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Profession

 

Profession Actor

Profession

Name

Birthplace

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

Actor

Horton, Edward Everett

US

1886 Fractured Fairy Tales

Actor

Woolley, Monty

US

1888

The Pied Piper

Actor

Pangborn, Franklin

US

1889

A Girl, A Guy, and a Gob

Actor

Webb, Clifton

US

1889

Laura

Actor

Lunt, Alfred

US

1893

Clarence

Actor

Novello, Ivor

Wales

1893

The Lodger

Actor

Valentino, Rudolph

Italy

1895

The Sheik

Actor

Scott, Randolph

US

1898

My Favorite Wife

Actor

Laughton, Charles

UK

1899

Mutiny on the Bounty

Actor

Novarro, Ramon

Mexico

1899

Ben-Hur

Actor

Haines, William

US

1900

The Marines Are Coming

Actor

Gable, Clark

US

1901

The King of Hollywood

Actor

Geer, Will

US

1902

Grandpa Walton

Actor

Gielgud, John

UK

1904

Oscar: Arthur

Actor

Grant, Cary

UK

1904

Bringing Up Baby

Actor

Rogers, Buddy

US

1904

Wings

Actor

Sutton, Grady

US

1906

The Great Moment

Actor

Darrow, John

US

1907

The All American

Actor

Olivier, Laurence

UK

1907

Rebecca

Actor

Romero, Cesar

US

1907

The Joker

Actor

Raymond, Gene

US

1908

Married to Jeanette MacDonald

Actor

Redgrave, Michael

UK

1908

The Lady Vanishes

Actor

Cromwell, Richard

US

1910

Young Mr, Lincoln

Actor

Holland, Joseph

US

1910

Mercury Theatre

Actor

Cregar, Laird

US

1913

The Lodger

Actor

Kaye, Danny

US

1913

Hans Christian Andersen

Actor

Marais, Jean

France

1913

La Belle et la Bête

Actor

Price, Dennis

UK

1915

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Actor

Johnson, Van

US

1916

Two Girls and a Sailor

Actor

Wynn, Keenan

US

1916

Dr, Strangelove

Actor

Burr, Raymond

Canada

1917

Perry Mason, Ironsides

Actor

Howerd, Frankie

UK

1917

Up Pompeii!

Actor

Heath, Gordon

US

1918

Deep Are the Roots

Actor

Tucker, Forrest

US

1919

F Troop

Actor

Bogarde, Dirk

UK

1921

Victim

Actor

Clift, Montgomery

US

1921

Red River

Actor

Deacon, Richard

US

1921

Mel on Dick Van Dyke Show

Actor

Nader, George

US

1921

Ellery Queen

Actor

Elliott, Denholm

UK

1922

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Actor

Brando, Marlon

US

1924

On the Waterfront

Actor

Cox, Wally

US

1924

Brando’s roommate

 



Profession

Name

Birthplace

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

Actor

Granger, Farley

US

1925

Strangers on a Train

Actor

Hudson, Rock

US

1925

Movies with Doris Day

Actor

Lynde, Paul

US

1926

Hollywood Squares

Actor

Tryon, Tom

US

1926

In Harm’s Way

Actor

Williams, Kenneth

UK

1926

Carry On, friend of Joe Orton

Actor

Harvey, Laurence

Lithuania

1928

I Am a Camera

Actor

McDowall, Roddy

US

1928

Friend of Liz Taylor

Actor

Maharis, George

US

1928

Route 66

Actor

Coco, James

US

1929

Only When I Laugh

Actor

Hawthorne, Nigel

UK

1930

The Madness of King George

Actor

Nabors, Jim

US

1930

Gomer Pyle

Actor

Sargent, Dick

US

1930

Bewitched

Actor

Adams, Nick

US

1931

Pillow Talk

Actor

Dean, James

US

1931

Rebel Without a Cause

Actor

Fraser, John

Scotland

1931

Repulsion

Actor

Hunter, Tab

US

1931

Polyester

Actor

Reilly, Charles Nelson

US

1931

Charlotte’s Web

Actor

Perkins, Anthony

US

1932

Psycho

Actor

Reed, Robert

US

1932

Dad on The Brady Bunch

Actor

Bates, Alan

UK

1934

Far From the Madding Crowd

Actor

Chamberlain, Richard

US

1935

King of the Miniseries

Actor

Takei, George

US

1937

Star Trek

Actor

Jacobi, Derek

UK

1938

I, Claudius

Actor

McKellen, Ian

UK

1939

Bent

Actor

Mineo, Sal

US

1939

Rebel Without a Cause

Actor

Kirk, Tommy

US

1941

Disney films

Actor

Berger, Helmut

Austria

1944

The Damned

Actor

Glover, John

US

1944

Chocolate War

Actor

Divine

US

1945

Pink Flamingos

Actor

Dallesandro, Joe

US

1948

Trash

Actor

Callow, Simon

UK

1949

Maurice

Actor

Charleson, Ian

Scotland

1949

Chariots of Fire

Actor

Davis, Brad

US

1949

Midnight Express

Actor

Sher, Antony

SouthAfrica

1949

Stanley

Actor

Rollins, Howard

US

1950

Soldier’s Story

Actor

Hulce, Tom

US

1953

Amadeus

Actor

Villard, Tom

US

1953

The Trouble With Dick

Actor

Butler, Dan

US

1954

Bulldog on Frasier

Actor

Travolta, John

US

1954

The Boy in the Bubble

Actor

Lane, Nathan

US

1956

The Producers

Actor

Everett, Rupert

UK

1959

Another Country

Actor

Graff, Todd

US

1959

Dominic and Eugene

Actor

Pierce, David Hyde

US

1959

Frasier

Actor

Sweeney, Terry

US

1960

Saturday Night Live

Actor

Beale, Simon Russell

Malaysia

1961

Hamlet

 



