Childfree Icons

Samuel Herbert Adams – Sculptor (b. March 4, 1883)

Charles Addams – Cartoonist (The New Yorker) (b. January 7, 1912)

Jane Addams – Social Worker, Political Activist, Co-Founder of the ACLU, & Nobel Peace Prize Winner (b. September 6, 1860)

Nancy Addison – Actress (b. December 10, 1948)

Louisa May Alcott – Author (b. November 29, 1832)

Cynthia May Westover Alden – Author, Philanthropist (b. March 2, 1863)

Grover Cleveland Alexander – Baseball Player (b. February 26, 1887)

Suzy Allegra – Author, Artist, Motivational Speaker (b. July 17, 1954)

Marty Allen – Comedian (b. March 23, 1924)

John Murray Anderson – Musical Theatre Producer (b. January 9, 1886)

Laurie Anderson – Performance Artist (b. June 5, 1947)

Marian Anderson – Concert Singer (b. February 27, 1897)

Louis Andriessen – Composer (b. June 6, 1939)

Jennifer Aniston – Actress (b. February 11, 1969)

Susan B. Anthony – Woman’s Suffragist (b. February 15, 1820)

Samuel Appleton – Merchant, Politician, Philanthropist (b. October 25, 1766)

Geoffrey Arend – Actor (b. October 28, 1978)

Louis Armstrong – Musician (b. August 4, 1901)

Boris Artzybasheff – Artist (b. September 1, 1899)

Dorothy Arzner – Film Director (b. January 3, 1897)

Dr. Robert C. Atkins – Diet Doctor, Author, Creator of the Atkins Diet (b. October 17, 1930)

V.C. Andrews – Author (b. June 6, 1923)

Jane Austen – Author (b. December 16, 1775)

Max Baer Jr. – Actor (b. December 4, 1937)

Francis Bacon – Politician, Philosopher, Scientist (b. January 22, 1561)

Florence Bailey – Author, Naturalist, Ornithologist (b. February 22, 1863)

George Balanchine – Ballet Choreographer (b. January 22, 1904)

Tallulah Bankhead – Actress (b. January 31, 1902)

Abdullah al-Baradouni – Yemeni Poet (b. January 25, 1929)

Bob Barker – Game Show Host (b. December 12, 1923)

Joe Barr – Canadian Politician (b. April 2, 1947)

Lynda Barry – Cartoonist (b. January 2, 1956)

Clara Barton – Nurse, Humanitarian, Founder and First President of the American Red Cross (b. December 25, 1821)

Kathy Bates – Actress (b. June 28, 1948)

Jaya Battacharya – Actress (b. September 19, 1976)

King Baudouin – King of Belgium (b. September 7, 1930)

Simone de Beauvoir – Author (b. January 9, 1908)

Louise Beavers – American Film and Television Actress (b. March 8, 1902)

Samuel Beckett – Author, Playwright, Poet (b. April 13, 1906)

Ludwig Van Beethoven – Composer (b. December 17, 1770)

Joe Besser – Actor (b. August 12, 1907)

Isabella Bird – Explorer, Author (b. October 15, 1831)

Jacqueline Bisset – Actress (b. September 13, 1944)

Lewis Black – Comedian (b. August 30, 1948)

Eubie Blake – Musician, Composer (b. February 7, 1887)

William Blake – Artist (b. November 28, 1757)

Brenda Blethyn – Actress (b. February 20, 1946)

Marc Blitzstein – Composer, Dramatist (b. March 2, 1905)

Baroness Karen Blixen – Author (b. April 17, 1885)

Rosa Bonheur – French Painter and Sculptor (b. March 16, 1822)

Pierre Bonnard – Artist (b. October 3, 1867)

William Edgar Borah – Politician (b. June 29, 1865)

Lara Flynn Boyle – Actress (b. March 24, 1970)

Susan Boyle – Singer (b. April 1, 1961)

Georges Brassens – Singer (b. October 22, 1921)

Enya Patricia Brennan aka Enya – Musician (b. May 17, 1961)

Alison Brie – Actress (b. December 29, 1982)

Joe Bob Briggs aka John Bloom – Author, Movie Critic (b. January 27, 1953)

Raymond Briggs – Children’s Book Author (b. January 18, 1934)

Poppy Z. Brite – Author (b. May 25, 1967)

Anne Brontë – Author (b. January 17, 1820)

Charlotte Brontë – Author (b. April 21, 1816)

Louise Brooks – Actress (b. November 14, 1906)

Helen Gurley Brown – Feminist, Editor (Cosmopolitan) (b. February 18, 1922)

Reno Browne – Actress, Equestrian (b. October 25, 1921)

Delta Burke – Actress (b. July 30, 1956)

Kathy Burke – Actress, Comedian (b. June 13, 1964)

Pat Buchanan – Politician, Presidential Candidate (b. November 2, 1938)

James Burke – Creator of the BBC & PBS Series “Connections”, Scientific American columnist (b. December 22, 1936)

Raymond Burr – Actor (b. May 21, 1917)

Caryl Lee Burroughs – Hollywood Animal Trainer (b. January 1, 1934)

Leo Buscaglia – Author (b. March 31, 1924)

Brett Butler – Actress, Comedian (b. January 30, 1958)

Robin Miriam Carlsson aka Robyn – Singer (b. June 12, 1979)

Phyllis Carlyle – Film Producer (b. August 22, 1942)

Dora Carrington – Bloomsbury Artist (b. March 29, 1893)

Laura Carroll – Author (b. 1960)

Mary Cassatt – Artist (b. May 22, 1844)

