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John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for ordering the Tate–LaBianca murders, where his followers murdered nine people around Los Angeles in 1969.
Friedrich Hölderlin
German poet
Rudolf Steiner
Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)
Henry VI of England
King of England from 1422 to 1461 and from 1470 to 1471, disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453
Antonin Artaud
French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director (1896-1948)
Louis Althusser
French Marxist philosopher (1918–1990)
Syd Barrett
British musician (1946–2006)
Vaslav Nijinsky
Polish-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
Aleksis Kivi
national author of Finland (1834–1872)
Clara Bow
American actress (1905–1965)
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko
Equatoguinean politician, 1st and former President of Equatorial Guinea (1924-1979)
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist (born 1929)
Mark David Chapman
John Lennon's killer
Veronica Lake
American actress (1922–1973)
Talal I of Jordan
King of Jordan from 1951 to 1952
Camille Claudel
French sculptor (1864–1943)
Princess Alice of Battenberg
Member of the House of Battenberg (1885–1969)
Robert Walser
Swiss writer (1878–1956)
Zelda Fitzgerald
American writer (1900–1948)
Maurice Utrillo
French painter (1883-1955)
Valerie Solanas
American radical feminist and author (1936-1988)
Ed Gein
Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he stole corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.
Adnan Oktar
Turkish cult leader (born 1956)
Peter Green
British blues rock guitarist (1946–2020)
Alejandra Pizarnik
Argentinian poet (1936-1972)
Parveen Babi
Indian actress (1954–2005)
Anneliese Michel
Richard Brautigan
American novelist, poet, and short story writer (1935–1984)
Shulamith Firestone
Canadian born US feminist scholar, activist and writer (1945-2012)
Aaron Carter
American pop singer, actor and songwriter (1987–2022)
Akiba Rubinstein
Russian-Polish chess player
Bettie Page
American pin-up model (1923–2008)
Joey Ramone
American punk rock singer (1951–2001)
Gucci Mane
American rapper and record executive (born 1980)
Aby Warburg
German art historian and cultural theorist (1866–1929)
Robert M. Pirsig
American writer and philosopher (1928–2017)
Frances Farmer
American actress (1913–1970)
Jake Lloyd
American actor
Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
German writer of Baltic German origin (1751-1792)
Ol' Dirty Bastard
American rapper (1968–2004)
Peter Sutcliffe
English serial killer (1946-2020)
David Berkowitz
American serial killer
Juhan Liiv
Estonian writer (1864-1913)
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka
Slovak painter (1853-1919)
Sacheen Littlefeather
American activist (1946–2022)
Agnes Martin
American painter (1912–2004)
Charles J. Guiteau
Charles Julius Guiteau was an American office seeker who assassinated 20th United States president James A. Garfield in 1881. A failed lawyer suffering from mental illness, Guiteau delusionally believed he had played a major role in Garfield's election victory, for which he should have been rewarded with a consulship. Guiteau felt frustrated and offended by the Garfield administration's rejections of his applications to serve in Vienna or Paris to such a degree that he shot Garfield in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. Garfield died on September 19 from infections related to the wounds. Caught immediately after shooting Garfield, Guiteau was tried, convicted, and publicly executed by hanging on June 30, 1882.
John Hinckley
attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan (born 1955)
Blanche Monnier
French woman kept locked for 25 years (1849–1913)
Buddy Bolden
American cornetist and jazz pioneer (1877–1931)
Kathy Kirby
British singer (1938–2011)
Bessie Emery Head
South African born Botswanan writer and teacher (1937–1986)
Audrey Munson
American artist's model and film actress (1891-1996)
Konrad Mägi
Estonian artist (1878-1925)
Deokhye, Princess of Korea
The Korean Empire's last princess (1912–1989)
Henry Lee Lucas
American convicted murderer and claimed serial killer (1936–2001)
Michael O'Hare
American actor (1952–2012)
Ingo Schwichtenberg
German drummer (1965–1995)
Richard Chase
American serial killer, cannibal and necrophiliac (1950–1980)