Profession

Name

Birthplace

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

Actor

Wong, B, D,

US

1962

M, Butterfly

Actor

Cumming, Alan

Scotland

1965

Anniversary Party

Actor

Barrowman, John

Scotland

1967

Torchwood

Actor

Davidson, Jaye

US

1968

The Crying Game

Actor

Arquette, Alexis

US

1969

Pulp Fiction

Actor

Phoenix, River

US

1970

Stand By Me

Actor

Rapp, Anthony

US

1971

Rent

Actor

Harris, Neil Patrick

US

1973

Doogie Howser, MD

Actor

Allen, Chad

US

1974

Our House

Actress

Raucourt

France

1756

Comédie francaise

Actress

Dorval, Marie

France

1798

Trente Ans

Actress

Adams, Maude

US

1872

Peter Pan

Actress

Nazimova, Alla

Russia

1879

Salome

Actress

Winwood, Estelle

UK

1883

Tallulah Bankhead

Actress

Byington, Spring

US

1886

OscarnominationforBestSupportingActress

Actress

Fontanne, Lynn

UK

1887

Dulcy

Actress

Main, Marjorie

US

1890

Ma Kettle

Actress

Cornell, Katharine

Germany

1893

The Green Hat

Actress

Negri, Pola

Poland

1894

Madame Bovary

Actress

Anderson, Dame Judith

Australia

1897

Rebecca

Actress

Lawrence, Gertrude

UK

1898

The Glass Menagerie

Actress

Le Gallienne, Eva

UK

1899

National Medal of the Arts

Actress

Arthur, Jean

US

1900

The Talk of the Town

Actress

Dietrich, Marlene

Germany

1901

Blue Angel

Actress

Bankhead, Tallulah

US

1902

Private Lives

Actress

Colbert, Claudette

France

1903

Palm Beach Story

Actress

Munson, Ona

US

1903

Belle Watling in Gone With the Wind

Actress

Crawford, Joan

US

1905

Mildred Pierce

Actress

Garbo, Greta

Sweden

1905

Ninotchka

Actress

Stanwyck, Barbara

US

1907

The Lady Eve

Actress

Kelly, Patsy

US

1910

Tony: No No Nanette

Actress

Browne, Coral

Australia

1913

Killing of Sister George

Actress

Lamarr, Hedy

Austria

1913

Spread Spectrum Radio

Actress

Raye, Martha

US

1916

Alice

Actress

Holliday, Judy

US

1921

Born Yesterday

Actress

Kulp, Nancy

US

1921

Miss Hathaway on Beverly Hillbillies

Actress

Garland, Judy

US

1922

The Wizard of Oz

Actress

Capucine

France

1931

The Pink Panther

Actress

Dennis, Sandy

US

1937

Oscar: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Actress

Tomlin, Lily

US

1939

Nine to Five

Actress

Margolyes, Miriam

UK

1941

Harry Potter

Actress

Woodlawn, Holly

Puerto Rico

1946

Trash

Actress

Schneider, Maria

France

1952

Last Tango in Paris

Actress

Bernhard, Sandra

US

1955

Madonna

Actress

Jones, Cherry

US

1956

Doubt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Actress

Name Bearse, Amanda

Birthplace US

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

1958

Married With Children

Actress

Shaw, Fiona

Ireland

1958

Aunt Petunia

Actress

Foster, Jodie

US

1962

Silence of the Lambs

Actress

Nixon, Cynthia

US

1966

Sex and the City

Actress

Burrows, Saffron

UK

1973

Deep Blue Sea

Actress

Jolie, Angelina

US

1975

Brad Pitt

Actress

Lohan, Lindsay

US

1986

Mean Girls

Anthropologist

Benedict, Ruth

US

1887

Patterns of Culture

Anthropologist

Mead, Margaret

US

1901

Coming of Age in Samoa

Archaeologist

Winckelmann, Johann J,

Germany

1717

History of the Art of Antiquity

Architect

Cram, Ralph Adams

US

1863

US Military Academy

Architect

Johnson, Philip

US

1906

Crystal Cathedral

Architect

Moore, Charles

US

1925

Beverly Hills Civic Center

ArtHistorian

Blunt, Anthony

UK

1907

Surveyor of the King’s pictures

Artist

Donatello

Italy

1386

David

Artist

Botticelli, Sandro

Italy

1445

Sistine Chapel (portions)

Artist

Leonardo da Vinci

Italy

1452

Mona Lisa

Artist

Michelangelo

Italy

1475

Sistine Chapel

Artist

Cellini, Benvenuto

Italy

1500

Autobiography

Artist

Caravaggio,Michelangelo

Italy

1571

Card Players

Artist

Bonheur, Rosa

France

1822

The Horse Fair

Artist

Leighton,BaronFrederic

UK

1830

Cimabue Finding Giotto

Artist

Marées, Hans von

Germany

1837

Frescos in Naples

Artist

Solomon, Simeon

UK

1840

Popular English painter

Artist

Allers, Christian Wilhelm

Germany

1857

Club Eintracht

Artist

Brooks, Romaine

US

1874

Natalie Barney

Artist

Leyendecker, J, C,

Germany

1874

Arrow Collar Man

Artist

Hartley, Marsden

US

1877

“Log Jam”

Artist

Demuth, Charles

US

1883

Watercolors

Artist

Grant, Duncan

Scotland

1885

Queen Mary (rejected)

Artist

Cadmus, Paul

US

1904

The Fleet’s In!

