- Britney Spears
The youngest Spears stepped out on her own in 2002 as a cast member of Nickelodeon's All That . After becoming a fan favorite - like former All That stars Amanda Bynes and Nick Cannon - the then 13-year-old got her own series , Zoey 101 , which became the second highest-rated show among tweens, after TV juggernaut American Idol . - Drew Barrymore
Drew Blyth Barrymore is an American actress and film producer, the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. She has her own production company, Flower Films. Barrymore made her screen début in "Altered States" (1980); she made her breakout role two years later in "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". She quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses. - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre. Poe died at the age of 40. - Elliott Smith
Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an Academy Award-nominated American singer-songwriter and musician. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass, harmonica and drums. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and use of multi-tracking to create vocal harmonies. Although Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and died in Los Angeles, California, … - Howie Day
Howie Kern Day (born January 15, 1981 in Bangor, Maine) is an American singer-songwriter. Beginning his career as a solo artist in the late 1990s, Day became known for his extensive touring and in-concert use of samplers and effects pedals in order to accompany himself. He self-financed and self-released his first album, "Australia", in 2000. Day signed to the major label Epic Records in 2002 and has since re-released his debut as well as producing a follow up, … - 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. - John Bradshaw
John Elliot Bradshaw (born June 29, 1933 in Houston, Texas) is an American educator, counselor, motivational speaker and author best known for his PBS television programs on topics such as addiction, recovery, codependency and spirituality. Bradshaw is active in the self-help movement, and is credited with popularizing such ideas as the "wounded inner child" and the dysfunctional family. His books are mainly works of popular psychology. - David J. Hanson
David Justin Hanson, PhD, (born 1941) is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the State University of New York at Potsdam, NY, USA. Hanson researched the subject of alcohol and drinking for over 30 years, beginning with his PhD dissertation investigation, and has written widely on the subject. - Richard Doll
Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS (28 October 1912-24 July 2005) was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems. With Ernst Wynder, Bradford Hill and Evarts Graham, he was the first in the modern world to prove that smoking caused lung cancer and increased the risk of heart disease. - Steve Howe
Steven Roy Howe (March 10 1958 - April 28 2006) was an American left-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who spent most of his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees. Born in Pontiac, Michigan, Howe was a two-time All-Big Ten selection at the University of Michigan. He made his Major League debut at the age of 22 in 1980 and would eventually become the National League Rookie of the Year that year, … - Herman Brood
Herman Brood (pronounced "Broat" /bro:t/; Zwolle, November 5, 1946 - Amsterdam, July 11, 2001) was a Dutch musician, painter and media personality. Brood was the Dutch personification of "sex, drugs and rock 'n roll". After playing piano in Cuby and the Blizzards and several other bands since 1964, Brood started his own group, Herman Brood and His Wild Romance, in 1977. The band had their first hit single, "Saturday Night", in 1978. - Chris Wood
Christopher Gordon Blandford 'Chris' Wood (born June 24, 1944, in Harborne, Birmingham, Warwickshire - died July 12, 1983, at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, West Midlands) was a founding member of the English rock band Traffic along with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, and Dave Mason. Wood primarily played flute and saxophone, occasionally contributing keyboards and vocals. Wood was also a co-writer for many of Traffic's songs. - Sammy Kershaw
Samuel Paul "Sammy" Kershaw (born February 24, 1958, in Kaplan in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana) is an American Country music singer and songwriter. He is a relative of Cajun music legend Doug Kershaw. - Tom Simpson
Tom Simpson (30 November 1937 - 13 July 1967) was an English road racing cyclist who died of exhaustion on the slopes of Mont Ventoux during the 13th stage of the Tour de France in 1967. The post mortem found that he had taken amphetamines and alcohol, a diuretic combination which proved fatal when combined with the hot conditions, the notoriously hard climb of the Ventoux and a pre-existing stomach complaint. - Catherine Booth
Catherine Booth (January 17, 1829 - October 4, 1890) was the Mother of The Salvation Army. She was born Catherine Mumford in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, the daughter of John Mumford and Sarah Milward. Her father was a coach builder. Her family later moved to Boston, Lincolnshire, and later lived in Brixton, London. From an early age, Catherine was a serious and sensitive girl. - Jason Mulgrew
