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Confined to a facility chiefly for the purpose of psychiatric evaluation.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Alvin Ailey
Dancer
5-Jan-1931 1-Dec-1989 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Adam Ant
Musician
3-Nov-1954   Goody Two Shoes
J. D. Roy Atchison
Government
28-Aug-1954 5-Oct-2007 Assistant US Attorney
Jim Bakker
Religion
2-Jan-1939   Adulterous bisexual TV evangelist
Nathaniel Bar-Jonah
Criminal
15-Feb-1957 13-Apr-2008 Cannibal child killer, sentenced to 130 years
Mischa Barton
Actor
24-Jan-1986   Marissa Cooper on The O.C.
Ol' Dirty Bastard
Rapper
15-Nov-1968 13-Nov-2004 Profoundly deranged rapper, Wu-Tang Clan
Danny Bonaduce
Actor
13-Aug-1959   The Partridge Family
Willie Bosket
Criminal
9-Dec-1962   Inspired the Juvenile Offender Act of 1978
Arthur Bremer
Assassin
21-Aug-1950   Shot Governor George Wallace
Todd Bridges
Actor
27-May-1965   Diff'rent Strokes
Amanda Bynes
Actor
3-Apr-1986   All That
Harvey Carignan
Criminal
18-May-1927   The Want-Ad Killer
Mark David Chapman
Assassin
10-May-1955   Assassin of Beatle John Lennon
Albert DeSalvo
Criminal
3-Sep-1931 25-Nov-1973 Rapist, confessed Boston Strangler
Albert Fish
Criminal
19-May-1870 16-Jan-1936 Serial killer and cannibal
Amy Fisher
Criminal
21-Aug-1974   Long Island Lolita
Larry Flynt
Business
1-Nov-1942   Publisher of HUSTLER
John Wayne Gacy
Criminal
17-Mar-1942 10-May-1994 28 dead boys in his crawlspace
Lane Garrison
Actor
23-May-1980   Tweener on Prison Break
Jean-Luc Godard
Film Director
3-Dec-1930   Vivre sa Vie
Cary Grant
Actor
18-Jan-1904 29-Nov-1986 North by Northwest
Knut Hamsun
Novelist
4-Aug-1859 19-Feb-1952 Norwegian novelist, Sult
Patty Hearst
Victim
20-Feb-1954   Kidnapped by SLA
John Hinckley
Assassin
29-May-1955   Shot President Reagan
Ted Kaczynski
Criminal
22-May-1942   The Unabomber
Jack Kerouac
Novelist
12-Mar-1922 21-Oct-1969 On The Road
Timothy Leary
Activist
22-Oct-1920 31-May-1996 Tune in, turn on, drop out
Earl Long
Politician
26-Aug-1895 5-Sep-1960 Three-time Governor of Louisiana
Norman Mailer
Author
31-Jan-1923 10-Nov-2007 Armies of the Night
Mary McCarthy
Author
21-Jun-1912 25-Oct-1989 The Group
Thelonious Monk
Jazz Musician
10-Oct-1917 17-Feb-1982 Influential Bebop pianist and composer
Joan O'Brien
Actor
14-Feb-1936   Operation Petticoat
Lee Harvey Oswald
Assassin
18-Oct-1939 24-Nov-1963 Assassin of John F. Kennedy
Roman Polanski
Film Director
18-Aug-1933   Chinatown
James Earl Ray
Assassin
10-Mar-1928 23-Apr-1998 Pled guilty in Martin Luther King's assassination
George Rockwell
Activist
9-Mar-1918 25-Aug-1967 Founded American Nazi Party
William Saroyan
Author
31-Aug-1908 18-May-1981 The Time of Your Life
Gia Scala
Actor
3-Mar-1934 30-Apr-1972 The Guns of Navarone
Valerie Solanas
Activist
9-Apr-1936 26-Apr-1988 Shot Andy Warhol
Britney Spears
Singer
2-Dec-1981   Oops!... I Did it Again
Karrine Steffans
Model
24-Aug-1978   Confessions of a Video Vixen
Steve-O
Daredevil
13-Jun-1974   Jackass
François Truffaut
Film Director
6-Feb-1932 21-Oct-1984 Last Metro
Sid Vicious
Bassist
10-May-1957 2-Feb-1979 Sex Pistols bassist
Edwin A. Walker
Military
10-Nov-1909 31-Oct-1993 Ultraconservative activist
Jonathan Winters
Comic
11-Nov-1925 11-Apr-2013 Mearth, son of Mork
Marion A. Zioncheck
Politician
5-Dec-1901 7-Aug-1936 Congressman, committed suicide




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