| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Frank Abagnale |
Criminal |
27-Apr-1948 |
|
Catch Me If You Can |
| Birdman of Alcatraz |
Criminal |
28-Jan-1890 |
22-Nov-1963 |
Subject of Burt Lancaster movie |
| Lily Allen |
Singer |
2-May-1985 |
|
Smile |
| Benedict Arnold |
Military |
14-Jan-1741 |
14-Jun-1801 |
Betrayed colonists to British |
| Rosanna Arquette |
Actor |
10-Aug-1959 |
|
Desperately Seeking Susan |
| Pedro Menéndez de Avilés |
Military |
15-Feb-1519 |
17-Sep-1574 |
Founder of St. Augustine, Florida |
| Candy Barr |
Performance Artist |
6-Jul-1935 |
30-Dec-2005 |
Exotic dancer from the 1950s |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat |
Painter |
22-Dec-1960 |
12-Aug-1988 |
NYC graffiti artist |
| Belladonna |
Pornstar |
21-May-1981 |
|
The Fashionistas |
| Vincent Bendix |
Inventor |
12-Aug-1881 |
27-Mar-1945 |
Founder of Bendix Corporation |
| Constantin Brancusi |
Sculptor |
19-Feb-1876 |
16-Mar-1957 |
Bird in Space |
| Ruth Brown |
Singer |
12-Jan-1928 |
17-Nov-2006 |
Miss Rhythm |
| John Bunny |
Actor |
21-Sep-1863 |
26-Apr-1915 |
Comic starred in over 200 short films |
| Christy Canyon |
Pornstar |
17-Jun-1966 |
|
Jugs and Kisses, Your Ass My Tongue |
| Harvey Carignan |
Criminal |
18-May-1927 |
|
The Want-Ad Killer |
| Evans F. Carlson |
Military |
26-Feb-1896 |
27-May-1947 |
Carlson's Raiders |
| Asia Carrera |
Pornstar |
6-Aug-1973 |
|
Mensa member, pornstar |
| Kit Carson |
Explorer |
24-Dec-1809 |
23-May-1868 |
Frontiersman and Indian agent |
| Whittaker Chambers |
Author |
1-Apr-1901 |
9-Jul-1961 |
Accuser of Alger Hiss |
| Eileen Chang |
Author |
30-Sep-1920 |
8-Sep-1995 |
Lust, Caution |
| Mark David Chapman |
Assassin |
10-May-1955 |
|
Assassin of Beatle John Lennon |
| Jean Cocteau |
Poet |
5-Jul-1889 |
11-Oct-1963 |
La Belle et la Bête |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Poet |
21-Oct-1772 |
25-Jul-1834 |
Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| Gregory Corso |
Poet |
26-Mar-1930 |
17-Jan-2001 |
Beat poet, Gasoline |
| Davy Crockett |
Military |
17-Aug-1786 |
6-Mar-1836 |
King of the Wild Frontier |
| Thomas Dangerfield |
Criminal |
1650 |
1685 |
English conspirator |
| Martin Dardis |
Journalist |
c. 1922 |
16-May-2006 |
Followed the Watergate money to Nixon |
| Richard Allen Davis |
Criminal |
2-Jun-1954 |
|
Murderer of Polly Klaas |
| Richard Dawson |
Game Show Host |
20-Nov-1932 |
2-Jun-2012 |
Host of Family Feud, 1976-85 |
| Thomas De Quincey |
Author |
15-Aug-1785 |
8-Dec-1859 |
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater |
| Loren Dean |
Actor |
31-Jul-1969 |
|
Mumford |
| Donald DeFreeze |
Criminal |
16-Nov-1943 |
17-May-1974 |
Symbionese Liberation Army |
| John Denver |
Country Musician |
31-Dec-1943 |
12-Oct-1997 |
Rocky Mountain High |
| Persi Diaconis |
Mathematician |
31-Jan-1945 |
|
Science of random numbers |
| Porfirio Díaz |
Head of State |
15-Sep-1830 |
2-Jul-1915 |
Twice President of Mexico |