Jason Mulgrew (born July 17, 1979), a self-proclaimed "Internet Quasi-Celebrity", is a blogger from Philadelphia who now lives in Manhattan. Mulgrew has a popular blog, located at jasonmulgrew.com, titled "Everything Is Wrong With Me: 27, Bipolar and Hungry." The popularity of his blog has led to many other media opportunities, listed below. He is a 2001 graduate of Boston College and, according to "People" magazine, one of the 50 Hottest Bachelors of 2005. - Thomas Stuttaford
Dr Irving Thomas Stuttaford OBE, (born 4 May 1931) is a British doctor, author, medical columnist of "The Times" and former Conservative Member of Parliament. He retired in 2002 as Senior Medical Advisor for Barclays Bank. From 1970 to 1974 Stuttaford was the MP for Norwich South. In two subsequent elections he was a candidate in the Isle of Ely but lost to Clement Freud. His views on the effects of alcohol on health, specifically red wine, are controversial, … - Roy Black
Roy Black was a German "Schlager" singer and actor who appeared in several musical comedies and starred in the 1989 TV series "Ein Schloß am Wörthersee". Born Gerhard Höllerich in Straßberg near Augsburg, Roy Black attended the "gymnasium" in Augsburg and, aged 20, founded the rock and roll band "Roy Black and His Cannons". His stage name derived from his black hair and his idol Roy Orbison. - Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian artist, practicing both painting and sculpture, who pursued his career for the most part in France. Modigliani was born in Livorno (historically referred to in English as Leghorn), in Central Italy and began his artistic studies in Italy before moving to Paris in 1906. Influenced by the artists in his circle of friends and associates, by a range of genres and art movements, and by primitive art, … - John Lowe
John Lowe (born in New Tupton, Derbyshire on 21 July 1945) was one of the main competitors who made darts such a huge spectator sport in the 1970s and 1980s. Lowe won the World Championship title in three different decades - 1979, 1987 and 1993. Though seen as very much a bridesmaid figure behind Eric Bristow in the early days of darts' rise to prominence, he was also regarded as the gentleman of the game. Lowe achieved the ultimate feat in darts on October 13, … - Michael Miles
Michael John Miles (b. 1919, Wellington, New Zealand, d. 1971) was a TV presenter in Britain, best known for the game show "Take Your Pick" from 1955 to 1968, produced by Associated Rediffusion and later by Rediffusion London. He then hosted a similar show called "Wheel of Fortune", not to be confused with the later game show of the same name, for Southern Television. - Lydia Pinkham
Lydia Estes Pinkham (1819 - 1883) was a patent medicine manufacturer and businesswoman. A resident of Lynn, Massachusetts, Lydia Pinkham first began developing home remedies after the near bankruptcy of her husband. Mass marketed from 1875 on, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was one of the best known patent medicines of the 19th century. Descendants of this product are still available today. - Stuart Lubbock
Stuart Lubbock (born October 1 1969, died March 31 2001) was a meat factory worker from Essex, England, who died in suspicious circumstances. Lubbock died in the Princess Alexandra Hospital after being found unconscious in the pool of popular British television game show presenter Michael Barrymore's home in Roydon, Essex on the morning of the 31 March, 2001. He was wearing only boxer shorts. He had severe anal injuries and ecstasy, cocaine and alcohol in his blood. - Abi Ofarim
Abi Ofarim (born Abraham Reichstadt, October 10, 1937 in Safed, British Mandate of Palestine) is an Israeli musician and dancer. At the age of 12, he attended ballet school, and made his debut on stage in Haifa at 15. By the age of 17 he was arranging his own choreography, and by 18 had his own dance studio. After he married Esther Ofarim he achieved some international fame, performing with her as a musical duo, … - Dutch Schultz
Dutch Schultz (August 6, 1902 - October 24, 1935) was a New York City-area gangster of the 1920s and '30s. Born Arthur Flegenheimer into a Jewish German family in the Bronx, he made his fortune in organized crime-related activities such as bootlegging illegal alcohol and the numbers racket in Harlem. He is most famous today for the rambling, stream-of-consciousness monologue he gave police in a hospital as he lay dying of a gunshot wound. - Foster Brooks
Foster Brooks (11 May 1912, Louisville, Kentucky – 20 December, 2001, Encino, California) was an American actor and comedian who was most famous for his ongoing portrayal of a drunken man in Las Vegas nightclub performances and television programs. Brooks' career started in radio, most notably with station WHAS (AM) in his hometown of Louisville. Brooks was a staff announcer, but his deep baritone voice was well-suited for singing as well. - Hadacol
Hadacol was a patent medicine marketed as a vitamin supplement. Its principal attraction, however, was that it contained 12 percent alcohol (listed on the tonic bottle's label as a "preservative"), which made it quite popular in the dry counties of the southern United States. It was the product of four-term Louisiana state Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc (1894-1971), a Democrat from Abbeville in Vermilion Parish. He was not a medical doctor, nor a registered pharmacist, … - Frank Chaloupka
