- Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (March 23 1905 - May 10 1977), was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award-winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest from the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1920s through 1940s. The American Film Institute named Crawford among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking her at number ten. Starting as a dancer, she was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1925 and played in small parts. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the thirty-sixth President of the United States (1963–1969). After serving a long career in the U.S. Congress, Johnson became the thirty-seventh Vice President, and in 1963, he succeeded to the presidency following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was a major leader of the Democratic Party and as President was responsible for designing his Great Society, … - Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May, 1859 - 7 July, 1930) was a Scottish born author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. - Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, a radio, film and theatre director, a radio and film producer and an actor in film and theatre, as well as a Grammy Award-winning radio personality. Welles first gained wide notoriety for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds". Adapted to sound like a contemporary news broadcast, … - Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s, being the idol of the 'bobby soxers'. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. - John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August, 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. Known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style, John Peel was a popular and respected DJ and broadcaster. He was one of the first to play reggae and punk on British radio. - John Smith
John Smith QC (13 September 1938 - 12 May 1994) was a Scottish politician who served as leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his sudden death from a heart attack on 12 May 1994. - John Candy
John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 - March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. Candy rose to fame as a member of the Toronto, Canada branch of "The Second City", often playing lovable losers and characters with bad luck but big hearts. His film roles were mostly comedic, such as his memorable characters in "Spaceballs", "Stripes", "The Blues Brothers", "Brewster's Millions", "Uncle Buck", "Cool Runnings", … - Clark Gable
William Clark Gable was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. He has been nicknamed "The King of Hollywood." His most famous role was in the 1939 film "Gone with the Wind", in which he starred with Vivien Leigh. - Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 - January 26, 1979) was the forty-first Vice President of the United States, governor of New York State, philanthropist and businessman. A leader of the liberal wing of the Republican Party, he was Governor of New York from 1959 to 1973, where he launched many construction and modernization projects. A descendant of one of the world's richest and best known families, he failed repeatedly in his attempts to become president, … - Wally Schirra
Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. (March 12, 1923 - May 3, 2007) was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, America's first effort to put men in space. He was the only man to fly in all of America's first three space programs (Mercury, Gemini and Apollo). He logged a total of 295 hours and 15 minutes in space. - Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza (31 January 1921 - 7 October 1959) was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star who enjoyed success in the late 1940s and 1950s. His voice was considered by many to rival that of Enrico Caruso, whom Lanza portrayed in the 1951 film "The Great Caruso". Lanza was able to sing all types of music. While his highly emotional style was not always universally praised by critics, he was immensely popular and his many recordings are still prized today. - Christopher Reeve
Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 - October 10, 2004) was an American actor, director, producer and writer. He established himself early as a Juilliard-trained stage actor before portraying Superman/Kal-El/Clark Kent in four films, from 1978 to 1987. In the 1980s, he starred in several films, including "Somewhere in Time" (1980), "Deathtrap" (1982), "The Bostonians" (1984), and "Street Smart" (1987). - Alan Kotok
Alan Kotok was an American computer scientist. He was known for his contributions to the Internet and World Wide Web through his work at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), to computer engineering through his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and to gaming for his work on computer game and computer chess programs built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Kotok recorded a video oral history at the Computer History Museum in 2004. - Bob Kamps
Bob Kamps was an American rock climber whose climbing career spanned five decades. Born in Wisconsin, he began climbing in California in 1955, and was a member of that cadre of Yosemite pioneers who first ascended many of its great walls in the 1950s and 1960s. He was particularly adept on steep rock faces, and was among the first to shift attention from aid climbing to free climbing. Over the years he made more than 3,100 climbs, … - Kenneth Lay
Kenneth Lee "Ken" Lay (April 15, 1942 - July 5, 2006) was an American businessman, best known for his role in the widely-reported corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron Corporation. Lay and Enron became synonymous with corporate abuse and accounting fraud when the scandal broke in 2001. Lay was the CEO and chairman of Enron from 1986 until his resignation on January 23, 2002, except for a few months in 2001 when he was chairman and Jeffrey Skilling was CEO. - Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930 - November 7, 1980) was an Academy Award-nominated American movie actor, nicknamed "The King of Cool". He was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s due to a popular "anti-hero" persona. McQueen was combative with directors and producers; regardless, he was able to command large salaries and was in high demand. - Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas (January 6 1914 - February 6 1991) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor, best known for starring in the television sitcom "Make Room for Daddy", later retitled "The Danny Thomas Show" to capitalize on Thomas's popularity. Danny Thomas was born Amos Alphonsus Muzyad Yaqoob in Deerfield, Michigan, to Charles and Margaret Jacobs. He was of Lebanese descent, of Maronite Catholic belief. - Lucky Luciano
Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania) (November 24, 1897 - January 26, 1962) was a Sicilian-American mobster. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime and the mastermind of the massive postwar expansion of the international heroin trade. Time magazine has named Luciano amongst the top 20 most influential builders and titans of the 20th century. - Ken Caminiti
