| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Cris Alexander |
Photographer |
14-Jan-1920 |
7-Mar-2012 |
Portrait photographer, Broadway actor |
| Margery Allingham |
Novelist |
20-May-1904 |
30-Jun-1966 |
Albert Campion detective novels |
| Antonin Artaud |
Playwright |
4-Sep-1896 |
4-Mar-1948 |
Theater of Cruelty |
| Roscoe Ates |
Actor |
20-Jan-1895 |
1-Mar-1962 |
The Champ |
| Joseph Biden |
Politician |
20-Nov-1942 |
|
Vice President of the United States |
| Wayne Brady |
Talk Show Host |
2-Jun-1972 |
|
Makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X |
| Marlon Brando |
Actor |
3-Apr-1924 |
1-Jul-2004 |
A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Nicholas Brendon |
Actor |
12-Apr-1971 |
|
Xander Harris on Buffy |
| Lester Breslow |
Doctor |
17-Mar-1915 |
9-Apr-2012 |
Dean, UCLA School of Public Health, 1972-80 |
| Lewis Carroll |
Author |
27-Jan-1832 |
14-Jan-1898 |
Alice in Wonderland |
| Winston Churchill |
Head of State |
30-Nov-1874 |
24-Jan-1965 |
WWII Prime Minister of England |
| Claudius |
Royalty |
1-Aug-10 BC |
13-Oct-54 AD |
Roman Emperor, 41-54 AD |
| Charles Dance |
Actor |
10-Oct-1946 |
|
Good Morning, Babylon |
| George Darley |
Poet |
1795 |
23-Nov-1846 |
Nepenthe |
| Charles Darwin |
Naturalist |
12-Feb-1809 |
19-Apr-1882 |
Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection |
| Marion Davies |
Actor |
3-Jan-1897 |
22-Sep-1961 |
When Knighthood Was in Flower |
| Gerard Depardieu |
Actor |
27-Dec-1948 |
|
Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Camille Desmoulins |
Author |
2-Mar-1760 |
5-Apr-1794 |
Touched off the French Revolution |
| Viet Dinh |
Government |
22-Feb-1968 |
|
USA PATRIOT Act mastermind |
| John Gregory Dunne |
Novelist |
25-May-1932 |
30-Dec-2003 |
True Confessions |
| Gerald Ford |
Head of State |
14-Jul-1913 |
26-Dec-2006 |
38th US President, 1974-77 |
| King George VI |
Royalty |
14-Dec-1895 |
6-Feb-1952 |
King of England, 1936-1952 |
| Wally George |
TV Personality |
4-Dec-1931 |
5-Oct-2003 |
Abusive conservative spectacle |
| Lawrence Gowing |
Historian |
21-Apr-1918 |
5-Feb-1991 |
Art historian, biographer of Vermeer |
| Pam Grier |
Actor |
26-May-1949 |
|
Blaxploitation queen, star of Jackie Brown |
| Virgil Griffith |
Computer Programmer |
6-Mar-1983 |
|
Author of WikiScanner |
| Clifford Hansen |
Politician |
16-Oct-1912 |
20-Oct-2009 |
US Senator from Wyoming, 1967-78 |
| Benny Hinn |
Religion |
3-Dec-1952 |
|
Faith healing televangelist |
| J. Edgar Hoover |
Government |
1-Jan-1895 |
2-May-1972 |
Director of the FBI, 1924-72 |
| James C. Humes |
Government |
31-Oct-1934 |
|
Speechwriter to five Presidents |
| E. Howard Hunt |
Criminal |
9-Oct-1918 |
23-Jan-2007 |
Coordinated Watergate break-in |
| Bo Jackson |
Baseball |
30-Nov-1962 |
|
Bo Knows |
| Samuel L. Jackson |
Actor |
21-Dec-1948 |
|
Pulp Fiction |
| Henry James |
Author |
15-Apr-1843 |
28-Feb-1916 |
Portrait of a Lady |
| Rick James |
Musician |
1-Feb-1948 |
6-Aug-2004 |
Superfreak |
| Jackie "Butch" Jenkins |
Actor |
29-Aug-1937 |
14-Aug-2001 |
MGM child star |
| James Earl Jones |
Actor |
17-Jan-1931 |
|
Voice of Darth Vader and CNN |
| Harvey Keitel |
Actor |
13-May-1939 |
|
Pimp from Taxi Driver |
| Donald E. Knuth |
Computer Programmer |
10-Jan-1938 |
|
The Art of Computer Programming |
| Louis the Stammerer |
Royalty |
1-Nov-846 AD |
10-Apr-879 AD |
King of France, 877-79 |
| Henry R. Luce |
Business |
3-Apr-1898 |
28-Feb-1967 |
Founded Time Magazine |
| Alvin Lucier |
Composer |
14-May-1931 |
|
I Am Sitting In A Room |
| Arthur Murray |
Dancer |
4-Apr-1895 |
3-Mar-1991 |
Founded Arthur Murray dance studios |
| Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of the clockwork universe |
| Tillie Olsen |
Author |
14-Jan-1913 |
1-Jan-2007 |
Tell Me a Riddle |
| Ozzy Osbourne |
Singer |
3-Dec-1948 |
|
Black Sabbath |
| Elinor Ostrom |
Sociologist |
7-Aug-1933 |
12-Jun-2012 |
Common-pool resources |
| Austin Pendleton |
Actor |
27-Mar-1940 |
|
William Giles on Oz |
| Kim Philby |
Spy |
1-Jan-1912 |
11-May-1988 |
One of the Cambridge Five in MI6 |
| Nyree Dawn Porter |
Actor |
22-Jan-1936 |
10-Apr-2001 |
The Forsyte Saga |
| Ludwig Quidde |
Activist |
23-Mar-1858 |
4-Mar-1941 |
German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Burton Rascoe |
Critic |
22-Oct-1892 |
19-Mar-1957 |
The New York Tribune |
| Eric Roberts |
Actor |
18-Apr-1956 |
|
Restraining Order |
| John Sculley |
Business |
6-Apr-1939 |
|
CEO of Apple, 1983-93 |
| Carly Simon |
Singer/Songwriter |
25-Jun-1945 |
|
You're So Vain |
| Jake Steinfeld |
Fitness Guru |
21-Feb-1958 |
|
Body By Jake |
| Jimmy Stewart |
Actor |
20-May-1908 |
2-Jul-1997 |
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| John Stossel |
Journalist |
6-Mar-1947 |
|
Libertarian reporter |
| Peter Straub |
Novelist |
2-Mar-1943 |
|
Ghost Story |
| Stuttering John |
Radio Personality |
4-Oct-1965 |
|
Howard Stern's celebrity interviewer |
| Emmett Till |
Victim |
25-Jul-1941 |
28-Aug-1955 |
Black boy, murdered brutally in Mississippi |
| Mel Tillis |
Country Musician |
8-Aug-1932 |
|
I Ain't Never |
| John Updike |
Novelist |
18-Mar-1932 |
27-Jan-2009 |
Rabbit, Run |
| Bill Walton |
Basketball |
5-Nov-1952 |
|
NBA Most Valuable Player, 1978 |
| Jack Welch |
Business |
19-Nov-1935 |
|
CEO of GE, 1981-2001 |
| Bruce Willis |
Actor |
19-Mar-1955 |
|
Die Hard |
| Ann Wilson |
Musician |
19-Jun-1950 |
|
Heart |
| Paul Winchell |
Actor |
21-Dec-1922 |
24-Jun-2005 |
Ventriloquist and inventor |
