Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Brock Adams |
Politician |
13-Jan-1927 |
10-Sep-2004 |
US Senator from Washington, 1987-93 |
Terence Alexander |
Actor |
11-Mar-1923 |
28-May-2009 |
Charlie Hungerford in Bergerac |
Muhammad Ali |
Boxing |
17-Jan-1942 |
|
Floated like butterfly, stung like bee |
Frank Annunzio |
Politician |
12-Jan-1915 |
8-Apr-2001 |
Congressman from Illinois, 1965-93 |
Sig Arno |
Actor |
27-Dec-1895 |
17-Aug-1975 |
The Palm Beach Story |
Roy L. Ash |
Business |
20-Oct-1918 |
14-Dec-2011 |
Director of the OMB, 1973-75 |
Joseph Babinski |
Doctor |
17-Nov-1857 |
29-Oct-1932 |
The Babinski sign |
Anthony Barber |
Politician |
4-Jul-1920 |
16-Dec-2005 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1970-74 |
Lucius Battle |
Diplomat |
1-Jun-1918 |
13-May-2008 |
US Ambassador to Egypt, 1964-67 |
Henry Bellmon |
Politician |
3-Sep-1921 |
29-Sep-2009 |
Governor and Senator from Oklahoma |
Lipman Bers |
Mathematician |
22-May-1914 |
29-Oct-1993 |
Riemann surfaces |
John Betjeman |
Poet |
28-Aug-1906 |
19-May-1984 |
Summoned By Bells |
Whit Bissell |
Actor |
25-Oct-1909 |
5-Mar-1996 |
The Time Tunnel |
Earl Blackwell |
Business |
3-May-1913 |
1-Mar-1995 |
Celebrity publicist |
William Boyd |
Actor |
5-Jun-1895 |
12-Sep-1972 |
Hopalong Cassidy |
Robert F. Bradford |
Politician |
15-Dec-1902 |
18-Mar-1983 |
Governor of Massachusetts, 1947-49 |
Emanuel Bronner |
Business |
1-Feb-1908 |
7-Mar-1997 |
Soap label philosopher |
Henry Brooke |
Politician |
9-Apr-1903 |
29-Mar-1984 |
UK Home Secretary, 1962-64 |
Winthrop G. Brown |
Diplomat |
12-Jul-1907 |
25-May-1987 |
US Ambassador to South Korea, 1964-67 |
Jack Buck |
Sports Journalist |
21-Aug-1924 |
18-Jun-2002 |
Voice of the Cardinals |
Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Novelist |
1-Sep-1875 |
19-Mar-1950 |
Tarzan |
Harold H. Burton |
Judge |
22-Jun-1888 |
28-Oct-1964 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1945-58 |
Roger Caron |
Criminal |
12-Apr-1938 |
11-Apr-2012 |
Go-Boy! Memoirs of a Life Behind Bars |
Johnny Cash |
Country Musician |
26-Feb-1932 |
12-Sep-2003 |
The Man in Black |
Owen Chamberlain |
Physicist |
10-Jul-1920 |
28-Feb-2006 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
Sam Church |
Labor Leader |
20-Sep-1936 |
14-Jul-2009 |
UMW President, 1979-82 |
Donald D. Clancy |
Politician |
24-Jul-1921 |
12-Jun-2007 |
Congressman from Ohio, 1961-77 |
Violet Kemble Cooper |
Actor |
12-Dec-1886 |
17-Aug-1961 |
Our Betters |
Robert B. Crosby |
Politician |
26-Mar-1911 |
7-Jan-2000 |
Governor of Nebraska, 1953-55 |
Howard Dietz |
Songwriter |
8-Sep-1896 |
30-Jul-1983 |
MGM songwriter, publicity chief |
James Doohan |
Actor |
3-Mar-1920 |
20-Jul-2005 |
Scotty on Star Trek |
Lane Evans |
Politician |
4-Aug-1951 |
|
Congressman, Illinois 17th |
Leo Fender |
Inventor |
10-Aug-1909 |
21-Mar-1991 |
Electric guitarmaker |
Lukas Foss |
Conductor |
15-Aug-1922 |
1-Feb-2009 |
