|
|
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
971 |
Mahmud |
Soldier |
Invaded India
17
times |
|
|
Algeria |
1936 |
St, Laurent,
Yves |
Designer |
Couture |
|
Argentina |
1932 |
Puig,
Manuel |
Author |
Kiss of
the Spider
Woman |
|
Australia |
1897 |
Anderson,DameJudith |
Actress |
Rebecca |
|
Australia |
1897 |
Orry-Kelly,
John |
Designer |
Three
Oscars
and
Cary
Grant’s
lover |
|
Australia |
1913 |
Browne,
Coral |
Actress |
Killing of
Sister
George |
|
Australia |
1934 |
Stigwood,
Robert |
Producer |
The Bee
Gees,
Grease |
|
Australia |
1944 |
Allen,
Peter |
Composer |
“I Go
to
Rio” |
|
Australia |
1947 |
Connelli,
Judi |
Entertainer |
Into the
Woods |
|
Australia |
1950 |
Enright,
Nick |
Playwright |
Lorenzo’s
Oil |
|
Australia |
1988 |
Mitcham,
Matthew |
Athlete |
Olympic gold
medal |
|
Austria |
1514 |
Rheticus,GeorgJoachim |
Scientist |
“No Rheticus,
No
Copernicus” |
|
Austria |
1791 |
Grillparzer,
Franz |
Playwright |
Das
Goldene Vliess |
|
Austria |
1861 |
Ferdinand
I |
Politician |
Tsar of
Bulgaria |
|
Austria |
1868 |
Douglas,
Norman |
Author |
South
Wind |
|
Austria |
1889 |
Sagan,
Leontine |
Director |
Mädchen in
Uniform |
|
Austria |
1889 |
Wittgenstein,
Ludwig |
Philosopher |
Tractus
Logico-Philosophicus |
|
Austria |
1895 |
Freud,
Anna |
Psychoanalyst |
Hampstead
Child Therapy
Centre |
|
Austria |
1913 |
Lamarr,
Hedy |
Actress |
Spread Spectrum
Radio |
|
Austria |
1922 |
Gernreich,
Rudi |
Designer |
Topless bathing
suit |
|
Austria |
1942 |
Kobal,
John |
Author |
John
Kobal
PresentsTheTop
100
Movies |
|
Austria |
1944 |
Berger,
Helmut |
Actor |
The
Damned |
|
Belgium |
1903 |
Yourcenar,Marguerite |
Author |
Memoirs of
Hadrian |
|
Belgium |
1912 |
Sarton, May |
Poet |
The House
by the
Sea |
|
Canada |
1917 |
Burr,
Raymond |
Actor |
Perry Mason,
Ironsides |
|
Canada |
1925 |
Griffin,
Merv |
Entertainer |
Wheel of
Fortune
producer |
|
Canada |
1931 |
Rule,
Jane |
Author |
The Desert
Of The
Heart |
|
Canada |
1941 |
Menard,
Pierre |
Musician |
Founded
Vermeer
Quartet |
|
Canada |
1959 |
Thompson,
Scott |
Entertainer |
Kids in
the
Hall |
|
Canada |
1961 |
lang,
k, d,
|
Musician |
Grammies |
|
Canada |
1964 |
Leduc,
Mark |
Athlete |
Olympic
boxer |
|
Chile |
1972 |
Amenábar,
Alejandro |
Director |
The
Others |
|
China |
27
b,
C,
|
Ai
Ti |
Politician |
Emperor of
China |
|
China |
1780 |
Wu
Tsao |
Poet |
“The Orchid
Boat” |
|
China |
1906 |
Puyi |
Politician |
The last
emperor |
|
China |
1915 |
Welch,
Denton |
Author |
Maiden Voyage |
|
China |
1956 |
Cheung,
Leslie |
Musician |
Summer
Romance |
|
CzechRepublic |
1840 |
Vacano,
Emil
Mario |
Entertainer |
Famous
circus
performer |
|
Czechoslovakia |
1956 |
Navrátilová,
Martina |
Athlete |
Won
Wimbledon
nine
times |
|
Denmark |
1805 |
Andersen,HansChristian |
Author |
The Ugly
Duckling |
|
Denmark |
1890 |
Melchior,
Lauritz |
Musician |
Heldentenor |
|
Birthplace |
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
Egypt |
2450
b,
C,
|
Niankhkhnum and
Khnumhotep |
MakeupArtist |
Manicurists to
the
Pharaoh |
|
Egypt |
2284
b,
C,
|
Pepi II
Neferkare |
Politician |
Pharaoh |
|
Egypt |
1863 |
Cavafy,
Constantine |
Poet |
“That’s
the
Man” |
|
France |
1035 |
Marbod |
Cleric |
Bishop of
Rennes |
|
France |
1050 |
Baldric of
Dol |
Cleric |
Archbishop of
Dol |
|
France |
1050 |
Ralph,
Archbishop |
Cleric |
Archbishop
of
Tours |
|
France |
1140 |
Longchamp,
William |
Cleric |
Bishop of
Ely |
|
France |
1519 |
Bèze,
Theodore |
Cleric |
Early
Calvinist |
|
France |
1526 |
Muret,
Marc-Antoine |
Teacher |
Lectures in
Paris |
|
France |
1533 |
Montaigne,MichelEyquemde |
Author |
Essais |
|
France |
1551 |
Henri III
de
Valois |
Politician |
King of
France |
|
France |
1590 |
Viau,
Théophile
de |
Poet |
“Pyrame
et
Thisbé” |
|
France |
1592 |
Boisrobert,FrançoisLe
Métel
de |
Politician |
Founder of
the French
Academy |
|
France |
1601 |
Louis
XIII |
Politician |
King of
France |
|
France |
1622 |
Molière,
Jean
Baptiste |
Playwright |
Greatest
playwright
of
France |
|
France |
1632 |
Lully,
Jean-Baptiste |
Composer |
Alceste |
|
France |
1640 |
Philippe
I |
Soldier |
Duc
d’Orleans |
|
France |
1663 |
Eugene of
Savoy |
Soldier |
Prince and
General |
|
France |
1715 |
Vauvenargues,LucdeClapiers
Marquis
de |
Soldier |
War of
the Polish
Secession |
|
France |
1729 |
SuffrendeSaintTropez,
Pierre-André
de |
Soldier |
Admiral |
|
France |
1753 |
Cambacérès,JeanJacques-
Régis |
Politician |
Napoleonic
Code |
|
France |
1756 |
Raucourt |
Actress |
Comédie
francaise |
|
France |
1760 |
DuPonceau,Pierre-Étienne |
Soldier |
Secretary to
von
Steuben |
|
France |
1769 |
Bonaparte,
Napoleon |
Soldier |
Emperor of
France |
|
France |
1777 |
Récamier,
Julie |
Socialite |
Récamier
daybed |
|
France |
1790 |
Custine,
Marquis
de |
Author |
Empire of
the Czar |
|
France |
1793 |
Changarnier,Nicholas |
Soldier |
General |
|
France |
1798 |
Dorval,
Marie |
Actress |
Trente
Ans |
|
France |
1804 |
Sand,
George |
Author |
Elle et
Lui |
|
France |
1806 |
Lamorcière,Christophe |
Soldier |
French general |
|
France |
1822 |
Bonheur,
Rosa |
Artist |
The Horse
Fair |
|
France |
1835 |
Saint-Saëns,
Camille |
Composer |
“Danse
Macabre” |
|
France |
1844 |
Verlaine,
Paul |
Poet |
Invectives |
|
France |
1854 |
Lyautey,
Hubert |
Soldier |
Marshal of
France |
|
France |
1854 |
Rimbaud,
Arthur |
Poet |
The
Drunken
Boat |
|
France |
1869 |
Gide,
André |
Author |
Nobel Prize
for
Literature |
|
France |
1871 |
Proust,
Marcel |
Author |
In Search
of Lost
Time |
|
France |
1873 |
Colette,Sidonie-Gabrielle |
Author |
Cheri |
|
France |
1875 |
Ravel,
Maurice |
Composer |
Bolero |
|
France |
1876 |
Jacob,
Max |
Author |
La Défense
de
Tartuffe |
|
France |
1880 |
Fersen,
Adelsward |
Author |
Hymnaire
d’Adonis |
|
Birthplace |
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
France |
1883 |
Chanel,
Coco |
Designer |
Chanel No,
5 |
|
France |
1889 |
Cocteau,
Jean |
Poet |
La Belle
et la
Bête |
|
France |
1893 |
Acosta,
Mercedes
de |
Author |
ConqueredMarleneDietrichandGretaGarbo |
|
France |
1896 |
Montherlant,Henryde |
Author |
Les
Olympiques |
|
France |
1897 |
Aragon,
Louis |
Poet |
La Semaine
Sainte |
|
France |
1899 |
Poulenc,
Francis |
Composer |
Les
Biches |
|
France |
1900 |
Crevel,
René |
Author |
Dadaist |
|
France |
1903 |
Colbert,
Claudette |
Actress |
Palm
Beach
Story |
|
France |
1903 |
Nin,
Anaïs |
Author |
Novel of
the
Future |
|
France |
1905 |
Vigo,
Jean |
Director |
Zero de
Conduite |
|
France |
1907 |
Peyrefitte,
Roger |
Author |
Les Amitiés
Particulières |
|
France |
1910 |
Genet,
Jean |
Author |
The
Blacks |
|
France |
1913 |
Marais,
Jean |
Actor |
La Belle
et la
Bête
La Belle
et la
Bête |
|
France |
1915 |
Barthes,
Roland |
Philosopher |
The Death
of the
Author |
|
France |
1926 |
Foucault,
Michel |
Philosopher |
History of
Sexuality |
|
France |
1928 |
Chazot,
Jacques |
Choreographer |
Star dancer
at Opera
Comique |
|
France |
1931 |
Capucine |
Actress |
The Pink
