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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Parveen Babi
Actor
4-Apr-1955 20-Jan-2005 Sophisticated Seventies Bollywood Babe
Syd Barrett
Musician
6-Jan-1946 7-Jul-2006 Pink Floyd
Buddy Bolden
Jazz Musician
6-Sep-1877 4-Nov-1931 Ragtime, pre-Jazz cornetist
Clara Bow
Actor
29-Jul-1905 26-Sep-1965 Schizophrenic actress, Wings
Richard Brautigan
Author
30-Jan-1935 14-Oct-1984 So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away
Arthur Bremer
Assassin
21-Aug-1950   Shot Governor George Wallace
Clarence 13X
Religion
21-Feb-1928 13-Jun-1969 Nation of Gods and Earths
Juan Corona
Criminal
1934   Serial killer serving 25 life sentences
Philip K. Dick
Novelist
16-Dec-1928 2-Mar-1982 Blade Runner
John E. du Pont
Criminal
22-Nov-1938 9-Dec-2010 Lunatic, murdered wrestler David Schultz
Roky Erickson
Singer/Songwriter
15-Jul-1947   13th Floor Elevators
Colin Ferguson
Criminal
14-Jan-1958   Long Island Railroad Massacre
Ed Gein
Criminal
27-Aug-1906 26-Jul-1984 Serial killer and cannibal
Peter Green
Musician
29-Oct-1946   Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Darrell Hammond
Comic
8-Oct-1960   Saturday Night Live
Donny Hathaway
Singer
1-Oct-1945 13-Jan-1979 Where Is The Love?
Gary Heidnik
Criminal
22-Nov-1943 6-Jul-1999 Sex torturer, murderer
John Hinckley
Assassin
29-May-1955   Took a shot at President Reagan
Ted Kaczynski
Criminal
22-May-1942   The Unabomber
Klaus Kinski
Actor
18-Oct-1926 23-Nov-1991 Nosferatu the Vampyre
Veronica Lake
Actor
14-Nov-1922 7-Jul-1973 Sullivan's Travels
Lung Leg
Actor
8-Jul-1963   That girl on the cover of EVOL
Jared Loughner
Assassin
10-Sep-1988   Tucson Safeway shooter
John D. MacArthur
Philanthropist
6-Mar-1897 6-Jan-1978 Philanthropist, MacArthur Foundation
Michael McDermott
Criminal
4-Sep-1958   Mucko killed seven coworkers
W. C. Minor
Scholar
Jun-1834 26-Mar-1920 Prolific OED contributor
John Nash
Mathematician
13-Jun-1928   Schizophrenic game theorist
Robert Pirsig
Author
6-Sep-1928   Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Bud Powell
Pianist
27-Sep-1924 31-Jul-1966 Seminal bop pianist and composer
Christopher Scarver
Criminal
c. 1969   Murdered Jeffrey Dahmer
Robert Schumann
Composer
8-Jun-1810 29-Jul-1856 Toccata
Walter Seifert
Criminal
11-Jun-1922 12-Jun-1964 Cologne flamethrower massacre
Michelle Shocked
Musician
24-Feb-1962   Short Sharp Shocked
Valerie Solanas
Activist
9-Apr-1936 26-Apr-1988 Shot Andy Warhol
Phil Spector
Music Producer
26-Dec-1940   Creator of the Wall of Sound
Skip Spence
Musician
18-Apr-1946 16-Apr-1999 Moby Grape guitarist, Oar
Nancy Spungen
Victim
27-Feb-1958 12-Oct-1978 Sid Vicious's girlfriend
Cary Stayner
Criminal
12-Aug-1961   Yosemite killer
Peter Sutcliffe
Criminal
2-Jun-1946   The Yorkshire Ripper
Louis Wain
Painter
5-Aug-1860 4-Jul-1939 The Man Who Drew Cats
Aby Warburg
Scholar
13-Jun-1866 26-Oct-1929 Founder of the Warburg Institute
Wesley Willis
Musician
31-May-1963 21-Aug-2003 Schizophrenic street musician
Brian Wilson
Singer/Songwriter
20-Jun-1942   Troubled Beach Boy
Andrea Yates
Criminal Defendant
2-Jul-1964   Drowned her five children
Francis Parker Yockey
Author
18-Sep-1917 16-Jun-1960 Imperium





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