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Edward Ambrose Mellors (1907-1946), born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, was an international motorcycle road racer who rode in the Manx Grand Prix in 1927 and the Isle of Man TT from 1928 to 1939. He was the 350 cc European Champion in 1938, but died in 1946, overcome by exhaust fumes while working in a new home's poorly ventilated garage. - Buddy Holly
Charles Hardin Holley (September 7 1936 - February 3 1959), better known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and a pioneer of rock and roll. The change of spelling of "Holley" to "Holly" came about because of an error in a contract he was asked to sign, listing him as Buddy Holly. That spelling was then adopted for his professional career. The original spelling of "Holley" was engraved on his headstone (see photo). - Cory Lidle
Cory Fulton Lidle was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for seven different teams in his nine-season career, last playing for the New York Yankees. Four days after the Yankees were eliminated from the 2006 postseason, the 34-year-old Lidle was killed when the small aircraft he owned crashed into a residential building in New York City. - Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Hendrix is considered one of the greatest and most influential guitarists in rock music history. After initial success in England, he achieved worldwide fame following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival before his death in 1970, at the age of 27. A self-taught guitarist, … - Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (November 27, 1940 - July 20, 1973) was a martial artist, philosopher, instructor, and martial arts actor widely regarded as the most influential martial artist of the 20th century. Born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, Lee is best remembered for the presentation of Chinese martial arts to the non-Chinese world. - River Phoenix
River Jude Phoenix was an Academy Award and Golden Globe- nominated American film actor. He was listed on John Willis' "Screen World, Vol. 38" as one of twelve "promising new actors of 1986", and was hailed as highly talented by such critics as Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. However, his career was cut short when he died of an overdose of heroin and cocaine on Halloween morning at age 23. He is the older brother of Joaquin Phoenix. - John Mayer
John Mayer (b. Calcutta, Bengal, British India, October 28, 1930; d. United Kingdom, March 9, 2004) was an Indian composer known primarily for his fusions of jazz with Indian music. He was born into an Anglo-Indian family and, after studying with Phillipe Sandre in Calcutta and Melhi Mehta in Bombay, he won a scholarship to London's Royal Academy of Music in 1952, where he studied comparative music and religion in eastern and western cultures. - James Dean
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. Dean's status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, "Rebel Without a Cause", in which he starred as troubled high school rebel Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his star power were as the awkward loner Cal Trask in "East of Eden", and as the surly, racist farmer Jett Rink in "Giant". - Steve Irwin
Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin, nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian wildlife expert and television personality. He achieved world-wide fame from the television program "The Crocodile Hunter", an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series co-hosted with his wife Terri Irwin. Together with her, he also co-owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by his parents in Beerwah, Queensland. - Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. The name "Tennessee" was a name given to him by college friends because of his southern accent and his father's background in Tennessee. - Judy Garland
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 - June 22, 1969) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress and singer, best known for her role as Dorothy Gale from "The Wizard of Oz". Garland's singing voice had a natural vibrato, which she was able to maintain at an extremely low volume. The effects which she was able to project enabled her to convey a wide range of emotion when she interpreted a song. - Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood (July 20, 1938 - November 29, 1981) was a three time Academy Award nominated American film actress. - Will Rogers
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935) was an American comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, and actor. He has been named Oklahoma's favorite son. - Miss Elizabeth
Elizabeth Ann Hulette, known best as Miss Elizabeth, was a U.S. professional wrestling manager. She gained international fame during the late-1980s and early-1990s in the World Wrestling Federation, and the mid-1990s in World Championship Wrestling in her role as the ever-demure and graceful counterpart to the wild and brash pro wrestling character "Macho Man" Randy Savage. Hulette was originally from Frankfort, Kentucky. - William Holden
William Holden (April 17, 1918 - ca. November 12, 1981) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He was named one of the "Top 10 stars of the year" six times (1954-1958, 1961) and appeared on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list as #25. - John Bonham
John Henry "Bonzo" Bonham was an English drummer and member of the English rock band Led Zeppelin. He was renowned for his power, speed and "feel" for the groove. John Bonham is widely accepted as one of the greatest, influential, and respected drummers in history. He continues to have influence on many musicians of many styles to this day. - Keith Moon
Keith John Moon (August 23, 1946 - September 7, 1978) was the drummer of the rock group The Who. As a drummer, Moon became known for his chaotic but revolutionary style of drumming and gained notoriety for his destructive lifestyle. He is regarded as "One of the greatest rock and roll drummers of all time." - John Hopkins
John Hopkins (sometimes credited as John R. Hopkins) (January 27, 1931 - July 23 1998) was an English film and television writer. Born in London, he began his career as a studio manager for BBC Television in the 1950s, before establishing himself as a writer on the BBC's popular police drama "Z-Cars" during the early 1960s. Hopkins eventually wrote over ninety episodes of "Z-Cars", … - John Belushi
John Adam Belushi (January 24 1949 - March 5 1982) was an Emmy Award-winning American actor, comedian and musician, notable for his work on "Saturday Night Live", "National Lampoon's Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers". - Paul Wellstone
Paul David Wellstone was an American politician and two-term U.S. Senator from Minnesota. He was a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and was a professor of political science at Carleton College before being elected to the Senate in 1990. Wellstone was a liberal and a leading spokesman for the progressive wing of the national Democratic Party. He served in the Senate from 1991 until his death in a plane crash on 25 October, 2002, in the 102nd, 103rd, 104th, 105th, … - John Thompson
