Nervous Breakdown
Nervous Breakdown
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| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roy Acuff | Country Musician | 15-Sep-1903 | 23-Nov-1992 | Country music pioneer |
| Joan Vollmer Adams | Victim | 1924 | 6-Sep-1951 | Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs |
| Rodney Alcala | Criminal | 23-Aug-1943 | The Dating Game killer | |
| Antonin Artaud | Playwright | 4-Sep-1896 | 4-Mar-1948 | Theater of Cruelty |
| Mary Astor | Actor | 3-May-1906 | 25-Sep-1987 | The Maltese Falcon |
| Delia Bacon | Author | 2-Feb-1811 | 2-Sep-1859 | Shakespeare-Bacon conspiracist |
| Syd Barrett | Musician | 6-Jan-1946 | 7-Jul-2006 | Pink Floyd |
| John Barrymore | Actor | 15-Feb-1882 | 29-May-1942 | Romeo and Juliet |
| Clara Barton | Activist | 25-Dec-1821 | 12-Apr-1912 | Co-Founder of the American Red Cross |
| Jeff Beck | Guitarist | 24-Jun-1944 | Exceptional rock guitarist | |
| Ingmar Bergman | Film Director | 14-Jul-1918 | 30-Jul-2007 | Scenes from a Marriage |
| Honor Blackman | Actor | 12-Dec-1926 | Cathy Gale on The Avengers | |
| Max Born | Physicist | 11-Dec-1882 | 5-Jan-1970 | Pioneer of quantum mechanics |
| Clara Bow | Actor | 29-Jul-1905 | 26-Sep-1965 | Schizophrenic actress, Wings |
| Emanuel Bronner | Business | 1-Feb-1908 | 7-Mar-1997 | Soap label philosopher |
| Anton Bruckner | Composer | 4-Sep-1824 | 11-Oct-1896 | Mass in D Minor |
| Bebe Buell | Model | 14-Jul-1953 | Liv Tyler's mom | |
| Dorothy Burgess | Actor | 4-Mar-1907 | 20-Aug-1961 | Hold Your Man |
| William S. Burroughs, Jr. | Relative | 21-Jul-1947 | 3-Mar-1981 | Son of William S. Burroughs |
| Smedley Butler | Military | 30-Jul-1881 | 21-Jun-1940 | Exposed the 1933 coup plot |
| Juanita Bynum | Religion | 16-Jan-1959 | Pentecostal televangelist | |
| Patrick Califia | Author | 8-Mar-1954 | FTM transgendered sex writer | |
| Maria Callas | Singer | 2-Dec-1923 | 16-Sep-1977 | Operatic Soprano |
| Neve Campbell | Actor | 3-Oct-1973 | Phantom of the Opera | |
| Georg Cantor | Mathematician | 3-Mar-1845 | 6-Jan-1918 | Founder of set theory |
| Mariah Carey | Singer/Songwriter | 27-Mar-1969 | Diva with eighteen #1 hits | |
| Leonora Carrington | Painter | 6-Apr-1917 | 25-May-2011 | Last surviving Surrealist |
| Hayden Carruth | Poet | 3-Aug-1921 | 29-Sep-2008 | Brothers, I Loved You All |
| G. Harrold Carswell | Judge | 22-Dec-1919 | 31-Jul-1992 | Failed US Supreme Court nominee |
| Enrico Caruso | Singer | 25-Feb-1873 | 2-Aug-1921 | Operatic tenor nonpareil |
| Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh | Politician | 18-Jun-1769 | 12-Aug-1822 | Architected Napoleon's defeat |
| G. K. Chesterton | Author | 29-May-1874 | 14-Jun-1936 | The Man Who Was Thursday |
| Kate Chopin | Novelist | 8-Feb-1851 | 22-Aug-1904 | The Awakening |
| Agatha Christie | Novelist | 15-Sep-1890 | 12-Jan-1976 | Mystery novelist |
| Rosemary Clooney | Singer | 23-May-1928 | 29-Jun-2002 | Come On-a My House |
| Ty Cobb | Baseball | 18-Dec-1886 | 17-Jul-1961 | Legendary Detroit Tigers hitter |
| Jarvis Cocker | Singer/Songwriter | 19-Sep-1963 | Frontman, Pulp | |
| Paula Cole | Singer/Songwriter | 5-Apr-1968 | Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? | |
| Pat Collins | TV Personality | 7-May-1935 | 31-May-1997 | The Hip Hypnotist |
| Noel Coward | Playwright | 16-Dec-1899 | 26-Mar-1973 | Design for Living |
| Leon Czolgosz | Assassin | 1873 | 29-Oct-1901 | President McKinley's assassin |
| Evan Dando | Musician | 4-Mar-1967 | Lemonheads frontman | |
| Doris Day | Actor | 3-Apr-1924 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | Actor | 29-Apr-1957 | My Left Foot | |
| Eamon de Valera | Head of State | 14-Oct-1882 | 29-Aug-1975 | President of Ireland, 1959-73 |
| Joan Didion | Author | 5-Dec-1934 | Slouching Toward Bethlehem | |
| Rudolf Diesel | Inventor | 18-Mar-1858 | 30-Sep-1913 | Inventor of the diesel engine |
| Nick Drake | Singer/Songwriter | 19-Jun-1948 | 25-Nov-1974 | Pink Moon |
| Theodore Dreiser | Novelist | 27-Aug-1871 | 28-Dec-1945 | An American Tragedy |
| Thomas Eagleton | Politician | 4-Sep-1929 | 4-Mar-2007 | US Senator from Missouri, 1969-87 |
| Sergei Eisenstein | Film Director | 23-Jan-1898 | 11-Feb-1948 | Alexander Nevsky |
| Brian Eno | Music Producer | 15-May-1948 | Here Come The Warm Jets | |
| Richard R. Ernst | Chemist | 14-Aug-1933 | NMR spectroscopy | |
| Philo Farnsworth | Inventor | 19-Aug-1906 | 11-Mar-1971 | Inventor of electronic television |
| Enzo Ferrari | Business | 18-Feb-1898 | 14-Aug-1988 | Legendary automobile maker |
| Marshall Field IV | Business | 15-Jun-1916 | 18-Sep-1965 | Owner of the Chicago Sun-Times, 1956-65 |
| Joseph W. Folk | Politician | 29-Oct-1869 | 29-May-1923 | Governor of Missouri, 1905-09 |
| Betty Friedan | Activist | 4-Feb-1921 | 4-Feb-2006 | Rights for women spokesperson |
| William Friedman | Scientist | 24-Sep-1891 | 12-Nov-1969 | Cryptography pioneer |
| Judy Garland | Singer | 10-Jun-1922 | 22-Jun-1969 | Dorothy in Wizard of Oz |
| Eric Gill | Typographer | 22-Feb-1882 | 17-Nov-1940 | Typographer, Gill Sans |
| Kurt Gödel | Mathematician | 28-Apr-1906 | 14-Jan-1978 | G�del's Incompleteness Theorems |
| Philip L. Graham | Publisher | 18-Jul-1915 | 3-Aug-1963 | Washington Post publisher, 1947-63 |
| Graham Greene | Novelist | 2-Oct-1904 | 3-Apr-1991 | The Third Man |
| Ivor Gurney | Poet | 28-Aug-1890 | 26-Dec-1937 | War's Embers |
| Edwin Hall | Physicist | 7-Nov-1855 | 20-Nov-1938 | Discovered the Hall Effect |
| Warren G. Harding | Head of State | 2-Nov-1865 | 2-Aug-1923 | 29th US President, 1921-23 |
| Moss Hart | Playwright | 24-Oct-1904 | 20-Dec-1961 | You Can't Take It With You |
| H. D. | Poet | 10-Sep-1886 | 27-Sep-1961 | Imagist poet, Sea Garden |
| Anthony Hecht | Poet | 16-Jan-1923 | 20-Oct-2004 | The Hard Hours |
| Martin Heidegger | Philosopher | 26-Sep-1889 | 26-May-1976 | Being and Time |
| David Helfgott | Musician | 19-May-1947 | Subject of the biopic Shine | |
| King Henry VI | Royalty | 6-Dec-1421 | 21-May-1471 | King of England, 1422-61 |
| Hergé | Cartoonist | 23-May-1907 | 3-Mar-1983 | Tintin |
| John Herschel | Astronomer | 7-Mar-1792 | 11-May-1871 | Discovered many moons of Saturn |
| Hermann Hesse | Author | 2-Jul-1877 | 9-Aug-1962 | Siddhartha |
| Jack Horkheimer | Astronomer | 11-Jun-1938 | 20-Aug-2010 | Naked-eye astronomer |
| Bob Hoskins | Actor | 26-Oct-1942 | 29-Apr-2014 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit? |
| Howard Hughes | Business | 24-Sep-1905 | 5-Apr-1976 | Insane billionaire |
| David Hume | Philosopher | 7-May-1711 | 25-Aug-1776 | Empiricist nonpareil |
| Betty Hutton | Actor | 26-Feb-1921 | 11-Mar-2007 | Incendiary Blonde |
| Walter W. Jenkins | Government | 23-Mar-1918 | 23-Nov-1985 | LBJ assistant, outed in gay sex scandal |
| Daniel Johnston | Singer/Songwriter | 22-Jan-1961 | Hi How Are You? | |
| Margot Kidder | Actor | 17-Oct-1948 | Lois Lane in Superman | |
| Jani Lane | Singer | 1-Feb-1964 | 11-Aug-2011 | Lead singer of Warrant |
| Jane Lapotaire | Actor | 26-Dec-1944 | English character actress | |
| Benjamin Latrobe | Architect | 1-May-1764 | 3-Sep-1820 | Designed the US Capitol |
| Larry Lea | Religion | 1951 | Disgraced televangelist | |
| Vivien Leigh | Actor | 5-Nov-1913 | 8-Jul-1967 | Gone With The Wind |
| Annie Lennox | Singer/Songwriter | 25-Dec-1954 | Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of These) | |
| Speed Levitch | Actor | 9-Jul-1970 | The Cruise | |
| Abraham Lincoln | Head of State | 12-Feb-1809 | 15-Apr-1865 | 16th US President, 1861-65 |
| Mary Todd Lincoln | First Lady | 13-Dec-1818 | 16-Jul-1882 | Wife of US President Abraham Lincoln |
| Emily Lloyd | Actor | 29-Sep-1970 | Wish You Were Here | |
| Earl Long | Politician | 26-Aug-1895 | 5-Sep-1960 | Three-time Governor of Louisiana |
| H. P. Lovecraft | Author | 20-Aug-1890 | 15-Mar-1937 | The Call of Cthulhu |
| Clare Boothe Luce | Politician | 10-Apr-1903 | 9-Oct-1987 | Congresswoman, wife of Henry R. Luce |
| Ida Lupino | Actor | 4-Feb-1918 | 3-Aug-1995 | The Man I Love |
| Ross Macdonald | Novelist | 13-Dec-1915 | 11-Jul-1983 | Creator of P.I. Lew Archer |
| Edward MacDowell | Composer | 18-Dec-1860 | 23-Jan-1908 | American piano composer |
| Donald Maclean | Spy | 25-May-1913 | 6-Mar-1983 | Spy for Moscow, Cambridge Five |
| Imelda Marcos | First Lady | 2-Jul-1929 | Former First Lady of the Philippines | |
| F. O. Matthiessen | Critic | 19-Feb-1902 | 1-Apr-1950 | American Renaissance |
| Brian May | Guitarist | 19-Jul-1947 | Guitarist for Queen | |
| Karl May | Author | 25-May-1842 | 30-Mar-1912 | Bestselling German novelist |
| Carson McCullers | Author | 19-Feb-1917 | 29-Sep-1967 | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
| Michael McDermott | Criminal | 4-Sep-1958 | Mucko killed seven coworkers | |
| John McGeoch | Musician | 28-May-1955 | 4-Mar-2004 | Siouxsie and the Banshees guitarist |
| Kristy McNichol | Actor | 11-Sep-1962 | 1970s girl teen idol | |
| Aimee Semple McPherson | Religion | 9-Oct-1890 | 27-Sep-1944 | Evangelist, faith healer |
| Empress Michiko | Royalty | 20-Oct-1934 | Empress of Japan | |
| Bette Midler | Singer | 1-Dec-1945 | Ol' Red Hair | |
| John Stuart Mill | Philosopher | 20-May-1806 | 8-May-1873 | Liberal philosopher and essayist |
| Spike Milligan | Comic | 16-Apr-1918 | 27-Feb-2002 | The Goon Show |
| Carmen Miranda | Dancer | 9-Feb-1909 | 5-Aug-1955 | The lady in the tutti-frutti hat |
| Joan Miró | Painter | 20-Apr-1893 | 25-Dec-1983 | The most surrealist of them all |
| Peter Mitchell | Chemist | 29-Sep-1920 | 10-Apr-1992 | ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondria |
| Marilyn Monroe | Actor | 1-Jun-1926 | 5-Aug-1962 | Some Like It Hot |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery | Novelist | 30-Nov-1874 | 24-Apr-1942 | Anne of Green Gables |
| Edvard Munch | Painter | 12-Dec-1863 | 23-Jan-1944 | Scream |
| Carrie Nation | Activist | 25-Nov-1846 | 9-Jun-1911 | Temperance crusader |
| Isaac Newton | Physicist | 4-Jan-1643 | 31-Mar-1727 | Father of the clockwork universe |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Philosopher | 15-Oct-1844 | 25-Aug-1900 | God is dead |
| Florence Nightingale | Activist | 12-May-1820 | 13-Aug-1910 | Established nursing as a profession |
| Mary Nolan | Actor | 18-Dec-1905 | 31-Oct-1948 | Shanghai Lady |
| Oliver North | Military | 7-Oct-1943 | Perjuring Iran-Contra figure | |
| Emperor Norton | Royalty | 14-Feb-1819 | 8-Jan-1880 | Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico |
| John Humphrey Noyes | Religion | 3-Sep-1811 | 13-Apr-1886 | Oneida Community founder |
| Johnny O'Keefe | Musician | 6-Jan-1935 | 6-Oct-1978 | King of Australian rock and roll |
| Deborah Jeane Palfrey | Criminal | 18-Mar-1956 | 1-May-2008 | The DC Madam |
| Charlie Parker | Jazz Musician | 29-Aug-1920 | 12-Mar-1955 | Be-bop jazz musician |
| Colonel Tom Parker | Business | 26-Jun-1909 | 21-Jan-1997 | Elvis Presley's manager |
| Maxfield Parrish | Artist | 25-Jul-1870 | 10-Mar-1966 | American book and magazine illustrator |
| Andy Partridge | Musician | 11-Nov-1953 | XTC singer/songwriter | |
| Mervyn Peake | Novelist | 9-Jul-1911 | 17-Nov-1968 | Titus Groan |
| Kim Philby | Spy | 1-Jan-1912 | 11-May-1988 | One of the Cambridge Five in MI6 |
| Dave Pirner | Musician | 16-Apr-1964 | Frontman for Soul Asylum | |
| Robert Pirsig | Author | 6-Sep-1928 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | |
| Sylvia Plath | Poet | 27-Oct-1932 | 11-Feb-1963 | Daddy |
| Jackson Pollock | Painter | 28-Jan-1912 | 11-Aug-1956 | Abstract expressionist |
| C. W. Post | Business | 26-Oct-1854 | 9-May-1914 | Invented Postum and Grape-Nuts |
| Olive Higgins Prouty | Novelist | 10-Jan-1882 | 24-Mar-1974 | Stella Dallas |
| Sergei Rachmaninov | Composer | 20-Mar-1873 | 28-Mar-1943 | Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini |
| Susan Richardson | Actor | 11-Mar-1952 | Susan Bradford on Eight Is Enough | |
| Charles Richter | Scientist | 26-Apr-1900 | 30-Sep-1985 | Groundbreaking seismologist |
| Julia Roberts | Actor | 28-Oct-1967 | Pretty Woman | |
| Aesop Rock | Rapper | 5-Jun-1976 | Labor Days | |
| Theodore Roethke | Poet | 25-May-1908 | 1-Aug-1963 | The Waking |
| Philip Roth | Novelist | 19-Mar-1933 | Portnoy's Complaint | |
| Henry Royce | Engineer | 27-Mar-1863 | 22-Apr-1933 | Designed the first Rolls-Royce |
| Michael Rumaker | Author | 5-Mar-1932 | Beat author, The Butterfly | |
| Yves Saint Laurent | Fashion Designer | 1-Aug-1936 | 1-Jun-2008 | Christian Dior protege |
| J. D. Salinger | Novelist | 1-Jan-1919 | 27-Jan-2010 | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Jessica Savitch | Journalist | 1-Feb-1947 | 24-Oct-1983 | Newscaster drowned with VP of NY Post |
| Maria Schneider | Actor | 27-Mar-1952 | 3-Feb-2011 | Last Tango in Paris |
| Robert Schumann | Composer | 8-Jun-1810 | 29-Jul-1856 | Toccata |
