| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Abigail Adams |
First Lady |
11-Nov-1744 |
28-Oct-1818 |
Wife of US President John Adams |
| Drew Barrymore |
Actor |
22-Feb-1975 |
|
E.T., The Wedding Singer |
| Samuel Beckett |
Playwright |
13-May-1906 |
22-Dec-1989 |
Waiting for Godot |
| Charles Bedaux |
Business |
26-Oct-1887 |
18-Feb-1944 |
Industrial efficiency expert |
| Candice Bergen |
Actor |
9-May-1946 |
|
Murphy Brown |
| Mike Bloomfield |
Guitarist |
28-Jul-1943 |
15-Feb-1981 |
Guitarist, Paul Butterfield Blues Band |
| Louise Bourgeois |
Sculptor |
25-Dec-1911 |
31-May-2010 |
Crouching Spider |
| Poppy Z. Brite |
Author |
25-May-1967 |
|
Are You Loathsome Tonight? |
| Richard Burton |
Actor |
10-Nov-1925 |
5-Aug-1984 |
Nineteen Eighty Four |
| Sid Caesar |
Comic |
8-Sep-1922 |
|
Your Show of Shows |
| Caligula |
Royalty |
31-Aug-12 AD |
24-Jan-41 AD |
Roman Emperor, 37-41 AD |
| Roberto Clemente |
Baseball |
18-Aug-1934 |
31-Dec-1972 |
Puerto Rican baseball star |
| Bram Cohen |
Computer Programmer |
1975 |
|
Creator of BitTorrent |
| Charles Darwin |
Naturalist |
12-Feb-1809 |
19-Apr-1882 |
Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection |
| Alphonse Daudet |
Novelist |
13-May-1840 |
16-Dec-1897 |
Lettres de mon moulin |
| Nick Drake |
Singer/Songwriter |
19-Jun-1948 |
25-Nov-1974 |
Pink Moon |
| Sanjay Dutt |
Actor |
29-Jul-1959 |
|
Mission Kashmir |
| Queen Elizabeth I |
Royalty |
7-Sep-1533 |
24-Mar-1603 |
The Virgin Queen |
| Eminem |
Rapper |
17-Oct-1972 |
|
The Real Slim Shady |
| Colin Farrell |
Actor |
31-May-1976 |
|
Bullseye in Daredevil |
| Jay S. Fishman |
Business |
4-Nov-1952 |
|
CEO of Travelers |
| Vince Foster |
Attorney |
15-Jan-1945 |
20-Jul-1993 |
Deputy White House Counsel for Clinton |
| Judy Garland |
Singer |
10-Jun-1922 |
22-Jun-1969 |
Dorothy in Wizard of Oz |
| David Gest |
Relative |
11-May-1953 |
|
Ex-Husband of Liza Minnelli |
| Spalding Gray |
Actor |
5-Jun-1941 |
11-Jan-2004 |
Swimming to Cambodia monologist |
| Daryl Hannah |
Actor |
3-Dec-1960 |
|
Splash |
| Ernest Hemingway |
Author |
21-Jul-1899 |
2-Jul-1961 |
The Old Man And The Sea |
| Hermann Hesse |
Author |
2-Jul-1877 |
9-Aug-1962 |
Siddhartha |
| Cheryl Hines |
Actor |
21-Sep-1965 |
|
Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| Adolf Hitler |
Head of State |
20-Apr-1889 |
30-Apr-1945 |
Chancellor of Germany, 1933-45 |
| Herman Hollerith |
Inventor |
29-Feb-1860 |
17-Nov-1929 |
Invented the punchcard |
| Johns Hopkins |
Philanthropist |
19-May-1795 |
24-Dec-1873 |
Johns Hopkins University and Hospital |
| Howard Hughes |
Business |
24-Sep-1905 |
5-Apr-1976 |
Insane billionaire |
| Mark R. Hughes |
Business |
1956 |
21-May-2000 |
Herbalife founder |
| Ivan the Terrible |
Royalty |
25-Aug-1530 |
18-Mar-1584 |
Russian Tsar, 1533-84 |
| William James |
Philosopher |
11-Jan-1842 |
26-Aug-1910 |
The Principles of Psychology |
| Franz Kafka |
Novelist |
3-Jul-1883 |
3-Jun-1924 |
Metamorphosis |
| Mauricio Kagel |
Composer |
24-Dec-1931 |
18-Sep-2008 |
Absurdist composer |
| Patrick Joseph Kennedy |
Politician |
14-Jul-1967 |
|
Congressman from Rhode Island, 1995-2011 |
| Barbara Kingsolver |
Author |
8-Apr-1955 |
|
Prodigal Summer |
| Alfred Kinsey |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1894 |
25-Aug-1956 |
Researched human sexual behavior |
| Rudyard Kipling |
Author |
30-Dec-1865 |
18-Jan-1936 |
The Jungle Book |
| Vivien Leigh |
Actor |
5-Nov-1913 |
8-Jul-1967 |
Gone With The Wind |
