10/31/1950 - 03/04/1994
John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian actor and comedian. He rose to fame as a member of the Toronto, Ontario branch of The Second City, its related Second City Television series, and in his role in comedy fil...
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08/19/1915 - 03/15/2007
Herman Stein (August 19, 1915 – March 15, 2007) was an American composer who wrote music for many of the 1950s science-fiction and horror films from Universal Studios
Jack London (John Griffith London )
01/12/1876 - 11/22/1916
John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist, whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. He is one of...
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04/23/1775 - 12/19/1851
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Although Turner was considered...
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Barry Morse (Herbert Morse)
10/06/1918 - 02/02/2008
Herbert "Barry" Morse (10 June 1918 - 2 February 2008) was an Anglo-Canadian actor of stage, screen, and radio best known for his roles in the ABC television series The Fugitive and the...
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03/06/1923 - 06/23/2009
Edward Peter "Ed" McMahon, Jr. (March 6, 1923 – June 23, 2009) was an American comedian, game show host and announcer. He is most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson's sidekick and announcer on The Tonight Show f...
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Nate Dogg (Nathaniel Dwayne Hale)
08/19/1969 - 03/15/2011
Nathaniel Dwayne Hale (August 19, 1969 - March 15, 2011), better known by his stage name Nate Dogg, was an American musician.
10/17/1920 - 07/23/1966
Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American film and stage actor. The New York Times’ obituary noted his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men". Clift received four Academy Award nominat...
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Perry Como (Pierino Ronald Como)
05/18/1912 - 05/12/2001
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it i...
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10/20/1874 - 05/19/1954
Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer. He is widely regarded as one of the first American composers of international renown. Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of...
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06/20/1819 - 05/10/1880
Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted operaThe Tales of H...
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02/22/1953 - 08/29/2008
Geoffrey Perkins, (22 February 1953 - 29 August 2008), was a comedy writer, producer and performer and, as head of comedy at BBC Television from 1995 until 2001, presided over such popular series as The Royle Family and Jonathan Creek.
02/06/1895 - 08/16/1948
George Herman Ruth, Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948), best known as "Babe" Ruth and nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914–1935.
Sigrid Valdis (Patricia Annette Olson)
08/21/1935 - 10/14/2007
Sigrid Valdis (September 21, 1935 – October 14, 2007) was the stage name of Patricia Annette Olson, an American actress.
Bill Evans (William John Evans)
09/16/1929 - 10/15/1980
William John Evans, known as Bill Evans (August 16, 1929–September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmica...
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