1833-1893
Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr. traveled the country posing as a Navy officer, a surgeon, a teacher, and more, beginning in the 1940s. He is known as the "Great Imposter" for pulling off some of the greatest identity hoaxes in history.
1921-1982
Nicknamed "The Ox," bass guitarist John Entwistle was a founding member of the legendary rock band the Who.
1944-2002
Writer and critic E.M. Forster is the author of Howards End, A Passage to India and A Room With a View.
1879-1970
Jean Harlow was an American actress who proved herself a platinum-blonde sex-symbol and able comedian in 1930s Hollywood.
1911-1937
1812-1866
1921-1965
1921-2008
Henry Miller was a 20th century American writer, who created a new sort of novel—later characterized as a fictionalized autobiography.
1891-1980
Dorothy Parker was the sharpest wit of the Algonquin Round Table, as well as a master of short fiction and a blacklisted screenwriter.
1893-1967
Famed mathematician Alan Turing proved in his 1936 paper, "On Computable Numbers," that a universal algorithmic method of determining truth in math cannot exist.
1912-1954