Panther |
|
France |
1952 |
Schneider,
Maria |
Actress |
Last
Tango
in
Paris |
|
France |
1979 |
Mauresmo,
Amélie |
Athlete |
World
number
one
female
tennis
player |
|
Germany |
1685 |
Handel,GeorgeFrideric |
Composer |
Messiah |
|
Germany |
1717 |
Winckelmann,JohannJ,
|
Archaeologist |
History of
the Art
of
Antiquity |
|
Germany |
1769 |
Humboldt,Alexandervon |
Scientist |
Kosmos |
|
Germany |
1777 |
Kleist,
Heinrich
von |
Playwright |
Prinz
Friedrich
von
Homburg |
|
Germany |
1796 |
Platen,
August
von |
Poet |
Sonnets on
Venice |
|
Germany |
1803 |
Liebig,CountJustusvon |
Scientist |
Organic
Chemistry |
|
Germany |
1823 |
Charles
I |
Politician |
King Karl
of
Württemberg |
|
Germany |
1825 |
Ulrichs,
Karl |
Author |
Early gay
rights
activist |
|
Germany |
1837 |
Marées,
Hans
von |
Artist |
Frescos
in
Naples |
|
Germany |
1845 |
Ludwig
II |
Politician |
King of
Bavaria |
|
Germany |
1847 |
Eulenburg,PrincePhilipp |
Politician |
Adviser
to
Kaiser
Wilhelm
II |
|
Germany |
1854 |
Krupp,
Friedrich
A,
|
Business |
Munitions
factories |
|
Germany |
1856 |
Gloeden,BaronWilhelmvon |
Photographer |
Taormina
photos |
|
Germany |
1857 |
Allers,ChristianWilhelm |
Artist |
Club
Eintracht |
|
Germany |
1867 |
Hamilton,
Edith |
Author |
Mythology |
|
Germany |
1867 |
Ives,
George |
Author |
Order of
Chaeronea |
|
Germany |
1867 |
Rathenau, Walther |
Business |
Foreign
Minister |
|
Germany |
1868 |
George,
Stefan |
Poet |
Blatter fur
die
Kunst |
|
Germany |
1868 |
Hirschfeld,
Magnus |
Author |
Sexual History
of the
World |
|
Germany |
1874 |
Leyendecker,
J, C,
|
Artist |
Arrow
Collar
Man |
|
Germany |
1875 |
Mann,
Thomas |
Author |
Death in
Venice |
|
Germany |
1887 |
Röhm,
Ernst |
Soldier |
Leader of
Stormtroopers |
|
Germany |
1888 |
Murnau,
F, W,
|
Director |
Nosferatu |
|
Germany |
1888 |
Winsloe,
Christa |
Author |
The Child
Manuela |
|
Germany |
1893 |
Cornell,
Katharine |
Actress |
The Green
Hat |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1901 |
Dietrich,
Marlene |
Actress |
Blue
Angel |
|
|
Germany |
1935 |
Fichte,
Hubert |
Author |
The History
of
Sensibility |
|
Germany |
1946 |
Fassbinder,RainerWerner |
Director |
Querelle |
|
Germany |
1953 |
Wowereit,
Klaus |
Politician |
Mayor of
Berlin |
|
Germany |
1955 |
Emmerich,
Roland |
Director |
Independence
Day |
|
Greece |
-638 |
Solon |
Politician |
Democracy |
|
Greece |
-620 |
Sappho |
Poet |
“Ode to
Aphrodite” |
|
Greece |
-470 |
Socrates |
Philosopher |
Socratic
Method |
|
Greece |
-427 |
Plato |
Philosopher |
The
Republic |
|
Greece |
1896 |
Mitropoulos,
Dimitri |
Conductor |
New
York
Philharmonic |
|
India |
1780 |
Singh,MaharajaRanjit |
Politician |
Lion of
Punjab |
|
India |
1923 |
Anderson,
Lindsay |
Director |
Oscar:
Thursday’s
Children |
|
India |
1936 |
Merchant,
Ismail |
Producer |
Oscar: Howard’s
End |
|
India |
1966 |
Gohil,Manvendrasinh |
Politician |
Coming
out |
|
Iran |
1886 |
Nicolson,
Harold |
Politician |
Member of
Parliament |
|
Iran |
1963 |
Abdoh,
Reza |
Director |
Quotations From
a Ruined
City |
|
Ireland |
1769 |
Castlereagh,
Viscount |
Politician |
Leader of
the House
of
Commons |
|
Ireland |
1822 |
Nicholson,
John |
Soldier |
Hero of
Delhi |
|
Ireland |
1828 |
Cleburne,
Patrick
R,
|
Soldier |
Confederate
Major
General |
|
Ireland |
1850 |
Kitchener,
Lord |
Soldier |
British Commander
in
Chief |
|
Ireland |
1854 |
Wilde,
Oscar |
Author |
The Importance
of Being
Earnest |
|
Ireland |
1864 |
Casement,
Roger |
Politician |
Rebel
leader |
|
Ireland |
1879 |
Pearse,
Patrick |
Politician |
Easter
Rising |
|
Ireland |
1892 |
O’Duffy,
Eoin |
Soldier |
IRA Chief
of
Staff |
|
Ireland |
1909 |
Bacon,
Francis |
Artist |
Pope
Innocent
X |
|
Ireland |
1919 |
Murdoch,
Iris |
Author |
Under the
Net |
|
Ireland |
1958 |
Shaw,
Fiona |
Actress |
Aunt
Petunia |
|
Ireland |
1963 |
Norton,
Graham |
Comedian |
So Graham
Norton |
|
Ireland |
1976 |
Gateley, Stephen |
Musician |
Boyzone |
|
Italy |
1012 |
Benedict
IX |
Cleric |
Pope |
|
Italy |
1033 |
Anselm,
Saint |
Cleric |
Archbishop of
Canterbury |
|
Italy |
1386 |
Donatello |
Artist |
David |
|
Italy |
1414 |
Sixtus IV |
Cleric |
Pope |
|
Italy |
1417 |
Paul
II |
Cleric |
Pope |
|
Italy |
1433 |
Ficino,
Marsilio |
Philosopher |
Theologia
Platonica |
|
Italy |
1443 |
Julius
II |
Cleric |
Pope |
|
Italy |
1445 |
Botticelli,
Sandro |
Artist |
Sistine
Chapel
(portions) |
|
Italy |
1452 |
Leonardo
da
Vinci |
Artist |
Mona
Lisa |
|
Italy |
1454 |
Poliziano |
Poet |
Favola
d’Orfeo
(first
play
in
Italian) |
|
Italy |
1475 |
Leo
X |
Cleric |
Pope |
|
Italy |
1475 |
Michelangelo |
Artist |
Sistine
Chapel |
|
Italy |
1487 |
Julius
III |
Cleric |
Pope |
|
Italy |
1497 |
Berni,
Francesco |
Poet |
Bernesque
poetry |
|
Italy |
1500 |
Cellini,
Benvenuto |
Artist |
Autobiography |
|
Italy |
1503 |
Varchi, Benedetto |
Author |
Storia di
Firenze |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1571 |
Caravaggio,Michelangelo |
Artist |
Card Players |
|
|
Italy |
1671 |
Gastone,
Gian |
Politician |
Last of
the Medicis |
|
Italy |
1698 |
Metastasio |
Poet |
“Olimipiade” |
|
Italy |
1712 |
Algarotti,
Francesco |
Philosopher |
Essays on
the Fine
Arts |
|
Italy |
1893 |
Gadda, Carlo
Emilio |
Author |
Il Castello
di
Udine |
|
Italy |
1895 |
Valentino,
Rudolph |
Actor |
The
Sheik |
|
Italy |
1906 |
Visconti,CountLuchino |
Director |
Palme
D’Or:
The
Leopard |
|
Italy |
1911 |
Menotti, Gian
Carlo |
Composer |
The Island
God |
|
Italy |
1922 |
Cardin,
Pierre |
Designer |
Neckties |
|
Italy |
1922 |
Pasolini,
Pier
Paolo |
Director |
Decameron |
|
Italy |
1923 |
Zeffirelli,
Franco |
Director |
Romeo and
Juliet |
|
Italy |
1946 |
Versace, Gianni |
Designer |
Clothing
line |
|
Japan |
774 |
Kūkai |
Cleric |
Shingon and
shudo |
|
Japan |
1363 |
Zeami
Motokiyo |
Playwright |
Noh
theatre |
|
Japan |
1521 |
Takeda
Shingen |
Politician |
Daimyo |
|
Japan |
1527 |
Kōsaka
Masanobu |
Soldier |
Battle of
Kawanakajima |
|
Japan |
1534 |
Oda
Nobunaga |
Soldier |
Conquered most
of
Japan |
|
Japan |
1543 |
Tokugawa
Ieyasu |
Politician |
Shogun |
|
Japan |
1604 |
Tokugawa
Iemitsu |
Politician |
Shogun |
|
Japan |
1642 |
Ihara
Saikaku |
Author |
Koshoku
ichidai
otoko |
|
Japan |
1925 |
Mishima
Yukio |
Author |
Sun and
Steel |
|
Latvia |
1898 |
Eisenstein,
Sergei |
Director |
Potemkin |
|
Lithuania |
1928 |
Harvey,
Laurence |
Actor |
I Am
a Camera |
|
Macedonia |
382
b,
C,
|
Philip
II |
Soldier |
Defeated Athens
and
Thebes |
|
Macedonia |
356
b,
C,
|
Alexander the
Great |
Soldier |
Created an
empire |
|
Macedonia |
811 |
Basil
I |
Politician |
Emperor |
|
Malaysia |
1961 |
Beale, Simon
Russell |
Actor |
Hamlet |
|
Mexico |
1651 |
Cruz, Juana
Inez de
la |
Poet |
Reply to
Sister
Philotea |
|
Mexico |
1899 |
Novarro,
Ramon |
Actor |
Ben-Hur |
|
Mexico |
1904 |
Novo,
Salvador |
Poet |
The War
of the
Fatties |
|
Mexico |
1907 |
Kahlo,
Frida |
Artist |
Self-portraits |
|
Mexico |
1950 |
Gabriel,
Juan |
Musician |
Sold more
than 40
million
albums |
