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Aptly named morphium after the Greek god of dreams when first isolated from opium in 1804, morphine had to wait until the introduction of IV needles to make it big. Afterwards it was refined still further until they got it right AKA heroin.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Louisa May Alcott
Author
29-Nov-1832 6-Mar-1888 Little Women
Fatty Arbuckle
Actor
24-Mar-1887 29-Jun-1933 Keystone Cop
Jordan Belfort
Business
9-Jul-1962   The Wolf of Wall Street
Anita Berber
Actor
10-Jun-1899 10-Nov-1928 Scarlet whore of Berlin
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poet
6-Mar-1806 29-Jun-1861 Sonnets from the Portuguese
William S. Burroughs
Author
5-Feb-1914 2-Aug-1997 Naked Lunch
James McKeen Cattell
Psychologist
24-May-1860 20-Jan-1944 Academic freedom
Isabelle Eberhardt
Author
17-Feb-1877 21-Oct-1904 Transvestite Muslim author
Dietrich Eckart
Playwright
23-Mar-1868 25-Dec-1923 Nazi intellectual, Hitler's best friend
Hermann Goering
Military
12-Jan-1893 15-Oct-1946 Founder of the Gestapo
William Stewart Halsted
Doctor
23-Sep-1852 7-Sep-1922 Pioneer of sterile surgical technique
Edward A. Hannegan
Politician
25-Jun-1807 25-Feb-1859 US Senator, committed suicide
Jack London
Novelist
12-Jan-1876 22-Nov-1916 Call of the Wild
Bela Lugosi
Actor
20-Oct-1882 16-Aug-1956 Dracula
Charlie Parker
Jazz Musician
29-Aug-1920 12-Mar-1955 Be-bop jazz musician
Jack Parsons
Scientist
2-Oct-1914 17-Jul-1952 Satanic rocket scientist
John S. Pemberton
Inventor
8-Jul-1831 16-Aug-1888 Creator of Coca-Cola
Edith Piaf
Singer
19-Dec-1915 11-Oct-1963 Internationally-renowned French chanteuse
Marcel Proust
Author
10-Jul-1871 18-Nov-1922 In Search of Lost Time
Adam Rich
Actor
12-Oct-1968   Nicholas Bradford on Eight is Enough
Françoise Sagan
Novelist
21-Jun-1935 24-Sep-2004 Bonjour Tristesse
Hank Williams, Sr.
Country Musician
17-Sep-1923 1-Jan-1953 Take These Chains From My Heart



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