John Thompson was an influential Canadian poet. Born in Timperley, Cheshire, England, his father was killed in the Second World War. He was educated at Sheffield University, and received a Ph.D from Michigan State University in 1966. That same year he began teaching at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, where he lived in a farmhouse at Wood Point overlooking the Tantramar Marshes. - Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor (1981-August 8 2004) was a Welsh inline skating and freestyle skiing champion. Taylor, from Barry in Wales, learned to skate because he wanted to become a stuntman. He turned professional at the age of 15 after winning the World Amateur International Inline Skate Series (IISS)and qualifying 6th in the Professional Competition in Amsterdam 1996. He went on to win the UK National In-Line skating championship twice. - Robin Cook
Robert Finlayson Cook (28 February 1946 - 6 August 2005) was a politician in the British Labour Party. He was known as Robin Cook. He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001. He resigned from his post as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council on 17 March 2003 in protest against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. - Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement. - John Phillips
John Phillips was an English geologist. Philips was born at Marden in Wiltshire. His father belonged to an old Welsh family, but settled in England as an officer of excise and married the sister of William Smith, known as the “Father of English Geology." When both parents died when he was a child, Phillips came under the charge of his uncle William Smith. - Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 - August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was also controversial, eventually leading to the first posthumous pardon in New York history. - Sonny Bono
Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono (–) was an American record producer, singer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades. - Sid Vicious
Simon John Beverley, formerly Simon John Ritchie (May 10, 1957 - February 2, 1979), better known as Sid Vicious, was an English punk rock musician, the bass player of the Sex Pistols (replacing Glen Matlock). He was deeply involved in the birth of the British punk scene, along with close friend John Lydon (Johnny Rotten, Sex Pistols vocalist). He died of a drug overdose at the age of 21. - Henry Jones
Henry Burk Jones was an American actor of stage, film and television. Jones was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Helen Burk and John Francis Xavier Jones. Jones is remembered for his role as the handyman, Leroy Jessup, in the movie the Bad Seed despite having appeared in over 180 movies and television shows. He appeared in "Vertigo" in 1958 and on several episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". - Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely successful novel, "Gone with the Wind," published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 28 million copies (see list of best-selling books). An American film adaptation, released in 1939, became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood, and received a record-breaking number of Academy Awards. - David Kennedy
David Anthony Kennedy (June 15, 1955 - April 25, 1984) was born in Washington, D.C. He was the fourth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. Witnessing his father's assassination on June 5, 1968 fuelled David's introspection and sensitivity. Like others in his generation of Kennedys, he began experimenting with drugs shortly thereafter. A 1973 Jeep accident in which his eldest brother, Joseph Kennedy II, was driving left his then-girlfriend, … - John F. Kennedy Jr.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr., often referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jr., JFK Jr., John Jr. or John-John, was an American lawyer, journalist, socialite and publisher. He was the son of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and the younger brother of Caroline Kennedy (as well as of the deceased Arabella Kennedy and older brother of the deceased Patrick Bouvier Kennedy). - Gerald Levert
Gerald Levert (July 13 1966 - November 10 2006) was an American R&B singer, one of several from the musical Levert family. His father, Eddie Levert, is the lead singer of the 1970s soul group The O'Jays. Gerald Levert sang with his brother, Sean Levert, and friend Marc Gordon in the R&B trio LeVert. He was also a part of LSG, an R&B musical group comprising Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill, and Levert. - John Hamilton
Captain John Hamilton was a British naval officer, the second son of James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn and Anne Plumer. Hamilton chose a career in the Royal Navy and served in Guinea and the West Indies from 1737 to 1740. He was promoted to captain the next year and served throughout the War of the Austrian Succession, mostly in escorting convoys. In 1742, he was given command of HMS "Kinsale", … - Gram Parsons
Gram Parsons was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. A solo artist as well as a member of the International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, he is best known for a series of recordings which anticipate the so-called country rock of the 1970s and the alt-country movement that began around 1990. Parsons described his records as "Cosmic American Music". He died of a drug overdose at the age of 26. In 2004, … - Otis Redding
Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 - December 10, 1967) was an influential American deep soul singer, best known for his passionate delivery and posthumous hit single, "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay." According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (where he was inducted in 1989) website, Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of funky, … - Harry Chapin
Harry Forster Chapin was an American singer, songwriter, and humanitarian. He originally intended to be a documentary film-maker, and directed "Legendary Champions" in 1968, which was nominated for a documentary Academy Award. In 1971, he decided to focus on music. With Big John Wallace, Tim Scott and Ron Palmer, Chapin started playing in various local nightclubs in New York City. - Lucy Grealy
Lucinda Margaret Grealy was a poet and memoirist who wrote "Autobiography of a Face" (1994). This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescence experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with a disfigured face. Grealy also published a collection of essays in 2000, titled "As Seen on TV: Provocations". She was born in 1963 in Dublin, and her family moved to the United States several years later. - George S. Patton
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 - December 21, 1945) was a leading U.S. Army general in World War II in campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France and Germany, 1943-45. In World War I he was a senior commander of the new tank corps and saw action in France. After the war he was an advocate of armored warfare but was reassigned to the cavalry. In World War II he commanded major units of North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations. - Bon Scott
Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott was a Scottish born Australian rock musician. He was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, and immigrated to Melbourne, Australia with his family in 1952 at the age of six. Scott is most well-known for being the lead singer and co-lyricist of hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980. AC/DC's most successful album with Bon Scott is "Highway to Hell" released in 1979. After his death, AC/DC and their new lead singer, …
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