Artist

Dalí, Salvador

Spain

1904

Surrealist paintings

Artist

Kahlo, Frida

Mexico

1907

Self-portraits

Artist

Bacon, Francis

Ireland

1909

Pope Innocent X

Artist

Gysin, Brion

UK

1916

The dreamachine

Artist

Rivers, Larry

US

1923

Abstract Paintings

Artist

Rauschenberg, Robert

US

1925

Album cover for Talking Heads

Artist

Warhol, Andy

US

1928

Brillo boxes

Artist

Johns, Jasper

US

1930

Three Flags

Artist

Hodgkin, Howard

UK

1932

New Worlds postage stamp

Artist

Bachardy, Don

US

1934

Portraits of Christopher Isherwood

Artist

Hebborn, Eric

UK

1934

Master forger

Artist

Hockney, David

UK

1937

Opera sets

Artist

Haring, Keith

US

1958

Swatch watch design

Athlete

Tilden, Bill

US

1893

Tennis champion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Athlete

Name Zaharias,BabeDidrikson

Birthplace US

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

1911

Founder of the LPGA

Athlete

Mills, Freddie

UK

1919

Boxing champion

Athlete

Button, Dick

US

1929

Olympic skater

Athlete

Waddell, Tom

US

1937

Decathlon champion

Athlete

Griffith, Emile

VirginIslands

1938

Middleweight boxing champ

Athlete

Smith, Jerry

US

1941

All-pro tight end

Athlete

Kopay, David

US

1942

NFL running back

Athlete

King, Billie Jean

US

1943

Won Wimbledon six times

Athlete

Curry, John

UK

1949

Olympic and world champion

Athlete

Burke, Glenn

US

1952

L, A, Dodgers outfielder

Athlete

Navrátilová, Martina

Czechoslovakia

1956

Won Wimbledon nine times

Athlete

Simmons, Roy

US

1957

NY Giants offensive tackle

Athlete

Lieberman, Nancy

US

1958

Basketball silver medal

Athlete

Louganis, Greg

US

1960

Olympic gold medal winner

Athlete

Fashanu, Justin

UK

1961

Top British footballer

Athlete

Leduc, Mark

Canada

1964

Olympic boxer

Athlete

Tuaolo, Esera

US

1968

Super Bowl

Athlete

Mauresmo, Amélie

France

1979

Worldnumberonefemaletennisplayer

Athlete

Kenkhuis, Johan

Netherlands

1980

Olympic bronze medal

Athlete

Mitcham, Matthew

Australia

1988

Olympic gold medal

Attorney

Cohn, Roy

US

1927

US Senate HUAC counsel

Attorney

Lehman, Bruce

US

1945

Lawyer of the Year

Author

Varchi, Benedetto

Italy

1503

Storia di Firenze

Author

Montaigne,MichelEyquemde

France

1533

Essais

Author

Ihara Saikaku

Japan

1642

Koshoku ichidai otoko

Author

Walpole, Horace

UK

1717

The Castle of Otranto

Author

Butler, Eleanor

UK

1739

Diaries

Author

Wollstonecraft, Mary

UK

1759

Vindication of the Rights of Women

Author

Beckford, William

UK

1760

Vathek

Author

Staël, Madame de

Switzerland

1766

Corinne

Author

Custine, Marquis de

France

1790

Empire of the Czar

Author

Sand, George

France

1804

Elle et Lui

Author

Andersen,HansChristian

Denmark

1805

The Ugly Duckling

Author

Gogol, Nikolai

Russia

1809

Dead Souls

Author

Melville, Herman

US

1819

Moby-Dick

Author

Taylor, Bayard

US

1825

Joseph and His Friend

Author

Ulrichs, Karl

Germany

1825

Early gay rights activist

Author

Alger, Horatio

US

1832

Ragged Dick

Author

Butler, Samuel

UK

1835

Erewhon

Author

Browning, Oscar

UK

1837

History of England

Author

Pater, Walter

UK

1839

History Of The Renaissance

Author

Symonds,JohnAddington

UK

1840

Renaissance in Italy

Author

James, Henry

US

1843

The Golden Bowl

Author

Stoddard,CharlesWarren

US

1843

Cruising Under Crescent

Author

Carpenter, Edward

UK

1844

The Healing of Nations


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Author

Name Chopin, Kate

Birthplace US

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

1851

Bayou Folk

Author

Wilde, Oscar

Ireland

1854

The Importance of Being Earnest

Author

Corelli, Marie

UK

1855

Memoirs

Author

Paget, Violet

UK

1856

Hauntings

Author

Fuller, Henry Blake

US

1857

The Cliff-Dwellers

Author

Lagerlöf, Selma

Sweden

1858

Nobel Prize

Author

Barrie, James M,

Scotland

1860

Peter Pan

Author

Rolfe, Frederick William

UK

1860

Hadrian the Seventh

Author

Wharton, Edith

US

1862

Keeping up with the Joneses

Author

Couperus, Louis

Netherlands

1863

De Berg van Licht

Author

Hamilton, Edith

Germany

1867

Mythology

Author

Ives, George

Germany

1867

Order of Chaeronea

Author

Douglas, Norman

Austria

1868

South Wind

Author

Hirschfeld, Magnus

Germany

1868

Sexual History of the World

Author

Gide, André

France

1869

Nobel Prize for Literature

Author

Douglas, Alfred

UK

1870

Oscar Wilde’s lover

Author

Saki

Myanmar

1870

Reginald

Author

Proust, Marcel

France

1871

In Search of Lost Time

Author

Cather, Willa

US

1873

Pulitzer Prize

Author

Colette,Sidonie-Gabrielle

France

1873

Cheri

Author

Maugham, W, Somerset

UK

1874

The Razor’s Edge

Author

Stein, Gertrude

US

1874

How to Write

Author

Crowley, Aleister

UK

1875

The Book of The Law

Author

Mann, Thomas

Germany

1875

Death in Venice

Author

Jacob, Max

France

1876

La Défense de Tartuffe

Author

Toklas, Alice B,

US

1877

Autobiography

Author

Forster, E, M,

UK

1879

A Passage to India

Author

Luhan, Mabel Dodge

US

1879

Backgrounds

Author

Fersen, Adelsward

France

1880

Hymnaire d’Adonis

Author

Hall, Radclyffe

UK

1880

Well of Loneliness

Author

Strachey, Lytton

UK

1880

Eminent Victorians

Author

Woolf, Virginia

UK

1882

Mrs, Dalloway

Author

Walpole, Hugh

NewZealand

1884

Lauritz Melchior

Author

Firbank, Ronald

UK

1886

Inspired Joe Orton

Author

Sassoon, Siegfried

UK

1886

The Weald of Youth

Author

Winsloe, Christa

Germany

1888

The Child Manuela

Author

Barnes, Djuna

US

1892

Nightwood

Author

Sackville-West, Vita

UK

1892

All Passion Spent

Author

Sitwell, Osbert

UK

1892

Autobiography

Author

Acosta, Mercedes de

France

1893

ConqueredMarleneDietrichandGretaGarbo

Author

Gadda, Carlo Emilio

Italy

1893

Il Castello di Udine

Author

Warner,SylviaTownsend

UK

1893

Mr, Fortune’s Maggot

Author

Ackerley, J, R,

UK

1896

My Dog Tulip

Author

Montherlant, Henry de

France

1896

Les Olympiques

Author

Waugh, Alec

UK

1898

Invented the cocktail party


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Author

Name Arvin, Newton

Birthplace US

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

1900

Biography of Melville

Author

Crevel, René

France

1900

Dadaist

Author

Nin, Anaïs

France

1903

Novel of the Future

Author

Plomer, William

SouthAfrica

1903

Turbott Wolfe

Author

Rowse, A, L,

UK

1903

Homosexuals in History

Author

Waugh, Evelyn

UK

1903

Brideshead Revisited

Author

Yourcenar, Marguerite

Belgium

1903

Memoirs of Hadrian

Author

Isherwood, Christopher

UK

1904

Cabaret

Author

Renault, Mary

UK

1905

The Charioteer

Author

Auden, W, H,

UK

1907

National Medal for Literature

Author

du Maurier, Daphne

UK

1907

The Birds

Author

Peyrefitte, Roger

France

1907

Les Amitiés Particulières

Author

Crisp, Quentin

UK

1908

Naked Civil Servant

Author

Bowles, Paul

US

1910

The Sheltering Sky

Author

Brown, Margaret Wise

US

1910

Goodnight Moon

Author

Genet, Jean

France

1910

The Blacks

Author

Goodman, Paul

US

1911

Growing Up Absurd

Author

Cheever, John

US

1912

Falconer

Author

White, Patrick

UK

1912

Nobel Prize for Literature

Author

Burroughs, William S,

US

1914

Naked Lunch

Author

Welch, Denton

China

1915

Maiden Voyage

Author

Bowles, Jane

US

1917

The Iron Table

Author

Susann, Jacqueline

US

1918

Valley of the Dolls

Author

Murdoch, Iris

Ireland

1919

Under the Net

Author

Dennis, Patrick

US

1921

Auntie Mame

Author

Highsmith, Patricia

US

1921

Strangers on a Train

Author

