Bankruptcy

Olive Borden
– Actor
14-Jul-1906 /
1-Oct-1947 /

The Joy Girl

Bjorn Borg
– Tennis
6-Jun-1956 /

Pro tennis player

Riddick Bowe
– Boxing
10-Aug-1967 /

Twice World Heavyweight Champion

Lorraine Bracco
– Actor
2-Oct-1954 /

Goodfellas, The Sopranos

Mathew Brady
– Photographer
15-Jan-1823 /
15-Jan-1896 /

Civil War photographer

Toni Braxton
– Singer
7-Oct-1966 /

Un-Break My Heart

Louise Brooks
– Actor
14-Nov-1906 /
8-Aug-1985 /

Pandora’s Box

John Brown
– Activist
9-May-1800 /
2-Dec-1859 /

Led the raid on Harpers Ferry

Sylvia Browne
– Paranormal
19-Oct-1936 /
20-Nov-2013 /

Afraid to accept Randi’s $1 million challenge

Lenny Bruce
– Comic
13-Oct-1925 /
3-Aug-1966 /

Multiply obscene comic

Anita Bryant
– Activist
25-Mar-1940 /

Anti-homosexuality activist

Young Buck
– Rapper
15-Mar-1981 /

Straight Outta Cashville

Buffalo Bill
– Performance Artist
26-Feb-1846 /
10-Jan-1917 /

Wild West showman

Gary Busey
– Actor
29-Jun-1944 /

The Buddy Holly Story

Richard G. Butler
– Activist
23-Feb-1918 /
8-Sep-2004 /

Founder of the Aryan Nations

Crazy Cabbie
– Radio Personality
10-Dec-1968 /

Part of the Howard Stern menagerie

Luther Campbell
– Rapper
22-Dec-1960 /

2 Live Crew, Luke Records founder

Tia Carrere
– Actor
2-Jan-1967 /

Wayne’s World

Aaron Carter
– Singer
7-Dec-1987 /

Backstreet boy Nick Carter’s brother

Nell Carter
– Actor
13-Sep-1948 /
23-Jan-2003 /

Housekeeper on Gimme A Break

Willis Carto
– Activist
17-Jul-1926 /
26-Oct-2015 /

Founder of Liberty Lobby, IHR

Raymond Carver
– Author
25-May-1938 /
2-Aug-1988 /

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

David Cassidy
– Singer
12-Apr-1950 /

The Partridge Family

George Catlin
– Painter
26-Jul-1796 /
23-Dec-1872 /

Portraitist painted Native Americans

50 Cent
– Rapper
6-Jul-1975 /

Wanksta, P.I.M.P.

Miguel de Cervantes
– Novelist
29-Sep-1547 /
22-Apr-1616 /

Don Quixote

Bill Ceverha
– Government
c. 1936 /

Lobbyist, GOP activist

André Citroën
– Engineer
5-Feb-1878 /
3-Jul-1935 /

Europe’s Henry Ford

George Clinton
– Singer
22-Jul-1940 /

Funkadelic

Gary Coleman
– Actor
8-Feb-1968 /
28-May-2010 /

Arnold Jackson on Diff’rent Strokes

John Connally
– Politician
27-Feb-1917 /
15-Jun-1993 /

Governor of Texas, 1963-69

Denton Cooley
– Doctor
22-Aug-1920 /

Pioneering heart surgeon

John Singleton Copley
– Painter
3-Jul-1738 /
9-Sep-1815 /

Boy with a Squirrel

Francis Ford Coppola
– Film Director
7-Apr-1939 /

The Godfather

A. C. Cowlings
– Football
16-Jun-1947 /

O.J.’s best friend

Rick Crawford
– Politician
22-Jan-1966 /

Congressman, Arkansas 1st

David Crosby
– Musician
14-Aug-1941 /

Crosby, Stills, and Nash

Aleister Crowley
– Religion
12-Oct-1875 /
1-Dec-1947 /

Wickedest man in the world

Charles Cullen
– Criminal
1960 /

Claimed to have killed 30-40 patients

Vic Damone
– Singer
12-Jun-1928 /

Singer of ballads

Dorothy Dandridge
– Actor
9-Nov-1922 /
8-Sep-1965 /

Carmen Jones

Jim Davidson
– Comic
13-Dec-1953 /

Stand Up Jim Davidson

Darren Day
– TV Personality
17-Jul-1968 /

British tabloid fodder

Daniel Defoe
– Author
Sep-1660 /
24-Apr-1731 /

Robinson Crusoe

John DeLorean
– Business
6-Jan-1925 /
19-Mar-2005 /

Automobile designer and entepreneur

Janice Dickinson
– Model
15-Feb-1955 /

1970s supermodel

Walt Disney
– Business
5-Dec-1901 /
15-Dec-1966 /

Founder of Disney empire

DMX
– Rapper
18-Dec-1970 /

What’s My Name?