|
Myanmar |
1870 |
Saki |
Author |
Reginald |
|
Netherlands |
1466 |
Erasmus,
Desiderius |
Cleric |
Greek
New
Testament |
|
Netherlands |
1863 |
Couperus,
Louis |
Author |
De Berg
van
Licht |
|
Netherlands |
1881 |
Haan, Jacob
Israël
de |
Poet |
“An
endless
desire
for
friendship” |
|
Netherlands |
1894 |
Arondeus,
Willem |
Soldier |
Nazi
resister |
|
Netherlands |
1948 |
Fortuyn,
Pim |
Politician |
Party
leader |
|
Netherlands |
1980 |
Kenkhuis,
Johan |
Athlete |
Olympic
bronze
medal |
|
NewCaledonia |
1941 |
Higgins,
Colin |
Director |
Harold and
Maude
(Writer) |
|
NewZealand |
1884 |
Walpole,
Hugh |
Author |
Lauritz
Melchior |
|
NewZealand |
1888 |
Mansfield,
Katherine |
Poet |
The Garden
Party |
|
Norway |
1950 |
Foss,
Per-Kristian |
Politician |
Prime Minister
of
Norway |
|
Palestine |
1940 |
Stevens,
David |
Screenwriter |
Breaker
Morant |
|
Persia |
747 |
Nuwas,
Abu |
Poet |
Khamriyyat |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1320 |
Hafez |
Poet |
Ghazals |
|
|
Peru |
1942 |
Monk,
Meredith |
Musician |
Turtle
Dreams |
|
Poland |
1810 |
Chopin,
Frederic |
Composer |
“Minute Waltz” |
|
Poland |
1879 |
Landowska,
Wanda |
Musician |
Harpsichord |
|
Poland |
1894 |
Negri,
Pola |
Actress |
Madame
Bovary |
|
Prussia |
1712 |
Frederick
the
Great |
Soldier |
King |
|
Prussia |
1726 |
Henry of
Prussia |
Soldier |
King of
the US
(almost) |
|
Prussia |
1730 |
Steuben,FriedrichWilhelm
von |
Soldier |
Valley
Forge |
|
Puerto
Rico |
1946 |
Woodlawn,
Holly |
Actress |
Trash |
|
Rome |
100
b,
C,
|
Caesar,
Julius |
Soldier |
Emperor |
|
Rome |
76 |
Hadrian |
Soldier |
Emperor |
|
Rome |
280 |
Serge and
Bacchus |
Cleric |
Saints |
|
Russia |
1479 |
Vasily
III |
Politician |
Grand prince
of
Moscow |
|
Russia |
1672 |
Peter the
Great |
Politician |
Tsar of
Russia |
|
Russia |
1809 |
Gogol,
Nikolai |
Author |
Dead
Souls |
|
Russia |
1839 |
Mussorgsky,
Modest |
Composer |
Pictures at
an
Exhibition |
|
Russia |
1839 |
Przhevalsky,
Nikolai |
Explorer |
First maps
of
Siberia |
|
Russia |
1840 |
Tchaikovsky,
Peter |
Composer |
Swan
Lake |
|
Russia |
1850 |
Kovalevsky,
Sophia |
Scientist |
Prix Bordin
for
Mathematics |
|
Russia |
1872 |
Chicherin,GeorgiVasilevich |
Politician |
Commissar
for
Foreign
Affairs |
|
Russia |
1872 |
Diaghilev,
Sergey |
Producer |
Ballets
Russes |
|
Russia |
1879 |
Nazimova,
Alla |
Actress |
Salome |
|
Russia |
1885 |
Parnok,SophiaYakovlevna |
Poet |
Roses of
Pieria |
|
Russia |
1892 |
Erté |
Designer |
Art
Deco |
|
Russia |
1892 |
Tsvetaeva,
Marina |
Poet |
The Magic
Lantern |
|
Russia |
1895 |
Yesenin,
Sergey |
Poet |
“Ispoved
Khuligana” |
|
Russia |
1895 |
Yezhov,
Nikolai |
Politician |
NKVD Secret
Police |
|
Russia |
1896 |
Massine,
Léonide |
Dancer |
The Red
Shoes |
|
Russia |
1903 |
Horowitz,
Vladimir |
Musician |
Pianist |
|
Russia |
1903 |
Kolmogorov,
Andrey
Nikolaevich |
Scientist |
Probability
theory |
|
Russia |
1938 |
Nureyev,
Rudolf |
Dancer |
Ken Russell’s
Valentino |
|
Samos |
570
b,
C,
|
Polycrates |
Soldier |
Tyrant
of
Samos |
|
Scotland |
1853 |
MacDonald,
Hector |
Soldier |
British
Major-General |
|
Scotland |
1860 |
Barrie, James
M,
|
Author |
Peter
Pan |
|
Scotland |
1885 |
Grant,
Duncan |
Artist |
Queen Mary
(rejected) |
|
Scotland |
1889 |
Reith,
John |
Business |
First Chairman
of
BBC |
|
Scotland |
1931 |
Fraser,
John |
Actor |
Repulsion |
|
Scotland |
1949 |
Charleson,
Ian |
Actor |
Chariots of
Fire |
|
Scotland |
1961 |
Somerville,
Jimmy |
Musician |
The
Communards,
Bronski
Beat |
|
Scotland |
1965 |
Cumming,
Alan |
Actor |
Anniversary
Party |
|
Scotland |
1967 |
Barrowman,
John |
Actor |
Torchwood |
|
SouthAfrica |
1867 |
Mathebula,Nongoloza |
Soldier |
Regiment of
the
Hills |
|
SouthAfrica |
1903 |
Plomer,
William |
Author |
Turbott
Wolfe |
|
SouthAfrica |
1949 |
Sher,
Antony |
Actor |
Stanley |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1405 |
Juan
II |
Politician |
King of
Castile |
|
|
Spain |
1539 |
Pérez,
Antonio |
Politician |
Secretary of
State |
|
Spain |
1863 |
Santayana,
George |
Philosopher |
Dominations
and
Powers |
|
Spain |
1866 |
Benavente,
Jacinto |
Playwright |
Nobel
Prize |
|
Spain |
1876 |
Falla,
Manuel
de |
Composer |
El Amor
Brujo |
|
Spain |
1880 |
Azaña,
Manuel |
Politician |
President
of
Spain |
|
Spain |
1898 |
Lorca,
Federico
García |
Poet |
Romancero
Gitano |
|
Spain |
1902 |
Cernuda,
Luis |
Poet |
Los
Placeres
Prohibidos |
|
Spain |
1904 |
Dalí,
Salvador |
Artist |
Surrealist
paintings |
|
Spain |
1930 |
Almendros,
Néstor |
Cinematographer |
Oscar for
cinematography |
|
Spain |
1949 |
Almodóvar,
Pedro |
Director |
Oscar: All
About My
Mother |
|
Sweden |
1626 |
Christina |
Politician |
Queen of
Sweden |
|
Sweden |
1682 |
Charles
XII |
Soldier |
King |
|
Sweden |
1858 |
Lagerlöf,
Selma |
Author |
Nobel
Prize |
|
Sweden |
1905 |
Garbo,
Greta |
Actress |
Ninotchka |
|
Switzerland |
1766 |
Staël,
Madame
de |
Author |
Corinne |
|
Thebes |
418
b,
C,
|
Epaminondas |
Soldier |
General |
|
Turkey |
111 |
Antinous |
Consort |
Became a
god |
|
Turkey |
1881 |
Atatürk,MustafaKemal |
Politician |
President
of Turkey |
|
Uganda |
1868 |
Mwanga |
Politician |
King of
Buganda |
|
UK |
1056 |
William
II |
Politician |
King of
England |
|
UK |
1100 |
Hilarius |
Poet |
“To a
Boy of
Anjou” |
|
UK |
1110 |
Aethelred,
Saint |
Cleric |
Abbot of
Rievaulx |
|
UK |
1157 |
RichardtheLion-Hearted |
Soldier |
King of
England |
|
UK |
1284 |
Edward
II |
Politician |
King of
England |
|
UK |
1504 |
Udall,
Nicholas |
Playwright |
Ralph Roister
Doister |
|
UK |
1561 |
Bacon,
Francis |
Philosopher |
Novum
Organum |
|
UK |
1564 |
Marlowe,
Christopher |
Playwright |
Dr,
Faustus |
|
UK |
1564 |
Shakespeare, William |
Playwright |
Sonnets |
|
UK |
1566 |
James
I |
Politician |
King of
Great
Britain |
|
UK |
1631 |
Philips,
Katherine |
Poet |
The
matchless
Orinda |
|
UK |
1643 |
Newton,
Isaac |
Scientist |
Newton’s
Laws |
|
UK |
1665 |
Anne |
Politician |
Queen of
England |
|
UK |
1696 |
Hervey,
John |
Politician |
Memoirs |
|
UK |
1716 |
Gray,
Thomas |
Poet |
“Elegy
Written
in
a
Country
Churchyard” |
|
UK |
1717 |
Walpole,
Horace |
Author |
The Castle
of
Otranto |
|
UK |
1720 |
Foote, Samuel |
Playwright |
The
Nabob |
|
UK |
1739 |
Butler,
Eleanor |
Author |
Diaries |
|
UK |
1747 |
Seward,
Anna |
Poet |
“Llangollen
Vale” |
|
UK |
1759 |
Wollstonecraft,
Mary |
Author |
Vindication of
the Rights
of
Women |
|
UK |
1760 |
Beckford,
William |
Author |
Vathek |
|
UK |
1775 |
Lewis,
Matthew |
Playwright |
The
Monk |
|
UK |
1788 |
Byron,
Lord |
Poet |
Childe
Harold |
|
UK |
1809 |
FitzGerald,
Edward |
Poet |
Rubaiyat of
Omar
Khayyam |
|
UK |
1809 |
Tennyson,
Alfred |
Poet |
“Charge of
the Light
Brigade” |
|
Birthplace |
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
UK |
1812 |
Lear,
Edward |
Poet |
“The Owl
and the
Pussy-cat” |
|
UK |
1821 |
Burton,
Richard |
Explorer |
Arabian
Nights |
|
UK |
1822 |
Lushington,
Franklin |
Judge |
Chief Magistrate
of