| Mary Kay Letourneau |
Criminal |
30-Jan-1962 |
|
America's Favorite Sex Offender |
| Mary Todd Lincoln |
First Lady |
13-Dec-1818 |
16-Jul-1882 |
Wife of US President Abraham Lincoln |
| Lydia Lunch |
Musician |
2-Jun-1959 |
|
Punk and spoken word confrontationalist |
| Frank Luntz |
Pundit |
23-Feb-1962 |
|
Republican pollster, strategist |
| Maria Theresa |
Royalty |
13-May-1717 |
28-Nov-1780 |
Archduchess of Austria |
| Groucho Marx |
Comic |
2-Oct-1890 |
19-Aug-1977 |
You Bet Your Life |
| Queen Mary I |
Royalty |
18-Feb-1516 |
17-Nov-1558 |
Queen of England, 1553-58 |
| Anne McCaffrey |
Author |
1-Apr-1926 |
21-Nov-2011 |
Pern series |
| Aimee Semple McPherson |
Religion |
9-Oct-1890 |
27-Sep-1944 |
Evangelist, faith healer |
| Joyce Meyer |
Religion |
4-Jun-1943 |
|
Televangelist |
| Peter Mitchell |
Chemist |
29-Sep-1920 |
10-Apr-1992 |
ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondia |
| Marilyn Monroe |
Actor |
1-Jun-1926 |
5-Aug-1962 |
Some Like It Hot |
| Audie Murphy |
Actor |
20-Jun-1924 |
28-May-1971 |
War hero turned cowboy actor |
| Vladimir Nabokov |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1899 |
2-Jul-1977 |
Lolita |
| S. I. Newhouse, Sr. |
Publisher |
24-May-1895 |
29-Aug-1979 |
Founder of Advance Publications |
| Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of the clockwork universe |
| John Noble |
Actor |
20-Aug-1948 |
|
Dr. Walter Bishop on Fringe |
| Lisa Nowak |
Astronaut |
10-May-1963 |
|
According to lawyer, no diaper |
| Jack Osbourne |
Relative |
8-Nov-1985 |
|
Son of Ozzy Osbourne |
| Ozzy Osbourne |
Singer |
3-Dec-1948 |
|
Black Sabbath |
| Al Pacino |
Actor |
25-Apr-1940 |
|
Michael Corleone in The Godfather |
| Blaise Pascal |
Mathematician |
19-Jun-1623 |
19-Aug-1662 |
French thinker and mathematician |
| Sylvia Plath |
Poet |
27-Oct-1932 |
11-Feb-1963 |
Daddy |
| Elvis Presley |
Singer |
8-Jan-1935 |
16-Aug-1977 |
Rock and roll icon |
| Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh |
Religion |
11-Dec-1931 |
19-Jan-1990 |
Holy man, owned 93 Rolls-Royces |
| Richard Rodgers |
Composer |
28-Jun-1902 |
30-Dec-1979 |
Rodgers and Hammerstein |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Painter |
12-May-1828 |
9-Apr-1882 |
English pre-Raphaelite painter |
| Winona Ryder |
Actor |
29-Oct-1971 |
|
Edward Scissorhands |
| Robert Schumann |
Composer |
8-Jun-1810 |
29-Jul-1856 |
Toccata |
| Rod Serling |
Author |
25-Dec-1924 |
28-Jun-1975 |
Creator of The Twilight Zone |
| Paul Shanley |
Religion |
25-Jan-1931 |
|
Molesting priest |
| Russell Simmons |
Business |
4-Oct-1957 |
|
Def Jam Records |
| Betty Smith |
Novelist |
15-Dec-1896 |
17-Jan-1972 |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Phil Spector |
Music Producer |
26-Dec-1940 |
|
Creator of the Wall of Sound |
| George Stephanopoulos |
TV Personality |
10-Feb-1961 |
|
Bill Clinton's communications director |
| Jon Stewart |
Comic |
28-Nov-1962 |
|
Anchor of The Daily Show |
| Sarah Vowell |
Radio Personality |
27-Dec-1969 |
|
This American Life |
| Mike Wallace |
Journalist |
9-May-1918 |
7-Apr-2012 |
Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent |
| Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward |
Novelist |
31-Aug-1844 |
28-Jan-1911 |
The Story of Avis |
| William A. Wheeler |
Politician |
30-Jun-1819 |
4-Jun-1887 |
Vice President under Hayes |
| Johann Winckelmann |
Archaeologist |
9-Dec-1717 |
8-Jun-1768 |
Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums |
