02/01/1948 - 08/06/2004
James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. (February 1, 1948 – August 6, 2004), better known by his stage name Rick James, was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. James was a popula...
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Walt Disney (Walter Elias Disney)
12/05/1901 - 12/15/1966
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for...
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10/14/1910 - 06/04/2010
John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood", he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period — seven in a row — as head...
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04/14/1957 - 03/10/2007
Richard John Colangelo (April 14, 1957 – March 10, 2007), better known by the stage name of Richard Jeni, was an American stand-up comedian and actor.
02/07/1942 - 03/14/2007
Alan Leonard Hunt (7 February 1942 – 14 March 2007) was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers.
Robin Moore (Robert Lowell Moore)
10/31/1925 - 02/21/2008
Robert Lowell "Robin" Moore, Jr. (October 31, 1925 - February 21, 2008) was an American writer who is most known for his books The Green Berets, The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and...
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11/20/1924 - 10/14/2010
Benoît B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was French-American mathematician universally known as the father of fractals. Fractals have been employed to describe diverse behaviour in economics, finance, the stock ma...
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03/30/1853 - 07/29/1890
Vincent Willem van Gogh (March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890) is generally considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, though he had little success during his lifetime. Van Gogh produced all of his work (some 900 paintings and 1100 drawings)...
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01/19/1949 - 09/26/2003
Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003), born in Batley, Yorkshire, was a Grammy Award-winning English singer-songwriter. He was known for his distinctive voice and the eclectic mix of musical styles on his albums, combinin...
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05/13/1909 - 11/05/1956
Arthur "Art" Tatum, Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist and virtuoso. He was nearly blind.
Tatum is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all tim...
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Nick Drake (Nicholas Rodney Drake)
06/19/1948 - 11/25/1974
Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Best known for the sombre pieces composed on his primary instrument, the guitar, Drake was also proficient at piano, clar...
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08/29/1917 - 07/09/2004
Isabel Sanford (August 29, 1917 – July 9, 2004) was an American actress best known for her role as Louise "Weezy" Jefferson on the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971...
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08/29/1890 - 06/17/1976
Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron Casey KG GCMG CH DSO MC KStJ PC (29 August 1890 – 17 June 1976) was an Australian politician, diplomat and the 16th Governor-General of Australia.
04/26/1922 - 01/26/1993
Jeanne Mathilde Sauve PC CC CMM CD (nee Benoit, April 26, 1922 – January 26, 1993) was a Canadian journalist, politician, and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 23rd since Canadian Confederation.
12/21/1918 - 06/14/2007
Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician.