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T. S. Eliot
US-British poet (1888–1965)
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)

David Lynch
David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker, producer, actor, painter, and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective "Lynchian". In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Honorary Award, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival, a Palme d'Or and Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, two César Awards, and a (posthumous) Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and nine Primetime Emmy Awards.
Konstantin Chernenko
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1911-1985)

Robert A. Heinlein
American author and aeronautical engineer (1907–1988)
Shirley Temple
American actress and diplomat (1928–2014)
Tony Curtis
American actor (1925–2010)
Leonard Bernstein
American conductor and composer (1918–1990)

Dean Martin
Dean Martin was an American singer, actor, comedian and television host. Nicknamed the "King of Cool", he is regarded as one of the most popular entertainers of the 20th century.
Robert Mitchum
American actor (1917–1997)
John Huston
American film director, screenwriter, and actor (1906–1987)
Paulette Goddard
American actress (1910–1990)

Mary Astor
American actress and author (1906–1987)

Pat Nixon
First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974
Boris Karloff
British actor (1887–1969)
Johnny Carson
American talk show host and comedian (1925–2005)
Walter Brennan
American actor (1894–1974)

Gene Tierney
American actress (1920–1991)

Vincente Minnelli
American stage and film director (1903-1986)

Ronald Colman
British actor (1891–1958)

Norman Rockwell
American painter and illustrator (1894–1978)
Tallulah Bankhead
actress

Niki de Saint Phalle
plastician, painter and sculptor (1930–2002)

Takeo Fukuda
Prime Minister of Japan from 1976 to 1978

Leo McCarey
American film director, screenwriter and producer (1898-1969)

Mel Blanc
American voice actor and radio personality (1908–1989)

Frank Gorshin
American actor and comedian (1933-2005)

Hildegard Knef
German actress, singer and writer (1925-2002)

Alfred Newman
American composer (1900-1970)

Takashi Shimura
Japanese actor (1905–1982)

George Gissing
English novelist (1857–1903)

John Sturges
American film director (1910–1992)
León Febres-Cordero
President of Ecuador (1984 - 1988)

William F. Buckley Jr.
American public intellectual, conservative author and political commentator (1925–2008)

Johnny Winter
American blues guitarist and singer (1944–2014)
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Finnish artist (1920–1991)
Philip Baker Hall
American actor (1931–2022)

Dolores Costello
American actress (1903–1979)

Nancy Marchand
American actress (1928–2000)
Harry Carey
American actor (1878–1947)

Richard Yates
Novelist, short story writer (1926-1992)
Bobby Helms
American male singer (1933–1997)

Cedric Hardwicke
English actor (1893-1964)

John Agar
American actor (1921-2002)

Fons Rademakers
Dutch filmmaker, actor and producer (1920-2007)
Marga López
Mexican actress (1924–2005)

Erroll Garner
American jazz pianist and composer (1921–1977)
Joseph Pilates
German inventor of pilates (1883–1967)
Joe Henderson
American jazz saxophonist (1937–2001)
Jerry Reed
American singer and actor (1937–2008)

Brad Dexter
American actor (1917–2002)
Dick York
American radio, stage, film, and television actor (1928-1992)
John McIntire
American character actor (1907-1991)
George Brent
Irish-American actor (1899-1979)
Beah Richards
American actress (1920–2000)
J. Carrol Naish
American actor (1896-1973)
Margaret Lindsay
American actress (1910-1981)
Annie Ross
British-American actress, singer and vocalist

Richard Norris Williams
American tennis player (1891-1968)
Don Williams
American country singer (1939-2017)