- Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons, at the secret Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. Known as "the father of the atomic bomb"," Oppenheimer lamented the weapon's killing power after it was used to destroy the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. - Carl Perkins
Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 - January 19, 1998) was an American pioneer of rockabilly music, a mix of rhythm and blues and country music that was recorded most notably at Sun Records in Memphis beginning in 1954. - John Gotti
John Joseph Gotti, Jr. (October 27, 1940 - June 10, 2002), also known as The Dapper Don and The Teflon Don, was an American mobster and boss of the Gambino Crime Family, one of the Five Families in New York City. He became widely known for his outspoken personality and flamboyant style that made him the poster child for mobsters, an image that persists even today. - Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn was a two-time Academy Award-winning Mexican/American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He is perhaps best known in the US for his roles in two Hollywood films, the title role in "Zorba the Greek" and his Oscar-winning performance in "Viva Zapata!", while in the rest of the world he is associated with his role of the brutish circus strongman Zampanò in Federico Fellini's "La strada". - Pat Roach
Patrick Roach (May 19, 1937 - July 17, 2004) was an English actor and wrestler from Birmingham. His most famous role is that of West Country bricklayer Brian "Bomber" Busbridge in "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet". He was also the only actor besides Harrison Ford to appear in all three films in the Indiana Jones trilogy ("Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"). - William Hanna
William Denby "Bill" Hanna (July 14, 1910 - March 22, 2001) was an American animator, director, producer, cartoon artist, and co-founder, together with Joseph Barbera, of Hanna-Barbera. The studio produced well-known cartoons such as "The Huckleberry Hound Show", "The Flintstones", "The Jetsons", "Scooby-Doo" as well as the musical film, Charlotte's Web. - Robert Kardashian
Robert Kardashian was a defense lawyer in the trial of O.J. Simpson. Following reports about the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, O.J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings returned from Chicago and were met at the airport by Robert Kardashian who handled Simpson's luggage, some of which was never seen again. In the days following the murder, O.J. Simpson stayed in Kardashian's house. When O.J. Simpson failed to turn himself in at 11 a.m. on June 17, Kardashian, … - John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (June 8, 1829 - August 13, 1896) was a British painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. - Eric Roche
Eric Roche (4 December, 1967 - 6 September, 2005) was a fingerstyle guitarist who died from throat cancer. Eric played many musical genres on solo guitar such as classical, Celtic, folk, jazz, blues, rock and pop. As well as being a gifted guitarist-composer, he was also well known for his solo guitar arrangements. - Ed Bailey
Lonas Edgar Bailey, Jr. was an American catcher who played in Major League Baseball from 1953 through 1966. Bailey batted left handed and threw right handed. He was born in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. His younger brother, pitcher Jim Bailey, also played in major league. Bailey reached the majors in 1953 with the Cincinnati Redlegs, spending nine and a half years with the Redlegs and Reds teams before moving to the San Francisco Giants (1961-63), … - Frances Farmer
Frances Elena Farmer (September 19, 1913 - August 1, 1970) was an American film actress. - George Leslie Mackay
George Leslie Mackay DD (偕叡理 or 馬偕; Pe̍h-oē-jī: Kai Sūi-lí or Má-kai; born March 21, 1844; died June 2, 1901) was the first Presbyterian missionary to northern Formosa (Taiwan). He served with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission. Mackay is among the best known Westerners to have lived in Taiwan. Mackay was born in Zorra Township, Oxford County, Canada West (now Ontario), Canada. He received his theological training at Knox College in Toronto, … - Kihachi Okamoto
was a Japanese film director who has worked in several different genres, including "jidaigeki". He was born in Yonago. He graduated from the Meiji University. He directed almost 40 films and wrote at least 24 films. One of his most notable works is "Samurai Assassin" (1965) starring Toshiro Mifune, about a group of 19th century political agitators planning to kill an important government official. The Japanese title is simply "Samurai". - Stephen Leacock
Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph.D, FRSC (30 December 1869 - 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and economist. - Edgar Kennedy
Edgar Livingston Kennedy (b. April 26, 1890 in Monterey County, California; d. November 9, 1948) was an American comedic film actor, known as "the king of the slow burn". A former singer and boxer, Kennedy worked in hundreds of films beginning as a Keystone Kop in 1914. He would go on to work with the biggest film comedians in the United States, including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and Our Gang. - Big Bill Broonzy
