- 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". - Roger Patterson
Roger Patterson (born 1968, died February 12, 1991) was an American bass player, well known for his work in the Florida death metal band Atheist. His playing style is characterized by its speed, volume, and complexity. He joined Atheist (then known as R.A.V.A.G.E.) in 1985. The band recorded their first full-length album, "Piece of Time", in 1988, which was released in 1989 in Europe, but not in the United States until a year later. - Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933-29 June 1967) was an American actress and "Playboy" centerfold. One of the leading sex symbols of the 1950s, like Marilyn Monroe, Mansfield starred in several popular Hollywood films that emphasized her platinum-blonde hair, dramatic hourglass figure and cleavage-revealing costumes. She was a recipient of a Golden Globe Award and a Theatre World Award for two early screen and stage performances. - Eddie Cochran
Ray Edward 'Eddie' Cochran (October 3, 1938 - April 17, 1960) was an early American rockabilly musician and an important influence on popular music during the late 1950s and early 1960s. - Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 - 16 September 1977), was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist whose hit singles, fashion sensibilities and stage presence with T. Rex in the early 1970s helped cultivate the glam rock era and made him one of the most recognisable stars in British music of the time. - Duane Allman
Howard Duane Allman was an American lead guitarist and noted session musician. Duane is noted for both his slide guitar and improvisational skills. In 2003, "Rolling Stone" magazine named Duane Allman as number two on their list of the greatest guitarists of all time, trailing only Jimi Hendrix. He was a noted session musician, was a founding member and the leader of The Allman Brothers Band, … - 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. - Clifford Brown
Clifford Brown (October 30, 1930 - June 26, 1956) was an influential and highly rated American jazz trumpeter. Despite an abbreviated recording career of only 4 years duration (due to his early death), he had a considerable influence on later jazz trumpet players, including Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan, Booker Little, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Terell Stafford, … - Sam Kinison
Samuel "Sam" Burl Kinison (December 8 1953 - April 10 1992) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Kinison was famous for his extremely raunchy humor and amazingly wild, colorful outfits. A former revival-style preacher, his standup routines were most often characterized by intense, angry ranting and punctuated by his trademark scream. - Coluche
Michel Colucci, better known as Coluche, was a French comedian famous for his irreverent sense of humour - Desmond Llewelyn
Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn (legend) (September 12, 1913 or 1914 - December 19, 1999) was a Welsh actor, famous for playing the fictional character of Q in the James Bond series of films. - Jan Johansson
Jan Johansson was a Swedish jazz pianist. He is little known outside Scandinavia, and his records are not widely available, yet his album "Jazz på svenska" ("Jazz in Swedish"), has sold more than a quarter of a million copies, and is the best selling jazz release ever in Sweden. Born in 1931, Johansson was a native of Söderhamn, in the Hälsingland province of Sweden. Studying classical piano as a child, he would also go on to master the guitar, … - Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith (July, 1892 or April, 1894 - September 26, 1937) was the most popular and successful female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, and a strong influence on subsequent generations, including Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone and Janis Joplin. - Berry Oakley
Raymond Berry Oakley III, was an American bassist and one of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band. Oakley was born in Chicago, Illinois then moved to Florida where he met and joined Dickey Betts' band Second Coming. He then helped form The Allman Brothers Band in 1969, along with Duane Allman (guitar), Gregg Allman (vocals and organ), Dickey Betts (guitar), and drummers Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson. - Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan was an American dancer. Born Dora Angela Duncan in San Francisco, California, she is considered by many to be the mother of Modern Dance. Although never very popular in the United States, she entertained throughout Europe. - 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. - Chris Bell
Chris Bell (January 12, 1951 - December 27, 1978) was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Memphis, Tennessee. Along with Alex Chilton, he led the power pop band Big Star, which recorded albums during the early 1970s. Chris Bell left the group after their first album, "#1 Record", but contributed some music and lyrics to their second LP, 1974's "Radio City". - Thuy Trang
Thuy Trang was a Vietnamese American actress. - Kulwinder Dhillon
Kulwinder Dhillon was a popular Punjabi singer. He died at the age of 32 in a car accident on 19 March, 2006, near Chandigarh, Punjab, India. - Maysa Matarazzo
Maysa Figueira Monjardim, better known as Maysa Matarazzo or simply Maysa, was a singer, composer, and actress from Brazil. She is associated with fossa and Bossa nova music. Maysa showed talent at a young age and by twelve had written a samba, which later became a hit from her first album. She married a member of an old-money family at 18 and two years later had a son, Jayme Monjardim. Jayme would later be known as a television director. - Mary Hansen
Mary Hansen (November 1, 1966 - December 9, 2002) was guitarist and singer with Stereolab. Born in Maryborough near Brisbane in Australia, Hansen moved to London in the late 1980s and became a backing singer with the Essex-based indie band, The Wolfhounds. She met Stereolab founder Tim Gane when the Wolfhounds played with his band McCarthy, and joined Stereolab as second vocalist in 1992. She also played guitar, as well as percussion and keyboards, … - Brandon de Wilde
Brandon De Wilde was an Academy Award-nominated American actor born into a theatrical family in Brooklyn. His father, Frederick A. De Wilde, was a Broadway production stage manager, and his mother, Eugenia De Wilde, was a part-time Broadway actress. The De Wilde family moved from Brooklyn to Baldwin, Long Island after he was born. - Fred Buscaglione
