LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Abigail Adams	First Lady	11-Nov-1744	28-Oct-1818	Wife of US President John Adams
Drew Barrymore	Actor	22-Feb-1975		E.T., The Wedding Singer
Samuel Beckett	Playwright	13-May-1906	22-Dec-1989	Waiting for Godot
Charles Bedaux	Business	26-Oct-1887	18-Feb-1944	Industrial efficiency expert
Candice Bergen	Actor	9-May-1946		Murphy Brown
Mike Bloomfield	Guitarist	28-Jul-1943	15-Feb-1981	Guitarist, Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Louise Bourgeois	Sculptor	25-Dec-1911	31-May-2010	Crouching Spider
Poppy Z. Brite	Author	25-May-1967		Are You Loathsome Tonight?
Richard Burton	Actor	10-Nov-1925	5-Aug-1984	Nineteen Eighty Four
Sid Caesar	Comic	8-Sep-1922		Your Show of Shows
Caligula	Royalty	31-Aug-12 AD	24-Jan-41 AD	Roman Emperor, 37-41 AD
Roberto Clemente	Baseball	18-Aug-1934	31-Dec-1972	Puerto Rican baseball star
Bram Cohen	Computer Programmer	1975		Creator of BitTorrent
Charles Darwin	Naturalist	12-Feb-1809	19-Apr-1882	Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection
Alphonse Daudet	Novelist	13-May-1840	16-Dec-1897	Lettres de mon moulin
Nick Drake	Singer/Songwriter	19-Jun-1948	25-Nov-1974	Pink Moon
Sanjay Dutt	Actor	29-Jul-1959		Mission Kashmir
Queen Elizabeth I	Royalty	7-Sep-1533	24-Mar-1603	The Virgin Queen
Eminem	Rapper	17-Oct-1972		The Real Slim Shady
Colin Farrell	Actor	31-May-1976		Bullseye in Daredevil
Jay S. Fishman	Business	4-Nov-1952		CEO of Travelers
Vince Foster	Attorney	15-Jan-1945	20-Jul-1993	Deputy White House Counsel for Clinton
Judy Garland	Singer	10-Jun-1922	22-Jun-1969	Dorothy in Wizard of Oz
David Gest	Relative	11-May-1953		Ex-Husband of Liza Minnelli
Spalding Gray	Actor	5-Jun-1941	11-Jan-2004	Swimming to Cambodia monologist
Daryl Hannah	Actor	3-Dec-1960		Splash
Ernest Hemingway	Author	21-Jul-1899	2-Jul-1961	The Old Man And The Sea
Hermann Hesse	Author	2-Jul-1877	9-Aug-1962	Siddhartha
Cheryl Hines	Actor	21-Sep-1965		Curb Your Enthusiasm
Adolf Hitler	Head of State	20-Apr-1889	30-Apr-1945	Chancellor of Germany, 1933-45
Herman Hollerith	Inventor	29-Feb-1860	17-Nov-1929	Invented the punchcard
Johns Hopkins	Philanthropist	19-May-1795	24-Dec-1873	Johns Hopkins University and Hospital
Howard Hughes	Business	24-Sep-1905	5-Apr-1976	Insane billionaire
Mark R. Hughes	Business	1956	21-May-2000	Herbalife founder
Ivan the Terrible	Royalty	25-Aug-1530	18-Mar-1584	Russian Tsar, 1533-84
William James	Philosopher	11-Jan-1842	26-Aug-1910	The Principles of Psychology
Franz Kafka	Novelist	3-Jul-1883	3-Jun-1924	Metamorphosis
Mauricio Kagel	Composer	24-Dec-1931	18-Sep-2008	Absurdist composer
Patrick Joseph Kennedy	Politician	14-Jul-1967		Congressman from Rhode Island, 1995-2011
Barbara Kingsolver	Author	8-Apr-1955		Prodigal Summer
Alfred Kinsey	Scientist	23-Jun-1894	25-Aug-1956	Researched human sexual behavior
Rudyard Kipling	Author	30-Dec-1865	18-Jan-1936	The Jungle Book
Vivien Leigh	Actor	5-Nov-1913	8-Jul-1967	Gone With The Wind
Mary Kay Letourneau	Criminal	30-Jan-1962		America's Favorite Sex Offender
