inexplicable behavior is often understood by examining the crowd that person has been associating with.

Most Recent Deaths: Obituaries

Curator's blog: Curator's Blog

16-May-2012 · JP Morgan Chase gets tough — will "consider" rescinding bonuses for employees involved in $2B trading loss ... First of two John Travolta accusers withdraws lawsuit ... Patents suggest that Google's goggles won't be as creepy or as awesome as some have expected ... Anne Hathaway sings and it hurts this guy's ears ... Texas executed the wrong man ... US Rep Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) wants to tell the National Science Foundation what is and isn't science ... Scarlett Johansson levels irresponsible tabloid reporters in one fell essay ... How Yahoo! killed Flickr and lost the internet ... 11% of people think Mitt Romney deserves credit for auto bailout ... Britney Spears shows bloody, picked fingernails while announcing talent show gig ... US Rep Joseph R. Pitts (R-Pennsylvania) proposes Middle East peace talks between corpse and vegetable ... Former International Monetary Fund Managing Director and serially accused perv Dominique Strauss-Kahn sues a woman who's suing him for sexual assault ... Former Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina), mistress and daughter may testify in trial ... Bret Michaels settles lawsuit with the Tony Awards and CBS over that time he got hit in the head on national television ... The strangest Bob Dylan song you'll hear this week ...

15-May-2012 · Alleged nephew is charged with trying to extort Stevie Wonder ... Argentina's new gender rights law: You are who you say you are ... Brent Spiner plays Spock ... PBS takes a bite out of Sherlock to squeeze in more ads ... Kodak had a secret nuclear reactor in upstate New York ... Mitt Romney's Vice Presidential candidate will be an "incredibly boring white guy", but which incredibly boring white guy? ... Jennifer Love Hewitt says she gets vajazzled for special occasions ... To sidestep severance pay, Yahoo! will claim "cause" in ousting CEO Scott Thompson (who may have cancer) ... Nightmare scenarios if Greece exits the Euro ... Carrie Underwood on the Bible Belt-ness of country music ... TSA searched former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger before letting him fly ... Paul Reubens says the new Pee-wee Herman film could start shooting "any minute" ... Sarah Hyland of Modern Family reveals she had kidney transplant last month ...

14-May-2012 · Queen Elizabeth II's underwear is up for auction ... Republican pollster calls for full reverse on Party's long-time anti-gay agenda ... Descendants of Civil War hero Robert Smalls are celebrating the ex-slave who 150 years ago this weekend commandeered a Confederate steamship to reach a Union blockade and freedom ... US Sen. Bill Nelson (R-Florida) volunteered to be waterboarded but the CIA feared it would kill him ... Stephen King writes a sequel to The Shining ... Dalai Lama's greatest fear: being eaten by sharks ... AIDS fight enters new phase with prevention pill — that costs $11,000 - $14,000 per year ... The Avengers crosses billion-dollar threshold ... What really happened at JP Morgan Chase, in layman's terms ... Tampa Bay Buccaneers sign paralyzed Rutgers defensive tackle ... Amitabh Bachchan pays farmers' debt ... Physicists say they've teleported entangled photons over a distance of 97 kilometers across a lake in China ... US House of Representatives moves to end US Census Bureau's extended questionnaire ... Yahoo! names interim CEO, replacing embattled Scott Thompson ...

13-May-2012 · Post-Avengers shawarma boom has begun ... Can we all just agree that the Girl Scouts aren't destroying America? ... Joss Whedon is the poo-poo coach ... Morgan Spurlock doesn't like to cook in his awkwardly shaped kitchen ... Gov. Bill Haslam (R-Tennessee) signs bill to ban discussion of "gateway sexual activity" ... Gift suggestion: Jeffrey Dahmer earrings ... Brazilian officials have wacky notion to actually punish Chevron and Transocean for massive oil spill ... New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is an enormous mustache ... Omnicare admits no wrongdoing but will pay $50M to sidestep charges over prescription drugs improperly dispensed at nursing homes ... AnnaLynne McCord says she's through with Hollywood's perfection requirement, and posts the picture to prove it ... PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel invests in floating off-shore high-tech community ... Batman does a weather forecast ...

12-May-2012 · Beastie Boys return to the Top 20 following MCA's death ... Why are Roman Catholic Bishop investigating the Girl Scouts? ... Thomas F. Wilson succinctly tells all about Back to the Future ... Video shows Governor Scott Walker (R-Wisconsin) outlining "divide and conquer" strategy against unions ... Jennifer Hudson's former brother-in-law is convicted of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew ... Facebook wants its ads to follow you everywhere ... Whitney Houston's family is finally ready to move on and exploit her death for a reality show ... Sacha Baron Cohen doesn't know that you're tired of him ... Reese Witherspoon and her parents appear in court in bigamy case ... Mitt Romney, great-grandson of a polygamist, says we should not discard "one man one woman" marriage ... Zooey Deschanel to play Loretta Lynn in Broadway play of Coal Miner's Daughter ... General Mills must defend claim that its Fruit Roll-Ups are "made with real fruit" ...

