LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Bud Abbott	Actor	2-Oct-1895	24-Apr-1974	Half of Abbott and Costello
Neil Abercrombie	Politician	26-Jun-1938		Governor of Hawaii
Grover Cleveland Alexander	Baseball	26-Feb-1887	4-Nov-1950	Pitcher, 373 career wins
Hector Berlioz	Composer	11-Dec-1803	8-Mar-1869	French romantic composer
John Berryman	Poet	25-Oct-1914	7-Jan-1972	Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Ronnie Biggs	Criminal	8-Aug-1929		UK Great Train Robber
Ward Bond	Actor	9-Apr-1903	5-Nov-1960	Wagon Train
Bart Braverman	Actor	1-Feb-1946		Binzer on Vega$
Lindsey Buckingham	Musician	3-Oct-1949		Fleetwood Mac
Richard Burton	Actor	10-Nov-1925	5-Aug-1984	Nineteen Eighty Four
Lord Byron	Poet	22-Jan-1788	19-Apr-1824	English romantic poet
Julius Caesar	Head of State	13-Jul-100 BC	15-Mar-44 BC	Roman Dictator 45 BC until 44 BC
Truman Capote	Novelist	30-Sep-1924	25-Aug-1984	In Cold Blood
Lewis Carroll	Author	27-Jan-1832	14-Jan-1898	Alice in Wonderland
Charles the Fat	Royalty	c. 832 AD	13-Jan-888 AD	King of France, Italy, Bavaria
Agatha Christie	Novelist	15-Sep-1890	12-Jan-1976	Mystery novelist
Manning Clark	Historian	3-Mar-1915	23-May-1991	A History of Australia
Tony Coelho	Politician	15-Jun-1942		Congressman from California, 1979-89
Ian Curtis	Singer	15-Jul-1956	18-May-1980	Lead singer of Joy Division
Charles Dickens	Novelist	7-Feb-1812	9-Jun-1870	Oliver Twist
Emilie Dionne	Victim	28-May-1934	6-Aug-1954	Canadian quintuplets put on display
Fyodor Dostoevsky	Novelist	30-Oct-1821	28-Jan-1881	Crime and Punishment
Gustave Flaubert	Novelist	12-Dec-1821	8-May-1880	Realist novelist, Madame Bovary
John Gilmore	Activist	Aug-1955		Cofounder: EFF, Cypherpunks
Danny Glover	Actor	22-Jul-1946		Lethal Weapon
Margaux Hemingway	Actor	16-Feb-1955	2-Jul-1996	Troubled actress OD'd on klonopin
John III Ducas Vatatzes	Royalty	1193	3-Nov-1254	Byzantine Emperor, 1222-54
Chloe Jones	Pornstar	17-Jun-1975	2-Jun-2005	Where the Boys Aren't 17
Florence Griffith Joyner	Track and Field	21-Dec-1959	21-Sep-1998	Olympic sprinter
Tony Lazzeri	Baseball	6-Dec-1903	6-Aug-1946	Yankees second baseman, Hall-of-Famer
Edward Lear	Poet	12-May-1812	29-Jan-1888	The Owl and the Pussycat
Vladimir Lenin	Head of State	22-Apr-1870	21-Jan-1924	Revolutionary leader of Soviet Union
Vachel Lindsay	Poet	10-Nov-1879	5-Dec-1931	The Congo and Other Poems
Machado de Assis	Novelist	21-Jun-1839	29-Sep-1908	Dom Casmurro
Rik Mayall	Actor	7-Mar-1958		Rick on The Young Ones
Gregor Mendel	Scientist	22-Jul-1822	6-Jan-1884	Discovered the laws of inheritance
Stephin Merritt	Singer/Songwriter	1966		The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths
Lambdin P. Milligan	Criminal	24-Mar-1812	21-Dec-1899	Ex Parte Milligan
Alfred Nobel	Inventor	21-Oct-1833	10-Dec-1896	Dynamite inventor, established Nobel Prize
Alferd Packer	Criminal	21-Nov-1842	23-Apr-1907	Celebrated cannibal killer
Pope Pius IX	Religion	13-May-1792	7-Feb-1878	Declared himself infallible
Edgar Allan Poe	Author	19-Jan-1809	7-Oct-1849	The Raven
Prince	Musician	7-Jun-1958		Purple Rain
Elizabeth Clare Prophet	Religion	8-Apr-1939	15-Oct-2009	Church Universal and Triumphant
Richard Ramirez	Criminal	29-Feb-1960		Serial killer, on death row in California
Jimmy Reed	Singer	6-Sep-1925	29-Aug-1976	Blues singer/guitarist, Big Boss Man
John G. Roberts, Jr.	Judge	27-Jan-1955		US Chief Justice
Kurt Schwitters	Artist	20-Jun-1887	8-Jan-1948	Collagist, Merz
Ruth Snyder	Criminal	1895	12-Jan-1928	Electrocuted for murdering husband
Vincent van Gogh	Painter	30-Mar-1853	29-Jul-1890	Troubled and brilliant painter
Hugo Weaving	Actor	4-Apr-1960		Agent Smith in The Matrix
Michael Wilding	Actor	23-Jul-1912	8-Jul-1979	Torch Song
Neil Young	Singer/Songwriter	12-Nov-1945		Harvest

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