Jim Dooley
– Football
8-Feb-1930 /
8-Jan-2008 /

Chicago Bears Head Coach, 1968-71

Gary Dourdan
– Actor
11-Dec-1966 /

Warrick Brown on CSI

Henry Dunant
– Activist
8-May-1828 /
30-Oct-1910 /

Red Cross founder

William C. Durant
– Business
8-Dec-1861 /
18-Mar-1947 /

Founder of General Motors

Lenny Dykstra
– Baseball
10-Feb-1963 /

Philadelphia Phillies Outfielder

Freddy Fender
– Musician
4-Jun-1937 /
14-Oct-2006 /

Before the Next Teardrop Falls

Stepin Fetchit
– Actor
30-May-1902 /
19-Nov-1985 /

Professional black stereotype

Eddie Fisher
– Singer
10-Aug-1928 /
22-Sep-2010 /

Crooner, top RCA/Victor vocalist

Mick Fleetwood
– Musician
24-Jun-1947 /

Fleetwood Mac

Heidi Fleiss
– Criminal
30-Dec-1965 /

Hollywood madam

Redd Foxx
– Comic
9-Dec-1922 /
11-Oct-1991 /

Foul-mouthed comedian, Sanford and Son

John C. Fremont
– Explorer
21-Jan-1813 /
13-Jul-1890 /

Conqueror of California

R. Buckminster Fuller
– Architect
12-Jul-1895 /
1-Jul-1983 /

Futurist, invented the geodesic dome

Zsa Zsa Gabor
– Actor
6-Feb-1917 /

Cop-slapping Gabor sister

Leif Garrett
– Musician
8-Nov-1961 /

1970s teen idol

Marvin Gaye
– Singer
2-Apr-1939 /
1-Apr-1984 /

Heard It Through the Grapevine

Wally George
– TV Personality
4-Dec-1931 /
5-Oct-2003 /

Abusive conservative spectacle

Andy Gibb
– Musician
5-Mar-1958 /
10-Mar-1988 /

I Just Want To Be Your Everything

Jim Gilchrist
– Activist
1949 /

Minuteman Project founder

Gary Glitter
– Musician
8-May-1944 /

Rock and Roll Part 2

Bernhard Goetz
– Criminal
7-Nov-1947 /

Subway vigilante

Charles Goodyear
– Inventor
29-Dec-1800 /
1-Jul-1860 /

Invented rubber vulcanization process

Abraham Gosman
– Business
8-Dec-1928 /
21-Oct-2013 /

Palm Beach nursing home magnate

Ulysses S. Grant
– Head of State
27-Apr-1822 /
23-Jul-1885 /

Eighteenth President of the United States

Mike Gravel
– Politician
13-May-1930 /

US Senator from Alaska, 1969-81

Archie Griffin
– Football
21-Aug-1954 /

Winner, 1974 and 1975 Heisman Trophy

Johannes Gutenberg
– Inventor
1398 /
3-Feb-1468 /

Inventor of movable type

Tony Gwynn
– Baseball
9-May-1960 /
16-Jun-2014 /

Batted .394 in 1994 for the Padres

Merle Haggard
– Country Musician
6-Apr-1937 /

Okie From Muskogee

Corey Haim
– Actor
23-Dec-1971 /
10-Mar-2010 /

The Lost Boys

Frans Hals
– Painter
1580 /
29-Aug-1666 /

Dutch portraitist

Dorothy Hamill
– Figure Skating
26-Jul-1956 /

Olympic figure skater, gold medal 1976

MC Hammer
– Singer/Songwriter
30-Mar-1962 /

Can’t touch this

George Frideric Handel
– Composer
23-Feb-1685 /
14-Apr-1759 /

Messiah

Isaac Hayes
– Musician
20-Aug-1942 /
10-Aug-2008 /

Theme from Shaft

Margaux Hemingway
– Actor
16-Feb-1955 /
2-Jul-1996 /

Troubled actress OD’d on klonopin

Sherman Hemsley
– Actor
1-Feb-1938 /
24-Jul-2012 /

George Jefferson on The Jeffersons

