| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Don Adams |
Actor |
13-Apr-1926 |
25-Sep-2005 |
Maxwell Smart on Get Smart |
| Mary Astor |
Actor |
3-May-1906 |
25-Sep-1987 |
The Maltese Falcon |
| Atahualpa |
Royalty |
c. 1502 |
29-Aug-1533 |
Incan king ransomed, killed by Pizarro |
| Lee Atwater |
Politician |
27-Feb-1951 |
29-Mar-1991 |
RNC Chairman, 1988-90 |
| Augustus II |
Royalty |
12-May-1670 |
1-Feb-1733 |
King of Poland, Elector of Saxony |
| Augustus III |
Royalty |
17-Oct-1696 |
5-Oct-1763 |
Elector of Saxony, King of Poland |
| Binnie Barnes |
Actor |
25-May-1903 |
27-Jul-1998 |
The Private Life of Henry VIII |
| Aubrey Beardsley |
Artist |
21-Aug-1872 |
16-Mar-1898 |
Leading late 19th c. English illustrator |
| Mary Kay Bergman |
Actor |
5-Jun-1961 |
11-Nov-1999 |
South Park |
| Lennox Berkeley |
Composer |
12-May-1903 |
26-Dec-1989 |
Stabat Mater |
| G. W. Bitzer |
Cinematographer |
21-Apr-1872 |
29-Apr-1944 |
The Birth of a Nation |
| Conrad Black |
Business |
25-Aug-1944 |
|
Rapacious newspaper mogul |
| Tony Blair |
Head of State |
6-May-1953 |
|
UK Prime Minister, 1997-2007 |
| Emperor Bokassa I |
Royalty |
22-Feb-1921 |
3-Nov-1996 |
Central African Emperor |
| Erma Bombeck |
Columnist |
21-Feb-1927 |
22-Apr-1996 |
The Grass is Always Greener |
| Robert Bork |
Government |
1-Mar-1927 |
19-Dec-2012 |
Fired Archibald Cox, later got himself borked |
| James Boswell |
Author |
29-Oct-1740 |
19-May-1795 |
The Life of Samuel Johnson |
| Jim Bowie |
Military |
10-Apr-1796 |
6-Mar-1836 |
Knife fighter, Alamo combatant |
| L. Brent Bozell |
Author |
15-Jan-1926 |
15-Apr-1997 |
The Warren Revolution |
| Heywood Broun |
Journalist |
7-Dec-1888 |
18-Dec-1939 |
Muckraking reporter of the 1920s and '30s |
| George Mackay Brown |
Poet |
17-Oct-1921 |
13-Apr-1996 |
Time in a Red Coat |
| Sam Brownback |
Politician |
12-Sep-1956 |
|
Governor of Kansas |
| Peter H. Burnett |
Politician |
15-Nov-1807 |
17-May-1895 |
Governor of California, 1849-51 |
| Jeb Bush |
Politician |
11-Feb-1953 |
|
Governor of Florida, 1999-2007 |
| Roger Casement |
Activist |
1-Sep-1864 |
3-Aug-1916 |
Irish revolutionary, gay diarist |
| Charice |
Singer |
10-May-1992 |
|
Filipina pop singer |
| King Charles II |
Royalty |
29-May-1630 |
6-Feb-1685 |
King of England 1660-85 |
| G. K. Chesterton |
Author |
29-May-1874 |
14-Jun-1936 |
The Man Who Was Thursday |
| Christina of Sweden |
Royalty |
8-Dec-1626 |
16-Apr-1689 |
Crossdressing Queen of Sweden 1632-54 |
| Wesley Clark |
Military |
23-Dec-1944 |
|
Supreme Allied Commander, 1997-2000 |
| Hansen Clarke |
Politician |
3-Mar-1957 |
|
Congressman, Michigan 13th |
| Gerty Cori |
Scientist |
15-Aug-1896 |
26-Oct-1957 |
Catalytic conversion of glycogen |
| Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne |
Military |
11-Sep-1611 |