Director, Buffalo Philharmonic, 1963-71 |
Michael J. Fox |
Actor |
9-Jun-1961 |
|
Back to the Future |
Booth Gardner |
Politician |
21-Aug-1936 |
|
Governor of Washington, 1985-93 |
Estelle Getty |
Actor |
25-Jul-1923 |
22-Jul-2008 |
The Golden Girls |
Jay Gorney |
Composer |
12-Dec-1896 |
14-Jun-1990 |
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? |
Billy Graham |
Religion |
7-Nov-1918 |
|
Televangelist |
Chester Himes |
Author |
19-Jul-1909 |
12-Nov-1984 |
Lonely Crusade |
Peter Hoagland |
Politician |
17-Nov-1941 |
30-Oct-2007 |
Congressman from Nebraska, 1989-95 |
Bob Hoskins |
Actor |
26-Oct-1942 |
|
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? |
Josefa Iloilo |
Head of State |
29-Dec-1920 |
6-Feb-2011 |
President of Fiji, 2000-09 |
Alec Issigonis |
Engineer |
18-Nov-1906 |
2-Oct-1988 |
Designer of the Mini Cooper |
Pope John Paul II |
Religion |
18-May-1920 |
2-Apr-2005 |
Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1978-2005 |
Erland Josephson |
Actor |
15-Jun-1923 |
25-Feb-2012 |
The Sacrifice |
Carl Karcher |
Business |
16-Jan-1917 |
11-Jan-2008 |
Founder of Carl's Jr. |
Erle C. Kenton |
Film Director |
1-Aug-1896 |
28-Jan-1980 |
House of Frankenstein |
Deborah Kerr |
Actor |
30-Sep-1921 |
16-Oct-2007 |
From Here to Eternity |
Guy Kibbee |
Actor |
6-Mar-1882 |
24-May-1956 |
Captain January |
Michael Kinsley |
Pundit |
9-Mar-1951 |
|
Founding editor of Slate |
Arthur Koestler |
Author |
3-Sep-1905 |
3-Mar-1983 |
Darkness at Noon |
Harvey Kurtzman |
Cartoonist |
3-Oct-1924 |
21-Feb-1993 |
Founding editor, Mad magazine |
Harold LeVander |
Politician |
10-Oct-1910 |
30-Mar-1992 |
Governor of Minnesota, 1967-71 |
Anthony Lewis |
Journalist |
27-Mar-1927 |
|
Gideon's Trumpet |
John Lindsay |
Politician |
24-Nov-1921 |
19-Dec-2000 |
Mayor of New York City, 1966-73 |
Russell Long |
Politician |
3-Nov-1918 |
9-May-2003 |
US Senator from Louisiana, 1948-87 |
Douglas MacArthur |
Military |
26-Jan-1880 |
5-Apr-1964 |
General of the Army |
Mao |
Head of State |
26-Dec-1893 |
9-Sep-1976 |
Great Leap Forward! |
Charles Mathias |
Politician |
24-Jul-1922 |
25-Jan-2010 |
US Senator from Maryland, 1969-87 |
E. Arthur Milne |
Mathematician |
14-Feb-1896 |
21-Sep-1950 |
Kinematic relativity |
Kenneth More |
Actor |
20-Sep-1914 |
12-Jul-1982 |
The Admirable Crichton |
William Mulholland |
Engineer |
11-Sep-1855 |
22-Jul-1935 |
Los Angeles Aqueduct |
Anna Neagle |
Singer |
20-Oct-1904 |
3-Jun-1986 |
Victoria the Great |
Joseph Needham |
Historian |
9-Dec-1900 |
24-Mar-1995 |
Science and Civilization in China |
George E. Palade |
Scientist |
19-Nov-1912 |
7-Oct-2008 |
Microstructure of the cell |
Joe Pasternak |
Film/TV Producer |
19-Sep-1901 |
13-Sep-1991 |
Destry Rides Again |
John O. Pastore |
Politician |
17-Mar-1907 |
15-Jul-2000 |
Governor and Senator from Rhode Island |
Mervyn Peake |
Novelist |
9-Jul-1911 |
17-Nov-1968 |
Titus Groan |
M. Scott Peck |
Author |
