B04021914 Sir Alec Guiness, thespian
B04031924 Marlon Brando, godfather
B04071915 Billie Holiday, blues singer
B04071932 Mark Russell, satirist
B04121913 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor
B04141889 Arnold Toynbee, historian
B04171897 Thornton Wilder, American novelist
B08011815 Richard Henry Dana, spent 2 years before the mast.
B08091930 Betty Boop
B08121881 Cecil B. deMille, directed God.
B08221862 Claude Debussy, composer
B08221920 Ray Bradbury, science fiction author.
B08271899 C.S. Forester, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower
B12031729 Antonio Soler, famed late 18th century Spanish composer.
B12081865 Jean Sibelius, major Scandinavian composer.
B12101830 Emily Dickinson, poet
B12121821 Gustave Flaubert, novelist, 'Madame Bovary'.
B12161899 Sir Noel Coward, playwright
B12161917 Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author ('2001').
B12221858 Giacomo Puccini, composer
B12291876 Pablo Casals, cellist
B02071812 Charles Dickens
B02071883 Eubie Blake, composer
B02081828 Jules Verne, pioneered what later became science fiction.
B02201902 Ansel Adams, knows how to handle a camera.
B02221749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & first biographer of Bach
B02231685 George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer
B02271902 John Steinbeck
B01011919 J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'.
B01031892 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings.
B01081862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co.
B01081935 Elvis Presley, singer.
B01091901 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip.
B01131832 Horatio Alger, Jr.
B01141892 Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
B01171771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.
B01181892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
B01191809 Edgar Allen Poe
B01191839 Paul Cezanne, painter
B01231756 Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy
B01251759 Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
B01251874 Somerset Maugham, poet
B01251882 Virginia Woolf, author.
B01271832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll)
B01291860 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard)
B01311872 Zane Gray, American West novelist
B07041804 Nathaniel Hawthorne
B07041826 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna"
B07071907 Robert A. Heinlein, author who helped develop Science Fiction as a sophisticated mode of literary expression.
B07101867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley.
B07121817 Henry David Thoreau, always had Ralph Waldo Emerson around to bail him out of trouble.
B07121895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers
B07141912 Woodie Guthrie
B07151606 Rembrandt, Dutch painter.
B07181811 William Makepeach Thackeray, Victorian novelist, wrote 'Vanity Fair'.
B07211899 Ernest Hemingway, never asked for whom the bell tolled...
B07221849 Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty
B07241802 Alexandre Dumas, told the Count of Monte Christo how to escape
B07261856 George Bernard Shaw
B07261943 Mick Jagger, never gathers moss
B07291869 Booth Tarkington, novelist
B06021857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance)
B06061756 John Trumbull, painter.
B06071848 Paul Gauguin, painter
B06091915 Les Paul, guitarist
B06101904 Frederick Loewe, composer
B06111572 Ben Johson, playwright
B06121929 Anne Frank, diarist
B06141811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, authoress (Uncle Tom's Cabin).
B06181877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his "I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster.
B06181942 Paul McCartney, Yah-Yah-Yah
B06261892 Pearl Buck, authoress (The Good Earth)
B03011848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece.
B03041678 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer.
B03081859 Kenneth Grahame, author, "The Wind in the Willows"
B03141681 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer.
B03171919 Nat King Cole
B03181932 John Updike, poet and novelist.
B03211685 Johann Sebastian Bach, gone for Baroque
B03261874 Robert Frost, poet
B03261911 Tennessee Williams
B03261925 Pierre Boulez, French composer.
B03271813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives)
B03281954 Reba McEntire, country music star.
B03301719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote first history of music in English
B03301853 Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear
B03311732 Joseph Haydn, composer, helped develop the Classical style.
B03311809 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"
B03311935 Herb Alpert, Tijuana Brass band leader
B05021837 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order"
B05031919 Pete Seeger, folk singer.
B05051867 Nellie Bly, name became a synonym for female star reporter.
B05071833 Johannes Brahms, enjoyed a good lullaby.
B05071840 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
B05081737 Edward Gibbon, historian, "The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire"
B05081829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, first internationally recognized US pianist
B05101902 David O. Selznick, film producer.
B05121845 Gabriel Faure, composer
B05131856 Peter Henry Emerson, first photographer to promote photography as an independent art.
B05171866 Erik Satie, composer
B05201799 Honore de Balzac, novelist
B05211471 Albrecht Durer, painter & printmaker, greatest German Renaissance artist.
B05221859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought Sherlock Holmes to life (twice)
B05231910 Artie Shaw, band leader and husband
B05251926 Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz
B05251929 Beverly Sills, soprano
B05261886 Al Jolson, jazz singer
B05271894 Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective
B05311819 Walt Whitman, poet
B11091934 Carl Sagan
B11101668 Francois Couperin, composer
B11111821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment"
B11111922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author.
B11141840 Claude Monet, impressionist
B11141900 Aaron Copland, american composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring)
B11161873 William Handy, established the popularity of the blues in band music
B11181836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame)
B11221899 Hoagy Carmichael, composed 'Star Dust'.
B11261832 Louisa May Alcott, little woman
B11301667 Jonathan Swift, satirist, wrote "Gulliver's Travels"
B11301835 Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain
B10031925 Gore Vidal, writer.
B10061866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast first program of voice & music
B10101738 Benjamin West, painter.
B10101813 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of operas.
B10141894 E.e. cummings, poet
B10161890 Paul Strand, photographer
B10171915 Arthur Miller, playwright
B10201874 Charles Ives, composer
B10211917 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
B10251881 Pablo Picasso, doodler
B10281466 Erasmus, scholar, author of "In Praise of Folly"
B10291740 James Boswell, Samuel Johnson's biographer.
B09011875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist, Ah-ee-ah-ee-ah!
B09081841 Anton Dvorak, composer
B09111862 O Henry, pen name of William Sidney Porter, short story writer.
B09121888 Maurice Chevalier, thanked heaven for little girls.
B09141867 Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew the "Gibson Girl"
B09151789 James Fenimore Cooper, first major American novelist.
B09151890 Dame Agatha Christie
B09201878 Upton Sinclair
B09211866 H.G. Wells, futurist.
B09211874 Gustav Holst, composer of 'The Planets'
B09221885 Erich von Stroheim, early film director
B09231926 John Coltrane, saxophonist
B09241936 Jim Hensen, who made Kermit & Miss Piggy what they are today.
B09251897 William Faulkner, American author
B09271840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America.