27-Jul-1675 |
Turenne |
| André Dacier |
Scholar |
6-Apr-1651 |
18-Sep-1722 |
French classical scholar |
| Kim Dae-Jung |
Head of State |
3-Dec-1925 |
18-Aug-2009 |
South Korean President, 1998-2003 |
| Duffy Daugherty |
Football |
8-Sep-1915 |
25-Sep-1987 |
MSU Head Coach, 1954-72 |
| Dorothy Day |
Activist |
8-Nov-1897 |
29-Nov-1980 |
Founder of the Catholic Worker movement |
| Karl Dean |
Politician |
20-Sep-1955 |
|
Mayor of Nashville |
| Everard Digby |
Criminal |
16-May-1578 |
30-Jan-1606 |
Gunpowder Plot |
| Alfred Döblin |
Novelist |
10-Aug-1878 |
26-Jun-1957 |
Berlin Alexanderplatz |
| Ross Douthat |
Columnist |
28-Nov-1979 |
|
New York Times columnist |
| John Dowland |
Composer |
c. 1562 |
21-Jan-1626 |
Lachrimae, Lutenist |
| John Dryden |
Poet |
19-Aug-1631 |
1-May-1700 |
Absalom and Achitophel |
| Al Dubin |
Songwriter |
10-Jun-1891 |
11-Feb-1945 |
Lullaby of Broadway |
| Ray Eliot |
Football |
13-Jun-1905 |
24-Feb-1980 |
Illini Head Coach, 1942-59 |
| Lola Falana |
Dancer |
11-Sep-1942 |
|
Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets |
| John Farrow |
Screenwriter |
10-Feb-1904 |
28-Jan-1963 |
Around the World in Eighty Days |
| Ford Madox Ford |
Novelist |
17-Dec-1873 |
26-Jun-1939 |
The Good Soldier |
| Hans Frank |
Military |
23-May-1900 |
16-Oct-1946 |
Nazi King of Poland |
| Jennie Garth |
Actor |
3-Apr-1972 |
|
Kelly on Beverly Hills 90210 |
| Edward Gibbon |
Historian |
8-May-1737 |
16-Jan-1794 |
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| Eric Gill |
Typographer |
22-Feb-1882 |
17-Nov-1940 |
Typographer, Gill Sans |
| Newt Gingrich |
Politician |
17-Jun-1943 |
|
Speaker of the House, 1995-99 |
| George Gipp |
Football |
18-Feb-1895 |
14-Dec-1920 |
Win one for the Gipper |
| Rumer Godden |
Author |
10-Dec-1907 |
8-Nov-1998 |
The River |
| Antonio Gramsci |
Activist |
23-Jan-1891 |
27-Apr-1937 |
Founder of the Italian Communist Party |
| Graham Greene |
Novelist |
2-Oct-1904 |
3-Apr-1991 |
The Third Man |
| John Howard Griffin |
Author |
16-Jul-1920 |
9-Sep-1980 |
Black Like Me |
| Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen |
Novelist |
c. 1621 |
17-Aug-1676 |
Simplicius Simplicissimus |
| Alec Guinness |
Actor |
2-Apr-1914 |
5-Aug-2000 |
Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars |
| John Gummer |
Politician |
26-Nov-1939 |
|
British MP, Suffolk Coastal |
| Arlo Guthrie |
Singer/Songwriter |
10-Jul-1947 |
|
Alice's Restaurant |
| Robert Hanssen |
Spy |
18-Apr-1944 |
|
Russian mole inside the FBI |
| Pamela Harriman |
Diplomat |
20-Mar-1920 |
5-Feb-1997 |
Socialite and Ambassador to France, 1993-97 |
| Ernest Hemingway |
Author |
21-Jul-1899 |
2-Jul-1961 |
The Old Man And The Sea |
| Henri IV |
Royalty |
13-Dec-1553 |
14-May-1610 |
King of France, 1589-1610 |
| Bob Hope |
Comic |
