1
John F. Kennedy
(35th President of the United States (1961 - 1963))
462
112
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: May 29, 1917
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Died: November 22
2
C. S. Lewis
(Known for His Classic Series 'The Chronicles of Narnia')
83
16
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: November 29, 1898
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Belfast, Ireland
Died: November 22
3
W. E. B. Du Bois
(Civil Rights Activists)
163
26
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: February 23, 1868
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States
Died: August 27
4
Sylvia Plath
(Famous for Her Books 'The Bell Jar' and 'Ariel')
98
37
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: October 27, 1932
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died: February 11
5
Robert Frost
(American Poet Who was Known for His Realistic Depictions of Rural Life)
279
42
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: March 26, 1874
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, United States
Died: January 29
6
Patsy Cline
(One of the Most Influential Vocalists of the 20th Century)
85
18
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: September 8, 1932
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Winchester, Virginia, United States
Died: March 5
7
Edith Piaf
(French Singer and One of Country's Most Widely Known International Stars)
80
22
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: December 19, 1915
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: October 11
Height: 4'10" (147 cm)
8
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
(Infant Child of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Who Lived Just Over 39 Hours)
74
16
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: August 7, 1963
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Bourne, Massachusetts, United States
Died: August 9
9
Lee Harvey Oswald
(U.S. Marine Veteran Who Assassinated John F. Kennedy)
63
47
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: October 18, 1939
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Died: November 24
10
Aldous Huxley
(Writer and Philosopher Best Known for His Novels: ‘Brave New World’, ‘Island’ and ‘Point Counter Point’)
40
14
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: July 26, 1894
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Godalming, England
Died: November 22
11
Medgar Evers
(American Civil Rights Activist Who Was Assassinated by a White Supremacist)
61
7
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: July 2, 1925
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Decatur, Mississippi, United States
Died: June 12
12
Ernie Davis
(American Football Player Who Was the First African American to Win the Heisman Trophy)
45
4
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: December 14, 1939
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: New Salem-Buffington, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: May 18
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
13
Rajendra Prasad
(1st President of India)
29
5
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: December 3, 1884
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Siwan, Bihar, India
Died: February 28
14
Pope John XXIII
(Head of the Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963)
37
12
Listed In: Spiritual & Religious Leaders
Birthdate: November 25, 1881
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Sotto il Monte Giovanni XXIII, Italy
Died: June 3
15
Thich Quang Duc
(Former Vietnamese monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963)
21
10
16
Dick Powell
(Actor)
38
7
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: November 14, 1904
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Mountain View, Arkansas, United States
Died: January 2
Height: 5'11" (180 cm)
17
Garrett Morgan
(Inventor)
88
12
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: March 4, 1877
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Paris, Kentucky, United States
Died: July 27
18
Dinah Washington
(Singer)
20
1
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: August 29, 1924
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
Died: December 14
19
Robert Stroud
(US Convicted Killer Who Became an Ornithologist and an Author in Prison)
9
2
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: January 8, 1890
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Seattle, Washington, USA
Died: November 21
Height: 6'3" (190 cm)
20
Jean Cocteau
(French Author and Artist Who Was One of the Foremost Creatives of the 'Surrealist', 'Avant-Garde', and 'Dadaist' Movements.)
11
3
Listed In: Critics & Connoisseurs
Birthdate: July 5, 1889
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Maisons-Laffitte, France
Died: October 11
21
J. D. Tippit
(Police officer)
11
5
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: September 18, 1924
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Annona, Texas, United States
Died: November 22
22
The Great Gama
(Amateur wrestler)
11
1
23
Jack Carson
(Actor)
6
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: October 27, 1910
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Carman, Manitoba, Canada
Died: January 2
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
24
Francis Poulenc
(French Composer and Pianist Known for His Works: ‘Trois mouvements perpétuels’, ‘Les biches’ and ‘Concert champêtre’)
7
0
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: January 7, 1899
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: January 30
25
Adolphe Menjou
(Actor)
10
4
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: February 18, 1890
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: PPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: October 29
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
26
John Farrow
(Film Director Best Known for His Films: 'Wake Island' and 'Around the World in Eighty Days')
5
2
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: February 10, 1904
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Sydney, Australia
Died: January 27
27
ZaSu Pitts
(Actress)
4
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: January 3, 1894
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Parsons, Kansas, United States
Died: June 7
Height: 5'6" (168 cm)
28
Rogers Hornsby
(Baseball player)
4
0
29
Yasujirō Ozu
(Japanese Film Director and Screenwriter)
4
2
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: December 12, 1903
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Died: December 12
30
William Carlos Williams
(Poet)
5
3
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: September 17, 1883
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Rutherford, New Jersey, United States
Died: March 4
31
Georges Braque
(Painter Best Known for Inventing Cubism with Pablo Picasso)
5
2
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: May 13, 1882
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Argenteuil, France
Died: August 31
32
Elmore James
(Guitarist)
7
4
33
Tristan Tzara
(French Writer Known for Being One of the Founders and Central Figures of the Anti-Establishment 'Dada Movement')
3
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: April 28, 1896
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Moinești, Romania
Died: December 25
34
Auguste Piccard
(Chemist)
5
3
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: January 28, 1884
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Basel, Switzerland
Died: January 28
35
Theodore Roethke
(Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet)
11
4
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: May 25, 1908
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Saginaw, Michigan
Died: August 1
36
William Beveridge
(British Economist and Liberal Politician)
4
1
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: March 5, 1879
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Rangpur, Bangladesh
Died: March 16
37
Paul Hindemith
(German Composer and Music Theorist)
3
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: November 16, 1895
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Hanau, Germany
Died: December 28
38
Fazlollah Zahedi
(Former Prime Minister of Iran (1953 - 1955))
9
3
39
Margaret Murray
(Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Egyptologist)
4
1
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: July 13, 1863
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Kolkata
Died: November 13
40
Abd al-Karim Qasim
(Prime Minister of Iraq from 1958 to 1963)
5
4
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: November 21, 1914
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Baghdad, Iraq
Died: February 9
41
2
0
Listed In: Historical Personalities
Birthdate: March 28, 1896
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Cannes, France
Died: January 22
42
Edward A. Carter Jr.
(Soldier)
3
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: May 26, 1916
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States
Died: January 30
43
Berthold, Margrave of Baden
(Ruler)
2
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: February 24, 1906
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Karlsruhe, Germany
Died: October 27
44
Sir John Berry Hobbs
(Cricketer)
2
1
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: December 16, 1882
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Cambridge, England
Died: December 21
45
Rahul Sankrityayan
(Writer Who Is Often Called the Father of Indian Travelogue)
1
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: April 9, 1893
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Pandaha, Uttar Pradesh , India
Died: April 14
46
Maria Tanase
(Romanian Actress and Singer)
8
0
Listed In: Film & Theater Personalities
Birthdate: September 25, 1913
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Bucharest, Romania
Died: June 22
47
Edith Hamilton
(Educator)
3
1
48
Carmen Amaya
(Dancer)
3
1
Listed In: Dancers
Birthdate: November 2, 1913
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Barcelona, Spain
Died: November 19
Height: 4'11" (150 cm)
49
Muhammad Ali Bogra
(Former Prime Minister of Pakistan)
4
2
50
Henry John Burnett
(Murderer)
2
0
Listed In: Criminals
Birthdate: January 5, 1942
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Died: August 15