Kenneth Gene Caminiti was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball. He was born in Hanford, California, and attended San Jose State University. - Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., more commonly known as Calvin Coolidge, was the thirtieth President of the United States (1923–1929). He is often referred to as "Silent Cal". A lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His actions during the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight. - Lee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg was an Academy Award nominated American director, actor, producer, and acting teacher. He was born Israel Strassberg in Budzanów, former Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Budaniv, Ukraine), to Ida and Baruch Meyer Strassberg. - Estes Kefauver
Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee who opposed the concentration of U.S. economic and political power in few hands. Kefauver was born in Madisonville, Tennessee, and attended the University of Tennessee and Yale University. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. Senate from 1949 to his death in 1963. - Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (August 22 1893 - June 7 1967) was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles. - Pete Maravich
Peter Press Maravich (June 22, 1947 - January 5, 1988) was a Serb-American basketball player known for his dazzling ballhandling, incredible shooting abilities, and creative passing. He learned at a very young age fundamental basketball and ball handling drills from his father coach Press Maravich. He would follow his father and coach throughout the eastern and gulf seaboards as a young man before exploding onto the NBA in his own right. - Martin Balsam
Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 - February 13, 1996) was an American actor. Balsam was born in The Bronx in New York City to Albert Balsam and Lillian Weinstein. He studied dramatics at The New School in New York City and then served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. In 1947, … - David Doyle
David Fitzgerald Doyle was an American actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his role as detective John Bosley on the television series "Charlie's Angels", for which reason he is occasionally mixed up with TV actor Tom Bosley. He is also remembered by younger generations as being the voice of Grandpa Lou Pickles on the Nickelodeon animated television series "Rugrats" until his death. Doyle died of a heart attack at the age of 67 in Los Angeles, … - Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (January 20 1920 - October 31 1993) was one of the most influential and widely revered film-makers of the 20th century. - Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 - September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, one of the most prodigious and famous American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs. Although he never learned to read music beyond a rudimentary level, he composed over 3,000 songs, many of which ("God Bless America", "White Christmas", "Alexander's Ragtime Band", … - Gaylord Nelson
Gaylord Anton Nelson was a Democratic American politician from Wisconsin. He was the principal founder of Earth Day. In 1970, he called for Congressional hearings on the safety of combined oral contraceptive pills, which were famously called "The Nelson Pill Hearings." As a result of the hearings, side-effect disclosure was required for the pill in patient inserts — the first such disclosure for a pharmaceutical drug. - Richard Francis Burton
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (March 19, 1821 - October 20, 1890) was a British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Africa as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke twenty-nine European, Asian, and African languages. - John Anderson
John Anderson (October 20, 1922 - August 7, 1992) was an American actor and director born in Clayton, Illinois. He was known for several roles, including his recurring role in "MacGyver" as Harry Jackson, the title character's grandfather. Earlier work included appearances on many Western series, including several episodes of "Gunsmoke" in various roles, and "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" as Virgil Earp. - Jim Thorpe
Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe (May 28 1888–March 28 1953) was an American athlete. Considered one of the most versatile athletes in modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon, played American football collegiately and professionally, and also played professional baseball and basketball. - Vito Genovese
Vito 'Don Vitone' Genovese was a mafioso who rose to power in America during the Castellammarese War to later become leader of the Genovese crime family. Genovese served as mentor to many future mob bosses including Vincent "Big Chin" Gigante, Nephew Michael Genovese and Carlo Gambino. Genovese started his Mafia career serving Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria during the early 1920s after emigrating from Naples. - J. T. Walsh
James Thomas Patrick Walsh was an American character actor known for his roles as "quietly sinister white-collar sleazeballs" (quote from Leonard Maltin) in numerous feature films and "everybody's favorite scumbag" from Playboy Magazine. - Carlo Gambino
Carlo Gambino (August 24,1902 - October 15,1976) was a Mafioso who was boss of the Gambino crime family. Gambino was known for being low-key and secretive. Unlike many modern mafiosi Gambino served relatively little time in prison. He lived to the age of of 74, when he died of a heart attack while sleeping in his home. - Charles M. Schulz
Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 - February 12, 2000) was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known worldwide for his "Peanuts" comic strip. - Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis was a Representative and a Senator from Kansas as well as the thirty-first Vice President of the United States. Nearly half of Curtis' background was made up of American Indian stock. His mother was one-fourth Kaw, one-fourth Osage, and one-fourth Pottawatomie (as well as one-fourth French). Curtis spent part of his early life on a Kaw reservation, … - Douglas Adams
Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as author of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series. "Hitchhiker's" began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a towel, a comic book series, a computer game and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. - Tyrone Power
Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr. (May 5, 1914 - November 15, 1958), usually credited simply as Tyrone Power and known sometimes as "Ty Power", was an American film and stage actor who appeared in dozens of films from the 1930s to the 1950s, often as a swashbuckler or romantic lead, in such movies as "The Mark of Zorro", "The Black Swan", "Prince of Foxes", "The Black Rose", and "Captain from Castile".
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