Roger Casement – Irish Patriot (b. September 1, 1864)

Nina Cassian – Poet (b. November 22, 1924)

Barbara Castle – British Politician (b. October 6, 1910)

Kim Cattrall – Actress (b. August 21, 1956)

Mary Chapin Carpenter – Singer, Songwriter (b. February 21, 1958)

Rosamond Halsey Carr – Founder of Rwanda’s Imbabazi Orphanage, Author, Fashion Designer (b. December 7, 1923)

Richard Chamberlain – Actor (b. March 31, 1934)

Coco Chanel – Fashion Designer (Contested: Following her elder sister’s suicide, she looked after her son) (b. August 19, 1883)

Stockard Channing – Actress (b. February 13, 1944)

Charles II of Spain – King of Spain (b. November 6, 1661)

Tracy Chapman – Musician (b. March 30, 1964)

RuPaul Andre Charles – Drag Performer, TV Personality (b. November 17, 1960)

Judy Chicago – Artist (b. July 20, 1939)

Margaret Cho – Comedian (b. December 5, 1968)

Julia Child – Professional Chef, Cookbook Author (b. August 15, 1912)

Helen Clark – New Zealand Prime Minister (b. February 26, 1950)

Patricia Clarkson – Actress (b. December 29, 1959)

Dorothy Clewes – Children’s Book Author (b. July 6, 1907)

Imogene Coca – Actress (b. November 18, 1908)

Claudette Colbert – Actress (b. September 13, 1903)

Billy Collins – U.S. Poet Laureate (b. March 22, 1941)

Carlo Collodi – Author (b. November 24, 1826)

Frances Conroy – Actress (b. November 13, 1953)

Storm Constantine – Fantasy Writer (b. December 14, 1956)

Jill Ker Conway – Author, first woman President of Smith College (b. March 9, 1934)

Anne Cools – Canadian Senator (b. September 12, 1943)

Pat Coombs – Actress (b. May 21, 1926)

Nicolaus Copernicus – Scientist (b. February 19, 1473)

John Corbett – Actor (b. May 9, 1961)

Joseph Cornell – Artist and Creator of the Cornell Box (b. December 24, 1903)

Ann Coulter – Political Commentator (b. December 8, 1961)

Alec Sadler & Grace Craig – Australian Politician, Philanthropist (b. )

Quentin Crisp – Author, Actor (b. December 25, 1908)

Robert Bartleh Cummings (a.k.a. Rob Zombie) – American Singer, Songwriter, Filmmaker, and Voice Actor (b. January 12, 1965)

Tim Curry – Actor (b. April 19, 1946)

Charlotte Curtis – Journalist, Columnist, Editor at The New York Times (b. March 2, 1923)

Patrika Darbo – Actress (b. April 6, 1948)

Mahmoud Darwish – Palestinian Poet (b. March 13, 1941)

Leonardo Da Vinci – Artist (b. April 15, 1452)

Gray Davis – Governor of California (b. December 26, 1942)

Ellen DeGeneres – Comedian (b. January 26, 1958)

Jeffery Deaver – Author (b. May 6, 1950)

Eugene Victor Debs – Activist (b. November 5, 1855)

Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany – Civil Rights Pioneer, Author (Sister of Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany) (b. September 3, 1891)

Dana Delany – Actress (b. March 13, 1956)

Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany – Civil Rights Pioneer, Author (Sister of Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany) (b. September 19, 1889)

Don DeLillo – Author (b. November 20, 1936)

Del Rubio Triplets (Edith Bolling Boyd, Elena Rolfe Boyd, Mildred Stuart Boyd) – Musical Group (b. March 21, 1930)

Bo Derek – Actress (b. November 20, 1956)

René Descartes – Philosopher (b. March 31, 1596)

Portia de Rossi – Actress (b. January 31, 1973)

Leonardo DiCaprio – Actor (b. November 11, 1974)

Emily Dickinson – Poet (b. December 10, 1830)

Benjamin Disraeli – Politician, Author (b. December 21, 1804)

Steve Ditko – Cartoonist, Co-Creator of the Spider-Man Comics (b. November 2, 1927)

Dorothea Dix – Educator, Writer, Philanthropist (b. April 4, 1802)

Tamara Dobson – Actress (b. May 14, 1947)

Richard Donner – Film Director (b. April 24, 1930)

Lauren Shuler Donner – Film Producer (b. January 23, 1949)

Lizzie Douglas aka Memphis Minnie – Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter (b. June 3, 1897)

Marjory Stoneman Douglas – Environmentalist, Founder of Friends of the Everglades (b. April 7, 1890)

Maureen Dowd – Columnist, Pulitzer Prize Winner (b. January 14, 1952)

Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet – Founder of Downing College, Cambridge, England (b. February 18, 1716)

Sir Jacob Gorman Downing, 4th Baronet (Margaret Price, Wife) – Baronet and Politician (b. January 1, 1754 and b. February 5, 1763)

Aimee Anne Duffy aka Duffy – Musician (b. June 23, 1984)

Gabriel Dumont – Native American Tribal Leader (Métis) (b. April 19, 1837)

Lena Dunham – Actress, Director, Producer (b. May 13, 1986)

Francis Drake – Explorer (b. circa 1540)

Fran Drescher – Actress (b. September 30, 1957)

Esther Dyson – Journalist, Author, Businesswoman, Commentator, Philanthropist (b. July 14, 1951)

Amelia Earhart – Aviator (b. July 24, 1897)

Deborah Eisenberg – Author (b. November 17, 1945)

Liubov Egorova – Dancer (b. May 7, 1909)