Mary Todd Lincoln	First Lady	13-Dec-1818	16-Jul-1882	Wife of US President Abraham Lincoln
Lydia Lunch	Musician	2-Jun-1959		Punk and spoken word confrontationalist
Frank Luntz	Pundit	23-Feb-1962		Republican pollster, strategist
Maria Theresa	Royalty	13-May-1717	28-Nov-1780	Archduchess of Austria
Groucho Marx	Comic	2-Oct-1890	19-Aug-1977	You Bet Your Life
Queen Mary I	Royalty	18-Feb-1516	17-Nov-1558	Queen of England, 1553-58
Anne McCaffrey	Author	1-Apr-1926	21-Nov-2011	Pern series
Aimee Semple McPherson	Religion	9-Oct-1890	27-Sep-1944	Evangelist, faith healer
Joyce Meyer	Religion	4-Jun-1943		Televangelist
Peter Mitchell	Chemist	29-Sep-1920	10-Apr-1992	ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondia
Marilyn Monroe	Actor	1-Jun-1926	5-Aug-1962	Some Like It Hot
Audie Murphy	Actor	20-Jun-1924	28-May-1971	War hero turned cowboy actor
Vladimir Nabokov	Novelist	23-Apr-1899	2-Jul-1977	Lolita
S. I. Newhouse, Sr.	Publisher	24-May-1895	29-Aug-1979	Founder of Advance Publications
Isaac Newton	Physicist	4-Jan-1643	31-Mar-1727	Father of the clockwork universe
John Noble	Actor	20-Aug-1948		Dr. Walter Bishop on Fringe
Lisa Nowak	Astronaut	10-May-1963		According to lawyer, no diaper
Jack Osbourne	Relative	8-Nov-1985		Son of Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne	Singer	3-Dec-1948		Black Sabbath
Al Pacino	Actor	25-Apr-1940		Michael Corleone in The Godfather
Blaise Pascal	Mathematician	19-Jun-1623	19-Aug-1662	French thinker and mathematician
Sylvia Plath	Poet	27-Oct-1932	11-Feb-1963	Daddy
Elvis Presley	Singer	8-Jan-1935	16-Aug-1977	Rock and roll icon
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh	Religion	11-Dec-1931	19-Jan-1990	Holy man, owned 93 Rolls-Royces
Richard Rodgers	Composer	28-Jun-1902	30-Dec-1979	Rodgers and Hammerstein
Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Painter	12-May-1828	9-Apr-1882	English pre-Raphaelite painter
Winona Ryder	Actor	29-Oct-1971		Edward Scissorhands
Robert Schumann	Composer	8-Jun-1810	29-Jul-1856	Toccata
Rod Serling	Author	25-Dec-1924	28-Jun-1975	Creator of The Twilight Zone
Paul Shanley	Religion	25-Jan-1931		Molesting priest
Russell Simmons	Business	4-Oct-1957		Def Jam Records
Betty Smith	Novelist	15-Dec-1896	17-Jan-1972	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Phil Spector	Music Producer	26-Dec-1940		Creator of the Wall of Sound
George Stephanopoulos	TV Personality	10-Feb-1961		Bill Clinton's communications director
Jon Stewart	Comic	28-Nov-1962		Anchor of The Daily Show
Sarah Vowell	Radio Personality	27-Dec-1969		This American Life
Mike Wallace	Journalist	9-May-1918	7-Apr-2012	Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward	Novelist	31-Aug-1844	28-Jan-1911	The Story of Avis
William A. Wheeler	Politician	30-Jun-1819	4-Jun-1887	Vice President under Hayes
Johann Winckelmann	Archaeologist	9-Dec-1717	8-Jun-1768	Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums

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