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

27-Jan-2012 · Google allows pseudonyms, provided Google approves ... Miley Cyrus licks boyfriend's penis cake ... Twitter proudly announces improved censorship services for nations where 140 characters of free speech is too much ... Cocaine delivered to United Nations headquarters ... President Obama is a no-show as Georgia Judge hears birther arguments ... Why, yes, Tom Green is a bit of an assh*le ... Tampa Bay Buccaneers hire Greg Schiano ... Pat Sajak says he and Vanna White used to get wasted before taping Wheel of Fortune ... Terry Jones hopes to gather all the surviving members of Monty Python for CGI movie ... US Rep Barney Frank (D-Mass.) announces wedding plans ... Taco Bell wants to feed you breakfast ... And what brand of potato chips will Ferris Bueller be selling? ...

26-Jan-2012 · Michel Gondry waves a giant foot at Japan ... Ten ways the world has changed since the last time Tim Gunn had sex ... CBS plans rip-off of BBC's Sherlock ... Friend says Demi Moore appeared to be "suffering from a seizure" before hospital trip ... Jimmy Fallon is sued over alleged anti-male discrimination ... J. C. Penney's new strategy sounds a little like founder James Cash Penney's philosophy: Low prices, and fewer special-price promotions ... "By the end of my second term," says would-be President Newt Gingrich, "we will have the first permanent base on the moon" ... Organ donations go way up after an endorsement from the Bieb ... Governor Jan Brewer (R-Arizona) gives President Obama a piece of her mind ... Star Jones returns to The View ... NASCAR promises no more double-secret probation and fines ... Why the US Supreme Court shot down warrantless GPS car tracking (for now) ... Has Olive Garden lost its way in a forest of breadsticks and cheap gimmicks? ... Lindsay Lohan is sued for alleged auto accident ...

25-Jan-2012 · Daniel Radcliffe signs to play Allen Ginsberg ... Hospital reneged on promise, must return $500K gift from Garth Brooks ... Demi Moore is briefly hospitalized ... Jim Carrey's daughter auditions for American Idol ... Jay Leno joke infuriates India ... Apple's impressive profits fueled by barbaric manufacturing fuels ... Oklahoma Republican files bill to ban food containing aborted fetuses ... McDonald's discovers social media can backfire when people hate you ... Andy Dick is sued over alleged sexual abuse ... Neil Gaiman offers "wobbly dragon" to celebrate Chinese New Year ... Former British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward is accused of lying to Congress ... Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange will host TV talk show ... Oliver Stone says he'd vote for Ron Paul over Barack Obama ... George Clooney defends his foreign coffee commercials: "You know what, f**k you" ... Google revises privacy policy in a kinda creepy way ... Philips touts breakthrough in solar streetlights ... Jorge Posada retires ... Stephen Colbert quits faux campaign after 1% showing ... Joe the Plumber witnessed doing actual plumbing (for a photo shoot) ... Jim Henson's robot ...

24-Jan-2012 · US Senator Mark Kirk (R-Illinois) is expected to face difficulties after stroke ... US Supreme Court says no, cops can't attach a GPS tracker to your car without a warrant ... Would you buy a beer at Starbucks? ... US Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is detained for two hours at airport by US Transportation Security Administration ... Bipasha Basu gets eye infection ... Top US Justice Department officials connected to mortgage banks — is that why nobody at the big banks has been prosecuted over 2008 economic meltdown? ... US Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) gets Twitter-hacked ... BMW tests automobile with autopilot ... Macy's sues Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia ... Tracy Morgan collapses at Sundance ... US Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) is injured in alleged hockey game ... Billionaire's wife drops another $5M into Newt Gingrich PAC ... Paleontologists discover 190M-year-old dinosaur nursery ...

