| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Bud Abbott |
Actor |
2-Oct-1895 |
24-Apr-1974 |
Half of Abbott and Costello |
| Neil Abercrombie |
Politician |
26-Jun-1938 |
|
Governor of Hawaii |
| Grover Cleveland Alexander |
Baseball |
26-Feb-1887 |
4-Nov-1950 |
Pitcher, 373 career wins |
| Hector Berlioz |
Composer |
11-Dec-1803 |
8-Mar-1869 |
French romantic composer |
| John Berryman |
Poet |
25-Oct-1914 |
7-Jan-1972 |
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet |
| Ronnie Biggs |
Criminal |
8-Aug-1929 |
|
UK Great Train Robber |
| Ward Bond |
Actor |
9-Apr-1903 |
5-Nov-1960 |
Wagon Train |
| Bart Braverman |
Actor |
1-Feb-1946 |
|
Binzer on Vega$ |
| Lindsey Buckingham |
Musician |
3-Oct-1949 |
|
Fleetwood Mac |
| Richard Burton |
Actor |
10-Nov-1925 |
5-Aug-1984 |
Nineteen Eighty Four |
| Lord Byron |
Poet |
22-Jan-1788 |
19-Apr-1824 |
English romantic poet |
| Julius Caesar |
Head of State |
13-Jul-100 BC |
15-Mar-44 BC |
Roman Dictator 45 BC until 44 BC |
| Truman Capote |
Novelist |
30-Sep-1924 |
25-Aug-1984 |
In Cold Blood |
| Lewis Carroll |
Author |
27-Jan-1832 |
14-Jan-1898 |
Alice in Wonderland |
| Charles the Fat |
Royalty |
c. 832 AD |
13-Jan-888 AD |
King of France, Italy, Bavaria |
| Agatha Christie |
Novelist |
15-Sep-1890 |
12-Jan-1976 |
Mystery novelist |
| Manning Clark |
Historian |
3-Mar-1915 |
23-May-1991 |
A History of Australia |
| Tony Coelho |
Politician |
15-Jun-1942 |
|
Congressman from California, 1979-89 |
| Ian Curtis |
Singer |
15-Jul-1956 |
18-May-1980 |
Lead singer of Joy Division |
| Charles Dickens |
Novelist |
7-Feb-1812 |
9-Jun-1870 |
Oliver Twist |
| Emilie Dionne |
Victim |
28-May-1934 |
6-Aug-1954 |
Canadian quintuplets put on display |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Novelist |
30-Oct-1821 |
28-Jan-1881 |
Crime and Punishment |
| Gustave Flaubert |
Novelist |
12-Dec-1821 |
8-May-1880 |
Realist novelist, Madame Bovary |
| John Gilmore |
Activist |
Aug-1955 |
|
Cofounder: EFF, Cypherpunks |
| Danny Glover |
Actor |
22-Jul-1946 |
|
Lethal Weapon |
| Margaux Hemingway |
Actor |
16-Feb-1955 |
2-Jul-1996 |
Troubled actress OD'd on klonopin |
| John III Ducas Vatatzes |
Royalty |
1193 |
3-Nov-1254 |
Byzantine Emperor, 1222-54 |
| Chloe Jones |
Pornstar |
17-Jun-1975 |
2-Jun-2005 |
Where the Boys Aren't 17 |
| Florence Griffith Joyner |
Track and Field |
21-Dec-1959 |
21-Sep-1998 |
Olympic sprinter |
| Tony Lazzeri |
Baseball |
6-Dec-1903 |
6-Aug-1946 |
Yankees second baseman, Hall-of-Famer |
| Edward Lear |
Poet |
12-May-1812 |
29-Jan-1888 |
The Owl and the Pussycat |
| Vladimir Lenin |
Head of State |
22-Apr-1870 |
21-Jan-1924 |
Revolutionary leader of Soviet Union |
| Vachel Lindsay |
Poet |
10-Nov-1879 |
5-Dec-1931 |
The Congo and Other Poems |
| Machado de Assis |
Novelist |
21-Jun-1839 |
29-Sep-1908 |
Dom Casmurro |
| Rik Mayall |
Actor |
7-Mar-1958 |
|
Rick on The Young Ones |
| Gregor Mendel |
Scientist |
22-Jul-1822 |
6-Jan-1884 |
Discovered the laws of inheritance |
| Stephin Merritt |
Singer/Songwriter |
1966 |
|
The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths |
| Lambdin P. Milligan |
Criminal |
24-Mar-1812 |
21-Dec-1899 |
Ex Parte Milligan |
| Alfred Nobel |
Inventor |
21-Oct-1833 |
10-Dec-1896 |
Dynamite inventor, established Nobel Prize |
| Alferd Packer |
Criminal |
21-Nov-1842 |
23-Apr-1907 |
Celebrated cannibal killer |
| Pope Pius IX |
Religion |
13-May-1792 |
7-Feb-1878 |
Declared himself infallible |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
Author |
19-Jan-1809 |
7-Oct-1849 |
The Raven |
| Prince |
Musician |
7-Jun-1958 |
|
Purple Rain |
| Elizabeth Clare Prophet |
Religion |
8-Apr-1939 |
15-Oct-2009 |
Church Universal and Triumphant |
| Richard Ramirez |
Criminal |
29-Feb-1960 |
|
Serial killer, on death row in California |
| Jimmy Reed |
Singer |
6-Sep-1925 |
29-Aug-1976 |
Blues singer/guitarist, Big Boss Man |
| John G. Roberts, Jr. |
Judge |
27-Jan-1955 |
|
US Chief Justice |
| Kurt Schwitters |
Artist |
20-Jun-1887 |
8-Jan-1948 |
Collagist, Merz |
| Ruth Snyder |
Criminal |
1895 |
12-Jan-1928 |
Electrocuted for murdering husband |
| Vincent van Gogh |
Painter |
30-Mar-1853 |
29-Jul-1890 |
Troubled and brilliant painter |
| Hugo Weaving |
Actor |
4-Apr-1960 |
|
Agent Smith in The Matrix |
| Michael Wilding |
Actor |
23-Jul-1912 |
8-Jul-1979 |
Torch Song |
| Neil Young |
Singer/Songwriter |
12-Nov-1945 |
|
Harvest |
