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

Recent Deaths: 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010

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.

Eventually, we will have synopses and analyses of creative works by the people in the database, including their books, films, and recordings.

29-Jul-2010 · Rainn Wilson and his web designer are headed for courtroom ... Cleveland Plain Dealer's symphony critic sues the newspaper for reassigning him as dance critic instead ... Federal judge blocks the most controversial portions of Arizona's anti-immigration law, but that won't slow sheriff Joe Arpaio ... 87-year-old Hollywood mogul Sumner Redstone gives thousands of shares of Viacom stock to unknown singer ... Prudential finds a way to profit from US soldiers' wartime deaths ... Mississippi comes to grips with Louis C. K.'s orgasm ... Cult leader Warren Jeffs to be retried on rape accomplice charges ... Hall of Famer George Brett rather vividly describes pooping his pants ... ASCAP tells lies about its opponents, but won't deign to debate with Lawrence Lessig ...

28-Jul-2010 · Woman claims she’s Michael Jackson’s love child ... Clarifying kookiness from a few days ago, movie-maker Oliver Stone now says "Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry" ... Preacher Rick Warren's vision is restored after severe burn by toxic poison ... Wyclef Jean says he's considering running for President of Haiti ... Lance Kerwin, star of James at 15 in the 1970s, pleads guilty to theft ... Of the billions of dollars the US Defense Department has spent allegedly reconstructing Iraq, 96% of the money can't be accounted for ... General Electric admits no wrongdoing, but pays $23M to end legal action over bribery allegations ... Terrell Owens signs with Cincinnati Bengals ... Son of "God Hates Fags" preacher Fred Phelps likes Lady Gaga and wants more gay bars ...

27-Jul-2010 · Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sings with expelled spies ... Tony Hawk suffers "sheared pelvis' in skate crash ... Burma is working on nuclear weapons program, experts claim ... NBC surrenders six hours of prime time for Tony Robbins infomercial ... Wikileaks honcho Julian Assange promises plenty more revelations to come ... DMX checks into jail ... BP CEO Tony Hayward is about to get his life back, and the new boss will be Robert Dudley ... Electronic Frontier Foundation wins new legal protections for video artists, cell phone jailbreakers, and unlockers ... Pigeon droppings halt Kings of Leon concert ... Australian government censors 90% of info on Australian censorship program ... Goldman Sachs took its $4.3B in federal bailout bucks to overseas banks, hedge funds and pensions ... Mel Gibson's latest obnoxious tirade against baby-mama Oksana Grigorieva invokes her ex, Timothy Dalton ...

26-Jul-2010 · Wikileaks publishes 92,000 classified documents about US war in Afghanistan ... Leonardo DiCaprio is mobbed by fans in the men's room ... Gulf disaster paymaster Kenneth Feinberg says government can't make payouts because BP hasn't yet made its promised multi-billion dollar payment ... "Grassroots" American Crossroads group is funded almost entirely by billionaires ... Pastor Ted Haggard moves his new church from a barn to a playhouse ... Italian magazine follows Catholic priests into gay bars and casual sex hookups ... Oprah Winfrey offers "broke" Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson her own prime-time chat show ... United States and South Korea flex military muscle to impress North Korea ... Lance Armstrong retires from cycling for second time ... Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic whisky rations preserved in ice ...

25-Jul-2010 · Bruce Campbell to star in Burn Notice prequel ... Congressman Zach Wamp (R-Tennessee) hopes his and other states don't have to secede from the Union again ... Casey Affleck is sued for sexual harassment ... Researchers at University of South Florida confirm that subsea oil plumes are from BP's well disaster ... Retired New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis is diagnosed with Parkinson's ... Bono’s back injury costs insurers $18M ... Wesley Snipes' lawyer wants to grill jurors over fairness ... Chelsea Clinton's wedding looms ... Frank Frazetta masterpiece Conan the Destroyer sells for $1.5M ...

24-Jul-2010 · Al Jarreau is hospitalized after collapsing on stage in France ... Tina Fey says she's pretty sure she'll meet Brad Pitt one day ... 95-year-old former Congressman Ken Hechler (D-West Virginia) announces run for US Senate ... Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan collapses onstage in Tampa ... Alarm on BP's Deepwater Horizon had been "inhibited" for a year before the explosion, technician testifies ... Zsa Zsa Gabor still critical, unresponsive after surgery ... Facebook calls disputed ownership contract a "forgery" ... New Obama administration policy: No more impulsive firings ...

