1921-2007
Kay Amin was the fourth wife of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, and was mysteriously and brutally murdered.
-1974
Jean-Michel Basquiat was a Neo-Expressionist painter in the 1980s. He is best known for his primitive style and his collaboration with pop artist Andy Warhol.
1960-1988
William Blake was a 19th century writer and artist who is regarded as a seminal figure of the Romantic Age. His writings have influenced countless writers and artists through the ages, and he has been deemed both a major poet and an original thinker.
1757-1827
1912-1992
Ian Fleming is a 20th-century novelist known for inventing popular spy character James Bond.
1908-1964
Henry Fonda was an award-winning American actor best known for him film roles in The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and On Golden Pond (1981).
1905-1982
Merv Griffin was an American television host, singer and business magnate. He created the game shows Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune and Click.
1925-2007
Journalist Arthur Griffith was a founder of the Irish nationalist movement (Sinn Féin) and briefly served as President of the Irish Republic in 1922.
1871-1922
German novelist, short-story and essay writer Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. One of his best-known novels is Death in Venice.
1875-1955
1793-1861
William Shockley was an engineer and co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for his development of the transistor.
1910-1989
1781-1848
Loretta young was a child actor who became one of Hollywood's leading ladies in the 1930s and 1940s.
1913-2000