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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Jeff Buckley
Singer
17-Nov-1966 29-May-1997 Influential rock vocalist
Johnny Burnette
Musician
25-Mar-1934 14-Aug-1964 Rockabilly instigator
Bartholomew Diaz
Explorer
c. 1450 29-May-1500 Found the Cape of Good Hope
Wim Duisenberg
Business
9-Jul-1935 31-Jul-2005 President, European Central Bank, 1998-2003
Isabelle Eberhardt
Author
17-Feb-1877 21-Oct-1904 Transvestite Muslim author
Eric Fleming
Actor
4-Jul-1925 28-Sep-1966 Gil Favor on Rawhide
Althea Flynt
Relative
6-Nov-1953 27-Jun-1987 Larry Flynt's dead wife
Malcolm Hardee
Comic
5-Jan-1950 31-Jan-2005 I Stole Freddie Mercury's Birthday Cake
Georg Heym
Poet
30-Oct-1887 16-Jan-1912 Der ewige Tag
Avery Hopwood
Playwright
28-May-1882 1-Jul-1928 The Bat
Whitney Houston
Singer
9-Aug-1963 11-Feb-2012 Diva and cautionary tale
William Stanley Jevons
Economist
1-Sep-1835 13-Aug-1882 Theory of Political Economy
Brian Jones
Guitarist
28-Feb-1942 3-Jul-1969 Guitarist for the Rolling Stones
István Kertész
Conductor
28-Aug-1929 16-Apr-1973 Hungarian operatic conductor
Rodney King
Victim
2-Apr-1965 17-Jun-2012 Subject of filmed LAPD beatdown
Ludwig II
Royalty
25-Aug-1845 13-Jun-1886 Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, 1864-86
Kenneth Mackenzie
Novelist
25-Sep-1913 19-Jan-1955 Dead Men Rising
Robert Maxwell
Publisher
10-Jun-1923 5-Nov-1991 Mirror Group tycoon
Menander
Playwright
c. 342 BC c. 292 BC Early Greek comic dramatist
Josef Mengele
Doctor
16-Mar-1911 7-Feb-1979 The Angel of Death
Maria Montez
Actor
6-Jun-1912 7-Sep-1951 The Exile
Jeffry M. Picower
Business
5-May-1942 25-Oct-2009 Became billionaire via Madoff's Ponzi
Marie-France Pisier
Actor
10-May-1944 24-Apr-2011 The Other Side of Midnight
Frank Podmore
Author
5-Feb-1856 14-Aug-1910 Fabian Society
Joseph Scriven
Songwriter
10-Sep-1819 10-Aug-1886 What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Nerine Shatner
Relative
c. 1959 9-Aug-1999 William Shatner's drowned wife
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet
4-Aug-1792 8-Jul-1822 Prometheus Unbound
Edward Smith
Victim
27-Jan-1850 15-Apr-1912 Captain of the RMS Titanic
W. T. Stead
Journalist
5-Jul-1849 15-Apr-1912 Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, 1883-89
Carol Wayne
Actor
6-Sep-1942 13-Jan-1985 Art Fern's Tea-Time Movie Lady
Dennis Wilson
Musician
4-Dec-1944 28-Dec-1983 Founding member, The Beach Boys
Natalie Wood
Actor
20-Jul-1938 29-Nov-1981 Rebel Without A Cause



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