House Peters Jr – American actor.

Paul Newman – American Oscar-winning actor and philanthropist; “Cool Hand Luke”, “The Color Of Money”, many others.

Richard Wright – British musician; founding member and keyboardist of Pink Floyd.

Martin K Tytell – American craftsman; the “Typewriter Wizard”.

Bill Melendez – American animator; animator of the Peanuts TV specials.

Don LaFontaine – American voice actor; the “King Of Voice-Overs”.

Michael Pate – Australian TV and film actor.

Edwin Guthman – American Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist.

Phil Hill – American Formula One auto racer.

Hazel Warp – American stuntwoman. Vivien Leigh’s stunt double in “Gone With The Wind”.

Geoffrey Perkins – British television and radio personality; producer of the original Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy radio series.

Walter “Killer” Kowalski – American professional wrestler.

LeRoi Moore – American musician; saxophone player for the Dave Matthews Band.

Manny Farber – American artist and film critic.

Gene Upshaw – American athlete; head of the NFL Players’ Union.

Jack Weil – American fashion designer and businessman.

Jerry Wexler – American record executive; co-founder, Atlantic Records.

Sandy Allen – World’s tallest woman (7’7″).

Anthony Hart – American motorcross racer.

Isaac Hayes – American Oscar-winning singer/songwriter; the “Theme From Shaft”, others. Also the voice of Chef on “South Park” until 2006.

Bernie Mac – American comedian and actor; “Oceans 11”, others.

Bernie Brillstein – American movie producer. “The Blues Brothers”.

Skip Caray – American television personality; the voice of the Atlanta Braves.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn – Russian author, dissident, and Nobel Prize winner; “The Gulag Archipelago”, others.

Estelle Getty – American television actor; Sophia on “The Golden Girls”.

Olive Riley – Australian Internet personality; world’s oldest blogger.

Rocky Aoki – Japanese-American entrepreneur; founder of Benihana restaurants.

Bobby Murcer – American athlete and broadcaster; five-time major league baseball All-Star and voice of the New York Yankees.

Michael DeBakey – American surgeon and heart bypass pioneer.

Clem McSpadden – American politician and rodeo performer.

Evelyn Keyes – American actress; Suellen in “Gone With The Wind”.

Tony Snow – American political personality; former White House Press Secretary under G.W. Bush.

Jesse Helms – American conservative politician and Senator.

Larry Harmon – American television personality; played Bozo The Clown for 50 years.

Fyodor Uglov – Russian surgeon and health activist. World’s oldest practicing surgeon.

David Caminer – British computer pioneer; created first computer system for a business.

Dody Goodman – American actress; “Grease”, “Mary Hartman Mary Hartman”, others.

George Carlin – American comedian and social critic.

Cyd Charisse – American actress and dancer.

Stan Winston – American film personality; special-effects pioneer.

Esbjorn Svensson – Swedish jazz musician.

Charlie Jones – American sports announcer.

Erick Wujcik – American role-playing game designer; “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”, “Amber Diceless”.

Jim McKay – American sports announcer; longtime voice of the Olympics.

Alton Kelley – American artist.

Mel Ferrer – American film actor and director; “Lili”, others.

Bo Diddley – American musician and rock pioneer.

Yves Saint Laurent – French fashion designer.

Luc Bourdon – Canadian hockey player.

Alexander “Sandy” Courage – American composer; created the theme to “Star Trek”.

Joseph Pevney – American television director; many Star Trek episodes, including “City On The Edge Of Forever”.

Harvey Korman – American comedic actor; “Blazing Saddles”, “The Carol Burnett Show”.

Thelma Keane – Australian-American inspiration for “Mommy” in “The Family Circus”.

Sydney Pollack – American film director; “Tootsie”, “Out Of Africa”.

Edward N Lorenz – American meteorologist and scientist; one of the founders of chaos theory.

John Phillip Law – American actor; “Barbarella”.

John Rutsey – Canadian rock musician; original drummer of Rush.

George P Cressman – American meteorologist; pioneer in computer-based forecasts.

Eddy Arnold – American country musician; “Make The World Go Away”.

Robert Rauschenberg – American artist.

