| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Don Adams |
Actor |
13-Apr-1926 |
25-Sep-2005 |
Maxwell Smart on Get Smart |
| Herb Alpert |
Musician |
31-Mar-1935 |
|
Tijuana Brass, Co-Founder, 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 |
29-Sep-2010 |
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 |
Publisher |
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 |
| Dennis Gabor |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1900 |
8-Feb-1979 |
Inventor of holography |
| Eva Gabor |
Actor |
11-Feb-1919 |
4-Jul-1995 |
Green Acres |
| 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 |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Quarks and strangeness |
| 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 |
| Adolph Green |
Songwriter |
2-Dec-1914 |
23-Oct-2002 |
Singin' in the Rain |
| 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 |
| Andy Harris |
Politician |
25-Jun-1957 |
|
Congressman, Maryland 1st |
| Robert Hegyes |
Actor |
7-May-1951 |
26-Jan-2012 |
Epstein on Welcome Back, Kotter |
| Louis Henyey |
Astronomer |
3-Feb-1910 |
18-Feb-1970 |
Henyey method |
| Avram Hershko |
Scientist |
31-Dec-1937 |
|
Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation |
| George de Hevesy |
Chemist |
1-Aug-1885 |
5-Jul-1966 |
Radioisotope researcher |
| 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 |
| Philipp Lenard |
Physicist |
7-Jun-1862 |
20-May-1947 |
Investigations of cathode rays |
| 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 A. Olah |
Chemist |
22-May-1927 |
|
Isolated carbonium ions |
| Greg Palast |
Journalist |
26-Jun-1952 |
|
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy |
| 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 |
| John Popper |
Musician |
29-Mar-1967 |
|
Harmonica player, Blues Traveler |
| Vladimir Prelog |
Chemist |
23-Jul-1906 |
7-Jan-1998 |
Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts |
| 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 |
| Isidor Isaac Rabi |
Physicist |
29-Jul-1898 |
11-Jan-1988 |
Magnetic beam resonances |
| Irwin Rose |
Scientist |
16-Jul-1926 |
|
Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation |
| Philip Roth |
Novelist |
19-Mar-1933 |
|
Portnoy's Complaint |
| Sidney Salkow |
Film Director |
16-Jun-1909 |
18-Oct-2000 |
Twice-Told Tales |
| Nicolas Sarkozy |
Politician |
28-Jan-1955 |
|
President of France, 2007-12 |
| 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 |
| Sam Seder |
Radio Personality |
28-Nov-1966 |
|
Majority Report podcast |
| 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 |
|
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 |
| Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
| Jessica Szohr |
Actor |
31-Mar-1985 |
|
Vanessa Abrams on Gossip Girl |
| 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 |
| Astrid Varnay |
Singer |
25-Apr-1918 |
4-Sep-2006 |
Wagnerian soprano |
| John von Neumann |
Mathematician |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
| André Watts |
Pianist |
20-Jun-1946 |
|
American piano prodigy |
| 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 |
| Eugene Wigner |
Physicist |
17-Nov-1902 |
1-Jan-1995 |
Law of conservation of parity |
| Cornel Wilde |
Actor |
13-Oct-1915 |
16-Oct-1989 |
A Song to Remember |
| Richard Zsigmondy |
Chemist |
1-Apr-1865 |
23-Sep-1929 |
Ultramicroscope |