London |
|
UK |
1830 |
Leighton,BaronFrederic |
Artist |
Cimabue
Finding
Giotto |
|
UK |
1833 |
Gordon,Charles“Chinese” |
Soldier |
Defense of
Khartoum |
|
UK |
1835 |
Butler,
Samuel |
Author |
Erewhon |
|
UK |
1837 |
Browning,
Oscar |
Author |
History of
England |
|
UK |
1837 |
Swinburne,AlgernonCharles |
Poet |
“The Flogging
Block” |
|
UK |
1839 |
Pater,
Walter |
Author |
History Of
The Renaissance |
|
UK |
1840 |
Solomon,
Simeon |
Artist |
Popular
English
painter |
|
UK |
1840 |
Symonds,JohnAddington |
Author |
Renaissance
in
Italy |
|
UK |
1841 |
Stanley,HenryMorton |
Explorer |
Found
Dr, Livingstone |
|
UK |
1844 |
Carpenter,
Edward |
Author |
The Healing
of
Nations |
|
UK |
1847 |
Rosebery |
Politician |
Prime
Minister |
|
UK |
1848 |
Shepard,
Jesse |
Musician |
Villa
Montezuma |
|
UK |
1852 |
Esher,
Lord |
Soldier |
Reorganized
the
military |
|
UK |
1853 |
Rhodes,
Cecil |
Business |
Diamond
mines |
|
UK |
1855 |
Corelli,
Marie |
Author |
Memoirs |
|
UK |
1856 |
Paget,
Violet |
Author |
Hauntings |
|
UK |
1857 |
Baden-Powell,
Robert |
Soldier |
Founded
Boy
Scouts |
|
UK |
1858 |
Smyth, Dame
Ethel |
Composer |
The
Wreckers |
|
UK |
1859 |
Housman,
A, E,
|
Poet |
“A
Shropshire
Lad” |
|
UK |
1860 |
Rolfe,FrederickWilliam |
Author |
Hadrian the
Seventh |
|
UK |
1862 |
Dickinson,Goldsworthy |
Teacher |
Dictionary of
National
Biography |
|
UK |
1867 |
Johnson,
Lionel |
Poet |
Ireland and
Other
Poems |
|
UK |
1870 |
Douglas,
Alfred |
Author |
Oscar
Wilde’s
lover |
|
UK |
1874 |
Maugham,W, Somerset |
Author |
The Razor’s
Edge |
|
UK |
1875 |
Crowley,
Aleister |
Author |
The Book
of The
Law |
|
UK |
1877 |
Agate,
James |
Critic |
Ego |
|
UK |
1877 |
Vivien,
Renée |
Poet |
“Toward
Lesbos” |
|
UK |
1878 |
Arden,
Elizabeth |
Business |
Cosmetics |
|
UK |
1879 |
Charlton,
L, E, O,
|
Soldier |
General |
|
UK |
1879 |
Forster,
E, M,
|
Author |
A Passage
to
India |
|
UK |
1880 |
Hall,
Radclyffe |
Author |
Well of
Loneliness |
|
UK |
1880 |
Strachey,
Lytton |
Author |
Eminent
Victorians |
|
UK |
1882 |
Woolf,
Virginia |
Author |
Mrs, Dalloway |
|
UK |
1883 |
Keynes,JohnMaynard |
Economist |
A
Treatise
on
Money |
|
UK |
1883 |
Winwood,
Estelle |
Actress |
Tallulah
Bankhead |
|
UK |
1886 |
Firbank,
Ronald |
Author |
Inspired Joe
Orton |
|
UK |
1886 |
Sassoon,
Siegfried |
Author |
The
Weald
of
Youth |
|
UK |
1887 |
Brooke,
Rupert |
Poet |
“Tiare
Tahiti” |
|
UK |
1887 |
Fontanne,
Lynn |
Actress |
Dulcy |
|
UK |
1888 |
Lawrence,
T, E,
|
Soldier |
Lawrence of
Arabia |
|
UK |
1889 |
Heard,
Gerald |
Philosopher |
The Ascent
of
Humanity |
|
UK |
1889 |
Whale,
James |
Director |
Frankenstein |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1891 |
Goulding,
Edmund |
Director |
Oscar: Grand
Hotel |
|
|
UK |
1892 |
Sackville-West,
Vita |
Author |
All
Passion
Spent |
|
UK |
1892 |
Sitwell,
Osbert |
Author |
Autobiography |
|
UK |
1893 |
Warner,SylviaTownsend |
Author |
Mr, Fortune’s
Maggot |
|
UK |
1896 |
Ackerley,
J, R,
|
Author |
My Dog
Tulip |
|
UK |
1897 |
Sprott,
Sebastian |
Psychologist |
Maynard
Keynes |
|
UK |
1898 |
Lawrence,
Gertrude |
Actress |
The Glass
Menagerie |
|
UK |
1898 |
Waugh,
Alec |
Author |
Invented
the
cocktail
party |
|
UK |
1899 |
Coward,
Noël |
Playwright |
“Mad About
the Boy” |
|
UK |
1899 |
Laughton,
Charles |
Actor |
Mutiny on
the
Bounty |
|
UK |
1899 |
Le
Gallienne,
Eva |
Actress |
National Medal
of the
Arts |
|
UK |
1899 |
MacLiammóir,Michéal |
Producer |
The
Gate
Theatre |
|
UK |
1900 |
Mountbatten,
Louis |
Soldier |
SupremeAlliedCommanderofSoutheastAsia |
|
UK |
1902 |
Asquith,
Anthony |
Director |
The Importance
of Being
Earnest |
|
UK |
1903 |
Connolly,
Cyril |
Editor |
Horizon |
|
UK |
1903 |
Rowse,
A, L,
|
Author |
Homosexuals
in
History |
|
UK |
1903 |
Waugh, Evelyn |
Author |
Brideshead
Revisited |
|
UK |
1904 |
Beaton,
Cecil |
Photographer |
Oscar: My
Fair Lady
Design |
|
UK |
1904 |
Gielgud,
John |
Actor |
Oscar:
Arthur |
|
UK |
1904 |
Grant,
Cary |
Actor |
Bringing Up
Baby |
|
UK |
1904 |
Isherwood,Christopher |
Author |
Cabaret |
|
UK |
1905 |
Renault,
Mary |
Author |
The
Charioteer |
|
UK |
1907 |
Auden,
W, H,
|
Author |
National Medal
for
Literature |
|
UK |
1907 |
Blunt,
Anthony |
Art Historian |
Surveyor of
the King’s
pictures |
|
UK |
1907 |
du
Maurier,
Daphne |
Author |
The
Birds |
|
UK |
1907 |
Lehmann,
John |
Editor |
New
Writing |
|
UK |
1907 |
Olivier,
Laurence |
Actor |
Rebecca |
|
UK |
1908 |
Beaumont,
“Binkie” |
Producer |
The
West
End |
|
UK |
1908 |
Crisp,
Quentin |
Author |
Naked Civil
Servant |
|
UK |
1908 |
Redgrave,
Michael |
Actor |
The Lady
Vanishes |
|
UK |
1908 |
Watson,
Peter |
Editor |
Horizon |
|
UK |
1909 |
Spender, Stephen |
Poet |
Editor of
Horizon |
|
UK |
1910 |
Pears,
Peter |
Musician |
Tenor,
inspired Benjamin
Britten |
|
UK |
1911 |
Burgess,
Guy |
Soldier |
Double
agent |
|
UK |
1911 |
Cooper,
Douglas |
Business |
Patron of
the
arts |
|
UK |
1911 |
Rattigan,
Terence |
Playwright |
The
Browning
Version |
|
UK |
1912 |
Hay,
Harry |
Politician |
Founded
Mattachine
Society |
|
UK |
1912 |
Turing,
Alan |
Scientist |
Early
computers |
|
UK |
1912 |
White,
Patrick |
Author |
Nobel Prize
for
Literature |
|
UK |
1913 |
Britten,
Benjamin |
Composer |
Young
Person’s
Guide |
|
UK |
1915 |
Price,
Dennis |
Actor |
Kind Hearts
and
Coronets |
|
UK |
1916 |
Gysin,
Brion |
Artist |
The
dreamachine |
|
UK |
1917 |
Howerd, Frankie |
Actor |
Up Pompeii! |
|
UK |
1919 |
Mills,
Freddie |
Athlete |
Boxing
champion |
|
UK |
1921 |
Bogarde,
Dirk |
Actor |
Victim |
|
Birthplace |
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
UK |
1921 |
Rawcliffe, Derek |
Cleric |
Bishop of
Glasgow and
Galloway |
|
UK |
1922 |
Elliott,
Denholm |
Actor |
Raiders of
the Lost
Ark |
|
UK |
1924 |
Lambert,
Gavin |
Screenwriter |
The
Loved
One |
|
UK |
1926 |
Schlesinger,
John |
Director |
Oscar: Midnight
Cowboy |
|
UK |
1926 |
Williams,
Kenneth |
Actor |
Carry On,
friend of
Joe
Orton |
|
UK |
1928 |
Richardson,
Tony |
Director |
Oscar:
Tom
Jones |
|
UK |
1929 |
Brophy,
Brigid |
Author |
Hackenfeller’s
Ape |
|
UK |
1929 |
Gunn,
Thom |
Poet |
MacArthur
Fellowship |
|
UK |
1929 |
Osborne,
John |
Playwright |
Look Back
In
Anger |
|
UK |
1930 |
Hawthorne,
Nigel |
Actor |
The Madness
of King
George |
|
UK |
1931 |
Sherrin,
Ned |
Producer |
That
Was
The
Week
That
Was |
|
UK |
1932 |
Hodgkin,
Howard |
Artist |
New
Worlds
postage
stamp |
|
UK |
1933 |
Epstein,
Brian |
Business |
Managed
The
Beatles |
|
UK |
1933 |
Kray,
Ronnie |
Criminal |
The
Kray
Twins |
|
UK |
1933 |
Orton,
Joe |
Playwright |
Entertaining
Mr, Sloane |
|
UK |
1934 |
Bates,
Alan |
Actor |
Far From
the Madding
Crowd |
|
UK |
1934 |
Bennett,
Alan |
Playwright |
The History
Boys |
|
UK |
1934 |
Hebborn,
Eric |
Artist |
Master
forger |
|
UK |
1937 |
Hockney,
David |
Artist |
Opera
sets |
|
UK |
1938 |
Jacobi,
Derek |
Actor |
I,
Claudius |
|
UK |
1939 |
McKellen,
Ian |
Actor |
Bent |
|
UK |
1939 |
Napier-Bell,
Simon |
Business |
Wham!