| Dorothea Dix |
Activist |
4-Apr-1802 |
17-Jul-1887 |
Activist for the insane |
| Ducky DooLittle |
Author |
3-Jun-1970 |
|
Crackpot sexologist |
| Harlan Ellison |
Author |
27-May-1934 |
|
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream |
| Gary Evans |
Criminal |
7-Oct-1954 |
14-Aug-1998 |
New York state burglar, serial killer |
| Frances Farmer |
Actor |
19-Sep-1913 |
1-Aug-1970 |
Hollywood actress, institutionalized |
| Federico Fellini |
Film Director |
20-Jan-1920 |
30-Oct-1993 |
La Dolce Vita |
| Jim Fisk |
Business |
1-Apr-1834 |
6-Jan-1872 |
Business partner of Jay Gould |
| Pretty Boy Floyd |
Criminal |
3-Feb-1904 |
22-Oct-1934 |
Bank robber |
| Althea Flynt |
Relative |
6-Nov-1953 |
27-Jun-1987 |
Larry Flynt's dead wife |
| Henry Ford |
Business |
30-Jul-1863 |
7-Apr-1947 |
Founder of Ford Motors |
| Benjamin Franklin |
Diplomat |
17-Jan-1706 |
17-Apr-1790 |
American founding father |
| Clarence Earl Gideon |
Criminal |
30-Aug-1910 |
18-Jan-1972 |
Gideon v. Wainwright |
| Jim Gilchrist |
Activist |
1949 |
|
Minuteman Project founder |
| Maxim Gorky |
Playwright |
28-Mar-1868 |
17-Jun-1936 |
The Lower Depths |
| Cary Grant |
Actor |
18-Jan-1904 |
29-Nov-1986 |
North by Northwest |
| Charley Grapewin |
Actor |
20-Dec-1869 |
2-Feb-1956 |
Tobacco Road |
| Merle Haggard |
Country Musician |
6-Apr-1937 |
|
Okie From Muskogee |
| Arvid Harnack |
Spy |
24-May-1901 |
22-Dec-1942 |
Hanged by the Nazis for espionage |
| Raymond Hatton |
Actor |
7-Jul-1887 |
21-Oct-1971 |
Prolific character actor |
| Richard Hell |
Musician |
2-Oct-1949 |
|
Blank Generation |
| Lance Henriksen |
Actor |
5-May-1940 |
|
Aliens, Dead Man |
| Hermann Hesse |
Author |
2-Jul-1877 |
9-Aug-1962 |
Siddhartha |
| John Lee Hooker |
Musician |
22-Aug-1917 |
21-Jun-2001 |
Prominent blues musician |
| Harry Houdini |
Magician |
24-Mar-1874 |
31-Oct-1926 |
Best-known magician and debunker |
| Sam Houston |
Head of State |
2-Mar-1793 |
26-Jul-1863 |
President of Texas, 1836-38 and 1841-44 |
| Alberta Hunter |
Singer |
1-Apr-1895 |
17-Oct-1984 |
Downhearted Blues |
| Rick James |
Musician |
1-Feb-1948 |
6-Aug-2004 |
Superfreak |
| Jack Johnson |
Boxing |
31-Mar-1878 |
10-Jun-1946 |
First black heavyweight champion |
| Al Jolson |
Singer |
26-May-1886 |
23-Oct-1950 |
The Jazz Singer |
| Jenny Jones |
Talk Show Host |
7-Jun-1946 |
|
The Jenny Jones Show |
| Rickie Lee Jones |
Musician |
8-Nov-1954 |
|
Chuck E's in Love |
| Chiang Kai-Shek |
Head of State |
31-Oct-1887 |
5-Apr-1975 |
President of Nationalist China |
| Danny Kaye |
Actor |
18-Jan-1913 |
3-Mar-1987 |
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| Christine Keeler |
Model |
2-Feb-1942 |
|
John Profumo's mistress |
| Cyndi Lauper |
Singer/Songwriter |
22-Jun-1953 |
|
Girls Just Want To Have Fun |
| Megan Leigh |
Pornstar |
2-Mar-1964 |
16-Jun-1990 |
Ali Boobie & the 40 D's |
| Traci Lords |
Pornstar |
7-May-1968 |
|
We Love You, Traci |
| Peter Lorre |
Actor |