Big Bill Broonzy (June 26, 1893 or 1898 - August 15, 1958) was a prolific United States composer, recorder and performer of blues songs. "Big Bill" was born William Lee Conley Broonzy in Scott County, Mississippi on June 26, 1893 or 1898 (the exact year is unclear). While Broonzy himself claimed to be born in 1893, another source claims that Broonzy had a twin sister named Lannie Broonzy who had proof they were born on June 26, 1898. - Anne Ramsey
Anne Ramsey (1 September 1929 - 11 August 1988) was an American actress who may be most recognized for two roles: as Mama Fratelli in Richard Donner's "The Goonies"; and as Mrs. Lift, the mother of Danny DeVito's character in her Academy Award nominated performance in "Throw Momma from the Train". - Tom Dunn
Tom Dunn (May 1, 1929-July 2, 2006) was an anchor and reporter at several New York television stations. Dunn was born in Warwick, New York, and was a child actor at radio station WAAT in Newark, New Jersey. He started in television at WCTV in Tallahassee, Florida in 1959 after leaving the army. He served as press secretary to U.S. Representative (and later Senator) Ed Gurney (R-FL), then worked as an anchor and reporter for WTVT in Tampa, … - Moyna MacGill
Moyna Macgill was an Irish stage and film actress and the mother of actress Angela Lansbury. Born as Charlotte Lillian McIldowie in Belfast, she was the daughter of a wealthy solicitor who also worked as a director of the Belfast Opera, a position that sparked her interest in theatrics. She was still a teen when she was noticed riding the London Underground by director George Pearson, who cast her in several of his films. - Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 - January 14, 1957) was an American actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time. Playing primarily smart, playful and reckless characters anchored by an inner moral code while surrounded by a corrupt world, Bogart's most notable films include "The Petrified Forest" (1936), "Kid Galahad" (1937), "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), … - Bill Blass
William Ralph "Bill" Blass was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is known for his expensive womenswear, notable for its tailoring and its innovative combinations of textures and patterns. He is the recipient of many fashion awards, including seven Coty Awards and the Fashion Institute of Technology's Lifetime Achievement Award (1999). - Andy Sidaris
Andrew W. "Andy" Sidaris was an American television film director, producer, actor, and screen writer. - Kevin Hagen
Kevin Hagen (April 3, 1928, Chicago, Illinois - July 9, 2005) was an American actor. Born to professional ballroom dancers, Hagen was raised by his mother, grandmother, and aunts. He worked for the US State Department in Germany, and had spent a year in law school at UCLA after attending Oregon State University and the University of Southern California before he decided to try acting at the age of 27. - Jerry Girard
Jerry Girard was an American radio personality and sports anchor, most notably at WPIX in New York City. Born as Gerard Alfred Suglia in Chicago and raised in The Bronx, New York, where he attended Manhattan College, Jerry Girard went on to work as a radio disc jockey in places like Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Altoona, Pennsylvania and Gary, Indiana, before returning to New York to work as a record librarian at WNEW (AM). - Robert Bernard Anderson
Robert Bernard Anderson was an American administrator and businessman. He served as the Secretary of the Navy between 1953 and 1954. He also served as the Secretary of the Treasury from 1957 until 1961. Anderson was born in Burleson, Texas. He was a high school teacher prior to entering the University of Texas Law School, from which he graduated in 1932. He thereafter engaged in political, governmental, law and business activities in the state of Texas. - Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan (born December 28, 1923, in Franklin, Indiana; died May 15, 1988, in Westwood, California) was a tall and authoritative character actor who appeared in 70 movies and over 140 television shows between 1949 and 1987. He had recurring roles in "Cimarron Strip" and "The Great Adventure" but seldom played the same role twice except in a couple of short-lived series in which he played the lead, "Bourbon Street Beat" and "Lancer". - Princess Augusta Of Saxe-Gotha
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha was Princess of Wales between 1736 and 1751, and Dowager Princess of Wales thereafter. She was one of only three holders of the title who never became queen. Princess Augusta's eldest son succeeded as George III of Great Britain in 1760, as her husband, Frederick, Prince of Wales, had died eight years earlier. - Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace (born September 29, 1946 in Bury, Lancashire, England, died February 22, 2007 in Los Angeles) was a rock drummer and session musician, best known as a member of progressive rock group King Crimson from 1971-1972. Wallace formed his first band, The Jaguars, at school, before going on to join The Warriors with Jon Anderson in his pre-Yes days. (Wallace later played with Yes once in November 1968 during Bill Bruford's hiatus from the band.) From The Warriors, … - Arthur Yap