Ferdinando "Fred" Buscaglione (Turin, 23 November 1921 - Rome, 3 February 1960) was an Italian singer and actor who became very popular in late 1950s. His public persona - the character he played both in his songs and his movies - was a humorous mobster with a penchant for whisky and women. His great passion for music showed up at a very young age. When he was 11, his parents enrolled him at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin. - Johnny Horton
Johnny Horton was an American country music singer who was most famous for his semi-folk, so-called "saga songs". With them, he had several major crossover hits, most notably in 1959 with "The Battle of New Orleans" which won the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording. The song was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and in 2001 was named number 333 of the Songs of the Century. - Cozy Powell
Colin Flooks (December 29, 1947 - April 5, 1998), better known as Cozy Powell, was an English rock drummer. - Judy Tyler
Judy Tyler (October 9, 1933-July 3, 1957) was an American actress. Born Judith Mae Hess in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she came from a show business family and was encouraged to study dance and acting. Her acting career began as a teenager with regular appearances on "Howdy Doody" as Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring. Like her mother, she became a chorus girl but then went on to star in a major role in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, … - Thomas Gomez
Thomas Gomez (July 10, 1905 - June 18, 1971) was an Academy Award-nominated American actor. Born Sabino Tomas Gomez in New York, New York, Gomez began his acting career in theater during the 1920s and was a student of the actor Walter Hampden. He made his first film "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror" in 1942 and by the end of his career had appeared in sixty films. - Paul Jarrico
Paul Jarrico was an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. - Scott Lafaro
Rocco Scott LaFaro was an influential jazz bassist. Born in Newark, New Jersey, LaFaro grew up in a musical family (his father played in many big bands). He started on piano while in elementary school, began on the bass clarinet in Junior High School, changing to tenor saxophone when he entered High School. He only took up the double bass the summer before he entered college, since learning a string instrument was required for music majors. - Lisa Lopes
Lisa Nicole Lopes (May 27, 1971 - April 25, 2002), a rapper/singer/actress, also known under the stage name of "Left Eye", was a member of the popular R&B and hip hop group TLC. In addition to hit songs like "Waterfalls" with TLC, Lopes also did some solo performing. She was considered by some fans as the creative talent behind TLC and contributed her own self-written raps to many of TLC's popular singles, including "Waterfalls" and "No Scrubs". - Dottie West
Dottie West was an American Country music singer. Her career spanned as one of the longest in Country Music history, her chart success spanning from 1963, up until 1985. West was the first female Country singer to ever win a Grammy award, with her well-known 1964 Country hit,"Here Comes My Baby", and along with female Country music stars Dolly Parton, Lynn Anderson, Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynn, and Tammy Wynette, … - Rex Allen
Rex Allen was an American actor, singer, and songwriter. Born Rex Elvie Allen to Horace Allen and Faye Clark on a ranch in Mud Springs Canyon, forty miles from Willcox, Arizona, Rex Allen would grow up to become a popular entertainer known as "The Arizona Cowboy." As a boy he played guitar and sang at local functions with his fiddle-playing father until high school graduation when he toured the southwest as a rodeo rider. - Eric Campbell
Alfred Eric Campbell (26 April1878, Dunoon - 20 December1917, Hollywood) was a Scottish silent film star, who was featured in eleven films starring Charlie Chaplin. He began his career as a stage actor in "fit-ups" (local theatres) in Scotland and Wales, playing in a number of melodramatic roles. It was in one such role that he was discovered by Fred Karno, the famous English impressario, who also discovered Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel. - Hiromi Yanagihara
was a founding member of Hello! Project group Country Musume. She was killed in a car accident five days before the group's first release, Futari no Hokkaido. - Piers Flint-Shipman
Piers Frederick Alexander Flint-Shipman (1962-1984) was a British actor. He was the son of a film producer and was educated at Eton College. Among theatre roles, he appeared in several well-known films and television series in the UK during the 1970s and the 1980s. He died in a road accident in France, aged 22, when his car was hit by another driver intent on suicide. He sometimes used the stage name Frederick Alexander, his middle two names. - Martin Gilks
Martin Gilks (2 March 1965-3 April 2006) was an English musician. He was a founder member and original drummer for The Wonder Stuff, based in Stourbridge (West Midlands, England). Gilks was originally the drummer with Midlands-based The Mighty Lemon Drops before leaving in 1985 (allegedly sacked for not wanting to cut his hair), and later joined Miles Hunt, Malcolm Treece, and Rob "The Bass Thing" Jones to form The Wonder Stuff in March 1986. - Tim Layana
Timothy Joseph Layana (born March 2, 1964, in Inglewood, California - died June 26, 1999, in Bakersfield, California) was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He is an alumnus of Loyola Marymount University. Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 3rd round of the 1986 MLB amateur draft, Layana would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Cincinnati Reds on April 9, 1990, and appear in his final game on July 26, 1993. - Tom Mix
Thomas Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but 9 of which were silent features. He was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as having defined the genre for all cowboy actors who followed. - Richard Bright
Richard J. Bright was an American actor known for his role as Al Neri in the "The Godfather" films. - Hsu Wei Lun
Hsu Wei Lun, (November 13, 1978 – January 28, 2007) was a Taiwanese actress.
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