Anita Ekberg – Actress (b. September 29, 1931)

T.S. Eliot – Poet (b. September 26, 1888)

Havelock Ellis – Psychologist, Author (b. February 2, 1859)

Tracee Ellis Ross – Actress (b. October 29, 1972)

Harlan Ellison – Author (b. May 27, 1934)

Elizabeth I – Queen of England (b. September 7, 1533)

Joan Elm – Canadian Politician, Community Activist (b. February 23, 1940)

Bonnie Erbé – PBS Commentator and Columnist (b. February 23, 1949)

Dame Edith Evans – British Film and Stage Actress (b. February 8, 1888)

Linda Evans – Actress (b. November 18, 1942)

Rupert Everett – Actor (b. May 29, 1959)

Anne Ewers – CEO of the Utah Symphony & Opera (b. November 1, 1957)

Jane Fallon – Author (b. June 9, 1960)

Chow Yun-Fat – Actor (b. May 18, 1955)

Barbara Feldon – Actress (b. March 12, 1933)

Pamelyn Ferdin – Actress (b. January 4, 1956)

Ralph Fiennes – Actor (b. May 22, 1962)

Lynn Fontanne – Actress (b. December 6, 1887)

Margot Fonteyn – British Ballerina (b. May 18, 1919)

Juliana Rieser Force – Whitney Museum Director (b. January 31, 1876)

Richard Ford – Author, Editor of Granta (b. February 16, 1944)

Margaretta Forten – Abolitionist (b. 1806)

Dian Fossey – Primatologist, Conservationist (b. January 16, 1932)

Vivica Anjanetta Fox – American Actress, Producer, and Television Host (b. July 30, 1964)

Janet Frame – Poet (b. August 28, 1924)

Felix Frankfurter – Supreme Court Justice (b. November 15, 1882)

Tanya Franks – Actress (b. August 16, 1967)

William Frawley – Actor (b. February 26, 1887)

Frank Frazetta – Artist (b. February 9, 1928)

Alice Freeman – First woman to be President of a liberal arts college, (Wellesley), helped establish the University of Chicago. (b. March 17, 1855)

Elsie Freund – Artist, Jewelry Designer (b. August 13, 1903)

Louis Freund – Artist (b. January 8, 1896)

Robert Fripp – Composer, Musician (b. May 16, 1946)

Stephen Fry – Actor, Comedian (b. August 24, 1957)

Eva Gabor – Actress (b. February 11, 1919)

Magda Gabor – Actress (b. June 6, 1915)

Maxwell Gage – Noted New Zealand Geologist (b. 1943)

Diamanda Galas – Singer (b. August 29, 1955)

Tess Gallagher – Author (b. July 21, 1943)

Paul William Gallico – Author (b. July 26, 1897)

Janeane Garofalo – Actress, Comedian (b. September 28, 1966)

Greta Garbo – Actress (b. September 18, 1905)

Ava Gardner – Actress (b. December 24, 1922)

Henry Garfiled aka Henry Rollins – Musician (Black Flag, Rollins Band) (b. February 13, 1961)

Greer Garson – Actress (b. September 29, 1904)

Gloria Gaynor – Singer (b. September 7, 1949)

Anthony Geary – Soap Opera Actor (b. May 29, 1947)

Marie-Sophie Germain aka Auguste Antoine Le Blanc – Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher (b. April 1, 1776)

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga – Singer (b. March 28, 1986)

Ricky Gervais – Comedian (b. June 25, 1961)

Beth Gibbons – Singer (Portishead) (b. January 4, 1971)

Althea Gibson – Athlete (b. August 25, 1927)

William Schwenck Gilbert – Composer for Gilbert & Sullivan (b. November 18, 1836)

Dorothy Gish – Actress (b. March 11, 1898)

Lillian Gish – Actress (b. October 14, 1893)

Katharine Bruce Glasier – Author (b. August 6, 1872)

Susan Glaspell – Playwright (b. July 1, 1876)

Sharon Gless – Actress (b. May 31, 1943)

Crispin Glover – Actor (b. April 20, 1964)

Christoph Willibald Gluck – Composer (b. July 2, 1714)

Paulette Goddard – Actress (b. June 3, 1910)

Robert Hutchings Goddard – Physicist (b. October 5, 1882)

Kurt Godel – Author (b. April 28, 1906)

Alexander Godunov – Actor, Dancer (b. November 28, 1949)

Alison Goldfrapp – Musician (Goldfrapp) (b. May 13, 1966)

Stephen Goldin – Author (b. March 10, 1948)

Emma Goldman – Activist, Feminist (b. June 27, 1869)

Valeria Golino – Actress (b. October 22, 1965)

Jan Goodwin – Author, Travel Writer (b. 1945)

Edward Gorey – Artist (b. February 22, 1925)

Lotte Goslar – Dancer (b. September 7, 1915)

Lauren Graham – Actress (Contested – Her long-term partner has a child.) (b. March 16, 1967)

Martha Graham – Choreographer (b. May 11, 1894)

Cecil Green – Former CEO of Texas Instruments, Philanthropist (b. June 15, 1900)

Johnny Green – Musician (b. September 5, 1908)

Gael Greene – Food Critic, Author (b. March 25, 1933)

Baroness Susan Greenfield – Director of the Royal Institution, Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford University, Neurologist (b. October 1, 1950)

John Robert Gregg – Inventor of the Gregg Shorthand Method, Publisher (b. July 17, 1867)

Joyce Grenfell – British Actress (b. February 10, 1910)

Nanci Griffith – Singer, Songwriter (b. July 6, 1953)

