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Aptly named morphium after the Greek god of dreams when first isolated from opium in 1804, morphine had to wait until the introduction of IV needles to make it big. Afterwards it was refined still further until they got it right AKA heroin.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Louisa May Alcott	Author	29-Nov-1832	6-Mar-1888	Little Women
Fatty Arbuckle	Actor	24-Mar-1887	29-Jun-1933	Keystone Cop
Jordan Belfort	Business	9-Jul-1962		The Wolf of Wall Street
Anita Berber	Actor	10-Jun-1899	10-Nov-1928	Scarlet whore of Berlin
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Poet	6-Mar-1806	29-Jun-1861	Sonnets from the Portuguese
William S. Burroughs	Author	5-Feb-1914	2-Aug-1997	Naked Lunch
James McKeen Cattell	Psychologist	24-May-1860	20-Jan-1944	Academic freedom
Isabelle Eberhardt	Author	17-Feb-1877	21-Oct-1904	Transvestite Muslim author
Dietrich Eckart	Playwright	23-Mar-1868	25-Dec-1923	Nazi intellectual, Hitler's best friend
Hermann Goering	Military	12-Jan-1893	15-Oct-1946	Founder of the Gestapo
William Stewart Halsted	Doctor	23-Sep-1852	7-Sep-1922	Pioneer of sterile surgical technique
Edward A. Hannegan	Politician	25-Jun-1807	25-Feb-1859	US Senator, committed suicide
Jack London	Novelist	12-Jan-1876	22-Nov-1916	Call of the Wild
Bela Lugosi	Actor	20-Oct-1882	16-Aug-1956	Dracula
Charlie Parker	Jazz Musician	29-Aug-1920	12-Mar-1955	Be-bop jazz musician
Jack Parsons	Scientist	2-Oct-1914	17-Jul-1952	Satanic rocket scientist
John S. Pemberton	Inventor	8-Jul-1831	16-Aug-1888	Creator of Coca-Cola
Edith Piaf	Singer	19-Dec-1915	11-Oct-1963	Internationally-renowned French chanteuse
Marcel Proust	Author	10-Jul-1871	18-Nov-1922	In Search of Lost Time
Adam Rich	Actor	12-Oct-1968		Nicholas Bradford on Eight is Enough
Françoise Sagan	Novelist	21-Jun-1935	24-Sep-2004	Bonjour Tristesse
Hank Williams, Sr.	Country Musician	17-Sep-1923	1-Jan-1953	Take These Chains From My Heart

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