Ran Away From Home
Ran Away From Home
EVENT
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Abagnale | Criminal | 27-Apr-1948 | Catch Me If You Can | |
| Birdman of Alcatraz | Criminal | 28-Jan-1890 | 22-Nov-1963 | Subject of Burt Lancaster movie |
| Lily Allen | Singer | 2-May-1985 | Smile | |
| Benedict Arnold | Military | 14-Jan-1741 | 14-Jun-1801 | Betrayed colonists to British |
| Rosanna Arquette | Actor | 10-Aug-1959 | Desperately Seeking Susan | |
| Pedro Menéndez de Avilés | Military | 15-Feb-1519 | 17-Sep-1574 | Founder of St. Augustine, Florida |
| Candy Barr | Performance Artist | 6-Jul-1935 | 30-Dec-2005 | Exotic dancer from the 1950s |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat | Painter | 22-Dec-1960 | 12-Aug-1988 | NYC graffiti artist |
| Belladonna | Pornstar | 21-May-1981 | The Fashionistas | |
| Vincent Bendix | Inventor | 12-Aug-1881 | 27-Mar-1945 | Founder of Bendix Corporation |
| Constantin Brancusi | Sculptor | 19-Feb-1876 | 16-Mar-1957 | Bird in Space |
| Ruth Brown | Singer | 12-Jan-1928 | 17-Nov-2006 | Miss Rhythm |
| John Bunny | Actor | 21-Sep-1863 | 26-Apr-1915 | Comic starred in over 200 short films |
| Christy Canyon | Pornstar | 17-Jun-1966 | Jugs and Kisses, Your Ass My Tongue | |
| Harvey Carignan | Criminal | 18-May-1927 | The Want-Ad Killer | |
| Evans F. Carlson | Military | 26-Feb-1896 | 27-May-1947 | Carlson's Raiders |
| Asia Carrera | Pornstar | 6-Aug-1973 | Mensa member, pornstar | |
| Kit Carson | Explorer | 24-Dec-1809 | 23-May-1868 | Frontiersman and Indian agent |
| Whittaker Chambers | Author | 1-Apr-1901 | 9-Jul-1961 | Accuser of Alger Hiss |
| Eileen Chang | Author | 30-Sep-1920 | 8-Sep-1995 | Lust, Caution |
| Mark David Chapman | Assassin | 10-May-1955 | Assassin of Beatle John Lennon | |
| Jean Cocteau | Poet | 5-Jul-1889 | 11-Oct-1963 | La Belle et la B�te |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Poet | 21-Oct-1772 | 25-Jul-1834 | Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| Gregory Corso | Poet | 26-Mar-1930 | 17-Jan-2001 | Beat poet, Gasoline |
| Davy Crockett | Military | 17-Aug-1786 | 6-Mar-1836 | King of the Wild Frontier |
| Thomas Dangerfield | Criminal | 1650 | 1685 | English conspirator |
| Martin Dardis | Journalist | c. 1922 | 16-May-2006 | Followed the Watergate money to Nixon |
| Richard Allen Davis | Criminal | 2-Jun-1954 | Murderer of Polly Klaas | |
| Richard Dawson | Game Show Host | 20-Nov-1932 | 2-Jun-2012 | Host of Family Feud, 1976-85 |
| Thomas De Quincey | Author | 15-Aug-1785 | 8-Dec-1859 | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater |
| Loren Dean | Actor | 31-Jul-1969 | Mumford | |
| Donald DeFreeze | Criminal | 16-Nov-1943 | 17-May-1974 | Symbionese Liberation Army |
| John Denver | Country Musician | 31-Dec-1943 | 12-Oct-1997 | Rocky Mountain High |
| Persi Diaconis | Mathematician | 31-Jan-1945 | Science of random numbers | |
| Porfirio Díaz | Head of State | 15-Sep-1830 | 2-Jul-1915 | Twice President of Mexico |
