Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Red Allen |
Jazz Musician |
7-Jan-1908 |
17-Apr-1967 |
Jazz trumpeter |
Charles Arnt |
Actor |
20-Aug-1906 |
6-Aug-1990 |
Remember the Night |
Count Basie |
Pianist |
21-Aug-1904 |
26-Apr-1984 |
Big band pianist |
Alan Bates |
Actor |
17-Feb-1934 |
27-Dec-2003 |
Basil in Zorba the Greek |
Griffin Bell |
Government |
31-Oct-1918 |
5-Jan-2009 |
US Attorney General, 1977-79 |
Melvin Belli |
Attorney |
29-Jul-1907 |
9-Jul-1996 |
The King of Torts |
Jack Benny |
Actor |
14-Feb-1894 |
26-Dec-1974 |
The Jack Benny Show |
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin |
Religion |
2-Apr-1928 |
14-Nov-1996 |
Archbishop of Chicago, 1982-96 |
James Bevel |
Activist |
19-Oct-1936 |
19-Dec-2008 |
Civil rights activist, convicted of incest |
Albert H. Bowker |
Educator |
8-Sep-1919 |
20-Jan-2008 |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1971-80 |
Myles Brand |
Educator |
17-May-1942 |
16-Sep-2009 |
President of the NCAA, 2003-09 |
Pamela Brown |
Actor |
8-Jul-1917 |
18-Sep-1975 |
Lust for Life |
Madeleine Carroll |
Actor |
26-Feb-1906 |
2-Oct-1987 |
The 39 Steps |
Betty Carter |
Singer |
16-May-1929 |
26-Sep-1998 |
Jazz vocalist |
Billy Carter |
Relative |
29-Mar-1937 |
25-Sep-1988 |
Brother of Jimmy Carter |
Oona Chaplin |
Relative |
13-May-1926 |
27-Sep-1991 |
Wife of Charlie Chaplin |
Frank Church |
Politician |
25-Jul-1924 |
7-Apr-1984 |
US Senator from Idaho, 1957-81 |
Joan Crawford |
Actor |
23-Mar-1905 |
10-May-1977 |
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
Richard Crenna |
Actor |
30-Nov-1927 |
18-Jan-2003 |
Our Miss Brooks |
Chuck Daly |
Basketball |
20-Jul-1930 |
9-May-2009 |
Won 2 NBA Championships with the Pistons |
John R. Dawson |
Diplomat |
1950 |
1-Aug-2003 |
US Ambassador to Peru, 2002-03 |
Cecil Day-Lewis |
Poet |
27-Apr-1904 |
22-May-1972 |
UK Poet Laureate, 1968-72 |
John Cardinal Dearden |
Religion |
15-Oct-1907 |
1-Aug-1988 |
Archbishop of Detroit, 1958-80 |
Michael Deaver |
Government |
11-Apr-1938 |
18-Aug-2007 |
Reagan Deputy Chief of Staff |
Patrick Dennis |
Novelist |
18-May-1921 |
6-Nov-1976 |
Auntie Mame |
Jacques Derrida |
Philosopher |
15-Jul-1930 |
9-Oct-2004 |
Deconstructionism, Intellectual Terrorist |
Willy DeVille |
Singer/Songwriter |
27-Aug-1950 |
6-Aug-2009 |
Frontman, Mink DeVille |
Frank Graves Dickey |
Educator |
1-Dec-1917 |
7-Aug-2009 |
President, University of Kentucky, 1956-63 |
Vince Edwards |
Actor |
7-Jul-1928 |
11-Mar-1996 |
Ben Casey |
Ralph Ellison |
Novelist |
1-Mar-1914 |
16-Apr-1994 |
Invisible Man |
René Enríquez |
Actor |
24-Nov-1933 |
23-Mar-1990 |
Lt. Ray Calletano on Hill Street Blues |
Max Faget |
Scientist |
26-Aug-1921 |
9-Oct-2004 |
Designer of NASA spacecraft |
Malachi Favors |
Bassist |
22-Aug-1927 |
30-Jan-2004 |
Bass player for Art Ensemble of Chicago |
Art Fleming |
Game Show Host |
1-May-1924 |
25-Apr-1995 |
Original Jeopardy! host |
Eddie Foy, Jr. |
Actor |
4-Feb-1905 |
15-Jul-1983 |
The Pajama Game |
Anne Francis |
Actor |
16-Sep-1930 |
2-Jan-2011 |
Forbidden Planet |
