- Tom Martin
Tom Martin (born July 29, 1964, Chicago, Illinois) is an American television writer. He has written for "Saturday Night Live" (as a guest writer), "Later with Greg Kinnear", "Just Shoot Me!", "Clone High", "The Simpsons" and is a former standup comedian. - Marilu Henner
Marilu Henner (born April 6 1952) is an American actress and producer. Born Mary Lucy Denise Pudlowski<sup></sup> in Chicago, Illinois to a Greek mother and Polish father, Henner was raised on the northwest side of the city in the Logan Square neighborhood. Her mother Loretta was president of the National Association of Dance and Affiliated Arts and ran the Henner Dance School ("disguised as a three-car garage") for twenty years. - Carol Leifer
Carol Leifer (born July 27, 1956 in Long Island, New York) is an American comedian best known as Jerry Seinfeld's ex-girlfriend, as well as the basis for the character Elaine Benes on the television show, "Seinfeld". Leifer is an accomplished stand-up comedian, writer, producer and actor and has been involved in such television shows as "Seinfeld", "It's Like, You Know...", "Alright Already", and "The Larry Sanders Show". - Brian Unger
Brian Unger is an American comedian, writer, producer, and commentator. He was an original contributor to "The Daily Show", from 1996 to 1998. Currently, he provides regular commentary for the NPR show "Day to Day" and guest hosts MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann". Unger is a native of Granville, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio University in 1987, where he majored in communication. - J. Elvis Weinstein
Josh "J. Elvis" Weinstein is an American writer and performer, best known for his roles as Dr. Laurence Erhardt and the original puppeteer/voice for Tom Servo on "Mystery Science Theater 3000"; he was one of the founding writers/performers of the show in 1988 at the age of 17. He changed his professional name from "Josh" to "J. Elvis" to avoid confusion with former "Simpsons" writer Josh Weinstein. The two are frequently confused nonetheless. - Alex Leigh
Alex Leigh is an English fashion model. She was born in Manchester on 3 January in 1978 and was formerly a waitress for William's Tavern. Leigh started modelling at the age of 17. She has claimed that she was attracted by the hectic and unpredictable lifestyle rather than fame and fortune. Many catwalk shows for well-known designers such as Betty Jackson, Tristan Webber, Jasper Conran, Dai Rees and Boudica have featured her. - Lynne Koplitz
Lynne Koplitz is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She was host of Telepictures nationally syndicated dating show "Change of Heart", guest host on NBC's "Later", co-host of the Food Network's "How to Boil Water", and co-host of Sony Pictures syndicated talk show "Life and Style". Her stand-up has appeared on a number of Comedy Central specials, including "Premium Blend". She performed at the Montreal Comedy Festival. - Frances Polidori
Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, "later" Rossetti, (c. 1801 - 8 April 1886) is noted for her family connections rather than in her own right; in particular, two of her children were co-founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and another became a famous poet. Frances was the daughter of Italian exile Gaetano Polidori and sister of John Polidori, Lord Byron's physician. - Harriet Sohmers Zwerling
Harriet Sohmers, "later" Zwerling, is an American writer and artist's model. She was a significant member of the Beat generation, and lived in Paris in the 1950s as part of the bohemian expatriate scene centered around James Baldwin, with whom she shared space in a magazine called "New Story". She translated a novel by the Marquis de Sade for Maurice Girodias' Obelisk Press and worked for the International Herald Tribune. - Josh Hartnett
Joshua Daniel Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor. He came to fame after his first film role, in 1998's "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later", and has since become a leading Hollywood actor, having starred in "Black Hawk Down", "Here on Earth", "Pearl Harbor", "Wicker Park", "Lucky Number Slevin", and most recently "The Black Dahlia" - Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18 1912 - May 12 2001) was an American crooner. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943. He sold millions of records for RCA and also pioneered a weekly musical variety television show, which set the standards for the genre and proved to be one of the most successful in television history. - Taizu Of Later Liang