29-May-1903 |
27-Jul-2003 |
Centenarian comic |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
Poet |
28-Jul-1844 |
8-Jun-1889 |
Defeated the tyranny of poetic meter |
| Mieczyslaw Horszowski |
Pianist |
23-Jun-1892 |
22-May-1993 |
Polish-American pianist |
| Deal Hudson |
Religion |
30-Nov-1949 |
|
Karl Rove's favorite Catholic |
| Charlayne Hunter-Gault |
TV Personality |
27-Feb-1942 |
|
NPR, NewsHour reporter |
| Laura Ingraham |
Pundit |
19-Jun-1964 |
|
The Hillary Trap |
| Max Jacob |
Poet |
12-Jul-1876 |
5-Mar-1944 |
Le Cornet � d�s |
| King James II |
Royalty |
14-Oct-1633 |
16-Sep-1701 |
King of England, 1685-88 |
| Walter W. Jenkins |
Government |
23-Mar-1918 |
23-Nov-1985 |
LBJ assistant, outed in gay sex scandal |
| Bobby Jindal |
Politician |
10-Jun-1971 |
|
Governor of Louisiana |
| Luci Baines Johnson |
Relative |
2-Jul-1947 |
|
Daughter of LBJ |
| Ben Jonson |
Playwright |
11-Jun-1572 |
6-Aug-1637 |
Volpone |
| John Mark Karr |
Criminal |
11-Dec-1964 |
|
JonBen�t Ramsey murder suspect |
| Mary Karr |
Author |
16-Jan-1955 |
|
The Liars' Club |
| Willmoore Kendall |
Author |
5-Mar-1909 |
30-Jun-1967 |
Conservative author |
| Joyce Kilmer |
Poet |
6-Dec-1886 |
30-Jul-1918 |
Trees |
| Otto Klemperer |
Conductor |
14-May-1885 |
6-Jul-1973 |
Prominent German conductor |
| John Kluge |
Business |
21-Sep-1914 |
7-Sep-2010 |
Media mogul, Metromedia, Inc. |
| Lawrence Kudlow |
Economist |
20-Aug-1947 |
|
Kudlow & Cramer |
| Karl Landsteiner |
Scientist |
14-Jun-1868 |
26-Jun-1943 |
Discovered blood typing |
| Dixie Lee |
Singer |
4-Nov-1911 |
1-Nov-1952 |
Singer and wife of Bing Crosby |
| Anne Lefèvre |
Scholar |
1654 |
17-Aug-1720 |
Translator of Homer into French |
| William Levy |
Actor |
29-Aug-1980 |
|
Triunfo del Amor |
| Elizabeth Longford |
Historian |
30-Aug-1906 |
23-Oct-2002 |
Victoria R. I. |
| James Longstreet |
Military |
8-Jan-1821 |
2-Jan-1904 |
Confederate Army General |
| Robert Lowell |
Poet |
1-Mar-1917 |
12-Sep-1977 |
Lord Weary's Castle |
| Clare Boothe Luce |
Politician |
10-Apr-1903 |
9-Oct-1987 |
Congresswoman, wife of Henry R. Luce |
| Jean-Marie Lustiger |
Religion |
17-Sep-1926 |
5-Aug-2007 |
Archbishop of Paris, 1981-2005 |
| Compton MacKenzie |
Novelist |
17-Jan-1883 |
30-Nov-1972 |
Carnival |
| Gustav Mahler |
Composer |
7-Jul-1860 |
18-May-1911 |
Das Lied von der Erde |
| Jacques Maritain |
Philosopher |
18-Nov-1882 |
28-Apr-1973 |
Interpreter of St. Thomas |
| James McAuley |
Poet |
12-Oct-1917 |
15-Oct-1976 |
Australian poet, Ern Malley hoaxer |
| Norma McCorvey |
Activist |
22-Sep-1947 |
|
Jane Roe, of Roe v. Wade |
| Claude McKay |
Novelist |
15-Sep-1890 |
22-May-1948 |
Home to Harlem |
| Carlos Menem |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1930 |
|
President of Argentina, 1989-99 |
| Thomas Merton |
Author |