Ty Herndon
– Country Musician
2-May-1962 /

Country music star caught in cruisy park

Ed Herschler
– Politician
27-Oct-1918 /
5-Feb-1990 /

Governor of Wyoming, 1975-87

Perez Hilton
– Columnist
23-Mar-1978 /

Gossip columnist

Rubén Hinojosa
– Politician
20-Aug-1940 /

Congressman, Texas 15th

Kent Hovind
– Religion
15-Jan-1953 /

Creation Science evangelist

Steve Howe
– Baseball
10-Mar-1958 /
28-Apr-2006 /

MLB pitcher

Norman Hsu
– Philanthropist
Oct-1951 /

Notorious Democratic donor

E. Howard Hunt
– Criminal
9-Oct-1918 /
23-Jan-2007 /

Coordinated Watergate break-in

Nelson Bunker Hunt
– Business
22-Feb-1926 /
21-Oct-2014 /

Tried to corner the silver market

David Irving
– Activist
24-Mar-1938 /

Notorious Holocaust denier

Ronald Isley
– Musician
21-May-1941 /

An Isley brother

Michael Jace
– Actor
13-Jul-1970 /

Det. Julien Lowe on The Shield

La Toya Jackson
– Singer
29-May-1956 /

Sister of Michael Jackson

Eli S. Jacobs
– Baseball
5-Oct-1937 /

Former Baltimore Orioles owner

Richard Jaeckel
– Actor
10-Oct-1926 /
14-Jun-1997 /

Sometimes a Great Notion

Bill Johnson
– Skier
30-Mar-1960 /

Downhill skiing gold medal, 1984

Don Johnson
– Actor
15-Dec-1949 /

Miami Vice, Nash Bridges

Al Jolson
– Singer
26-May-1886 /
23-Oct-1950 /

The Jazz Singer

George Jones
– Country Musician
12-Sep-1931 /
26-Apr-2013 /

Country singer, White Lightning

Charles Keating
– Business
4-Dec-1923 /
1-Apr-2014 /

Morality crusader, white-collar swindler

Buster Keaton
– Actor
4-Oct-1895 /
1-Feb-1966 /

The General

Bernard Kerik
– Government
4-Sep-1955 /

NYC Police Commissioner, 2000-01

Margot Kidder
– Actor
17-Oct-1948 /

Lois Lane in Superman

Larry King
– Talk Show Host
19-Nov-1933 /

Larry King Live

Robert Kiyosaki
– Author
8-Apr-1947 /

Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Suge Knight
– Business
19-Apr-1965 /

Rap mogul and ex-con

Veronica Lake
– Actor
14-Nov-1922 /
7-Jul-1973 /

Sullivan’s Travels

Lyndon LaRouche
– Economist
8-Sep-1922 /

Eccentric economist politician

Cyndi Lauper
– Singer/Songwriter
22-Jun-1953 /

Girls Just Want To Have Fun

Anton LaVey
– Religion
11-Apr-1930 /
29-Oct-1997 /

Founder, Church of Satan

Jerry Lewis
– Comic
16-Mar-1926 /

Muscular Dystrophy Association

Jerry Lee Lewis
– Musician
29-Sep-1935 /

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire

Abraham Lincoln
– Head of State
12-Feb-1809 /
15-Apr-1865 /

16th US President, 1861-65

Horace Liveright
– Publisher
10-Dec-1886 /
24-Sep-1933 /

Publisher of the Modern Library series

Meat Loaf
– Musician
27-Sep-1947 /

Bat Out of Hell

Terry L. Long
– Football
21-Jul-1959 /
7-Jun-2005 /

Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman

Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes
– Singer
27-May-1971 /
25-Apr-2002 /