23-Jul-2010 · David Alan Grier longs for a $35 chicken burger ... After a snail's speed two-year investigation, the ethical lapses of Congressman Charles Rangel (D-New York) are so obvious that even the House Ethics Committee notices ... Paul Dano pretends to not know why people buy him milk shakes ... BP official says oily conglomerate ignored internal report of Deepwater leak ... Shepard Smith of Fox News blasts Fox News ... Oakland legalizes large-scale marijuana cultivation ... David Boreanaz is sued for sexual harassment ... Sears Roebuck admits no wrongdoing, but pays $1M to settle lawsuit over price fraud ... Dell admits no wrongdoing, but pays $100M to make securities fraud allegations go away ... Susan Sarandon turns table tennis entrepreneur ... Republican Senators move to block US Federal Communications Commission on net neutrality ... Carnie Wilson breaks up with The Newlywed Game ... Goldman Sachs boosts lobbying costs by 40% ... Where have all of Mel Gibson's Christian friends gone? ... Samantha Ronson visits Lindsay Lohan in jail ...

22-Jul-2010 · Autopsy instruments used on Elvis Presley's corpse will be auctioned off in August ... Smart guys at University of Sheffield discover ginormous super-star ... Facebook lawyer is "unsure" whether founder Mark Zuckerberg signed the 2003 contract that allegedly surrenders control of the company ... US Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack offers civil rights post to fired black bureaucrat after Andrew Breitbart's big scoop evaporates into embarrassment ... Bristol Palin wants full-season deal for reality show with baby-daddy ... Republican National Committee treasurer accuses RNC Chair Michael S. Steele of hiding more than $7M in debt to inflate the party's finances and mislead donors ... Foxy Brown faces felony charges after altercation with neighbor ... Baseball's Lou Piniella calls it quits ... Oliver Stone says the US should nationalize the oil industry ... Mel Gibson convinces sheriff to investigate possible extortion attempt by baby-mama Oksana Grigorieva ... Sheriff's office says Lindsay Lohan will probably spend less than two weeks in jail, with time off for good behavior and jail overcrowding ... Lost works of Franz Kafka uncovered ...

21-Jul-2010 · Howard Stern thanks God every day that he doesn't have to boink Larry King ... BP says it will sell $7B in assets to Apache Corporation to help pay costs of the Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe ... Lindsay Lohan is now ensconced at Los Angeles County Jail ... Ice-T is arrested by "punk b*tch rookie cop" for driving with a suspended license ... Ben Stein explains that "people who have been laid off and cannot find work are generally people with poor work habits and poor personalities" ... More subpoenas for Toyota, this time over steering rods ... Media mogul Sumner Redstone offers reward for reporter’s source ... Republicans in Congress line up to join new Tea Party Caucus started by Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-Minnesota) ... One i is not enough for Amerie ... SCOTUS "honest services fraud" decision means newspaper mogul Conrad Black will get out of jail early, his $2M bail guaranteed by conservative philanthropist Roger Hertog ... Latest leaked audio has Mel Gibson telling baby mama Oksana Grigorieva "you can rot unless you crawl back, suck my c*ck and say you’re sorry, in that order! Do you understand me? You f*cking offend my f*cking maleness, my masculinity, my being, my soul!" ... Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu exhumed for DNA sample ...

20-Jul-2010 · Neighbors blast Rowan Atkinson's "space-age" home renovation plans ... BP says not to worry, the undersea seepage near its blown Gulf of Mexico well is just a coincidence. Meanwhile, the oily conglomerate is trying to control academic research into the disaster. But wait, there's more: water sample from Gulf explodes when tested ... The Huffington Post says skin cancer is a hoax or conspiracy by dermatologists ... Lance Armstrong hits back at systematic doping allegations ... Glenn Beck says his doctor has told him he might or might not go blind within a year ... NCAA probe could cost University of Florida its 2010 Sugar Bowl win ... Mel Gibson's bimbo eruptions are underway, and really, what took so long? ... Bipasha Basu launches Bengali entertainment channel ... Vatican's promised report on children's rights is 13 years overdue ...