31-Jan-1915 |
10-Dec-1968 |
The Seven Storey Mountain |
| Tom Metzger |
Activist |
9-Apr-1938 |
|
White supremacist |
| Frank S. Meyer |
Author |
9-May-1909 |
1-Apr-1972 |
In Defense of Freedom |
| Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
Novelist |
23-Jan-1923 |
9-Jan-1996 |
A Canticle for Leibowitz |
| Montezuma II |
Head of State |
1466 |
30-Jun-1520 |
Aztec leader, capitulated to the Spanish |
| Steven W. Mosher |
Scholar |
9-May-1948 |
|
Prominent Sinologist |
| Malcolm Muggeridge |
Author |
24-Mar-1903 |
14-Nov-1990 |
Highly iconoclastic English wit |
| Bernard Nathanson |
Activist |
31-Jul-1926 |
21-Feb-2011 |
Pro-life activist, former abortionist |
| E. Nesbit |
Novelist |
15-Aug-1858 |
4-May-1924 |
The Story of the Treasure Seekers |
| Richard John Neuhaus |
Religion |
14-May-1936 |
8-Jan-2009 |
Catholic priest |
| John Henry Newman |
Religion |
21-Feb-1801 |
11-Aug-1890 |
Oxford Movement |
| John Newton |
Military |
24-Aug-1823 |
1-May-1895 |
Union Army General and engineer |
| Peggy Noonan |
Journalist |
7-Sep-1950 |
|
Coined A thousand points of light |
| Robert Novak |
Columnist |
26-Feb-1931 |
18-Aug-2009 |
Conservative ideologue, outed Valerie Plame |
| Titus Oates |
Criminal |
15-Sep-1649 |
12-Jul-1705 |
Popish Plot |
| Jacques Offenbach |
Composer |
20-Jun-1819 |
5-Oct-1880 |
Inventor of the the op�rette |
| William Oughtred |
Mathematician |
5-Mar-1574 |
30-Jun-1660 |
Inventor of the slide rule |
| Johann Friedrich Overbeck |
Painter |
3-Jul-1789 |
12-Nov-1869 |
German religious painter |
| Louella Parsons |
Columnist |
6-Aug-1881 |
9-Dec-1972 |
Hollywood queen of gossip |
| Blaise Pascal |
Mathematician |
19-Jun-1623 |
19-Aug-1662 |
French thinker and mathematician |
| Walker Percy |
Author |
28-May-1916 |
10-May-1990 |
The Moviegoer |
| Max F. Perutz |
Chemist |
19-May-1914 |
6-Feb-2002 |
X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin |
| Pete Peterson |
Diplomat |
26-Jun-1935 |
|
US Ambassador to Vietnam, 1997-2001 |
| Ramesh Ponnuru |
Columnist |
16-Aug-1974 |
|
Senior Editor, National Review |
| Katherine Anne Porter |
Author |
15-May-1890 |
18-Sep-1980 |
Ship of Fools |
| Augustus Welby Pugin |
Architect |
1-Mar-1812 |
14-Sep-1852 |
Built the Houses of Parliament |
| William Quantrill |
Criminal |
31-Jul-1837 |
6-Jun-1865 |
Quantrill's Raiders |
| Kathleen Raine |
Poet |
14-Jun-1908 |
6-Jul-2003 |
Cambridge poet, scholar of Blake |
| William E. Riker |
Religion |
1873 |
3-Dec-1969 |
Holy City cult leader |
| Frederick Rolfe |
Author |
22-Jul-1860 |
25-Oct-1913 |
Baron Corvo |
| William S. Rosecrans |
Military |
6-Sep-1819 |
11-Mar-1898 |
Union Army General |
| Lillian Roth |
Actor |
13-Dec-1910 |
12-May-1980 |
I'll Cry Tomorrow |
| Georges Rouault |
Painter |
27-May-1871 |
13-Feb-1958 |