Kerouac, Jack

US

1922

On The Road

Author

Baldwin, James

US

1924

Giovanni’s Room

Author

Capote, Truman

US

1924

In Cold Blood

Author

Kirkwood Jr, , James

US

1924

A Chorus Line

Author

Mishima Yukio

Japan

1925

Sun and Steel

Author

Vidal, Gore

US

1925

The City and The Pillar

Author

Chester, Alfred

US

1928

Jamie Is My Heart’s Desire

Author

Brophy, Brigid

UK

1929

Hackenfeller’s Ape

Author

Rule, Jane

Canada

1931

The Desert Of The Heart

Author

Puig, Manuel

Argentina

1932

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Author

Sontag, Susan

US

1933

AIDS and Its Metaphors

Author

Millett, Kate

US

1934

Sexual Politics

Author

Rechy, John

US

1934

City Of Night

Author

Fichte, Hubert

Germany

1935

The History of Sensibility

Author

White, Mel

US

1940

Jerry Falwell’s ghost writer

Author

Spoto, Donald

US

1941

AlfredHitchcockandPrestonSturgesBiographies

Author

Delany, Samuel R,

US

1942

Jewels of Aptor

Author

Kobal, John

Austria

1942

JohnKobalPresentsTheTop100Movies

Author

Brown, Rita Mae

US

1944

Rubyfruit Jungle


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Author

Name Flagg, Fannie

Birthplace US

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

1944

Fried Green Tomatoes

Author

Maupin, Armistead

US

1944

Tales Of The City

Author

Walker, Alice

US

1944

The Color Purple

Author

Monette, Paul

US

1945

National Book Award

Author

Paglia, Camille

US

1947

Sexual Personae

Author

Tobias, Andrew

US

1947

Managing Your Money

Author

Ackroyd, Peter

UK

1949

London: The Biography

Author

Cornwell, Patricia

US

1956

Postmortem

Author

Sedaris, David

US

1956

DressYourFamilyinCorduroyandDenim

Author

Fry, Stephen

UK

1957

The Liar

Author

Winterson, Jeanette

UK

1959

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Author

Leavitt, David

US

1961

Lost Language of Cranes

Broadcaster

Bruce, Tammy

US

1962

Tammy Bruce Show

Broadcaster

Maddow, Rachel

US

1973

The Rachel Maddow Show

Business

Coxe, Tench

US

1755

Delegate to Continental Congress

Business

Rhodes, Cecil

UK

1853

Diamond mines

Business

Krupp, Friedrich A,

Germany

1854

Munitions factories

Business

Warren, Edward Perry

US

1860

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Business

Rathenau, Walther

Germany

1867

Foreign Minister

Business

Arden, Elizabeth

UK

1878

Cosmetics

Business

Maxwell, Elsa

US

1883

Famous parties

Business

Beach, Sylvia

US

1887

Shakespeare & Company

Business

Reith, John

Scotland

1889

First Chairman of BBC

Business

Hughes, Howard

US

1905

Hughes Aircraft

Business

Cooper, Douglas

UK

1911

Patron of the arts

Business

Willson, Henry

US

1911

Beefcake

Business

Billings, Lem

US

1916

Fizzies

Business

Hormel, James

US

1931

Ambassador to Luxembourg

Business

Epstein, Brian

UK

1933

Managed The Beatles

Business

Boone Jr, , Ashley

US

1939

President of Distribution at Fox

Business

Napier-Bell, Simon

UK

1939

Wham! Manager

Business

Gallin, Sandy

US

1940

Superagent

Business

Kalkin, Gary

US

1950

Disney Vice President

Business

Alli, Waheed

UK

1964

The Big Breakfast

Chef

Beard, James

US

1903

Cookbooks

Chef

Claiborne, Craig

US

1920

Cookbooks

Chef

Feniger, Susan

US

1953

City Restaurant

Choreographer

Shawn, Ted

US

1891

Dance We Must

Choreographer

Nikolais, Alwin

US

1912

National Medal of Arts

Choreographer

Robbins, Jerome

US

1918

West Side Story

Choreographer

Cunningham, Merce

US

1919

Fielding the Sixes

Choreographer

Louis, Murray

US

1926

Dance as an art form

Choreographer

Chazot, Jacques

France

1928

Star dancer at Opera Comique

Choreographer

Ailey, Alvin

US

1931

American Dance Theatre

Choreographer

Bennett, Michael

US

1943

A Chorus Line


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Choreographer

Name Bourne, Matthew

Birthplace UK

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

1960

Swan Lake

Cinematographer

Almendros, Néstor

Spain

1930

Oscar for cinematography

Cleric

Serge and Bacchus

Rome

280

Saints

Cleric

Kūkai

Japan

774

Shingon and shudo

Cleric

Benedict IX

Italy

1012

Pope

Cleric

Anselm, Saint

Italy

1033

Archbishop of Canterbury

Cleric

Marbod

France

1035

Bishop of Rennes

Cleric

Baldric of Dol

France

1050

Archbishop of Dol

Cleric

Ralph, Archbishop

France

1050

Archbishop of Tours

Cleric

Aethelred, Saint

UK

1110

Abbot of Rievaulx

Cleric

Longchamp, William

France

1140

Bishop of Ely

Cleric

Sixtus IV

Italy

1414

Pope

Cleric

Paul II

Italy

1417

Pope

Cleric

Julius II

Italy

1443

Pope

Cleric

Erasmus, Desiderius

Netherlands

1466

Greek New Testament

Cleric

Leo X

Italy

1475

Pope

Cleric

Julius III

Italy

1487

Pope

Cleric

Bèze, Theodore

France

1519

Early Calvinist

Cleric

Bennett, John C,

US

1804

Chief advisor to Joseph Smith, Jr,

Cleric

Beecher, Henry Ward

US

1813

Seven Lectures to Young Men

Cleric

Spellman, F, Cardinal

US

1889

Archbishop of New York

Cleric

Rawcliffe, Derek

UK

1921

Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway

Cleric

Boyd, Malcolm

US

1923

Running With Me, Jesus?

Cleric

Galley Jr, , Howard E,

US

1929

Book of Common Prayer

Cleric

Judge, Mychal

US

1933

Chaplain FDNY

Cleric

Bakker, Jim

US

1939

The PTL Club

Cleric

Hope, Dr, David

UK

1941

Archbishop of York

Cleric

Robinson, Gene

US

1947

Bishop of New Hampshire

Comedian

Chapman, Graham

UK

1941

Monty Python

Comedian

DeGeneres, Ellen

US

1958

Ellen

Comedian

O’Donnell, Rosie

US

1962

The Queen of Nice

Comedian

Norton, Graham

Ireland

1963

So Graham Norton

Comedian

Cho, Margaret

US

1968

All American Girl

Composer

Lully, Jean-Baptiste

France

1632

Alceste

Composer

Handel, George Frideric

Germany

1685

Messiah

Composer

Chopin, Frederic

Poland

1810

“Minute Waltz”

Composer

Foster, Stephen

US

1826

“Oh! Susanna”

Composer

Gottschalk,LouisMoreau

US

1829

“Cakewalk”

Composer

Saint-Saëns, Camille

France

1835

“Danse Macabre”

Composer

Mussorgsky, Modest

Russia

1839

Pictures at an Exhibition

Composer

Tchaikovsky, Peter

Russia

1840

Swan Lake

Composer

Smyth, Dame Ethel

UK

1858

The Wreckers

Composer

Hahn, Reynaldo

Venezuela

1874

Director of Paris Opera

Composer

Ravel, Maurice

France

1875

Bolero

Composer

Falla, Manuel de

Spain

1876

El Amor Brujo


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Composer

Name Szymanowski, Karol

Birthplace Ukraine

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

1882

King Roger

Composer

Griffes,CharlesTomlinson

US

1884

Symphony in Yellow

Composer

Porter, Cole

US

1891

“Let’s Do It”

Composer

Hart, Lorenz

US

1895

Rodgers and Hart musicals

Composer

Thomson, Virgil

US

1896

Four Saints in Three Acts

Composer

Cowell, Henry

US

1897

Tone clusters

Composer

Poulenc, Francis

France

1899

Les Biches

Composer

Copland, Aaron

US

1900

Billy the Kid

Composer

Barber, Samuel

US

1910

“Adagio for Strings”

Composer

Menotti, Gian Carlo

Italy

1911

The Island God

Composer

Cage, John

US

1912

4’ 33”

Composer

Britten, Benjamin

UK

1913

Young Person’s Guide

Composer

Strayhorn, Billy

US

1915

“Take the A Train”

Composer

Rorem, Ned

US

1923

Nantucket Songs

Composer

Hoiby, Lee

US

1926

The Scarf

Composer

Sondheim, Stephen

US

1930

Into the Woods

Composer

Apolinar, Danny

US

1934

“Your Own Thing”

Composer

Allen, Peter

Australia

1944

“I Go to Rio”

Composer

Ashman, Howard

US

1950

Oscar: The Little Mermaid

Composer

Shaiman, Marc

US

1959

“Blame Canada”

