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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Don Adams
Actor
13-Apr-1926 25-Sep-2005 Maxwell Smart on Get Smart
Herb Alpert
Musician
31-Mar-1935   Tijuana Brass and the "A" in A&M Records
Roland Arnall
Business
29-Mar-1939 17-Mar-2008 Ameriquest billionaire
Oksana Baiul
Figure Skating
16-Nov-1977   Olympic figure skater
Robert Bárány
Doctor
22-Apr-1876 8-Apr-1936 Studied inner ear, equilibrium system
Drew Barrymore
Actor
22-Feb-1975   E.T., The Wedding Singer
Judith Barsi
Actor
6-Jun-1978 25-Jul-1988 Murdered child actress
Georg von Békésy
Scientist
3-Jun-1899 13-Jun-1972 Mechanism of cochlear stimulation
László Bíró
Inventor
29-Sep-1899 24-Oct-1985 Ballpoint pen
Agnes Bruckner
Actor
16-Aug-1985   Soap star, movie star
Adam Carolla
Radio Personality
27-May-1964   Loveline, The Man Show
Dale Chihuly
Artist
20-Sep-1941   Glass artist
Gabrielle Christian
Actor
30-Jul-1984   Spencer Carlin on South of Nowhere
Cicciolina
Pornstar
26-Nov-1951   Italian pornstar elected to parliament
Marton Csokas
Actor
30-Jun-1966   Borias on Xena, Warrior Princess
George Cukor
Film Director
7-Jul-1899 23-Jan-1983 My Fair Lady
Tony Curtis
Actor
3-Jun-1925   Some Like It Hot
Rodney Dangerfield
Comic
22-Nov-1921 5-Oct-2004 Never did get no respect
Frank Darabont
Film Director
28-Jan-1959   The Shawshank Redemption
Nicholas L. Deak
Business
8-Oct-1905 18-Nov-1985 Deak-Perera
Nick Denton
Business
24-Aug-1966   Gawker Media
Martin Deutsch
Physicist
29-Jun-1917 16-Aug-2002 Discovered positronium
Kitty Dukakis
First Lady
26-Dec-1936   Wife of Michael Dukakis
Paul Erdos
Mathematician
26-Mar-1913 20-Sep-1996 Loved only numbers
Joe Eszterhas
Screenwriter
23-Nov-1944   Showgirls, Basic Instinct
Susan Faludi
Activist
18-Apr-1959   Backlash
Edna Ferber
Novelist
15-Aug-1885 16-Apr-1968 Show Boat and Giant
Flea
Bassist
16-Oct-1962   Bassist for Red Hot Chili Peppers
William Fox
Film/TV Producer
1-Jan-1879 8-May-1952 Founder of 20th Century Fox
Justine Frischmann
Guitarist
16-Sep-1969   Guitarist, Elastica
Eva Gabor
Actor
11-Feb-1919 4-Jul-1995 The youngest Gabor
Magda Gabor
Actor
11-Jun-1914 6-Jun-1997 The least-known Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Actor
6-Feb-1917   Cop-slapping Gabor sister
D. Carleton Gajdusek
Scientist
9-Sep-1923 12-Dec-2008 Kuru (slow virus infections)
Romola Garai
Actor
1-Jul-1982   Rory O'Shea Was Here
Uri Geller
Paranormal
20-Dec-1946   Thinks he has us snowed
Benjamin A. Gilman
Politician
6-Dec-1922   Congressman from New York, 1973-2003
Louise Glück
Author
22-Apr-1943   The Wild Iris
David J. Gross
Physicist
19-Feb-1941   Deep structure of matter
Lou Groza
Football
25-Jan-1924 29-Nov-2000 With Cleveland Browns for 21 years
Louis Henyey
Astronomer
3-Feb-1910 18-Feb-1970 Henyey method
Avram Hershko
Scientist
31-Dec-1937   Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
Nicholas J. Hoff
Engineer
3-Jan-1906 4-Aug-1997 Aluminum in aircraft design
Les Horvath
Football
12-Oct-1921 14-Nov-1995 Winner, 1944 Heisman Trophy
Leslie Howard
Actor
3-Apr-1893 1-Jun-1943 Pygmalion
Louis C. K.