| Dorothea Dix | Activist | 4-Apr-1802 | 17-Jul-1887 | Activist for the insane |
| Ducky DooLittle | Author | 3-Jun-1970 | Crackpot sexologist | |
| Harlan Ellison | Author | 27-May-1934 | I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream | |
| Gary Evans | Criminal | 7-Oct-1954 | 14-Aug-1998 | New York state burglar, serial killer |
| Frances Farmer | Actor | 19-Sep-1913 | 1-Aug-1970 | Hollywood actress, institutionalized |
| Federico Fellini | Film Director | 20-Jan-1920 | 30-Oct-1993 | La Dolce Vita |
| Jim Fisk | Business | 1-Apr-1834 | 6-Jan-1872 | Business partner of Jay Gould |
| Pretty Boy Floyd | Criminal | 3-Feb-1904 | 22-Oct-1934 | Bank robber |
| Althea Flynt | Relative | 6-Nov-1953 | 27-Jun-1987 | Larry Flynt's dead wife |
| Henry Ford | Business | 30-Jul-1863 | 7-Apr-1947 | Founder of Ford Motors |
| Benjamin Franklin | Diplomat | 17-Jan-1706 | 17-Apr-1790 | American founding father |
| Clarence Earl Gideon | Criminal | 30-Aug-1910 | 18-Jan-1972 | Gideon v. Wainwright |
| Jim Gilchrist | Activist | 1949 | Minuteman Project founder | |
| Maxim Gorky | Playwright | 28-Mar-1868 | 17-Jun-1936 | The Lower Depths |
| Cary Grant | Actor | 18-Jan-1904 | 29-Nov-1986 | North by Northwest |
| Charley Grapewin | Actor | 20-Dec-1869 | 2-Feb-1956 | Tobacco Road |
| Merle Haggard | Country Musician | 6-Apr-1937 | Okie From Muskogee | |
| Arvid Harnack | Spy | 24-May-1901 | 22-Dec-1942 | Hanged by the Nazis for espionage |
| Raymond Hatton | Actor | 7-Jul-1887 | 21-Oct-1971 | Prolific character actor |
| Richard Hell | Musician | 2-Oct-1949 | Blank Generation | |
| Lance Henriksen | Actor | 5-May-1940 | Aliens, Dead Man | |
| Hermann Hesse | Author | 2-Jul-1877 | 9-Aug-1962 | Siddhartha |
| John Lee Hooker | Musician | 22-Aug-1917 | 21-Jun-2001 | Prominent blues musician |
| Harry Houdini | Magician | 24-Mar-1874 | 31-Oct-1926 | Best-known magician and debunker |
| Sam Houston | Head of State | 2-Mar-1793 | 26-Jul-1863 | President of Texas, 1836-38 and 1841-44 |
| Alberta Hunter | Singer | 1-Apr-1895 | 17-Oct-1984 | Downhearted Blues |
| Rick James | Musician | 1-Feb-1948 | 6-Aug-2004 | Superfreak |
| Jack Johnson | Boxing | 31-Mar-1878 | 10-Jun-1946 | First black heavyweight champion |
| Al Jolson | Singer | 26-May-1886 | 23-Oct-1950 | The Jazz Singer |
| Jenny Jones | Talk Show Host | 7-Jun-1946 | The Jenny Jones Show | |
| Rickie Lee Jones | Musician | 8-Nov-1954 | Chuck E's in Love | |
| Chiang Kai-Shek | Head of State | 31-Oct-1887 | 5-Apr-1975 | President of Nationalist China |
| Danny Kaye | Actor | 18-Jan-1913 | 3-Mar-1987 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| Christine Keeler | Model | 2-Feb-1942 | John Profumo's mistress | |
| Cyndi Lauper | Singer/Songwriter | 22-Jun-1953 | Girls Just Want To Have Fun | |
| Megan Leigh | Pornstar | 2-Mar-1964 | 16-Jun-1990 | Ali Boobie & the 40 D's |
| Traci Lords | Pornstar | 7-May-1968 | We Love You, Traci | |
| Peter Lorre | Actor | 26-Jun-1904 | 23-Mar-1964 | The Maltese Falcon |
| Lucian | Author | 120 AD | c. 180 AD | Dialogues of the Dead |
| Lydia Lunch | Musician | 2-Jun-1959 | Punk and spoken word confrontationalist | |
| Nelson Mandela | Head of State | 18-Jul-1918 | 5-Dec-2013 | President of South Africa, 1994-99 |
| Edwin Markham | Poet | 23-Apr-1852 | 7-Mar-1940 | The Man With the Hoe |
| James Marshall | Explorer | 8-Oct-1810 | 10-Aug-1885 | Discovered gold at Sutter's Mill |
| Henry Mayhew | Journalist | 1812 | 25-Jul-1887 | Punch |
| Rod McKuen | Poet | 29-Apr-1933 | 27-Jan-2015 | A Boy Named Charlie Brown |
| Golda Meir | Head of State | 3-May-1898 | 8-Dec-1978 | Fourth Prime Minister of Israel |
| Joseph Merrick | Oddity | 5-Aug-1862 | 11-Apr-1890 | The Elephant Man |
| Robert Mitchum | Actor | 6-Aug-1917 | 1-Jul-1997 | Cape Fear |
| Tommy Mottola | Business | 14-Jul-1949 | Former head of Sony Music | |
| William Mulholland | Engineer | 11-Sep-1855 | 22-Jul-1935 | Los Angeles Aqueduct |
| Alfred P. Murrah | Judge | 27-Oct-1904 | 30-Oct-1975 | Oklahoma City Federal Building namesake |
| Carl Panzram | Criminal | 28-Jun-1891 | 5-Sep-1930 | Relentless sociopath, serial killer |
| Roddy Piper | Wrestling | 17-Apr-1954 | 30-Jul-2015 | Here to kick ass, chew bubble gum |
| Prince | Musician | 7-Jun-1958 | Purple Rain | |
| Srinivasa Ramanujan | Mathematician | 22-Dec-1887 | 26-Apr-1920 | Self-educated mathematician |
| Arthur Rimbaud | Poet | 20-Oct-1854 | 10-Nov-1891 | Une Saison en Enfer |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Philosopher | 28-Jun-1712 | 2-Jul-1778 | Conceptualized the Social Contract |
| Katey Sagal | Actor | 19-Jan-1954 | Peg Bundy on Married With Children | |
| Artie Shaw | Musician | 23-May-1910 | 30-Dec-2004 | Clarinetist, big band leader |
| Mary Shelley | Novelist | 30-Aug-1797 | 1-Feb-1851 | Frankenstein |
| Blaze Starr | Performance Artist | 1-Jan-1932 | 15-Jun-2015 | Stripper |
| Karrine Steffans | Model | 24-Aug-1978 | Confessions of a Video Vixen | |
| Ford Sterling | Actor | 3-Nov-1883 | 13-Oct-1939 | Keystone Cop |
| Inger Stevens | Actor | 18-Oct-1934 | 30-Apr-1970 | The Farmer's Daughter |
| Ilsa Strix | Pornstar | 15-Dec-1967 | Professional dominatrix | |
| Theodore Sturgeon | Author | 26-Feb-1918 | 8-May-1985 | More Than Human |
| Hans Tausen | Religion | 1494 | 11-Nov-1561 | Danish Protestant reformer |
| Jim Thorpe | Football | 28-May-1887 | 28-Mar-1953 | Olympics and football |
| Lil' Wayne | Rapper | 27-Sep-1982 | Tha Carter | |
| Oprah Winfrey | Talk Show Host | 29-Jan-1954 | The Oprah Winfrey Show | |
| David Wojnarowicz | Artist | 14-Sep-1955 | 22-Jul-1992 | One Day This Kid |
| Beatrice Wood | Artist | 3-Mar-1893 | 12-Mar-1998 | Mama of Dada |
| Aileen Wuornos | Criminal | 29-Feb-1956 | 9-Oct-2002 | Notorious serial killer |
| Ed Wynn | Actor | 9-Nov-1886 | 19-Jun-1966 | Requiem for a Heavyweight |
| Raul Yzaguirre | Activist | 22-Jul-1939 | National Council of La Raza |
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