23-Jan-2012 · Milwaukee Brewers third-baseman Ryan Braun, facing 50-game suspension for steroids, says thanks for NL Most Valuable Player Award ... Johnson & Johnson admits no wrongdoing but will pay $128M to sidestep charges over fraudulent marketing ... Jared Loughner wins? A year after shooting her in the head, US Rep Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona) resigns to concentrate on her recovery ... Britney Spears' father will petition court to end conservatorship, as sort of a wedding present to his daughter ... Boeing admits no wrongdoing but will pay $4.4M to sidestep charges over fraudulent billing on military contract ... David Beckham prefers to wear briefs, will not get hair transplant ... Luther Campbell says 2 Live Crew is back together and will tour this summer ... Texas and Louisiana lead the way in teaching anti-science in science class ... Hrithik Roshan goes back to school ... Russell Brand is available, ladies ... Jay-Z's night club is shut down for health code violations ... MPAA publicly attacks politicians for not staying bought ... Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh flees his country, heads for "medical treatment" in USA ... Neil Young is now officially a cranky old man ... Culver City, CA wanted to re-name itself Hollywood ...

22-Jan-2012 · Carl Sagan sure did love his marijuana ... Fired, scandal-plagued, and cancer-ridden ex-Penn State coach Joe Paterno is reportedly near death ... Georgia Judge orders President Obama to court, to answer birther's citizenship questions ... Because FBI shielded crime kingpin Whitey Bulger from prosecution, feds must pay compensation to families of his murder victims ... How did Adolf Hitler's personalized silverware end up in New York City? ... Steve Buscemi is returning to 30 Rock ...

21-Jan-2012 · Ralph Fiennes reads erotic Harry Potter fan fiction ... Congressional opposition solidifies after websites' protest, leading to (temporary) scuttling of internet censorship bill ... Kajol says her kids make her glow ... US Pentagon's definition of espionage would preclude journalism, says Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange ... President Obama sings Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" ... North Korean ambassador claims diplomatic immunity to fish without license ...

20-Jan-2012 · Zoe Saldana to the rescue ... Feds shut down Megaupload, arrest executives; Anonymous retaliates ... British guy is arrested for swiping butt portion of Saddam Hussein statue ... Jude Law says Rupert Murdoch's News of the World hacked his phone on American soil ... Moroccans burn themselves in unemployment protest ... Priceline drops William Shatner as spokesperson ... Newt Gingrich's second ex-wife says he wanted an open marriage … and Gingrich turns it into a win at debate by going off on the reporter who asks about it ... Eva Longoria is getting her Tony Parker tattoos removed ... Dane Cook hits comedy depths ... United States joins European Union to create outer space "code of conduct" ... Microsoft comes out for gay marriage ... Spaniards by the thousands jump faregates to protest subway price increase ... Can Paula Deen salvage her career and reputation? ... Kodak files bankruptcy ...

19-Jan-2012 · George Lucas says from now on, he'll just make art movies ... Women had to play ball to be in A League of Their Own ... Mars attacks Morocco ... What it's really like to work at Google ... Sanjay Dutt says he's discouraged his daughter from going into show business ... Anthony Bourdain calls out Paula Deen for profiting off diabetes ... Never mind, Jay-Z will still be saying the word "bitch" ... Prehistoric Peruvians enjoyed popcorn ... Ryan Seacrest is launching a TV network with Mark Cuban ... Mark Wahlberg is pretty sure he could have stopped 9/11 ... Smoking a cigar is Al Sharpton's one vice ... Heisenberg uncertainty principle is oversimplified, Physicist says ... How Stanley Kubrick invented the modern box-office report ... Lost Jim Henson screenplay gets made into a graphic novel ...

18-Jan-2012 · Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang resigns from website's board of directors ... Green Bay Packers were eliminated from NFL playoffs because this woman had sparkly fingernails ... Harlan Ellison live webcast tomorrow ... Zooey Deschanel says she was bullied in school ... More than a million signatures on recall petitions against Governor Scott Walker (R-Wisconsin) ... Google displays anti-SOPA message ... Ricky Gervais says he'll never host the Golden Globes again ... Mitt Romney says his tax rate is about 15% ... Whoppers delivered in Burger King experiment ... Rudolph Valentino's one-time house is for rent: $14,000 per month ... Kim Kardashian may be forced to defend her crappy reputation in court ... David Letterman demotes scout for blabbing about sexist bookings ... At Goldman Sachs, earnings are down, but bonuses are up ... Clip from upcoming Blu-Ray restoration of Star Trek: The Next Generation looks impressive ... Paula Deen has diabetes, and a deal endorsing diabetes treatment ...