John Mills was an award-winning actor, dancer and producer whose career spanned eight decades with works like Great Expectations and Ryan’s Daughter.

• Theater Actor, Producer, Film Actor
  (1908–2005)

British film and theater director John Schlesinger’s first American film, Midnight Cowboy (1969), won him an Academy Award.

• Director
  (1926–2003)

John Gielgud was a prolific Shakespearean actor known for his varied film and TV work as well, including Arthur and Prospero’s Books.

• Theater Actor, Producer, Film Actor, Director
  (1904–2000)

John Cassavetes was an Oscar-nominated actor and director best known for creating influential films like ‘Faces,’ ‘Husbands’ and ‘A Woman Under the Influence.’

• Film Actor, Director
  (1929–1989)

Acclaimed character actor and Academy Award nominee John Hurt had notable roles in 'A Man for All Seasons,' 'Midnight Express,' 'The Elephant Man,' 'Alien' and 'Harry Potter.'

• Film Actor, Television Actor, Theater Actor
  (1940–2017)

John Belushi was an actor and comedian, one of the first performers on "Saturday Night Live" and one half of the Blues Brothers.

• Comedian, Actor
  (1949–1982)

Naturalist, writer and advocate of U.S. forest conservation, John Muir founded the Sierra Club and helped establish Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks.

• Environmental Activist, Journalist
  (1838–1914)

British playwright John Osborne's Look Back in Anger ushered in a new movement in British drama and made him known as the first of the "Angry Young Men."

• Playwright, Producer, Theater Actor
  (1929–1994)