Member of TLC

Luka Magnotta
– Criminal Defendant
24-Jul-1982 /

Allegedly dismembered a Chinese student

Henry Mayhew
– Journalist
1812 /
25-Jul-1887 /

Punch

William McKinley
– Head of State
29-Jan-1843 /
14-Sep-1901 /

25th US President, 1897-1901

Linda McMahon
– Wrestling
4-Oct-1948 /

Former CEO of WWE

Vince McMahon
– Wrestling
24-Aug-1945 /

World Wrestling Entertainment impresario

Tom Metzger
– Activist
9-Apr-1938 /

White supremacist

Robert Mills
– Architect
12-Aug-1781 /
3-Mar-1855 /

Washington Monument

Marvin Mitchelson
– Attorney
7-May-1928 /
18-Sep-2004 /

Celebrity divorce lawyer

Barrett Moore
– Business
? /

Triple Canopy founder

Robert Morris
– Politician
31-Jan-1734 /
7-May-1806 /

Financed the Revolutionary War

Conrad Murray
– Doctor
19-Feb-1953 /

Michael Jackson’s personal physician

Mae Murray
– Actor
10-May-1889 /
23-Mar-1965 /

The Girl with the Bee Stung Lips

John Naisbitt
– Author
15-Jan-1929 /

Megatrends

John Nash
– Architect
1752 /
13-May-1835 /

British Regency architect

Willie Nelson
– Country Musician
30-Apr-1933 /

The red-headed stranger

Wayne Newton
– Singer
3-Apr-1942 /

Top Las Vegas act

Harry Nilsson
– Singer/Songwriter
15-Jun-1941 /
15-Jan-1994 /

Me and My Arrow

F. Donald Nixon
– Relative
23-Nov-1914 /
27-Jun-1987 /

Nixon’s brother, got $205K from Hughes

Emperor Norton
– Royalty
14-Feb-1819 /
8-Jan-1880 /

Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico

Ted Nugent
– Musician
13-Dec-1948 /

Rock star, bowhunting enthusiast

Kate O’Brien
– Novelist
3-Dec-1897 /
13-Aug-1974 /

The Land of Spices

Thomas Paine
– Activist
29-Jan-1737 /
8-Jun-1809 /

Common Sense

Johnny Paycheck
– Country Musician
31-May-1938 /
18-Feb-2003 /

Take This Job and Shove It

Anthony Pellicano
– Business
22-Mar-1944 /

Hollywood private eye

Michael Peterson
– Author
23-Oct-1943 /

The Staircase

Tom Petty
– Musician
20-Oct-1950 /

Don’t Come Around Here No More

Philip II
– Royalty
21-May-1527 /
13-Sep-1598 /

King of Spain, 1556-98

Judson W. Phillips
– Attorney
c. 1959 /

Tea Party Nation

Charles Ponzi
– Criminal
3-Mar-1882 /
18-Jun-1949 /

Get-rich-quick schemes

Peter Popoff
– Religion
1946 /

Fraud exposed on the Tonight Show

Bud Post

5-Apr-1939 /
15-Jan-2006 /

Unhappy lottery millionaire

Susan Powter
– Fitness Guru
22-Dec-1957 /

Stop the Insanity! fitness guru

Randy Quaid
– Actor
1-Oct-1950 /

Parents

Dave Ramsey
– Radio Personality
3-Sep-1960 /

The Dave Ramsey Show

Lynn Redgrave
– Actor
8-Mar-1943 /
2-May-2010 /

The Happy Hooker

Rembrandt
– Painter
15-Jul-1606 /
4-Oct-1669 /

Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp

Tommy Rettig
– Actor
10-Dec-1941 /
15-Feb-1996 /

Jeff Miller in Lassie

Burt Reynolds
– Actor
11-Feb-1936 /

Moustached Cannonball Run actor

Debbie Reynolds
– Actor
1-Apr-1932 /

Dancer, actress

Teddy Riley
– Musician
8-Oct-1966 /

The King of New Jack Swing

Andre Rison
– Football
18-Mar-1967 /

Bad Moon Rison

Mickey Rooney
– Actor
23-Sep-1920 /
6-Apr-2014 /

Actor in Andy Hardy comedies, musicals

Rick Ross
– Activist
24-Nov-1952 /

Cult expert, deprogrammer

Debbie Rowe
– Relative
6-Dec-1958 /

Michael Jackson’s ex-wife

Kelly Rutherford
– Actor
6-Nov-1968 /