Zhu Quanzhong 朱全忠, originally named Zhu Wen, was a jiedushi (節度使, military governor) at the end of the Tang dynasty. He served as a general under Huang Chao and overthrew the Tang dynasty in 907 to established the Later Liang Dynasty and ushered in the era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. - Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, CBE (born 30 September 1921) is a Golden Globe award winning Scottish actress who is best known today for starring in the films "The King and I", "An Affair to Remember" and "From Here to Eternity". Nominated six times for an Academy Award as Best Actress, she never won, but was a recipient of an Academy Honorary Award for a motion picture career that has always represented "Perfection, Discipline and Elegance". - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"'"',, (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, Humanism, science, and painting. His most enduring work, the two-part dramatic poem "Faust", is considered one of the peaks of world literature. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the bildungsroman "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship", … - 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. - Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz, June 3, 1925) is an American film actor. Famous for his thick black wavy hair, good looks, flashing long eyelashes and trademark New York accent, he was most popular during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He is best known for his light comic roles, especially his musician on the run from gangsters in "Some Like It Hot" (1959). He has also essayed a number of more serious dramatic roles over the years, … - Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow (b. Harlean Harlow Carpenter, March 3, 1911 - June 7, 1937) was an American film actress and top sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" for her famous hair, Harlow starred in several films mainly designed to showcase her magnetic sex appeal and strong screen presence before transitioning to more developed roles and achieving massive fame under contract to MGM. Known as "The Baby" to family and close friends, … - Shirley Temple
Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928) later known as Shirley Temple Black, is an American former child actress. She starred in over 40 films during the 1930s. She was later a diplomat and is now retired - Brandon Call
Brandon Spencer Lee Call (born November 17 1976) is an American actor. He portrayed J.T. Lambert on the ABC sitcom "Step by Step" and Hobie Buchannon during the first season of "Baywatch". Call also briefly endorsed the popular early 90's beverage, Boku. Call was born in Torrance, California to Richard Call and Elyse Pollack. He has two sisters, Dee Anne and Tandi, and a brother, Dustin. - Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci. - Megan Burns
Megan Burns (born June 25 1986) is a British musician and former award-winning actress from Liverpool, England. She played Hannah in the feature film "28 Days Later" (2002) and won the Marcello Mastroianni award at the Venice film festival for her performance in "Liam" (2000). She has since embarked upon a music career, under the pseudonym "Betty Curse", which has been manufactured by the Island Records Group. - Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle (born 20 October, 1956) is an English director and film producer, best known for his work on films such as "Trainspotting", "28 Days Later" and "Sunshine". - Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso (February 25 1873 - August 2 1921) was an Italian opera singer and one of the most famous tenors in history. Caruso was also the most popular singer in any genre in the first twenty years of the twentieth century and one of the pioneers of recorded music. Caruso's popular recordings and his extraordinary voice, known for its range, power, and beauty, made him one of the best-known stars of his time. - Robert R. Gilruth
Robert Rowe Gilruth (October 18 1913-August 17 2000) was an American aviation and space pioneer. In the beginning of his career he was involved with early research into supersonic flight and rocket-powered aircraft and then with the manned space program, including the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects. He worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics from 1937 to 1958 and its successor agency, the NASA, until retirement in 1973. - Lyrics Born
Lyrics Born (formerly known as Asia Born, born Tom Shimura in Tokyo, Japan in 1972), is a half-Japanese-American, half-Italian-American hip hop rapper. He is one half of the group Latyrx with Lateef the Truthspeaker. - Rajendra Prasad
Dr. Rajendra Prasad was the first President of India. Rajendra Prasad was an independence activist and, as a leader of the Congress Party, played a prominent role in the Indian Independence Movement. He served as President of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the constitution of the Republic from 1948 to 1950. He had also served as a Cabinet Minister briefly in the first Government of Independent India. - Gwen John
Gwen John (June 22, 1876 - September 18, 1939) was a Welsh artist. - Julie Fowlis
Julie Fowlis is a Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist, who sings in Scottish Gaelic. She grew up in North Uist, a small island in the Outer Hebrides, in a Gaelic speaking community, and has been involved in singing, piping and dancing since she was a child. She is a member of the successful Scottish sextet, Dòchas, who were voted winners of "Best Newcomer" award at the Scots Trad Music Awards in 2004, … - Louis Le Prince
