LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Cris Alexander	Photographer	14-Jan-1920	7-Mar-2012	Portrait photographer, Broadway actor
Margery Allingham	Novelist	20-May-1904	30-Jun-1966	Albert Campion detective novels
Antonin Artaud	Playwright	4-Sep-1896	4-Mar-1948	Theater of Cruelty
Roscoe Ates	Actor	20-Jan-1895	1-Mar-1962	The Champ
Joseph Biden	Politician	20-Nov-1942		Vice President of the United States
Wayne Brady	Talk Show Host	2-Jun-1972		Makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X
Marlon Brando	Actor	3-Apr-1924	1-Jul-2004	A Streetcar Named Desire
Nicholas Brendon	Actor	12-Apr-1971		Xander Harris on Buffy
Lester Breslow	Doctor	17-Mar-1915	9-Apr-2012	Dean, UCLA School of Public Health, 1972-80
Lewis Carroll	Author	27-Jan-1832	14-Jan-1898	Alice in Wonderland
Winston Churchill	Head of State	30-Nov-1874	24-Jan-1965	WWII Prime Minister of England
Claudius	Royalty	1-Aug-10 BC	13-Oct-54 AD	Roman Emperor, 41-54 AD
Charles Dance	Actor	10-Oct-1946		Good Morning, Babylon
George Darley	Poet	1795	23-Nov-1846	Nepenthe
Charles Darwin	Naturalist	12-Feb-1809	19-Apr-1882	Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection
Marion Davies	Actor	3-Jan-1897	22-Sep-1961	When Knighthood Was in Flower
Gerard Depardieu	Actor	27-Dec-1948		Cyrano de Bergerac
Camille Desmoulins	Author	2-Mar-1760	5-Apr-1794	Touched off the French Revolution
Viet Dinh	Government	22-Feb-1968		USA PATRIOT Act mastermind
John Gregory Dunne	Novelist	25-May-1932	30-Dec-2003	True Confessions
Gerald Ford	Head of State	14-Jul-1913	26-Dec-2006	38th US President, 1974-77
King George VI	Royalty	14-Dec-1895	6-Feb-1952	King of England, 1936-1952
Wally George	TV Personality	4-Dec-1931	5-Oct-2003	Abusive conservative spectacle
Lawrence Gowing	Historian	21-Apr-1918	5-Feb-1991	Art historian, biographer of Vermeer
Pam Grier	Actor	26-May-1949		Blaxploitation queen, star of Jackie Brown
Virgil Griffith	Computer Programmer	6-Mar-1983		Author of WikiScanner
Clifford Hansen	Politician	16-Oct-1912	20-Oct-2009	US Senator from Wyoming, 1967-78
Benny Hinn	Religion	3-Dec-1952		Faith healing televangelist
J. Edgar Hoover	Government	1-Jan-1895	2-May-1972	Director of the FBI, 1924-72
James C. Humes	Government	31-Oct-1934		Speechwriter to five Presidents
E. Howard Hunt	Criminal	9-Oct-1918	23-Jan-2007	Coordinated Watergate break-in
Bo Jackson	Baseball	30-Nov-1962		Bo Knows
Samuel L. Jackson	Actor	21-Dec-1948		Pulp Fiction
Henry James	Author	15-Apr-1843	28-Feb-1916	Portrait of a Lady
Rick James	Musician	1-Feb-1948	6-Aug-2004	Superfreak
Jackie "Butch" Jenkins	Actor	29-Aug-1937	14-Aug-2001	MGM child star
James Earl Jones	Actor	17-Jan-1931		Voice of Darth Vader and CNN
Harvey Keitel	Actor	13-May-1939		Pimp from Taxi Driver
Donald E. Knuth	Computer Programmer	10-Jan-1938		The Art of Computer Programming
Louis the Stammerer	Royalty	1-Nov-846 AD	10-Apr-879 AD	King of France, 877-79
Henry R. Luce	Business	3-Apr-1898	28-Feb-1967	Founded Time Magazine
Alvin Lucier	Composer	14-May-1931		I Am Sitting In A Room
Arthur Murray	Dancer	4-Apr-1895	3-Mar-1991	Founded Arthur Murray dance studios
Isaac Newton	Physicist	4-Jan-1643	31-Mar-1727	Father of the clockwork universe
Tillie Olsen	Author	14-Jan-1913	1-Jan-2007	Tell Me a Riddle
Ozzy Osbourne	Singer	3-Dec-1948		Black Sabbath
Elinor Ostrom	Sociologist	7-Aug-1933	12-Jun-2012	Common-pool resources
Austin Pendleton	Actor	27-Mar-1940		William Giles on Oz
Kim Philby	Spy	1-Jan-1912	11-May-1988	One of the Cambridge Five in MI6
Nyree Dawn Porter	Actor	22-Jan-1936	10-Apr-2001	The Forsyte Saga
Ludwig Quidde	Activist	23-Mar-1858	4-Mar-1941	German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
Burton Rascoe	Critic	22-Oct-1892	19-Mar-1957	The New York Tribune
Eric Roberts	Actor	18-Apr-1956		Restraining Order
John Sculley	Business	6-Apr-1939		CEO of Apple, 1983-93
Carly Simon	Singer/Songwriter	25-Jun-1945		You're So Vain
Jake Steinfeld	Fitness Guru	21-Feb-1958		Body By Jake
Jimmy Stewart	Actor	20-May-1908	2-Jul-1997	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
John Stossel	Journalist	6-Mar-1947		Libertarian reporter
Peter Straub	Novelist	2-Mar-1943		Ghost Story
Stuttering John	Radio Personality	4-Oct-1965		Howard Stern's celebrity interviewer
Emmett Till	Victim	25-Jul-1941	28-Aug-1955	Black boy, murdered brutally in Mississippi
Mel Tillis	Country Musician	8-Aug-1932		I Ain't Never
John Updike	Novelist	18-Mar-1932	27-Jan-2009	Rabbit, Run
Bill Walton	Basketball	5-Nov-1952		NBA Most Valuable Player, 1978
Jack Welch	Business	19-Nov-1935		CEO of GE, 1981-2001
Bruce Willis	Actor	19-Mar-1955		Die Hard
Ann Wilson	Musician	19-Jun-1950		Heart
Paul Winchell	Actor	21-Dec-1922	24-Jun-2005	Ventriloquist and inventor

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