Robert Mondavi – American vintner and wine pioneer.

Mildred Loving – American social pioneer; won case before Supreme Court that made interracial marriage legal.

Danny Federici – American musician; longtime keyboardist for the E Street Band.

Hazel Court – British movie actress; “The Raven”, “The Masque Of The Red Death”.

Richard Widmark – American film actor; “Kiss Of Death”, “Broken Lance”.

Wayne “Frosty Freeze” Frost – American dancer and hip-hop pioneer; “Flashdance”.

Ollie Johnston – American animator; last of the “Nine Old Men” at Disney Studios.

Charlton Heston – American Oscar-winning film actor; “Ben Hur”, “The Ten Commandments”, others.

Abby Mann – American screenwriter; “Judgment At Nuremberg”, creator of Kojak.

Sean Levert – American R&B performer.

Jules Dassin – Greek film director; “Never On Sunday”.

Isreal “Cachao” Lopez – Cuban-American mambo musician and producer.

Jon Hassler – American author; “Staggerford”.

Paul Scofield – British stage and film actor; “A Man For All Seasons”, “Quiz Show”.

Ivan Dixon – American actor, director, and producer; Kinch on “Hogan’s Heroes”.

Arthur C Clarke – Sri Lankan-British Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning science fiction author and visionary; “2001”, “Childhood’s End”, many many others.

Joseph Weizenbaum – German-American computer pioneer; creator of ELIZA.

Anthony Minghella – Oscar-winning film director; “The English Patient”.

Ola Brunkert – Swedish musician; drummer for ABBA.

Gary Gygax – American role-playing game designer; co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons.

Jeff Healy – Canadian blues-rock guitarist; “Angel Eyes”.

Michael Conley – American punk musician and frontman for MIA.

Buddy Miles – American rock drummer; drummer for Jimi Hendrix.

Mike Smith – British rock musician; lead singer of the Dave Clark Five.

Kon Ichikawa – Japanese film director; “Fires On The Plain”, “The Tokyo Olympiad”.

Myron Cope – American sports personality; longtime voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Bill Heinz – American journalist and writer; “Run To Daylight”.

William F Buckley Jr – American journalist, author, and political commentator; “The Firing Line”.

Roy Scheider – American film actor; “Jaws”, “The French Connection”.

Margaret Truman – American author and daughter of US President Harry S Truman.

Earl Butz – American political figure; Secretary of Agriculture under Nixon.

Shell Kepler – American television personality; Amy Vining on “General Hospital”.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi – Indian guru and leader in Transcendental Meditation; influenced the Beatles.

Gordon B Hinckley – American religious leader; head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Haji Muhammad Suharto – Indonesian political leader and dictator.

Christian Brando – Eldest son of actor Marlon Brando.

Billy Poole – American extreme skier.

Heath Ledger – American film actor; “Brokeback Mountain”, “The Dark Knight”.

John Stewart – American musician and songwriter; “Daydream Believer”, member of the Kingston Trio.

Frances Lewine – American journalist and news producer; the Associated Press’ first full-time female correspondent.

Allen Melvin – American character actor; Sam The Butcher on “The Brady Bunch”.

Suzanne Pleshette – American actress; “The Bob Newhart Show”.

Bobby Fischer – First (and only) American chess champion.

Maila Nurmi – American television personality; “Vampira”.

Brad Renfro – American film actor; “The Client”.

Christopher Bowman – Former US figure-skating champion.

Sir Edmund Hillary – New Zealand mountain climber; one of the first two men to climb Mount Everest.

Michael Kidd – American choreographer.

Oscar Peterson – Canadian jazz musician and pianist.

Dan Fogelberg – American singer/songwriter; “Leader Of The Band”, “Same Old Lang Syne”.

Ike Turner – American rock and blues musician.

Evel Knievel – American sports personality and daredevil.

Sean Taylor – American football player.

Kevin DuBrow – American rock musician; former lead singer of Quiet Riot.

Ira Levin – American author; “The Stepford Wives”, “Rosemary’s Baby”.

Delbert Mann – American film director; “Marty”.

Dick Wilson – American television personality; “Mr Whipple”.