Megan Mancini on Melrose Place

Warren Sapp
– Football
19-Dec-1972 /

Defensive Tackle, Oakland Raiders

Clarence Saunders
– Business
9-Aug-1881 /
14-Oct-1953 /

Father of modern retailing

Oskar Schindler
– Activist
28-Apr-1908 /
9-Oct-1974 /

Saved over 1000 from Nazis

Karen Silkwood
– Victim
19-Feb-1946 /
13-Nov-1974 /

Nuclear whistleblower

Billy Sims
– Football
18-Sep-1955 /

Detroit Lions RB

Tom Sizemore
– Actor
29-Nov-1961 /

Heat, Robbery Homicide Division

Anna Nicole Smith
– Model
28-Nov-1967 /
8-Feb-2007 /

Addled golddigger

Joseph Smith
– Religion
23-Dec-1805 /
27-Jun-1844 /

Founded the Mormon faith

Dee Snider
– Musician
15-Mar-1955 /

Frontman for Twisted Sister

Phoebe Snow
– Jazz Musician
17-Jul-1952 /
26-Apr-2011 /

Jazz vocalist

Leon Spinks
– Boxing
11-Jul-1953 /

Olympic boxing champion

John Augustus Sutter
– Explorer
15-Feb-1803 /
18-Jun-1880 /

California gold rush

Sheryl Swoopes
– Basketball
25-Mar-1971 /

Three-time WNBA MVP

Fife Symington
– Politician
12-Aug-1945 /

Governor of Arizona, 1991-97

Lawrence Taylor
– Football
4-Feb-1959 /

NFL Hall of Famer

Randall Terry
– Activist
25-Apr-1959 /

Operation Rescue founder

Nikola Tesla
– Inventor
10-Jul-1856 /
7-Jan-1943 /

Invented alternating current

Bryan Trottier
– Hockey
17-Jul-1956 /

NHL Hall of Famer

Bianca Trump
– Pornstar
7-Nov-1972 /

Rent-a-Butt

Donald Trump
– Business
14-Jun-1946 /

The Donald

Mark Twain
– Author
30-Nov-1835 /
21-Apr-1910 /

Huckleberry Finn

Boss Tweed
– Politician
3-Apr-1823 /
12-Apr-1878 /

Boss of Tammany Hall

Mike Tyson
– Boxing
30-Jun-1966 /

Erratic heavyweight champion

Johnny Unitas
– Football
7-May-1933 /
11-Sep-2002 /

The Golden Arm

John Vanderlyn
– Painter
15-Oct-1776 /
23-Sep-1852 /

American portrait painter

Michael Vick
– Football
26-Jun-1980 /

Football quarterback and dog fighter

Murray Waas
– Journalist
c. 1960 /

Washington reporter

Dionne Warwick
– Singer
12-Dec-1940 /

Walk On By

Carol Wayne
– Actor
6-Sep-1942 /
13-Jan-1985 /

Art Fern’s Tea-Time Movie Lady

Dottie West
– Country Musician
11-Oct-1932 /
4-Sep-1991 /

Country Sunshine

James Whistler
– Painter
14-Jul-1834 /
17-Jul-1903 /

Whistler’s Mother

John Whitehead
– Musician
2-Jul-1948 /
11-May-2004 /

Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now

Louis T. Wigfall
– Politician
21-Apr-1816 /
18-Feb-1874 /

US Senator from Texas, 1859-61

Herbert Wilcox
– Film/TV Producer
19-Apr-1892 /
15-May-1977 /

Forever and a Day

Oscar Wilde
– Playwright
16-Oct-1854 /
30-Nov-1900 /

The Picture of Dorian Gray

James Wilkinson
– Military
1757 /
28-Dec-1825 /

Duplicitous soldier and adventurer

Wallace Wilkinson
– Politician
12-Dec-1941 /
5-Jul-2002 /

Governor of Kentucky, 1987-91

James Wilson
– Judge
14-Sep-1742 /
28-Aug-1798 /

US Supreme Court Justice, 1789-98

Ray Winstone
– Actor
19-Feb-1957 /

Vincent

Tammy Wynette
– Country Musician
5-May-1942 /
6-Apr-1998 /

Stand By Your Man

Peter Wyngarde
– Actor
23-Aug-1933 /

Jason King

Vincent Youmans
– Composer
27-Sep-1898 /
5-Apr-1946 /

No, No Nanette

Vince Young
– Football
18-May-1983 /

Tennessee Titans ex-QB

Florenz Ziegfeld
– Theatre Producer
21-Mar-1869 /
22-Jul-1932 /

The Ziegfeld Follies