Buddy Rich (Bernard Rich )
09/30/1917 - 04/02/1987
Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuosic technique, power, groove, and sp...
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07/21/1899 - 07/02/1961
Ernest Miller Hemingway ( July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961) American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely...
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03/18/1869 - 11/09/1940
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940.
07/25/1915 - 08/12/1944
Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. (July 25, 1915 – August 12, 1944) was an American bomber pilot during World War II. He was the eldest of nine children born to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.,and Rose Elizabeth (née Fitzger...
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Bob Marley (Nesta Robert Marley)
02/06/1945 - 05/11/1981
Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteadyand reggae bands The Wailers (1964–1974) and Bob...
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05/11/1823 - 09/24/1906
Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (11 May 1823 – 24 August 1906) was a Belgian painter
01/01/1919 - 07/05/1948
Carole Landis (January 1, 1919 – July 5, 1948) was an American film and stage actress whose break-through role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Million B.C.. Landis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1765 Vine Street.
01/31/1866 - 01/15/1936
Henry William Forster, 1st Baron Forster(31 January 1866 – 15 January 1936), was a British Conservative Party politician who became the seventh Governor-General of Australia
02/13/1919 - 10/17/1991
Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13, 1919 – October 17, 1991), better known as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country and Western,pop, and gospel...
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06/03/1941 - 12/26/1999
Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation ...
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11/14/1908 - 05/02/1957
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Co...
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Jim Carroll (James Dennis Carroll)
08/01/1949 - 09/11/2009
James Dennis "Jim" Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995...
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01/20/1926 - 08/08/2010
Patricia Neal (January 20, 1926 – August 8, 2010) was an American actress of stage and screen.
Pete Postlethwaite (Peter William Postlethwaite)
02/07/1946 - 01/02/2011
Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite (7 February 1946 – 2 January 2011), was an English stage, film and television actor. Postlethwaite's first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He played a myst...
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