Martha Griffiths – First Female Michigan Lieutenant Governor (b. December 9, 1912)

Terry Gross – NPR Host (b. February 14, 1956)

James Grout – Actor (b. January 2, 1933)

Mabel Dole Haden – Former President of NABWA (b. Month, Day, Year)

Catherine Hakim – British Sociologist (b. Month, Day, Year)

Daryl Hall – Singer, Musician (Hall & Oates) (b. October 11, 1946)

Regina Lee Hall – American Actress (b. December 12, 1970)

Lewis Hamilton – Race Car Driver (b. January 7, 1985)

Jon Hamm – Actor (b. March 10, 1971)

Celia Hammond – Former Model and Animal Activist (b. November 26, 1943)

Lionel Hampton – Musician (b. April 20, 1908)

Georg Friedrich Handel – Composer (b. February 23, 1685)

Chelsea Handler – Comedian (b. February 25, 1975)

Howard Harold Hanson – Pulitzer-Prize Winning Composer (b. October 28, 1896)

Setsuko Hara – Japanese Actress (b. June 17, 1920)

Warren Gamaliel Harding – 29th U.S. President (b. November 2, 1865)

E Chambré Hardman – Photographer (b. Month, Day, Year)

Jean Harlow – Actress (b. March 3, 1911)

Debbie Harry – Singer (Blondie) (b. July 1, 1945)

Polly Jean “PJ” Harvey – Musician (b. October 9, 1969)

Darren Hayes – Singer, Songwriter (Savage Garden) (b. May 8, 1972)

Alex Heard – Author (b. Month, Day, Year)

Sir Edward Heath – Politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. July 9, 1916)

Susan Helms – Astronaut (b. February 26, 1958)

Christina Hendricks – Actress, Model (b. May 3, 1975)

Adrian Henri – Poet, Painter (b. April 10, 1932)

Marguerite Henry – Children’s Book Author (b. April 13, 1902)

Katherine Hepburn – Actress (b. May 12, 1907)

Milton S. Hershey – Founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company (b. September 13, 1857)

Lorena Hickok – AP Political Reporter (b. February 19, 1893)

Anita Hill – American Lawyer and Academic (b. July 30, 1956)

Taiko Hirabayashi – Author (b. Month, Day, Year)

Nicole Hollander – Cartoonist (b. November 24, 1939)

Thelma Holt – Actress, Theatre Producer (b. Month, Day, Year)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (USA) (b. March 8, 1841)

Grace Murray Hopper – Computer Scientist (b. December 9, 1906)

Niall Horan – Singer (One Direction) (b. September 13, 1993)

Rima Horton – Politician (b. January 15, 1947)

Soad Hosni – Egyptian Actress (b. January 26, 1943)

Lila Kedrova Howard – Actress (b. October 9, 1921)

Mick Hucknall – Singer (b. June 8, 1960)

Howard Hughes – American Business Magnate, Investor, Pilot, Engineer, Film Director, Philanthropist (b. December 24, 1905)

Bonnie Hunt – Actress (b. September 22, 1961)

Kristin Hunter – Children’s Book Author (b. March 19, 1926)

Lauren Hutton – Actress, Model (b. November 17, 1943)

Patricia Ireland – President of the National Organization for Women, NOW (b. February 1, 1945)

George J. Irbe – Creator of the Great Lakes water temperature climatology (b. Month, Day, Year)

Satoru Iwata – 4th President and CEO of Nintendo (b. December 6, 1959)

John A. “Jack” Jackson – Philanthropist, Oilman (b. Month, Day, Year)

Tove Jansson – Children’s Book Author (b. August 9, 1914)

Randall Jarrell – Poet (b. May 6, 1914)

Anna Jarvis – the “Founder of Mother’s Day” (b. May 1, 1864)

Joan of Arc – Christian Saint (b. January 6, 1412)

Jack Johnson – First African-American to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world (b. March 31, 1878)

Margaret Johnston – Actress (b. May 15, 1919)

Martin and Osa Johnson – Authors, Photographers, explorers, and naturalists (b. Martin: October 16, 1884; Osa: March 14, 1894)

Richard Mentor Johnson – U.S. Vice-President (b. October 17, 1780)

Samuel Johnson – Author, Editor (b. September 18, 1709)

William Hugh Johnston – Labor Leader (b. Month, Day, Year)

Carolyn Jones – Actress (b. April 28, 1930)

Renee Jones – Actress (b. October 15, 1958)

Spike Jonze – Film Director (b. October 22, 1969)

Ashley Judd – Actress, Activist (b. April 19, 1968)

Madeline Kahn – Actress (b. September 29, 1942)

Immanuel Kant – Philosopher (b. April 22, 1724)

Julie Kavner – Actress (b. September 7, 1950)

Nikos Kazantzakis – Author (b. February 18, 1883)

Odette Keene – Musician (b. December 28, 1908)

Helen Keller – Author (b. June 27, 1880)

Joyce Kennard – Judge (b. January 12, 1948)

Joe Kernan – Politician (b. February 5, 1946)

Maynard Keynes – Economist (b. June 5, 1883)

William Lyon MacKenzie King – Former Canadian Prime Minister (b. December 17, 1874)

William Rufus King – U.S. Vice-President (b. April 7, 1786)

Robert Kiyosaki – Author (b. April 8, 1947)

Caroline Knapp – Author (b. January 9, 1959)

Aleksandra Kollontai – Author (b. March 31, 1872)

Dean Koontz – Author (b. July 9, 1945)

Tadeusz Kościuszko – Polish Patriot (b. February 4, 1746)