Manager |
|
UK |
1939 |
Springfield,
Dusty |
Musician |
A Girl
Called
Dusty |
|
UK |
1941 |
Chapman,
Graham |
Comedian |
Monty
Python |
|
UK |
1941 |
Hope,
Dr, David |
Cleric |
Archbishop
of
York |
|
UK |
1941 |
Margolyes,
Miriam |
Actress |
Harry
Potter |
|
UK |
1942 |
Jarman,
Derek |
Director |
Queer
Edward
II |
|
UK |
1943 |
Jagger,
Mick |
Musician |
Their
Satanic
Majesties’
Request |
|
UK |
1944 |
Everett,
Kenny |
Entertainer |
The
Kenny
Everett
Video
Show |
|
UK |
1945 |
Davies,
Terence |
Director |
Distant
Voices,
Still
Lives |
|
UK |
1946 |
Faithfull,
Marianne |
Musician |
“As
Tears
Go
By” |
|
UK |
1946 |
Mackintosh,Cameron |
Producer |
The Phantom
of the
Opera |
|
UK |
1947 |
Bowie,
David |
Musician |
Low |
|
UK |
1947 |
John,
Elton |
Musician |
“Your
Song” |
|
UK |
1949 |
Ackroyd, Peter |
Author |
London:
The
Biography |
|
UK |
1949 |
Callow,
Simon |
Actor |
Maurice |
|
UK |
1949 |
Curry,
John |
Athlete |
Olympic and
world
champion |
|
UK |
1949 |
Finch,
Nigel |
Director |
Stonewall |
|
UK |
1950 |
Cashman,
Michael |
Politician |
Member of
European
Parliament |
|
UK |
1950 |
Robinson,
Tom |
Musician |
“Glad to
Be
Gay” |
|
UK |
1951 |
Halford,
Rob |
Musician |
Judas
Priest |
|
UK |
1952 |
Barker,
Clive |
Director |
Hellraiser |
|
UK |
1952 |
Barrymore,
Michael |
Entertainer |
My Kind
of People |
|
UK |
1954 |
Tennant,
Neil |
Musician |
Pet Shop
Boys |
|
UK |
1955 |
Shelley,
Pete |
Musician |
The
Buzzcocks |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1956 |
Almond,
Marc |
Musician |
Soft
Cell |
|
|
UK |
1956 |
Hytner, Nicholas |
Director |
Director of
the National
Theatre |
|
UK |
1956 |
Mathias,
Sean |
Director |
Bent |
|
UK |
1957 |
Fry,
Stephen |
Author |
The
Liar |
|
UK |
1958 |
Barnett,
Tim |
Politician |
NZ
government
whip |
|
UK |
1959 |
Burns,
Pete |
Musician |
Dead or
Alive |
|
UK |
1959 |
Everett,
Rupert |
Actor |
Another
Country |
|
UK |
1959 |
Morrissey |
Musician |
The
Smiths |
|
UK |
1959 |
Winterson,
Jeanette |
Author |
Oranges Are
Not the
Only Fruit |
|
UK |
1960 |
Bourne,
Matthew |
Choreographer |
Swan
Lake |
|
UK |
1960 |
Johnson,
Holly |
Musician |
Frankie Goes
to
Hollywood |
|
UK |
1961 |
Boy
George |
Musician |
Culture
Club |
|
UK |
1961 |
Daldry,
Stephen |
Director |
The
Hours |
|
UK |
1961 |
Fashanu, Justin |
Athlete |
Top
British footballer |
|
UK |
1961 |
Wiggs,
Josephine |
Musician |
The
Breeders |
|
UK |
1962 |
Davis,
Evan |
Economist |
Dragon’s
Den |
|
UK |
1963 |
Davies,
Russell
T,
|
Producer |
Doctor
Who |
|
UK |
1963 |
Michael,
George |
Musician |
Sex |
|
UK |
1963 |
Sullivan,
Andrew |
Editor |
The New
Republic |
|
UK |
1964 |
Alli,
Waheed |
Business |
The Big
Breakfast |
|
UK |
1964 |
Bell,
Andy |
Musician |
Erasure |
|
UK |
1973 |
Burrows,
Saffron |
Actress |
Deep Blue
Sea |
|
UK |
1979 |
Doherty,
Pete |
Musician |
Babyshambles |
|
Ukraine |
1864 |
Redl,
Colonel
Alfred |
Soldier |
Chief
of
Counter-Intelligence |
|
Ukraine |
1882 |
Szymanowski,
Karol |
Composer |
King
Roger |
|
Ukraine |
1890 |
Nijinsky, Vaslav |
Dancer |
Les
Sylphides |
|
Ukraine |
1904 |
Lifar,
Serge |
Dancer |
Paris
Opera
Ballet |
|
US |
1755 |
Coxe,
Tench |
Business |
Delegate
to
Continental
Congress |
|
US |
1760 |
Sampson,
Deborah |
Soldier |
Continental
Army |
|
US |
1779 |
Decatur,
Stephen |
Soldier |
Defeated
the
Macedonian |
|
US |
1786 |
King,
William
R,
|
Politician |
Vice
President
US |
|
US |
1791 |
Buchanan,
James |
Politician |
President
US |
|
US |
1804 |
Bennett, John
C,
|
Cleric |
Chief advisor
to Joseph
Smith,
Jr,
|
|
US |
1807 |
Hammond,JamesHenry |
Politician |
US Senator |
|
US |
1809 |
Lincoln,
Abraham |
Politician |
President
US |
|
US |
1813 |
Beecher,
Henry
Ward |
Cleric |
Seven
Lectures
to
Young
Men |
|
US |
1819 |
Melville,
Herman |
Author |
Moby-Dick |
|
US |
1819 |
Whitman,
Walt |
Poet |
Leaves of
Grass |
|
US |
1820 |
Anthony,
Susan
B,
|
Politician |
Women’s
suffrage |
|
US |
1825 |
Taylor,
Bayard |
Author |
Joseph and
His
Friend |
|
US |
1826 |
Foster,
Stephen |
Composer |
“Oh!
Susanna” |
|
US |
1829 |
Gottschalk,LouisMoreau |
Composer |
“Cakewalk” |
|
US |
1830 |
Dickinson,
Emily |
Poet |
“Wild
Nights, Wild
Nights!” |
|
US |
1831 |
Sitting
Bull |
Politician |
Sioux
Chief |
|
US |
1832 |
Alger,
Horatio |
Author |
Ragged
Dick |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1843 |
James,
Henry |
Author |
The Golden
Bowl |
|
|
US |
1843 |
Stoddard,CharlesWarren |
Author |
Cruising Under
Crescent |
|
US |
1849 |
Riley,JamesWhitcomb |
Poet |
“The
Ol’
Swimmin’
Hole” |
|
US |
1849 |
We’wha |
Two-Spirit |
Zuni
Man-Woman |
|
US |
1851 |
Chopin,
Kate |
Author |
Bayou
Folk |
|
US |
1857 |
Fuller,
Henry
Blake |
Author |
The
Cliff-Dwellers |
|
US |
1857 |
Thomas, M,
Carey |
Teacher |
President of
Bryn Mawr
College |
|
US |
1859 |
Bates,
Katharine
Lee |
Poet |
“America
the
Beautiful” |
|
US |
1860 |
Addams,
Jane |
Politician |
Nobel
Peace
Prize |
|
US |
1860 |
Warren,
Edward
Perry |
Business |
Boston Museum
of Fine
Arts |
|
US |
1862 |
Wharton,
Edith |
Author |
Keeping up
with the
Joneses |
|
US |
1863 |
Cram, Ralph
Adams |
Architect |
US Military
Academy |
|
US |
1863 |
Woolley,
Mary
Emma |
Teacher |
President of
Mount Holyoke
College |
|
US |
1872 |
Adams,
Maude |
Actress |
Peter
Pan |
|
US |
1872 |
Walsh,
David |
Politician |
Senator |
|
US |
1873 |
Cather,
Willa |
Author |
Pulitzer
Prize |
|
US |
1874 |
Brooks,
Romaine |
Artist |
Natalie
Barney |
|
US |
1874 |
Lowell,
Amy |
Poet |
What’s
O’Clock? |
|
US |
1874 |
Stein,
Gertrude |
Author |
How to
Write |
|
US |
1876 |
Barney,NatalieClifford |
Poet |
Romaine
Brooks’
lover |
|
US |
1877 |
Duncan,
Isadora |
Dancer |
Modern
Dance |
|
US |
1877 |
Hartley,
Marsden |
Artist |
“Log
Jam” |
|
US |
1877 |
Toklas, Alice
B,
|
Author |
Autobiography |
|
US |
1879 |
Luhan, Mabel
Dodge |
Author |
Backgrounds |
|
US |
1880 |
Grimké,AngelinaWeld |
Journalist |
Rachel |
|
US |
1880 |
Van
Vechten,
Carl |
Photographer |
Harlem
photos |
|
US |
1883 |
Demuth,
Charles |
Artist |
Watercolors |
|
US |
1883 |
Maxwell,
Elsa |
Business |
Famous
parties |
|
US |
1884 |
Griffes,CharlesTomlinson |
Composer |
Symphony
in
Yellow |
|
US |
1884 |
Roosevelt,
Eleanor |
Politician |
First
Lady |
|
US |
1884 |
Teasdale,
Sara |
Poet |
Rivers to
the
Sea |
|
US |
1886 |
Anderson,
Margaret |
Publisher |
Little
Review |
|
US |
1886 |
Byington,
Spring |
Actress |
OscarnominationforBestSupportingActress |
|
US |
1886 |
Doolittle,
Hilda |
Poet |
Sea
Garden |
|
US |
1886 |
Horton,EdwardEverett |
Actor |
Fractured
Fairy
Tales |
|
US |
1886 |
Locke,
Alain |
Teacher |
Harlem
Renaissance |
|
US |
1886 |
Rainey,
“Ma” |
Musician |
The Mother
of the
Blues |
|
US |
1887 |
Beach,
Sylvia |
Business |
Shakespeare &
Company |
|
US |
1887 |
Benedict,
Ruth |
Anthropologist |
Patterns
of
Culture |
|
US |
1888 |
Woolley,
Monty |
Actor |
The Pied
Piper |
|
US |
1889 |
Pangborn,
Franklin |
Actor |
A Girl,
A Guy,
and a
Gob |
|
US |
1889 |
Spellman,
F, Cardinal |
Cleric |
Archbishop
of
New
York |
|
US |
1889 |
Webb,
Clifton |
Actor |
Laura |
|
US |
1890 |
Main,
Marjorie |
Actress |
Ma
Kettle |
|
US |
1891 |
Porter,
Cole |
Composer |
“Let’s Do
It” |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1891 |
Shawn,
Ted |
Choreographer |
Dance
We
Must |
|
|
US |
1892 |
Barnes,
Djuna |
Author |
Nightwood |
|
US |
1892 |
Flanner,
Janet |
Journalist |
Letter from
Paris |
|
US |
1892 |
Millay,EdnaSt, Vincent |
Poet |
Pulitzer
Prize |
|
US |
1892 |
Sullivan, Harry
Stack |
Psychiatrist |
Interpersonal
Approach |
|
US |
1892 |
Welles, Sumner |
Politician |
Undersecretary of
State |
|
US |
1893 |
Lunt,
Alfred |
Actor |
Clarence |