Expressionist painter of clowns, Christs |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Philosopher |
28-Jun-1712 |
2-Jul-1778 |
Conceptualized the Social Contract |
| Siegfried Sassoon |
Poet |
8-Sep-1886 |
1-Sep-1967 |
War Poems |
| John T. Scopes |
Educator |
3-Aug-1900 |
21-Oct-1970 |
Defendant in the Scopes Monkey Trial |
| Chief Seattle |
Military |
c. 1786 |
7-Jun-1866 |
Namesake of the city of Seattle |
| Edith Sitwell |
Poet |
7-Sep-1887 |
9-Dec-1964 |
Fa�ade |
| Iain Duncan Smith |
Politician |
9-Apr-1954 |
|
Conservative Party leader, 2001-03 |
| Ruth Snyder |
Criminal |
1895 |
12-Jan-1928 |
Electrocuted for murdering husband |
| Muriel Spark |
Novelist |
1-Feb-1918 |
13-Apr-2006 |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| Nicolaus Steno |
Geologist |
10-Jan-1631 |
25-Nov-1686 |
De solido intra solidum |
| Thomas Stucley |
Military |
c. 1525 |
4-Aug-1578 |
English military adventurer |
| Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux |
Author |
2-Oct-1619 |
10-Nov-1692 |
Historiettes |
| Alfred Tarski |
Mathematician |
14-Jan-1902 |
26-Oct-1983 |
Tarski's indefinability theorem |
| Allen Tate |
Poet |
19-Nov-1899 |
9-Feb-1979 |
Mr. Pope and Other Poems |
| Randall Terry |
Activist |
25-Apr-1959 |
|
Operation Rescue founder |
| Nguyen Van Thieu |
Head of State |
5-Apr-1923 |
29-Sep-2001 |
President of South Vietnam, 1967-75 |
| John Thompson |
Head of State |
10-Nov-1845 |
12-Dec-1894 |
Prime Minister of Canada, 1892-94 |
| Alice B. Toklas |
Relative |
30-Apr-1877 |
7-Mar-1967 |
Gertrude Stein's lover |
| Maria von Trapp |
Singer |
26-Jan-1905 |
28-Mar-1987 |
The Sound of Music |
| Margaret Trudeau |
First Lady |
10-Sep-1948 |
|
Ex-Wife of Pierre Trudeau |
| Vaughn Ververs |
Journalist |
10-Jan-1969 |
|
Editor of The Hotline 2002-05 |
| Vlad the Impaler |
Royalty |
Dec-1431 |
Dec-1476 |
Dracula, rather fancied impaling folk |
| John von Neumann |
Mathematician |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
| Friedrich von Schlegel |
Philosopher |
10-Mar-1772 |
12-Jan-1829 |
Founder of the German Romantic movement |
| Robert F. Wagner, Sr. |
Politician |
8-Jun-1877 |
4-May-1953 |
US Senator from New York, 1927-49 |
| Bruno Walter |
Conductor |
15-Sep-1876 |
17-Feb-1962 |
Conductor, Leipzig Gewandhaus, 1929-33 |
| Leonard Warren |
Singer |
21-Apr-1911 |
4-Mar-1960 |
Operatic baritone, NY Metropolitan Opera |
| John Wayne |
Actor |
26-May-1907 |
11-Jun-1979 |
The Duke |
| Robert Welch |
Activist |
1-Dec-1899 |
6-Jan-1985 |
Founder, John Birch Society |
| Oscar Wilde |
Playwright |
16-Oct-1854 |
30-Nov-1900 |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Johann Winckelmann |
Archaeologist |
9-Dec-1717 |
8-Jun-1768 |
Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums |
| Jane Wyman |
Actor |
5-Jan-1917 |
10-Sep-2007 |
Falcon Crest |