Jerzy Kosinski – Author (b. June 14, 1933)

Jonathan Kozol – Author, Activist (b. September 5, 1936)

Lee Krasner – Artist (b. October 27, 1908)

Albert Kroc – Co-Developer of McDonald’s Fast Food Chain (b. October 5, 1902)

Swoosie Kurtz – Actress (b. September 6, 1944)

Henry Richardson Labouisse – Diplomat, Former Head of UNICEF (b. October 13, 1904)

Karl Lagerfeld – Fashion Designer (b. September 10, 1933)

Princess Lakshmi – Indian Princess (b. 1938)

Elsa Lanchester – Actress (b. October 28, 1902)

Philip Larkin – Author, Poet (b. August 9, 1922)

Charles Laughton – Actor, Director (b. July 1, 1899)

Dan Lauria – Actor (b. April 12, 1947)

Frank John Lausche – Politician (b. November 14, 1895)

Tom Lehrer – Singer, Musician (b. April 9, 1928)

Jay Leno – TV Host (b. April 28, 1950)

Richard Lewis – Comedian (b. June 29, 1947)

Lyn Lifshin – Poet (b. March 19, 1942)

Queen Liliuokalani – Queen of Hawaii (b. September 2, 1838)

Siân Lloyd – Weather Broadcaster (b. November 5, 1954)

Carole Lombard – Actress (b. October 6, 1908)

Jack Lord – Actor (b. December 30, 1920)

Pauline Lord – Actress (b. February 22, 1892)

Patty Loveless – Singer (b. January 4, 1957)

Alfred Lunt – Actor (b. August 21, 1892)

John Lyon – Philanthropist (b. 1600)

Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart – Musician (b. September 13, 1977)

Rose McClendon – Actress (b. March 14, 1907)

Barbara McClintock – Scientist (Cytogeneticist) (b. June 16, 1902)

Robert McCormick – Former Owner of the Chicago Tribune (b. July 30, 1880)

Mary Jackson McCrorey – Politician, Activist (b. September 19, 1910)

Hattie McDaniel – American Actress, Singer-Songwriter, and Comedian (b. June 10, 1895)

Roddy McDowall – Actor, Photographer (b. September 17, 1928)

Odd McIntyre – Newspaper Columnist (b. January 2, 1888)

Ian McKellen – Actor (b. May 25, 1939)

Kristy McNichol – Actress (b. September 11, 1962)

Janet McTeer – Actress (b. August 5, 1961)

Christine McVie – Singer, Songwriter (Fleetwood Mac) (b. July 12, 1943)

Dora Maar – Photographer (b. November 22, 1907)

René Magritte – Artist (b. November 21, 1898)

Bill Maher – TV Personality (b. January 20, 1956)

Katherine Mansfield – Author (b. October 14, 1888)

Shirley Manson – Singer (b. August 26, 1966)

Vito Anthony Marcantonio – Politician (b. December 10, 1902)

Francesca Marciano – Actress (b. March 9, 1955)

Miriam Margoyles – Actress (b. May 18, 1941)

Mary Ellen Mark – Award-Winning Photographer (b. March 20, 1940)

Bobbie Ann Mason – Children’s Book Author (b. May 1, 1940)

Mari Matsunaga – Creator of i-mode, Named One of the Top 25 Tech Women of the Web (b. May 20, 1975)

James Clerk Maxwell – Scientist (Electromagnetism, Maxwell’s equations, proof that speed of light is a constant in all reference frames, earliest groundwork for relativity theory) (b. June 13, 1831)

Theresa May – Politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. October 1, 1956)

Giuseppe Mazzini – Italian Patriot (b. June 22, 1805)

Fradique de Menezes – President of São Tomé and Príncipe (b. March 9, 1954)

Melina Mercouri – Greek Actress (b. October 18, 1920)

Freddie Mercury – Musician (b. September 5, 1946)

Angela Merkel – German Chancellor (b. July 17, 1954)

George Michael – Musician (b. June 25, 1963)

Oscar Micheaux – Film Director, Producer, Author (b. January 2, 1884)

Edna St. Vincent Millay – Poet (b. February 22, 1892)

Alley Mills – Actress (b. May 9, 1951)

Brenda Milner – Renowned Professor of Neuro-Psychology (b. July 15, 1918)

Kylie Minogue – Singer (b. May 28, 1968)

Helen Mirren – Actress (b. July 26, 1945)

Margaret Mitchell – Author (b. November 8, 1900)

Eugenio Montale – Nobel Prize Winner, Poet, Author, Editor, Translator (b. October 12, 1896)

Vicki Moore – Spanish Animal Rights Philanthropist (b. September 3, 1947)

John Morgan – Founder of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School (b. 1735)

Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) – Author (b. December 25, 1783)

Morrissey – Musician (b. May 22, 1959)

Rob Morse – Columnist (San Francisco Chronicle) (b. 1956)

Marjorie “Mo” Mowlam – Britain’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (b. September 18, 1949)

Diana Muldaur – Actress (b. August 19, 1938)

Megan Mullally – Actress (b. November 12, 1958)

Jan Munroe – Actor (b. March 22, 1946)

Ona Munson – Actress (b. June 16, 1903)

Leilani Münter – Race Car Driver, Environmental Activist (b. February 18, 1974)

Haruki Murakami – Author (b. January 12, 1949)

Iris Murdoch – Author (b. July 15, 1919)

Mikayil Mushfig – Poet (b. December 12, 1911)

Modest Mussorgsky – Composer (b. March 21, 1839)

Kanagarajah Muthiah – Tamil Activist (b. August 12, 1957)

