- Dorothy Dandridge
Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922-September 8, 1965) was an American actress. She was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Actress category and the third African American to receive a nomination in any category overall (after Hattie McDaniel and Ethel Waters). - Dana Plato
Dana Michelle Plato (November 1, 1963 - May 8, 1999) was an American actress who became famous playing the role of Kimberly Drummond in the U.S. television sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes". Plato's career declined after her departure from the show, with appearances in low-budget films, including some softcore pornography. She had chronic drug problems and committed suicide on May 8, 1999. - Hannelore Kohl
Hannelore Kohl (March 7, 1933 - July 5, 2001) was the wife of former German Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl. She met him for the first time at a prom in Ludwigshafen, Germany, when she was 15 years old. She was born in Berlin and was christened Eleonore Johanna Renner. Later, she chose the composition "Hannelore" to be used as her first name. In the years of her husband's chancellorship, she founded the Hannelore Kohl Stiftung and the Kuratorium ZNS. - George Sanders
George Sanders was an English actor best known for his silky, upper-crust English accent in British and American films. - Robert Quine
Robert Quine was an American guitarist, known for his innovative guitar solos. A native of Akron, Ohio, Quine worked with a wide range of musicians, though he himself remained relatively unknown in comparison. Critic Mark Demming writes "Quine's eclectic style embraced influences from jazz, rock, and blues players of all stripes, … - Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (May 6 1856 - September 23 1939), was a Jewish-Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who co-founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind, especially involving the mechanism of repression; his redefinition of sexual desire as mobile and directed towards a wide variety of objects; and his therapeutic techniques, … - Carole Landis
Carole Landis, born Frances Lillian Mary Ridste, was an American film actress. - Christian Fox
Christian Fox (born 5 April 1974, Port Hardy, British Columbia, Canada, as Christopher John McLaughlin, died 20 September 1996, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA) was a Canadian porn star who appeared in homosexual pornographic movies and magazines in the early 1990s. Fox was a twink who performed in the bottom role. Fox committed suicide. He had been convinced to enter drug rehab by gay porn director Chi Chi LaRue, … - Ruan Lingyu
Ruan Lingyu was a Chinese silent film actress. She was one of the most prominent Chinese film stars of the 1930s. - Steve Rogers
Steve Rogers was an Australian rugby league footballer. He played for the Cronulla Sharks and St. George Dragons teams in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership competition and for Widnes in the English competition, usually in the position of centre. Rogers represented New South Wales and Australia captaining the national team once in 1981. After his retirement, Rogers was named as one of the five "immortals" of the Cronulla club (see). - Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was a British writer, traveller, political analyst, administrator in Arabia, and an archaeologist who found Mesopotamian ruins. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1917. Bell and T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) are recognized as almost wholly responsible for creating the Hashimite dynasty in Jordan and the modern state of Iraq. - Maggie McNamara
Maggie McNamara was an American actress. Born in New York City, she began her acting career on the stage. She starred in the national company of "The Moon Is Blue" for eighteen months, before debuting on Broadway in "The King of Friday's Men." She went to Hollywood when Otto Preminger cast her in the lead of his controversial and relatively explicit film version of "The Moon is Blue" (1953), … - Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. - Diana Barrymore
Diana Barrymore was an American actress. - Inger Stevens
Inger Stevens was a Golden Globe-winning, Emmy-nominated Swedish-American movie and TV actress. Stevens, born Inger Stensland, in Stockholm, Sweden, was an insecure and often ill child. Her parents divorced while living in Sweden and she moved with her father to the United States. She attended high school in Manhattan, Kansas. At 16 she left home and started to work in New York City as a showgirl in low-budget performances. - Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 - August 26, 1978) was a French-American actor who starred in several classic Hollywood films, TV director and TV producer. After moving to the U.S., he became an American citizen. - Karen Lancaume
Karen Lancaume (born Karine Bach was a French adult film star. Despite her short resumé of having appeared in only 29 films from her beginnings as an adult film star in 1997, she was quite a popular actress, with her natural beautiful looks and self-esteem, especially among the francophone public. Born near Lyon, she spent her childhood in the Lyon countryside and completed her studies in communications. She was married to a DJ named Franck, … - Jon Dough
Jon Dough (born Chester Anuszak on November 12 1962 - August 27 2006) was an American pornographic actor who worked steadily from 1985 to 2006. His first marriage was to Deidre Holland, a pornographic actress, whom he later divorced. He remarried, to pornographic actress Monique DeMoan, to whom he remained married until he committed suicide. - Kenneth Halliwell
Kenneth Halliwell was a British actor and writer. He was the mentor, partner, and the eventual murderer of playwright Joe Orton. Halliwell was raised in a somewhat split household. In general, he was ignored by his father and mollycoddled by his mother. His mother's death, which occurred when he was a young boy, was a great negative turning point in his life. Seemingly alone (as the relationship with his father was poor), his life was uneventful until, at the age of 23, … - Andrés Caicedo
Luis Andrés Caicedo Estela was a Colombian writer born in Cali, the city in which he spent most of his short life. In 1964, when he entered third grade, he wrote his first story - "El Silencio" ("The Silence"). From this moment on, Caicedo wrote several short stories and theatre plays, and started his first novel. In 1973 Caicedo travelled to the US, and started what is often taken to be his best novel - "¡Que viva la música!". - Mabel Stark
Mabel Stark (real name Mary Haynie) (d. April 21 1968) was the worlds premier tiger trainer of the 1920s, specializing in highly sexualized circus acts. Born in Kentucky, a single child, Stark led an isolated and difficult childhood including corporal punishment from her mother. At the age of 13, both her parents died leaving her an orphan. She spent the rest of her youth with an aunt in Louisville, Kentucky. At the age of 18, after her graduation in 1911, … - Phyllis Hyman