| Ignaz Semmelweis | Doctor | 1-Jul-1818 | 13-Aug-1865 | Pioneer of antiseptics |
| Anne Sexton | Poet | 9-Nov-1928 | 4-Oct-1974 | Live or Die |
| Craig Sheffer | Actor | 23-Apr-1960 | A River Runs Through It | |
| Mary Shelley | Novelist | 30-Aug-1797 | 1-Feb-1851 | Frankenstein |
| William T. Sherman | Military | 8-Feb-1820 | 14-Feb-1891 | Marched to the Sea |
| Dave Sim | Cartoonist | 17-May-1956 | Cerebus | |
| Jeffrey Skilling | Business | 25-Nov-1953 | Disgraced former CEO of Enron | |
| Betty Smith | Novelist | 15-Dec-1896 | 17-Jan-1972 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| David Hyrum Smith | Relative | 17-Nov-1844 | 29-Aug-1904 | Son of Joseph Smith |
| Oswald Spengler | Historian | 29-May-1880 | 8-May-1936 | The Decline of the West |
| Art Spiegelman | Cartoonist | 15-Feb-1948 | Maus | |
| Dusty Springfield | Singer | 16-Apr-1939 | 2-Mar-1999 | Son of a Preacher Man |
| Jean Stafford | Novelist | 1-Jul-1915 | 26-Mar-1979 | The Catherine Wheel |
| Cary Stayner | Criminal | 12-Aug-1961 | Yosemite killer | |
| Karrine Steffans | Model | 24-Aug-1978 | Confessions of a Video Vixen | |
| Nikola Tesla | Inventor | 10-Jul-1856 | 7-Jan-1943 | Invented alternating current |
| Jim Thompson | Novelist | 27-Sep-1906 | 7-Apr-1977 | Heed the Thunder |
| Pete Townshend | Guitarist | 19-May-1945 | Lead guitarist for The Who | |
| François Truffaut | Film Director | 6-Feb-1932 | 21-Oct-1984 | Last Metro |
| Mona Van Duyn | Poet | 9-May-1921 | 1-Dec-2004 | To See, To Take |
| Vincent van Gogh | Painter | 30-Mar-1853 | 29-Jul-1890 | Troubled and brilliant painter |
| Vivian Vance | Actor | 26-Jul-1909 | 17-Aug-1979 | Ethel on I Love Lucy |
| Diane Varsi | Actor | 23-Feb-1938 | 19-Nov-1992 | Peyton Place |
| Daniel Vasella | Business | c. 1954 | CEO of Novartis | |
| David Foster Wallace | Novelist | 21-Feb-1962 | 12-Sep-2008 | Infinite Jest |
| Andy Warhol | Artist | 6-Aug-1928 | 22-Feb-1987 | Pop Art movement |
| Ruth Warrick | Actor | 29-Jun-1915 | 15-Jan-2005 | Phoebe Tyler on All My Children |
| Max Weber | Sociologist | 21-Apr-1864 | 14-Jun-1920 | The Protestant Ethic |
| Denise Welch | Actor | 22-May-1958 | British TV soap actress | |
| Tuesday Weld | Actor | 27-Aug-1943 | Looking for Mr. Goodbar | |
| Roland West | Film Director | 20-Feb-1885 | 31-Mar-1952 | The Bat Whispers |
| Pearl White | Actor | 4-Mar-1889 | 4-Aug-1938 | Heroine of silent serial films |
| Rev. Cecil Williams | Religion | 22-Sep-1929 | Glide Memorial Church | |
| Tennessee Williams | Playwright | 26-Mar-1911 | 25-Feb-1983 | The Glass Menagerie |
| Angus Wilson | Novelist | 11-Aug-1913 | 31-May-1991 | Hemlock and After |
| Brian Wilson | Singer/Songwriter | 20-Jun-1942 | Troubled Beach Boy | |
| Jonathan Winters | Comic | 11-Nov-1925 | 11-Apr-2013 | Mearth, son of Mork |
| Howlin' Wolf | Singer/Songwriter | 10-Jun-1910 | 10-Jan-1976 | Blues guitarist |
| Virginia Woolf | Novelist | 25-Jan-1882 | 28-Mar-1941 | Suicidal English novelist |
| James Wright | Poet | 13-Dec-1927 | 25-Mar-1980 | The Branch Will Not Break |
| Francis Parker Yockey | Author | 18-Sep-1917 | 16-Jun-1960 | Imperium |
| Marion A. Zioncheck | Politician | 5-Dec-1901 | 7-Aug-1936 | Congressman, committed suicide |
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