Vagrancy

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Vagrancy

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Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Antonin Artaud Playwright 4-Sep-1896 4-Mar-1948 Theater of Cruelty

Al Capone Criminal 17-Jan-1899 25-Jan-1947 Scarface

Yvon Chouinard Business 9-Nov-1938 Founder, Patagonia

The Legendary Stardust Cowboy Country Musician 5-Sep-1947 Unique outsider country performer

Wyatt Earp Government 19-Mar-1848 13-Jan-1929 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Frances Farmer Actor 19-Sep-1913 1-Aug-1970 Hollywood actress, institutionalized

Pretty Boy Floyd Criminal 3-Feb-1904 22-Oct-1934 Bank robber

Jean Genet Novelist 19-Dec-1910 15-Apr-1986 Theatre of the Absurd

Clarence Earl Gideon Criminal 30-Aug-1910 18-Jan-1972 Gideon v. Wainwright

Donald Goines Author 15-Dec-1936 21-Oct-1974 Whoreson

Lance Henriksen Actor 5-May-1940 Aliens, Dead Man

Wild Bill Hickok Actor 27-May-1837 2-Aug-1876 Buffalo Bill's Wild West show

Robert Johnson Guitarist 8-May-1911 16-Aug-1938 Influential blues guitarist

Machine Gun Kelly Criminal 18-Jul-1895 18-Jul-1954 Notorious bank robber, kidnapper

Jack London Novelist 12-Jan-1876 22-Nov-1916 Call of the Wild

Ernesto Miranda Criminal 9-Mar-1941 31-Jan-1976 Miranda v. Arizona

Robert Mitchum Actor 6-Aug-1917 1-Jul-1997 Cape Fear

Jim Morrison Singer/Songwriter 8-Dec-1943 3-Jul-1971 Lead singer and songwriter, The Doors

Mae Murray Actor 10-May-1889 23-Mar-1965 The Girl with the Bee Stung Lips

Benito Mussolini Head of State 29-Jul-1883 28-Apr-1945 Fascist Dictator of Italy

James Nayler Religion 1618 1660 The Quaker Jesus

Phil Ochs Singer/Songwriter 19-Dec-1940 9-Apr-1976 50 Phil Ochs fans can't be wrong

Carl Panzram Criminal 28-Jun-1891 5-Sep-1930 Relentless sociopath, serial killer

Sidney Poitier Actor 20-Feb-1927 In The Heat Of The Night

Dorothea Puente Criminal 9-Jan-1929 27-Mar-2011 Black Widow of Sacramento

James Earl Ray Assassin 10-Mar-1928 23-Apr-1998 Pled guilty in Martin Luther King's assassination

Harry Reems Pornstar 27-Aug-1947 19-Mar-2013 Deep Throat

Arthur Rimbaud Poet 20-Oct-1854 10-Nov-1891 Une Saison en Enfer

Rod Stewart Singer/Songwriter 10-Jan-1945 Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?

Frank Zappa Composer 21-Dec-1940 4-Dec-1993 Joe's Garage

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