|
US |
1893 |
McClintic,
Guthrie |
Producer |
Katherine
Cornell |
|
US |
1893 |
Thompson,
Dorothy |
Journalist |
On the
Record |
|
US |
1893 |
Tilden,
Bill |
Athlete |
Tennis
champion |
|
US |
1894 |
Kinsey,
Alfred |
Scientist |
Kinsey
Institute |
|
US |
1894 |
Mabley,
“Moms” |
Entertainer |
Comic |
|
US |
1894 |
Smith,
Bessie |
Musician |
Empress of
the
Blues |
|
US |
1895 |
Hart,
Lorenz |
Composer |
Rodgers and
Hart musicals |
|
US |
1895 |
Hoover,
J, Edgar |
Politician |
Director of
FBI |
|
US |
1895 |
Hunter,
Alberta |
Musician |
Blues
singer |
|
US |
1896 |
Thomson,
Virgil |
Composer |
Four
Saints
in
Three
Acts |
|
US |
1896 |
Waters,
Ethel |
Musician |
“Heat
Wave” |
|
US |
1897 |
Arzner,
Dorothy |
Director |
Dance, Girl,
Dance |
|
US |
1897 |
Cowell,
Henry |
Composer |
Tone
clusters |
|
US |
1897 |
Wilder,
Thornton |
Playwright |
Our
Town |
|
US |
1898 |
Abbott,
Berenice |
Photographer |
Changing
New
York |
|
US |
1898 |
Leisen,
Mitchell |
Director |
Swing High,
Swing
Low |
|
US |
1898 |
Scott,
Randolph |
Actor |
My
Favorite
Wife |
|
US |
1899 |
Crane,
Hart |
Poet |
“The
Bridge” |
|
US |
1899 |
Cukor,
George |
Director |
Oscar: My
Fair
Lady |
|
US |
1900 |
Arthur,
Jean |
Actress |
The
Talk of
the
Town |
|
US |
1900 |
Arvin,
Newton |
Author |
Biography
of
Melville |
|
US |
1900 |
Copland,
Aaron |
Composer |
Billy the
Kid |
|
US |
1900 |
Haines, William |
Actor |
The Marines
Are
Coming |
|
US |
1900 |
Halliburton,
Richard |
Explorer |
Travel
books |
|
US |
1901 |
Gable,
Clark |
Actor |
The King
of
Hollywood |
|
US |
1901 |
Mead,
Margaret |
Anthropologist |
Coming of
Age in
Samoa |
|
US |
1902 |
Bankhead,
Tallulah |
Actress |
Private
Lives |
|
US |
1902 |
Beebe,
Lucius |
Journalist |
This
New
York |
|
US |
1902 |
Geer,
Will |
Actor |
Grandpa Walton |
|
US |
1902 |
Hughes,
Langston |
Poet |
Shakespeare
in
Harlem |
|
US |
1902 |
Plunkett,
Walter |
Designer |
Gone
With
The
Wind |
|
US |
1903 |
Adrian |
Designer |
The look
of
MGM |
|
US |
1903 |
Beard,
James |
Chef |
Cookbooks |
|
US |
1903 |
Cullen,
Countee |
Poet |
“The Black
Christ” |
|
US |
1903 |
Minnelli,
Vincente |
Director |
Oscar:
Gigi |
|
US |
1903 |
Munson,
Ona |
Actress |
Belle
Watling
in
Gone
With
the
Wind |
|
US |
1904 |
Cadmus,
Paul |
Artist |
The
Fleet’s
In! |
|
US |
1904 |
Rogers,
Buddy |
Actor |
Wings |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1904 |
Zerbe,
Jerome |
Photographer |
Vodka
martini |
|
|
US |
1905 |
Blitzstein,
Marc |
Playwright |
Cradle
Will
Rock |
|
US |
1905 |
Crawford,
Joan |
Actress |
Mildred
Pierce |
|
US |
1905 |
Hughes,
Howard |
Business |
Hughes
Aircraft |
|
US |
1905 |
Wright,
Russell |
Designer |
American Modern
Dinnerware |
|
US |
1906 |
Baker,
Josephine |
Musician |
Conquered
Paris |
|
US |
1906 |
Johnson,
Philip |
Architect |
Crystal
Cathedral |
|
US |
1906 |
Sutton,
Grady |
Actor |
The Great
Moment |
|
US |
1907 |
Darrow,
John |
Actor |
The All
American |
|
US |
1907 |
Kirstein,
Lincoln |
Producer |
New
York
City
Ballet |
|
US |
1907 |
Lynes,
George
Platt |
Photographer |
Kinsey Institute
photos |
|
US |
1907 |
Romero,
Cesar |
Actor |
The
Joker |
|
US |
1907 |
Stanwyck,
Barbara |
Actress |
The Lady
Eve |
|
US |
1908 |
Raymond,
Gene |
Actor |
Married to
Jeanette
MacDonald |
|
US |
1908 |
White,
Minor |
Photographer |
Frost
on
Window |
|
US |
1910 |
Alsop,
Joseph |
Journalist |
The Missile
Gap |
|
US |
1910 |
Barber,
Samuel |
Composer |
“Adagio
for
Strings” |
|
US |
1910 |
Bowles,
Paul |
Author |
The
Sheltering
Sky |
|
US |
1910 |
Brown,
Margaret
Wise |
Author |
Goodnight
Moon |
|
US |
1910 |
Cromwell,
Richard |
Actor |
Young
Mr, Lincoln |
|
US |
1910 |
Holland,
Joseph |
Actor |
Mercury
Theatre |
|
US |
1910 |
Kelly,
Patsy |
Actress |
Tony: No
No
Nanette |
|
US |
1910 |
Sharaff,
Irene |
Designer |
Five
Oscars |
|
US |
1911 |
Bishop,
Elizabeth |
Poet |
Poet
Laureate |
|
US |
1911 |
Goodman,
Paul |
Author |
Growing Up
Absurd |
|
US |
1911 |
Ray,
Nicholas |
Director |
Rebel Without
a
Cause |
|
US |
1911 |
Walters,
Charles |
Director |
Easter
Parade |
|
US |
1911 |
Williams,
Tennessee |
Playwright |
A Streetcar
Named
Desire |
|
US |
1911 |
Willson,
Henry |
Business |
Beefcake |
|
US |
1911 |
Zaharias,BabeDidrikson |
Athlete |
Founder of
the
LPGA |
|
US |
1912 |
Cage,
John |
Composer |
4’
33” |
|
US |
1912 |
Cheever,
John |
Author |
Falconer |
|
US |
1912 |
Nikolais,
Alwin |
Choreographer |
National Medal
of
Arts |
|
US |
1912 |
Rustin,
Bayard |
Politician |
Aide to
Dr, Martin
Luther King,
Jr,
|
|
US |
1913 |
Cregar,
Laird |
Actor |
The
Lodger |
|
US |
1913 |
Inge, William |
Playwright |
Bus
Stop |
|
US |
1913 |
Kaye,
Danny |
Actor |
Hans Christian
Andersen |
|
US |
1914 |
Burroughs,
William
S,
|
Author |
Naked
Lunch |
|
US |
1915 |
Holiday, Billie |
Musician |
“Strange
Fruit” |
|
US |
1915 |
Strayhorn,
Billy |
Composer |
“Take the
A
Train” |
|
US |
1916 |
Billings,
Lem |
Business |
Fizzies |
|
US |
1916 |
Johnson,
Van |
Actor |
Two Girls
and a
Sailor |
|
US |
1916 |
Raye,
Martha |
Actress |
Alice |
|
US |
1916 |
Wynn,
Keenan |
Actor |
Dr,
Strangelove |
|
US |
1917 |
Bowles,
Jane |
Author |
The
Iron
Table |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1917 |
McCullers,
Carson |
Playwright |
The Heart
Is a
Lonely
Hunter |
|
|
US |
1918 |
Bernstein,
Leonard |
Conductor |
West Side
Story |
|
US |
1918 |
Heath,
Gordon |
Actor |
Deep Are
the
Roots |
|
US |
1918 |
Jenkins,
Walter |
Politician |
ChiefofStaffforPresidentLyndonJohnson |
|
US |
1918 |
Laurents,
Arthur |
Playwright |
West Side
Story |
|
US |
1918 |
Robbins,
Jerome |
Choreographer |
West Side
Story |
|
US |
1918 |
Susann,
Jacqueline |
Author |
Valley of
the
Dolls |
|
US |
1919 |
Carswell,
G, Harold |
Judge |
US Supreme
Court
nominee |
|
US |
1919 |
Cunningham,
Merce |
Choreographer |
Fielding
the
Sixes |
|
US |
1919 |
Forbes,
Malcolm |
Publisher |
$2 million
party
in
Tangier,
1990 |
|
US |
1919 |
Liberace |
Musician |
Liberace
Museum |
|
US |
1919 |
Tucker,
Forrest |
Actor |
F
Troop |
|
US |
1920 |
Claiborne,
Craig |
Chef |
Cookbooks |
|
US |
1921 |
Clift,
Montgomery |
Actor |
Red
River |
|
US |
1921 |
Deacon,
Richard |
Actor |
Mel on
Dick Van
Dyke Show |
|
US |
1921 |
Dennis,
Patrick |
Author |
Auntie
Mame |
|
US |
1921 |
Highsmith,
Patricia |
Author |
Strangers on
a
Train |
|
US |
1921 |
Holliday,
Judy |
Actress |
Born
Yesterday |
|
US |
1921 |
Kulp, Nancy |
Actress |
Miss Hathaway
on Beverly
Hillbillies |
|
US |
1921 |
Nader,
George |
Actor |
Ellery
Queen |
|
US |
1922 |
Garland,
Judy |
Actress |
The Wizard
of
Oz |
|
US |
1922 |
Kerouac,
Jack |
Author |
On The
Road |
|
US |
1923 |
Boyd,
Malcolm |
Cleric |
Running
With
Me,
Jesus? |
|
US |
1923 |
Rivers,
Larry |
Artist |
Abstract
Paintings |
|
US |
1923 |
Rorem,
Ned |
Composer |
Nantucket
Songs |
|
US |
1923 |
Smith,
Liz |
Journalist |
Gossip
column |
|
US |
1924 |
Baldwin,
James |
Author |
Giovanni’s
Room |
|
US |
1924 |
Brando,
Marlon |
Actor |
On the
Waterfront |
|
US |
1924 |
Capote,
Truman |
Author |
In Cold
Blood |
|
US |
1924 |
Cox,
Wally |
Actor |
Brando’s
roommate |
|
US |
1924 |
Wood,
Ed |
Director |
Plan 9
From Outer
Space |
|
US |
1925 |
Beck,
Julian |
Producer |
The
Living
Theatre |
|
US |
1925 |
Granger, Farley |
Actor |
Strangers On
a
Train |
|
US |
1925 |
Hudson,
Rock |
Actor |
Movies with
Doris
Day |
|
US |
1925 |
Moore,
Charles |
Architect |
Beverly Hills
Civic
Center |
|
US |
1925 |
Rauschenberg,Robert |
Artist |
Album
cover
for
Talking
Heads |
|
US |
1925 |
Vidal,
Gore |
Author |
The City
and The
Pillar |
|
US |
1926 |
Ginsberg,
Allen |
Poet |
“Howl” |
|
US |
1926 |
Hoiby,
Lee |
Composer |
The
Scarf |