Ralph Nader – Activist (b. February 27, 1934)

Taslima Nasrin – Author (b. August 25, 1962)

Alla Nazimova – Actress (b. June 22, 1879)

Noel Neill – Actress (b. November 25, 1920)

Bebe Neuwirth – Actress (b. December 31, 1958)

Sir Isaac Newton – Scientist (b. January 4, 1643)

Stevie Nicks – Singer (Fleetwood Mac) (b. May 26, 1948)

Friedrich Nietzsche – Philosopher (b. October 15, 1844)

Florence Nightingale – Nurse (b. May 12, 1820)

Emmy Noether – Mathematician (Noether’s theorem, theory of algebraic rings) (b. March 23, 1882)

Ursula Nordstrom – Children’s Book Editor (b. December 2, 1910)

Jessye Norman – Opera Singer (b. September 15, 1945)

Kim Novak – Actress (b. February 13, 1933)

Rudolph Nureyev – Dancer (b. March 17, 1938)

Anita O’Day – Jazz Singer (b. October 18, 1919)

Georgia O’Keeffe – Artist (b. November 15, 1887)

Frederick D. O’Neal – Actor, Playwright (b. January 10, 1911)

Joyce Carol Oates – Author (b. June 16, 1938)

Nick Offerman – Actor (b. June 26, 1970)

Sandra Oh – Actress (b. July 20, 1971)

Claire Parker – Director, Animator (b. May 23, 1987)

Dorothy Parker – Author (b. August 22, 1893)

Suzanne-Lori Parks – Playwright (b. May 10, 1963)

Rosa Parks – Activist (b. February 4, 1913)

Dolly Parton – Singer, Actress (b. January 19, 1946)

Julia Pascal – Playwright (b. January 11, 1953)

Ann Patchett – Author (b. December 2, 1962)

Saint Patrick – Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland (b. c. 385 – c. 461)

Alicia Patterson – Editor (b. May 17, 1906)

Wolfgang Pauli – Physicist (b. April 25, 1900)

Linus Pauling – Winner of Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Peace (b. February 28, 1901)

Sarah Paulson – Actress (b. December 17, 1974)

Michelle Paver – Author (b. September 7, 1960)

Anna Pavlova – Dancer (b. February 12, 1881)

Molly Peacock – Poet, President Emerita of the Poetry Society of America (b. July 11, 1947)

Minnie Pearl – Singer (b. October 25, 1912)

Samuel Pepys – Author (b. February 23, 1633)

Rosie Perez – American Actress, Choreographer and Community Activist (b. September 6, 1964)

Matthew Perry – Actor (b. August 19, 1969)

Bernadette Peters – Actress (b. February 28, 1948)

Jean Peters – Actress (b. October 15, 1926)

Arthur Phillip – First British Administrator Sent to Australia (b. October 11, 1738)

Wendell Phillips – Orator and Reformer (b. November 29, 1811)

William Phillips – Co-founder and Editor of Partisan Review, Writer, Critic (b. May 4, 1926)

Marge Piercy – Author, Poet (b. March 31, 1936)

Plato – Philosopher (b. c. 428/427 BCE – d. 348/347 BCE)

Martha Plimpton – Actress (b. November 16, 1970)

Edgar Allan Poe – Author (b. January 19, 1809)

Jackson Pollock – Artist (b. January 28, 1912)

Katherine Ann Porter – Author (b. May 15, 1890)

Parker Posey – Actress (b. November 8, 1968)

Beatrix Potter – Children’s Book Author (b. July 28, 1866)

Charles Edward Potter – Politician, Philanthropist, Administrator of the Cheboygan County Bureau of Social Aid (b. January 22, 1870)

Joyce Purnick – Former New York Times Metro Editor, Journalist (b. June 6, 1943)

Edna Purviance – Silent Movie Actress (b. October 21, 1895)

Sara Keirsten Quin – Musician, Songwriter (Tegan and Sara) (b. September 19, 1980)

Tegan Rain Quin – Musician, Songwriter (Tegan and Sara) (b. September 19, 1980)

Colin Quinn – Comedian (b. June 6, 1959)

Robin Quivers – Radio Host (b. August 8, 1952)

Daniel Radcliffe – Actor (b. July 23, 1989)

Raffi – Children’s Musician (b. July 8, 1948)

Bonnie Raitt – Singer, Songwriter (b. November 8, 1949)

Joey Ramone – Musician (b. May 19, 1951)

Ayn Rand – Writer, Philosopher, Author (b. February 2, 1905)

Philip Randolph – Politician (b. April 15, 1889)

Jeanette Rankin – 1st Female US Representative (b. June 11, 1880)

Man Ray – Artist (b. August 27, 1890)

Rachel Ray – Celebrity Chef (b. August 25, 1968)

Lou Reed – Singer, Musician (b. March 2, 1942)

George Reeves – Actor (b. January 5, 1914)

Frances Reid – Actress (b. December 9, 1914)

Leni Riefenstahl – Filmmaker (b. August 22, 1902)

Janet Reno – Former U.S. Attorney-General (b. July 21, 1938)

Judith Resnick – Astronaut (b. April 5, 1949)

Jennifer Rhodes – Actress (b. August 17, 1947)

Condoleezza Rice – National Security Advisor (b. November 14, 1954)

Cliff Richards – Musician (b. October 14, 1940)

Miranda Richardson – Actress (b. March 3, 1958)

Alan Rickman – Actor, Director (b. February 21, 1946)

Elizabeth Riddell – Journalist (b. April 17, 1914)

Sally Ride – First American Female Astronaut (b. May 26, 1951)