Arthur Yap was arguably the finest poet to emerge from Singapore. He was educated at the University of Singapore and the University of Leeds in England, and obtained his PhD from the National University of Singapore. He taught in various institutions, including the NUS. His first collection of poems, "Only Lines", was published in 1971, for which he received the National Book Development Council of Singapore’s first award for poetry in 1976. - Bob Denver
Robert Osbourne "Bob" Denver was an American comedic actor best known for his role as Willy "Gilligan" Gilligan on the television series "Gilligan's Island". Earlier, Denver had played beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the (1959-1963) TV series "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis", a characterization that was similar to Gilligan in many ways. - Babe Ruth
George Herman Ruth, Jr. (February 6, 1895 - August 16, 1948), also known as "Babe", "The Great Bambino", "The Sultan of Swat", and "The Colossus of Clout", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914-1935. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players in history. Many polls place him as the number one player of all time. - Jack Hawkins
John Edward "Jack" Hawkins (September 14, 1910 - July 18, 1973) was an English film actor of the 1950s and 1960s. Hawkins made his London stage debut aged 12, and was appearing on Broadway in "Journey's End" by the age of 18. Although he appeared in several films during the 1930s, it was only after service in World War II that he began to build a successful career in the cinema, … - George Hislop
George Hislop (June 3, 1927-October 8, 2005) was one of Canada's most influential gay activists. He was the first openly gay candidate for municipal office in Canada, as well as the first openly gay candidate for "any" political office in Ontario (and only the second in Canada after Robert Douglas Cook), and was a key figure in the early development of Toronto's gay community. Hislop studied speech and drama at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1949. - Iris Marion Young
Iris Marion Young (2 January, 1949 - 1 August, 2006) was Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and affiliated with the Center for Gender Studies and the Human Rights program. Her research covered contemporary political theory, feminist social theory, and normative analysis of public policy. Young's books include "Justice and the Politics of Difference" (1990), … - Ruth Williams Khama
Ruth Williams, Lady Khama (1923 - 22 May 2002) was the wife of Botswana's first president, Sir Seretse Khama. Lady Khama was a former WAAF ambulance driver from Blackheath, London. She met Seretse Khama while he was attending law school in England and she was working as a clerk at Lloyd's of London. Their marriage in 1948 provoked discomfort in both South Africa and, initially, Botswana, and they lived as exiles in England until 1956. They then moved to Botswana. - Peter Smith
Peter Smith CBE was general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) in the United Kingdom from 1988 to 2002. At the beginning of his tenure, the ATL was a small trade union in a sector traditionally dominated by two large unions, the National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers. “Shrewd and sensible, if somewhat offbeat in style, … - John Held Jr.
John Held Jr. (January 10, 1889 -March 2, 1958) was a United States illustrator, one of the most famous magazine illustrators of the 1920s. His cheerful art defined the flapper era so well that many people are familiar with it today. Born in Salt Lake City, he was a son of Annie (Evans) and John Held. His father, born in Geneva, Switzerland and was adopted by Mormon educator John R. Park who brought him to Salt Lake City. - Larry Stewart
Larry Stewart (April 1, 1948 - January 12, 2007) was an American philanthropist from Kansas City better known as "Kansas City's Secret Santa". After poor beginnings, Stewart had-from 1979 through 2006-made a practice of anonymously handing out small amounts of cash, typically in the form of hundred dollar bills, to needy people. The total amount he gave away is estimated to be 1.3 million dollars. - Graham Chapman
Graham Chapman (January 8, 1941 - October 4, 1989) was an English comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and the title character in "Monty Python's Life of Brian". - Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including "La bohème", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly", are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire. Some of his melodies, such as "O mio babbino caro" from "Gianni Schicchi" and "Nessun dorma" from "Turandot", have become part of modern culture.
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