William Gaddis |
Novelist |
29-Dec-1922 |
16-Dec-1998 |
A Frolic of His Own |
Peggy Ann Garner |
Actor |
3-Feb-1932 |
16-Oct-1984 |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
Ben Gazzara |
Actor |
28-Aug-1930 |
3-Feb-2012 |
The Thomas Crown Affair |
Sheldon G. Gilgore |
Business |
13-Feb-1932 |
12-Feb-2010 |
CEO of Searle, 1986-95 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
Jazz Musician |
21-Oct-1917 |
7-Jan-1993 |
Be-bop jazz trumpeter |
Mark Goodson |
Film/TV Producer |
14-Jan-1915 |
18-Dec-1992 |
Goodson-Todman Productions |
L. Patrick Gray |
Government |
18-Jul-1916 |
6-Jul-2005 |
Acting FBI Director, 1972-73 |
David Greene |
Film Director |
22-Feb-1921 |
7-Apr-2003 |
Gray Lady Down |
Zvi Griliches |
Economist |
12-Sep-1930 |
4-Nov-1999 |
Technology, Education, and Productivity |
Fred Gwynne |
Actor |
10-Jul-1926 |
2-Jul-1993 |
Herman on The Munsters |
E. R. Haggar |
Business |
18-Sep-1916 |
29-Sep-2004 |
President/CEO of Haggar Clothing Co. |
George Halas |
Football |
2-Feb-1895 |
31-Oct-1983 |
Founder of the Chicago Bears |
Lorraine Hansberry |
Playwright |
19-May-1930 |
12-Jan-1965 |
A Raisin in the Sun |
Rex Harrison |
Actor |
5-Mar-1908 |
2-Jun-1990 |
My Fair Lady |
Frank Herbert |
Author |
8-Oct-1920 |
11-Feb-1986 |
Dune |
Don Hewitt |
Film/TV Producer |
14-Dec-1922 |
19-Aug-2009 |
60 Minutes creator |
Bill Hicks |
Comic |
16-Dec-1961 |
26-Feb-1994 |
Visionary comedian, met untimely death |
Gareth Hunt |
Actor |
7-Feb-1942 |
14-Mar-2007 |
The New Avengers |
Steve James |
Actor |
19-Feb-1952 |
18-Dec-1993 |
American Ninja |
Steve Jobs |
Business |
24-Feb-1955 |
5-Oct-2011 |
Co-Founder of Apple Computer |
Jerry Juhl |
Screenwriter |
27-Jul-1938 |
27-Sep-2005 |
Head writer, The Muppet Show |
Fiorello LaGuardia |
Politician |
11-Dec-1882 |
20-Sep-1947 |
New York City Mayor, 1934-45 |
Michael Landon |
Actor |
31-Oct-1936 |
1-Jul-1991 |
Little House on the Prairie |
Brian Lenihan |
Politician |
21-May-1959 |
10-Jun-2011 |
Irish Finance Minister, 2008-11 |
Diana Lewis |
Actor |
18-Sep-1919 |
18-Jan-1997 |
Go West |
John D. MacArthur |
Philanthropist |
6-Mar-1897 |
6-Jan-1978 |
Philanthropist, MacArthur Foundation |
Anna Magnani |
Actor |
7-Mar-1908 |
26-Sep-1973 |
The Rose Tattoo |
Henry Mancini |
Composer |
16-Apr-1924 |
14-Jun-1994 |
Moon River |
Benoit Mandelbrot |
Mathematician |
20-Nov-1924 |
14-Oct-2010 |
Fractal mathematician |
William C. Marland |
Politician |
26-Mar-1918 |
26-Nov-1965 |
Governor of West Virginia, 1953-57 |
Kenneth Mars |
Actor |
14-Apr-1936 |
12-Feb-2011 |
The Producers |
Marcello Mastroianni |
Actor |
28-Sep-1924 |
19-Dec-1996 |
The Pizza Triangle |
Andrew J. McKelvey |
Business |
c. 1935 |
27-Nov-2008 |
Founder of TMP Worldwide |
Margaret Mead |
Anthropologist |
16-Dec-1901 |
15-Nov-1978 |
Coming of Age in Samoa |
Hyman Minsky |
Economist |
23-Sep-1919 |
25-Oct-1996 |
Inherently unstable markets |
Jack Nelson |
Journalist |
11-Oct-1929 |
21-Oct-2009 |
The Los Angeles Times |
Ron O'Neal |
Actor |
1-Sep-1937 |
14-Jan-2004 |
Youngblood Priest in Superfly |
Benjamin Orr |