Conductor

Mitropoulos, Dimitri

Greece

1896

New York Philharmonic

Conductor

Bernstein, Leonard

US

1918

West Side Story

Conductor

Schippers, Thomas

US

1930

Spoleto

Conductor

Tilson-Thomas, Michael

US

1944

San Francisco Symphony

Consort

Antinous

Turkey

111

Became a god

Criminal

Kray, Ronnie

UK

1933

The Kray Twins

Critic

Agate, James

UK

1877

Ego

Dancer

Duncan, Isadora

US

1877

Modern Dance

Dancer

Nijinsky, Vaslav

Ukraine

1890

Les Sylphides

Dancer

Massine, Léonide

Russia

1896

The Red Shoes

Dancer

Lifar, Serge

Ukraine

1904

Paris Opera Ballet

Dancer

Nureyev, Rudolf

Russia

1938

Ken Russell’s Valentino

Dancer

Tune, Tommy

US

1939

Nine Tonys

Dancer

Morris, Mark

US

1956

MacArthur Grant

Designer

Chanel, Coco

France

1883

Chanel No, 5

Designer

Erté

Russia

1892

Art Deco

Designer

Orry-Kelly, John

Australia

1897

Three Oscars and Cary Grant’s lover

Designer

Plunkett, Walter

US

1902

Gone With The Wind

Designer

Adrian

US

1903

The look of MGM

Designer

Wright, Russell

US

1905

American Modern Dinnerware

Designer

Sharaff, Irene

US

1910

Five Oscars

Designer

Cardin, Pierre

Italy

1922

Neckties

Designer

Gernreich, Rudi

Austria

1922

Topless bathing suit

Designer

Halston, Roy

US

1932

Couture

Designer

St, Laurent, Yves

Algeria

1936

Couture


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Designer

Name Ellis, Perry

Birthplace US

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

1940

Ties

Designer

Mackie, Bob

US

1940

Sultan of Sequins

Designer

Klein, Calvin

US

1942

Underwear

Designer

Versace, Gianni

Italy

1946

Clothing line

Designer

Smith, Willi

US

1948

Willi Wear

Designer

Mizrahi, Isaac

US

1961

Unzipped

Designer

Oldham, Todd

US

1962

Ivana Trump’s dresses

Director

Murnau, F, W,

Germany

1888

Nosferatu

Director

Sagan, Leontine

Austria

1889

Mädchen in Uniform

Director

Whale, James

UK

1889

Frankenstein

Director

Goulding, Edmund

UK

1891

Oscar: Grand Hotel

Director

Arzner, Dorothy

US

1897

Dance, Girl, Dance

Director

Eisenstein, Sergei

Latvia

1898

Potemkin

Director

Leisen, Mitchell

US

1898

Swing High, Swing Low

Director

Cukor, George

US

1899

Oscar: My Fair Lady

Director

Asquith, Anthony

UK

1902

The Importance of Being Earnest

Director

Minnelli, Vincente

US

1903

Oscar: Gigi

Director

Vigo, Jean

France

1905

Zero de Conduite

Director

Visconti, Count Luchino

Italy

1906

Palme D’Or: The Leopard

Director

Ray, Nicholas

US

1911

Rebel Without a Cause

Director

Walters, Charles

US

1911

Easter Parade

Director

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

Italy

1922

Decameron

Director

Anderson, Lindsay

India

1923

Oscar: Thursday’s Children

Director

Zeffirelli, Franco

Italy

1923

Romeo and Juliet

Director

Wood, Ed

US

1924

Plan 9 From Outer Space

Director

Schlesinger, John

UK

1926

Oscar: Midnight Cowboy

Director

Anger, Kenneth

US

1927

Scorpio Rising

Director

Ivory, James

US

1928

Oscar: Howard’s End

Director

Richardson, Tony

UK

1928

Oscar: Tom Jones

Director

Bridges, James

US

1936

The China Syndrome

Director

Bartel, Paul

US

1938

Eating Raoul

Director

Schumacher, Joel

US

1939

Flatliners

Director

Higgins, Colin

NewCaledonia

1941

Harold and Maude (Writer)

Director

Jarman, Derek

UK

1942

Queer Edward II

Director

Ardolino, Emile

US

1943

Sister Act, Dirty Dancing

Director

Davies, Terence

UK

1945

Distant Voices, Still Lives

Director

Fassbinder,RainerWerner

Germany

1946

Querelle

Director

Waters, John

US

1946

Polyester

Director

Almodóvar, Pedro

Spain

1949

Oscar: All About My Mother

Director

Finch, Nigel

UK

1949

Stonewall

Director

Barker, Clive

UK

1952

Hellraiser

Director

Sherwood, Bill

US

1952

Parting Glances

Director

Van Sant, Gus

US

1952

Drugstore Cowboy

Director

Condon, Bill

US

1955

Gods and Monsters

Director

Emmerich, Roland

Germany

1955

Independence Day


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Director

Name Hytner, Nicholas

Birthplace UK

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

1956

Director of the National Theatre

Director

Mathias, Sean

UK

1956

Bent

Director

Riggs, Marlon

US

1957

Tongues Untied

Director

Roos, Don

US

1959

The Opposite of Sex

Director

Marshall, Rob

US

1960

Chicago

Director

Daldry, Stephen

UK

1961

The Hours

Director

Haynes, Todd

US

1961

Far From Heaven

Director

Livingston, Jennie

US

1962

Paris is Burning

Director

Abdoh, Reza

Iran

1963

Quotations From a Ruined City

Director

Singer, Bryan

US

1965

The X-Men film franchise

Director

Amenábar, Alejandro

Chile

1972

The Others

Economist

Keynes, John Maynard

UK

1883

A Treatise on Money

Economist

Davis, Evan

UK

1962

Dragon’s Den

Editor

Connolly, Cyril

UK

1903

Horizon

Editor

Lehmann, John

UK

1907

New Writing

Editor

Watson, Peter

UK

1908

Horizon

Editor

Sullivan, Andrew

UK

1963

The New Republic

Entertainer

Vacano, Emil Mario

CzechRepublic

1840

Famous circus performer

Entertainer

Mabley, “Moms”

US

1894

Comic

Entertainer

Griffin, Merv

Canada

1925

Wheel of Fortune producer

Entertainer

Everett, Kenny

UK

1944

The Kenny Everett Video Show

Entertainer

Connelli, Judi

Australia

1947

Into the Woods

Entertainer

Barrymore, Michael

UK

1952

My Kind of People

Entertainer

DeLaria, Lea

US

1958

Arsenio Hall Show

Entertainer

Thompson, Scott

Canada

1959

Kids in the Hall

Explorer

Burton, Richard

UK

1821

Arabian Nights

Explorer

Przhevalsky, Nikolai

Russia

1839

First maps of Siberia

Explorer

Stanley, Henry Morton

UK

1841

Found Dr, Livingstone

Explorer

Halliburton, Richard

US

1900

Travel books

FactoryWorker

Silkwood, Karen

US

1946

Exposed nuclear danger

Hairdresser

Antolin, Teddy

US

1947

Hairdresser to the Stars

Journalist

Grimké, Angelina Weld

US

1880

Rachel

Journalist

Flanner, Janet

US

1892

Letter from Paris

Journalist

Thompson, Dorothy

US

1893

On the Record

Journalist

Beebe, Lucius

US

1902

This New York

Journalist

Alsop, Joseph

US

1910

The Missile Gap

Journalist

Smith, Liz

US

1923

Gossip column

Journalist

Kopkind, Andrew

US

1935

The Nation Senior Writer

Journalist

Shilts, Randy

US

1951

And The Band Played On

Journalist

Williams, Pete

US

1953

Pentagon spokesperson

Journalist

Brock, David

US

1962

Blinded by The Right

Journalist

Drudge, Matt

US

1966

The Drudge Report

Journalist

Hilton, Perez

US

1978

PerezHilton, com

Judge

Lushington, Franklin

UK

1822

Chief Magistrate of London

Judge

Carswell, G, Harold

US

1919

US Supreme Court nominee


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Judge

Name Donaldson, Herb

Birthplace US

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

1927

S, F, Municipal Court

Judge

Batts, Deborah

US

1947

Federal District Court Judge

MakeupArtist

NiankhkhnumandKhnumhotep

Egypt

2450 b, c,

Manicurists to the Pharaoh

MakeupArtist

Bandy, Way

US

1941

Nancy Reagan’s face

Medical

Cammermeyer, Greta

US

1942

V, A, Nurse of the Year

Medical

Brown, Jay

US

1944

PresidentoftheAssociationofBlackCardiologists

Model

Gia

US

1960

Cosmo cover

Musician

Shepard, Jesse

UK

1848

Villa Montezuma

Musician

Landowska, Wanda

Poland

1879

Harpsichord

Musician

Rainey, “Ma”

US

1886

The Mother of the Blues

Musician

Melchior, Lauritz

Denmark

1890

Heldentenor

Musician

Smith, Bessie

US

1894

Empress of the Blues

Musician

Hunter, Alberta

US

1895

Blues singer

Musician

Waters, Ethel

US

1896

“Heat Wave”

Musician

Horowitz, Vladimir

Russia

1903

Pianist

Musician

Baker, Josephine

US

1906

Conquered Paris

Musician

Pears, Peter

UK

1910

Tenor, inspired Benjamin Britten

Musician

Holiday, Billie

US

1915

“Strange Fruit”

Musician

Liberace

US

1919

Liberace Museum

Musician

Ray, Johnnie

US

1927

“Cry”

Musician

Little Richard

US

1932

“Tutti Frutti”

Musician

Esquerita

US

1935

“Gollie Gollie Annie Mae”

Musician

Mathis, Johnny

US

1935

“Chances Are”

Musician

Presley, Elvis

US

1935

“Hound Dog”

Musician

Springfield, Dusty

UK

1939

A Girl Called Dusty

Musician

Carlos, Wendy

US

1941

Switched on Bach

Musician

Menard, Pierre

Canada

1941

Founded Vermeer Quartet

Musician

Monk, Meredith

Peru

1942

Turtle Dreams

Musician

Burton, Gary

US

1943

Vibes for Stan Getz

Musician

Jagger, Mick

UK

1943

Their Satanic Majesties’ Request

Musician

Joplin, Janis

US

1943

Pearl

Musician

Hendryx, Nona

US

1944

LaBelle

Musician

Sylvester

US

1944

Disco

Musician

Ryder, Mitch

US

1945

“Devil with a Blue Dress On”

Musician

Faithfull, Marianne

UK

1946

“As Tears Go By”

Musician

Gore, Lesley

US

1946

“It’s My Party”

Musician

Mercury, Freddie

Zanzibar

1946

Queen

Musician

Preston, Billy

US

1946

Keyboards on Let It Be

Musician

Bowie, David

UK

1947

Low

Musician

John, Elton

UK

1947

“Your Song”

Musician

Near, Holly

US

1949

Lifelines

Musician

Gabriel, Juan

Mexico

1950

Sold more than 40 million albums

Musician

Robinson, Tom

UK

1950

“Glad to Be Gay”

Musician

Halford, Rob

UK

1951

Judas Priest

Musician

Ian, Janis

US

1951

“At Seventeen”


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Musician

Name Schneider, Fred

Birthplace US

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

1951

B-52s

Musician

Dutt, Hank

US

1953

Kronos Quartet

Musician

Strickland, Keith

US

1953

B-52s

Musician

Wilson, Ricky

US

1953

B-52s

Musician

Tennant, Neil

UK

1954

Pet Shop Boys

Musician

Knuckles, Frankie

US

1955

DJ

Musician

Rose, Felipe

US

1955

Village People

Musician

Shelley, Pete

UK

1955

The Buzzcocks

Musician

Almond, Marc

UK

1956

Soft Cell

Musician

Cheung, Leslie

China

1956

Summer Romance

Musician

Feinstein, Michael

US

1956

Ira Gershwin catalog

Musician

Jett, Joan

US

1958

“I Love Rock ’n Roll”

Musician

Madonna

US

1958

Erotica

Musician

Burns, Pete

UK

1959

Dead or Alive

Musician

Morrissey

UK

1959

The Smiths

Musician

Johnson, Holly

UK

1960

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Musician

Mould, Bob

US

1960

Hüsker

Musician

RuPaul

US

1960

Supermodel

Musician

Stipe, Michael

US

1960

R, E, M,

Musician

Boy George

UK

1961

Culture Club

Musician

Etheridge, Melissa

US

1961

Grammies

Musician

lang, k, d,

Canada

1961

Grammies

Musician

Somerville, Jimmy

Scotland

1961

The Communards, Bronski Beat

Musician

Wiggs, Josephine

UK

1961

The Breeders

Musician

Michael, George

UK

1963

Sex

Musician

Saliers, Emily

US

1963

Indigo Girls

Musician

Bell, Andy

UK

1964

Erasure

Musician

Bottum, Roddy

US

1964

Faith No More

Musician

Ray, Amy

US

1964

Indigo Girls

Musician

Armstrong, Billie Joe

US

1972

Green Day

Musician

Wainwright, Rufus

US

1973

“I’m a-Runnin’”

Musician

Gateley, Stephen

Ireland

1976

Boyzone

Musician

Aiken, Clay

US

1978

American Idol

Musician

Bass, Lance

US

1979

’N Sync

Musician

Doherty, Pete

UK

1979

Babyshambles

Philosopher

Plato

Greece

427 b, C,

The Republic

Philosopher

Socrates

Greece

470 b, C,

Socratic Method

Philosopher

Ficino, Marsilio

Italy

1433

Theologia Platonica

Philosopher

Bacon, Francis

UK

1561

Novum Organum

Philosopher

Algarotti, Francesco

Italy

1712

Essays on the Fine Arts

Philosopher

Santayana, George

Spain

1863

Dominations and Powers

Philosopher

Heard, Gerald

UK

1889

The Ascent of Humanity

Philosopher

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Austria

1889

Tractus Logico-Philosophicus

Philosopher

Barthes, Roland

France

1915

The Death of the Author

Philosopher

Foucault, Michel

France

1926

History of Sexuality


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession

Name

Birthplace

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

Philosopher

Ram Dass

US

1931

Be Here Now

Photographer

Gloeden,BaronWilhelmvon

Germany

1856

Taormina photos

Photographer

Van Vechten, Carl

US

1880

Harlem photos

Photographer

Abbott, Berenice

US

1898

Changing New York

Photographer

Beaton, Cecil

UK

1904

Oscar: My Fair Lady Design

Photographer

Zerbe, Jerome

US

1904

Vodka martini

Photographer

Lynes, George Platt

US

1907

Kinsey Institute photos

Photographer

White, Minor

US

1908

Frost on Window

Photographer

Michals, Duane

US

1932

Homage to Cavafy

Photographer

Mapplethorpe, Robert

US

1946

Portrait of Patti Smith

Photographer

Weber, Bruce

US

1946

Calvin Klein ads

Photographer

Gorman, Greg

US

1949

Movie posters

Photographer

Leibovitz, Annie

US

1949

Rolling Stone covers

Photographer

Ritts, Herb

US

1952

Notorious

Photographer

LaChapelle, David

US

1963

Hotel LaChapelle

Playwright

Zeami Motokiyo

Japan

1363

Noh theatre

Playwright

Udall, Nicholas

UK

1504

Ralph Roister Doister

Playwright

Marlowe, Christopher

UK

1564

Dr, Faustus

Playwright

Shakespeare, William

UK

1564

Sonnets

Playwright

Molière, Jean Baptiste

France

1622

Greatest playwright of France

Playwright

Foote, Samuel

UK

1720

The Nabob

Playwright

Lewis, Matthew

UK

1775

The Monk

Playwright

Kleist, Heinrich von

Germany

1777

Prinz Friedrich von Homburg

Playwright

Grillparzer, Franz

Austria

1791

Das Goldene Vliess

Playwright

Benavente, Jacinto

Spain

1866

Nobel Prize

Playwright

Wilder, Thornton

US

1897

Our Town

Playwright

Coward, Noël

UK

1899

“Mad About the Boy”

Playwright

Blitzstein, Marc

US

1905

Cradle Will Rock

Playwright

Williams, Emlyn

Wales

1905

Night Must Fall

Playwright

Rattigan, Terence

UK

1911

The Browning Version

Playwright

Williams, Tennessee

US

1911

A Streetcar Named Desire

Playwright

Inge, William

US

1913

Bus Stop

Playwright

McCullers, Carson

US

1917

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Playwright

Laurents, Arthur

US

1918

West Side Story

Playwright

Albee, Edward

US

1928

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Playwright

Osborne, John

UK

1929

Look Back In Anger

Playwright

Hansberry, Lorraine

US

1930

A Raisin in the Sun

Playwright

Orton, Joe

UK

1933

Entertaining Mr, Sloane

Playwright

Bennett, Alan

UK

1934

The History Boys

Playwright

Kramer, Larry

US

1935

The Normal Heart

Playwright

Chambers, Jane

US

1937

Last Summer at Bluefish Cove

Playwright

Randall, Bob

US

1937

6 Rms Riv Vu

Playwright

Wilson, Lanford

US

1937

Burn This

Playwright

McNally, Terrence

US

1939

The Ritz

Playwright

Sherman, Martin

US

1939

Bent


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Playwright

Name Ludlam, Charles

Birthplace US

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

1943

Ridiculous Theatre Company

Playwright

Enright, Nick

Australia

1950

Lorenzo’s Oil

Playwright

Fierstein, Harvey

US

1954

Torch Song Trilogy

Playwright

Kushner, Tony

US

1956

Angels In America

Playwright

Rudnick, Paul

US

1957

Jeffrey, Addams Family

Poet

Sappho

Greece

620 b, C,

“Ode to Aphrodite”

Poet

Nuwas, Abu

Persia

747

Khamriyyat

Poet

Hilarius

UK

1100

“To a Boy of Anjou”

Poet

Hafez

Persia

1320

Ghazals

Poet

Poliziano

Italy

1454

Favola d’Orfeo (first play in Italian)

Poet

Berni, Francesco

Italy

1497

Bernesque poetry

Poet

Viau, Théophile de

France

1590

“Pyrame et Thisbé”

Poet

Philips, Katherine

UK

1631

The matchless Orinda

Poet

Cruz, Juana Inez de la

Mexico

1651

Reply to Sister Philotea

Poet

Metastasio

Italy

1698

“Olimipiade”

Poet

Gray, Thomas

UK

1716

“ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard”

Poet

Seward, Anna

UK

1747

“Llangollen Vale”

Poet

Wu Tsao

China

1780

“The Orchid Boat”

Poet

Byron, Lord

UK

1788

Childe Harold

Poet

Platen, August von

Germany

1796

Sonnets on Venice

Poet

FitzGerald, Edward

UK

1809

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Poet

Tennyson, Alfred

UK

1809

“Charge of the Light Brigade”

Poet

Lear, Edward

UK

1812

“The Owl and the Pussy-cat”

Poet

Whitman, Walt

US

1819

Leaves of Grass

Poet

Dickinson, Emily

US

1830

“Wild Nights, Wild Nights!”

Poet

Swinburne,AlgernonCharles

UK

1837

“The Flogging Block”

Poet

Verlaine, Paul

France

1844

Invectives

Poet

Riley, James Whitcomb

US

1849

“The Ol’ Swimmin’ Hole”

Poet

Rimbaud, Arthur

France

1854

The Drunken Boat

Poet

Bates, Katharine Lee

US

1859

“America the Beautiful”

Poet

Housman, A, E,

UK

1859

“A Shropshire Lad”

Poet

Cavafy, Constantine

Egypt

1863

“That’s the Man”

Poet

Johnson, Lionel

UK

1867

Ireland and Other Poems

Poet

George, Stefan

Germany

1868

Blatter fur die Kunst

Poet

Lowell, Amy

US

1874

What’s O’Clock?

Poet

Barney, Natalie Clifford

US

1876

Romaine Brooks’ lover

Poet

Vivien, Renée

UK

1877

“Toward Lesbos”

Poet

Haan, Jacob Israël de

Netherlands

1881

“An endless desire for friendship”

Poet

Teasdale, Sara

US

1884

Rivers to the Sea

Poet

Parnok,SophiaYakovlevna

Russia

1885

Roses of Pieria

Poet

Doolittle, Hilda

US

1886

Sea Garden

Poet

Brooke, Rupert

UK

1887

“Tiare Tahiti”

Poet

Mansfield, Katherine

NewZealand

1888

The Garden Party

Poet

Cocteau, Jean

France

1889

La Belle et la Bête

Poet

Millay, Edna St, Vincent

US

1892

Pulitzer Prize


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Poet

Name Tsvetaeva, Marina

Birthplace Russia

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

1892

The Magic Lantern

Poet

Yesenin, Sergey

Russia

1895

“Ispoved Khuligana”

Poet

Aragon, Louis

France

1897

La Semaine Sainte

Poet

Lorca, Federico García

Spain

1898

Romancero Gitano

Poet

Crane, Hart

US

1899

“The Bridge”

Poet

Cernuda, Luis

Spain

1902

Los Placeres Prohibidos

Poet

Hughes, Langston

US

1902

Shakespeare in Harlem

Poet

Cullen, Countee

US

1903

“The Black Christ”

Poet

Novo, Salvador

Mexico

1904

The War of the Fatties

Poet

Spender, Stephen

UK

1909

Editor of Horizon

Poet

Bishop, Elizabeth

US

1911

Poet Laureate

Poet

Sarton, May

Belgium

1912

The House by the Sea

Poet

Ginsberg, Allen

US

1926

“Howl”

Poet

Merrill, James

US

1926

Pulitzer Prize

Poet

O’Hara, Frank

US

1926

A City Winter

Poet

Gunn, Thom

UK

1929

MacArthur Fellowship

Poet

Rich, Adrienne

US

1929

National Book Award

Poet

McKuen, Rod

US

1933

The Beautiful Strangers

Poet

Lorde, Audre

US

1934

Undersong

Politician

Pepi II Neferkare

Egypt

2284 b, C,

Pharaoh

Politician

Solon

Greece

638 b, C,

Democracy

Politician

Ai Ti

China

27 b, C,

Emperor of China

Politician

Basil I

Macedonia

811

Emperor

Politician

William II

UK

1056

King of England

Politician

Edward II

UK

1284

King of England

Politician

Juan II

Spain

1405

King of Castile

Politician

Vasily III

Russia

1479

Grand prince of Moscow

Politician

Takeda Shingen

Japan

1521

Daimyo

Politician

Pérez, Antonio

Spain

1539

Secretary of State

Politician

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Japan

1543

Shogun

Politician

Henri III de Valois

France

1551

King of France

Politician

James I

UK

1566

King of Great Britain

Politician

Boisrobert,FrançoisLeMételde

France

1592

Founder of the French Academy

Politician

Louis XIII

France

1601

King of France

Politician

Tokugawa Iemitsu

Japan

1604

Shogun

Politician

Christina

Sweden

1626

Queen of Sweden

Politician

Anne

UK

1665

Queen of England

Politician

Gastone, Gian

Italy

1671

Last of the Medicis

Politician

Peter the Great

Russia

1672

Tsar of Russia

Politician

Hervey, John

UK

1696

Memoirs

Politician

Cambacérès,JeanJacques-Régis

France

1753

Napoleonic Code

Politician

Hamilton, Alexander

WestIndies

1757

Secretary of the Treasury

Politician

Castlereagh, Viscount

Ireland

1769

Leader of the House of Commons

Politician

Singh, Maharaja Ranjit

India

1780

Lion of Punjab

Politician

King, William R,

US

1786

Vice President US


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession

Name

Birthplace

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

Politician

Buchanan, James

US

1791

President US

Politician

Hammond,JamesHenry

US

1807

US Senator

Politician

Lincoln, Abraham

US

1809

President US

Politician

Anthony, Susan B,

US

1820

Women’s suffrage

Politician

Charles I

Germany

1823

King Karl of Württemberg

Politician

Sitting Bull

US

1831

Sioux Chief

Politician

Ludwig II

Germany

1845

King of Bavaria

Politician

Eulenburg,PrincePhilipp

Germany

1847

Adviser to Kaiser Wilhelm II

Politician

Rosebery

UK

1847

Prime Minister

Politician

Addams, Jane

US

1860

Nobel Peace Prize

Politician

Ferdinand I

Austria

1861

Tsar of Bulgaria

Politician

Casement, Roger

Ireland

1864

Rebel leader

Politician

Mwanga

Uganda

1868

King of Buganda

Politician

Chicherin,GeorgiVasilevich

Russia

1872

Commissar for Foreign Affairs

Politician

Walsh, David

US

1872

Senator

Politician

Pearse, Patrick

Ireland

1879

Easter Rising

Politician

Azaña, Manuel

Spain

1880

President of Spain

Politician

Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal

Turkey

1881

President of Turkey

Politician

Roosevelt, Eleanor

US

1884

First Lady

Politician

Nicolson, Harold

Iran

1886

Member of Parliament

Politician

Welles, Sumner

US

1892

Undersecretary of State

Politician

Hoover, J, Edgar

US

1895

Director of FBI

Politician

Yezhov, Nikolai

Russia

1895

NKVD Secret Police

Politician

Puyi

China

1906

The last emperor

Politician

Hay, Harry

UK

1912

Founded Mattachine Society

Politician

Rustin, Bayard

US

1912

Aide to Dr, Martin Luther King, Jr,

Politician

Jenkins, Walter

US

1918

ChiefofStaffforPresidentLyndonJohnson

Politician

Milk, Harvey

US

1930

San Francisco Board of Supervisors

Politician

McKinney, Stewart B,

US

1931

Congressman

Politician

Jordan, Barbara

US

1936

1976DemocraticConventionkeynotespeech

Politician

Bauman, Robert

US

1937

Congressman

Politician

Studds, Gerry

US

1937

Congressman

Politician

Frank, Barney

US

1940

Congressman

Politician

Kuehl, Sheila James

US

1941

Speakerprotempore,CaliforniaAssembly

Politician

Hinson, Jon

US

1942

Congressman

Politician

Ireland, Patricia

US

1946

President of NOW

Politician

Mixner, David

US

1946

Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam

Politician

McCormick, Dale

US

1947

State Senator

Politician

Fortuyn, Pim

Netherlands

1948

Party leader

Politician

Cashman, Michael

UK

1950

Member of European Parliament

Politician

Foss, Per-Kristian

Norway

1950

Prime Minister of Norway

Politician

Gunderson, Steven

US

1951

Congressman

Politician

Wowereit, Klaus

Germany

1953

Mayor of Berlin

Politician

McGreevey, Jim

US

1957

Governor of New Jersey

Politician

Barnett, Tim

UK

1958

NZ government whip


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Politician

Name

Gohil, Manvendrasinh

Birthplace India

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

1966

Coming out

Producer

Diaghilev, Sergey

Russia

1872

Ballets Russes

Producer

McClintic, Guthrie

US

1893

Katherine Cornell

Producer

MacLiammóir, Michéal

UK

1899

The Gate Theatre

Producer

Kirstein, Lincoln

US

1907

New York City Ballet

Producer

Beaumont, “Binkie”