Peter Zinner – Austrian Oscar-winning film editor; “The Deer Hunter”.

Norman Mailer – American Pulitzer-Prize-winning author; “The Naked And The Dead”.

George Osmond – Father of the Osmond Family.

Lillian “Fabulous Moolah” Ellison – American professional wrestler; first woman elected to the WWE Hall of Fame.

Friedman “Chef Tell” Erhardt – German-American television chef.

Robert Goulet – American actor and singer; “Camelot”.

Porter Wagoner – American country musician.

Dr Judah Folkman – American scientist; cancer researcher at the Children’s Hospital in Boston whose work spawned 10 new cancer drugs.

Mary Jones Smith — The last fluent speaker of Alaska’s Eyak Indian language; worked with the University of Alaska to compile a dictionary and grammar of the language.

Richard Darman – American economist; US Budget Director under George H.W. Bush.

Mary Meader – American aerial photographer and explorer; together with her husband made aerial photographs of South America and Africa in the 1930s and took the earliest known photos of the Nazca lines.

Dith Pran — Cambodian refugee and New York Times photographer upon whose experience the movie “The Killing Fields” was based.

Albert Hofmann – Swiss chemist; inventor of LSD.

Tim Russert – American television personality; moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press”.

Robert “Rob” Knox – British actor; Marcus Selby in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”.

Sir John M Templeton – British-American businessman, philanthropist, and religious seeker.

Evan Tanner – American mixed-martial-arts fighter; former UFC middleweight champion.

Anita Page – American actress; last surviving major star of silent movies.

David Foster Wallace – American novelist; *Infinite Jest*.

Norman Whitfield – American music producer and songwriter; one of the creators of the Motown Sound.

Jason Hudson — Actress Jennifer Hudson’s brother.

Darnell Donerson — Jennifer Hudson’s mother.

Julian King — Jennifer Hudson’s nephew.

Buck Adams — American pornographic actor and director.

Amos E. Joel Jr. — American inventor; developed the system that allows cell phones to switch towers on the fly.

Danny Dill — American songwriter; “Long Black Veil”.

Gene Hickerson — American football player, Cleveland Browns.

Dee Dee Warwick — American soul singer and sister of Dionne Warwick; “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me”, “Foolish Fool”.

Neal Hefti — American jazz trumpeter and composer; created the theme music for “Batman” and “The Odd Couple”.

Gidget Gein – American musician and artist; second bassist for Marilyn Manson.

Bonnie Bluh – Jewish-American writer and feminist; “Woman To Woman”.

Herb Peterson – American businessman and food scientist; inventor of the Egg McMuffin.

Jim Hager – American country musician and comedian; half of the Hager Twins from “Hee-Haw”.

Jerry Wallace – American country musician; “Primrose Lane”, “If You Leave Me Tonight I’ll Cry”.

Dottie Rambo – American gospel singer and musician.

Dick Martin – American comedian and television personality; “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In”. “Say goodnight, Dick.” “Goodnight, Dick.”

Don S. David – American television actor; General Hammond on “Stargate SG-1”.

Fred Crane – American film actor; Brent Tarleton in “Gone With The Wind”.

Jerry Reed – American country musician and actor; “Smokey And The Bandit”.

Charlie Walker – American country musician and longtime member of the Grand Old Opry.

Merl Saunders – American rock and New Age musician; former member of the Grateful Dead.

Stanley Kamel – American television actor; Dr Charles Kroger on “Monk”.

Barbara Jean Bosworth (Bobbye) of Northern Virginia, Wiccan, member of the Chantry of the Silver Veil in Alexandria.

Tom K (Phoenix) – Gardnerian Elder.

Frederick McLaren Adams – Founder of Feraferia and Co-Founder of Council of Themis,

Danessa Smith – Mother of Tempest Smith, Founder of the Tempest Smith Foundation.

Jo Dixon – Pagan Elder, of the wonderful Magical Days calendar.

Susan Grace Falkenrath (Susan Wolf) – Long standing member of Reclaiming.

Dorothy Folks Lewis (Winter Wren) – Host of the Pagan Radio Show “The Witching Hour” and regional board of directors for WARD.