|
US |
1926 |
Louis, Murray |
Choreographer |
Dance as
an art
form |
|
US |
1926 |
Lynde,
Paul |
Actor |
Hollywood
Squares |
|
US |
1926 |
Merrill,
James |
Poet |
Pulitzer
Prize |
|
US |
1926 |
O’Hara,
Frank |
Poet |
A City
Winter |
|
US |
1926 |
Tryon,
Tom |
Actor |
In
Harm’s
Way |
|
US |
1927 |
Anger,
Kenneth |
Director |
Scorpio
Rising |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1927 |
Cohn,
Roy |
Attorney |
US
Senate
HUAC
counsel |
|
|
US |
1927 |
Donaldson,
Herb |
Judge |
S, F, Municipal
Court |
|
US |
1927 |
Ray,
Johnnie |
Musician |
“Cry” |
|
US |
1928 |
Albee,
Edward |
Playwright |
Who’s
Afraid
of
Virginia
Woolf? |
|
US |
1928 |
Chester,
Alfred |
Author |
Jamie Is
My Heart’s
Desire |
|
US |
1928 |
Ivory,
James |
Director |
Oscar: Howard’s
End |
|
US |
1928 |
McDowall,
Roddy |
Actor |
Friend of
Liz
Taylor |
|
US |
1928 |
Maharis,
George |
Actor |
Route
66 |
|
US |
1928 |
Warhol,
Andy |
Artist |
Brillo
boxes |
|
US |
1929 |
Button,
Dick |
Athlete |
Olympic
skater |
|
US |
1929 |
Coco, James |
Actor |
Only When
I
Laugh |
|
US |
1929 |
Galley Jr, ,
Howard
E,
|
Cleric |
Book of
Common
Prayer |
|
US |
1929 |
Rich,
Adrienne |
Poet |
National
Book
Award |
|
US |
1930 |
Hansberry,
Lorraine |
Playwright |
A Raisin
in the
Sun |
|
US |
1930 |
Johns,
Jasper |
Artist |
Three
Flags |
|
US |
1924 |
Kirkwood Jr, ,
James |
Author |
A Chorus
Line |
|
US |
1930 |
Milk,
Harvey |
Politician |
San Francisco
Board of
Supervisors |
|
US |
1930 |
Nabors,
Jim |
Actor |
Gomer
Pyle |
|
US |
1930 |
Sargent,
Dick |
Actor |
Bewitched |
|
US |
1930 |
Schippers, Thomas |
Conductor |
Spoleto |
|
US |
1930 |
Sondheim,
Stephen |
Composer |
Into the
Woods |
|
US |
1931 |
Adams,
Nick |
Actor |
Pillow
Talk |
|
US |
1931 |
Ailey,
Alvin |
Choreographer |
American
Dance
Theatre |
|
US |
1931 |
Cino,
Joe |
Producer |
Caffé
Cino |
|
US |
1931 |
Dean,
James |
Actor |
Rebel Without
a
Cause |
|
US |
1931 |
Hormel,
James |
Business |
Ambassador to
Luxembourg |
|
US |
1931 |
Hunter,
Tab |
Actor |
Polyester |
|
US |
1931 |
McKinney,
Stewart
B,
|
Politician |
Congressman |
|
US |
1931 |
Ram
Dass |
Philosopher |
Be Here
Now |
|
US |
1931 |
Reilly,
Charles
Nelson |
Actor |
Charlotte’s
Web |
|
US |
1932 |
Halston,
Roy |
Designer |
Couture |
|
US |
1932 |
Little
Richard |
Musician |
“Tutti
Frutti” |
|
US |
1932 |
Michals,
Duane |
Photographer |
Homage to
Cavafy |
|
US |
1932 |
Perkins,
Anthony |
Actor |
Psycho |
|
US |
1932 |
Reed,
Robert |
Actor |
Dad on
The Brady
Bunch |
|
US |
1933 |
Judge,
Mychal |
Cleric |
Chaplain
FDNY |
|
US |
1933 |
McKuen,
Rod |
Poet |
The Beautiful
Strangers |
|
US |
1933 |
Sontag,
Susan |
Author |
AIDS and
Its Metaphors |
|
US |
1934 |
Apolinar,
Danny |
Composer |
“Your
Own
Thing” |
|
US |
1934 |
Bachardy,
Don |
Artist |
Portraits
of
Christopher
Isherwood |
|
US |
1934 |
Lorde,
Audre |
Poet |
Undersong |
|
US |
1934 |
Millett,
Kate |
Author |
Sexual
Politics |
|
US |
1934 |
Rechy,
John |
Author |
City Of
Night |
|
US |
1935 |
Chamberlain,
Richard |
Actor |
King of
the
Miniseries |
|
US |
1935 |
Esquerita |
Musician |
“Gollie Gollie
Annie
Mae” |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1935 |
Kopkind,
Andrew |
Journalist |
The
Nation
Senior
Writer |
|
|
US |
1935 |
Kramer,
Larry |
Playwright |
The Normal
Heart |
|
US |
1935 |
Mathis,
Johnny |
Musician |
“Chances
Are” |
|
US |
1935 |
Presley,
Elvis |
Musician |
“Hound
Dog” |
|
US |
1936 |
Bridges,
James |
Director |
The China
Syndrome |
|
US |
1936 |
Jordan,
Barbara |
Politician |
1976DemocraticConventionkeynotespeech |
|
US |
1937 |
Bauman,
Robert |
Politician |
Congressman |
|
US |
1937 |
Carr,
Allan |
Producer |
Grease |
|
US |
1937 |
Chambers,
Jane |
Playwright |
Last Summer
at Bluefish
Cove |
|
US |
1937 |
Dennis,
Sandy |
Actress |
Oscar:
Who’s
Afraid
of
Virginia
Woolf? |
|
US |
1937 |
Randall,
Bob |
Playwright |
6 Rms
Riv
Vu |
|
US |
1937 |
Studds,
Gerry |
Politician |
Congressman |
|
US |
1937 |
Takei,
George |
Actor |
Star
Trek |
|
US |
1937 |
Waddell,
Tom |
Athlete |
Decathlon
champion |
|
US |
1937 |
Wilson,
Lanford |
Playwright |
Burn
This |
|
US |
1938 |
Bartel,
Paul |
Director |
Eating
Raoul |
|
US |
1939 |
Bakker,
Jim |
Cleric |
The PTL
Club |
|
US |
1939 |
Boone
Jr, ,
Ashley |
Business |
President
of
Distribution
at
Fox |
|
US |
1939 |
McNally,
Terrence |
Playwright |
The
Ritz |
|
US |
1939 |
Mineo,
Sal |
Actor |
Rebel Without
a
Cause |
|
US |
1939 |
Schumacher,
Joel |
Director |
Flatliners |
|
US |
1939 |
Sherman,
Martin |
Playwright |
Bent |
|
US |
1939 |
Tomlin,
Lily |
Actress |
Nine to
Five |
|
US |
1939 |
Tune,
Tommy |
Dancer |
Nine
Tonys |
|
US |
1940 |
Ellis,
Perry |
Designer |
Ties |
|
US |
1940 |
Frank,
Barney |
Politician |
Congressman |
|
US |
1940 |
Gallin,
Sandy |
Business |
Superagent |
|
US |
1940 |
Mackie,
Bob |
Designer |
Sultan of
Sequins |
|
US |
1940 |
White,
Mel |
Author |
Jerry
Falwell’s
ghost
writer |
|
US |
1941 |
Bandy,
Way |
MakeupArtist |
Nancy
Reagan’s
face |
|
US |
1941 |
Carlos,
Wendy |
Musician |
Switched on
Bach |
|
US |
1941 |
Kirk,
Tommy |
Actor |
Disney
films |
|
US |
1941 |
Kuehl, Sheila
James |
Politician |
Speakerprotempore,CaliforniaAssembly |
|
US |
1941 |
Sipple,
Oliver |
Soldier |
Saved
President Gerald
Ford’s
life |
|
US |
1941 |
Smith,
Jerry |
Athlete |
All-pro tight
end |
|
US |
1941 |
Spoto,
Donald |
Author |
AlfredHitchcockandPrestonSturgesBiographies |
|
US |
1942 |
Cammermeyer,
Greta |
Medical |
V, A, Nurse of
the
Year |
|
US |
1942 |
Delany,
Samuel
R,
|
Author |
Jewels of
Aptor |
|
US |
1942 |
Diller, Barry |
Producer |
Fox
Pictures |
|
US |
1942 |
Hinson,
Jon |
Politician |
Congressman |
|
US |
1942 |
Klein,
Calvin |
Designer |
Underwear |
|
US |
1942 |
Kopay,
David |
Athlete |
NFL running
back |
|
US |
1942 |
Wigginton,
Eliot |
Teacher |
Foxfire,
Teacher
of the
Year |
|
US |
1943 |
Ardolino,
Emile |
Director |
Sister Act,
Dirty
Dancing |
|
US |
1943 |
Bennett,
Michael |
Choreographer |
A Chorus
Line |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1943 |
Burton,
Gary |
Musician |
Vibes for
Stan
Getz |
|
|
US |
1943 |
Geffen,
David |
Producer |
Gay Lesbian
Serices
Center |
|
US |
1943 |
Joplin,
Janis |
Musician |
Pearl |
|
US |
1943 |
King, Billie
Jean |
Athlete |
Won
Wimbledon
six
times |
|
US |
1943 |
Ludlam,
Charles |
Playwright |
Ridiculous
Theatre
Company |
|
US |
1943 |
Matlovich,
Leonard |
Soldier |
Air
Force
sergeant |
|
US |
1944 |
Brown,
Jay |
Medical |
PresidentoftheAssociationofBlackCardiologists |
|
US |
1944 |
Brown,
Rita
Mae |
Author |
Rubyfruit
Jungle |
|
US |
1944 |
Davis,
Angela
Y,
|
Teacher |
Freedom |
|
US |
1944 |
Flagg, Fannie |
Author |
Fried
Green
Tomatoes |
|
US |
1944 |
Glover,
John |
Actor |
Chocolate
War |
|
US |
1944 |
Hendryx,
Nona |
Musician |
LaBelle |
|
US |
1944 |
Maupin,
Armistead |
Author |
Tales
Of
The
City |
|
US |
1944 |
Sylvester |
Musician |
Disco |
|
US |
1944 |
Tilson-Thomas,Michael |
Conductor |
San
Francisco
Symphony |
|
US |
1944 |
Walker,
Alice |
Author |
The Color
Purple |
|
US |
1945 |
Divine |
Actor |
Pink
Flamingos |
|
US |
1945 |
Lehman,
Bruce |
Attorney |
Lawyer of
the
Year |
|
US |
1945 |
Monette,
Paul |
Author |
National
Book
Award |
|
US |
1945 |
Ryder,
Mitch |
Musician |
“Devil with
a Blue
Dress
On” |
|
US |
1946 |
Gore,
Lesley |
Musician |
“It’s My
Party” |
|
US |
1946 |
Ireland,
Patricia |
Politician |
President
of
NOW |
|
US |
1946 |
Mapplethorpe,Robert |
Photographer |
Portrait of
Patti
Smith |
|
US |
1946 |
Mixner, David |
Politician |
Moratorium to
End the
War in
Vietnam |
|
US |
1946 |
Preston,
Billy |
Musician |
Keyboards on
Let It
Be |
|
US |
1946 |
Silkwood,