Phyllis Hyman (July 6, 1949 - June 30, 1995) was a soul singer, model and actress. - Alan Wilson
Alan "Blind Owl" Christie Wilson was the leader, singer, and primary composer in the American blues band Canned Heat. He played guitar and harmonica and wrote most of the songs for the band. Wilson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Topanga Canyon, California of what his autopsy reports as a barbiturate overdose. While some colleagues maintained that he had committed suicide, he left no note and there is no conclusive evidence to support this. - The Singing Nun
The Singing Nun was Jeanine Deckers (born Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers; October 17 1933 - March 29 1985), a member (as Sister Luc Gabriel) of the Dominican Fichermont Convent in Belgium. Popular in the convent for her music, she was encouraged by the other nuns to record an album in 1963. One song from that album, "Dominique", soared to the top of the charts in the United States. - Albert Ballin
Albert Ballin was a director of Hamburg-America Line, and is the person who is credited with the invention of cruise ships. He was born into a modest Jewish family of Hamburg. His father was part owner of an emigration agency that arranged passages to the United States, and when he died in 1874, young Albert took over the business. He developed it into an independent shipping line, saving costs by carrying cargo on the return trip from the US. - Richard Maxfield
Richard Maxfield was a composer of instrumental, electro-acoustic, and electronic music. Born in Seattle, he most likely taught the first University-level course in electronic music in America at the New School for Social Research. As a student at Berkeley and in Europe in the 1950's, he composed instrumental scores in a Neo-Classical style and then adopting 12-tone techniques, eventually studying at Princeton University with Milton Babbitt. - Reinaldo Arenas
Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government. - Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus was an American photographer, noted for her portraits of people on the fringes of society. (Her first name is pronounced "dee-ANN.") - Diana Churchill
Diana Churchill was the eldest daughter of Sir Winston Churchill and Clementine Ogilvy Hozier. On 12 December 1932 she married the baronet Sir John Milner Bailey, but the marriage was unsuccessful and they divorced in 1935. On 16 September that same year, she married the Conservative politician, Duncan Sandys. After having three children, that marriage also ended and they were divorced in 1960. - Lois Hamilton
Lois Hamilton was an accomplished model, author, actress, artist and aviatrix. Born Lois Aurino in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was a descendant of Italian nobility. She studied at Temple University in her native Philadelphia before going on to the University of Florence in Florence, Italy. Although she earned degrees in Psychology and Fine Arts, and wanted to pursue her interest in the arts, … - Everett Sloane
Everett Sloane was an American television and film actor, songwriter, and theatre director. Sloane is probably best known for his supporting role playing Mr. Bernstein in the cinema classic "Citizen Kane". Born to a Jewish family in Manhattan, Sloane attended the University of Pennsylvania before dropping out in order to join a theater company, but he stopped acting and became a runner on Wall Street after a number of negative stage reviews. - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
; (March 1, 1892 - July 24, 1927) was a Japanese writer active in Taisho period Japan. He is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story", and is noted for his superb style and finely detailed stories that explore the darker side of human nature. - Jonathan Drummond-Webb
Jonathan Drummond-Webb was a South African pediatric heart surgeon. He gained national attention by way of a TV series called "Heart Attack", which showcased complicated operations during the summer of 2002. Late in 2004, he led a team that successfully kept a child alive with a newly developed heart pump until a heart transplant could be performed. The child, Travis Marcus, was able to go home in time for Christmas with a gift and a hug from Dr. Drummond-Webb. - Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson (born 1964, died November, 1997) was an Australian professional rugby league player who represented both his state and his country in the sport. He took his own life in 1997. Australia 1988-92: 9 Tests - 4t (16pts)<br /> Queensland 1986-92: 17 games - 2t, 1g (10pts)<br /> Canberra Raiders 1987-88: 43 games - 15t, 6g (72pts)<br /> Brisbane Broncos 1989-90: 29 games- 5t (20pts)<br /> North Sydney Bears 1991-93: 31 games - 3t, … - Margaux Hemingway
Margaux Louise Hemingway (February 16, 1954 - July 1, 1996) was a film actress and model who appeared in several movies. She was born in Portland, Oregon, the sister of actress Mariel Hemingway and the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway. In addition to Mariel Hemingway, she had another sister, Joan. She grew up on her grandfather's farm in Ketchum, Idaho. - Billy MacKenzie
William MacArthur MacKenzie, known as Billy MacKenzie was a Scottish singer, notable for his powerful voice and vast vocal range. Born in Dundee, he led a peripatetic lifestyle, which included decamping to New Zealand at the age of 16, and travelling across America aged 17. Here, to avoid deportation, he married Chloe Dummar. Her brother, Melvin Dummar, claimed to be the "one sixteenth" beneficiary of the estate of Howard Hughes, … - Pier Angeli
Pier Angeli (born Anna Maria Pierangeli was an Italian-born actress. - Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale, was an American lyrical poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri. Teasdale's major themes were love, nature's beauty, and death, and her poems were much loved during the early 20th century. In 1918 she won the Columbia University Poetry Society prize (the forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) and the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America for her volume, "Love Songs". - Darby Crash
Darby Crash (born Jan Paul Beahm (September 26, 1958 – December 7, 1980) was an American punk rock musician who co-founded (with long time friend, Pat Smear) The Germs. - Jerzy Kosinski
Jerzy Kosinski (orig. Kosiński with Polish diacritic sign; birth name: Josek Lewinkopf was a Polish-American novelist. He is best known for his novels "The Painted Bird" (1965) and "Being There" (1971), which was made into an Oscar-winning movie in 1979.
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