Bridget Riley – Artist (b. April 24, 1931)

John Ringling – Founder of Ringling Brothers Circus (b. May 31, 1866)

Mary Roach – Author (b. March 20, 1959)

Morgan Andrew Robertson – Author (b. September 30, 1861)

Debbie Rochon – Actress (b. November 3, 1968)

Norman Perceval Rockwell – Illustrator (b. February 3, 1894)

Eric Rohmann – Author, Winner of the 2003 Caldecott Medal for Best Illustrated Children’s Book (b. August 19, 1957)

Ginger Rogers – Actress (b. July 16, 1911)

Richard Roeper – Film Reviewer, Chicago Sun-Times (b. October 17, 1949)

Wilhelm Rontgen – Awarded the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901, discoverer of X-Rays (b. March 27, 1845)

William Bruce Rose Jr. aka Axl Rose – Musician (Guns N’ Roses) (b. February 6, 1962)

Mickey Rourke – Actor, Boxer (b. September 16, 1952)

Patricia Routledge – Actress (b. February 17, 1929)

Joan Ruddock – Activist (b. January 23, 1943)

John Ruskin – Author (b. February 8, 1819)

Winona Ryder – Actress (b. October 29, 1971)

Yves Saint-Laurent – Fashion Designer (b. August 1, 1936)

Hironobu Sakaguchi – Video Game Designer/Producer, Creator of the Final Fantasy Series (b. November 25, 1962)

Dr. Lee Salk – Child Psychologist (b. March 5, 1921)

Renu Saluja – Indian Film Editor (b. 1955)

Diana Sands – Actress (b. August 22, 1934)

Aligi Sassu – Artist (b. June 17, 1912)

Dame Cicely Saunders – Nurse, Social Worker, Physician and Writer. Major Contributor to the Hospice Movement (b. June 22, 1918)

John Sayles – Director (b. September 28, 1950)

Jean-Paul Sartre – Existential Philosopher (b. June 21, 1905)

Diane Sawyer – TV News Anchor (b. December 22, 1945)

Rosika Schwimmer – Author, Activist (b. May 21, 1883)

Ed and Thelma Schoenberger – Co-founders of the Indiana Flower & Patio Show (b. dates not available)

Ellen Browning Scripps – Newspaper Columnist, Philanthropist (b. June 18, 1836)

Joel Schumacher – Film Director (b. August 29, 1939)

David Sedaris – Humorist, Comedian, Author (b. December 26, 1956)

Maurice Sendak – Children’s Book Author (b. June 10, 1928)

George Bernard Shaw – Playwright (b. July 26, 1856)

Lionel Shriver – Author (b. May 18, 1957)

Sarah Silverman – Comedian, Actress (b. December 1, 1970)

Wallis Simpson – Duchess of Windsor (b. June 19, 1896)

Michael Sinelnikoff – Actor (b. June 16, 1946)

Siouxsie – Singer, Musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees) (b. May 27, 1957)

Sheri Lyn Skurkis (a.k.a. Sheri Moon Zombie) – American Actress, Model, Dancer and Fashion Designer (b. September 26, 1970)

Robert Smith – Singer, Musician (The Cure) (b. April 21, 1959)

David Shogren – Bassist (Doobie Brothers) (b. May 23, 1950)

Betty Smith – Author (b. December 15, 1896)

Dodie Smith – Playwright, Author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians (b. May 3, 1896)

Gladys Louise Smith aka Mary Pickford – Actress, Producer, Screenwriter, Businesswoman (b. April 8, 1892)

Howard Worth Smith – Politician (b. January 17, 1883)

Kate Smith – Singer (b. May 1, 1907)

Lemony Snicket (Real Name: Daniel Handler) – Children’s Book Author (b. February 28, 1970)

David Souter – Supreme Court Justice (b. September 17, 1939)

Octavia Lenora Spencer – American Actress, Author, and Producer (b. May 25, 1972)

Jill St. John – Actress (b. August 19, 1940)

Richard Stallman – Computer Programmer, Activist (Free software movement and GNU/Linux advocate) (b. March 16, 1953)

Mabel Stark – Female Tiger Trainer (b. January 9, 1889)

Gertrude Stein – Author, Patron of the Arts (b. February 3, 1874)

Victor Strauss – WWII Journalist (b. July 20, 1918)

Gloria Steinem – Activist, Writer (b. March 25, 1934)

Maria W. Stewart – Author, Activist (b. 1803)

Lily Strickland – Composer, Writer, Artist (b. August 1, 1884)

Harry Styles – Singer (One Direction) (b. February 1, 1994)

Patrick Swayze – Actor (b. August 18, 1952)

Loretta Swit – Actress (b. November 4, 1937)

Henrietta Szold – Holocaust Heroine (b. December 21, 1860)

Wislawa Szymborska – Nobel Prize Winning Poet (b. July 2, 1923)

Amy Tan – Writer, Author (b. February 19, 1952)

Sara Teasdale – Poet (b. August 8, 1884)

Annamarie Tendler – Artist (Makeup and Hairstyling as well as Textile Crafts) (b. June 9, 1985)

Neil Tennant – Musician (Pet Shop Boys) (b. July 10, 1954)

Toni Tennille – Singer (Captain and Tennille) (b. May 8, 1940)

Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma – French-Spanish Political Activist and Academic (b. March 28, 1933)

Nikola Tesla – Scientist, Inventor (b. July 10, 1856)

Theodora – Empress and wife of Justinian I (b. c. 500)

Susanna Thompson – Actress (b. January 27, 1958)

Georgianne Thon – Actress (b. February 19, 1954)