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince was an inventor who is generally recognized as the first person to record motion images on film. In October 1888, Le Prince filmed "Roundhay Garden Scene", which is thought to be the world's first successful attempt to record moving images, and hence the very first motion picture film. He followed this with a film of a "Leeds Bridge" street scene. - Montserrat Caballé
Maria de Montserrat Viviana Concepción Caballé i Folc, better known as Montserrat Caballé (born April 12 1933), is a Spanish operatic soprano renowned for her bel canto technique and her interpretations of the roles of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti. - Watson Kirkconnell
Watson Kirkconnell FRSC, (16 May 1895 - 26 February 1977) was a Canadian scholar, university administrator and translator. From 1948 to 1964, he was the ninth President of Acadia University. In 1968, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his services at home and abroad as an educator, scholar and writer". <sup></sup> In 1936, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. - Fat Pat
Fat Pat (born Patrick Lamont Hawkins, February 21, 1970 - February 3, 1998) was a rapper from Houston, Texas and an original member of DJ Screw's Screwed Up Click. Also known as Mr. Fat Pat and P-A-T, he was most prolific in the mid-1990s alongside his brother Big Hawk and longtime friend Lil' Keke. Fat Pat was signed to Wreckshop Records. - Jake Fogelnest
Jake Fogelnest started a television show from his New York City bedroom when he was fourteen years old. "SQUiRT TV" made its debut in January of 1994 on Manhattan public access. The show, which Fogelnest wrote, produced and directed, featured his opinions on music, film and television. The one-man show quickly became a cult success in Manhattan, attracting with its quirky style, sense of humor and edgy commentary a fan base of night owls, including The Beastie Boys, … - Gino Bechi
Gino Bechi (16 October, 1913 - 2 February, 1993) was an Italian operatic bass-baritone. He was renowned for his dark and menacing voice well suited to various dramatic roles, such as the elder Germont in Verdi's "La Traviata", the title role in "Rigoletto", and the Speaker in Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci". His recorded legacy includes the role of Figaro in Victor de Sabata's 1952 recording of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville", … - Roger Hale Sheaffe
General Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe, 1st Baronet (15 July 1763 - 17 July 1851) was an American-born General in the British Army in the first part of the 19th century. An American Loyalist, Roger Hale Sheaffe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the third son, and eighth child, of William Sheaffe, Deputy Collector of Customs, and his wife Susannah Child. William died in 1771, leaving at least ten children still living. - Billy Childish
Billy Childish (real name Steven John Hamper) or William Charlie Hamper (born December 1, 1959) is an English artist, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. He is known for his explicit and prolific work: he has detailed his love life and childhood sexual abuse, notably in his early poetry and the novel "My Fault". He has published more than 40 collections of poetry, written three novels, … - John Hodge
John Hodge (born in 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British screenwriter, most noted for his adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel "Trainspotting" into the script for the film of the same title. Raised in Glasgow, Hodge comes from a family of doctors and carried on the tradition by studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. - Noah Huntley
Noah Huntley (born 7 September 1974 in Wiston, West Sussex) is an actor, probably most famous for his minor role in the 2002 feature film "28 Days Later". More recently he played the older Peter Pevensie in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". On TV, he played Luke McAllister from 1993 to 1995 in British TV soap opera "Emmerdale"; he also played Will Curtis in "Holby City" for the 2004/5 season. - Glenn Hauser
Glenn Hauser (born April 12, 1945 - Berkeley, California) is an internationally-known DXer and radio host from Enid, Oklahoma, USA. He produces and narrates the weekly 30-minute radio show "World Of Radio"," heard on various non-commercial AM and FM radio stations throughout the USA, plus worldwide on shortwave radio. He began his broadcasting career doing Sunday night DX tips on Radio Canada International in the late 1970s, leading many to believe that he is, … - Gustav Bergmann
Gustav Bergmann (May 4, 1906 - April 21, 1987) was a Jewish ontologist born in Vienna, Austria. He studied at the University of Vienna and attended meetings of the Vienna Circle during his time in Europe. In his time in the United States, he was a professor of philosophy and psychology at the University of Iowa where he taught and studied until his death in 1987.
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