Bassist |
8-Sep-1947 |
3-Oct-2000 |
Bassist for The Cars |
Bill Owen |
Actor |
14-Mar-1914 |
12-Jul-1999 |
Last of the Summer Wine |
Randy Pausch |
Educator |
23-Oct-1960 |
25-Jul-2008 |
The Last Lecture |
M. Scott Peck |
Author |
22-May-1936 |
25-Sep-2005 |
The Road Less Traveled |
Brock Peters |
Actor |
2-Jul-1927 |
23-Aug-2005 |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
Sam Pollock |
Hockey |
25-Dec-1925 |
15-Aug-2007 |
GM of Montreal Canadiens, 1964-78 |
Lily Pons |
Singer |
12-Apr-1898 |
13-Feb-1976 |
French-American coloratura soprano |
Dith Pran |
Journalist |
27-Sep-1942 |
30-Mar-2008 |
Subject of The Killing Fields |
Harve Presnell |
Actor |
14-Sep-1933 |
30-Jun-2009 |
When the Boys Meet the Girls |
Juliet Prowse |
Dancer |
25-Sep-1936 |
14-Sep-1996 |
Can-Can |
William Thornton Pryce |
Diplomat |
19-Jul-1932 |
11-Jul-2006 |
US Ambassador to Honduras, 1993-96 |
Jef Raskin |
Computer Programmer |
9-Mar-1943 |
26-Feb-2005 |
Designed Macintosh human interface |
Donna Reed |
Actor |
27-Jan-1921 |
14-Jan-1986 |
The Donna Reed Show |
Richard Joshua Reynolds |
Business |
20-Jul-1850 |
29-Jul-1918 |
Founder of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. |
Sally Ride |
Astronaut |
26-May-1951 |
23-Jul-2012 |
First American woman in space |
Pernell Roberts |
Actor |
18-May-1928 |
24-Jan-2010 |
Trapper John, M.D. |
Winthrop Rockefeller |
Business |
1-May-1912 |
22-Feb-1973 |
Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71 |
Richard Rorty |
Philosopher |
4-Oct-1931 |
8-Jun-2007 |
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature |
Mstislav Rostropovich |
Cellist |
27-Mar-1927 |
27-Apr-2007 |
Cellist and conductor |
William Safire |
Columnist |
17-Dec-1929 |
27-Sep-2009 |
NYT columnist, language maven |
Allan R. Sandage |
Astronomer |
18-Jun-1926 |
13-Nov-2010 |
Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars |
Julian Schwinger |
Physicist |
12-Feb-1918 |
16-Jul-1994 |
Quantum electrodynamics |
Talcott W. Seelye |
Diplomat |
6-Mar-1922 |
8-Jun-2006 |
US Ambassador to Syria, 1979-81 |
Simone Signoret |
Actor |
25-Mar-1921 |
30-Sep-1985 |
Ship of Fools |
Eugene C. Sit |
Business |
8-Aug-1938 |
24-Jun-2008 |
Sit Investment Associates |
Ralph M. Steinman |
Biologist |
14-Jan-1943 |
30-Sep-2011 |
Dendritic cells |
Patrick Swayze |
Actor |
18-Aug-1952 |
14-Sep-2009 |
Dirty Dancing |
Gene Upshaw |
Football |
15-Aug-1945 |
20-Aug-2008 |
NFL Hall-of-Fame Guard, NFLPA Leader |
Guy Vander Jagt |
Politician |
26-Aug-1931 |
22-Jun-2007 |
Congressman from Michigan, 1966-93 |
Irving Wallace |
Author |
19-Mar-1916 |
29-Jun-1990 |
The Book of Lists |
Eugen Weber |
Historian |
24-Apr-1925 |
17-May-2007 |
The Western Tradition |
Walter B. Wriston |
Business |
3-Aug-1919 |
19-Jan-2005 |
CEO of Citibank, 1967-84 |
Philip Yordan |
Screenwriter |
1-Apr-1914 |
24-Mar-2003 |
The Battle of the Bulge |
Warren Zimmermann |
Diplomat |
16-Nov-1934 |
2-Feb-2004 |
US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1989-92 |
Marvin Zindler |
Journalist |
10-Aug-1921 |
29-Jul-2007 |
Houston reporter, KTRK-TV |