11-May-2012 · Shawn Kemp does William Shakespeare ... Minnesota legislature votes to spend $800M in tax money on new stadium for Vikings ... John Travolta lawsuit: Do the guys alleging sexual battery have a shot at winning? ... Mitt Romney bullied a gay classmate in the 1960s ... What is NBC smoking that it makes sense to cancel 30 Rock, Community, and Parks and Recreation? ... US Justice Department finally sues nutball Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for discrimination ... Stan Lee says he never worried much about comic creators' rights ... Colombian House of Representatives passes first draft of a bill to legalize illicit drug crops ... Ghostbusters tour of New York City ... National Football League looks to hire scab referees ... Tim McGraw launches signature line of headphones ... Reese Witherspoon's mother gets restraining order against "bigamist" father's new wife ... Howard Stern slams Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears and America's Got Talent haters ... JP Morgan Chase acknowledges $2B trading loss ... Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton snuggles her puppy while Prince Charles does Scotland's weather report ...

10-May-2012 · US Rep and Michelle Bachmann (R-Minnesota) becomes a Swiss citizen ... Toyota unveils "first all-electric SUV" ... Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd to star in rom-com parody ... President Obama comes out for marriage equality ... Britney Spears will get $15M payday to be X Factor judge ... The Beach Boys reunite with Brian Wilson, and it feels so good ... Are women too stupid to understand abortion? ... Sick boys keep asking Taylor Swift to the prom ... Joss Whedon: "With my percentage of The Avengers gross, I can afford to buy … a fine meal" ... Delta Airlines pulls Daily Show ads over "vagina manger" skit ... Vanessa Hudgens came prepared with bubbles ... NASA spacecraft detects changes in Martian sand dunes ... Remember the "news" about that dentist who yanked all her ex-boyfriend's teeth? You didn't read it here, because it was utter hogwash ... Akshay Kumar to search for real "rowdies" ... Rita Wilson hasn't had caffeine in twenty years ...

9-May-2012 · Chinese cinema firm is seeking to buy all or part of AMC Entertainment ... How big is C-3PO's battery? ... The past 12 months were the hottest in history, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) notes ... Coroner says "painter of light" Thomas Kinkade died of an accidental overdose of alcohol and prescription tranquilizers ... Six-term US Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Indiana) is defeated in primary by Tea Party Republicans ... John Travolta is accused by second man in sexual battery lawsuit ... Google's experimental driverless car gets sort of a driver's license ... Kelly Osbourne tells Anderson Cooper that her brother Jack's newborn daughter gave her baby fever ... Mitt Romney says "I'll take a lot of credit" for the US auto industry's recovery ... For botched vetting of Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson, board member Patti S. Hart steps down, but she'll probably scrape by ... Now gays constitutionally can't get married in North Carolina ... Mini-mammoths lived on Crete ...

8-May-2012 · CVS has customer arrested for filling painkiller prescription ... Doctor Who's theme, played on floppy drives ... Why the US Defense Department refused to cooperate with The Avengers ... Are you in the market for a painting of Jesus Christ cheering up Paul McCartney and do you have a spare $180K? ... Global warming deniers mount ad campaign calculated to outrage ... John Travolta is sued by masseur: "He touched my penis" ... Parents Television Council wants you to be shocked and offended that Howard Stern will be on TV ... Beyonce Knowles does her own makeup and cuts her own hair ... French President-elect François Hollande says growth, not austerity, is the fix for Europe's debt woes ... Small brewer says Budweiser is bullying him about old kegs ... Miranda Lambert buries the hatchet with Ashton Kutcher ... Google TV will be here this month ... Linda Evangelista settles child support battle against Salma Hayek's husband ... Mitt Romney takes brave stance against taking brace stance ... Mad Men dives into the Cool Whip ...

7-May-2012 · American Airlines investigates the hell out of its lifetime unlimited pass holders ... Woman on the street offers her moist opinion of teevee journalism ... Vanilla Ice says the housing market is "better than ever" ... US Vice President Joe Biden endorses marriage as an equal right, then backpedals ... Tom Brokaw is not happy with his hard-partying colleagues ... After forcing gay staffer off the campaign, American Family Association's Bryan Fischer taunts the candidate: "If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, coopted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese?" ... Socialist François Hollande defeats conservative French President Nicolas Sarkozy ... Priyanka Chopra to record song with Katy Perry ... An insider's notes on the shabby death of the Seattle SuperSonics ... Did you know they made a rom-com about Kate Hudson getting colon/rectal cancer? ... The Avengers has biggest US box office opening ever with $200+M ... New anti-abortion bill in Kansas would let doctors lie to patients, withhold cancer treatment ... Jewel will portray June Carter Cash in TV movie ... Shaq becomes Dr. O'Neal, graduates from Barry University ... Apple wants Samsung logo obscured on courtroom video equipment ...