Comic
12-Sep-1967   Lucky Louie
Frida Kahlo
Painter
6-Jul-1907 13-Jul-1954 Unibrowed Mexican painter
Theodore von Kármán
Mathematician
11-May-1881 7-May-1963 Kármán vortices
Chris Kattan
Actor
19-Oct-1970   Saturday Night Live
Imre Kertész
Author
9-Nov-1929   Holocaust survivor, literature Nobel
Arthur Koestler
Author
3-Sep-1905 3-Mar-1983 Darkness at Noon
Teddy Kollek
Politician
27-May-1911 2-Jan-2007 Mayor of Jerusalem, 1965-93
Nicholas Kurti
Physicist
14-May-1908 24-Nov-1998 Molecular gastronomy
Hedy Lamarr
Actor
9-Nov-1913 19-Jan-2000 Actress, invented frequency hopping
Estée Lauder
Business
1-Jul-1908 24-Apr-2004 Cosmetics magnate
Jerome H. Lemelson
Inventor
18-Jul-1923 1-Oct-1997 Inventor with a very good lawyer
György Ligeti
Composer
28-May-1923 12-Jun-2006 Lontano, Lux Aeterna
Robert H. Lowie
Anthropologist
12-Jun-1883 21-Sep-1957 American ethnologist
Bela Lugosi
Actor
20-Oct-1882 16-Aug-1956 Dracula
Imre Nagy
Head of State
7-Jun-1896 16-Jun-1958 Twice Prime Minister of Hungary
Joe Namath
Football
31-May-1943   Football player and pantyhose wearer
Laraine Newman
Comic
2-Mar-1952   Original member of Saturday Night Live
Marisol Nichols
Actor
2-Nov-1973   Nadia Yassir on 24
Georgia O'Keeffe
Painter
15-Nov-1887 6-Mar-1986 American abstract and landscape painter
George Pataki
Politician
24-Jun-1945   Governor of New York, 1995-2006
Elsa Pataky
Actor
18-Jul-1976   Al Salir de Clase
Tony Poe
Military
18-Sep-1924 27-Jul-2003 CIA ear collection operative in Southeast Asia
John C. Polanyi
Chemist
23-Jan-1929   Infrared chemiluminescence
Freddie Prinze
Actor
22-Jun-1954 29-Jan-1977 Chico of Chico and the Man
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Actor
8-Mar-1976   She's All That
Irwin Rose
Scientist
16-Jul-1926   Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
Philip Roth
Novelist
19-Mar-1933   Portnoy's Complaint
Nicolas Sarkozy
Politician
28-Jan-1955   President of France
Andrew V. Schally
Scientist
30-Nov-1926   Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides)
Lynn Schenk
Politician
5-Jan-1945   US Congresswoman from California, 1993-95
Béla Schick
Doctor
16-Jul-1877 6-Dec-1967 Schick test for diphtheria
Peter W. Schramm
Activist
23-Dec-1946   Executive Director, Ashbrook Center
Monica Seles
Tennis
2-Dec-1973   Winner of 9 Majors
Gene Simmons
Bassist
25-Aug-1949   Blood-spouting KISS bassist
Paul Simon
Singer/Songwriter
13-Oct-1941   Simon and Garfunkel
Charles Simonyi
Computer Programmer
10-Sep-1948   Hungarian notation
George Soros
Business
12-Aug-1930   Hungarian financial speculator
Howard Stern
Radio Personality
12-Jan-1954   The King of All Media
Robert Strausz-Hupé
Diplomat
25-Mar-1903 24-Feb-2002 US Ambassador to Turkey, 1981-89
Thomas Szasz
Psychiatrist
15-Apr-1920   Libertarian psychiatrist
Jeffrey Tambor
Actor
8-Jul-1944   Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show
Alex Toth
Cartoonist
25-Jun-1928 27-May-2006 Creator of Space Ghost
Paul Turan
Mathematician
28-Aug-1910 26-Sep-1976 Hungarian mathematician
Ville Valo
Singer
22-Nov-1976   Frontman for Finnish band HIM
John von Neumann
Scientist
28-Dec-1903 8-Feb-1957 Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory
Marina v.N. Whitman
Economist
6-Mar-1935   Council of Economic Advisers, 1972-73
Elie Wiesel
Activist
30-Sep-1928   Anti-Holocaust and human-rights activist
Cornel Wilde
Actor
13-Oct-1915 16-Oct-1989 A Song to Remember
Richard Zsigmondy
Chemist
1-Apr-1865 23-Sep-1929 Researcher of colloids


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