08/22/1917 - 06/21/2001
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, born near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing...
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05/24/1816 - 07/18/1868
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816, – July 18, 1868) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.
Tom Poston (Thomas Gordon Poston)
10/17/1927 - 04/30/2007
Thomas Gordon "Tom" Poston (October 17, 1921 – April 30, 2007) was an American television and film actor.
10/21/1927 - 02/22/2009
Howard Zieff (21 October 1927 – 22 February 2009), (pronounced Zeef ) was an American director, television commercial director, and advertising photographer.
02/18/1919 - 09/10/2006
Volodymyr Palahniuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Палагнюк; February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006), known professionally as Jack Palance, was an American film actor. During half a century of film and television appearances he was no...
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01/07/1800 - 08/08/1874
Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th President of the United States (1850-1853) and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president. As Zachary Taylor's Vice President, he assumed the presiden...
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05/16/1782 - 07/24/1842
John Sell Cotman (16 May 1782 – 24 July 1842) was an English marine and landscape painter, etcher, illustrator and author, one of the leading lights of the Norwich school of artists.
08/11/1925 - 09/16/2006
Floyd James "Busher" Curry (August 11, 1925 in Chapleau, Ontario - September 16, 2006 in Montreal, Quebec) was a Canadian ice hockey right winger.
08/12/1918 - 01/27/2007
Bob Carroll Jr. (August 12, 1918 – January 27, 2007), was a television writer notable for his creative role in the series I Love Lucy, the first four seasons of which he wrote with his professional partner Madelyn Pugh, a...
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06/20/1944 - 01/06/2009
Cheryl Holdridge (June 20, 1944 – January 6, 2009) was an American actress, best known as a cast member of the original Mickey Mouse Club.
04/06/1931 - 03/16/2008
Ivan Dixon (April 6, 1931 – March 16, 2008) was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, for his role in the 1967 telefilm...
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09/27/1917 - 11/03/2009
Carl Ballantine (born Meyer Kessler; September 27, 1917 - November 3, 2009) was an American magician, comedian and actor.
12/11/1913 - 11/08/1998
Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), was a French actor and director.
Jimi Hendrix (James Marshall Hendrix)
11/27/1942 - 09/18/1970
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix, November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in musical histo...
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01/08/1836 - 06/25/1912
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, ( 8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter.