01/19/1917 - 02/20/2005
John Emmett Raitt (January 29, 1917 – February 20, 2005) was an American actor and singer best known for his performances in musical theater.
09/24/1914 - 03/24/1991
Sir John Robert Kerr, AK, GCMG, GCVO, QC (24 September 1914 – 24 March 1991) was the 18th Governor-General of Australia. He dismissed the Labor government of Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975, marking the climax of the most significant const...
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22/02/1732 - 13/14/1799
George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new U.S.A., leading the American victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander in chief of the Continental Army, and presiding over the writing of the Co...
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03/14/1916 - 03/04/2009
Albert Horton Foote, Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film...
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04/03/1921 - 03/26/2004
Jan Sterling (April 3, 1921 – March 26, 2004) was an American actress.
Most active in films during the 1950s, Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954), and w...
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06/13/1897 - 10/02/1973
Paavo Johannes Nurmi (13 June 1897 – 2 October 1973) was a Finnish runner. Born in Turku, he was known as one of the "Flying Finns"; a term given to him, Hannes Kolehmainen, Ville Ritola and others for their distinction in ru...
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01/16/1979 - 08/25/2001
Brooklyn-born and Detroit-raised R&B singer Aaliyah hit the big time in her early teens with a spate of hit records before she embarked at the ripe old age of twenty on a film acting career. A losing appearance on "Star Search" at ag...
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Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)
09/07/1936 - 02/03/1959
Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959) known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in a...
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04/23/1894 - 06/19/1962
Frank Borzage (April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an American film director and actor.
07/14/1862 - 02/06/1918
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt...
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06/21/1921 - 02/28/2011
Jane Russell (June 21, 1921 – February 28, 2011) was an American film actress and was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s.
Tom Fogerty (Thomas Richard Fogerty)
11/09/1941 - 08/06/1990
Thomas Richard "Tom" Fogerty (November 9, 1941 – September 6, 1990) was a musician best known as the guitarist in Creedence Clearwater Revival and the elder brother of John Fogerty, the lead singer and guitar player in that band.
01/30/1937 - 01/19/2008
Suzanne Pleshette (January 31, 1937 – January 19, 2008) was an American actress, on stage, screen and television.