22-May-1936 |
25-Sep-2005 |
The Road Less Traveled |
Jeffry M. Picower |
Business |
5-May-1942 |
25-Oct-2009 |
Became billionaire via Madoff's Ponzi |
Thomas H. Pigford |
Engineer |
21-Apr-1922 |
27-Feb-2010 |
Nuclear chemical engineer |
Vincent Price |
Actor |
27-May-1911 |
25-Oct-1993 |
Master of the macabre |
Michael Redgrave |
Actor |
20-Mar-1908 |
21-Mar-1985 |
Mourning Becomes Electra |
Merlyn Rees |
Politician |
18-Dec-1920 |
5-Jan-2006 |
UK Home Secretary, 1976-79 |
Janet Reno |
Government |
21-Jul-1938 |
|
Clinton's US Attorney General |
Roy Riegels |
Football |
4-Apr-1908 |
26-Mar-1993 |
Ran wrong way in 1929 Rose Bowl |
James Roosevelt |
Politician |
23-Dec-1907 |
13-Aug-1991 |
Congressman from California, 1955-65 |
F. Sherwood Rowland |
Chemist |
28-Jun-1927 |
10-Mar-2012 |
Ozone depletion |
Melvin Schwartz |
Physicist |
2-Nov-1932 |
28-Aug-2006 |
Researcher of neutrinos |
Willard W. Scott, Jr. |
Military |
18-Feb-1926 |
1-Jan-2009 |
Superintendent of West Point, 1981-86 |
Erich Segal |
Novelist |
16-Jun-1937 |
17-Jan-2010 |
Love Story |
Morton Shulman |
Politician |
25-Apr-1925 |
18-Aug-2000 |
Ontario MPP, iconoclast |
Loyd Sigmon |
Radio Personality |
6-May-1909 |
2-Jun-2004 |
SigAlert inventor |
Milward L. Simpson |
Politician |
12-Nov-1897 |
10-Jun-1993 |
Governor and Senator from Wyoming |
Joseph Skeen |
Politician |
30-Jun-1927 |
7-Dec-2003 |
Congressman from New Mexico, 1981-2003 |
Carl W. Strom |
Diplomat |
22-Dec-1899 |
27-Jan-1969 |
US Ambassador to Bolivia, 1959-61 |
Ida M. Tarbell |
Journalist |
5-Nov-1857 |
6-Jan-1944 |
History of the Standard Oil Company |
A. J. P. Taylor |
Historian |
25-Mar-1906 |
7-Sep-1990 |
The Origins of the Second World War |
Terry-Thomas |
Actor |
14-Jul-1911 |
8-Jan-1990 |
Private's Progress |
Meldrim Thomson, Jr. |
Politician |
8-Mar-1912 |
19-Apr-2001 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1973-79 |
Jeremy Thorpe |
Politician |
29-Apr-1929 |
|
Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1967-76 |
Pierre Trudeau |
Head of State |
18-Oct-1919 |
28-Sep-2000 |
Twice Prime Minister of Canada |
Harry S. Truman |
Head of State |
8-May-1884 |
26-Dec-1972 |
33rd US President, 1945-53 |
Richard Vernon |
Actor |
7-Mar-1925 |
4-Dec-1997 |
Oldenshaw on The Man in Room 17 |
John Webb |
Judge |
18-Sep-1926 |
18-Sep-2008 |
NC State Supreme Court Justice, 1986-98 |
Paul Francis Webster |
Songwriter |
20-Dec-1907 |
22-Mar-1984 |
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing |
Maurice White |
Musician |
19-Dec-1941 |
|
Founder, Earth, Wind & Fire |
Edward Winter |
Actor |
3-Jun-1937 |
8-Mar-2001 |
Col. Flagg on M*A*S*H |
David L. Wolper |
Film/TV Producer |
11-Jan-1928 |
10-Aug-2010 |
Roots |
Ed Wynn |
Actor |
9-Nov-1886 |
19-Jun-1966 |
Requiem for a Heavyweight |
Raul Yzaguirre |
Activist |
22-Jul-1939 |
|
National Council of La Raza |
Howard Zieff |
Film Director |
21-Oct-1927 |
22-Feb-2009 |
Private Benjamin |