Dr. Frank J. Chaloupka is a professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is one of the world's foremost experts in the economic analysis of substance use and abuse, and on the effect of prices and substance control policies in affecting the demands for tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs. Chaloupka has authored over a hundred articles and several book chapters on topics within this area. - Cheb Hasni
Cheb Hasni (born Hasni Chekroun on February 1 1968 in Oran, Algeria, died September 29 1994) was a performer of Algerian Raï music. He is popular across North Africa, having reached the height of his career in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was the son of a welder and grew up in a working class family where he was one of seven children. Hasni is most well known for his love songs, but he also dealt with taboo subjects such as divorce and alcohol. - Jim Meehan
"Minneapolis" Jim Meehan (born March 19 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an American professional poker player from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He also works as a lawyer, but is semi-retired. Meehan began playing poker in the 1960s, and began playing poker tournaments regularly in 1997, where he had a 2nd place finish in the $3,000 limit hold'em event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). He finished 3rd in the $2,500 limit omaha event the same year. - MacKenzie Phillips
Laura Mackenzie Phillips (born November 10, 1959 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American actress and singer, primarily for her roles in movies, soap operas and television. In the 1970s and 1980s, she's best known as Bonnie Franklin's rebellious, yet boy crazed daughter, Julie Cooper Horvath, on "One Day at a Time" (a role she played from 1975 to 1980 and from 1981 to 1983), and in the late 1990s and 2000s, … - Mark Lester
Mark Lester (b. July 11, 1958) was an English child actor known for playing innocent-looking boys in British and European films of the 1960s and 70s. - Henry Chadwick
Henry Chadwick (October 5 1824 - April 20 1908), often called the "father of baseball," was a sportswriter, baseball statistician and historian. Born in Exeter, England, and raised on cricket, Chadwick was one of the prime movers in the rise of baseball to its unprecedented popularity at the turn of the 20th century. A keen amateur statistician and professional writer, he helped sculpt the public perception of the game, … - Jonathan Melvoin
Jonathan Melvoin (December 6, 1961 - July 12, 1996) was the touring keyboardist for The Smashing Pumpkins during their worldwide tour for the album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness". He was the brother of Susannah and Wendy Melvoin of Prince and the Revolution. He first learned to play drums, and was cited by friends and relatives as one of those people who could play anything. He performed with many punk bands in the 80's such as the Dickies, … - Eric Douglas
Eric Douglas was an American actor. He was born Eric Anthony Douglas in Los Angeles, California, the youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas and German mother Anne Buydens. His half-brother is Michael Douglas. Unlike his more-famous Academy Award-winning relatives, Eric Douglas' most notable movie was the 1986 comedy "The Golden Child", which starred Eddie Murphy. Douglas battled with drug and alcohol problems for years, … - Dwight B. Heath
Dwight B. Heath (born November 19, 1930) is Research Professor of Anthropology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He has published extensively in many areas of anthropology, especially on the subject of alcohol drinking patterns and their relationship to culture. - Paul Delay
Paul Joseph deLay (b. January 31 1952, Portland, Oregon - d. March 7 2007, Portland, Oregon), was an American blues vocalist and harmonicist. DeLay's musical career started in the early 1970s with a band called "Brown Sugar", which played numerous West Coast gigs. In 1976, he and guitarist Jim Mesi formed the Paul deLay Blues Band, which performed well into the 1980s. The band also recorded several albums during that time. - Anitra Steen
Anitra Steen is a Swedish civil servant. As of 2005 she is the manager of Systembolaget, the Swedish state alcohol retailing monopoly. In that role she has been forced to cope with a full blown corruption scandal, involving bribery of shop managers and senior staff by some major suppliers, including Vin & Sprit, formerly the producing and importing division of the Swedish state monopoly. Vin & Sprit is still owned by the Swedish state. - Aeneas Coffey
Aeneas Coffey (1780-1852) was born in Calais, France where he spent his early years. His family returned to Dublin (both his parents were Irish), where he was educated at Trinity College. He entered the excise servce around 1799-1800. He married Susanna Logie in 1808 and they a son also named Aeneas, who may have been their only child. He invented the Coffey still, a revoluntionary distilling apparatus. Early Coffey stills produced 60% over proof spirit. - Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright (born November 25, 1950) is an Indigenous Australian writer best known for winning the Miles Franklin Award for her 2006 novel "Carpentaria". Wright is a land rights activist originally from the Waanyi people in the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Wright's father, a white cattleman, died when she was five years old and she grew up in Cloncurry, Queensland with her mother and grandmother.
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