26-Jun-1904 |
23-Mar-1964 |
The Maltese Falcon |
| Lucian |
Author |
120 AD |
c. 180 AD |
Dialogues of the Dead |
| Lydia Lunch |
Musician |
2-Jun-1959 |
|
Punk and spoken word confrontationalist |
| Nelson Mandela |
Head of State |
18-Jul-1918 |
5-Dec-2013 |
President of South Africa, 1994-99 |
| Edwin Markham |
Poet |
23-Apr-1852 |
7-Mar-1940 |
The Man With the Hoe |
| James Marshall |
Explorer |
8-Oct-1810 |
10-Aug-1885 |
Discovered gold at Sutter's Mill |
| Henry Mayhew |
Journalist |
1812 |
25-Jul-1887 |
Punch |
| Rod McKuen |
Poet |
29-Apr-1933 |
27-Jan-2015 |
A Boy Named Charlie Brown |
| Golda Meir |
Head of State |
3-May-1898 |
8-Dec-1978 |
Fourth Prime Minister of Israel |
| Joseph Merrick |
Oddity |
5-Aug-1862 |
11-Apr-1890 |
The Elephant Man |
| Robert Mitchum |
Actor |
6-Aug-1917 |
1-Jul-1997 |
Cape Fear |
| Tommy Mottola |
Business |
14-Jul-1949 |
|
Former head of Sony Music |
| William Mulholland |
Engineer |
11-Sep-1855 |
22-Jul-1935 |
Los Angeles Aqueduct |
| Alfred P. Murrah |
Judge |
27-Oct-1904 |
30-Oct-1975 |
Oklahoma City Federal Building namesake |
| Carl Panzram |
Criminal |
28-Jun-1891 |
5-Sep-1930 |
Relentless sociopath, serial killer |
| Roddy Piper |
Wrestling |
17-Apr-1954 |
30-Jul-2015 |
Here to kick ass, chew bubble gum |
| Prince |
Musician |
7-Jun-1958 |
|
Purple Rain |
| Srinivasa Ramanujan |
Mathematician |
22-Dec-1887 |
26-Apr-1920 |
Self-educated mathematician |
| Arthur Rimbaud |
Poet |
20-Oct-1854 |
10-Nov-1891 |
Une Saison en Enfer |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Philosopher |
28-Jun-1712 |
2-Jul-1778 |
Conceptualized the Social Contract |
| Katey Sagal |
Actor |
19-Jan-1954 |
|
Peg Bundy on Married With Children |
| Artie Shaw |
Musician |
23-May-1910 |
30-Dec-2004 |
Clarinetist, big band leader |
| Mary Shelley |
Novelist |
30-Aug-1797 |
1-Feb-1851 |
Frankenstein |
| Blaze Starr |
Performance Artist |
1-Jan-1932 |
15-Jun-2015 |
Stripper |
| Karrine Steffans |
Model |
24-Aug-1978 |
|
Confessions of a Video Vixen |
| Ford Sterling |
Actor |
3-Nov-1883 |
13-Oct-1939 |
Keystone Cop |
| Inger Stevens |
Actor |
18-Oct-1934 |
30-Apr-1970 |
The Farmer's Daughter |
| Ilsa Strix |
Pornstar |
15-Dec-1967 |
|
Professional dominatrix |
| Theodore Sturgeon |
Author |
26-Feb-1918 |
8-May-1985 |
More Than Human |
| Hans Tausen |
Religion |
1494 |
11-Nov-1561 |
Danish Protestant reformer |
| Jim Thorpe |
Football |
28-May-1887 |
28-Mar-1953 |
Olympics and football |
| Lil' Wayne |
Rapper |
27-Sep-1982 |
|
Tha Carter |
| Oprah Winfrey |
Talk Show Host |
29-Jan-1954 |
|
The Oprah Winfrey Show |
| David Wojnarowicz |
Artist |
14-Sep-1955 |
22-Jul-1992 |
One Day This Kid |
| Beatrice Wood |
Artist |
3-Mar-1893 |
12-Mar-1998 |
Mama of Dada |
| Aileen Wuornos |
Criminal |
29-Feb-1956 |
9-Oct-2002 |
Notorious serial killer |
| Ed Wynn |
Actor |
9-Nov-1886 |
19-Jun-1966 |
Requiem for a Heavyweight |
| Raul Yzaguirre |
Activist |
22-Jul-1939 |
|
National Council of La Raza |