Karen |
FactoryWorker |
Exposed nuclear
danger |
|
US |
1946 |
Waters,
John |
Director |
Polyester |
|
US |
1946 |
Weber,
Bruce |
Photographer |
Calvin Klein
ads |
|
US |
1946 |
Wenner,
Jann |
Publisher |
Rolling
Stone |
|
US |
1947 |
Antolin, Teddy |
Hairdresser |
Hairdresser to
the
Stars |
|
US |
1947 |
Batts,
Deborah |
Judge |
Federal
District
Court
Judge |
|
US |
1947 |
Boswell,
John |
Teacher |
Chairman
of
Yale
history
department |
|
US |
1947 |
McCormick,
Dale |
Politician |
State
Senator |
|
US |
1947 |
McCorvey,
Norma |
Roe
v,
Wade
Plaintiff |
Roe v, Wade
court
decision |
|
US |
1947 |
Paglia,
Camille |
Author |
Sexual
Personae |
|
US |
1947 |
Robinson,
Gene |
Cleric |
Bishop of
New
Hampshire |
|
US |
1947 |
Tobias,
Andrew |
Author |
Managing
Your
Money |
|
US |
1948 |
Dallesandro,
Joe |
Actor |
Trash |
|
US |
1948 |
Smith,
Willi |
Designer |
Willi
Wear |
|
US |
1949 |
Davis,
Brad |
Actor |
Midnight
Express |
|
US |
1949 |
Gorman,
Greg |
Photographer |
Movie
posters |
|
US |
1949 |
Leibovitz,
Annie |
Photographer |
Rolling Stone
covers |
|
US |
1949 |
Near,
Holly |
Musician |
Lifelines |
|
US |
1950 |
Ashman,
Howard |
Composer |
Oscar: The
Little
Mermaid |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Birthplace
US |
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1950 |
Hutton,
Kate |
Scientist |
LA’s
favorite
seismologist |
|
|
US |
1950 |
Kalkin,
Gary |
Business |
Disney
Vice
President |
|
US |
1950 |
Rollins,
Howard |
Actor |
Soldier’s
Story |
|
US |
1951 |
Gunderson,
Steven |
Politician |
Congressman |
|
US |
1951 |
Ian,
Janis |
Musician |
“At
Seventeen” |
|
US |
1951 |
Kritsick,
Stephen
M,
|
Veterinarian |
Good Morning
America |
|
US |
1951 |
Schneider,
Fred |
Musician |
B-52s |
|
US |
1951 |
Shilts,
Randy |
Journalist |
And The
Band Played
On |
|
US |
1952 |
Burke,
Glenn |
Athlete |
L, A, Dodgers
outfielder |
|
US |
1952 |
Perry,
Ralph
M,
|
Teacher |
Rhode
Island
Teacher
of
the
Year |
|
US |
1952 |
Ritts,
Herb |
Photographer |
Notorious |
|
US |
1952 |
Sherwood,
Bill |
Director |
Parting
Glances |
|
US |
1952 |
Van
Sant,
Gus |
Director |
Drugstore
Cowboy |
|
US |
1953 |
Dutt,
Hank |
Musician |
Kronos
Quartet |
|
US |
1953 |
Feniger,
Susan |
Chef |
City
Restaurant |
|
US |
1953 |
Hulce,
Tom |
Actor |
Amadeus |
|
US |
1953 |
Strickland,
Keith |
Musician |
B-52s |
|
US |
1953 |
Villard,
Tom |
Actor |
The
Trouble
With
Dick |
|
US |
1953 |
Williams,
Pete |
Journalist |
Pentagon
spokesperson |
|
US |
1953 |
Wilson,
Ricky |
Musician |
B-52s |
|
US |
1954 |
Butler,
Dan |
Actor |
Bulldog on
Frasier |
|
US |
1954 |
Fierstein,
Harvey |
Playwright |
Torch
Song
Trilogy |
|
US |
1954 |
Travolta,
John |
Actor |
The Boy
in the
Bubble |
|
US |
1955 |
Bernhard,
Sandra |
Actress |
Madonna |
|
US |
1955 |
Condon,
Bill |
Director |
Gods and
Monsters |
|
US |
1955 |
Knuckles,
Frankie |
Musician |
DJ |
|
US |
1955 |
Rose,
Felipe |
Musician |
Village
People |
|
US |
1956 |
Cornwell,
Patricia |
Author |
Postmortem |
|
US |
1956 |
Feinstein,
Michael |
Musician |
Ira Gershwin
catalog |
|
US |
1956 |
Jones,
Cherry |
Actress |
Doubt |
|
US |
1956 |
Kushner,
Tony |
Playwright |
Angels In
America |
|
US |
1956 |
Lane,
Nathan |
Actor |
The
Producers |
|
US |
1956 |
Morris,
Mark |
Dancer |
MacArthur
Grant |
|
US |
1956 |
Sedaris,
David |
Author |
DressYourFamilyinCorduroyandDenim |
|
US |
1957 |
Ball,
Alan |
Screenwriter |
American
Beauty |
|
US |
1957 |
McGreevey,
Jim |
Politician |
Governor of
New
Jersey |
|
US |
1957 |
Riggs,
Marlon |
Director |
Tongues
Untied |
|
US |
1957 |
Rudnick,
Paul |
Playwright |
Jeffrey,
Addams
Family |
|
US |
1957 |
Simmons,
Roy |
Athlete |
NY
Giants
offensive
tackle |
|
US |
1958 |
Bearse,
Amanda |
Actress |
Married
With
Children |
|
US |
1958 |
DeGeneres,
Ellen |
Comedian |
Ellen |
|
US |
1958 |
DeLaria,
Lea |
Entertainer |
Arsenio Hall
Show |
|
US |
1958 |
Haring,
Keith |
Artist |
Swatch
watch
design |
|
US |
1958 |
Jett,
Joan |
Musician |
“I Love
Rock ’n
Roll” |
|
US |
1958 |
Lieberman,
Nancy |
Athlete |
Basketball
silver
medal |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Birthplace
US |
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1958 |
Madonna |
Musician |
Erotica |
|
|
US |
1958 |
Rudin,
Scott |
Producer |
The
Hours |
|
US |
1959 |
Graff,
Todd |
Actor |
Dominic and
Eugene |
|
US |
1959 |
Pierce,
David
Hyde |
Actor |
Frasier |
|
US |
1959 |
Roos,
Don |
Director |
The Opposite
of
Sex |
|
US |
1959 |
Shaiman,
Marc |
Composer |
“Blame
Canada” |
|
US |
1960 |
Gia |
Model |
Cosmo
cover |
|
US |
1960 |
Louganis,
Greg |
Athlete |
Olympic gold
medal
winner |
|
US |
1960 |
McManus,
Michael |
Soldier |
Colin
Powell’s
bodyguard |
|
US |
1960 |
Marshall,
Rob |
Director |
Chicago |
|
US |
1960 |
Mould,
Bob |
Musician |
Hüsker
Dü |
|
US |
1960 |
RuPaul |
Musician |
Supermodel |
|
US |
1960 |
Stipe,
Michael |
Musician |
R, E, M,
|
|
US |
1960 |
Sweeney,
Terry |
Actor |
Saturday
Night
Live |
|
US |
1961 |
Etheridge,
Melissa |
Musician |
Grammies |
|
US |
1961 |
Haynes,
Todd |
Director |
Far
From
Heaven |
|
US |
1961 |
Leavitt,
David |
Author |
Lost Language
of
Cranes |
|
US |
1961 |
Mizrahi,
Isaac |
Designer |
Unzipped |
|
US |
1962 |
Brock,
David |
Journalist |
Blinded
by
The
Right |
|
US |
1962 |
Bruce,
Tammy |
Broadcaster |
Tammy
Bruce
Show |
|
US |
1962 |
Foster,
Jodie |
Actress |
Silence of
the
Lambs |
|
US |
1962 |
Livingston,
Jennie |
Director |
Paris is
Burning |
|
US |
1962 |
O’Donnell,
Rosie |
Comedian |
The Queen
of
Nice |
|
US |
1962 |
Oldham,
Todd |
Designer |
Ivana
Trump’s
dresses |
|
US |
1962 |
Wong,
B, D,
|
Actor |
M, Butterfly |
|
US |
1963 |
LaChapelle,
David |
Photographer |
Hotel
LaChapelle |
|
US |
1963 |
Saliers,
Emily |
Musician |
Indigo
Girls |
|
US |
1964 |
Bottum,
Roddy |
Musician |
Faith No
More |
|
US |
1964 |
Ray,
Amy |
Musician |
Indigo
Girls |
|
US |
1965 |
Singer,
Bryan |
Director |
The X-Men
film
franchise |
|
US |
1966 |
Drudge,
Matt |
Journalist |
The Drudge
Report |
|
US |
1966 |
Nixon,
Cynthia |
Actress |
Sex and
the
City |
|
US |
1968 |
Cho, Margaret |
Comedian |
All
American
Girl |
|
US |
1968 |
Davidson,
Jaye |
Actor |
The Crying
Game |
|
US |
1968 |
Tuaolo,
Esera |
Athlete |
Super
Bowl |
|
US |
1969 |
Arquette,
Alexis |
Actor |
Pulp
Fiction |
|
US |
1969 |
Zuniga, José
M,
|
Soldier |
Soldier of
the
Year |
|
US |
1970 |
Phoenix,
River |
Actor |
Stand By
Me |
|
US |
1971 |
Rapp,
Anthony |
Actor |
Rent |
|
US |
1972 |
Armstrong,
Billie
Joe |
Musician |
Green
Day |
|
US |
1973 |
Harris, Neil
Patrick |
Actor |
Doogie
Howser,
MD |
|
US |
1973 |
Maddow,
Rachel |
Broadcaster |
The Rachel
Maddow
Show |
|
US |
1973 |
Wainwright,
Rufus |
Musician |
“I’m
a-Runnin’” |
|
US |
1974 |
Allen,
Chad |
Actor |
Our
House |
|
US |
1975 |
Jolie,
Angelina |
Actress |
Brad
Pitt |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Birthplace
US |
YearofBirth |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1978 |
Aiken,
Clay |
Musician |
American
Idol |
|
|
US |
1978 |
Hilton,
Perez |
Journalist |
PerezHilton, com |
|
US |
1979 |
Bass,
Lance |
Musician |
’N
Sync |
|
US |
1986 |
Lohan,
Lindsay |
Actress |
Mean
Girls |
|
Venezuela |
1874 |
Hahn,
Reynaldo |
Composer |
Director of
Paris
Opera |
|
VirginIslands |
1938 |
Griffith,
Emile |
Athlete |
Middleweight
boxing
champ |
|
Wales |
1893 |
Novello,
Ivor |
Actor |
The
Lodger |
|
Wales |
1905 |
Williams,
Emlyn |
Playwright |
Night Must
Fall |
|
West
Indies |
1757 |
Hamilton,
Alexander |
Politician |
Secretary of
the
Treasury |
|
Zanzibar |
1946 |
Mercury,
Freddie |
Musician |
Queen |
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