Carey Thomas – President of Bryn Mawr College (b. January 4, 1857)

Willie Mae Thornton – Singer, Songwriter (b. December 11, 1926)

Maura Tierney – Actress (b. February 3, 1965)

Jennifer Tilly – Actress (b. September 16, 1958)

Wendy Tokunaga – Author (b. August 28, 1962)

Marisa Tomei – Actress (b. December 4, 1964)

Lily Tomlin – Actress, Playwright (b. September 1, 1939)

Alan Turing – Mathematician, Computer Scientist (b. June 23, 1912)

Ann Turkel – Model (b. July 16, 1946)

Randy Travis – Singer (b. May 4, 1959)

Maxine Trump – Film Producer, Director (b. March 24, 1952)

Edward Tylor – Anthropologist (b. October 2, 1832)

Nobuo Uematsu – Composer, wrote the music for most of the Final Fantasy series (b. March 21, 1959)

Andrew Vachss – Novelist (b. October 19, 1942)

Vincent Van Gogh – Artist (b. March 30, 1853)

Vivian Vance – Actress (b. July 26, 1909)

Zebulon Baird Vance – Politician (b. May 13, 1830)

Luther Vandross – Singer (b. April 20, 1951)

Ann Van Dyk – Cheetah Preservationist (b. 1936)

Reginald VelJohnson – Actor (b. August 16, 1952)

Mariska Veres – Singer (The Shocking Blue) (b. October 1, 1947)

Amerigo Vespucci – Merchant, explorer, cartographer (b. March 9, 1451)

Carl Vinson – Politician (b. November 18, 1883)

Monica Vitti – Actress (b. November 3, 1931)

Larry Wachowski – Film Director (b. June 21, 1965)

Christopher Walken – Actor (b. March 31, 1943)

Bob Wallace – Computer Shareware Pioneer, Philanthropist, Founding Employee of Microsoft (b. November 23, 1946)

Nina Wang – Was Asia’s richest woman, with an estimated net worth of $4.2 billion USD at the time of her death (b. September 23, 1936)

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward – Author (b. August 31, 1844)

Brian Warner aka Marilyn Manson – Musician (b. January 5, 1969)

Ethel Waters – Actress, Evangelist, Singer (b. October 31, 1896)

John Waters – Director (b. April 22, 1946)

Alberta Watson – Canadian Actress (b. March 6, 1955)

Emma Watson – Actress & Women’s Rights Activist (b. April 15, 1990)

Dawn Wells – Actress (b. October 18, 1938)

Eudora Welty – Author (b. April 13, 1909)

Mae West – Actress, Comedian (b. August 17, 1893)

Edith Wharton – Author (b. January 24, 1862)

Raymond Milner Wheeler – Civil Rights Activist (b. July 16, 1927)

Alan Whicker – TV Host, Documentarian (b. August 2, 1921)

Baroness White – Former UK Labour Government Minister (b. October 10, 1912)

Betty White – Actress (b. January 17, 1922)

Margaret Bourke-White – Photographer (b. June 14, 1904)

Sarah Helen Power Whitman – Poet, Essayist, Transcendentalist (b. January 19, 1803)

Walt Whitman – Poet (b. May 31, 1819)

Richard (Dick) Whittington – Philanthropist (b. c. 1354)

Ann Widdecombe – UK Member of Parliament (b. October 8, 1947)

Toyah Wilcox – Punk Rocker, Activist (b. May 18, 1958)

Thornton Wilder – Playwright (b. April 17, 1897)

William III & Mary II of England – King & Queen of England, Ireland, and Scotland (b. April 4, 1650, and April 30, 1662)

Barry Williams – Actor (b. September 30, 1954)

Lucinda Williams – Musician (b. January 26, 1953)

Wendy O. Williams – Singer (The Plasmatic) (b. May 28, 1949)

August Wilson – Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright (b. April 27, 1945)

Bill W. (Wilson) – Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. November 26, 1895)

Rebel Wilson – Actress (b. March 2, 1980)

Barbara Windsor – Actress (b. August 6, 1937)

Amy Winehouse – Singer, Songwriter (b. September 14, 1983)

Edgar Winter – Musician (b. December 28, 1946)

Jeanette Winterson – Author (b. August 27, 1959)

Estelle Winwood – English Actress (b. January 24, 1883)

Kim Woodburn – Co-Star of TV Cleaning Duo Kim and Aggie (b. March 25, 1947)

Robert Winship Woodruff – Former CEO of Coca Cola, Philanthropist (b. December 6, 1889)

Leonard Woolf – Political theorist and Author (b. November 7, 1880)

Virginia Woolf – Author (b. January 25, 1882)

Orville Wright – Aviator (b. August 19, 1871)

Stephen J. Wright – College President (Fisk University) (b. October 6, 1935)

Wilbur Wright – Aviator (b. April 16, 1867)

TBD

Yanni – Composer (b. November 14, 1954)

Dwight Yoakam – Singer, Actor (b. October 23, 1956)

Marguerite Yourcenar – Author, First Woman To Be Elected To The Academie Francaise (b. June 8, 1903)

David Young – Almanac Maker, Astronomer, Poet (b. February 11, 1869)

Will Young – Singer, Songwriter, Actor (b. January 20, 1979)

YuPen – Chinese Actor, Singer (b. March 22, 1991)

Babe Didrikson Zaharias – Olympic Athlete (b. June 26, 1911)

Renee Zellweger – Actress (b. April 25, 1969)

Stephanie Zimbalist – Actress (b. October 8, 1956)

Émile Zola – Author (b. April 2, 1840)