UK

1908

The West End

Producer

Beck, Julian

US

1925

The Living Theatre

Producer

Cino, Joe

US

1931

Caffé Cino

Producer

Sherrin, Ned

UK

1931

That Was The Week That Was

Producer

Stigwood, Robert

Australia

1934

The Bee Gees, Grease

Producer

Merchant, Ismail

India

1936

Oscar: Howard’s End

Producer

Carr, Allan

US

1937

Grease

Producer

Diller, Barry

US

1942

Fox Pictures

Producer

Geffen, David

US

1943

Gay Lesbian Serices Center

Producer

Mackintosh, Cameron

UK

1946

The Phantom of the Opera

Producer

Rudin, Scott

US

1958

The Hours

Producer

Davies, Russell T,

UK

1963

Doctor Who

Psychiatrist

Sullivan, Harry Stack

US

1892

Interpersonal Approach

Psychoanalyst

Freud, Anna

Austria

1895

Hampstead Child Therapy Centre

Psychologist

Sprott, Sebastian

UK

1897

Maynard Keynes

Publisher

Anderson, Margaret

US

1886

Little Review

Publisher

Forbes, Malcolm

US

1919

$2 million party in Tangier, 1990

Publisher

Wenner, Jann

US

1946

Rolling Stone

Roe v, Wade

Plaintiff

McCorvey, Norma

US

1947

Roe v, Wade court decision

Scientist

Rheticus,GeorgJoachim

Austria

1514

“No Rheticus, No Copernicus”

Scientist

Newton, Isaac

UK

1643

Newton’s Laws

Scientist

Humboldt,Alexandervon

Germany

1769

Kosmos

Scientist

Liebig, Count Justus von

Germany

1803

Organic Chemistry

Scientist

Kovalevsky, Sophia

Russia

1850

Prix Bordin for Mathematics

Scientist

Kinsey, Alfred

US

1894

Kinsey Institute

Scientist

Kolmogorov,AndreyNikolaevich

Russia

1903

Probability theory

Scientist

Turing, Alan

UK

1912

Early computers

Scientist

Hutton, Kate

US

1950

LA’s favorite seismologist

Screenwriter

Lambert, Gavin

UK

1924

The Loved One

Screenwriter

Stevens, David

Palestine

1940

Breaker Morant

Screenwriter

Ball, Alan

US

1957

American Beauty

Socialite

Récamier, Julie

France

1777

Récamier daybed

Soldier

Polycrates

Samos

570 b, C,

Tyrant of Samos

Soldier

Epaminondas

Thebes

418 b, C,

General

Soldier

Philip II

Macedonia

382 b, C,

Defeated Athens and Thebes

Soldier

Alexander the Great

Macedonia

356 b, C,

Created an empire

Soldier

Caesar, Julius

Rome

100 b, C,

Emperor

Soldier

Hadrian

Rome

76

Emperor

Soldier

Mahmud

Afghanistan

971

Invaded India 17 times


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession

Name

Birthplace

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

Soldier

RichardtheLion-Hearted

UK

1157

King of England

Soldier

Kōsaka Masanobu

Japan

1527

Battle of Kawanakajima

Soldier

Oda Nobunaga

Japan

1534

Conquered most of Japan

Soldier

Philippe I

France

1640

Duc d’Orleans

Soldier

Eugene of Savoy

France

1663

Prince and General

Soldier

Charles XII

Sweden

1682

King

Soldier

Frederick the Great

Prussia

1712

King

Soldier

Vauvenargues,LucdeClapiers

Marquis de

France

1715

War of the Polish Secession

Soldier

Henry of Prussia

Prussia

1726

King of the US (almost)

Soldier

SuffrendeSaintTropez,Pierre-

André de

France

1729

Admiral

Soldier

Steuben,FriedrichWilhelmvon

Prussia

1730

Valley Forge

Soldier

DuPonceau,Pierre-Étienne

France

1760

Secretary to von Steuben

Soldier

Sampson, Deborah

US

1760

Continental Army

Soldier

Bonaparte, Napoleon

France

1769

Emperor of France

Soldier

Decatur, Stephen

US

1779

Defeated the Macedonian

Soldier

Changarnier, Nicholas

France

1793

General

Soldier

Lamorcière, Christophe

France

1806

French general

Soldier

Nicholson, John

Ireland

1822

Hero of Delhi

Soldier

Cleburne, Patrick R,

Ireland

1828

Confederate Major General

Soldier

Gordon,Charles“Chinese”

UK

1833

Defense of Khartoum

Soldier

Kitchener, Lord

Ireland

1850

British Commander in Chief

Soldier

Esher, Lord

UK

1852

Reorganized the military

Soldier

MacDonald, Hector

Scotland

1853

British Major-General

Soldier

Lyautey, Hubert

France

1854

Marshal of France

Soldier

Baden-Powell, Robert

UK

1857

Founded Boy Scouts

Soldier

Redl, Colonel Alfred

Ukraine

1864

Chief of Counter-Intelligence

Soldier

Mathebula, Nongoloza

SouthAfrica

1867

Regiment of the Hills

Soldier

Charlton, L, E, O,

UK

1879

General

Soldier

Röhm, Ernst

Germany

1887

Leader of Stormtroopers

Soldier

Lawrence, T, E,

UK

1888

Lawrence of Arabia

Soldier

O’Duffy, Eoin

Ireland

1892

IRA Chief of Staff

Soldier

Arondeus, Willem

Netherlands

1894

Nazi resister

Soldier

Mountbatten, Louis

UK

1900

SupremeAlliedCommanderofSoutheastAsia

Soldier

Burgess, Guy

UK

1911

Double agent

Soldier

Sipple, Oliver

US

1941

Saved President Gerald Ford’s life

Soldier

Matlovich, Leonard

US

1943

Air Force sergeant

Soldier

McManus, Michael

US

1960

Colin Powell’s bodyguard

Soldier

Zuniga, José M,

US

1969

Soldier of the Year

Teacher

Muret, Marc-Antoine

France

1526

Lectures in Paris

Teacher

Thomas, M, Carey

US

1857

President of Bryn Mawr College

Teacher

Dickinson, Goldsworthy

UK

1862

Dictionary of National Biography

Teacher

Woolley, Mary Emma

US

1863

President of Mount Holyoke College

Teacher

Locke, Alain

US

1886

Harlem Renaissance

Teacher

Wigginton, Eliot

US

1942

Foxfire, Teacher of the Year


 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Teacher

Name Davis, Angela Y,

Birthplace US

YearofBirth

Accomplishment

1944

Freedom

Teacher

Boswell, John

US

1947

Chairman of Yale history department

Teacher

Perry, Ralph M,

US

1952

Rhode Island Teacher of the Year

Two-Spirit

We’wha

US

1849

Zuni Man-Woman

Veterinarian

Kritsick, Stephen M,

US

1951

Good Morning America

 

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